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.

half a year down and almost all my goals

A review from my previous post from new years

http://dasslerfamily.blogspot.com/2010/01/2010-is-going-to-be-amazing-with.html

1. Germany was Amazing

2. Love our new home

3. not exactly a 4 runner but an even better new to me Durango which is indeed amazing in every way especially my seat heaters

4.oh how I love that it only takes 6 step to bring groceries in

5. a dishwasher, I can't explain in words how much my dishwasher has improved my life and still can't believe I hand washed for 8 long years

6. I still need to make a sign that says NO KIDS ALOUD and probably replace the door with one of those half door type things so they can see me they just can't come in or maybe a 3/4 door so they cant climb over it either. but oh how my family has enjoyed all the amazing things I can make now in half the time since I can leave them out and come back to it after little one's bed times

7. sadly my seeds blew away and we didn't have enough time from settling in to prepare the garden this year but next year for sure

8.learning how to make new things every week from scratch, so far the kids favorite is home made yogurt now I just need to perfect my granola techniques to pair them together and my next adventure will be home made bread from freshly ground organic wheat as soon as I can get my hands on a wheat grinder

9.Haven't made much improvement on the hot body department still working on that one probably will be well into next year too.

10.still working on Aslynn learning how to use the potty hopefully this summer will be the perfect time for her to decide how awesome it is

11.our conversations usually go something like "why did you just hit your brother?"

"because" while shrugging her shoulders and looking so sweet and Innocent

or "I don't want to" to pretty much anything I ask her to do

12.now that we have the piano I just need to learn how to play

13.I've given up on my children sitting still and quietly some kids do and some kids don't so far mine don't

14.love love love telling the kids to go play outback

15.fireplaces looks great still looking forward to actually using them it will be amazing to hang Christmas stocking by the actual fire this year

16.happily combing hair and tying bows

17.to my surprise Billy has been to church with us every single Sunday except one that he had to work, and actually enjoys it

18.Family time was great while we had but now that Billy is back in school we don't get to enjoy it very often (only two more years of single parenting)

19.still working on the homemaking goal although I have improved quit a bit on the housekeeping front my home is now clean the majority of the time

20. Now I'm all clean that I have a normal size bathtub

so the next 6months to do list is to work on having a hot body, learn to play the piano, do the dishes every day, preparing the garden for next spring, and helping Ashlynn find her love of wearing underwear and not peeing in them

Spring has brought us a very nice surprise

We have a hummingbird's nest

it picked a terrible spot for it's nest right in our front walkway

but we can see it so well with it being right in front of us

one of the eggs hatched today it is so amazing how small it is I've never seen a humming bird's nest or baby hummingbirds. I can't believe one of natures most beautiful things is right out our front door.