So October is so Over!

I know, I know, October is so WAYYY over! I have some pictures from October that I never showed you.We rented Marlena a moon bounce for her 15th birthday party!

She had fun! Glenn didn't get any pictures of her jumping with her friends. Sad!!



I had fun dressing the girls up as ROCK STARS for Halloween! Glenn and I have been wearing the same t-shirts for the last three years. The girls didn't want to wear the same costume that they wore for the last two years so I helped them make one up. When I got home from work we only had 15 minutes before the trunk or treat started, so we threw this little number together. Then people were saying that they were to old and they wouldn't give them any candy!!! What is that??? Who cares!!! It's not like they are punk teenagers who are out to take everyones candy! They just wanted to have a little fun' just like everyone else. I know people have strong opinions about stuff like that, but I say, loosen up for heavens sake!!! They are still kids and it is only freakin candy!!!

We had fun anyway. We went home, I ordered Pizza and we watches Ghost Hunters for the rest of the night. We also had some friends stop by and visit for a little bit. That was fun. Kayla also enjoyed handing out candy to the trick-or-treaters that came to the door.
Now it is almost Thanksgiving!!! Crazy!!! We are planning to head on up to Washington to visit some family there. Sounds like fun!!!

Where Did October Go???

Can you believe that October is almost OVER ALREADY????? That means that the Holidays are upon us!!!!!!!! AHHHH!!! I am sooo not prepared for this. Halloween.....
Thanksgiving!!!!!......
Christmas????.....
What am I going to do? This Christmas I will be staying in Idaho. No Caos?? It's just not Christmas without Family Caos! I am going to have to fill my time. Any suggestions??

Free handbag? Yayah!

Just For fun!
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I'm Back!

I don't mean to neglect all you devoted bloggers out there who take the time to view my blog. I have found a temporary love that has been taking up all of my free time. The Twilight seres. I was afraid to start reading them thinking that they might be too juvenile to spend my precious time on, but my friend insisted that it would be worth it and even is loaning me her books! Well I am hooked! I am half way through the third book out of four though; so I will soon be back to reporting on a not so regular basis. Hey, I'm tryin here. You gotta give a girl that, at least.

Do you think I should go get a tetanus shot? I put a rusty nail through my finger nail today. It is really starting to hurt now that it is 4 hours after the fact. I was removing rusty nails from some wood in my friends back yard so that no one would get hurt. Kind of funny huh?

Well here's to another upcoming busy week. Ready....Set...Here we go!

The pictures I promised

So here are the pictures we took at Shoshone Falls. Sorry it took so long.

Life has been kind of crazy lately. I have been in a major funk. I haven't been feeling very well either. The girls have started school and seem to be on a good track though. Work has been really good! It is nice to have a source of stability in my life right now.

I made up a new recipe yesterday! It is called chocolate facial cookies. I went to this activity for relief society on homemade spa recipes. There was a recipe for a chocolate facial mask. I tried it and it felt really good, but then.... I tasted it! It was made of all edible ingredients and it was YUMMY! So, I decided to make cookies out of it! All I had to do was add some eggs, flour, and some other essential cookie ingredients and poof! Yummy cookies!

Last weekend.

Last Saturday (Aug. 9th) was awesome! We took the girls to the Twin Falls Temple open house. It was beautiful! I don't think the girls got as much out of it as I had hoped, but they did like it. The teenage mind, not impressed with much, unless it has to do with fashion or boys. NE way, after the temple we went to have dinner. We don't know the area at all, so we decided to just drive around. Marlena spotted a restaurant that we had mistook for a garden center. It was really nice! Nicer than we had expected to spend money on that evening, but it sure was yummy!
After dinner we went to the Shoshone Falls. Wow! That was beautiful! The girls really started to liven up there because they said it is a good place to remember for when they start dating! OOIIVAY!!!
We had a great time together! I will put up some pics later.

I love to be bugged!!!

