Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Monday, December 17, 2007

Houston, we have..........YELLOW!

OK on to the next project - our BRIGHT and CHEERY new living room color!
I will let you know if we (meaning Mike) ever get done painting!



Levi's room











One project down - a million more to go!!!

Saturday, December 15, 2007

Making colorful snowflakes!












Mavericks Castle and the last night of Hanukkah!

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Thursday, December 6, 2007

Happy Hanukkah & the Xmas Tree

Yes I know I am so far behind - haven't even posted Halloween yet!!! But here are the boys on the first night of Hanukkah and decoarting the Xmas tree! Happy Holidays!




We have a new ornament on our tree this year! I was wandering through a store and came upon this little lady that SOOOOOOO reminds me of Mom! She has a center seat on the tree!

Sunday, November 18, 2007

Working on Levi's new room

Oh I just love to paint! NOT!




But with my friend Susan's help - the first part went by fast!

Cosmic Caverns

On our way to the caverns -
we stopped at Stumpy's for lunch!










Then it was off to check out the caverns!












Monday, November 12, 2007

My Crazy World

Ok so my life has been spinning out of control for some time now. What is a girl to do? What I would have liked to do was crawl into bed and never come out!! But of course - in the MOM world - you just are not allowed to do that!!!
As most know - we moved into a new place - well barely anything has been unpacked and the place has been a disaster. I have been BEYOND overwhelmed - to the point of tears. Not to mention I am off my ADD meds - but thats a whole other story!
So...
I rejuvenated yesterday by going out with the girls and seeing a movie and cruisin through bookstores etc. It was nice retail therapy! I awoke this morning feeling MUCH better and ready to start a new day - aka get on with my life!
I was trying to figur eout a way to tackle this crazy house without killing myself or anyone else around me. Remember in school when you were taught about Word Webs or Story Webs? Well that came to mind and gave me a great idea! Why can't that brainstorming method work for housecleaning/unpacking as well!!??
So I printed off a Word Web - not that I couldnt have just written one on paper - but this is so much more organized looking! LOL
I started with my printout - which I grabbed from here: http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/pdf/cluster_web3.pdf

I filled in the TOPIC area with "Living Room" - I figured it would be the first room to tackle. Then in each circle I wrote 3 things that needed to be done in that room. My list was something like this:
Take books to shelf, cups to kitchen, pillows back on couch,
Clean bunny cage, Move other bunny cage, put away bunny supplies,
Open windows, put away DVDs, put away dress-up clothes,
Vacuum carpet, sweep tile.

I was set and ready to go! With it written out this way it seems to kick me into gear AND keep me focused on ONE room!
Well all went well this morning with the new PLAN and I was done in less than an hour!!!!
YAY ME!!!!!

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Attempting to do a bit of catching up...

Maverick doing his sorting/fine motor work





The WRAP master! LOL



Levi and Boscoe sleepin'
OK now Blogger is giving me a hard time - so I am quitting for the night!!!