My Mom

Yesterday, January 21st, was my mom's birthday.

She is a very special lady to me.

So i made this list for her.

10 Reasons why I can't live without my Mom:

1.- She loves the Lord

2.-Literally every single picture I have ever taken of her, the first thing out of her mouth when she sees the picture is

"why didn't you tell me my hair looks like that"

And my response is always "because it looks fine"

3.-She is a Health Nut

Her house contains tons of vitamins,minerals,creams,oils,homemade toothpaste & deodorant,

and lots of strange food.

If you feel ill, she has a pill!

4.-She can't make up her mind to save a life.

-if my mom had to pick out an outfit to purchase in 30 minutes or less to save your life......

I'm sorry but you would die ;-)

5.-She is hilarious on accident.

example #1: If you complain of a headache, it's prolly a brain tumor.

example #2: She made some homemade "healthy" cornbread.

After pulling it out of the oven and tasting it she says"mmmmmmmmm"

(like it taste good)

but then says "this taste horrible"

6.-If there is birthday cake or brownies in the house and she goes missing,

she has quietly snuck off to eat it!

That being said I hope she had some yummy cake for her birthday.

7.-I can't get off the phone with her with out telling her I love her b/c that's how I really feel.

8.- She is working so hard for my brother.

9. -My girls really fell in love with her while she lived by us.

She is a good Nana.

10. -She laughs at everything I say and that makes me feel special.

I like to make her smile:)

Here are a few of my favorite pictures of us when i was little.

 Oh fiery red Farrah Fawcett hair:)

I had one more picture but.....

after scanning two pictures my printer decided to not scan anymore:(

I love you mom.

I am thankful for you!

You are a special woman.

Happy Birthday.

Snow Fun

We had snow last weekend and a visitor.

Papa Jeff (my mom's husband)

He's working in the north for a bit so hopefully we will get a 

few visits from him:)

We got our bible groove on.

We watched some football.

Did some good cooking.

And.......

Played in the snow!

Kylie trying to feed snow to Papa.

Kaveri and Kylie eating snow.

We had a snowball fight. 

Daddy made and hoarded some snowballs.

MiKayla just wanted to eat the snowballs.

Happy Times!

Jeff is a transporter and sleeps many nights in his truck.

During the week his truck is his home.

I'm so thankful for our home.

It's our shelter.

I know that God has given us our house.

Sometimes I think we need more space.

But I try to remember that there are people who have much less than us.

Families as big or even bigger than ours and they have less space.

I do love our house with our red front door:)

New Style

I thought since it was a new year

I should give my blog a face lift of sorts.

Unfortunately, it took me a few weeks to get to it 

but, I love it.

Wow......

there is alot of info out there on designing blogs.

I decided to go with a shabby-chic style.

It feels like my crafty style has swayed that way

over the last few months so it only seemed natural.

I even made some of my own buttons on the right side:)

Yes, I'm bragging! 

This sucker took me lots of late nights looking for the 

tutorials to speak

computer code language.

So toot-toot on my horn!

I'm proud of myself.

What do you think???


Tonight I'm thankful for my creative side.
I love when an idea gets in my head like a literal lightbulb. And when I complete a project it feels like fire works are going off. That first week when I look at something that I /we have finished and I just smile:)
I am blessed! 

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!

You know it's cold when:

- when it gets dark by 5:00

-your chin quivers uncontrollably

-your body shakes so bad it hurts your back

-you have to shovel the walk way

-you can see your breath......in the car!

-snot is running out of your nose......and you can't feel it

-you wear three or more layers

- you can make and eat these

-everyone sleeps in feety pj's

-you go into hibernation mode

-school is canceled

-your dog has a sweater on

-the river is one big ice cube

-when you build a snow-woman and then she's complaining

It is freakin' freezing!

It's snowing outside.

We've been waiting for a good snow so it's ok.

We have to push the dogs out to pee.

The high today is 20 with single digits tonight.

There is a winter advisory. Good thing I went grocery shopping lastnight.

I'm going to give you 2-thankful fors- b/c I forgot one on my last post.

#1- I'm thankful for our warm beds.

There is literally homeless people sleeping under bridges

in make shift box houses.

We saw them. It makes me so sad.

I'm praying some how they will stay warm.

#2-I'm thankful for our car. It's not new. It's not awesome.

But, it gets up from point A to point B safely.

It has heat and air and even music:)

I'm so glad we don't have to rely on public transportation.

My Brave Girls

It all started with a trip to the mall.

We went out to the "big shopping" area so I could purchase my dress for my sister's wedding.

While at the mall we passed a jewelry place.

Kaveri looked at the earrings and asked when she could wear some.

This question comes up often.

Every time Kirstin gets new earrings or puts different ones on.

