The One the Only....Pica!

2012-02-09T15:11:00.000-08:00

So the other night I was making PR food and I made my own fresh Sofrito. I have made this before and I love using it in my food but there's no real way to save what's left. I've put it in jars in the fridge...it keeps for a week at best. I've put it in ice cube trays....it makes the freezer smell (there's a lot of garlic and onion in this recipe) and the cubes get freezer burned easily. So the other night I felt so defeated that I just made the best batch I've ever made in my life and it was going to go to waste. :( booooo. If only I had containers that I could put a small few tablespoons in....and then it hit me!

I had a zillion of those little bags that they sell at the craft store for jewelry etc. PERFECT! Every thing fit into nice little portioned bags. Contained and "sealed" this was good enough to at least allow me to save my "secret sauce" for another occasion and it'd be so easy to defrost etc. Horray!!!

Then it hit me....why stop there?! My husband wishes there was a way to take a sandwich to work with mayo mustard etc with out getting the bread soggy! Or a salad without having to get the lettuce all mixed up with the dressing! You can totally portion control it too So now I will never have to deal with the fact there is that "little bit of sauce" that I have no container for....Because now I DO! Yippie!

I really think this could work for other things too....like baking soda, baking powder to measure out a couple of TBS or tbs of anything to have quick on hand (like for pancakes in the morning).

A small little bag of treats for kids? raisins? candy? perfect and ah-maze-zing!

this is a really really smart idea and i hope that all of you can use it :) it has changed my life forever :)

2011-09-25T19:30:00.000-07:00

oh hi! i figured out my password! so now i can come back. sorry about being gone.

here's what i did for a Wild Kratts birthday party for boy blue.
I made some creature power suits out of black felt and colored felt. For the middle of the paw print I made it into a pocket so that the kids could put their discs "in" their suits...so it was just two pieces sewed in a circle and then sewn on the vest part in a 1/2 circle

the cake was just regular cake decorated like a nature scene but I went to the grocery store bakery with a picture of some creature power discs so they could print it out on edible paper. I got two sheets printed...i could have survived with just one...but..anyway yeah. It made such a HUGE difference to just be able to throw them on to finish the design, not worry about needing to peel off the paper b/c you can't eat it etc. It was just the right touch and so much easier for me than trying to do it myself. (only about 7 dollars a page not bad at all!)

For the games we had the kids wear their power suits then we tied streamers around their waists and they had to run around a pull off each other's "tails"it was so much fun we did it a couple of times. Then for the "fish" powers we filled blue balloons with air and then "trapped" them in the hall so that it would be like water to swim in just...less wet. LOVED IT! We then had the kids eat cookies that were like sticks as fast as they could for their beaver power! They loved it. The bat powers we did a take on Marco Polo, but we said Wild Kratts instead.

so that was how boy blue turned 4! hooray!

ps...here's the jpeg of the discs just incase you want them too :)

2011-02-03T22:29:00.000-08:00

i never buy spagetti sauce in a jar. i always always make it. but tonight i was in the kind of bind you get in sometimes where i needed to have sauce DONE b/c it would take less than 10mins to put dinner on a plate if i did. SO i bought this little jar of liquid gold and i have to say i'm going to go to the store and buy at least 2 maybe 3 more. it was soo good. and it would be good to put together a "make in case of emgency-like-pica-can't-cook-tonight" kind of thing. Yes actually that is exactly why i'm going to buy some more of it. I like thier alfredo one too....but it has wine in it and i dont' think warming it up actually cooks the wine out so....

anyway. delish! and so what we needed tonight with both kids having a fever from who knows where but here's hoping that they are over it by tomorrow....what? i know it's wishful thinking....but if i could have one wish....right now it'd be that....or that we were financially free.....no i think the health thing. yeah. ok better go to bed now for my own health. :) night

2011-01-19T09:09:00.001-08:00

today was a good workout and so far we've had a pretty good start to the day.

yesterday we hung the hammock and i have a retractable clothesline now :) horray! and it's been almost an entire year since we've used a dryer....weird. since it's started to warm up (bleh!!) i think that we still might not hook up the dryer and just continue on with the way we've been doing things. also yesterday i made a whole list of things that needed to be done and i got about 80 percent of the list done. It was good to cross things off and also the best part was that i knew that i had done things and not just forgotten about doing them. Here's hoping that i can finish off that other 20 percent today :) LATER

