My hubby loves me :)

So last night my Aunt Debbi and Uncle John took me out to see the new movie "Couples Retreat." It was a pretty funny movie, I definantly enjoyed it. They took me out for my 27th birthday, and it was nice getting to spend sometime with both of them. Normally I spend time with one or the other, not often am I able to spend time with both of them at the same time and it was really nice. Sean spent the night at his friend Cobalts house, Emma spent the night here, Audrey took the younger two girls to Pizza hut for dinner while Chris was picking Emma up, while I went to the movies. Ok that was a little confusing, did you catch all that LOL. Chris was nice enough to let me sleep in this morning. I woke up about 8:45, debated if I actually wanted to get up or not. Then my girlfriend Angie from Texas called me, and I got to wish her a happy birthday on time this year! We talked for about half an hour, then I dragged my lazy butt outta bed. Chris spoiled the older 2 girls this morning, took them out for breakfast, and then brought donuts back. So Chris spoiled me this morning a little bit too, hehehhe. Audrey was kind enough to watch Serena for us when he took them out and let me sleep. Ok so maybe didn't spoil me with donuts, I just checked them and all that is there is iced and maple bars with sprinkles. YUCK! The things little girls like, shesh. Aw well anyway.

So I feel like I take two steps back and one step forward sometimes. I get the house picked up, things put away, and then BOOM, tornado times three comes through, and occassionally times four comes through... laundry lays there folded, waiting to be put away, and alas I can only do so much at one time. Once I get caught up on it all, again, I've devised a plan to make it a little easier for me.  Laundry in washer every night, moved to dryer when wake up, folder and put away later that after noon after baby wakes up from nap. That combined with deciding which days to do which things in the house that have to be done weekly. Rather than Saturday is day to clean all the weekly crap, cause we all know that never happens, do like Monday is for mopping the floors, tuesday is and friday is dusting, weds is cleaning bathrooms, and of course there's the daily chores, vacuming, dishes, picking up counters, putting things away, getting kids to pick up toys, cooking dinner, cleaning cat boxes (chris does this one cause he loves me), cleaning up spills from the kids. All the usual things that come with kids and life.

So the kids are all excited because we got them a new sandbox, it's shaped like a frog, but big enough for two of them to fit in. Sky and Serena play in it a lot together. I was lucky enough to find it on craigs list for twenty bucks, and then it needed a few bags of sand which aren't that expensive at the local Ace hardware store. They're cheaper than HomeDepot or Lowes for a lot of things. I went to lowes again to make myself a tool to be able to pack down the ingredients in my cooking gift jars that I am making for Christmas presents. They're pretty cool because I mix the ingredients, and such, and include the instructions, all they have to do is dump the ingredients in a bowl, add the few things that are wet that are needed, like eggs and such, mix it in a bowl and bake and there're ready to eat. They are pretty too look at too, so it makes it nice. I was able to make a pretty nice gift basket for Sean's school for their Holiday Raffel, it had a large jar of brownie mix, two types of hot cocoa, and two mugs, it was pretty. I also gave them like a bath set, with scented salts, lotion, and body scrub with a diffuser to match. Was all very nice. But alas they get to go out in the world and be enjoyed by people I will not know.... LOL. Well I'm going to go off now and get dressed, and play with the chillins. Oh did I mention I get to go to another 5 year olds birthday party at a blow up jungle jim place called pump it up... headache city I'm sure. I'm taking alieve before I leave.

My love to all and we'll update again soon, hopefully!

I painted it myself :)

Sean learning to ride his new skate board.

Sky in my mom's old sweatshirt going to decorate for halloween

"cheese" says it all...

Kids cuddling under blankets on a cold morning.