I have gotten Kaveri and Kylie a few pairs of clip on earrings.

They do wear them and love them, but lately they have been asking for "real" ones.

Ok, so back to the mall.

Daddy says, well you want to get them pierced.

Kirtsin was cheering them on.

"you can do it"

"it only hurts for second"

"you can be like me"

We walked the mall while they thought about it.

Kylie was all for it from the beginning,

Kaveri said she wanted to wait a while.

Then we passed another jewelry place and.....she was ready.

"are you sure, are you sure, are you sure"

I was terrified!

Kaveri chose some pink flowers.
She cried for about 90 seconds after the first one.
Then she calmed down and got the second one.
She cried for about another minute. So quietly, into my shoulder.
Then she looked in the mirror. She loved them!

Then it was Kylie's turn.
I thought she'd change her mind after seeing Kaveri.
But instead, she was saying:
"this is taking to long.when can I go. hurry up."

As I filled out her paper work it asked her age. I wrote 3 and I just couldn't believe
my 3 year old wanted to get her ears pierced!
She picked put some purple flowers.
She got her first ear done......no tears.
Looked in the mirror and was ready for the second one.
Second one done........no tears. Quick look in the mirror and she was
ready to go to the playground.
I asked her if it hurt."Nope!"

They were both looking at eachothers and giggling with proud excitement.
We went to the playground where the told and showed everyone who would listen.
I still sat there in shock.
Three out of four of my girls has their ears pierced.
How did that happen?

We have to clean them twice a day. Before bed and when they wake up.
Lastnight they reminded me.
This morning it was the first thing they said.
Daddy knew they could do it!!

I'm one proud mamma!!!

Kirstin waited to get her ears pierced till she was 5. She is

very impressed with her sisters'. 

Current Crafty Wants

#1-Some old shutters I can turn into shelves.

I can't find an exact picture of what's in my mind,

but theres ones up in there!

again, not exactly what I wanna do- but super cool non the less:)

#2- a couple of old windows

Some fun ideas!

#3- some cool letters

think fun word in my kitchen:)

#4- I want Derek to make me this

outta old wood planks or something?

 I don't know where I'll put it but it makes me smile:)

#5- I want a new antique desk.

We have a very nice, very large desk that my mom gave us a few years back.

But, since our computer area shares space with our dining room table, we

need a smaller one. Plus I wanna add shelves around the desk.

Again, its up in my head. And I can't wait to find that perfect something!

Thanks to pinterest for my example pictures.

 

Today I am thankful for- My Voice.

In several countries today women are suppressed and held below men.

This occurs even in the U.S. in certain households.

I whole-heartily believe my husband is the head of my household,

but he would never suppress me. And my voice is very

important in our house.

Ephesians 5:21

Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.  For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.

Xmas Break-Movie Reviews

We watched a lot of movies of xmas break. About two a night.

Here are my reviews.

Creepy. A little slow. Ok.

So not as funny as I thought. A little sad actually.

Both of these guys have done soooo much better.

I'm a sucker for vampires.

Now you know we all liked this! A+

Jim Carrey is still awesome!

It was an ok movie. Good enough to keep you watching but bad enough

to have you say blah at the end.

They tried to hard. There was a few funny parts.

My favorite part was when the dentist with tattoo on his face, played the guitar and sang a song:)

I don't like when movies fell forced.

Did you see this? I'm sure with Brad Pitt and Sean Penn in the cast you did.

If i would have paid to see this in the theater I would have been MAD!

While I appreciated the "creation" part, It was soooooooo long.

I would never watch this movie again. NEVER!

I guess the creative side did not speak to me.

AMAZING!!!!! See this if you haven't already.

The acting was totally awesome. I really enjoy when actors that aren't

"big" yet out do the actors that are. You know?

I even shed a tear at the end. A+++++++

This was a beautiful movie.

I always love a good love story with a good ending.

I will say that this movie does show why I will not take my kids to a circus.

Beating animals into submission to preform for you to make money

is against my beliefs.And I don't want to support it.

I do not believe God created animals for that.

But it was a very good movie.

Justin Timberlake is so funny. One of my favorite SNL hosts.

Now some movies we watched were so bad I will not even post their pics.I will just name them.

-Trespassers- come on Nic Cage and Nicole Kidman

-13- dumbest way to gamble......ever

-Straw Dogs- why???

-Set it Up -oh gosh, so so so bad, words can't describe

So today I'm thankful for "date-night" at home.

Weird right?

I love my husband and I love laughing with him.

We do not have any family here, so we don't have date-nights outside the house.

But, they are still fun at home, snuggled on the couch with a bowl of popcorn.

Even if there are a few interruptions........

The girls enjoy piling into Kirstin's bed with a bowl of popcorn for

their special movie too!