Just me .... @ 29 again .........

Just a few things about me .

- list maker
- fave color is green and always has been
-ice cream is a guilty pleasure
-usually have my camera arms length away
-Love adding a piece of crazy or colorful jewellery to any outfit
-crazy party planning mama
- have good intentions
-definitely not afraid to speak my mind
-this is the longest I have had my hair in years
-my escape is a soak in a HOT tub with the doors locked and lights out
-treat myself to a cup of tea daily
-put my kids first
-pattern paper is my thing
-enjoyed playing with some fabric crafty projects
-favorite flower is daisies
-love to garden
-enjoying cutting grass
-dislike doing household chores as I think there should and are other priorities does not mean I am a slob just family comes first
-my mind works overtime most of the time .
-love my hubby a great deal even though I also slid him to second since the kids
-I love creating  crafty and artsy things but definitely have not gave myself much time to do it
-am 35 weeks into pregnancy #3 and its very much different this time around too
-shopping is not my favorite thing but its my organized thing listed by store and by item
-an early morning walks clears my mind and is so very relaxing to me .
- my hubby and I have enjoyed having a glass of wine or two with each other this is nice
-do not enjoy watching television I do do it but its not a need nor a want to me .
-I crank up the music loud in the truck like a teenage boy with new speakers its a guilty pleasure I have and drains out the children too
-reading is a hobby I wish had more time for
-typical a morning gal but also a night owl this can work out to be a disadvantage to me and catches up every now and then .
- love eating  fruit and veggies
-enjoy baking but don't usually eat it (beside when I am pregnant with a sweet tooth little boy )
- dislike chocolate only  have two chocolate favorites
-love to floss everyday
-both my girls have pierced ears and wear earrings every day I do not
-dog lover
- have very few friends but the ones I have are priceless and unconditional and who needs lots of friends when you have a sister anyways
-am the bad cop parent in the house .
-do not drink pop unless its in a mixed drink or there is absolutely nothing else to drink
-did not thing my choice of having another baby would be possibly taken away from me at the age 30

Things to DO in my 30th year ....yes 30 ( and all honesty I think it maybe my best year yet well maybe not starting out all peaches and cream like but I have big hopes for the rest of it  )
-to create a more productive & calm but still fun house hold
-do a online camera class
-journal daily for me
-family trip to Hawaii
-create family memory books
- take a monthly photo of self (full body )
-donate my hair
-date night with hubby monthly (this would be a great time to get that monthly self photo too)
-create a exercise program for self  for me to feel like me again or at least for me to  feel comfortable with (does that make any sense )
-get my craft studio up and running
-girls weekend away

Sad but very true I will be spending my 30th birthday in Brandon hospital . Whats a girl to do but take care of babe and me . I will be admitted first thing this morning and then I will go on to Winnipeg next Tuesday and find out more then . I am sure shortly after that I will be booked for a C section and will have a baby name to announce to you all for our little man . I have had a lot to soak in the last day or two . We were given the worst case scenario of possible delicate  C Section  surgery with a possible hysterectomy to be had at same time ,or to  bleed out and losing enough blood for both babe and me not to make it or possible just a normal placenta previa completely with no complications . Sitting in a hospital til a another picture can be done to rule out any dangers by a specialist seems like the best idea for now . Not ideal as I am a planner I had to scatter to find a home for my children with very busy family and friends but we got everything worked out . I must say we both have amazing families and are very lucky to have everyone live very close to us .As well as kick A$$ best friend that did not hesitate to mother my children until all our families could work out there schedules to be the most help to us . THANK YOU is not enough to all the help we will receiving in the weeks to come .
Happy Birthday to me still hoping to get a slice of cake and ice cream .

TIME OFF

I need some personal time off for now . Life can be overwhelming and its getting the best of me these days . It seems as when it rains ....it pours ...well that seems to be the case for us these with bad news . So at this point I do use this a outlet to  just be so maybe I will be back soon and maybe I will not .At this point I do not even know where i will be in the days to come . So to all my blog friends keep on blogging as I will be checking in daily to have a distraction .I do have a blog post or two to schedule to be posted on certain days that I did over the weekend but for now that's all i can guarantee for now.

