Thursday, June 30, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Just keep swimming....
Well, is everyone surviving the hot days of summer! Jeez, we are burning up down here in Texas... One thing for sure is me and my loveee are getting some great use out of our pool, I still dream of the day when we have an in-ground pool, and we WILL get there, I am thinking that is going to be our 10 year anniversary present to eachother - God-willing... I wanted to have Gary Hobbs come and play for me personally, but when I thought about it, that would just be one night but my pool would be forever... LOL... We did get the bigger pool this year and even though I complained like you would not believe about a ladder (my apologies to the salesclerk at Academy for Johnny and I scaring her with our heated debate), I wanted a big pool we could step into, well... I thought I won and that's what we got but apparently we bought the big pool that is actually almost 4 feet... Ya, I am pretty sure that my husband tricked me and I was NOT happy but when I managed to figure out how to get into it (please remember I DON"T like heights....) I love it because i can swim, okay so maybe it's only 6 feet or so but hey, its still a swim... LOL... of course I made my husband miserable til I was comfortable with it because, hello, I am 40 now and I could fall and break a hip trying to get out of that pool - and NO, I am not drama! Now I wish we had gotten the bigger one... but, alas, hopefully fingers crossed we will only have a couple more summers of the above ground pools before we get the real thing!!! That is because this momma has been learning how to get by on less so that we can start to save more.... That and the fact that we won't have any car payments after this year woop woop! It's so tempting to switch Noah to a public school and save that tuition money, but we love St. James and as long as he is happy there, we won't be moving anywhere... but that extra money sure would be nice! No, Noah is totally worth it!
Monday, June 27, 2011
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
Hello
I am having problems with my blog and I can't seem to figure it out, okay, I don't really have much time to either... It won't let me edit my posts and so now when I send a pic I have to make sure I put a caption with it... and that leaves for a lot of grammatical errors... oh well...
We had a whirlwind weekend and it looks to be a crazy week too, spent more time running around than I did at home and today is 'try to get as much done at home as I can' day, but, life is good and I'm loving it....
duty calls!
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Fun withy honey
Monday, June 13, 2011
What you get for your money...
Dear Summer, please slow down!
Well, I have to say that I am feeling pretty darn blessed, and tired, I am actually trying to relax here posting on my blog... and not look around too much because my house is a Double D wreck (that was for you Suzie <3!) We had a really awful first few months of 2011, and I don't want to complain because I know that there are so many people that have problems so much bigger than mine were or at least seemed. I have to say, even though we had some Kindergarten drama the last few weeks of school (not mine, really!?) I just hate when people aren't happy, but my husband got upset with me for letting things bother me that weren't mine to hold on to, I tend to do that a lot... and, summer took off full force and me and my baby have enjoyed every day... I'm still working my little part-time job but hey, just a few hours and I am ready to head on to the next adventure! Summer is just starting and I am already dreading it coming to an end!
We got our summer pool up and Noah has his little play park going strong with his trampoline and basketball too... He loves playing outside with anyone that stops by but this summer heat is NOT fun, so we have been trying to do inside fun stuff until it cools off, this heat scares me because it seems like a dessert... scorching hot during the day and cool at night. Let's all pray for rain because we surely need it.
I have been trying to focuse more on not being wasteful, I really want to focus on getting by on less because even though we have cut back a lot, I still see where I can do so much more. I am really interested in the minimalist mom blogs I have read, I don't know that I would ever be able to take it as far as some of them do but the concept is so true, we live in this world and accumulate so much 'stuff'. I tell myself this more and more because it is so easy to want want want a new car, a bigger house, a better this or that and even harder to not want to have the 'new' such and such that came out... But I am getting there, like I really try to find things that we can do as a family that won't cost us an arm and a leg... We left the house last Friday with lawnchairs in tow and headed to a little festival at central park to hear a free concert and let the kids run around the fountain, sat talking with great company and had a blast. Don't get me wrong, i fed my family before we left so we didn't have to hit the food booths but I went to check out the prices... WAY expensive, of course I did fork out $8 for a light up sword for Noah but hey, he is 6 and sometimes I want to give in! I was with my girlfriend and her kids and we both said, our parents would NOT have gotten us the toys! LOL Okay, I DID get a funnel cake, but for $5, it was worth every penny and calorie... :)~
We had a birthday party and two graduation parties on Saturday and I had my Womens ACTS Fundraiser on Sunday... full, jam packed weekend and you can tell by my house... yikes! Yup, I did a load of underwear and towels last night, that tells you that things are backing up for sure!
I haven't had a chance to blog about my Women's ACTS team that I am on, I am so so excited about it and I totally feel the power of the Holy Spirit moving amongst us. First, our retreat theme is "Jesus, I trust in You' ... and this has been my 'in my face' motto for this year, it just always seems to come to me and so I KNEW I was meant to be on this team and our focust us the Divine Mercy, which I love love and pray constantly.
I was excited about being on team again because I have a little list of people that I want to go on retreat and I was WAITING to be on team to push them a little more (alright, I know I am selfish but I LOVE them and want to be there with them on this AWESOME weekend). I am trying to put my whole heart into the preparations for this retreat and can't wait to see the miracles unfold... wanna see them too? SIGN UP!!!
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Sunday, June 5, 2011
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