Its been way to long!!

Okay so it has been a VERY long time since my last post, but I have a VERY good reason.

WE GOT A HOUSE!!!!

For several months we have been working on all of the final details, but it finally happened! YAY!!! We moved in this past saturday and we are still fighting all the boxes and figuring out where everything is going to go. My Mom is throwing our housewarming party this saturday, and I at least want to get everything done on the inside of the house. I don't care how many boxes that are all over our garage(which there are not that many) people will just have to understand that it has only been a week.

Well now that I got that off my chest....hahahaha! Well gotta go and get back to unpacking. Have a wonderful day, and I will try and not make it to long before the next post.

Frapp Recipe!!!

Okay I have a Mr. Coffee frapp maker, but I don't see why using a regular blender wouldn't work. This recipe is for anyone who would like to use it, but especially for Amy!

- Brew coffee of your choice (1/2 cup liquid)
- 1/4 to 1/2 cup milk
- 2 cups ice
- 5 to 6 whole oreo cookies
- 2 generous squeezes of chocolate syrup


Combine all ingredients into blender and blend until desired consistency. After you pour into glasses top with whip cream and chocolate sprinkles.

This one is my favorite! The cookies and syrup can be substituted for any of your favorite combinations of treats. If you try it please let me know how it worked out for you!

So today's my BIRTHDAY!

Yep that's right today is the day! I am now 25 and hopefully my insurance will be going down.

Yesterday my wondeful hubby and kiddos took me shopping and I got some really GREAT deals! Then we met with my parents at Yokoso in Charleston to eat some really good food. I was VERY greatful because my Dad was kind enough to purchase all of our meals. So now I have leftovers for lunch and that suits me just fine.

I then had to go buy a new blow dryer after we left from eating. When I went to get ready yesterday morning my old dryer went "kaplooe!" It got really hot and you could hear something rattling around inside. So I threw that one away and bought a new one!

As of right now my birthday has been wonderful! Natalie woke me up (after she didn't sleep very well) by saying, "mama mama up!" after getting up I have been sang happy birthday several different times, and had several messages of my facebook. My Mom is making me breakfast as we speak and I do believe that it's pancakes! As for right now I don't know what the rest of the day holds, but whatever it is I will make it fun.

I do know we will be watching the super bowl........ WHO DAT? Yes we are pulling for the SAINTS since our team did not make it this year.

Lazy Weekend

This weekend started out with Brad, me, and the kiddos going to the Children's Museum in Charleston on Saturday. With everybody talking about how great it was, and even after reading the website information we thought we would have a blast. -!WRONG!- The place was VERY cramped and there were kids running around pushing other kids/adults over with no care at all. (and NO the parents of these children did NOT do anything about it) Nicolas and Natalie had some fun with what was around them, but not as much fun as they have had with other things we've done. So we politely made our rounds and left.

We went and bought Nicolas a new pair of shoes because once again in record time he has grown out of his other ones. He is now in a size 2 youth shoe and he will be only 6 this year. Not to mention I do believe that miss Natalie is going to have to be going shoe shopping soon as well. With her we will have to be getting tennis shoes and dress shoes so I guess I better get ready to fork out the money. HAHAHA!

Sunday(today) has been a very lazy day avoiding the weather. We have been playing with the kids and I am going to try and start cleaning in a little bit. I have already put the bed clothes from our bed in the wash/dryer and they are just about done. Nothing like the feel on freshly washed sheets to snuggle into. I have several other loads of laundry to do, clean the bathroom, finish cleaning up mine and the hubby's room, and pick up toys around the house(try to organize them a little bit better.) Well looking at that list I guess I need to get off here and start cleaning.

Hope everyone has a wonderful day and what's left of the weekend! I will let you all know how my cleaning list turns out later.

BYE BYE Thomas - NEW things here we Come!

Oh today is a wonderful day! Brad and I were able to talk to Nicolas and finally reason with him about his Thomas the Train toys. Nicolas has had many things that he has been interested in, but for 2 years he has been stuck on Thomas the Train. I swear we should have taken stock in it because we have bought EVERYTHING the company has made.(You think I'm kidding?)

In the last year he has picked up on K'nex, dinosaurs, and anything to do with space. Don't get me wrong he still likes Thomas, but he is starting to realize he likes these other things more. More and more we will find him with a book on space or dinosaurs reading away, or building with K'nex. YAY!

So in light of all this, we got Nicolas to agree that we would not "get rid" of his trains just simply put them up in storage along with his train table. For the first time...... HE AGREED!!!! We made the deal that he could keep out his track to build with, and for every two trains he put up he could keep one out.(He wound up with a nice little container full enough to play with.) He also agreed that we would no longer buy Thomas things as long as he could continue with the new things that he does like.(This made us all VERY happy.)

After all was gone through, and I cleaned the rest of his room, he now has PLENTY of room to play and move around. He was so excited and happy with change that it actually surprised us because we though he would cry when we were done. This is just more proof that he is a big boy and growing up very fast. SAD :(

Scrapbooking!!!

So I am so excited that I got scrapbook today! I will go ahead and admit that I am NOT as talented as most scrapbooking people out there, but I love to do it. For me it is relaxing, fun, and sentimental. I am able to have a place to keep all the important pictures of my life together in a creative/special way.

I started with one of my hubby and me when we started dating up until the two last pages which are dedicated to the birth of our two children. Once Nicolas was born I started his book, and boy has it grown. I also started the first part of Natalie's when she was born. Due to the fact that I have now TWO children (5 & 1), a full time job, and spending time with my hubby, I have not been able to do a whole lot with Natalie's or Nicolas' books. I hate this fact and it has been eating away at me for a while. I don't want to miss out on this part of my life, or let pictures that could/should be captured in these books float off into space never to be seen again. I hope that either when my children graduate from high school or get married(WAY IN THE FUTURE) that I can give them their books and that they will enjoy them with friends and family.

As I was getting ready for my scrapping day, I realized that I needed pictures printed out. With the help of my mother(who put pictures from her computer to CD's) I went to Walgreens Friday on my lunch break. As I sat there and went through a great deal of pictures, I managed to rack up a total of $40 in pictures to be printed. Yes I know that is quite pricey, but I needed them to do my magic. I was able to get my WONDERFUL hubby to agree to keep an eye on the kiddos for me and I spent about 2hrs today doing something that I forgot how much I loved.

My only problem now is that I need more, yes more, pictures and a few other items to help me along on this endeavor. I have also thought about going back into my original scrapbook and putting in more recent things that the hubby and I have done together since the kiddos were born.

Well now that I am done ranting about my hobby I will say goodnight seeing as how both Nicolas & Natalie are sound asleep.

Okay NEW BLOG!!!

Okay, so yes I know that I have not blogged in quite a while! (OKAY, OKAY.....In FOREVER) I have been very busy with EVERYTHING in my life. Plus I went through a period where I didn't know what to talk about, and wondered in anyone was even reading what I wrote. Well today ends that train of thought......

I have totally redone the look of my blog to where I am COMPLETELY happy with it! My hubby did help me with a few technical aspects of it, but I chose the colors, fonts, pictures, etc.. I will now make an effort to at least once a week post a blog on what is going on in my life and the world around me. Hopefully I will post more than once a week, but for right now that is my promise.

As an added note - if you are reading please feel free to comment and let me know that you are out there reading.