Scared with nerves and butterflies

This is me today meeting a new doctor to birth my third child. Kinda feeling like I have no choice but doing what I guess is best for everyone . YES it feels like the first days of school or test day are you ready or not .I have been lucky enough to have the same doctor,female doctor , at the same hospital in Saskatchewan for both my girls  as well as the two miscarriages I had too ( so theres comfort there trust ). Now I will be going to a new doctor ,a male doctor and that I am meeting for the first time today in Manitoba . Every once in awhile Dman will ask if I am ever scared of anything I will give him a list mice . heights to a certain point ,losing my kids , etc , etc but today I am scared of the unknown .
So this is me  @ 35 weeks
- Scared of whats to be
- carpel tunnel in hands so bad I can't sleep
-feeling of a baby's head down there (first time for me as well )
-Ready for babe (clothes , diapers , crib , bassinet , wipes  ,etc )
-Happy to have another boy enter our world
-Braxton hicks every couple days
-Tired
-Craving sweets like no one business
-enjoying every little kick or thump I am getting knowing I will miss them when they are gone .
-still can see my toes
-almost finished the new hospital baby book I make for all the kids but still have to make announcements and thank yous (have always had this done before babe comes so we will see)OK I am a planner.
-still need to get maternity pictures done .
-my bag is not packed yet


The sun is out and feeling like this is going to be  a good day . Although my nerves are right there sitting waiting for anyone to make a wrong move and I can have a river of tears I am sure .So here's to a day of firsts that hopefully a green tea frap can fix at the end of the day :)Also hoping that Miss. Izzy will not need her ears flushed out mama did her own DIY to help her out this weekend and hoped it worked . We are firm believers of ear candling but have only did to the Mr ,Dman at age 4 and myself , so had our concerns doing it too Izzy as shes so young but mineral oil was just not cutting it . I could barely handle watching her fall over anymore .We candled her bad ear and she has seemed to be doing much better .
Keeping my fingers and toes crossed for the both of us .

TGIF

Looking forward to a lazy summer weekend with my house as clean as it can be for chaos still happening and laundry being the only thing I need to so call catch up on .I am feeling a lets do whatever we want or don't want weekend to happen . After this week of sick little girlies one with ear infection that resulted in a quick ER trip and the other with a blocked ear drum that may or may not need to be flushed out on Monday at the doc . (hoping not )and a hubby that was gone on over night work meetings.This mama is tired , drained and out of sorts ,but we all know that nothing happens as planned any way . So with that said cross your fingers cause I am not ready for anymore drama ,chaos or disasters.to happen . Hope you all can kick back and enjoy your weekend as well .
I will leave you with a little Pinterest love of mine for the weekend . When CHAOS seems to be the norm I dream of places like these to go to .Where would you want to go ???

All photos courtesyy to Pinterest plan on coming back to give proper credit to whom actually took them .

Summer goodness

I made this delish Rhubarb recipe and everyone scarfed it down . The joys of being a farm gal is fresh rhubarb right out your back door . This cake was oh so moist and absolutely delish to the last crumb ice cream or no ice cream ,but doesn't ice cream make everything better .

RECIPE :Rhubarb Coffee Cake (Tablespoon - T ,teaspoon -t  ,Cup - C )
1/2 C Margarine                       1 t vanilla
1 1/2 C white sugar                   2 C flour
2 eggs                                       1 t baking soda
1 C sour cream                         2 C rhubarb , chopped

TOPPING
1/2 C brown sugar                    1 t cinnamon
1 T flour                              1 T margarine
Make into crumbs and sprinkle over batter . Bake @ 350* in a 9x13 pan for 30-40 minutes .
Now you all know I cannot not keep to a recipe if my life depended on it .
So this is what I changed . I used Epicure Apple Spice in both mixture and topping same amount as cinnamon .Of course I doubled the topping too . YUMMY !!!
This recipe was courtesy of the Carievale Cookbook and was submitted by Jean Dean (Allan )

Baby days

Oh the sweet smells and cuddles of babies . I getting so ready and have been thinking about the girls when they were little too .I remember the the cuddles Addy loved  and she could lay on your chest all day long if you'd let her .

Addy got her ears pierced at 6 weeks old . I do not regret it for one minute .

Izzy well strange but true now that I think of it she had this purring sound that she made when she was sleeping like a kitty ,which is ironic now that I think about it as one of her favorite words are kitty kitty .

Izzy was so alert as a baby always wide eyed .

