Look what I made...

I made these for a Challenge at A Million Memories

I think I will give them to my good friend Jana for her birthday.

Happy Birthday Jana!

Okay let's take a vote:

Emma's Birthday is coming up...
Princess party or Butterfly party...
or Princess butterfly party?
anyone?

feeling lonely.

i have edited this post.
i wrote a big long whine-fest, and i shouldn't have. I am so sorry about that.
thank you to those who have left a comment. I feel better thank you.
this is my edited version:

I shouldn't, I have a house full of kids and an annoying husband whom I adore.
I don't feel like this house is my home.
And since we are renting it isn't.
But I feel like my life is on a long term vacation. Do you know what I mean? We wanna move home so bad, but can't. Our hearts are there and we are here.
I miss my family like crazy. I really just wanna be in Sacramento.
I wish I had someone to hang out with.
It is my fault.
I do have issues.
I let my emotions and memories of being tortured by "so called friends" from my youth, get the better of me.

Okay, pity party over.
Sorry about that.

Matthew just amazes me.

My sweet 12 year old son... yes, can you believe he is 12... was given the opportunity to give a short talk with all of the other kids in his Sunday school class.
I never in a million years thought he would do it. But he did.
Jeff ended up writing the talk. matthew had 1/2 and hour to review it this morning before church. It was suppose to be only 5 minutes long, but Matthew talked really slow and not very clear.
But he got up in front of everyone and he did it. It blew me away.
I would have cried for days before having to do that when I was 12.
I won't even do it now.

He also passed the Sacrament for the first time.
He is growing up so fast.

Which means only one thing.... I am getting old fast too.

Hello, anyone there?

well, I have nothing to report.
Nothing new to talk about .
No new picture I feel like downloading form my camera.
Nope.
It has been so low key since vacation.
Boys are in school, Emma is sick with a cold and fever.
Jeff keeps complaining about his back.
And I am getting close to no sleep.
I am back on caffine.
Yay for me!

But again, as I said before..... nothin' is happening around here.
I guess that could be a good thing.

Back home.

We took the boys on an early summer vacation with Jeff's parents to Irish beach.

It is about an hour south on Highyway 1 from Fort Bragg, California.

SO FUN!

We got a later start then we wanted and Jeff put his back out again.

But other than that we had a blast.

here are some pictures from our vacation.

Ready to go!

Beach Princess
Beach scavengers Karoke anyone?
Butterfly Catcher

Beach Bums
Beach Babe
Beach Hunks
Beach boys and surfer girl
Beach hut
Point Arena Light house

We can't wait to go back next year.

Thanks Mom and Dad!!!!

Mother's Day...? Whatever.

As for me a good day is just not in store.
I am not expecting it to turn out good.
I guess I should say just being home with my kids is enough, but I have 4 boys and they are awful.
Jeff has too work today. We decided that we would do Mother's Day dinner on friday night, in case Jeff was held for overtime.
It was delicious. Jeff did a great job.
He even made dessert!!!!
I picked a few things at the dollar spot at Target and some stuff at Big Lots that the boys could choose from to give to me as a gift. It was so cute. I gave them scraps to use to make some cards.
I almost cried.
Yesterday after work I got to go scrapbooking for a while at crop.
It was fun.

Today, well today I knew was gonna be just a regualr day with a little extra work. I need to pack for a family vacation.
But it started very early, 6am. Thank you Emma.
After a half a yogurt for breakfast and a teething screaming baby.
I got to sit and do nothin.
Becasue if I dared to put little miss princess down, the screaming began. It was too early in the morning to have to hear that.
Did I mention I have to pack us all for our family vaction we leave for tomorrow?
I got a mini nap, with one eye open as I asked the boys to watch Emma.
Wash laundry.
Lunch consisted of a PB&J sandwich and a diet caff free pepsi plus a few Cheetos puffs on the side.
And as a specail gift, I get to fold a huge mountain of laundry with four fighting and very bored boys.
And then pack it.

Thank fully emma is asleep, but by the way things are going, she won't stay down for long.

Hopefully... as I am holding the tears back... Jeff will be home for dinner, since I am packing I don't want to make dinner so we will probably have soup and sandwiches.
And more packing.

I wonder if Jeff even got me a card. I got nothin else.
I guess I should be grateful he cooked and cleaned up after himself the other night, right?
Oh well. I am going to the beach with my inlaws for a few days, where I will be constantly cleaning and cooking. that should be fun. There's my mothers day gift.
(really it will be fun with the inlaws, i just wish we didn't have to take the kids)

I hope all of your Mothers day's are really nice.

Please don't get me wrong, I love being a Mom.
And I love my kids, and I know they love me, today I just wish they would love me from maybe the other room.
Happy mothers day!

Not much has been happening....

No much has been going on.
Last Wednesday Matthew went to and YW/Ym activity and it was a dance.
He asked 2 girls to dance. I am not ready for this.


We didn't get to do our monthly trip to Reno, but it was only postponed. But the whole thing throws my whole schedule off. I hate that.


Jeff went to Reno for the weekend, for work. I almost went in sane.
But I was saved by an National Scrapbook Day weekend crop. I got a lot of pages done.







There were a ton of Challenges over at http://www.amillionmemories.com/
It was so much fun. You need to go and look at the gallery at all the amazing work that got done.

Thanks Ladies it was a blast.