Update October

              I know I know I am horrible at the blogging thing, I keep hoping to get better at it but I am failing miserably at it. So as we all know Halloween is coming up and as a parent to two little boys that means at least two costumes.  

              I let them pick out their costumes. DS1 is going to be a ninja and he is quite excited about it. I did end up purchasing this online since it was the best deal I could find and he was quite specific on wanting to be a black and red ninja. 




              DS2 wanted to be a ninja turtle, he didn't care which ninja turtle as long as he got to be a ninja turtle. A friend of ours son was a ninja turtle a few years ago, gave use their costume to use for Halloween.  So now our youngest is excited

to wear his ninja turtle costume and has been telling everybody he sees how he is going to be a ninja turtle for Halloween.


DH doesn't have any desire to dress up this year, we are going to a costume party the Friday before Halloween but as he will be coming after he gets of work he is insisting his work clothes will be sufficient. I on the other hand am trying to come up with a costume I can wear to this party and to work on Halloween (we dress up at work).  I do not feel like spending 40$ or more to purchase a costume that is cheaply made. So I am trying to work with what I already have or I can purchase at a craft or thrift store and make into a costume. I am considering gypsy, steam punk, pirate or something like red riding hood.  The only reason steam punk is even being considered is because I am also invited to a steam punk themed party but it sees to be expensive coming up with a steam punk costume even if you buy thrift do to the accessories. My sewing machine is still broken so it puts a snag in making a costume. Any suggestions anybody?


              Things are slowing down at work as we get closer and closer to the winter months, which is good. Classes this term seem to be going well, thus far I have A's in all my classes which makes me happy (am just nerdy like that). Whether it stays that way or not we will see. I have yet to get anything besides an A from any college course I have taken but there is always a first time for everything. I am scheduled for surgery on my left arm on the 7th of November. On top of that I have jury duty for the month of November. For some crazy reason they actually expect me to remember to call every night for the month of November starting Oct 31st to see if I have jury duty the next day and at which location. I am getting waived for the time I have to be out for surgery but since I do not need use of my arm to attend jury duty and it's day surgery it is only being waived the day of surgery and for pre-op. 


              I have begun my Christmas shopping, just this last weekend actually. I hope to be done before black Friday.  Wish me luck. I hope all of you out there are doing well and enjoying your fall season.

Day 10012?

           I need a theme to my blog I think. Okay maybe theme is the wrong word. All the blogs I follow all seem to have a common thread in their blog. Craftiness or about reaching some goal or whatever. I have nothing like that it is all random. I like crafts and stuff I just don't feel like I have the time to craft all the time little lone take the pictures and create the posts.. maybe one day some day.. I have goals but I don't know how interesting it would be for anybody to read my weight loss progress. I have read a lot of blogs about getting out of debt, but I am not going to blog about that for a couple reasons. Such as DH would be unhappy with me posting our finances on the internet and besides our small mortgage on the house we remodeled and are in the processing of selling we don't really have much other debt (IE car payment). Of course it would be better if we have zero debt but DH is okay with having certain debt (such as a mortgage). I am greedy and want no debt and to save a bunch of money. So where does that leave me in finding something to blog about on a regular basis?? Right back at where I started.. I guess I will just keep thinking on it. If you have suggestion feel free to share. Well, I just thought I would post and say that we are all alive and well here, just a little boring.  We have spent our summer working and spending time at the ocean and in the mountains with my wonderful SIL and her adorable kids. 

Hello

            As I might have mentioned in my last post, we have finally finished our house remodel and listed to sale. It is kind of sad to finish and then sale just to buy another one to remodel. This time we will complete the remodel before moving in. I was originally planning on going to visit my SIL this weekend but I decided to do a 5K instead. Wish me luck, I am so not the marathon type. I figured it might be fun and well I got talked into it. The race is at 8am so it should only be around 80 degrees at most at that time. It's crazy to think just a couple days ago it was unseasonable cool here and raining (which it rarely does we normally have 300 days of sunshine) and now its in the 90's by the time I go to work in the mornings.