I am  looking forward to another little one in our house .I have so many things on my mind preparing for our little man . I wanted to share a few of my fave baby things / products that I {heart}
1. Grobag - having had winter babies that loved to be covered up but always kicking the blankets off then crying to get covered up again this was quite the treat .Great for camping as its a little sleeping bag and if child falls asleep in it and you have to travel it has the seat belt holes so you can keep them in it too

2. Skip Hop Diaper Bag - Perfect size love how its goes right over your shoulder and you still have two free hands .

3. Odourless Diaper Pail - Truly was a great diaper pail that it did not cost $$$$$ and no additional costs or parts

4. Baby K'Tan Baby carrier - once again I do not regret this purchase and used it often mostly while shopping and could quite comfortably breast feed while in carrier very comfortably

5. Zen collection cradle swing - LOVED for so many reasons the part where baby lies can lift off and be moved  to another room ,it would swing in both directions , It could be operated with batteries or plugged in loved that we would not be wasting so many batteries .

6. Bumbo - I enjoyed having our bumbo especially on camping trips

7. Stoke High chair - now this one is a investment cause $$$$$ but so worth it all our kids including the Dman used it as a toddler and can be used as a chair when we are all done with it for a high chair . Now this is not for you if you let your child fall asleep in the high chair which our children never did . I like how you push it up to the table they learn table manners really early .

8. Summer Infant Baby video monitor - Once again high end purchase $$$$ but we loved it  allowed us to have our room in the basement with baby's room on main floor and saved me alot of running up the stairs for no reason as well as allowed me to be at outside with the other two and could keep a close eye as well ear to what baby was doing .

9.Travel Bed- made by Eddie Bauer -    We had this thing with us to all hotels as well as camping very small portable and handy no where near as big as a play pen so had that much more trunk room which when you have more then one kid is always appreciated

10.So many things I am leaving out too . But somethings that come to mind are our one of kind bedding made by a local gal and my nursing cover that my sister made me .

Is it possible to have baby without these goodies heck yeah but it was sure nice to have it too . Obliviously we got to use it more then once too so always a added bonus . Most of the above was purchased with baby money given to us from grandparents and great grandparents as well as others . Or was received as a a gift which is always a nice gesture too .

It could always be worse ....

I sit here thinking of everyone I know that is effect in one way or another with all the rain and water , tornadoes , fires  and every thing else that is going on  . Weather it directly or in directly we are a story or know a story of someones . BUT keep your heads up I have tell my hubby from day one it can always be worse cause it can . I got this frame of mind from sitting in the pediatricians office with our first daughter in our arms , a diaper bag over one shoulder and a breathing heart monitor over the other there we were in a room FULL to standing room all waiting for the same doctor as I was there and looked around tired with barely any energy to keep my eyes open as we have been up for days with little or no sleep at this point waiting our turn . I saw all these people with all sorts of things wrong with their children and  I am sure everyone was concerned with what was wrong with their child . I sat in a row with what seemed to be new parents with their first born and what looked like he had a a cold the couple looked much like us tried ,exhausted and concerned , then sitting beside them was us with Addy very petite and her monitor going over every 15 - 20 minutes which was quite normal for us but the people sitting beside looked quite concern for us but to us it was normal . We were sitting and hoping that we had enough battery juice left to get us through our appointment and to the truck so we could plug it back in . Then sitting beside us was a couple with a few children but one that they had to bring in two coolers that carried syringes that they had to pump into there daughter through her back through a feeding tube what seemed every half hour . This couple also looked sleep deprived , exhausted and concerned . I sat there thinking the  couple with cold is looking at us like poor people our son just has a cold and we sat their looking at the next couple thinking we just have carry a breathing monitor around maybe for a another month or two  and they have to keep coolers to feed their what seemed like a  8 year old and who knows how long they have been doing this for . I left their with the statement stuck in my head it can always be worse . So some days I maybe repeating this more then once and maybe I even have told you it can always be worse but it can .
So when I think of my flooded basement and what now appears to have water in our roof and hoping its not enough to have our roof fall in on us. I sit her thinking of the people my sister and BIL helped evacuate out of their homes last night carrying all of what they could out of their homes or the people across the border that have been just given their evacuation warning yesterday or the people leaving their homes to fires and could not carry anything out as their was just no time too .
If i could  have you all think for one minute when something doesn't go quite the way you want it to remember It could always be worse .
Thinking of everyone on the world today that is effected with this crazy weather we have been having either rain , tornadoes , floods whatever it may be you are in my thoughts and it could always be worse .

