Chicken anyone?

Last Saturday, mom and I were on our way to gatesville for one of Seth's footbal games. His game was at 1, so we stopped at Sonic to get the girls some lunch. I turned around to check on Sophie and she had fallen asleep, with a chicken strip in her mouth!! Hilarious!!

My dream job...

So i was getting pretty good about keeping this thing updated, but as life happens my camera is malfunctioning! I have to admit that an entry is definately more interesting with pictures than without!! I did manage to take a few snapshots with success!!

At the beginning of this month, Gerson and I took to kids to Alvin, Texas for my mother-in-law's birthday. Of course I did not have my camera, but found one picture from our last visit there.

(Like I said, my camera has been malfunctioning. Notice the black edges for the shutter?)

Maggie and Sophie had a blast playing with their cousins and anytime Gerson gets with his mother is a blessing. On the way home, the girls were soo tired they practically slept the whole 3 and a half hours! Heaven!!! Gerson and I got to enjoy eachother and have a nice conversation! That rarely happens without multiple interuptions from the girls! Any way the topic of our "dream jobs" came up. My husband stated he has always wanted to be a sports announcer and a professional dancer. I doubt the dancer will ever happen, not that he's not a good dancer, but he will not be dancing around with girls half my age (and size) and half dressed. The only dance show I could make it on would be "dancing like a dork" and I dont think that show has much appeal to the networks!

I had to think about my dream job for a while, but I finally decided. I would love to be a professional crafter or a party planner ( i am sort of getting to do that as my church activites director)!! Many of my friends think I am creative, but I really just really on other peoples ideas and creativity. Maybe one day I will have enough brain power left over at the end of the day to come up with my own ideas. Here are a few things have done over the past few weeks while waiting for my dream job to become a reality!!!

These two are things that I made last year, but still had to show them off. I love the Trick or Treat block, made from a batch of wooden blocks somebody gave to me!. All I did was glue them together and then paint!






I saw a pumpkin topiary at Hobby lobby and didnt want to pay the price, so I used some left over pumpkins and a small urn pot from my bedroom.



I fell in love with this wreath from an amazing blogger ( http://jonesdesigncompany.comruffle wreath {a tutorial} ). I think the burlap is great for the fall season!


These letters were a knock of my my friend Val! Super cute and easy, plus cheap when the letters are 50% off at HobLob


My girlfriend Laci and I have decided to try to get together weekly to get some crafting time. Last week we made these cute little pumpkins out of toliet paper and paper towle rolls! I want to make more and do something with them, but for now they are sitting in my messy craft room :(


I have also been doing some sewing, but none of those are finished yet!! So stay tuned!!

Happy birthday, Dora!!

AS many of y ou may know, Maggie loves Dora the Explorer. Last year for Halloween Maggie was Dora and Sophie was Boots. Super Cute, I know!!




Well, apparently it is Dora's birthday!! They made a special birthday movie and of course we had to record and will probably watch it everyday!! But we also had a little birthday part for Dora. We invited my friend Laci and her son over. LAci brought some ballons. which the girls loved! We made pink cupcakes (picked out by Maggie, even though when it was time ti eat them, she didnt like them!). We had party hads and some coloring pages! The kids were so cute! It was a fun little birthday party!

Look what i did...

So i had a somewhat productive week last week. I feel like those dont happen very often.

First off, I hate wallpaper (have I mentioned this before?) My master bathroom walls were covered in lovely wallpaper-super easy to take down (yeah right) so six month after I started stripping the 2-3 layers of wallpaper, it is all gone and the walls have been freshly painted. Looks much better!! YEAH!!! I refreshed the trim and molding and have lots more projects on my list for that room, but at least something on that massive list is marked off.

BEFORE:


AFTER:


All of my bathrooms have that builders grade mirror in them. Nothing fancy, just a plain mirror. For the half bath downstairs I decided to get some etching cream and put a border around it. I am not wild about it, I feel like it needs something more, but it is a bit of an improvement. Pictures are not the best, but hopefully you can see the frosted band.




I have been wanting to make some dresses for the girls and never quite get anything done. I am starting some this week at my church sewing group. We have a sister who is an AMAZING seamstress and she is taking us through some projects, but I was eager to make something, so I called mom and she came over to help me with a pillowcase dress. They really are simple and easy and within 2 hours we had one finished. Next time shouldnt take near as long, now that i know what I am doing. Mom was great she didnt really do any of the sewing, she explained and taught me and tended to my two crazy children, but I did everything on Sophie's little dress! So cute!!



Lastly, I made a small accomplishment this week. I have exercised everyday!! What? Really. I will walk up to mom's and pick up her for a walk and then jog home (its all down hill on the way home). I get in about 1.5 miles which is an ok start. Mom has been wanting to start walking, hoping that that will increase her strength ad mobility faster, but it has helped me get off my butt too! So yeah! One week down-lots more to go!

A great way to start the weekend...

(So i had tried to post this blog last friday, but somehow change a setting and could post anything!! I finally figured it out!)

Gerson is always being asked to volunteer his time for community events sponsord by TWC, and being the generous guy that he is, he tends to always says yes. This means that I get to tag along and chase after the children with limited assistance from my busy husband. LAst friday was one of those events (a movie in the park) and I dreaded going. I almost told him to go by himself, but I knew my girls need to get out of the house and run off some energy. When we got there we realized the event was happening at the same park that the splash pad is at so we had to go back home and get the girls bathing suits. The girls really had a good time and playing in the water and sharing popcorn I am glad we went!

In the dark

As many of you know, I have issues with me cell phone. My phone got dropped in a cup of water and quite working. So I pulled out an old one to hold me over till I could get a replacement. The old one is horrible. I get no bars in my house and when I dod talk on it, I have to be on speaker phone or the other person cant hear me very well. So i order a phone off ebay about 2 months ago and appranetly it was being shipped from China, no joke! I have yet to receive that phone and now I have to order another. It really hasnt been that big of a deal because I am home most the time and just rely on the house phone. But starting Monday that house phone was not working, so I thought i would send G an email and have him put a work order in, but guess what?!?! THe internet was down too!! My grandma was giving me a hard time at famly dinner cause my blog background is gone and i need a new post! 3 days later and we are back in business! Life sure is nice nowadays with techniology, how did people survive before cell phones and internet?

paradise

Gerson and I just returned home from a wonderful vacation to Puerto Rico. We left the girls here at home with Aunt B and mom & dad. It was beautiful and super relaxing! The pictures don't do it justice!! Our room had a balcony and I went out and sunbathed every morning and listened to the waves!



Old San Juan is full of culture and beauty! There are two old forts, lots of statues and monuments, the old city wall and one of the gates is still intact, and lots of color!!!




We did lots of walking!! We rented bikes one day and did alot of riding around seeing awesome sights and feeling the breeze off the ocean. We stopped when we got hot and jumped in the water to cool off. I survived the bike riding with only one close call to being hit by a bunch of cars, but luckily they stopped and let me pass (probably because they saw my husband leaving me behind). Other than that I just had a really sore butt!!! Not used to sitting on a bike all day!!



I was adventurous and ate lots of purto rican and carribean food. It was good, but I could only handle so much deep fried balls of meat! Gerson thoroughly enjoyed every last bit of food on both our plates!!!



While we were there there was a culinary festival going on with lots of food, vendors and music! And the last night we went to a festival celebrating the culture through music, dance and art. We had a great time and enjoyed it all. I wish I could post all the pictures but there is too many!!




The best part of the trip? Getting home to my beautiful girls!!!