2011-01-10T15:11:00.001-08:00

so little boy blue was starting to have hair that made funny shapes so the other day after he woke up from a nap and it was pretty bad i snapped a pic of it and then whisked him off to have it cut. of course there were tears lots of them. It's hard to cut your little ones hair but it had gone on too long. he just looked scruffy all the time and i knew a cut would help him look cleaned up. OH! note the green wall in the background it is the second wall in our house that we have painted and i really love it. it's just the right kind of energizing green that's a little muted that i was going fortada! and even though i have no NO training i think he looks better. and older which is good because he's a sunbeam now! so he should look like he's ready for primary. oh and this is thier "big" gift santa brought them. i debated about getting it or a regular kitchen and just desided that this would be good. i'm glad i did. the only thing i keep thinking about is how i should make some felt food for them :) :) for extra hours and hours of play.

2010-12-12T15:09:00.000-08:00

practicing my photography skills or rather trying to develop them. i think the little photo shoot in the back yard came out pretty good! I am slowing feeling more confident and more knowledgeable

a few of our thanksgiving trip out to cali. my nephew took the one of sebi and me i think he did a great job!

2010-10-26T11:28:00.000-07:00

more halloween fun we dipped this cookies on a stick in melting chocolate (pretty ez) and added eyes and some other details. I think we'll give them to the Nursery leaders to try and score some points with all of them.

Soliluz LOVED her little pumpkin. It was fun to make jack-o-lanterns yesterday for FHE

We went to the Fair. It was nice but expensive (lame)

sometimes its nice to be a little buzy. hopefully next time i post it'll have some fotos of the back yard!!!! (because it'll be done)

2010-10-21T14:54:00.000-07:00

Halloween Decor

I really don't like to spend a lot of money on anything I don't have to :) So when I saw this "craft" in a mag i couldn't resist. I bought about 15 plates in the dollar area of Target and then made my faces and punched the holes and then hung it up. TADA! A craft finished in the amount of time it takes the kids to finish a snack (i could have had them do it if they were a little bit older. OR i could have cut out shapes, for eyes and mouths with some black paper or even out of the big black roll of tape that we have but i couldn't wait) I strung mine together with some ribbon i had laying around but it would look even better if i had used GREEN fabric or ribbon to string them together....oh well next year i guess :)

2010-10-14T23:08:00.001-07:00

this is pretty much the free stuff that i pulled from the side of the road. it's not much now but hopefully if i can learn how to paint it properly some of this won't but things people will want to throw out :) heee hee hopefullythis i did not pull it was just given to me! unfortunately this skyline doesn't fit well with the rest of the house so i guess i'll just have to change that
tool for better spray paint control....still struggling. guess it's more of the person behind the tools than the tools themselfs :S blerg
free from the road!
oh this is a before and after of a little pencil holder tin i had that i thought to my self....i wonder if i could just spray paint that right now.....

more after photos to come.....hopefully

2010-10-14T23:07:00.000-07:00

so we finally got Soliluz a new chair. she kinda finally got big enough for a bigger chair and since we knew she'd use this one for awhile awhile we got her this one. i think she likes it :)

so we went to the fire station last weekend. Oct is fire safety month and they had a really nice little set up for kids and families to come and visit the fire station. We got some fun pictures and had a nice little time there. They also were giving out free ice cream so that was great too. Mosiah was leery of the fireman in his whole get up with the mask and everything and Soliluz was a bit distracted from it all once she got a balloon. But we had a nice time and it's always nice to get out as a family.

this weekend we have planned for a REAL babysitter to come (yes we are paying her and she's a teenager. this is a first!) while my mom me and sebi go out to a comedy show and then on saturday it continues with a trip to the pumpkin patch! I love that the weather is cooling down and that we can finally go outside again. October is set to be a very buzy month :) horray!