                                                               This is a Pinterest quote .

Happy Fathers Day

(this two were off to church for kids day. Izzy and I stayed home to rest )

Missing Isabelle she was napping and then ripping around all day that I never did get a picture of her with her dad and Dman is not home but Jeremy did receive a phone call in the morning from him.

I {HEART} this man for tolerating all us women in this house daily . Playing with the girls even if that means barbies . I love the way he tries so hard to do all the girlie things for  the girls when mom is not around Pony tails & pig ears AKA pig tails , tights and dresses etc .
I love the way that he cuddles them and never forgets to give  "the kiss goodbye " when he leaves the house .
I love how Izzy follows dada around when he enters a room & Addy would do any thing with dad and  that he is so proud that she managed to last the whole task with him without complaining or be done . Such as combining or field checking or whatever it maybee she is interested in sticking it out .Daddy's little farm girl .
I love that the girls can sit watch sports with there dad right to the end with the cheering and clapping right along with him .
I love that him  & Dman can talking forever on the phone
I love that he knows just how to make each of our kids smile or laugh .
He is our everything !
  
Happy Fathers Day to all the dad's out there .

RELAX .....

Well that's a hard thing to do for a mama of two busy girlie's . But a quick trip to ER just to make sure everything is O.K . and doctor that has no intentions to sugar coat it . Makes you open your eyes to say the least . So here we are doing our best to relax as everything else can just wait it will always be there another day . RIGHT ?!?!?  So today we send dad off to golf as a early fathers day treat as he has not been out this year yet and we headed to the pool . Wasn't quite sure if this would be very relaxing experience for me with two girl in tow but to much of my surprise it was . Two years of swimming lessons for Addy are well paying off she a very confident strong willed girl willing to try and Izzy well she should of been my boy as shes fearless and loves water too . Seriously I am positive this girl is going to be swimming by the end of the year . She dunks her head under while other moms what you OMG and comes up just a grinning from ear to ear . Shes floating on her back and everything else she wants to try . I love the water too and watched as there was so many moms sitting & laying around with no swim suit on and yelling at there kids if they come near as they are getting wet from their kids little wet bodies as a friend and I are so desperately hoping our children don't ever grow old enough to not want us in the pool with them.
So enjoy the cool summer breeze and hot summer sun as you never now what life may bring you . I am sure excited to meet our little man but also know that will put me out of the summer pool for 6 weeks too ,also a very small sacrifice for what he will bring us . So enjoying it while I can .

                                                 Heres to lazy days laying around .

 AND not doing too much at all !!!

AHOY MATEY

YES we have just attended a Pirate Party and we take theme parties pretty serious around here .We {LOVE} parties !! This was Addy and my outfits that we wore to the party .

( My photographer AKA hubby  did not tell me that my eye patch was up )

Moving to a different small town is probably just as difficult to meeting new people as it would be in the city . They already have their "own" groups and are always friendly but maybe not as accepting to new people . New ideas and suggestions are maybe not as welcomed to a new small community I find either . I have been lucky enough to meet a few people through Addy's social life of school so far which has been quite nice .

I have been very lucky to meet Galina she has been very friendly and definitely puts her kids first which I appreciate as I really think that's important . She has a love for over the top birthday parties very much like me too . So when we were invited and so forgot to take a picture of invite but it was a bottle with cork in top and invite that was worn ,old and aged like a pirate map was inside along with some sand from the sea . I was very much impressed by the work she took to make them .The invite had said to Wear some pirate attribute or you will walk the plank . This was right up our alley as we love dressing up . She made her very own 3D pirate ship cake that I was over the top impressed by as I do not have this kinda skill or patiences for  caking decorating.

Check out this insane cake !

What a show piece !!! I personally was not expecting that . I love planning parties so much as well as my sister maybe even to  a obsession but brings joy to my face when the kids talk about their past parties . I am pretty sure in my head I have my kids even unborn Little mans party planned out in my head for the next year or two for sure . I always surprise the kids too they never know what kinda of party they are going to have to almost the day the party is this may be harder to do when they get older but for now we all are enjoying it until they get too old for theme parties then what will I do . Well until then  I will keep dreaming of the next party .