        If I survive the 5k. :) Then the plans are to hang out with my best friend, DS1 and DS2 and go to a locally festival/celebration. Then after DH gets off from work BBQ and take the kids to go see the fireworks. All and all it should be a decent weekend. Next weekend is the 4th of July weekend, my SIL and the girls might come visit for the weekend. If they do I want to do a family BBQ with my in-laws and do some festive decorations. I am thinking I might take some ideas from the wonderful blog of The Hostess {with the mostess} 4th of July Pinwheel Party post. If you haven't seen her blog, I would recommend checking it out. I hope that you all are well and having an awesome Thursday! I bid you all adieu until next time. 

Today will mark day 9968

                It has been awhile since I last blogged. Laziness on my part, I know. We decided to lay wood floors in the back room and the utility room. It ended up looking really nice. Probably much better then the tile would have considering the rest of the house has wood floors. We have managed to put up the trim throughout the entire house and do all the painting. I think the house is now officially completely remodeled. I also realize that depending on how long we are here DH will undoubtedly find something else to remodel. I accept that about him and choose to find it endearing. :) We should have taken before and after pictures of the remodel but alas we didn't. Oh well we can always do it next time. Yeah I already agreed to purchase another house for remodel. I must be insane. But at least we won't be living in this house during the remodel. 
                  Today is Sushi tonight. I am not super big on Sushi, I will eat it but I don't love it like DH and some of my friends. On another note we are doing a weight loss competition at work. It is based on percentage lost instead of lbs lost to make it fairer for all the participants. So wish me luck, it would be great to lose some weight and wear a size closer to my pre-babies size. 

Day 9930

                 Sorry it has been so long since my last post, my laptop charger just up and died on we randomly. I ordered a new one but when I received it, it didn't work either. So after contacting the company I am awaiting my new new charger and hopefully it will work right. Currently at this exact moment I am borrowing a charger for a little bit to charge my battery and make this post. I have been busy, I have made a few aprons for my nieces, which I think turned out stinking cute. I am in the middle of making a baby blanket for my friend, who's baby shower is the 21st, so I really need to finish it. It is such a pretty green. I have a house guest, a friend who I became friends with in Kindergarten. She is moving back to the area and her and her kids are staying in our guest room for at least the rest of this week. So the house is crazy hectic but that's okay. It does make it harder to stay on top of the cleaning so tonight I will have to really get on it. Along with finishing my dress.  What dress you may ask.

                  Well, I am making a dress for a murder mystery dinner party this weekend, this Saturday at 4 to be exact. The time is 1928 and I am a reporter. DH's outfit is all ready to go. In fact I made sure he had a couple options to chose from. The main part of my dress is complete but I have a sheer overlay I want to put on the top part down to the drop waist but not covering the handkerchief skit. It would be much easier if I had a pattern but I am kind of making it up as I go along. So if for some reason I don't complete this overlay, I am sure I could just wear it as is. Along with my t-strap shoes, cloche hat, my 3 "pearl" necklaces (2 I made, 1 that is a real pearl necklace I inherited) and be good to go.Well and I need to go pick up some stockings to wear. Since I am growing my hair out it's longer then really appropriate for the time period, I considered getting a wig but decided pin curls and the cloche hat should be fine.
                      Last weekend I went out to 80's night locally, had a blast dancing to 80's music all night. Though if I ever go again it will not be in stiletto heels, my feet were sore after 4 1/2 hrs of dancing in high heels. Like my friend said it is kind of scary I had so much clothes on hand to dress 80's. I found out about an hour before we left and I wore stilettos, leggings, legwarmers, a short petticoat under a short black skirt, a tank top with another shirt over it that hung off from one shoulder, giant hoops, long multiple layered chain and cross necklace and big hair. It was lots of fun and it is looking like a pattern here last Saturday the 1980's and this Saturday 1920's what about next Saturday?? Hmmm maybe I can find something to do that would involve dressing the 1940's or the 1950's... Probably not.
                 I will leave you with Happy Cinco De Mayo! That is right I'm not above using obscure Mexican battles to bake and celebrate.

