List of Loves

Been feelin a little discouraged about my life lately. You know how you grow up always thinking you were so special and then there is a moment you find out you are just like everyone else, yea, it's kinda like that.... So I thought I'd make a list of the things I LOVE.

I Love MAX, he took this picture

I love cupcakes and the perfect cupcake to frosting ratio

I love a good nap

I love my daughter

I love my husband

I love when the mail comes

I love my iPod

Love my iPad

Love getting a See's candy with Auri and a sucker for later

I Love Wednesday nights

I Love learning

I Love a good teacher

I Love the SUN

I Love a good Mom

I love my Mom

I love my imaginary blogger friends

I love walks with Warren

I love my Dad

I love real friends

I LOVE Authenticity

I love a good sentense

I love a great photo, old or new

I love my sisters

I love when I remember something from my childhood that I haven't thought of in years

I love getting rid of stuff

I love it when I haven't heard my own voice in 3 or more hours

I love my brothers

I love a new song on my iPod

I love that Spencer will always turn my light off and get me a glass of water when I'm too cold to do either

I love going out to lunch

I love getting into bed when my sheets have just been washed

I love when I have a busy full day

I love when I have an empty quiet day to play with Auri

I love the quiet early morning hours prior to 7am

But what do you do all day long???

When I was in college I was visiting with some old friends and I asked one of the friend's Moms, who's kids were all in high school or above, what she did all day long. She looked at me as if I had just asked her who she killed earlier that day. But I still don't get it and I often think to myself what am I doing wrong because I have a ton of free time and I am bored to tears.

My oldest is in 3rd grade and my youngest goes to pre-school 2 days a week for 3 hours.

My day goes like this:

5:45- wake-gym

7:30- home, breakfast, beds made, rooms cleaned, lunches made, kids off on the bus

8:30- clean kitchen, do a load of laundry if needs be.

9:00.....................................

11:00..............................

12:00-getting pretty bored and cabin fever, I wonder what's new at ULTA or if I
need a See's candy from the mall.

2:00 - return from shopping grab mail.

2:30 -clean randomness from house put Auri down if she wants a nap.

3:00-read mail until boys come home

4:00-boys come home hang out with me have a snack go to a sport.

5:30-6-dinner, homework

rest of the night.....................................................
kinda bored.

So lately I have really wanted a job. I have applied 2 places, only heard back from 1. But I am not done with this endeavor, just beginning actually, because when my daughter is in pre-school or even kindergarten I don't know what I'll do with myself all day long, seriously, what am I doing wrong.

Auri took this one of me in the afternoon reading my mail.

And these are my new work clothes!!!

Well, I don't have a job yet, so lets call them my interview clothes:)

I have since bought many accessories too;)

All I need now is a job.

Warren turned 9

I have been a Mom for 9 years.

I haven't slept in for 9 years(well the meaning of sleeping in changed from 11am to 8:30)

I haven't had a job in 9 years.

I went from being a mother of 1 to a family of 5 in 9 years.

I haven't gone to bed without worrying about the eternal welfare of a soul in 9 years.



I can honestly say I have loved being Warren's Mom. He is easy, rational, unemotional, smart, stalwart, diligent, and thoughtful. Over the Christmas break I went on long walks with him, he on his bike and me walking. I thought he would ride up ahead of me, and he did some of the time, but for much of the time he just wanted to stay by my side and talk to me. I loved these moments with him, so much that when it was the first day of school and my alarm went off, I had a moment of sadness. I thought how can I send my boy off into the loan and dreary world, I'm not done with him, I haven't taught him everything yet. But I got over it when the kids did get off and my house was clean for 8 consecutive hours:)

Happy Birthday to my dear beloved son Warren, I can't wait to see what you are like 9 years from now.

change of scenery

I come to my blog every day to look and see who has updated their blogs and I got tired of looking at the same old Christmas photos and video title, so I am adding new photos that I like. There is no meaning or relevance, I just like the photos and I like to check blogs a lot.

Christmas Video 2011

Christmas 2011

Or you can just look at the photos below. I do these videos for my kids.

Best Christmas Ever!

We had a great Christmas, but the best part was the kids kept saying "Mom, this was the best Christmas Ever" Here are some of the highlights.





CHRISTMAS EVE

Auri holding up the red hots for the gingerbread cookies on Christmas Eve. My Mom's Christmas Village.

The Christmas Baking

The Christmas Eve p.j.'s

CHRISTMAS MORNING (6:30am)

Warren getting excited about anything Miami Heat related.

Max and his new iPod.Auri and her new doll house.

CHRISTMAS AFTERNOON AT MY PARENTS

Me and Spencer after church.

Auri opening a gift from her cousins.

My favorite photo of the day. A candid shot of all the laughs.

Christmas Dinner at the kids table.

Hope you all had a great Christmas!!!!

Happy 10 Year Anniversary, Good Bye December

Spencer and I got married on December 20th. Weird I know. But I remember thinking, every year we'll have to take time out from a busy December and do something cool, just the 2 of us. Well, that kind of backfired for the first 10 years because we were always broke and had really small kids. But this year.... we kind of rocked it for our 10 year Anniversary.

We didn't have a lot of time, so we went on a little staycation to downtown Portland. We stayed at The Nines Hotel that is located right by Pioneer Court house. It was awesome! We shopped, we went out to dinner, we walked around downtown Portland for a while, it was fun. Happy Anniversary to us.

This year it was my favorite December in years. I am so sad to see it go. I'm not ready to stop listening to Christmas music, I'm not ready to pull down the Christmas lights, and I am certainly not ready to give up the Christmas treats. My kids have been amazing this season, I have loved watching Christmas specials on t.v.with them, telling them secrets of what I got their siblings, wrapping gifts with them, driving around looking at lights, taking them out to dinner. Why can't it last 2 more weeks? In January the gym gets busy, the food gets boring, and Spencer goes back to California:( This is the "library" at The Nines where they served us dessert at 8pm and breakfast at 8am. We probably spent at least 2-3 hours in here reading and talking.



This is our breakfast buffet, what, I always have my oatmeal in a fancy glass.





Our evening dessert with tea and reading. The pumpkin cheesecake was divine.

Pioneer Square Mall all decked out.

Elephants Delicatessen.

The menorah behind the FOX tower.

Where we had dinner. More hotel glamour.

I love it when someone else makes my bed.

Merry Christmas.