What's a h--h-happen-ning...hot stuff?

Do you remember that line from Sixteen Candles? The funny Asian dude said it. Always cracks me up.

Over here in my neck of the woods, not much is happening. Seriously. I've become SO lazy it's not even funny. Household chores a barely getting done, the rest of the time I'm either playing Cityville on Facebook or window shopping with my two littlest munchkins. You know it's bad when you're not even excited to go to Target because there's nothing new. We go there that often, the boys and me. They love to go get a juice box or a chocolate milk from the little cafe and then go "play" with the toys.

 This is our most awesome babysitter, Julia (and Justin). She's so much more than just a babysitter though....she's Justin's gi-i-i-r-r-r-l-l-friend; not to mention his cousin as well. She watched the kids for Jon and me a few weeks ago so we could have a date night. It was fun. We went to Lucille's Barbecue (we had a giftcard), it was so yummy. Then we took in a movie--Thor. It was pretty good.

 More pics with Julia. The camera was loaded with them. See Ash in the background? She got a cute haircut. She looks wicked adorable with it. I've got to post a better pic of it.

Mother's Day weekend we went to Laughlin to visit some of Jon's family. His uncle Mike came down from northern California. We hadn't seen him in about ten years. It was really nice to visit.

 Uncle Mike on the left and Uncle Mark on the right. Awesome couple of guys.

 Jon's mom in the back and his aunt Cathy in front.

Loved this sign, had to snap a pic.

 All lined up.....

 Playing on the riverfront.

 It was nice to get away. But, it's always nice to come back home.


This past week, I've been trying to do something a little more constructive than usual.
I have a bunch of old jeans that I'm cutting up into quilt blocks to hopefully make a quilt out of someday; so in the meantime, I'm left with the seats of the pants get creative with. I've been thinking of making purses out of them for a while, so I finally dove in and got started on this project.

 These were obviously not jeans, just an old pair of the boys pants that they'd worn the knees out of. It's the first one I made, and I think it turned out better than the second one. Ashley loves it, it makes a cute little scripture tote for church.

 Here is the second one. Denim is harder to sew through and it gave me some trouble in a few areas. I really want a new sewing machine! I'm thinking of selling them on Etsy, I've finally set up an account and now I just have to load up my shop.

 Would YOU buy it? Are these just kind of cheesy? Trying to figure out if there's even a market for denim bags. I'm thinking maybe $15. Guess I'll just have to put it on there and see if it moves.

 I found a cute book at the library called Handmade Home Simple Ways to repurpose Old Materials into New Family Treasures. It's got some cute ideas, like these hotpads. I "repurposed" an old towel for the interior and used some cute fabric I had picked up. They came out pretty cute, but again; I had a few problems with my sewing machine going through some of the thicker parts. Hopefully my next attempt will come out a little cleaner. I'll prob'ly still list them on Etsy and see what happens.

So anyway, that's what's a happening in my world this week. Now I'm off to make more denim bags.

Mark as read...

I just marked all your posts as read in my Reader. Boy, do I feel about thirty pounds lighter now.
Wish weight loss was that simple.

I feel like a stranger over here these days.

Thought I'd get around to posting a little of our visit to Palm Springs for Easter weekend.

It was lovely to visit with my mom and dad. The time always goes by too fast though.

We went and visited The Living Desert while we were there. It's the local zoo. I was really impressed by it. I've been there before, but I hadn't realized just how well kept it is. The habitats were in excellent condition, much better than the local zoo here in Vegas.  

 They have an awesome miniature train display when you first walk in. Here are a few of it's highlights. I loved the miniature Mt. Rushmore!

 This was like a miniature Grand Canyon. It really was pretty cool.

 The giraffes were awesome. You can feed them, but there was such a long line to do it, whe opted out.

 Is it Timon or Pumba?

 The horns on these guys were spectacular!! There were three of them, a father and his two sons. What really surprised me was that the father's horns were the smallest.

 My absolute favorite part of the place was the hummingbird and butterfly exhibit.

 This hummingbird was sitting on it's eggs. Didn't get to see the eggs, but how often do you see a hummingbird sitting still?

 The butterflies were just awesome. Hundreds of them were in there. You could put your hand out to the plants, and they would climb on.

 A butterfly on my leg. That should be good luck right?

We really enjoyed ourselves.

