Busy... Busy...

nothing but busy going on here...

CHECK!~ One super fun weekend with my super fun cousin April & her 4 out of 5 kiddo's!! love it that are in California now!

CHECK!~ One insanely large and in charge 2 day yard sale for my aunt done! Good gravy im freaking still tired!

CHECK!~ Two closets of clothes organized with all outfits put together and hung up in color order by season!!!

CHECK!~One MASSIVE garage organized!! done ALL by myself, thank you very much! every single box was sorted! old EVERYTHING found, like year books, cheerleading uniforms.. AWW... pics from highschool! pics from old houses i lived in! tons of pictures!! years worth of pics & letters and memories found! all neatly organized! 

To Do:
____ Get Madelyn ready for kindergarten registration on the 21st! EEEK!  immunization shots and "mommy is so sorry that hurt" shopping!!

____ Get ready for the big Just Between Friends sale! soo excited! ill be getting stuff for ALL 3 girls! yea! 1 whole week of shopping!

____ Get everything ready & packed, and car cleaned, so that we can take the girls on a 5 day beach vacation!! =)

i'll have pics soon!

Lots of changes...

=) hello!

well, lots of things happening right now!! 

 it seems like we are just GO GO GO!

someone wise told me recently,
 "...... but busy is good, creative is good too...."

in the last 2 weeks ive realized... BUSY is a good friend of mine.

busy makes me stop *thinking*..
 (thinking about certain things can litterally put me SMACK into a panic attack...)

busy makes my kids build memories....
(i don't have TIME to stop and worry about everyone elses friggin expections of me and my house and my kids) im just living! and so are they!

busy helps me to not feel lonely...*=)*
(enough said)
busy keeps me demanding the respect i deserve, yep i said DESERVE...
(john, my kids, other people in my life, i know i deserve respect, and appreciation & NOT to be taken for granted. PERIOD. and it is about time i start standing up to some of the BULLYs in MY life, or everything i preach to macieis just empty words.) 
Busy helps the things that are said from soooo many, that try to beat me down emotionally, to keep control over certain things, it keeps those things from being repeated over and over in my head.
...but on the same hand...
busy helps my remember those things too, as to NOT lose sight of who i AM, and who i want to be..
"...Who are you to tell me that im LESS than what i SHOULD be??..I don't need to listen to a list of things i should be, or a list of things i should do....."  Barlow Girls song.. that is better wording than I could ever come up with.
Busy keeps me on my toes with the world that my kids see through THEIR eyes. i get ONE shot at protecting them.  I get ONE shot to show them the way they need to DEMAND to be treated by the world, their kids, their spouses.
And last... being creative. hmm.. this just simply helps my mind go blank... and all i think about is colors, textures, sizes, cuts, patterns, peices, prints, etc... and i get to hide out in my brain and daydream.. thats always **NICE! **

Lots of things changing!
 even in the last 24 hours...
It is just crazy how one thing....... leads to another,
 and then another.....
 and then you find yourself  making decisions  that....
 you would normally have...
waited 20 years to make.

OR HOW a conversation with one person can bring sooo much clarity..... but then another conversation with a different person can open up 500 unanswered questions...... 

XOXO

Sea shell Store!

ok, so this is the type of stuff Macie does... soooo adorable right?!

she is always...
 1.) making lists, writing down menu's, etc...

 and 2.)  always collecting money..lol..
 seriously, she has more cash than her mamma!!

 this was one of her weekend projects... soo sweet!!


the menu says....

"Come see the light of the ocean and inspect every shell!

$1.00... 5 min. inspect 10 sheets of shells!

$2.00... 10 min. inspect 20 sheets of shells

$4.00... 20 min. inspect the whole collection"

girls playing at my parents tonight..=)

so i don't know about you- but when i like organize & clean- like the good kind: closets, and cupboards and loads of laundry, dishes, etc.. ALLLL in one day.....
 i am a SPAZ.
im like....."don't breath!" don't mess that up, don't don't don't....
then someone makes a mess, and im back to reality.. lol
BUT, usually i stay out of my house at LEAST till john see's it clean for a whole .5 seconds...=) see john, i work too..;)

so i took the girls to my parents and was a mom version of the paparazzi!..=)

malorie and her papa ricky!

my country bumkins!

these two stinkers kept saying, "close your eyes mom, and when we say NOW, take the picture!" 

 she kept saying..."go iiieeerrr  grandmaaaa"! (go higher grandma!)

Grandma pushing malorie on the swing..=)

my playlist

so ive been in wierd moods lately...
im a girl, what do you expect? NOOOO perfection anywhere here.. just me being a female .. lol
so my mood has been wierd- but i always love good music to just listen to...
 my playlist is a complicated list...
but to the right people in my life,
the songs all sorta **FIT** for my life right now..=)

i was bummed about 5 songs i REALLYY wanted on the list were not available. i have them on my pc, but not sure how to get a playist from pc to blog... oh well, this is still fun to post it..=)

enjoy!! there is a mix of a bunch of stuff.... 

if you don't happen to like the song, just hit the next button....

my girls

scrap shrinkage...

so, lately ive been spring cleaning.. ALOT... haha... and i....believe or not, actually have a few boxes UNPACKED from moving...! it was my scrapbook room from the old house. so after condensing the crud-moley out of it, i actually fit ALL my stuff in the bottom 3 shelfs in a closet... see... its sad.. lol i had a whole ROOM full of stuff! all artsy! and now.. 3 shelves. but i just can not justify making my girls share a room so i can have a craft room.. lol

its been fun scrapbooking again.. i have to admit it all happened on accident! a friend asked me to look up some random paper, and that is all it took... i was scanning the websites thinking..."oooh! thats new! oooh thats shiny!...lol" and i was hooked in again. but i am enjoying myself, and have done like 8 pages! its not really fun playing catch up.. im back in sept of 2005. =o oops... but fun still.. i won't bore you with layouts YET. here is my pathetic 3 shelves though.. lol

Caroline's birthday!

So we go to a super sweet church! and i teach the 2-3 year old class on wed. night awanas. and o also work in the nursery on sunday mornings with the little monkeys! so our pastors daughter, Caroline, is a super sweet SMART 3 year old in my class and we went to her birthday party there are alot of pics, so i won't bore you with them all..lol just a few!

Papa White & Malorie

=) my Papa came over for taco night! and after all of us were done eating, he and malorie were playing in the floor.. =)

busy busy busy

busy & snapping pics in the process....

started scrapbooking again.....

away from the computer....  just catching up with real life.... dr appts x5, dentist appt x5, appts x5

fun fun