Saturday, June 12, 2010

Friday Fun

In case any of you wondered- Elijahs eye is not that bad. It didnt bruise just was swollen.
We went to Littleton Historical Museum in the morning- its FREE and after one pic, my camera died.
At least I got one cute one of Ella Bella...
We had a BIG rain shower that evening and I got some pics of the kids playing in the rain- Auntie Emy gave them the idea and they LOVED it!





We had Emy and the kids over and Marcus joined us too.
 We ate a YUMMY new recipe I tried out- I will post it soon. Its a keeper. And we played card games-
Mark even pulled out his magic tricks- good times:)lol



Thursday, June 10, 2010

Not Just Another Thursday Night

We had Grandma, Grandpa, and Miss Rachel over for a dinner of meatball subs, salad and a yummy fruit dessert. Of course, games were pulled out and Rachel and Grandma endured BINGO with the girls, while grandpa  read over and over to little Elijah.

After they left, the kids were a bit wound up and went downstairs to play a bit before bed. Elijah started screaming and of course, he hurt himself. Poor guy fell on a plastic bucket and cut his eye. I think it may bruise tonight. He's tough though and stopped crying almost right away. 


this was the same eye- that he hurt in the spring, just not as worse this time!

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Creation

My sweet friend, Katie, always drums up business for me in the cake decorating field. 
Here is a wedding shower cake I made.
They didnt want fondant, so I used a new buttercream recipe
 and a new double chocolate chip cake recipe. 
It was So yummy (I made a small one for me)
I need Mark to continue working on my website so I can start promoting my business 
and drum up some more customers!

Sunday, June 6, 2010

20 random things...

1. This is my 304th post!
2. I have a nasty cold this Sunday morning, but still may go to church. I was in preschool church last week helping out and the week before we had sick children,  I miss the teaching SO much, so I will probably go.  Plus, a missionary from Italy will be there complete with a pasta lunch- cant miss free food and talk of Italy!
3. My bathrooms REALLY need a good cleaning.
4. Its supposed to be near 90 all week- ugh!
5.We have NO food in this house- I must go grocery shopping.
6. I want to paint my dining room red this week and make curtains with this COOL fabric I found at Joannes.
7. I miss my mom.
8. Mark starts summer school tomorrow- half days for the month of June.
9. Elijah's new favorite word- NO.
10. I cant wait to finish off our back patio- we are laying stones to make a larger patio, then off to Craigs List to find patio furniture. and I need to get mulch around all the Iris I transplanted- thanks Chad and Mel.
11. My legs are SO sore from my run yesterday. I can barely go down steps. My goal is to get rid of my belly pouch. Instead of eating less, I am going to try running daily. We will see if it works. I just LOVE to eat and cant imagine cutting foods out:)lol
12. Sophia just got new dangly cat earrings. She loves them.
13. Did I mention that I have a HORRIBLE cold? or maybe its allergies?
14. Our church plant is going well- core group meetings end in July and then we will start Community Groups. I am excited!
15. Arianna is getting so much better at reading. She is getting faster and enjoying it more.
16. Speaking of reading, Sophia got her achievement test results back and on the reading section she scored a perfect score- there were 100 questions and she answered every one right! It said she is at a 5th grade level(?) not sure how that works but I thought it was cool that she didnt miss one! (Both girls did really well on the tests)
17.  I really love my husband- he is such a good dad too- I thought of that this morning while he was changing the second poopy diaper of the morning. (and it was a cloth diaper- which takes on a whole new meaning) He rocks!!
18. Ella Bella needs a haircut. I am going to take her someplace special to get it done because she has never been anywhere to get it cut before. I've always cut it and I dont do a great job!
19. I am wearing a dress to church today that I got for my step-brothers wedding many years ago. Its shorter than I remember. Could I have grown?
20. I had to fix 5 typos on this post before publishing it.

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Happy Memorial Day


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2010
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Every Memorial Day, we visit Fort Logan Cemetery and visit Great Grandpa Gomez' grave.
Seeing all the MANY MANY tombstones, makes me so grateful for the men and woman who gave their lives, so I could enjoy America today. I am very grateful and blessed to be an American.







Happy Memorial Day!

The Start of SUMMER!

You know its the start of summer WHEN...
1. You attend high school graduation.
*this is Valor's*


2. Your husband starts summer break:) 
* Mark is teaching one month of summer school- half days*



3. Our pool is OPEN and the smell of BBQ fills the air most nights!

* we rushed to dip in before a thunderstorm*
*Elijah was content with his Oreo*

Bring on SUMMER!

Saturday, May 29, 2010

BUNNIES FOR SALE

I passed a sign the other day that offered bunnies to whomever would like one. 
I contemplated for a moment getting a bunny for the kids.
Especially after I saw how much they LOVED this little bunny at the Abells house.
They fed it carrots, petted it and stayed by its cage for a long time, probably dreaming of the day they could have a bunny of their very own:)
We had such a good time visiting the Abells for dinner in MA!
I LOVE this family!
I taught Marissa in 3rd grade when I taught (shocker, I know- I did have a career before my kiddos:)

And Michelle, what a sweet friend. 
We taught together for 2 years and she was such a great mentor and teacher.
We became fast friends and greatly enjoyed stamping together- I miss it SO much!
We also used to go over swimming and have some good cookouts-
check out these old pics from back in the day...

(the twins at her Memorial Day picnic- 2006)

swimming at their pool-2006
Here is my 2nd year teaching third grade- Marissa is the second from the right in the back row:) 
And can you believe I have not one pic of me and Michelle from the old days- so sad!
But here is a good one from the present:)

P.S. I WILL get you the pics from our visit, Michelle:) I havent forgotten!