don't tell mom I'm drinking coke

My cousin's daughter kacie is in town for the week and wanted to take all the kids in the family bowling it was fun they got to drink sodas and eat pizza and licorice. We would set the ball in front of the lane for Ashlynn to roll down but she thought kicking it would be more fun it didn't get very far they had to go down the lane and rescue the stranding ball. Holden did a pretty good job he even got quite a few spares. Ashlynn didn't last very long she was over it after 2 frames so Holden got to bowl for her so she got a pretty good score too. In the last frame she finally let Kacie help her and right after they rolled the bowl she laid down on her stomach with her head in her arms up on elbows kicking her feet back and forth watching the ball it was the cutest sight but of course I didn't have the camera out. Holden was so excited to get to drink soda just like all the other kids and somehow talked me into letting him get candy from the vending machines I told myself it was ok since it was a party and it's ok to do that every once in a while.

No more fluffy bums

After 20 months of washing diapers every other night I am so excited that I wont be washing anymore for a very long time. Making the choice to use cloth diapers was easy for me and I never minding washing them because I knew the benefits far outweighed the inconvenience, but boy am I excited to not be doing it anymore. We said goodbye to diapers and packed them in a box to send to another baby who needs them because my little girl is now a big girl and wears panties all day and all night and as of last week goes all by herself without even telling me. Last week I did catch her faking that she went potty to get a gummy bear, so funny. The best part is when she puts her underwear on backwards and pulls them up real high so both her cheeks are hanging out and wants to leave them that way, I should take a picture but I feel that it might be considered cruel when she's older. Of course I won't miss all the times she peed on my couch or the floor while learning or toilet paper unrolled just for fun or cringing every time I gave her a piece of candy really not wanting to but that was what worked for her so I did it, a little bit sad she is growing too fast but most of all love watching her becoming this little person and see all the fun things her life brings into ours. so here she is unfluffdified
p.s. you are very welcome my darling husband that you don't get to enjoy all the funness that comes with potty learning. Although you did get waken up in the middle of the night by being peed on I'm sure you'll never forget it.

If I had only know

If I had only know sooner that all I had to do to get something is to write it in my blog my life would be so much easier.

To my surprise and maybe a few pouty looks and a couple of hugs my sweet amazing thought full all around awesome hubby bought me the blendtec blender. It is amazing and everything I thought it would be and so much more, I made Delicious fresh organic fruit smoothies for breakfast and everybody loved them and had their two servings of fresh fruit in before they were even dressed. oh I'm so excited!!!!!!!



So since all I have to do is write it down to get what I want here is my short list universe



-an extra $125 every month so that I can sign Holden up for Tae Kwon Do

-a miter saw

-the ability to tan

-a nice comfy swing in the back yard

-a swamp cooler

-a second ice maker (to keep up with our new smoothie habit)

-real bedroom furniture

the list could go on on but I don't want to push my luck so I'll just start with these 7

you will be mine oh yes you will be mine (someday)

Seriously this is the most amazing blender in the world it can grind wheat, it can juice without extracting all the nutritious parts of the fruits and vegetables it can make soup and frozen lemonade drinks or virgin margaritas or the real kind. it is everything I need in my kitchen and my life right now but the problem is that is costs $500 but there's hope Costco is selling them right now for $375 with an extra 4 year warranty on top of the company's 3 year how can I pass this up oh wait that's right my blendtec blender budget/savings jar doesn't exist.

only half enjoyable

My brother Doug lives in Arizona and my brother Zach is in another country being a marine or at least that's his story, so when zach took leave to hang out with Doug and his family we crashed the party. We were all having a great time and even got the spend the day on the lake in a real boat something I've never done before, and why you might ask have I never done this before partly because it's way too expensive and mostly because I am terrified of large bodies of water. I know right how can I grow up in southern California and not love the ocean, well I love the ocean just not being in it or lakes or rivers or basically anything that I can drowned in. However I am very easily pressured so I went on the boat and tried to put on a happy face just so my kids and their cousins wouldn't thing I'm lame. My niece and nephew had a blast on the tube, they loved it they were the first ones to go out and they went the most times so I figured if a 7 and a 5 year old weren't scared how can I be so I did it for exactly 2 and a half minuets before I gave the thumbs down, but the important thing to remember here is that I did it.

look how much fun they are having I guess I better at least try it
nope they were wrong not fun at all

this is me almost in tears because I realized that my fate was in the hands of the three men controlling the boat and tube that were staring at me laughing and that one of these men was my husband who probably would have left me out there longer claiming I was having fun and just didn't know it at the time, another who tortured me growing up having fun just making me among other siblings cry and one who still hasn't gotten back at me for putting makeup on him when we were kids, I was terrified!
Luckily they pulled me back in and didn't make fun of me too much.

I still had fun though, watching everyone else have fun.

I feel so grown up now

I have a sexy husband

we have a couple of cute kids

I have the family sized suv for the above mentioned kids and husband to fit in

I have a dishwasher


and now I have officialy been on a boat for water sport activities

see I'm all grown up..

Everything I ever imagined my grown up life to be is finally in my grasp and boy have I been waiting for it. It was probably silly of me to have such expectations right when we got married but I foolishly did and most of the time felt disappointed, finally I realized those were goals that would come in time and it would be just way too unfair for the rest of the world if I had everything I wanted right now. Finally these things that I thought would make me feel like a grown up come, and then while we were having a little vacation with my brother and his family in Arizona while I was sitting on a boat watching everyone else have fun (I'll tell you why I was watching instead of enjoying later) it hit me " I'm sitting on a boat with my own little family just like real adults and holy crap I'm all grown up now I am an Adult"

I like to hug trees

One of the main things I've been working on for the past few years is living a more natural and healthy life style or as Billy likes to call me a tree hugger.

There are lots of things we do as a family do be more environmentally friendly and over all healthier but the one new thing we get to take advantage of now is beautiful fresh local organic produce thanks to abundant harvest organics we get a nice box of goodies delivered right up the street from us (we literally walk up the street to the delivery location) this is the first box we got and I'm so excited, this week we got peaches, nectarines, plums, tomatoes, lettuce, fava beans, turnips, onions, potatoes, chamomile, kale, summer squash, carrots, and another type of lettuce. They even have add-ons you can order too I can't wait to try their wheat, oatmeal and gorgeous beans.

now I just need to figure out what you do with fava bean and turnips.

step 1. buy organic -check

step 2. make everything home made from scratch- half check

step 3. never eat fast food again- work in progress.