kira's room, in progress

Kira's room will probably be the first one to look "complete". I've been waiting to do this room for so long!! :)

added 7/29/10-I originally wrote this post on the 23rd. I just found Amanda's blog party and decided to link up!

jeez

It's been almost 2 months since I blogged here! I've been super busy with orders, still. That's pretty much what I'm doing when the kids aren't needing me for something, which is 80% of the time!

We are also MOVING! We're renting a house around the corner from my mom. So that will be great! It's actually a duplex, and has not really been renovated since the 80's so that's not the most attractive but...it has a reall big back yard and a garage for Scott's tools which are two big things we wanted in a house. The way it's situated on the street makes the backyard kind of curve around, so that's cool. It has a big covered patio, another plus. There's a big round cement slab where they used to have a hot tub or something, so I guess we'll stick a little pool for Riley there. It needs major gardening & watering, but I'm excited to do that.

The inside is all FLAT white paint. So needless to say we will be painting the entire place. Riley wants a blue room, of course, and we're going to do a letter wall. Kira has her pink crib so I'm thinking about leaving her room white, or maybe doing a cinnamon type color. Her room is really small so I think it might be nice with a slightly darker color. Our room is going to be white, yellow & gray.

First thing I'm doing is having a yard sale because we have so much JUNK...and I need to buy new junk!

busy day!

Scott was actually off work for the day so I took full advantage. I got up and dressed and everything then took Kira for her first trip to Hobby Lobby. They have the scrapbooking stuff on sale 40% off this week so I had to go! I got a ton of cute stuff and spent under $30, woo hoo!

I came home and switched kids-took Riley to lunch at Burger King. They have one of those giant jungle gyms that he loves to climb in. We looked for some new shoes for him at Ross after that but that was a total bust. It's really frustrating how hard it is to find boy's shoes! AFFORDABLE boys shoes, I should say. There were tons of girls shoes but very few pairs of boys and nothing even close to his size. So he got a set of blocks instead. Of course he already has a set of letter blocks and thousands of letter flashcards...but he really really wanted more blocks! These are smaller than the ones he already has and came in a little tray on wheels so I figured what the heck. Now it's like he has uppercase and lowercase blocks. :)

When we got home he was ready for a nap. While he was sleeping I cleaned up and then worked on scrapbooks until he woke up. Scott suggested we go to Chuck E Cheese for dinner so off we went. This was the first time I've had the pizza there and it was not great. I think frozen pizza is better than that stuff, unfortunately! Riley had a great time playing the games and just playing with the kids in general. Someone was having a birthday party and the "real" Chuck E. Cheese came out (aka a guy in a suit). It was all exciting, ha!

We stayed there too late and it was a task getting Riley out of there and then into bed at home. So it was a long day, but a fun one.

Today, Riley is sick :(. He just wanted to lay on his bed and watch TV all morning. That is how I know when he's sick, because he's usually just go go going all day long. He fell asleep at about 5:30, that's another thing that just never happens!

I ordered some scrapbooking paper SIX DAYS ago and I think they just sent it out yesterday. There aren't very many scrapbooking stores in Phoenix. The closest one to me is about 30 minutes away, and it's not the greatest. So I have to order most of my supplies online. I love being able to look for hours in my comfy clothes, but hate having to pay for and wait for shipping. I've ordered from this place a couple times in the past and this is the longest it's ever taken.

I'm extra antsy to get this order because I have a TON of custom books to work on! :) Right now I'm finishing up two books for a pair of sisters, then I have four baby books and a vintage carnival theme to work on. Lots of books, lots of paper, lots of scrapping going on!

Kira has been sleeping better at night. She still gets UP most nights but every few days she'll go until 5am and I consider those nights 'sleepin in'. Isn't that crazy!? The other night I had to take Kira for a walk in the stroller to get her to calm down. It was about 11pm by the time I was coming back, and I saw two girls walking to their car in the parking lot, all dressed up to go out. That used to be me-my nights used to start at 11pm lol! Now if I had a night with no kids I'd probably be fighting to stay awake till 11pm, ha!