That's pretty much the only excursion we made while there, except of course for the mall.

It was nice just to hang out and enjoy each others' company.

We had a Easter egg hunt on Saturday,

 Oh my gosh! Look at that bedhead! I think the wind may have been blowing too...

 My mom and dad's dog Sophie got involved too. She had a blast with one of those eggs. We let her keep it. It was pretty slimey!

Hope everyone had a blessed Easter.

Happy Easter

Ok, I need to get things moving along here. My poor little ol' blog is feeling very neglecgted.
It's not like I'm super busy doing anything.
I've just become Super Dee Duper LAZY!!!

Well, we got ourselves a new vehicle. Yay! Well, it's new to us. If you didn't see my facebook post, the car was totalled, which I just don't really understand, because according to the report from the insurance company it would have cost them about $4800 for the repairs, yet they gave us a check for almost $6000 when we signed the pink slip over to them. Wouldn't they have saved themselves money to just repair it????

Well, I'm not really complaining or anything because it did enable us to purchase a FAMILY vehicle.
Got ourselves a 2003 Dodge Caravan (that's a minivan). Yay! Now we can go places together, instead of in two separate vehicles.

So, naturally I figured that this would give us a great excuse to go visit my mom and dad for Easter.
So that's where we'll be this weekend--sunny Palm Springs. Can't wait, I'm so excited!

Hope you all have a beautiful and glorious Easter weekend rejoicing in the wonderful miracle that is our Savior.

Ain't it the truth?

I love this song. It's just so true, and I'm finding it very applicable to my life right now.
Enjoy!
P.S. sorry, you'll want to turn off my music player over there.

insert frowny face....

So Friday was payday, supposed to be a good day right?

Look what happened on my way to pick up my last severance check......

I was going straight, through the intersection, the light had just turned yellow and I was too close to stop, so on I went.  The guy in the oncoming left turn lane, decided to go for it though and didn't see me cause there was  a big vehicle kind of blocking his view; to top it off the lady behind him was apparently honking at him to get a move on, so he tried to make it through before the light turned red. So, he turned left in front of me and I didn't have nearly enough time to stop. Whamo-bango! I hit him.

 My girls were with me, thank goodness nobody was injured! I got a few scrapes from the blasted air bag though.

 A burn from the stupid air bag. It's blistering now.

 This kind of cracks me up. Also from the air bag. Can you see the sad face?


So, the auto adjuster came and looked at my car today. Can you believe it? He thinks it might have to be totalled! Doesn't seem like enough damage to me to total it. But apparently it might cost more to repair than the car is actually worth.

We are not happy with the prospect of having to try to get into a new vehicle.

SERIOUSLY not happy with the thought of car payments. :(

I think if the air bag hadn't deployed I could probably still drive it around. Not sure I'm sold on airbags as of this moment. Of course, I don't know what would have happened without it, so maybe I should just be grateful?

wow

I haven't posted anything in 23 days. I don't think I've even visited my blog in all that time. I think that's the longest I've been away from my blog since I started blogging.

No job yet.

Loving the time off :)  .....just wish I got serious $$$$ for the time off.

Our house sold----Yay!!! We are very relieved about this little tidbit. One less thing to worry about.
Can't say I'm crazy about apartment dwelling, but I think it's definitley cheaper for the moment, so that's a good thing.

I'm FINALLY reading the Harry Potter series of books. I can't believe I haven't read them before. Know what I'm finding? That I want to watch the movies all over again. Love it.

Jason and Justin are (mostly) potty-trained. WhooHOO!!!! They do well during the day time, but still have  a few accidents at night. I can deal with it. SO glad not to be dealing with diapers and pull-ups anymore.

Well, I'll try to catch up more later. Hope y'all are doing well!

Forget the blogging slump....

I'm in a slump slump.

I'm grumpy
unmotivated
disgusted
tired

I can't find the whatever to do any of the following things on a regular basis:
cook
clean
dishes
laundry
blog

All I want to do is read and eat, or play on Facebook.
I've gained five pounds in two weeks.
Not good.
And oh yeah, I'm supposed to be looking for a job.
That just isn't like it used to be either. I think everyplace these days just expects you fill out applications on-line. There's no face to face interaction. How do they know if I'm really worth considering if they haven't even met me?

ugh (and that's an ugh with no exclamation point after it, because I just don't have the energy).