Hey batter, batter...hear me chatter!

Today was the first day of soccer games & softball games! All of our kids teams won!! WOOHOO! Here they are in their uniforms!



Caroline playing her game!



Jed playing his game!



Heather running to first. She's #24 with the pink helmet! This is the only picture I got of her b/c I left the camera with Tyson at the soccer games.

These pictures are proof that it's summertime in Texas ALREADY! Some friends of ours just bought a house and I offered to help them with the kiddos. Ted was out of town and Kasi was trying to move among other things! I can completely remember how it was moving & dealing with life in general. Their kids came over & played this afternoon & I told all of the kids if they would play nice I would take them for a sno-cone! (they had to eat all of their dinner too!)


Heather & Maddie

Caroline & Walker

Jed & Tryce

Here's my new decorating adventure


This is what I'm trying to copy. I saw this on the internet several years ago & I loved it. I don't know why I like having my name & initals around my house but I guess in case I forget! haha


And the kitchen cabinets are ALMOST finished. I will be finishing them up tomorrow after church & hopefully I can talk Tyson into hanging them back up tomorrow night before the crazy week starts again!

hum, i'm so saddened by this

I found this blog through another website the other night. I read from the start or close to it & I was just so touched and saddened by this family's experience. I think what hit me the most was that Katie could have been one of my kids or a child to someone who is close to me. I am amazed at the faith and strength the mother had through the whole ordeal.

I will be praying for this sweet family in the weeks to come.

An Update FINALLY...*SPT I guess*

EDITED: This week's SPT was

while the kiddos are hunting eggs, take a moment to hunt for something *eggs*tra special about your weekend.

so since this post was about our Easter I will make it my SPT also!


I know I've been a slacker! Life has been so crazy we don't know if we are coming or going these days. I finally told the Instructional Specialist at school that I could no longer do Extended Day at school. She wasn't too happy about it but it wasn't really worth it to me to do it. Anyways, on Friday Caroline asked to go to the park, so I took her & Jed for a few minutes. Here's a few pictures of them. My camera battery died while we were there & then there was a little girl who wet her pants and she was sliding all over everything. I got kinda grossed out so I made the kids leave! I guess if you think about it there's no telling what kind of NASTY is on the park playground! EWWWWWW!!!!

Jed apparently doesn't remember his broken arm from the summer b/c he was trying to do all kinds of tricks on the playground!





Saturday afternoon we went to our friend the Huntsman's house for their annual Easter weekend cookout. They had an egg hunt for the kids & then a treasure dig for the kids too. And good food for the adults.:) We had a lot of fun!





Saturday was Tyson's 34th Birthday. I asked if I could bring a cake to the cookout and they didn't mind so I did.




Happy Birthday Honey!

Sunday we went to church then we went to Broaddus to visit with Tyson's family. It was fun. Tyson's aunt Deby is always coming up with some crazy idea. This time she had some of these giant gift sacks left over from Christmas. She said we are going to have a family sack race. It didn't work out well though because we couldn't get all of the family to hop at the same time. Oh well it ended up in some laughs!



Here's the kids with their Easter buckets. Jed told me this year he didn't like his~I guess it was too babyish. So I went to Hobby Lobby and bought this red bucket for $3 and then came home and cut his name out on my Cricut machine with the white vinyl. I was so impressed with the way it turned out! The one he was carrying is the one Caroline has in her picture~she decided that would be her bucket & she had one kind of like the one Heather has in her picture.




Yesterday was back to the grindstone & it was super busy. When the end of the day finally came around I told someone~I had no clue how I got there from the beginning of the day. Today was a little better. Only 9 1/2 more weeks of school & I think someone today said 47 more days until SUMMER!!! Oh and the kitchen it's still not finished! It may be summer before it gets done!

Because I know you've been waiting....RIGHT?

We made it through this last week of school & boy was it rough! I am glad we are off today & I am thankful for the Catholics who gave us this holiday:)

Jed & Caroline had their first soccer practice last night & they both really enjoyed it. I didn't take a picture b/c I left my camera at home. I will try to remember to take a picture next week when we go. I think both of their coaches are going to be great with them.

Heather went to spend the night with a friend last night & tyson is at work. I got up this morning and went to work in my room at school. Now, Jed & Caroline & I are just hanging out at home.

Happy Friday!

The RED wall...

is finished & I love it. here's the pictures




I'm almost finished with the cabinet doors & Tyson is going to start putting them back up tomorrow afternoon. Hopefully, I'll have pics of that soon.

Progress....

I can see the end of the tunnel here's a few pictures of the kitchen...




The problem is...I like to take too many breaks! HAHAHA Tyson took off yesterday & today so I really haven't gotten much done. He did get the bead board hung in the dining room & I've gotten it primered. I'm almost finished with the cabinets~all 25 of them!!!!

Round 2

I've been working all morning on the kitchen. My goal is to finish it by tonight but I don't know if that will happen. I had to take a lunch break & blog! haha

here's what I did this morning.




I painted most of the doors that I took off yesterday. There's one I can't get the hinge off of so I have to wait for Tyson to help me with that one. I removed all the doors from the bottom cabinets on the other side and laid them out. I am getting ready to wipe those cabinets down and get the bottom half painted then I'll get the doors from that side painted as well then I'll start on the top part on that side. I know I should do it the other way around but I'm not in the mood to climb on the counter right now! haha

Oh in other exciting news~I am thinking about going back to school to get my Master's (unless one of my new friends talks me out of it!):)

How would you know?~SPT

This week's challenage was

if i came to visit you next week, how would i know which doorbell to ring? do you have a formal entrance? should i come to the front door? or do you prefer your guests to come around back? (would you be surprised if i came in through the garage?!?)