Belly touch

I have never really got the belly touch and still don't appreciate it at a spontaneous moment I shall say . What right is it to anyone to randomly come up to you and feel it OK to do the belly touch . REALLY ?!?! Just because I have a little life in there gives no reason to get the belly touch . I would not randomly go up to you and touch your belly and if i did would that be OK and would you be fine with it. What really gets me is the stranger belly touch if its not bad enough people you love and know feel it OK to do a random belly touch at last minute urge with no warning but for a complete stranger to do . UGH . No belly touching for me or at least ask and not ask while already touching . If you ever watched the movie The Diary of a Wimpy Kid the cheese touch is much the same as "THE BELLY TOUCH " Just don't do it unless otherwise told . I should really market a Tshirt for this . How do you feel about the random unannounced Preggo belly touch ??

BIG DAY

Today was a busy day  at the Jones household.
Addy's last day of school . I guess I have to start planning out our days better cause because this girl likes routine and since day marked the last day of ball and the last day of school that means I gotta keep her busy as a bee !!!

Last day of school

and last day of T-ball .

We also had auntie and the boys join us for the preschool grad and came back to have lunch and a play with us afterwards too .

Nice to get all together !

ATTITUDE

Somedays peoples attitudes or actions can really reflect on how your day begins or ends . I really need this framed so I can read daily as a reminder . TO keep my cool when others drive me CRAZY !!


The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on my life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company, a church, a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you. We are in charge of our attitudes.



- Charles Swindell

Just for laughs ....

I had to post these not very good pictures at all just well look and see.
Addy wanted a picture with Annie and Izzy . 
PICTURE # 1

Everyone say cheese kinda moment !!

PICTURE #2

Well not sure how everyone but Addy is enjoying this picture! She has them both by the scruff of the neck . Just one more picture mom .

What takes you down will make you stronger .

We packed up and went to our ultrasound on Tuesday and when we arrived home on Wednesday we came home to a flooded basement . Might not be so strange for this time of year and everything that has been going on . But we were high and dry but a mistake made by a contractor that was left in our house on Tuesday our pump got unplugged . We got flooded I had my moments and cried the UGLY cry . Then talking to my mom and dad telling them everything that happened . Dad said it just STUFF .  I repeated that line over and over as we saw all the damaged and found more stuff that had been damaged that we forgot was down there. I repeat that line to my kids every time they asked for some of there toys that we cannot have access too because the way our system works down stairs for pump out and such all runs through each other so that means our dirty water has diluted through everything and with me preggos and Izzy allergies  & asthma that means everything that they consider safe needs a high end cleaning but we already been advised that it would not be much . ITS JUST STUFF !!So all my girls stuff is gone . Must admit they are great . Addy says Santa will bring her her fave stuff right mom . I have been a mama that has a rule toys belong in the toy room not upstairs so we have barbies to play with and a few books. Some homemade play dough and crayons and the girls have been real troopers . I have not had access to our home computer as its also down stairs not sure if its survived . My craft room UGH .Its just STUFF !!! I have lost a few very important pictures to us . But all this makes me realize how important it is to store things properly . I could always be worse we could of lost our whole home to a fire or much bigger flood or anything else for that matter . So I will be taking some time to breath and getting the fine details figured out . Will keep you updated real soon . Our main priority is to get everything cleaned to a safe matter for us and to bring a new baby home too . We have had amazing experience with our insurance agent , the cleaning crew that has been traveling from Winnipeg to help out the pregnant lady . We have had great family and neighbours that helped out the first night too . So just to make our house a home again .
Its just STUFF !!! When you started thinking like that it changes everything about the way you think . Maybe has changed us  for the better &  for the long run .
I will report back soon !
And maybe I will have some access to beable to post some pictures.

