Shutterfly

So you may or may not have seen this offer...

Shutterfly will give you 50 free holiday cards if you go HERE fill out there form and blog about your favorite products!!

So here are a couple of my choices...

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I love the fun colors that they have. I am all about the reds and greens for Christmas but throw in a fun pink and little blue and the just pop! I looked at every card sample they have and let me tell you there are a ton that I wanted to pick but I only have a limited time to blog tonight! But you can go check out what they have for Holiday Cards or here for Christmas Cards. Good luck picking just one!

I thought that these would make a great gift for the great grandparents! I am so bad about sending pictures regularly to them, but this way they could see a whole year of photos at once! They have some seriously cute designs too! I am tell you these Shutterfly people make choosing super hard!!

I have used Shutterfly once before with basic picture printing and they turned out great! I can't wait to see how our Holiday cards turn out!! Now if I can pick just one card! I may need some help with my choosing so come back in a few days and I will have a few for you to pick from!!

For now I am off to bed!!

An upgrade....

C and I have been married almost 7 years and he is allowing me to upgrade my ring to what I want... so here are 2 of the rings I like with the band I want I just need you to help me pick...

This is the wedding band

Choice 1

Choice 2

How I spent my Sunday......

I will start by saying I am terribly sorry that I haven't blogged in a while. It seems that we have been so busy but I can't remember one thing that we have done!

My second apology is that I am about to vent and it isn't going to be pretty. I am sorry for the anger that is coming with the post.

I am going to take you back in time to July 2008.... under circumstances that I now know weren't as dyer as someone told us they were.... We bought our first home... It was too small and needed A LOT of work... We purchased the home and 2.28 acres we got a great price for it but at the time we didn't have to sticks to rub together but we jumped in with both feet and it was MISERABLE! 2 months after we signed papers C and I hit a mountain in our marriage and separated for a time. So here I was with a house that I HATED and I was a single mother who was working full time and explaining to a 3 year old why Daddy no longer lived with us.. It was hard..... The house is 2 bedroom 1 bathroom around 1000 square feet..... It has hardwoods through the whole house except in the kitchen and bathroom.... It had some NASTY linoleum it was awful...... the people who lived there before us I have decided were not human it was awful... They had a caged animal of some kind in the living room and the cage was sitting directly on the hardwood floor... I scrubbed and scrubbed and scrubbed to get it cleaned... we eventually put the TV cabinet of the top of that stop so that we wouldn't see it or have to walk on it.... NOT to mention they were smokers so the whole house stunk... anyway C and I worked over our mountain and he moved home.. we worked very hard to fix the stuff that needed to be fixed that were in our budget... we painted all the rooms... C's parents gave us the gift of central heat and air ( which was like winning the lottery because we heated with wood and had a window unit) ( oh did I mention my child has asthma so heating with wood is a nightmare we had croup every time we turned around ) We still had a ton of work that needed to be done but we worked on one thing at a time it was hard work but next we completely gutted the bathroom and did a total remodel.. We lived with my in laws for a week since we only had one bathroom and it was literally in pieces we had to go some place else... After finishing that we figured that we could do anything.... Some of the things on our list to do were put on a new metal roof and to replace ALL the windows with ones that didn't let all the bought air out! : )..... Most of all this happened of a years time..... I will now take you to February 2010 my maternal grandmother who lived in Omaha Nebraska had heart surgery and wasn't doing well.. My mom in no uncertain terms told Grandma she would be moving to Arkansas so that we could take care of her... Our house wasn't in the school district we wanted to C and I talked about it and decided that we would rent a house in our desired school district and my Grandma could rent our house from us it's about 2 miles from my parents so it was perfect for her given that it's just her and her live in boyfriend and their 2 cats a 2 bedroom house is perfect... So C and I start hunting for a house to rent... we search and search and search to the point where I almost gave up and figured that it wasn't going to happen... then my aunt called me one day and said that her boss and his wife have a house in ODSD ( our desired school district ) that they wanted to sell but since the market wasn't great they wanted to rent.... It turned out to be the best thing that could have happened.. We have GREAT landlords!!! Anyway... We schedule our move for June and my Grandma's for July... We moved in our new home the last weekend of June it's great we love it... 2 weeks later we all pack up and drive 8 hours to Omaha to pack my Grandma and move her down south... I say pack because as of that Friday she hadn't packed anything and she knew we were coming for 6 weeks! It was the worst experience of my life it was 100 degrees and they had NO AC in their house... We do a marathon packing job and get them loaded up and that Sunday we headed south.. Now let me say I had told my Grandma this was an old house and it was a work in progress she would have to be patient with us on things getting done I showed her pictures of the inside of the house and she was excited... They get done here and her " boyfriend" decides that he hates it and they we are robbing them of the money we were asking for in rent... We are only asking for the monthly payment not one cent more... He said that I told them it was a new home and that the only reason we wanted to move was because of ODSD... Totally not true anyway to make a even longer story a little shorter my parents agreed to put a new roof on the house.... well it rained and my dad was out of town for a couple of weekends so the roof getting put on wasn't happening quickly ( things never happen on a schedule around our house ) well apparently boyfriend decided that he was going to have words with my dad about the situation and it turned into a disaster.... Skip ahead to this past Tuesday by dad went by the house on his way to feed cows and there is a U-Haul in the yard and they are packing their things into it... Here is the part that makes me angry... I still haven't heard a word from them.. They took all the keys and the payment books and left... They didn't bother to even call my mom or aunt to let them know they were moving... So now not only do we have to make our rent payment but we now have to make our house payment with out having that income to even it out! If they didn't want to live there they could have just said we are moving at least I could have had the time to look for a new renter.. Anyway today C and I took J to his Mimi's and went over and cleaned and helped my dad put the new roof on.. I did nothing to help with the roof I am scared of heights but I did fetch tools or screws whatever they needed while on the roof... It looks so good but I am still without renters and the 15th is fast approaching so please pray that something happens quickly...