My WONDERFUL boss gave me something to help me achieve my goal to lose weight. It is called the Body Bugg! Click here to learn more.
I think this little bugg is really going to help! All I have to really do is keep moving and keep track of what I am eating and the bugg will help me stay on track!
Wish Me Luck!

Summer Fun In Cali!!!

We were in California from July 26th-August 2nd.
It was so nice to spend time with family and
friends we hadn't seen in a while. On Saturday we
went out for a late lunch/early dinner (linner)
with Glenns family. We then poked our head in at
my moms house then my dads. At my dads we
had a close encounter with a bear!!!

Monday we went to the Corona Del Mar with
My Best Friend, Mary Rubow, and her two kidos.
Lindsey Watson and her three kidos. My Mom,
Nephew, Niece, and Brother in Law. It was soo
much fun I am sad my Kids had to miss it
because they were at their other moms house.

I went to see my Kate's dance class on Tuesday!
It was so cute to see all these little kids try to
dance.

My Oma is sick and had to go back into the
hospital on Wednesday. That was sad. She is
doing ok now though.

We had an early birthday party for me on Friday
night @ my dads house. It was awesome to be
able to play games with friends then stay up until
the wee hours of the morning talking with my
dad, mom and sister, Jamie.

It was super fun, but I sure am glad to be home!

The Girls Are Home!

They had a great time, but I am not sure I am ready for them to be home yet. I haven't fully healed from their brutal attacks on my sanity. I guess I have to be ready though. We only have tomorrow to pack and then we are off to Cali.
It should be fun! Our family has practicly every second of our time planned out. I hope we can squeeze it all in. Well I guess this is going to be a short post.

Sooooo it's been a While

Sorry to all my beloved people who look at my blog. I have been very neglectful. I can not believe that July is almost over already!!!!
My Girls are in Wyoming right now! Thank goodness!!! I love them to death but I REALLY needed a break! They are driving me NUTS! Why are they in Wyoming; you ask? They are doing an authentic pioneer trek for three days. They will be walking and pulling hand carts with only the clothes on their backs (pioneer clothes) and what they could fit in a five gallon bucket (extra pioneer clothes and things to eat with). It is a 17 mile trek. Then on Thursday they will be in Utah to see the temple square and other things there. They will be home Thursday night.
Then on Saturday we are off to Cali for a family Vacation! I am soo excited! It is going to be a trip were every minute of our time is going to be busy. At least we get to stay for a whole week. FUN FUN FUN!

Nothin New!

Hey, so I haven't been posting as much as I had hoped I would be. I figured I should update you on the nothing that has been going on.




















Kayla took some pretty cool pictures of the fireworks on the 4th! I promised I would show you some of those.

We have also been watching our friends two dogs. A Great Dane and a chiwawa. This has been truly fun! Bruno is having the time of his life but he is getting really sore with all the playing that has been going on.















Besides work and the doggies nothing else spectacular has been going on. I promise next week will be better because I get to go grocery shopping this weekend!!! Yea!!!! That means I get to cook real food again!!!! I will let you know how it turns out!!!

Before I go to bed I just wanted to wish you a happy fourth of July! I hope you all enjoyed celebrating what this country is all about FREEDOM! GOD BLESS AMERICA! I love our country even though it has it's problems. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. I will be posting some pictures Kayla took at the fireworks show. I hope you love our country as much as I do.

Anniversary Weekend!

What a memorable anniversary!