2010-10-05T22:13:00.000-07:00

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i had all this stuff to blog about and now...blank. drat. Well let me start with what i know. Conferance was good exspecially the parts i actually got to listen to. I made coloring pages for the kiddies and we played with playdough, strun beads on pipe cleaners, had some magnets on a tray blah blah. it was pretty good. Mosiah kinda got it. It's always fun to see what he's picking up on. He got that the prophet was on TV which i'm counting as a super-rific achivement.
oh! this month is going to be SOOO busy! there is the fair (which since all of you have had a great time at i figure i better go and see what PHX has to offer), pumpkin patching, and ofcourse HALLOWEEN. Mosiah has desided firmly on being Superman. Yes folks my son went from Thomas the train to Superheros. Thats the way i roll no mind numming Spongebob dummy stuff for him. and he's started on the good stuff too the OLD superman the one where my mom passing by says "hey that's superman? i think i watched this when i was a kid" :)
Sebi? oh i guess he's pretty set on being Batman so we'll have to see where i'm going to get both of these costumes since they don't really fit into my M.O. of "make a costume in 30 mins or less b/c we are about to walk out the door" as for me and the little gal i don't know yet (here is where my nerd shows) i wanted to do something that kinda goes together b/c mosiah and sebi would both be DC comics but i don't think we'd go all Justisc Legde and be Hawkgirl and WonderWomen....well, maybe we'll see that'd be kinda a stretch to do i think....hummmm....yeah i don't know. anyway! no pics this time just hard core text with which i notice some spelling errors...sorry it's getting late for me i should NOT be awake right now. oh also found some "good" scraps of stuff in the street. the first trash pick up of the month people can throw out thier "big" items so i found some things we'll see if i use it. ofcourse if i do i'll let you know. better go now i can hear my pillow.......zzzzzzzzz oh! sorry nite!

2010-09-27T12:25:00.000-07:00

Our Saturday was filled with tearing up the yard to put in spinkler lines, primary program practice and Gen Relief Society mtg. It was a buzy day but it's good to be buzy sometimes. Here is the love of my life fighting with a groundhog machine to put in the sprinkler trenches. Hopefully we'll have a yard SOON! then on friday i just happened by the Chick fil a near our house and they had a prince/princess night where kids dressed up got a free kids meal. AWESOME ! ofcourse i threw together thier crowns right before we walked out the door to go :) i really do last min costumes. Soliluz loved the fries and Mosiah kept saying that he was Superman. Hence the hands on his hips etc. We all had a great time and got our bellies full. Also i didn't remember that they give little books in thier meals instead of toys. We got two differant ones in the "If you give a mouse a cookie" series

it was a super fun weekend! :)

2010-09-16T11:58:00.001-07:00

too cute not to post finally her hair is long enough that i can stick a clip in it! horray!

2010-09-13T15:09:00.000-07:00

Just the kids this morning...here is soliluz

and here is Mosiah after a SERIOUS haircut. :( i'll miss his little locks but it was a little out of control and he wasn't talerating the scirors very well like he has in the past so i was left to break out the clippers which i can control a lot better but sadly his hair will be sooooo short. he was also great about letting me get pictures of the back and the front....well mostly great :)

2010-09-09T12:31:00.000-07:00

so a few, nevermind nearly 7, years ago my sister and I went to mexico. while i was there i was on a mission to find a "house dress" that was white that was colorful that was beautiful. finally after a whole days search we found one. it was more than i wanted it to be but i just had to have it. I loved wearing it as pajamas while i was down there but when we got back i just put it in my closet. Well, two nights ago i wanted to wear something comfortable and more like a giant t-shirt but not a tee as i was looking in my closet for something i said "wait what about that?!" oh my goodness it's perfect!!! I love this little house dress. I don't even want to leave the house b/c then I have to get dressed and take it off. If you don't have one I recommend one :) on another note at our house I have a craft room. and I had the idea of drilling holes in some of the issues of Living that i have to put up on the wall. to store them but also so they are in arms reach of being thumbed through for inspiration. It came out pretty good i think! If you have magazines laying around maybe try this I really love it

and look Mosiah even somehow made it into this picture

2010-09-08T12:55:00.000-07:00

ok! so it's been a year.....sorry about that

my new goal is to post something at least weekly but really more like a photo a day. i'd like to see what happens in our life for a year one photo at a time. anyway! here was yesterday

here are the kids all nice and clean at the start of playing in the flour.....