Life List

So I found myself wanting to dig back to find my life list well here it is I was going to revamp /redo it but the more and more I thought I thought of it its PERFECT its me strange but true these are some of my wish I will do's . SO instead of retyping what I had I thought I will post what I already have.SO I did not edit any of what is listed below I worked on this list in 2010 and had intentions to post it on the New Year but still it sits and waits oh so lonely in my DRAFTS some of these did come off my and my hubby's bucket lists that we sat down and made together and then most of the rest is all me . To Post my LIFE List finally was encouraged by being a daily reader of Deeann and seeing her post her Life list made me revisit my own life list and as
Oprah says live your best life . So saying all that here it is people . So anything in blue is me now and the rest was history .

the new year is here SO lets Welcome TWENTY 11 by posting our wildest dreams , hopes and  life list . I have had a bucket list that Jeremy and I once upon a time put it together the two of us . But I want something alittle more maybe as reminder or a reflection of what we could do if we really wanted too .
So here is my life list in no particular order
learn to drive stick *run a 5 k and then a marathon *ride a street car in San Francisco*shoot a hand gun *go on a cruise with my family *learn to drive and operate a combine correctly *write everyday *donate my hair *swim with dolphins*ride in a hot air balloon *learn to make wine *visit Hong Kong *attend a luau @Hawaii *learn to really use my SLR camera *go parasailing *dog sledding *get a scrap book page published *volunteer at a soup kitchen during a holiday *send a birthday card to everyone I know and that means something to me for a year *try acupuncture*learn to braid my daughters hair*go on a  African safari*learn to really do the smoky eye make up and then really go out some where and party *make pasta from scratch *go to a psychic*meet Oprah *Buy a piece of art *make and eat home made ice cream with loved ones*create a outside oasis @ our farm for us to enjoy *learn to sew well and then make something that someone can actually wear *take a photography class*start and finish a 365 photo project *learn to golf and go out with my hubby *own a canoe and learn to row properly*give a $100 to a complete stranger *buy a cabin looking out to the water *build a tree house with and for my kids *throw a great surprise party for someone I love *go on a holiday for at least 7 days with my mom and sister somewhere hot *start a collection* raise chickens for fresh eggs *find and use a face treatment that will work for me and that I will use everyday too *to make our house a home completely that we will love to be in  and want to be in*Take my kids to a beach where the ocean  is * to have another baby or two (well one of those babies is on its way ....) *putting one of the many creative businesses I have in my head and going for it *Go on a all girls trip that last longer then a day or a weekend *snorkel* get my kids memory books started * Go on a honey moon with my husband some where exotic and just the two of us * Write a children's book and publish it *To get my craft studio up and running as a business* *Date night with hubby that actually makes the calendar and done once a month *
I am sure I will constantly add to this list and wonder why I put some of things on the list but something inside me wanted here to begin with and I will figure it all out one day or another . So here's to dreams , dares , challenges , fears , and stepping out  to whatever the future will bring .

FRESH week ahead .....

Starting the week early this monday morning with all the windows open and fresh country air blowing in . Just seen a herd of geese fly on by and two deer cross the road . Enjoyed the weekend warm weather but this nice weather does not suit all as Izzy's allergies have been put in over drive these days . So one under the weather girl but still making the most of it . Some fresh rhubarb sitting on my counter for some crumble muffins to be made . I sure enjoy our country life and what comes with it too . We have a grass pasture to use for animals but not ready for us to take that on for timing reasons yet ! But have some neighbours that have brought over there horses to enjoy the lush green grass that grows wild out there . So a peak out the back window and you can see horse running around . The novelty has not worn off forr the girls yet and maybe will not wear off I am not sure . Izzy new fave word has gone from Kittie Kittie to horsey quite fast .
Have promised to share our summer to do list and what better day to do that then warm sunshine day too .
So here it is . and this is where the idea sparked from check it out here .

