As if painting them red wasn't adorable enough, add a little Heather Bailey fabric and some clear vinyl to keep it lookin' pretty and VOILA!!

Cute right?! Well I just wasn't satisfied yet,

Hey, next time I tell someone I'll babysit their kids 10 hrs a day for a week and a half....

remind me about this week. Thanks.

Love ya!

How do you like my face lift?
Anything annoying?
Too colorful?
Can you tell I'm ready for Spring, sunshine and bright happy sun dresses?

Let me know...

I'll be off buying massive amounts of spray paint to finish that Red Chair project I talked about forever ago. (Oh just you wait until these beaut's are done! You'll drool... I promise.)

I think officially I'm supposed to be waiting til tomorrow to put this out there, but I just can't!
I'm so dang excited, and Hillary already spilled the beans anyway! :o)You've heard me talk about the Quilt Shop some of Jake's fam started before, but lot's of new things are happening...

#1 Their website is launched! It's awesome and you have to check it out... right now!

#2 They offer Daily Deals that will blow your mind... Serious savings, not even joking!

#3 There's a forum too!

#4 Shipping is ALWAYS $5... No matter what.

AND....

#5 I get the privilege of blogging about my projects and favorite things now and then over at their BLOG! (Thanks guys... seriously)

So, if you can't get enough of me here, you can cruise over there and check us all out!

Hey baby girl. You're 8 months old today.

I promise to write about all the fun stuff you do later today! But right now we have places to go! We're gonna go visit Daddy at work and go to the Quilt Shop! Hooray! I love you!

Mom

Okay I totally meant to blog about this on Monday, since it was President's day and all, but I forgot... so you get it now. Check out this blog, it rocks.

POST TO THE PRESIDENT

It is open to everyone, liberal, conservative, independent, happy, angry, you name it... just jot yourself a little letter to Pres. Obama and e-mail it in and it will be posted to the blog. The idea is that if enough people voice their opinions in one place it could actually get noticed. (Since e-mailing your congressman and senators seem to do no good.... ahem) Pass it on, it's a great idea.

Hey babe.

I found your other work hoody. Guess where it was!?!

The DRYER.

Go figure right?! How'd it get in there?!

Love you!!

Misty

Hey all! Hope you had the most wonderful Love-Day Weekend. Ours was a blast.

First of all, on Friday, I got beautiful roses and yummy chocolates delivered to my door! Gotta love that hub! That night we actually went out sans the littles. (I KNOW, right!?) By paying my little brother to babysit for us, we then got to participate in more love being spread, because he could then afford to buy something for his girlfriend. See how we roll!? We at yummy dinner. Splurged on yummy dessert and then we saw Taken. We were very glad we opted for that rather than some mushy love story.

Saturday morning, since it was officially V-Day... I made Jacob watch the kids while I went up to the Quilt Shop for a class. Got home, spent the rest of the day sitting at home watching movies, snuggling kids, and eating tacos. Good times.

Now thanks to my OTHER brother, we're all sick. Me and Jake not as much as the tots, just a little cough/throat thing. Seriously, I hate cold/flu season. Ashelyn was miserable yesterday and cried pretty much all day. Last night she was up feeling horrible every 3 hours. Things seem to be looking up today. It's still obvious she doesn't feel great, but at least she's napping and taking her bottle regularly. Gideon has a wicked cough and permanent case of rosy cheeks but he's still happy.

I'm off to diaper duty and bottle making!

It's that time again!!! So here you have it:

-Tax returns. Thank. You.

-Partylite candles... thank you for eliminating the stench that was created by 3 blowouts in the middle of the night. (That's 2 for Ashe, 1 for Gid if you're keeping score.) I kid you not.

-The hub, and not just because he brings home the bacon. He's recently been on this thing about being a better husband. At first I thought he just wanted something, haha, but I think he's for real. He's been so much fun and SO much help this past week. Thanks babe, it means a lot.

-Classical music. Why do I forget how much better you are than Regis & Kelly!?!?

-Macaroni & Cheese. Because when I don't feel like cooking... at least the hub can make SOMETHING!

-This new budget we're on.... I admit, it works pretty fantastic. And I was mucho skeptical.

My house is clean.
My laundry is washed AND folded.
My dishes are done.
The vacuum was ran.
The kids are napping.
The tv has been off all day.
Classical music has been blaring.

AND most importantly...

I made it through Week 1 of...
Operation: Budgets are Dream Crushers

Without spending a single dime of the "Misty's Random Crap" fund that the Hub started to help me realize how much random crap I do indeed buy... isn't he the sweetest?

Week 2 starts today.
I'm feeling good....

I need this dress. But I'm a cheap-o so it's out of my price range. (And it's even on sale!) If any of you are feeling really generous just send this my way. Find it here.

How about you stick around today?
It's a pretty view out my window and you're not spoiling my plans...
I have to be inside anyway.

Think there's time for me to make these??? I think yes, considering it looks like it will take all of 3.5 seconds. Tutorial HERE via here.

Here's the other guy in my life.

It got up to 70 yesterday! So of course we played outside for hours. Thor just follows Gideon around. It's so cute.

It's just as nice today, so I think we'll head to the park!

Forgot to mention that our water heater went nuts and flooded our basement Sunday just hours after getting back from the Hospital.

Ya.
Fun.

Thanks Hill for the reminder. :o)

Okay, Okay... I'm back.

I don't think you're ready for this jelly....

ANYWAYS.... Here's how our weekend went.

Friday night: Driveway Skate Fest featuring virtually every skateboarder from our little town.

Saturday: A beautiful 63 degrees.... Hours at the skatepark.

Sunday: 1 am. Jake wakes up with a shooting pain in his left side. Me, being the jerk that I am says, "Your appendix is on the right, you probably pulled something skating. You'll be fine." and I go back to bed. 2:30 am he wakes me back up, "I think I'm dying." he says. So, I commence calling my bros trying to wake them up to come crash on my couch so we don't have to wake the littles and so we can drive to the ER. (Haven't we done this too much already this year??? Seriously, it's barely February!) So finally at 4 am Zach shows up... we drive to the ER. They pump Jake full of pain meds. Seriously, 3 different ones all at once. So he starts feeling pretty good after that, if you know what I mean. He says, "Man, I can't believe I made you drive me... I feel fine, nothings wrong." To which I say, "You're pumped full of drugs hows-about we wait for the results of your cat scan"... So we wait... and wait... And finally, come to find out Jake has kidney stones. Nasty business. We go home and he wallers around on the couch feeling miserable from that point until yesterday afternoon.

He's back to work today. And let me just say... Thank you!! Really, I'm just glad he's feeling better because it's not fun when the Hub is feeling crappy. But, I probably would have had to punch him in the eye if he tried to tell me we needed to use his time home to "get stuff done" another time. I kindly explained to him that I have a hard enough time getting stuff done with just my two kids to tend to 24 hours a day let alone a drugged out Hub.

Good times.

I'm going on vacation. (I wish.)