photoshop class

I hopefully signed up for a photoshop class in Canby through the Canby Community Education. I sent in my paperwork but they were closed this week so I will know if I am in on Monday. If I get in the class is in November 3rd and 4th from 6:30-9:30pm. If anyone wants to sign up with me let me know! I had a class with this instructor and he was very nice. It would be nice to know someone in the class but if no one is interested no worries. Just checking to see if anyone who reads my blog would like to learn more about photoshop. The class cost $100. Thanks to mom and Wayne for giving me this for a birthday present. I am super excited!

I love Sunflowers

I got a special suprise at work on Friday. My mom and Hunter brought me Sunflowers. My mom said Hunter picked them out himself and he said I would love them and I do. Here are my first Sunflowers for the year! I put one of them by my sink. Just so I would have more Sunflowers all over.
Hunter saw me taking pictures of them so he wanted my phone to take pictures of the Sunflowers to. So he did he knows how. Smart kid.

This is him showing me the pictures on my phone that he took of the Sunflowers. He was pretty proud. Misha was impressed as you can tell. Then Lucy got on the table to sniff the Sunflowers and Misha was on alert.

I love Sunflowers! That means my favorite time of the year....Fall is almost here!

picture of my next wall project

Here is a picture of my next project. The fish tank wall! I just sold a jumperoo on Craigslist for the price of a shelf I want to buy at IKEA so that will go above the couch. Super happy about that. Going to put pics of Mt. Hood on it since Hunter is a big fan of seeing Mt. Hood when we are driving. Also, I have up my sleeve getting a picture that Larry has taken of either Oregon or Canada and developing it at Costco doing the frame picture and doing a big one. Should be cool. Trying to stay away from putting pics of the kiddos on this shelf but will see. They are on each wall as it is. :) The other day I was trying to get rid of toys and clean out the toy bins and get ready for when Larry comes home and we make the Hunter's room into the both the kids room. It will be a slow transition but we have to cut down on toys and get more organized. So here are the kids enjoying playing on my bed with the toys that I had organized in nice piles. No more nice piles as you can see. :)

camera strap

I ordered a new camera strap! Super excited. I found this website off of My Charming kids blog. I ordered the Agua leaves fabric with a lens cap holder. I wanted to show you what it looks like but I haven't learned the cut and paste part of blogging yet. So here is the website I ordered it from. Can't wait for it to come! http://sheyb.bigcartel.com//

Wanna know what I do...

when I put Hunter in bed and Grace is asleep? It is an addiction of mine. I go to the computer and check out Pioneer Woman's blog. It is on my favorite's to see on my blog. I love her. I love how she writes, I love her pictures, I love how she shows how to take pictures, I love her way of showing how to cook things. Yep, I am addicted. If you haven't checked her website out you should! She posts something new everyday about her life, a new recipe, and new photography everyday or close to it. Maybe you can get addicted with me?! :)

I am going to work on my house projects tomorrow night going to hopefully finish up the touch ups on my red wall. I got so many ideas for the rest of the house but we are working on saving to make bunkbeds for the kiddos to have both kids be in Hunter's room and we are getting new closets for them so we are saving up for them this next month. Super excited about that project! Going to hopefully tackle making a bunkbed and assembling closets when Larry comes home in September. Should be fun and I will do before and after pics! But I still have plans to tackle my fish tank wall. I did take before pics so I have to post those soon. Maybe tomorrow. I will have some extra time on my hands tomorrow! :)

big girl pull ups

My baby is potty training herself. I have no part in this. She all of a sudden wanted to go potty on the toliet and I have let her. She started this with me last Saturday and by the fourth time going to the bathroom and it was only 9am I had to go get pull ups for her. It was too much work taking her diaper off and putting it on. I also didn't believe that we were in the potty training time of her life. But we are. She went poo and pee in the toliet all day. Once she had her first pair of pull ups on she would not let me put a diaper on her she threw a fit. So I gave the rest of her diapers to daycare and we have pull ups and some big girl underware. But she is all about her big girl pull ups and she calls them that. The last two days she has been not so great at going potty in the toilet but I think she is just getting used to playing at daycare and realizing she has to go. On Sunday, I was making my way to the bathroom and she followed me and asked me "mama you go potty" and I told her yes so I started to go and she said "good girl mama". Precious, isn't it?! So we will see how this goes. I didn't believe it at first cause I wasn't ready for it but it doesn't seem to be in my hands she is on a mission to be like her brother and so I will just let her. My baby girl is getting to big :(