If you came to visit next week, which door would you use? Probably the front door since the garage door is usually closed. But if the garage door was opened I would love for you to come through the garage~not really b/c it's clean or anything but to me it means you feel comfortable enough to make yourself at home.


My front door is kind of plain. I would like to add something to it but I don't really know what it would be. We mostly use the garage door now that it's fixed! YAY!!! There's a small path from the house to the driveway so we don't kill ourselves on all the junk that's in there. So there ya go~

I've really got to find some NEW friends...

you know the kind of friends who will tell me my ideas are dumb! I started painting on the kitchen today~now granted I didn't paint ALL day, just for a little while but dang~what have I gotten into. HAHA I started at the sink and did that part and the cabinets by the dishwasher. I also did the bottom cabinets too. It's looking pretty good. You can't tell by the picture but I'm painting it a cream color. It was white. I've got to scrub the doors in the morning and paint them, then I'm going to start on the other side of cabinets. I think it will look pretty good & I'll be able to say I did it myself BUT how is it that I always bite off more than I can chew! Maybe by Friday or Saturday I'll be finished. I'll update tomorrow with my progress.

My first project...

Here's my first vinyl project that I cut with my cricut. Gosh, i love that thing already. I have a big quote that I want to do in my kitchen but I have to paint it first & I want to get another font cartridge to do it in. This is above the entryway from the living room to the kitchen.
I don't think it's that crooked but I was standing on a chair trying to take the picture.

~FINALLY~

I have no idea what NORMAL is anymore~

Finally, we found an entertainment center the other day & we picked it up this afternoon~Here it is in our living room I love it!!!!



and I got this today too...



I can't wait to go buy some vinyl and make some new decorations for my house! I'm so excited to have something this cool!!!!

just 5 more school hours until Spring Break!!!

*SPT*

so the *SPT* this week is...

the spt challenge for next week is to photograph something that is extra special about you. it might be a physical feature, a talent, or an unknown secret. this spt is all about you!

of course I hate to talk about myself & sound like I'm bragging~really quite frankly, I don't think I have anything that's extra special b/c I think I'm just a pretty normal girl living a regular ol' life! SOOOOOO I'll let my family & friends do the talking....

What do you think is extra special about your dear ol' friend Autumn?
(I can't even post a picture to this post b/c I don't have any decent ones of me!)

~Mi Vida Loca~

so everyone knows I don't know how to say "NO" right? Well, I know it's been a while since I've posted Here's what we've been doing since our last post~well, it's really only been one thing but seriously? I keep saying next week will be better & it never is~

Take for example, this past weekend we went to Mesquite to participate in Destination Imagination If you have any way to participate in this program, I strongly suggest it for your kids. It is a lot of hard work and time, but it is so worth it in the end!

Heather's team got 3rd place in their division! They were so excited! They were a first year team & had a 50 pt deduction for an illegal procedure so we thought for sure they wouldn't get anything! They also WOW'ed the judges with their use of Spanish in their skit so they got a DaVinci Award for Creativity! We were so excited! They worked really hard and we were so proud of them! Their coach was super awesome with them too! She did a great job! Thanks Carol!




ok so i thought if we can get past County Fair (which by the way, both kids got blue ribbons for their projects) & then DI, we'll be ok! No Dice!

As I'm leaving school today, I get a phone call from a strange number~hum, it's Heather's softball coach's wife! They start practicing tomorrow. ACK!!! Which means I should be getting a call from the other 2's soccer coach!

Cub Scouts got switched to Monday nights which is good right now, but what if they want to practice soccer on Monday nights then what are we going to do? UGH!!!!

See where I should be saying NO! Although Cub Scouts is almost over~thank goodness!




While we were in Mesquite, my mom & step-dad drove down to meet us & bring us their treadmill. Tyson & I were thinking about buying one & I remembered they had one & I've never seen it used! So I called and asked for it~the only stipulation was we couldn't give it back. (it's a running joke in the family~no pun intended!!!!) I told my mom by the time we were ready to give it back gas would be $5 a gallon and it wouldn't be worth the drive! We'll just put it out by the curb. haha

So I decided that I needed to get on it! I've been so depressed since I haven't been able to run for one reason or the other! I told Tyson that today was the day we were starting back! Of course, I'm sick AGAIN!!! & it's cold & rainy outside~Thank goodness for a treadmill.




This is the combo that got me through my workout! For the record, I don't have the flu but I thought the meds might work better than what I was taking!

I REALLY should have my head examined! I am sure after this post someone will offer to pay for it! I'm sure this combination can't be a good one & i'll regret this tomorrow, but I needed to do it! So I got out on the treadmill & started back running again! I had to go back to week 2 but it felt good. About 1/2 through I thought "ok I'll just go 1/2 a mile today. After all, I am sick." But I got to that point and thought ok I can make it a little further. So I did. Everytime I wanted to quit~for some dumb reason, beyond me~I kept going! See I told someone will be offering to have my head examined! If you know me very well at all, you know I'm the least likely to WANT to exercise!


Here's what I looked like when I finished! See my red nose? that's from spending the past 3 days blowing it! ugh~I had to wear my glasses b/c I was in no mood to deal with my contacts today~& my hair is pulled back b/c I can't stand to have it down!

So see if you aren't offering to pay to have my head examined after I posted that picture something is wrong with YOU!!!!

I did FINALLY say No to something~My mom took off next week for Spring Break & tried to sucker me into bringing the kids to see her~HA~good try madre! I told her I was sending them to her & even canceling their dentist appointments! I am going to be redoing my kitchen I've talked about for so long! Tyson even said he might take a couple of days off to help~we'll see!

Just a few more days, Hopefully by Wednesday I'll have these in my sweet little hands.







and some new curtains for my living room! I'll have to post those when I get them!

Have a great week! TOODLES!!!!