Vacationing-well some of us

Carson, Halli, and I are in Utah getting ready for my sister Lindsey's wedding. We came out a week before Ryan so I could be here for her shower, and help my mom with everything. We miss Ryan SOOO much, and he is miserable without us, but we have been enjoying our time here (sorry babe). Carson and Halli of course love all the attention, and I love relaxing a bit. It is nice to not have to worry about cleaning my house all day everyday. We have all been enjoying the warm weather here and have spent a lot of time outside. We went on a family walk last night, and I remembered how much I enjoy walks. I haven't gone on many for months cause it has been so cold and windy in Kansas. I think I'll start walking each morning again. I know the kids and I really enjoyed that last summer. We've also been enjoying haning out on the deck-here are a couple photos.I've been reading a lot since I've been here so I've love that. I'm still going strong with all my New Year's resolutions so I'm feeling pretty good about myself for sticking with everything. One of those goals was to read 1 book each month. This month I've read 3 so far-the first 3 books of the Percy Jackson series. I have enjoyed them. I know they are kinda kiddy books, but it's been fun to read some easy going and interesting books.
My mom and I are going to be making my sister's wedding cake for her (the big day is Friday!). We decided to practice today, and this is what we created. I'm counting it for the AC project this week. I've never done a fondant cake before, and it was fun to work with it. It is definitely something I enjoyed. I'm totally making a fondant cake for the next birthday...I guess that means Halli's. Ohhhh I have to start thinking of some fun designs to do for it! I hope it tastes good. I guess we'll find out tonight after FHE.

Sweet Memories

I was folding my laundry tonight while listening to the radio when a song came on. It brought back so many memories, and many fun times. I'm sure this happens to everyone-memories from songs. So, I just thought I'd post some songs that always trigger certain memories for me (most from high school).

Shoop - Salt-N-Pepa

Something like that - Tim McGraw

No, No, No Part 2 - Destiny's Child (This one's you Heather!)

Kiss Me - Sixpence Non the Richer

Truly, Madly, Deeply - Savage Garden (Reminds me of when my dad and I drove a homeless lady to Georgia...funny story)

You Got It Bad - Usher

Who's Bed Have your Boots Been Under - Shania Twain

Raise Up - Petey Pablo

Lime in the Coconut

Diane - Guster

I could list probably 100 songs or more than bring specific memories, but these are some just off the top of my head. I love the laughs I get from all these songs! Does anybody have any songs that make them think of me when they hear it?

A different kind of project

Ok so this week I'm taking on a new kind of AC project (just for one week!). Instead of attempting creativity this week, I'm going to be attempting cleanliness. My house is pretty clean most of the time. Everything that is except the basement. We don't go down there much, and especially since it is a disaster. So this week it is me VS. the basement. I hope I come out on top, but with them mess down there I just don't know. Here is what I have to tackle.

I cleaned the food storage room on Friday, and it only took me 2 hours! Basically everything that is in my craft room was in the food room (due to the leakage issue back in January...I never moved everything back to its place.). Here is the finished project though...ahhhh much better! I can actually walk into and around the room instead of tiptoeing over my scrapbook stuff.We had a fun Easter holiday this year. I kids really enjoyed dying the eggs, finding the eggs, and eating the eggs (the goodies inside the eggs that is, they didn't really like the hard boiled eggs). Here they are in action.

Look at this little miss sass!!!

This was at the city Easter Egg Hunt yesterday...more like an egg dash. It was hilarious to watch all the kids scrambling!

Last item on my list of things to blog about-my projects from the month of March. I'm such a slacker at posting. It just takes so much time with our computer being retarded loading photos. Don't even ask me how long it took me to get all these photos uploaded. Maybe I'll get faster at our "new" method of getting photos on here, then it won't be such a huge task. Anyways...here they are. First are the scrapbook pages AC#11. Then I finished another head wrap. I gave the first one I made to my sister Aubry, then I wanted one for myself so I had to do another one. I did the flower on them both too (the photo of the other wrap didn't show the cute flower). I had a friend come over and talk me through the crochet lingo to figure out what the flower pattern says, and it wasn't as hard as I thought! Anyways-headwrap #12I made some Thank You cards for project #13

And this week I tried something I have wanted to do for a couple years and did some egg blowing to decorate some eggs for Easter. It took me a couple eggs to figure out the right force to use when getting the egg out, but I got the hang of it and got to work. Here they are #14.

Yes, they had dirt in every crevice

The kids and I have been having such a great time outside for the past week. The weather has been warmer-today was 84! We've been working on getting our flower bed in, and the kids have enjoyed playing in the dirt. We are grateful to our neighbor for providing the free dirt so we don't have to spend $300 to get some! I'm excited to have some life out in front of our house!

I forgot to post on the book I read this month. It was The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks. I loved it! I am trying to not only read a book a month, but also a try reading different kids of books. I really want to read some of Mr. Sparks' other books, but I'll have to do those along with other books I read each month. I would definitely recommend the book. I was crying alone in my room when I finished the book. Ryan would have been laughing at me if he'd been there so I'm glad he was at work!

I will soon be doing a post on all my AC projects. Maybe tomorrow. I spent all day today cleaning. This is the first time I have sat down to be on the computer today. I want to finish one of my projects tonight, but I just had to made a quick post.

My brother-in-law, Aubry's husband is flying in to Wichita tonight. He is interviewing for an intership tomorrow, and we are really hoping he gets the job! We want Michael and Aubry here for the summer SOOOOOOOO bad!!! We're excited to have Michael come spend the night here for one night before his big interview. We wish him luck!

These are a few of my favorite things

I was sitting in my rock garden today digging out rocks and started thinking about when I was a child. I used to collect rocks, and a lot of other things. I thought it would be interesting to find out what other people collected when they were children, or things you collect now. Here is what I remember gathering and keeping as a child.

• Rocks (I thought it was especially cool if I found one of those white "sparkly" rocks...the same kid I've been digging out of the flower bed.)
• Treasure Trolls
• Precious moments figurines
• Stickers
• Pencils
• Key Chains
• Postcards
• letters (as in I kept EVERY letter anyone wrote me)
• Stuffed Animals

I think that's about it. I sure was a pack rat!!! So tell me, what did you collect?

Sisterhood Of The Traveling Perms

Thought this was funny... i'm sure it brings a lot of memories back for Tiffani. Ha!

Sisterhood Of The Traveling Perms

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R-Kansas Race

Ok so people here in Kansas (or maybe it is just a Wichita thing) pronounce the state Arkansas like R-Kansas. Weird huh? Last weekend I took a trip down with two good friends to run my second half marathon. This race was tougher than the last one! The course was a lot hillier (is that a word?) than what I had been training on. I figured it would be pretty flat like Kansas, but it wasn't. The last mile was this hill that was monstrous. I didn't like it, but I did it...and I even ran it. I didn't give up, so I was pretty happy about that. I did take 15 minutes off my previous time so I was really pleased with how I did. I know I'm not a fast runner, but I figure if I keep improving maybe I will be fast someday. Here are some fun photos from the weekend....just want to say thanks again to Kristen and Mary Ann for the great time! Can't wait to do it again.

Mary Ann And I before the 13 mile run...it was cold

Kristen and I before the race

running

finishing, and really exhausted

Notice Kristen is WAY faster than I am. I think she finished 20 minutes before I did!