2 annoying things

Ok I know the blog world is supposed to be all positive & happy & stuff but sometimes stuff bugs me. So I decided to put it out there for all the world to see. Like anyone gives a hoot anyway, right? ;)

The first thing is blogs that have music on them. Sometimes I'm sitting right next to a sleeping baby when I'm online. Having a classic 80's tune suddenly blast out of my computer is not the best way to keep baby asleep! Since people can put their players wherever they want I have to scroll all over the place to find it and shut it off. I usually keep my speakers on mute for this reason. It's also annoying if I happen to be listening to something at the time, it's like "trainwreck!" If you weren't a raver in the 90's you might not know that 'trainwreck' is what it's called when a DJ has one song on then he tries to mix in another one but it doesn't match up...and it sounds awful...that's a TRAINWRECK.

The other thing that irks me is when people post lots of pictures but they're all just people posed and smiling at the camera. Like "Me with my friend" "Me with my husband" "My husband & his dad" "My mom & the kids" Maybe it's interesting if you actually know the author in real life, but aren't blogs usually read by people that don't really know each other?

It's not like I'm going to stop reading blogs because of any of this. I love blogging and I think this is only the beginning of the whole blogging universe...but sometimes you just gotta vent. Right now I have to go hold a little Princess who is having a bit of a freak out. She gets mighty loud when she's not happy!

too big too fast

Kira rolled over today! I think she's done it a couple times already but can't be sure. I've put her down, walked away, then come back and I swear she's flipped over...but maybe I just put her down that way and I forgot. But this time she did it right in front of Riley and me. She was on her back, she rolled over on her side and plop! she was on her tummy. For some reason I got all excited...it's exciting when babies do things even though they all do the same stuff! But then I realized this means she'll probably crawl earlier, walk earlier, and learn how to say "just go away mama" faster! I feel like she's on hyperdrive she's growing so fast.

"real" "housewives" of NYC

I quoted "real" and "housewives" because there's nothing REAL about these shows and none of the women are actual housewives...but I watch the stupid thing anyway! ha! The OC version of this show is the only one I have watched from the beginning and watched every season. NYC I watched most of the first season but got bored pretty quickly with the second, same with Atlanta. I haven't watched any of the New Jersey show. I'm kind of sick of all this New Jersey crap being flung everywhere these days. The best show about New Jersey was The Sopranos and that is done forever. ANYWHOO, this was supposed to be about the "real" "housewives" of NYC's latest episode.

This show has turned into a 45 minute cat fight. Every week the "ladies" are at different parties, restaurants or bars either talking about each other or fighting with each other. This week was pretty much the same except for two things that made it so much more enjoyable: Jill Zarin was not featured much and they were fabulously DRUNK for most of the fights. It's probably terrible of me to get such a kick out of watching these chicks get wasted together, but they were damn entertaining! The best part of the episode is when they make it to a Hooters Yacht, or some dude who works for Hooters owns it, not really sure what the deal was with it...but since it had something to do with Hooters Sonja is randomly blurting out "Can I see some HOOTERS please?" "Where are the HOOTERS?" to no one in particular. I really like the new "housewives" Sonja & Jennifer, but that's another story.

The rest of the episode had Countess Luann working on her song and avoiding kissing her "friend" Court. All I can say about that is money can't buy you cla-hass (thats how it showed up on my closed captioning!).

Not sure what planet Kelly is from. I guess she must have been super hot when she was younger to get away with saying all the weird ass shit she says. Saying "Bethany likes to make people feel bad so she can feel good" or something to that effect while Bethany was sitting RIGHT THERE was so crazy! Saying Bethany is a cook and not a chef, then saying "I don't know if she's a cook or a chef" 30 seconds later...she's just too much.

And finally, I think every episode should end with the girls dancing to 1960's Laugh In type music. Dancing like maniacs. Bring on the pinot grigio!