Another weekend

I am taking a quick break from my Friday cleaning just to post here for a minute. There isn't much to report from the past week.

Cameron started swimming again 2 weeks ago and so far is doing well. I'm pretty sure he will move to the next level this time. They've had him at level 1 for so long...we actually stopped going because they weren't moving him up. We knew he could do everything they wanted him to do, but they always had the "report card" done before classes were even finished. Now they have a new standard so we shall see.

I really need to mow the lawn today as I haven't mowed it in 2 weeks! The backyard is pretty long. I'm sure I will need to go over it a few times to get it to the length we usually keep it. I wish Michael could mow, but it is too hard for him still. Our backyard has a bit of a slope so it makes it difficult for him to walk straight.

I have my second test tomorrow. I'm not feeling all that confident. I hope I do well. I should be studying right now, but I have LOTS to do in the house. The house hasn't had a GOOD cleaning in awhile so I am doing that today. All I really have left to do is dust and mop. It's 9:15 and I am almost done! I guess I should stop typing and finish cleaning.

I hope your weekend is good. We don't really have anything planned.

It's been awhile

Well, I haven't posted in awhile so I suppose today is as good a day as any. There will be a few pictures in this post today.

On Tuesday of last week Cameron and I met up with Shannon and her kids to check out the new Children's Museum. What a fun day was had by all. Shannon was tired from her late night out before and I just kept yawning. Here are some of our pictures:



This is what it looks like right now when you walk in from the garage. I say, what is the point of the shoe rack if the shoes don't make it on there. As you can see I am also to blame for the mess. The Walmart bag contains Cameron's towel and swim trunks from Thursday. Normally the shoe area is pretty clean on Tuesdays, Fridays (I clean on T & F) and the weekend. As you might have guessed I didn't clean on Friday. I will be cleaning this up today. I just hate walking over shoes to get to the laundry room so I kick them out of the way. I need to get better about this spot of my house. The rest of the house looks pretty good.


After church today we will be heading home to watch the Seahawks game at 2:15. I will most likely be reading the paper and finishing up some homework during that time. I also need to start thinking about what we will have for dinner tonight. I picked up the new Everyday with Rachael Ray magazine yesterday and there looks like a pretty easy and yummy Chicken w/Rice recipe in there. Perhaps that is what we will eat tonight. Yum-O! Have you caught the new Rachael Ray tv show yet? If not, you must. I watched 3 episodes yesterday while doing homework. I love it. She sure makes some yummy looking items.

I hope you all have a great week!

New shoes and a COLD day

For some reason I am on a new shoe kick. I bought a pair yesterday and then one today. Like I need anymore shoes, but don't your feet feel happy when you have new pairs? I am thinking I need some cute little tennis shoe type shoes too. I bought the black ones at Target of all places. I never look at shoes there, but for some reason I decided to head over that way. I found the Born clogs at TJMaxx. I've been looking for some Born clogs too! What a find! They were over half off of what I would have bought them for elsewhere!


Is it cold where you live? It's COLD here! I am getting ready to turn on my heater. As I look out my window here I see snow on the mountains with snow clouds hiding most of the tops. There were actually some people snowboarding already. I saw that on the news! CRAZY!! We are a little early on it getting so cold, but it truly is a nice welcoming since I am so tired of the heat. Here is the forcast for the rest of the week.I should be doing some homework while the lectures from last night and today are still fresh in my head, but I am going to do it tomorrow after church. I'm sure Cameron and Michael will be playing video games most of the day anyway. They both bought new ones recently. Cameron just bought his today. He hasn't left his room since we got home. He has been playing with friends too though...not just playing his game.

Have a great week everyone! We are planning on going to the new Children's Museum on Tuesday with Shannon and her children. I hope it isn't TOO busy. The museum just opened today. From what I saw in the paper last week it looks pretty awesome. I think we will probably buy a season pass if we enjoy it.

Costumes and nothing more

Well, as you can tell, Cameron is going to be Superman for Halloween this year. I tried to talk him into being something other than Superman because I figure there might be a bunch of the guy this year. Oh well, he persisted and will be the flashy superhero. Go Superman!

Cameron and I ended up going to the fair on Tuesday. It sure was hot! We got there around 10:30 and left at 3:00. We looked at all the animals and most of the exhibits...then it was time for Cameron to go on rides. We ate lunch, bought a wristband (for unlimited rides...tickets were $.85 for 1 and most rides were 3-5 tickets) and had fun. It was fun to watch Cameron on the rides. However, I was pretty tired and hot. There are hardly any shady areas to sit and still be able to see the children on the rides. By 3:00 I was pretty miserable and begged him to go home. It really wasn't that hard to get him to agree. We got home and I took a nap. I really wanted to do some studying for tomorrows class, but I decided I will just do that tomorrow (Friday). I would like to know what we will be talking about before I get there. I don't think most of the people in class even look at their books until class.

