I got it!!

So the other day I mentioned I have won a few blog contests...well I finally got one delivered on Wednesday. I am so super excited to have this seventh generation kit. Awesome and good for you cleaning supplies. Now I just have to clean my house with it all :0) Thanks Stephanie for such a great giveaway!!

P.S. I finally got my hubby to upload pictures from our new camera so now i can start posting pictures again :0) now i just have to learn and i wont have to wait so long next time ;0)

Excited!!

so i am a weirdo and all...but i am super excited to have 11 followers now! i am not a huge blogger yet and maybe i wont be but i am impressed with 11 followers :0)

the second thing that makes me happy is i have been winning blog giveaways like crazy lately. i haven't received any, hopefully sometime this week i will start to though. i cant wait for some of the homemade etsy stuff :0) Miss V a blog i read quite often just had 7 full days of giveaways!! and i won 4 of the 7 days of her giveaways. i can't believe it!! some of the things i won were cute headbands from her own shop and a cute crochet hat from another blog i read a lot veronica's blog and a week or so back i won a seventh generation healthy home starter kit off of Stephanie's blog. i feel totally blessed and super lucky. i am just so thrilled and i can't wait to get it all :0)

hopefully the cleaning stuff comes soon because mother in law will be staying at our house to watch our kids for almost a week in august and i will need my house super clean for her. which leads me to my other thing that i am super excited about. nick and i will be celebrating our 5th wedding anniversary next month. and we are hoping to go to Vegas as long as everything goes as planned. nick really wants to go see Lance Burton, a magician. he will be no longer doing shows as he is retiring September 4th. we are not gamblers, we just go out to shows and site seeing, i know we are crazy. lol

and my final thing i am excited about is try out a Rachael ray recipe tonight...well i am outtie :0) have a great day!!!

better late than never....

so i was going to blog before i left. and well, i just completely ran out of time. me and the kiddos are spending a few days at my aunt's house. Nick is out of state for training/work and I figured it would be a good time to go. Then tomorrow we leave(as in leave my aunt's house) and go to mother in law's cottage on the lake for a couple days. Tomorrow night Nick will meet us there!! I sure can't wait. The kids have been whining and crying for their daddy. And well honestly having a second pair of hands will be nice again :0) plus the kids are so much more well behaved when he is home...its soooo nice. i love the fishing, boating, and water there but i HATE that there will be no Central Air! I suppose if i was a fan of lake water, i would do a lot of swimming to keep cool. but whatever reason i can't get over lake water.

anyways....off to the part that is late....i made this five layer cake for 4th of July. I just forgot to learn how to load pictures and blog about it. and honestly my mother in law emailed me these pictures. Because I still have to learn how to download pictures from our new camera to my laptop. I think I need to get my butt in gear. I have probably 3 months of pictures on there and not here. lol enjoy the pictures of my lovely cake...and i hope to visit again soon and maybe with pictures from my camera :0)

guess what?

big surprise i have been absent again. life has been going on here. lol we have went on two mini vacations to nick's mom's cottage on lake, had a family reunion, started potty training with allie, had a whole week of sick kids and then there's everyday life that has kept us busy.

sorry i have been absent. i have been enjoying life minus the week of sick kids. summer goes by way too fast and you gotta enjoy it while its here.

the last couple days allie, has been potty training herself. sunday she wanted to wear underwear and we put them on her. we figured what the heck, what would it hurt? well she had no accidents. then monday came and she wanted to wear underwear again, and she did super good except she had one accident right before naps. tuesday came and no accidents. and today she hasnt had any accidents either. even with a trip to walmart. maddie, did the same thing when she was two, she just decided one day to wear underwear and tada she was potty trained. i am really hoping it goes the same way with allie. allie has already been going on number two on the toliet for months and months. so now we just have to finish with the potty part.

today, i made zucchini pineapple bread and monster cookies. tomorrow i have to clean the house and get ready for my tupperware party.

christian is 10 months old today. i just can't believe my baby is getting so big already. he is crawling, climbing steps, and furniture walking. our girls never did any of this early. he just has no fear at all. at this point, he may be our earliest walker. maddie started walking at 15 months and allie was almost 18 months old.

i think today i realized that my babies are getting so big. maddie will be attending preschool in the fall, allie is almost potty trained and christian will be 1 year old in just 2 months. so sad.

well its time for me to go make some popcorn and watch the weather. there are tons of warnings out. i am praying for no tornados and no flooding my basement.

toodles!

what a crazy morning!

today has been crazy say the least....
my hubby was being super sweet and let me sleep in today. so i wake up and walk out of my room and that's when all the craziness started. i saw Allie completely naked. (not even a diaper) so i walk into the bathroom and there laid her clothes and a wet diaper on the floor. i look into the toilet and there's poop without toilet paper. yah for using the toilet, nah for not wiping!! uggh so I had to clean up Allie before i even got to go potty this morning. lol i then asked Maddie "where's daddy?" she then tells me he is upstairs in the bathroom. (my husband spends forever in there) so i was expecting to find more wrong things in the house. so i did a little walk around to see if i could find more issues before making myself breakfast. that's when i found our next issue!!! Nick left his ultra strength tums on the counter. they were open and all gone!!!! not to mention all the dust from the bottle all over the kitchen cupboard. i immediately asked Maddie if she ate them, and she proudly said "yes". uggh! so i run upstairs to ask Nick how many were left. he said maybe 10 or less. so i asked Maddie "if Allie had any" she said "Allie had only two mom, but i had four" Now Maddie doesn't really count too well yet but i thought it was pretty accurate since that would be under 10 tums. so i had to call poison control to find out what i should do now. i hate calling them, makes me feel like a bad mom and irresponsible. well, needless to say if your kids eat tums, it makes their tummies hurt and gives them diarrhea. very ironic if i say so. darn kids!! poison control also said to keep diary away from them since they got way more than they needed by eating these. so i think that wraps up my day. i sure hope the day gets better!!