and now here are the kids after oh...i don't know about 7mins

yeah...just another reason why it takes me an entire year to upload two pictures

2009-09-20T23:08:00.001-07:00

ok so i went to Iowa for a while and that was quite an experiance for me with the two kids by myself. Thankfully they slept at night which really saved my hide because if they hadn't i would have been so super crazy.
So since coming home I have come home with a few good habits that I'm hoping with really stick.
1. Going Out
My sister is big on go go going. Me not soo soo much but now that I've been more on that kind of pace for awhile we have been going out more. I'm excited to try out the Librarys culture pass stuff. Instead of checking out a book you check out a musuem or other attraction around the valley. Like the zoo or the childrens museum or the science center or the botanical garden. You get free admission for 4 people at each check out so that means that Mom and Sebi Me and Mosiah can go and do some of this stuff.
2. Going to the Library
I know it seems like why wouldn't i be doing this anyway. Well, the library closest to me you have to go pass all the computers to get to the kids area with a few little things for the kids to do and all the books. this proves difficult for my son. He can't seem to just keep walking to go and play with the little toys and things he just wants to play with the computers :S which he does at home so it isnt really incouraging to go to the library. BUT i'm going to other locations to see what kind of area they have for kids. So far my search has proved to be unfruitful but i shant give up.
3. Exersiceing
My sister's house has stairs. oh yes it has stairs. everything is on a differant level so you have to do stairs all day long. (perhaps the other reason my son was so willing to go to bed some nights there) Well, i happened to lose 15 lbs!! just doing the stairs at her house in the 3 weeks or so that I was there. I don't want to lose all of that for nothing so since I've been back I've been going to the little gym that my apt complex has. it's not fancy but it does provide a good place to work out with out intruption or distraction. Sebi has been great about helping me get out the door the few mornings that I said maybe i wouldn't go. Cuz i go in the morning it really sets the tone for the whole day and our whole house. ALTHOUGH, I feel kinda guilty that I'm getting time to go and do this while Sebi is at home. I feel a little guilty that I'm working out and "doing better" while he doesn't get that oportunity. *sigh I"m not going to let this guilt keep me from working out but I've got to find a way to give him the same oportunity.
4. ....uh... oh dear. i've forgotten what was the other things. ....oh well

anyway. i've just been more "go getter" since I got back from Iowa. I think part of it was my sisters house and another part was a talk/lesson in RS over there about time we spend online etc by Elder Bednar. I had had some ponderings before all of that about how we needed to change but the fact that we were gone so long and then came back provided the chance to really put some changes into motion.

oh and on another note.
last week i did a whole menu thing (like my mom has been bugging me to do all a long) and it was really helpful. I knew what I was making each day so it wasn't difficult to put dinner together. tonight i made a quiche and it was SOOO EZ! and yummy. wow. why didn't anyone tell me? Mosiah didn't eat too much of it (probably b/c of the spinach in it) but it really did come out good. Eggs are so cheap at the store this week that it really made me think about what I could do with them (and mosiah almost always eats eggs) oh and on the side we had brocalli salad. Really simple with rasins and some sunflower seeds that I had. I"m glad that we used up all the brocolli that I bought. We did not use up the celery :S before it went so limp that it wasn't use able.

oh and my camera died :( it's the sadest thing ever. it won't turn on and the last time that it did it gave me some kind of error msg and turned off :( i'm so sad b/c i was really starting to use it more and try my hand at photography as well as I'd like to have some more pictures/video of the kids and Soli. :S I don't even know what kind of camera i might like to get I knew this day would come but I just was not ready for it at all. *sad funeral music*

ok i think i'm done now.
nite

2009-06-27T06:59:00.000-07:00

Everyone is sleeping right now. which is funny because we're all in the office instead of in our beds. but it is really sweet when Mosiah and Sebi sleep together. lol they both end up snoring to keep each other company. The baby is having a hard time sleeping after 3am. *sigh and usually will fall back asleep right when everyone else is waking up which adds to the sleep depravation and is aggravating too. oh well hopefully she'll grow out of it sooooooon! She is growing a lot. which is good b/c maybe she'll start to fit into some of her clothes

2009-05-31T19:57:00.000-07:00

the baby came a little early but we're glad to have her

2009-04-26T09:01:00.000-07:00

yesterday we went out to Tempe Town Lake to watch boat races....but since we were hungry we desided to go to the nearby Tempe Marketplace to grab something to eat. but when we got out of the car Lucilles grabed us! with their tempting bbq smells that were so good. so after eating so much we desided to walk around a little bit. And discovered a "splash pad" Mosiah had never played with a fountian thingy like that before and wow did he love it! After playing in the water for a while we went to the bookstore and before we knew it we had to head home or we'd be later for a baptisum! ....We never made it to the races. But we did have a good day! :)