It was made last year to be reusable .SO I had a huge old frame bonus was that it did not have real glass in it as the kids like to check it out often . I used leftover paper that was sitting around my craft room . Its a plastic over top of the paper then I use a sharpie for the writing then I can use a magic Mr. Clean eraser to wash off from year to year .
Last years list was
: fly kites                 : root beer floats
: game night            : outdoor movie              : run threw sprinkler
: concert                 : blow bubbles                : go out for ice cream
: water slides          : family walks                  : hot air balloon ride
: get dad to unplug for a few days                 : swimming lessons
: zoo                      : Exploring                      : camping
: bike rides             : visit a new park to us    : bonfire with colorful smores
: mini golf               : fishing                           : to go to as many different pools
: Red Barn             : visit a library                 : Daytons birthday party    : do a puzzle
: go to the beach    : play dates                     : family pictures                 : pick berries
: country cruising     : bake a treat or 2 or 3   : Toy Story 3                    : kids date night with mom and dad
: Move to farm       : make Popsicles            : host a huge summer bash : garage sale (our own )
: water balloon fight  : crafts , crafts , crafts !
: U.S. Camping trip  : have a picnic
You can see we added simple things and some that needed planning to do or a good day .Not all of it got done some of our ideas are wish list items and some are just to keep our summer motivated to keep moving us its very easy to get in a rut .
Our new list is
: camp                                  : Exploring                                             : summer school days
: Fishing                                : Read books                                        :  Rainbow floats
: Host a summer Party           : Jump rope                                           :  ZOO
: Have a baby                       : Family game night                                : Catch bugs and frogs
: Football Game (RIDERS)   : Hula Hoop                                          : Family photo of 6
: Picnic Party                         : Water Slides                                       : Horse Back Riding
: Quad ride adventure            : Go to the beach                                  :  Water Fight
: Outdoor Movie                    : Family summer Journals                      : Make raspberry jam
: Hot air balloon ride              : Play dates                                           : Fly kites
: Build a sandbox                   : Plant a tree                                          : Swimming Lessons
: Cars 2 Movie                       : go out for ice cream                            : mini golf
: blow bubbles                        : make home made ice cream                : crafty projects
: make sock puppets and put on a show
The list can be as BIG or small as you want it can be simple or detailed , you can leave blanks to add more as you go . It just a list for you to reflect on and keep you thriving to enjoy very part of your summer days as summer only lasts so long . We have enjoyed our summer list .
Today I also let the girls get there craft on this morning while I did up the dishes , so LOVE our keep busy box for the kitchen table .

and heres a bird eye view.

HAPPY MONDAY EVERYONE ENJOY THE BRIGHT SUNSHINEY DAY !

DAY 5 of Photo Fun

Heres what we had for breakfast today !

Mother Load

I was out garage saling today and hit the mother load . Keep checking back for me to share my finds with you .

SO my picture pretty much sucks (super blurry !)as I was trying to take it quick so hubby would not see all my treasures at once.I was creeping in them slowly washing them up and displaying them so they can be appreciated to the intend I had wanted them for and not what did you bring that home for . I found some amazing suitcases , old vintage large jars that I will use for my pantry plus craft studio , old scrub wash board , old watering can that I got thrown in with a whack of old crates , found a large amount of good quality well tooken care of clothes for my oldest daughter , a few baby finds for our MR . Little man and a old vintage stainless steel bread box , a few finds for a friend which I am not sure if she will appreciate them yet as they will just show up on her door step .

I will keep posting my finds as I display them in my home.

31 weeks and still holding on .

I have decided to post my self portrait today as I had NO energy to do so last night . And it worked out perfectly as I had a doctors appointment today and could document my 31 weeks .

31 weeks

Weighing in @ 162 holy man this little guy has gave me a sweet tooth and I cannot deny that . With the girls I craved oranges , smoked oysters , carrots and tons of fruit & veggies . This little man sugar and sweets ! I even had two Pepsi this pregnancy and if anyone knows me I do not drink pop unless it is used to mix a adult drink .
My thyroid is good and my iron is back on track . The baby's heart beat was 155 yesterday ..baby is still small but that is normal for me and my babes So all is good for me and babe we got the thumbs up ,but I also was warned he can come anytime now .Also instead of every second week I will be going every week . And no lifting , pushing , or any sort of extra work is out . How do you do that with two very busy bees at home well you try your best and make the most of it . In the mean time I have to have another ultrasound next week to insure that everything placenta wise was still OK . Alot is riding on this ultrasound . We will either be having this baby very soon or in 5 weeks . Either way I feel confident that all will be well I have two great doctors working together and a great husband dealing with my CRAZY days . With that said I got go create baby announcements , maybe even half pack a bag , and check out what we need as next week maybe my last city visit .
Did I mention that tomorrow is TGIF .
WOO HOO .

June Challenge

Just found a challenge that a friend has found via pinterest .Since  one of my many things to do this year is to sharpen up on my camera skills thought I would hop on board with her as well . What a great idea !!
Here's the month challenges and I hope you all try it out too .

So looking forward to the month of June so much to happen and what a great day to start a new month out on sunshine and warm weather .I am looking forward to blue skies , growing flowers ,fields and green grass. I also have my BIG 29 again birthday coming up this month as well .

Here's my June 1st self portrait ( to be posted tomorrow as I have no energy to download off camera right now )