Friday, August 24, 2007
It's official
I have become a Californian. I still don't drive like a bat out of heck and I would never pay a million dollars for a tiny house, but today, I was grocery shopping at my favorite store, Trader Joes (sign #1). When I came out it was probably 70 degrees outside and I was down right COLD (sign #2) so I got in the car and turned on the heat which I kept on the WHOLE way home (sign #3). When I got to my street, I saw that this piece of crap house across the road was for sale so I picked up the flyer--it was $585,000--and I thought, "Wow, that's cheap!" I need to move quickly. California has gotten to me. AAAAAAAAAAAAAK!
Monday, August 20, 2007
Garage Sale Finds
My friend Lainie has introduced me to the wonderful world of garage sales in Marin. I have made some amazing finds and am really and truly addicted!!
I have gotten everything from too many books to clothes for both the girls and I to new sheets, craft supplies, a sterling silver gravy boat (for $6.00!!) pans and games, you name it, I got it!!
I got this dresser off the side of the road. It has beautiful dove-tailed drawers and is in wonderful shape. It was ugly but a little paint and new hardware made all the difference.
My room was too small and my lense too zoomy to capture this dresser but you can sort of see how cute it is. It is low with lots of cute details. I will add a cute oval mirror above it to make it complete. This one was five bucks at the garage sale. Again, it is a good solid old dresser with real wood and dove-tailed drawers and tons of great details. I haven't gotten the new hardware yet but I am excited to do so!!
This is my cake platter. It was five bucks. I think it is pretty.
This cute basket was two dollars.
The best thing I have ever found was my kitchen chairs. They were $140 for a set of six. They are beautiful and brand new. They match the table I got last year for Christmas perfectly. I love them and love the price even more!!!!
I have gotten everything from too many books to clothes for both the girls and I to new sheets, craft supplies, a sterling silver gravy boat (for $6.00!!) pans and games, you name it, I got it!!
I got this dresser off the side of the road. It has beautiful dove-tailed drawers and is in wonderful shape. It was ugly but a little paint and new hardware made all the difference.
My room was too small and my lense too zoomy to capture this dresser but you can sort of see how cute it is. It is low with lots of cute details. I will add a cute oval mirror above it to make it complete. This one was five bucks at the garage sale. Again, it is a good solid old dresser with real wood and dove-tailed drawers and tons of great details. I haven't gotten the new hardware yet but I am excited to do so!!
This is my cake platter. It was five bucks. I think it is pretty.
This cute basket was two dollars.
The best thing I have ever found was my kitchen chairs. They were $140 for a set of six. They are beautiful and brand new. They match the table I got last year for Christmas perfectly. I love them and love the price even more!!!!
Sunday, August 19, 2007
High School Musical
I think I have entered the twilight zone and I don't know how or exactly when it happened.
Our house has definately entered the tween era. I am shocked. My girls are in love with High School Musical (and Hannah Montana and Zach and Cody and all other things Disney Channel). High School Musical 2 came out on Friday night and the girls were beside themselves with excitement. They spent the last week playing their one Hannah Montana song over and over and singing the High School Musical Songs (or the four lines they know from them) and asking me to please make surethe movie started at 8:00. I had to check three times. Even Katie was dancing around informing me she was either Hannah Montana or Miley Cyrus (Hannah Montana's other name) or Gabriella, the girl from High School Musical.
At last the movie came on and we had our little High School Musical party. Now the girls can spend their last week of summer yelling over the fence to our neighbor (a fellow tween) about the ins and outs of the movie. Whatever happened to being in love with Belle--wasn't that just yesterday?
Katie's big day
Katie had such a fun birthday!!! We had a royal ball in the back yard. I didn't plan enough activities (I had forgotten how fast little kids burn through things) but it was fun anyhow!!! We read FANCY NANCY then played a game with passing a wand to music, then each little lady decorated their own wand. We had a treasure hunt and jumped on the jumper, played Freeze Dance and did the hokey pokey. And best of all we ate cupcakes and played in the yard. It really was fun. I am always a little stressed because things never go quite according to plan but it is always worth it to see Katie with her friends!
Kinley getting excited to have the magic wand!!
Katie with Aubrey who she loves so well!!
I made each of the girls crowns and the tresure box had rings and necklaces and bracelets so all the girls left looking like real princesses.
Kinley and Taeler swinging.
Madison was the life of the party!!!
And what can you say about Alyse? Never a dull moment with her around!!
Tessa was so sweet and cute--also, I think, a bit overwhelmed by the near chaos but we were so happy to have her come.
Kinley getting excited to have the magic wand!!
Katie with Aubrey who she loves so well!!
I made each of the girls crowns and the tresure box had rings and necklaces and bracelets so all the girls left looking like real princesses.
Kinley and Taeler swinging.
Madison was the life of the party!!!
And what can you say about Alyse? Never a dull moment with her around!!
Tessa was so sweet and cute--also, I think, a bit overwhelmed by the near chaos but we were so happy to have her come.
Cyrus the clean up crew
I can always count on Cyrus to clean up. He spent most of the party inside cleaning up from the previous evening's "High School Musical II" festivities, only to head out and clean up another mess once the party started winding down. I think we both are about partied out!!!
Cupcakes
I love cupcakes. But apparantly, Lainie, who took all these lovely birthday photos, loves them better since there are about ten cupcake photos on my camera.