2009-04-09T13:09:00.001-07:00

i know this is really lame of me but it's so hard to post twice sometimes that I guess I'm just doing this as a short cut

http://kaution.livejournal.com/

so there ya go

2009-03-21T12:30:00.001-07:00

wow i can't believe i've posted so much! lol

2009-03-21T12:26:00.001-07:00

wow it feels sooooo good to finally have ALL the loads of laundry done! the other night i sat up in bed (just before falling asleep and said to sebi "a laundermat! we should just take all the clothes to the laundrymat and wash them all at once!" We had at LEAST 8-12 loads of laundry to do. I know i know how in the world did I get so behind?? (and i still have at least 2 to do b/c i didn't take the garments or whites but 2 is better than 12!!!) I have no idea how the clothes managed to pile up like that....well that's not intirely true they piled up like that b/c our dryer takes ALLLLL DAY to dry anything. It's very discouraging and so i've sorta been not intrested in doing laundry. I was just washing a few things and then drying them but never really able to wash the blankets (that we will be storing now that it's getting warmer) and towels and everything. it's really kinda rediculous i know. but I was able to do all 12 loads in 1 hour 40 mins instead of an entire week!! it's amazing to see all the clothes now that we've got them home and such a huge weight has been lifted off of me. *giant smile!* and! the washers did a GREAT job on the clothes (better than my washer here at home!)here are some pics of our day at the laundrymat

doing 12 loads of laundry can really wipe you out!!!

2009-03-21T04:15:00.000-07:00

sebi taking picture with his ifone...not so bad i guess mosiah eating argentine cookie, he totally loves it

this is mosiah in nursery. he's favorite toy is the fone inside the house

2009-03-21T04:13:00.000-07:00

it's about 4:03 am

so the baby has woken me up at 2:30ish and now again at about 3:30ish so i'm going to stay awake a little longer so that i can maybe force my self back to sleep b/c i'm so tired....riiiiight.
reasons why i'm awake:
the baby is moving around a whole lot
i'm sooooo thirsty
i had a dream about my aunt, which seems to happen more these days, i hope she's ok and i wish i could talk to her *sigh shes so buzy whenever i've called she can never talk for more than a few mins. yesterday i was craving raindrops yes the ones that fall from the sky......sadly there was no raini have my easter dress! and i keep thinking that i should start wearing it already b/c i like it so much. must restrain myself from doing so! it's a dress from old navy. they have some pretty cute dresses for "spring" i think i'm going to go back and get one more that is all blue, its like a superman blue, which i guess is really called royal blue or whatever. I remember that i saw a prego lady in boone last year with a sorta simular dress and she looked sooooo pretty. doubt I will be able to pull it off very well but at least i'll pretend i am in my head.....thinking of how things sometimes don't really go whith what you think I bought some pants at Lane Bryant. they were only 6 bucks and i needed more pants that i could wear now that i'm prego BUT these pants i just don't know what i can wear them with!! they are black and have bright blue stripes thin stripes down them.....a plain sturst ...er shirt gooes ok but i just don't have some many of those.

I think i'm getting tired enough better go to bed now

2009-03-06T19:42:00.000-08:00

I FINALLY GOT A BATTERY FOR MY CAMERA!!!

pictures of prego belly and growing mosiah to follow......

2009-02-22T08:50:00.001-08:00

it's crazy to look at the trash and see it filled with tissues. How does the body come up with so much to have run out your nose??? sorry. that's a little discusting. It started out with mosiah being a little sick, fever, etc and now Sebi and I are holding in there. I think I might be doing worse than sebi...but maybe that's just me thinking that. Today I think would be a sacrament only kind of day if it wasn't for the fact that sebi has gospel principels to teach. I hope that he's lesson goes well i know that he understands it but i think it's difficult for him to teach it to a class kind of setting. Today I grab Mosiah and we went to look out the window and there was two ducks outside!! We've seen these ducks before at the pool swimming and given them a few crackers and things but today they were right outside our patio. I quickly grabbed some bread and went out side to feed them. Mosiah really loves it. I'm so proud of my little boy. He really is a good little boy. He tried to go and feed them himself and they ran away so we sat down and threw out some more bread and they came back. I love duck pairs. Did you know the same pair of ducks will spend thier entire lifes together? It's true! I think it's very sweet. Anyway...i better go and blow my nose...i'm having trouble breathing again. bleh

