You be the judge!

Strawberry Idol?

Our day out.

Today Nathanael had school, so I thought I would take the kids to a water park. I got them all ready, swimsuits and all, and out we went. We drove 30 min to get to the park only to find that now you have to pay for parking!! That wasn't so bad, but what was worse there was noone at the park except for a creepy looking man with a metal detector. I would have paid the couple bucks to let Ivy and Ari play with other kids knowing there were other mothers about...but not with this creepy man so close and me being the only adult around.

My plan was to visit a friend of mine after we played at the park, and since we weren't going to the park I decided to head over to the bakery she works at...but before we got there, Ivy had to go potty...so we pulled into Walgreens parking lot...After getting into the restroom I noticed that my shirt was wet where Ari had been resting against me...yup you guessed it, his little swimmy diaper wasn't doing the job. I hadn't brought any diapers in with me, but pee was just driping from him so I took off the swimmy only to find a puddle of pee in it...nothing had been absorbed...Then what does Ari do? Yup...right again, He peed all over the floor while I was trying to clean off his legs. After getting him all cleaned off, I held him against me and used my purse to cover his bum and we all walked out to the car...i wish someone had a camera at this moment...I finanally got him some dry clothes...and then we were off.

We met up with Carol at her bakery. Ivy and Ari both wanted a cupcake so I let them pick out the ones they wanted. Ivy got a pink icing one and Ari picked the chocolate one. The cupcakes were both O-SO-GOOD!

Congrats!

Brendan's album just got reviewed on Indie Vision Music.

My find!!!

I went yard sailing *yes I spelled it that way on purpose!* today with a friend of mine. The last place that we stopped at, I found my treasure!! This first picture it is a little hard to see, but that is the name Emily engraved on what I believe is silver...whether its all silver or just silver plated I'm not sure yet...none the less...it is my name!! I couldn't believe it when I saw it!! How much do you think I paid??

$0.25!!!

It is a done deal!

Nathanael officially joined the Air Force on Thursday, August 7th, 2008. He leaves for basic training in January. Nothing else is decided at this point in time...I'll keep you "posted"

One week down.

Ivy left last week about this time, and she will be gone for one more week. She went to Ohio to spend time with family. My sister and grandmother took her to Ohio. She is staying most of the time with at my dad's house. She went to KY for the weekend. And I hear that she gets to go to Kings Island on Thursday!!

My sister has posted some pictures of Ivy having a good time...check them out if you get the chance.

The garden.

We have the compost in the bottom left corner.
The tomato plants are in line with the compost.
The sunflowers, onion, lettuce, rosemary, and thyme are in the back.
The square in the middle is 4 pumpkin plants and 6 cantaloupe plants.

This is my tallest of the sunflowers.

When it finally opened up I learned that it was a mutant.

There are acually three flowers all together.

This one is actually the shortest, but only because the stem of the flower grew in a weird shape...it didn't grow straight up.

My first Tomato!

My first Pumpkin!

Hopefully we will have a good harvest this year...didn't get as much in the ground as we would have liked...but if I get atleast one pumpkin and one melon I will be happy.

Moo Cow.

Chick-Fil-A had a promotion where if you dress like a cow you can get free food. So, Jamie and her four boys and Nate, Me and the kids all went to Chick-Fil-A for lunch. Ivy was dressed as a bull.

Ari wore a towel...we still aren't sure if the towel is of a cow or a zebra...but it passed as a cow.

Ivy was afraid of the big cow, so we took her picture with the cardboard cow...I told her to give me a sweet face, but she wouldn't take her eyes off the big cow.

Ari wasn't afraid...just curious.

Jamie and Addi (sorry if it isn't spelled right) with the big cow.

And just for those who don't know specific dates, Ari was born in March of 07.
I'm not pregnant in the picture on the left!!!

Caught by Skerrib. Here goes...

1. What did you do 10 years ago?

That would have been July 3, 1998...hmmm...Well I was probably playing ping pong in the basement, or swimming in the pool at my Aunt Valenta's house. Every 4th of July we would take a week of vacation to KY and have a family reunion...2 Grandparents, 12 Aunts and Uncles, 15 cousins...and random significant others and friends. Oh the good old days.

There is also a small possibility that I was in Wisconsin with my father.

2. Five items on your to-do list today:

1--Clean Kitchen (done)
2--Feed the children (done)
3--Work
4--Organize some of my stuff.
5--Get as much sleep as possible before the next day.