Day 9920

           I hope you all had an enjoyable Easter and weekend. Saturdays and Sundays are my normal days off (except for having to go into work a few hours on some Sundays that is, like this Sunday). We had a crazy hectic weekend crammed full of stuff, I feel like I didn't get any rest but DS1 and DS2 had a blast so it was all worth it. Friday night DH and I took DS1 & DS2 to the flashlight Easter egg hunt that our town puts on. They separate the kids into age groups to make it more "fair". DS1 got one egg since he would give/let the little girls have all the other eggs he found. DS2 got two eggs and lost a shoe (which we found later) but he got ran over by some other kids (he was the youngest in this age group and it was the group with the widest age span); luckily he wasn't hurt. So the boys got candy in their little plastic eggs and a pool pass. They insisted they had fun but I am not sure we will be doing it again next year. 
          Saturday we spent the day cleaning the cars and the house, dying the eggs that were hard boiled (plastic tablecloth and all on the table), having dinner at a friend's house and the regular Saturday stuff like laundry. Of course I was up late making the cake for Easter dinner with the in-laws. Sunday was even more crammed full of stuff, DH had to work so it was just DS1 & DS2 and I until 4. We got up early, had breakfast, got ready for church, went to the church's Easter egg hunt (which was an hour before church service and lasted maybe 10 minutes) then the boys went to their Sunday school class room to play with the other kids. I socialized with some friends who go to the Church and then we enjoyed a nice church service. After that it was home to make lunch and change and then off to a family friend's house to socialize and find plastic Easter eggs. After we were there for a few hours I had to go by work for a little bit then we had to drive to the in laws for Easter dinner and the family Easter celebration. Also to hide eggs over and over again for the boys to find. If you ask the boys what Easter is about they say Jesus which I am glad to hear instead of egg hunting or something. After that we came home got ready for bed and helped the boys say their nightly prayers. All and all it was a good weekend, even if it was a busy one. I will leave you with a picture of the boys bounty of plastic eggs from the Easter egg hunt at a family friends. Have a great week everybody!

Happy Easter!

              That's right I have been lazy on my blogging. Busy in life though. Enjoyed a lovely two week vacation the first two weeks of April. Went to Sunny California for two weeks. Visited Disneyland, California Adventure, Universal Studios, Sea World and the San Diego Zoo. Stay at a couple resorts and had a blast. Maybe I will blog more about that another time. Now onto the rest of my post.
              Where I leave it's not officially Easter Sunday for like 8 minutes but I will just steadily ignore that detail. The only reason I am up is I finished making the cake for Easter dinner with my in-laws. I was assigned the dessert. I was shocked. Not because I can't bake, I think I bake rather well and J'adore baking. It's my understanding other people like my baking too. The thing is DH Aunt is a baker, an amazing baker and she always makes the desserts. Do to a sad twist of fate in the form of an illness said Aunt is cooking most of the rest of Easter dinner. So Aunt asked DH is I could make the dessert. (So I wasn't really assigned it but its not like DH asked me before he said yes) I am thrilled to make the dessert like I said I LOVE baking. So I made this chocolate buttermilk cake, yum with these amazing chocolate cream cheese frosting double yum. So so amazing. I got the frosting recipe from the Cupcake Project's blog. If you have the time you should check it out and if you don't have the time check it out later.  So the cake well let me tell you about it then so you a completed picture. Yes there's more details!

                 So, I contemplated making a cake in the shape of a lamb or a chick and just couldn't talk myself into it. So I went easy. I thought it turned out cute. It's a peeps sunflower cake I saw it on some website (don't remember which one) and decided to make it. I think they used a white or yellow cake or something.  But not me I went chocolate all the way.

                    I think it turned out pretty well. I was going to set the chips all nice and neat but I am getting tired so I just tossed them on. The peeps seem to be bailing off the cake but I still think it's cute. Once again HAPPY EASTER!