2009-02-04T13:05:00.000-08:00

I have 9 great ideas for a quiet book but I'm running into just a few creative blocks. So I start looking online, and while there are some good quiet books out there there isn't the ONE for me.....which is why i started the project in the first place.
Now I'm starting to re-think it all and second guess myself. It really isn't that hard to do and cutting the felt and sewing these "small" pieces together is a lot of fun. It's just that I'm re-thinking the whole thing and wondering if I can really do it and finding myself fusterated because of some tiny little road blocks.
That's really the biggest problem is that you need all these small parts for like one page of the book and it's REALLY really difficult to buy in tiny-isty-bitty quantaties. *sigh and while i'm trying to use scraps i have and get a little creative about it I just feel a little stuck. I know that when I'm done with it i'll be so proud because I've done it myself and it'll be just how i want it......hopefully.
Here are the list of the 9 pages and the idea for them
Make a face page ---- blank face with felt pieces for the eyes nose mouth ears, possibly even differant types of eyes noses and mouths (smiling sad big small etc)
Weave a Web ----- small black felt spider with string attached to page white pieces of felt for child to weave web over and under "creating a web"
Lace a Shoe ---- outline of a shoe, to strips of fabric with 4 eyelets to lace shoelace through
Catch a Fish ----- blue felt cut into shape of waves sewn on as a pocket, felt fish with magent inside to connect with "fishing pole" (stick, string and metal clasp)
Buckle the Collar ---- shape of dog cut out space for buckle to be sewn on
Match the Shapes ---- felt shapes velcro or snaps on back to match up with the page
Heres' where i'm running into problems (besides the other little problems with the pages I do have figured out)Zip up the Coat ---- jacket shape zipper........ Train? something with like button on the train Farm? fun foam animals inside "barn pocket"?
http://www.familysafemedia.com/quiet_book_-_quiet_activity_bo.html
http://www.makeandtakes.com/a-little-peace-and-quiet
http://fowlerfam.blogspot.com/2008/02/quiet-book.html

2009-01-04T07:45:00.000-08:00

This was our christmas. Here at our house we didn't have a lot of presents and I had to force Mosiah to open his gifts so we could take some pictures after this one we just opened it for him pretty much and then he saw the actual toy and wanted to play with the stuff

This is the sand kit we got him. I think he's really going to enjoy digging around when we go to the park with this

Sebi got a nice sweater from my brother's family

We got this pool toy for Mosiah but we didn't think that he'd love it this much! as soon as he saw it he huged the little duck head and gave it a kiss! lol

finally we got that present opened. I look more suprized than he does

Mosiah in the duck again. it's like a little nest for him. He also got that keyboard because he LOVES to press buttons so we thought we'd put it to good use and let him learn the piano ahahha

We went to my brother's house in UT. I don't have to tell you guys that it was cooolllldd outside. we planned to go sledding. although we bundled Mosiah up he fell asleep in the 2 min car ride to the hill we were going to sled on. You can see what he thinks of this "winter" get up.

Us Christmas day opening gifts with my brothers family

My little sister Zafir with her biggest fan Mosiah

This is Mosiah Christmas morning. Sleeping.

Well that was our holiday season. New Years we stayed home too and kept it really low key and went to bed after NY hit midnight. *yawn* I'm tired right now...maybe i should take a lesson from my son and go sleep a bit.

nite nite

2008-12-12T06:33:00.001-08:00

Yesterday we went to my mom's class. They were having a read-a-thon and she is always talking about Mosiah so she asked me to bring him. He had a good time running around the classroom. The kids were excited he was there too. I showed them that he knew how to give a high five and they loved that. I think he got a little confused when they raised thier hand for something b/c he tried to give them a high five then too.

2008-12-10T13:08:00.000-08:00

Someone recently reminded me of how much Mosiah has grown. Here's a funny little video from yesterday.

also i'm suppose to start packing up the house and i just don't have the will power to force myself to do it. *sigh. I know that it'll be better in the long run b/c then we will have an eazier move....it's just so annoying, since I just packed everything up 6 months ago. But hey, if it means saving 100 bucks in rent then yeah it's worth it.

2008-12-08T12:19:00.000-08:00

didn't get the house, loan grinches nuff said
desided to renew contract at apt complex
bought a VitaMix for aniversary, much smoothie making insues

find out Pica is pregnant
Pica feels sick most of the time, lots of soda drinking to curb nasusa
Sebi's sisters family comes to visit good time
Pica has sharp sharp pains in abdomin, ER visit....9 1/2 weeks along
Sebi gets laid off day before Thanksgiving (thankful we don't have a morgage to worry about)Thanksgiving, made the bestest mash potatos in VitaMix. Mom steals all the left overs of the potatos

apt complex going to charge much more to keep our 1 brm, SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper to move to a 2 brm
Mosiah gets a screaming complex, drives Pica mad.
Sebi and Pica are challanged by little sister to "go on a date" (we went and we had a WONDERFUL time playing pool)
Picaorganizes laundry area, and washes lots of clothes

Sebi goes to some interviews
Thursday play group from 10-12 much much better than Wednesday playgroup that is a hit and miss
Prep on Saturday for Sunday, clothes picked out, diper bag packed, showers done at night.
Went to battle of the ward choirs, 90% of the aduiance is in one of the 7 choirs (kinda funny at the end when they all go up to sing the Hallaluh chorus, very few people left sitting in the pews)
Pica realizes that everything must some how get packed, so they can move a few blgs over
Sebi starts his new job
Which acutally brings us to today. I guess there are some other things that I've missed but I guess that's what happens when you don't post for a long time.