The cupcake stand looked way cuter before the wind blew all the little ribbons all over. Oh well. It is the making it all that is fun for me!!!
Open it HARD Katie!!!
Alyse was so excited about the present she got for Katie, she could hardly bear how long it was taking for Katie to get the wrapping off. She yelled, "Open it HARD Katie." Unfortunately, Katie WAS opening it hard so Alyse offered some assistance.
Freeze Dance
One of our favorite birthday games is FREEZE DANCE where the kids dance when the music is on and stop when it is off. Unfortunately, our CD player got broken by this elf that comes to our house and messes up rooms and breaks things, so we had to use dad's computer for our tunes and it just wasn't loud enough.
Monday, August 06, 2007
Tagged!!!
This is a fun blog game. One of my friends tagged me and now I need to post seven random things about myself then tag four others...hmmmmm....
1. I have worked at the worst jobs in the world--one summer I watched wire at a wire factory--all day long I stared at wire making sure it was being made correctly, I moved pipe (once--it was hard), I worked on a potato harvester, I worked making potato flakes, I worked at a fast food place, I worked binding books at the library, and I managed apartments. All of those were bad jobs but they paid for college. However, the worst job I ever had was teaching 8th grade. I would rather work at McDonalds (or poke out my own eyes) than teach Jr High again.
2. Once when I was a missionary, I got chased home by a bunch of men while riding my bike at 9 pm--I don't know how old they were or how many of them there were, because I was afraid to look. A light turned red and they were gaining on us and I screamed a prayer and the light changed. That is the only time I ever yelled in a prayer. Pretty exciting--gotta love Detroit.
3. I love food. Cooking it, eating it, looking at it, watching it on TV. It is my favorite entertainment.
4. I really want all wood floors. I am so tired of dirty, gross carpet I could gag. This house has had dirty carpet since the day we moved in...I clean it every few months and within a week stains are back. I wouldn't care if I never have carpet again.
5. I hate conducting Relief Society. It makes me nervous. Also, I hate calling people to remind them to do their church jobs.
6. I'm a bad driver. Always have been. I would rather not drive. But my husband is worse.
7. I hate the movie theater. It is too expensive, too loud, too dark and I hate the intense parts of movies...so I send my husband to the movies alone. Although, if it hadn't been my anniversary, i might have gone with all the ladies in our ward to see hairspray--THAT looks funny!
Now, I tag Annie B, Kara I, Kathleen Bailey and Kathy Cortez
1. I have worked at the worst jobs in the world--one summer I watched wire at a wire factory--all day long I stared at wire making sure it was being made correctly, I moved pipe (once--it was hard), I worked on a potato harvester, I worked making potato flakes, I worked at a fast food place, I worked binding books at the library, and I managed apartments. All of those were bad jobs but they paid for college. However, the worst job I ever had was teaching 8th grade. I would rather work at McDonalds (or poke out my own eyes) than teach Jr High again.
2. Once when I was a missionary, I got chased home by a bunch of men while riding my bike at 9 pm--I don't know how old they were or how many of them there were, because I was afraid to look. A light turned red and they were gaining on us and I screamed a prayer and the light changed. That is the only time I ever yelled in a prayer. Pretty exciting--gotta love Detroit.
3. I love food. Cooking it, eating it, looking at it, watching it on TV. It is my favorite entertainment.
4. I really want all wood floors. I am so tired of dirty, gross carpet I could gag. This house has had dirty carpet since the day we moved in...I clean it every few months and within a week stains are back. I wouldn't care if I never have carpet again.
5. I hate conducting Relief Society. It makes me nervous. Also, I hate calling people to remind them to do their church jobs.
6. I'm a bad driver. Always have been. I would rather not drive. But my husband is worse.
7. I hate the movie theater. It is too expensive, too loud, too dark and I hate the intense parts of movies...so I send my husband to the movies alone. Although, if it hadn't been my anniversary, i might have gone with all the ladies in our ward to see hairspray--THAT looks funny!
Now, I tag Annie B, Kara I, Kathleen Bailey and Kathy Cortez
Happy Anniversary!!!!!
Cyrus and I had our anniversary last week on Wednesday! We have been married for nine years. UNBELIEVABLE!!! Bunco was on Wednesday night but since it is our policy that weeknights make for unenjoyable celebrations, I just went to BUNCO and he rested from a long day at school, oh yes, and he gave me my favorite present...a fully cleaned and vaccuumed home. He really is the best.
On Friday I made a great salad and some scones and strawberry shortcake and we enjoyed a wonderful celebration. Low-key and perfectly quiet and romantic, just the way we like em...Sam joined us because he wasn't feeling the best but that was ok, he went down for the night and we just stayed home and ate and talked.
We spent the first few years of our marriage doing what people traditionally do on anniversaries--trying to go away and trying to have the most romantic night by making everthing perfect--blah blah blah. Then on anniversary #5, Cyrus' dad was flying in on the big night, and we were so busy getting ready for Katie to come, that we just had a barbeque in the back yard together and Cyrus wrote me a poem and made a list of-the top 100 things from each of the first five years of our marriage. We read them and laughed and just felt absolute joy at being with each other. It was our best anniversary ever and it was SOOOOO low stress. It just reminded us of why we love each other so much and why our marriage is so great. And so it has been ever since. We don't try to be elaborate, we don't try to do what everyone else does, we just enjoy each other and laugh and remember, once again, why we love being married to each other.
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