Sorry to make you read all this nonsense but I feel a little better getting all that off my chest!!

TV Shows I just DON'T understand

These shows I just don't understand..... I Can't stop watching them

 Billy the Exterminator

Seriously??? This show just kills me! How can you NOT know???

This is J's current favorite show! He and C would sit and watch this all day long!

What shows make you go.... WHAT SERIOUSLY???

Kindergarten

Well today was the big day!

Dressed and ready for school

His backpack

A closer picture of his backpack

Got his lunch and he is ready to go!!

The hallway!

His cubby

His spot at his table

I love this boy!

I hope he is having a great time! 

Tomorrow.....

Well tomorrow is the big day.... J starts Kindergarten..... and this momma is a little anxious.... at this point I should probably take medication for it! I know that J has been in preschool the last 2 years but this is different. As his teacher put it last night, they are no longer babies they officially children.. I am not ready for J not to be a baby.... He is the only baby I have... and there isn't another on insight so I have to cherish every moment... So at 5 years 6 months 2 weeks and 3 days old I am sending him off to be a child..( yea I know it's weird that I know exactly how old he is, I have a ticker on my FB page that tells me this information) We have packed his backpack with all his supplies, went to Wal-Mart and bought lunch goodies and snacks... Right now we are sitting outside enjoying the breeze waiting for time to take a bath and get our pj's on so we can sleep and get ready for tomorrow... I decided that I needed to take a vacation day on the first day of school because I will more than likely be a blubbering idiot in the morning... So my plan for the day is to get my stuff ready for the Rhea Lana's consignment sale while my baby boy is off learning with his new class mates... So for now I am off to watch him jump a little more! 

Tomorrow get ready for pictures of his Kindergarten adventure!

It's a......

Well my BIL and his wife found out today that they are having a GIRL! I already have 2 nieces so I have experience with sweet baby girls! 

I can't wait to meet Brielee Addison in December!!

Other than that exciting news I got nothing........

Birthday Weekend!

It was H's 18th birthday yesterday so we all got together at my parents house and have some yummy hamburgers and hot dogs with potato salad and baked beans followed by this!

K and I decorated the cake! We dug in the cabinet and found every holiday sprinkle that my mom had and put it on the cake! It was so yummy and fun!! : )

J and M1 swam a while

M2 took a little rest!

M1 showing her smile! I love this girl!!

Cindy Loo Whoo! : )

M2 tested her photography skills! 

Other than that we didn't do a whole lot this weekend. Saturday we took J to a birthday party at JumpZone then came home to have hot dogs off the grill only to discover we are out of propane! So I cooked them on the smoker! They turned out really good! Saturday morning we had Dish Network installed so now we have TV so there is going to be a lot more staying home for us! 

Well I am off to convince J it is bath time! WIsh me luck!!

Welcome all you Blog Hoppers!

I have been working on updating my background on my blog for the " Blog Hop" that Jenna's Journey is hosting. This Blog Hop is all about commenting and showing bloggy love! I know that I haven't been the best blog reader lately. I read then move on. Well not this time I am taking Jenna's challenge and commenting on every blog I read tomorrow! If you would like to join go over to Jenna's blog and add yourself to McLinky and maybe you will get some new visitors! : ) Or find new blogs to read everyday! : ) 

I had a cute background picked out but for some reason I can't get it to add to my blog so hopefully by tomorrow I can have it all fixed up! 

See ya tomorrow!!! : )

A lot of what we have been up to lately!

 Here is what we have been up too instead of blogging! : )

J played All-Star T-ball! We didn't win any games but they had a great time playing and that is all that mattered to us!

C helped coach J's team this year! C wasn't excited about having to wear the baseball pants for this tournament. The things we will do for our children! : )

We went to the rodeo with our family!

M2 got a hotdog that was as big as her!

Checking out the horses!

Wanted to hang out with the big kids but just wasn't tall enough

J is taking swimming lessons with Miss Courtney

He is pretty good!

He learned to jump off the diving board!

Big Splash!!

Our New Home!

We have lived here for a little over a month and we love it! I am very excited to host some sort of get together here very soon! I think I am going to have a Scentsy party for a girls get together in August sometime!

Without further ado here is our home!

The front

The living room view from the front door. 

( the red chair looks this way because I just shampooed it)

The mantel! I can't wait to decorate this for Christmas time!!! : )

This is just a little nook that we are going to use as a play area. J's room isn't big enough for his train table so we put it in here. 

The kitchen which is no longer this messy! I should have cleaned a little before snapping this picture! I am embarrassed! 

J's bedroom!

another view of his room

J's monster bathroom! Thanks to all who helped us choose this one! He loves it!

Master bedroom

Our bathroom

Our closet! I am so excited to have a closet with a door! At our old house it had big wall length closets but they didn't have any doors so everyone that came to the house and watched in could see everything!

Backyard view one

Backyard view two!

Well thanks for visiting our home! Come by and see us for real one day!