2008-12-04T15:22:00.001-08:00

hahahah! i remembered my username and password! horray!!!

2008-08-13T15:09:00.000-07:00

BLEH! GRR! UGH! bllllleeehhh!
THERE WAS SUPPOSE TO BE A MOTHERS GROUP TODAY AND I MADE SEBI TAKE THE BUS AND I KEPT THE CAR AND I GOT ALL READY. AND MADE THE BABY TAKE AN EARLY NAP AND EVERYTHING IN MY DAY HAS BEEN LEADING UP TO THIS SO THAT I COULD GO TO THIS MOTHERS GROUP AND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I DRIVE ALL THE WAY TO THE CHURCH?

NO ONE IS THERE!!!!!!!
UGH!
I was really looking forward to this since it's almost like there aren't any kids around here for Mosiah to play with and it's always too hot out side to really go outside. soooo lame so lame

i hate arizona

2008-08-07T06:35:00.000-07:00

What a great idea!
http://www.persil.com/ThirtyThreeThings.aspx

i'm seriously thinking about printing some of them off so that i can have them in the future when i know that the kids will come to me saying that they are bored. I think the other great thing about this list is that it makes kids creative and use thier imagination which sadly is something i see less and less kids using (at least a few of the kids i know). I think it's fustrating to see children ages 5-11 only ever intrested in playing video games. What about books? What about going outside? What about exploring? Creating? I know a family with a dog and 4 kids....but they got another dog to play with the original dog because their kids just don't really go outside. They have all kinds of backyard space and backyard "toys" like a jungle gym swingset, giant trampoline but they don't ever go out there it seems. I don't know....I think families should do more camping than resorting.....or at least this family i'm thinking of should.

either way. this is a great list!

2008-08-06T07:36:00.001-07:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOSIAH!!! WE LOVE YOU!!

2008-08-04T09:21:00.001-07:00

These are the pictures that Sebi drew for me so that Mosiah could have a Peter Rabbit themed party. Didn't he do an awesome job?!?!?!I love them. And thanks to him my little idea for a theme is actually going to work out....I think. I'm going to try and make a Peter Rabbit for the cake too. Oh! and the cutest part about all of this is that as soon as Mosiah saw the rabbit picture he tried to hug it and he was all excited about it. :) awwww.Sebi really is the bestest. Thank you Amor *besito*

this is just a pic of Mosiah today....awwww he just woke up. little does he know that his birthday is right around the corner!

2008-07-31T10:06:00.000-07:00

UGH! i'm running out of ideas to do for Mosiah's 1st birthday. i want to do something thats totally him and that would be cute. I thought of a Peter Rabbit themed kind of thing (we could play hop scotch, and pin the tail on the bunny etc...) but since i dont think i can pull off a real looking Peter Rabbit cake. I don't want to do jungle b/c that is a little over done. I thought maybe I'll just have a regular ol' bir'day...with out a theme at all except that he is turning 1. I don't know.I feel like all the things i've been thinking of aren't original enough or something. :P *phooie.

2008-07-18T10:39:00.000-07:00

Arizona

Arizona has been hot hot hot. right now we have our A/C running day and night. We are waiting for the first bill to see how much we'll have to cut back. Really it's not too bad as long as you don't go out in the blazing heat. Thankfully Mosiah doesn't mind staying inside and actually!! I have some news! He's walking! wow!! horray! it's so wonderful to see him get around on his own. He does pretty good turning and just yesterday learned how to clap!

Besides the heat and the baby...Sebi seems to like the new job. and I think it will work out really well for us...the only problem is once we sell our second car I'll have no way of leaving the house except for the bus. *sigh. Well, for now it's fine. My mom is on vacation and she can drive me around. Sebi also said he might look into riding the bus to work which would be nice too.

Oh! and we had a HUGE rain storm the other day here! here are a couple pics

2008-05-19T08:47:00.000-07:00

Ah the merry merry month of May. Well, actually its almost over and then we'll be moving. Ack! I sure hope those boxes get delivered today so i can start packing.