We stayed in a great hotel,






















ate fabulous food and had a wonderful time together. We ate at The Tavern on Friday night. Then we went to the hotel and had a soak in the jacuzzi tub and shared our desserts. Saturday morning Glenn presented me with a beautiful necklace. Then we walked down to a little French bistro for breakfast. This restaurant totally gave me all kinds of inspiration for this restaurant that I want to start. Glenn wants me to write it all down. It is going to be a dessert restaurant called Heaven. We would only serve desserts. It would be a gourmet experience with down home touches. I would also feature an extra seasonal menu for the holidays. I want it to feel totally fancy when you walk in but as soon as you sit down you can get comfortable and enjoy yourself. We went over tons of details on how we could accomplish this. It was so fun to have time to dream together.
After breakfast we walked over to the down town Boise farmers market. It was fun to walk together arm in arm looking and admiring all the different booths and shops. Later that evening We had dinner @ Chandlers, the restaurant in our hotel. The food was sooo good!! They gave us dessert on the house for our anniversary. That was sweet of them.
We went back to the hotel room and Glenn made up this game for us to play called Marco Polo "Kiss Me". (I personally think we should come up with a better name for it) it was sooo fun! One person closes their eyes and spins around ten times. In the mean time the other person has to hide somewhere in the room. When the person stops spinning he keeps his eyes closed and says "kiss me", then the other person has to make a kissing sound. The person with their eyes closed tries to find the other person by repeating "kiss me" and the other person making the kissing sound in the same fashion as Marco Polo. When the person with their eyes closed tags the other person their reward is that they get to kiss the person where ever they want. Then the players switch. I didn't know he had it in him to make up such a game. Maybe he read it somewhere. Either way it was totally fun!
We went back home on Sunday to take the Girls to church. All in all it was a great week end to celebrate five fantabulous years!

5 years!

This weekend is my 5 Year Anniversary!

June 28th, to be exact. As I look back on the person I was 5 years ago there has been lots of changes.

I have grown up tremendously!

I still try to maintain my bubbly personality, but it is much harder to do now a days.
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE my Family, but they can turn my happy face into Angry Mom on the War Path in a heart beat. My marriage has not been what I expected (let's face it we all want it to be a romantic movie everyday), but it has been exactly what I anticipated at the same time. HARD WORK! I truly and deeply know that my husband loves me with ALL of his heart. He tries, to his best ability, to treat me like his queen. He does the laundry while I cook. He runs to the store for me five minutes before we are expecting guests because I forgot one of the ingredients for what I was cooking. Getting up early in the morning to help get the girls ready for the day so I can get an extra hour of sleep. There are so many things that he does to help make my life easier; I truly am thankful for the wonderful man I chose.

We are going to be spending this years anniversary here in Boise @ the Hotel 43. It is "A Stylish Downtown Boise Hotel". Check it out @ hotel43.com. Two wonderful night! Just the two of us! I am VERY Excited!!!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO ME!!!

Starting a blog

I am starting a blog to give myself a hobby or a place to share my hobbies and get some feed back on likes an dislikes of things that I make. It is also a place were I can vent my frustrations and share my joys. I am not the best writer by any means so if I have any writing or spelling errors please keep it to yourself.

I am also starting this to give my family and friends back in Cali an idea of how I am doing.

I am working full time at a small company that does billing for school based medicaid here in Idaho. My husband, Glenn, works with me. We are account administrators and do data entry. Glenn is actually a Network Administrator by profession, but he just does that on the side for now. We love our job!

We have two children, Marlena & Kayla. Marlena is 14 and will turn 15 in October; Kayla just turned 12 on the 21st of this month. You will probably be hearing A LOT about them! I LOVE them to death, but BOY do they know how to push my buttons. "The Girls" (as you will soon find out, this is how I refer to them a lot of the time) are Glenn's from a previous marriage. They are mine now though.My husband and I have not been able to have any children together yet. We have been trying for over 2 years now.

I LOVE to cook and be crafty! I will be posting pictures and ideas of new things that I do. I would love to have feed back on what you think about them. If I ever do have a baby, I would like to be able to start my own business selling things that I make. So I need very honest opinions about if you think I would be able to sell my crafts and goodies.


I am trying to lose weight too. Glenn and I have been going to the gym at least 3 days a week for the past three months. We are trying to eat better, that is the hard part. Glenn is doing great! My progress is moving a lot slower than I hoped. I will keep you posted on that too.
Stay tuned for what I have in store for you. It will be something different every time, I'm sure! This is new for me so be patient as I learn how to do this blogging thing. You will be hearing from me soon! Yayah!