3. Snacks I enjoy:

Frozen grapes is a sumer time favorite.

4. What would you do if you were a billionaire?

--Buy a bigger car to fit the kids in that has power locks, AC, Heat, Power windows, and cruise control.
--Pay off all debt...and even pay my mom back for the Italy trip.
--Build an amazing craft room and invite my mom and sister over to play.
--Take my mother to dinner instead of her taking my family.
--Buy a laptop and a wireless router.
--Take my family...and whoever else wants to come...to Disney World.

Amy, Nathanael, Katie, and Heather your up!

I did these today.

I played a little today. Here are two of my creations. Hope you like them.

Update

Amy and Mom came an visited my family for a whole week...and here's what went on that week.

Aunt Mimi brought Barbie a house.
Aunt Mimi had a birthday.

Ari got a hair cut.

Nate got a belated birthday card.

I had a birthday.

We visited the aquarium.

I burnt my finger.

A sink ran into Ivy's head.

Mom, Amy and I went garage sailing.

We all had a great time. I will probably post more pics soon, but my head is killing me and it's time for bed. Hope you enjoyed the short version of the trip! :)

Recently finished...

These are my latest digital layouts.
Enjoy!

This first one I did around Mother's Day.

This was Ivy's First Easter!

Ivy just loves the garden!

What do you think?

I got this in an e-mail...not sure if it is true or not...I guess find out for yourself.

My truck's gas gauge was on 1/4 of a tank. I use the mid-grade, which was
priced at $3.71 per gallon. When my tank is at this point, it takes
somewhere around 14 gallons to fill it up. When the pump showed 14
gallons had been pumped I began to slow it down, then to my surprise it
went to 15, then 16. I even looked under my truck to see if it was being
spilled. It was not. Then it showed 17 gallons had been pumped. It
stopped at almost 18 gallons. This was very strange to me, since my truck
has only an 18 gallon tank. I went on my way a little confused, then on
the evening news I heard a report that 1 out of 4 gas stations had
calibrated their pumps to show more gas had been pumped than a person
actually got.

Here is how to check a pump to see if you are getting the right amount:
Whichever grade you are using, put EXACTLY 10 GALLONS in your tank, then
look at the dollar amount, if the dollar amount is not EXACTLY 10 times
the price of the fuel you have chosen, then the pumps are rigged. In my
case as I said the mid-grade was $3.71 9/10 per gallon, my dollar amount
for 10 gallons should have been $37.19. If I had only checked the pump.
It doesn't matter where you pump gas, please check the 10 gallon price. If
you do find a station that is cheating, contact your states proper
authorities.

Have you ever seen an Elephant fetch?

Weekend News

Yesterday after Nathanael dropped me off at work around 4pm, he and the children went to Chattanooga to go to a bible study that we normally all go to on Friday nights. When he returned home around 9:45pm, he was kidless.

I work today till 1pm and soon after I get home, we are going camping. This is our way of celebrating our Anniversary. A friend of ours is watching Ivy and Ari as of yesterday night until Monday late afternoon. I'm very excited about going camping...but it was weird to wake up this morning to a quite house. I didn't really get to give a good squeeze to the kids either before I went to work last night because they were both strapped in their seats. I'm sure they will be fine...just not so sure about myself. This is my first time away from Ari, and the longest time away from Ivy.

Maybe I'll be able to come up with some way of seeing them today...I'm sure we forgot to leave something of importance with them :)

Good Morning Grandma Rose

Grand Finale!

My last class was yesterday. We only had to bake one cake for course 2, but we put everything on it that we did throughout the course. However almost everything that you see was done yesterday because I didn't like the flowers I had made during the classes.

So here it is. The cake was supposed to be white, but I wanted a brown basket. If I were to do this again, I would probably make the top of the cake a different color than the basket...maybe white. However I do like how the basket weave turned out!I think this is my favorite part of the cake. I was trying to make a little vine down the side.
The bird is supposed to have a black dot for an eye and an orange beak...but I left those out. I was so happy with the way the bird turned out that I didn't want to screw it up by adding stuff. I had made two birds, but the other one the beak broke off when I was taking it off the wax paper.

This is the mound of flowers on the top left of the cake.
There is a MOUND of icing under those flowers...lol.
I didn't realize that was how it was going to all be attached.
Major sugar rush for whoever eats this piece.

Surprise!

Look what I can do!!