Baby is sleeping. Which is good because man! oh man is he cranky when he hasn't slept!

Today my goals are to get the house in a some what liveable order. Or at least get all the clothes picked up. Maybe even put away (that right there will help a lot with the house at least looking picked up)

2007-11-02T14:15:00.001-07:00

oh! posting is so fun do to to do to do to do

2006-06-04T08:59:00.000-07:00

Just wanted everyone to know that if you know anybody that is wanting to open a new salon, purchase salon equipment, or even get their salon design, they should go here for salon equipment.

2006-02-28T18:15:00.000-08:00

hi-diddalee-he a pierates life for me!

for Valentines Day my husband got me ......
an annual pass to DisneyLand!
what a great guy. i'm sure glad i married him!
...now what to make for dinner???

2005-11-22T17:36:00.000-08:00

sorry if you can't load all of those pictures...try going to our web-site.
It has all of them and more too :)

2005-11-22T17:18:00.000-08:00

i'm married.

it's still wierd to think about and even to say. and it's only been a week. I already told my husband (lol) that it will probably not be till next month that it's real to me. See, we've been dating for so long that we know just about everything there is to one another, yes there has been some new ground but i think the weirdest part is that i don't have to send Sebi home anymore, there's no more figureing out who's going to drive to who's house etc.
The wedding was beautiful. Small. very small i think there were probably more empty chairs in the sealing room than filled chairs... :S and it didn't help that they were all lined up against the wall oh well it was still wonderful. The temple really is the best place to get married. something totally unexpected to me (that i can share outside the temple) is that there was this "you may now kiss the bride" moment! lol i think we were both so nervous and excited that most of everything just seemed like a blur.
Our reception was a blast. I started to worry when i got there and almost put myself into a bad mood when i said "hey, you know what? this is MY party for me to E N J O Y and so i am going to" like i said it was a blast. I hope everyone had as much fun as i did. to my suprize not only did i get my dad to be there too but he brought a CAKE! it was GORGOUS too. and even more amazing is that he brought it on the grayhound bus and made it in the Motel 6 in the morning of my wedding day.
So then we went off to our honeymoon...wait..sorry i have to tell you the 2 most awesome things about the wedding (besides cake). 1st--is that instead of throwing a bouquet and only ONE girl getting flowers, i had ribbons with "wedding type" charms stuck into the top of my cake and ALL the single girls got to pull one ribbon out, who ever got the ring was the next to get married. and everyone else got something too even if it wasn't the ring. 2nd--we had roses stuck to ferns....neat effect but they were kinda dieing, we didn't have bubbles or rice or anything for people to throw at us so i asked my wonderful RS Sisters/Bridesmaids to pass out the roses and tell people to throw the petals at us as we left it was A W E S O M E because those flowers were actually used for something and they would have died anyway! ok!
So then we went off to our honeymoon down in Anahiem we were so tired i don't even remember what the room looked like...except that i think i did watch Saturday Morning Cartoons the next morning. and then we went to Disneyland (ofcourse!) we left a little early because we were still quite tired. after that we came home to our appartment and opened all our gifts. Church on Sunday and then off to our "real honeymoon" in Vegas that Sebi's boss had paid for as our wedding present! we stayed directly across the street from the Belaigio and had a PERFECT window to see the fountain going off every 15 or so minutes. That fountain really is AWESOME and if we were really really quite we could even hear the music :)
OH! and our room had a huge suite style bathroom with the biggest tub i've ever had the chance to bathe in. We went to eat at a super upscale restraunt (sebi picked it out) in the Luxor and had valet service i felt like a QUEEN. THIS THE THE TABLE WE SAT AT the next night we went and did the rides at the Hilton that are all StarTrek. if you like StarTrek and have EVER thought ....it would be so cool to be on the bridge i was SOOOO TOTALLY THERE!! it's cool! seriously and we had a ton of fun! we even got asimulated by the Borg! and then we went to eat at the "Galaxy Diner" place and Sebi got the flaming ribs of targ! they were delishes! I even met a clegnon, probably Warf's sister! Our seat at the reasturant there was right under these giant models of the Enterprize!

now were back home and sorry i don't have ANY pictures of our honeymoon :( oh well i guess we'll just have to go back and do it all over again!!!

2005-10-27T21:45:00.000-07:00

This is my first post. I'm a little nervous! :) hehe just kidding.
I'm so excited because my announcements are finally done!!! HORRAY! ....now if only i had everyone's i know addresses :S oh dear.....