Well, it is almost 10:00 and I am a little tired. I am heading to bed to read a book and probably fall asleep while reading it. I don't know what I am going to start. I just finished reading Prep: A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld.

YEEHAW!!!!

No, I didn't turn cowgirl on ya. I had my first math test on Saturday and I got a 100%!!! I have NEVER gotten a 100% on a freakin' math test before in my life. I just hope it continues this way. However, I am sure it is just going to keep getting more difficult as time goes on. I just had to share my happiness with everyone.

Not much has been going on. We had a busy weekend running all around town. We bought Cameron a new monitor/tv for his room. I never wanted him to have a tv in his room, but I am tired of him hanging out in mine. I get sick of the kids playing in my room and all the toys that end up in there. Now they have no excuse. They can play video games and watch tv in his room. If you are wondering why I don't just have them in the family room....well, I don't like toys downstairs and I hate to have the tv on during the day. Cameron now has the nicest monitor (23") in the house and it is a lcd tv too. It is very nice, but I told him he will not be getting much for his birthday or Christmas this year.

Off to pick up the house so I don't have to do it tomorrow. I am getting my blood tested in the morning for the thyroid issue then possibly taking Cameron to the fair. Michael isn't up for walking around that long. It still hurts him to be up and about for a long time.

Cans and two wheels

We decided to try our hands at canning this weekend. After I picked the peaches and nectarines we knew that there was no way we would eat them all before they went bad. Michael mentioned canning them and so yesterday morning I ran out to buy stuff to do it. How fun! We had to start from scratch buying the water bath canner and everything. It was really easy and fun. Here are the fruits of our labor. The reddish looking ones are the nectarines. It's too bad we didn't have enough to do even more fruit. Perhaps next year we will get to the fruit before the birds.Last night after dinner we stopped at the store and bought stuff to jar some salsa. I would have used the peppers from our garden, but Michael did some pickling with them about 2 weeks ago. Here are my 5 little jars. I am afraid this is going to be a runnier salsa than we like since the tomatoes wouldn't chop properly and I had to use the little mini chopper which basically minced them up pretty good. I think I might stop and buy more today to try to make chunkier salsa.We took Cameron up to his school yesterday to practice riding his bike without training wheels. He finally got it! I didn't have my camera with me, but next time I will and I will share them. He still needs LOTS of practice and it is hard to do it at our house since we are on a main street (sort of) and cars think they can speed past. Not fun when there are lots of kids around that like to play in the streets.

Need any peaches???

This morning I went outside and picked some fruit from our trees. Under this huge pile of peaches are some nectarines. I love nectarines more than peaches. Last week I picked a bunch of them. This week it is peaches. I think I will be making some peach cobbler tonight! YUM! I need to remember to get some vanilla ice cream to eat with it.

The birds sure loved our fruit this year. I picked a bunch of half eaten fruit off the tree and the ground. They filled my weeding bucket....5 gallon paint pail. The bees are loving them right now too.

Well, off to the mall to exchange something and get some lunch at Olive Garden. YUMMY!

A clean house and one for sale!

So I finally cleaned my house today! I was done by 1:10 just in time to leave to pick up Cameron from school. I decided to take pictures and give you a little tour of my home. I will leave out the scrapbook room since I have shared that many times. I wish you could smell my house too....it just smells so nice!

Front room when you walk through the door

Family Room & Kitchen/Dining Area


Guest Room & Michael's computer area


Laundry room/Garage entrance to left of doorway


Master Bedroom/Bathroom



Cameron's Room & Bathroom



















I tried pasting some of these pics together and making them smaller, but blogger was having ISSUES and flipping them in weird directions so we have a BIG post today.

The house that is for sale is Michael's mothers in WA. You really should take a look at it and decide to move to WA. When you go to the link make sure you click on the PHOTO GALLERY. This house has come a LONG way since they bought it. The kitchen area used to be pretty small and was downstairs. They pretty much gutted the house to make it look this way. I haven't seen it finished in person, but I bet it is just spectacular!

Check it out here! Follow my link. THE HOUSE

I'm CLEANING!!!

I feel so good today that I have decided to clean my entire house. I will post pictures later! I would pull weeds today too, but I have school tonight and should probably read what we will be talking about.