we are good

No colds here. I did notice that Grace has two teeth coming in that might be why her nose has been running like a fawcet. She has been such a joy and telling me no mamma now. And she is the worst taking to the store she wants to walk and not be in the cart and hasn't learned or mastered the no touch rule. Baby steps we are working on it. Hunter has been not wanting to go anywhere but straight home after daycare but I had to learn the hard way and he had a fit on me yesterday and today he said the same thing he just wanted to go home so I took his word for it and we came home. I am learning and it is baby steps for me. No big plans for this weekend. My house is a mess and I am just going to plug away at cleaning it and tackle my new red wall and fix the sides and moldings. I dragged out the old paint for touch ups so I am getting closer to finishing the red wall project. Next is my long wall project, this one has the fish tank on it. My ultimate goal is to get a new L-shaped couch but that will take time. For some reason I am thinking I need a pop of green on this wall even if it is in a picture. Green is just stricking to me lately not sure why. I will try to get pics taken of my new wall project the fish tank/couch wall but I can't tackle it until for a few more weeks. I got to make another trip to IKEA to get a shelf I want and so I gotta wait on that. Got some new picture/frame ideas up my sleeve for my shelf idea and see what comes of it. I also got to work around hanging with my kiddos and cleaning. My normal weekend of fun. :) I feel the need to clean out alot of toys this weekend and taking alot to Goodwill :)

colds?

We have possiblity of sickness going on in our house. Grace's nose has been flowing since the weekend and she has a cough off and on. I keep sneezing and blowing my nose. Hunter coughs and sounds all nasally. I just know that we all are going to get sick this weekend. Hoping for wellness. My kids have been pretty healthy since they were born and rarely get sick, thank goodness. Knock on wood. :)

monkey's

Hunter is my Curious George. He loves to learn new things and remembers things really well. Grace is my monkey see monkey do. If she sees her brother, me, or her Papa doing something she has to do it to. My kids are my little monkey's cause they remind me of monkey's. Hence, Curious George is a monkey and monkey see monkey do. Crazy what I come up with, huh!?!

RED!

I am not a patient person. I bought "barn red" paint yesterday and had to put it on today! I started right after I put the kiddos down for their naps and Grace crashed and Hunter was talking in his bed and went to sleep after about 10 minutes. I turned off the AC and opened up the doors and windows! This was probably not the right day to do this but I was getting ready to paint! I had to recruit my mom and wayne to help with the kiddos after they woke up and once mom and Wayne got here both kids amazingly woke up at the same time. Hunter wanted to stay home with me he gets in a funk and just doesn't want to go anywhere but Grace was all for leaving with them. So the wall took me about 3 hours or less to do! Pretty good for my first time painting all by myself! I chose the color, put up the tape...Wayne helped to.. and I painted it all. Yes I have to touch up all the sides and yes my pics still have the blue tape on the sides but I took it off tonight and now I have to take a few days to finish up the touch up. I love my new red wall! Larry likes it to I texted him a pic he went back to Canada today. Maybe that is why I wanted to get this project started it gave me something to do. (my next project is to get scratch protectors for the shoe rack and moving the rug out from under it so it just will have the wood shelf.)
Here it is! If you don't remember what it looked like before read the last post. The paint dryed up very quick because I had the doors and windows open cause of the smell and it was such a hot day. When Grace came back with my mom I closed up the house because it had gotten up to 85 degrees. The smell of the recycled paint wasn't too horrible, yes you could tell it wasn't the same ole paint smell but for only being a little over $10 it did a great job. Don't you love my floor cleaners? Yes, I still need to clean my floor but I keep looking at my new red wall. Love it. Anne gave me the idea to paint it cause my previous wall color was blending into my new white frames. So I came up with red for my wall color. Love, love, love it.

I have found I love to decorate walls and take pictures and make something out of them. Maybe I can put it to good use sometime :) I got projects in the works :)

next wall project

This is my next project. I am painting this wall red. And put a welcome sign up on the left hand side wall. I bought paint yesterday and I am so excited about it! It is recycled paint that cost $10.70 a gallon! It is from paint that people drop off at the recycling center and they take it somewhere and make batches of 10 colors and than sell it. It was the only red they make and it is perfect! I took the last gallon but they can try to locate more if I need it but I don't think I do. If your interested in getting this kind of paint I got it at Miller's in OC. They said it smells like recycling the first few days but than it goes away. So if that is all that will be the downside I think I can handle it to save a few bucks! So hopefully soon I can paint this wall and show you all!

first wall done

The look before.

My new curtains! The color is a red barn with gold designs. The first curtain attempt. I learned to buy longer curtain rods learned a lesson about that.
Went and bought longer ones with cute orange glass balls.The look after! Love it so much better. Yes, they aren't perfect the house got added on so one window is slightly higher than the other. But I don't care it looks worlds better!

wow!

My 19 month old daughter has shown me today that she can pee and poo in the toilet! This is the first time for me and she did it for my mom one other time before this. At first I didn't want to take her to the bathroom when she said mama I go pee. I thought seriously are you just pulling my leg. So we all went in the bathroom and ten minutes later she did it! I can't believe she did it but she did! Than after nap she wanted to go pee again and she did it in the toilet! Where did my baby and little girl go?! So very, very proud of my Grace!

so much has gone on

I don't even know where to start. I put my curtains up but I haven't posted a picture yet cause I am not 100 % in love with them yet. I got too short of curtain rods, I think and I just bought some more today that are wider than I think I will love them. But I got to get them up now. Maybe this weekend I will get them up and post a picture of them. It is crazy what curtains can do to a room. Right now they make the room alot darker cause of how much light is coming through the window hence that is why I have to put them further out on the wall so I can expose more window. But they do make the room look different and more homey. I also am going to find a red paint to paint one wall red and it should make a nice difference.

I celebrated my 34th birthday on Sunday. I went to the beach with Larry and the kids. It was a nice day. I also went and spent the day the Saturday before and went wine tasting for the first time with some of my girlfriends. I had a blast! I will post pics and more info about that soon. Life has to slow down in order for me to post stuff on my blog but it will be coming soon. Pictures will be posted soon too!

I might even update you on my life and tell you where I am at but not in this post.

new look

I am obsessing about curtains! I got some today and I think they are going up later today! So excited! So here is my new look of the living room before the curtains!

Here is my new table. It used to be a big farm, square type table that seated 6 and I went and got a small round table. It actually works out better and the kids seem to like it cause they are right by you when you eat with them. The flowers are from our front yard. The rug underneath I took out of the house today. It was driving me crazy. We have had it for years and it gets so much animal hair on it and playdoh that when I vaccum it it takes forever. So it went out the door to the shed. Here is the room the way it looks right now minus the rug!
Here is another view of the room. I even mopped the floors today while the kids were sleeping. See Kramer on the chair? He likes it without the rug underneath :)
Here is a picture of the new computer area. The computer usually is on the right side of the table but when Larry skypes us we have to move it to the middle cause the cord is too small. The table is an old table of mine before I met Larry when I lived in my apartment. Love the purple curtains!

Here is a painting that my mom painted for me. I moved it to another wall. The shelf is a free item I got from Davies Clinic. They used it to put pamplets on it. Love it!

Here is my very curly hair girl! Aren't her curls so pretty?!

This is my new framed wall. I had it full of frames and took them down and puttyed the holes and put fresh paint on it with new frames from Ikea. They are so cheap and I love them! I am thinking of painting this one wall red so the white frames pop out more.

Here is my new star that I bought yesterday! So excited about it! It only cost $8.98! I got it at a store in the OC called Real Deals Home Decor. Love that store it was my first time in it and I loved it! But I had my kiddos with me and I learned they can't go with me there again. They wanted to touch everything and I about had a heart attack cause I didn't want them to break anything. The store is over by Home Depot and they have great things to put on your wall!

I love this! It is a shelf that I got for free at Dr. D's house. I got to go to his house during a week day on working hours and help Linda take stuff to a huge garage sale at Hope Village and she needed help taking stuff there. So I got to see what they were giving away and if I wanted it I could take it! So the shelf became mine. I am looking for some hanging words that say welcome on it to hang on the pegs and then I should be done. The candle holder was free got that from Annie and I put my fake candle that has a timer in it and it turns on at 7pm and I have no clue what time it turns off probably midnight. I bought the frame for cheap and put pics of the kids and Misha on it. The Ansel Adams pic is from when I lived in my apartment.

Kiddos checking out the flowers I had just put them on the table.I will post pics later of what the living room looks like with curtains if they go up!