Is it really only Tuesday?

Good lord what a week it has already been! My stress level has been through the roof the past couple of days. Averee is sick with yet another double ear infection and the doctor talked to me about putting tubes in but then informed me the earliest she could get in is over a month away! My nephew who is the same age as Averee came to visit on Saturday and was supposed to spend the week with me but I ended up having to call for his parents to come back and get him cause he is super sick also.. (don't even get me started on this whole situation!!) then my poor little daycare girl just has IDIOT parents!! What the hell is wrong with people?? Sometimes I really just don't know how you can be SO stupid! I have had to deal with stupid people all freaking week and am finally on the verge of snapping!

I feel like every time I finally get caught up on laundry and cleaning 5 minutes later it's a mess again, and then I have my husband coming home from working asking if I'm ever going to clean again... REALLY. REALLY. You want to go there with me? cause I really don't think you do right now!

The last couple months we have had so much company and I feel like my house has been over ran with everyone else's kids. I love kids to death but I'm at my limit with this also. The lovely kids that are coming over have NO respect for other peoples things and they are old enough to know or should have parents to help them with this. My house gets thrashed and all my kids toys are scattered every where. This boggles me cause they didn't even play with the toys most of the time they play outside! Can some one please tell me how this happens? (this has nothing to do with my sisters kids, so if you were thinking I was complaining about them your way off, I would take them any day!!)

Than we move on to me personally...
I have set myself up for a few goals and I'm super excited about doing them! I'm running a 5K in April, 10K at the beginning of June, and a Half Marathon at the end of June. At the beginning of all this these were goals I wanted to achieve and now it seems like they have turned in to almost a little "friendly" competition between a few gals! Really not what I need to be added to the plate! I'm taking a step back... These are goals to help me get healthy, I'm a girl that has never ran before and really just wants to finish these walking or running cause it's an extremely exciting goal for me. So I now sit back and look at it all and tell myself this is my race not anyone else's and to each their own! I will finish them, but at my own pace, and if I can't run the entire time NO biggie. It will be ok. :) So good luck to me and will let you know the out come!

Here is my stressed out life in a nut shell. I know it may not seem much to some people but for a stay at home mom, it can make you go a little crazy.

Oh what would I do without you...

Can someone say night mare of a day! And it's only 2.. SIGH... I'm so ready for this day to be over with and everyone go to bed and start over tomorrow. Since the moment we all have got up my daughter had decided today would be a great day to make every one's life horrible! The lovely terrible 2's have definitely set in. She has been throwing HUGE massive fits the last couple weeks and today they have been one right after another. We had to do a little running around this afternoon, for some soccer stuff and just to get out of the house we have been cooped up all week. Apparently she didn't feel like doing running around? She threw a fit in every store and at the last one it was a doozie! She was screaming her head off in the store, everyone looking at us and then she got mad at her brother and hit him right in the eye! This lady passing actually gasped!! Talk about freakin embarrassing! I finally had enough and I took her out to the car and she was fine.. What a brat! lol..
The only part of this that helped me get through...
AWWWW STARBUCKS(need I say more)

Let the Planning begin!

Today we start the official planning of my little sister's wedding. Yes it's coming soon and we did start this back in January with our trip to Seattle. But we still have tons to do and I will be the first to say she is slacking and I'm going to have to kick her butt in to gear! ;) Being that this is what I love and what I truly want to do I'm taking it in to my own hands to "help" her get these tasks done! She finally secured a beautiful house down on the beach in Pacific City, it's completely surrounded by beach! Small wedding but elegant and beautiful is what she is after. I have so many ideas flowing through my head! Hoping this can be my first wedding in my portfolio. Will keep you all posted with pictures and ideas!

One or the other, never both...

I'm training for my first Half-Marathon, and I have been trying to drop the pounds to try and help me along.. This is a battle I have been dealing with daily for years now! I will say I'm super happy with my body and have a hubby that loves me no matter how big I am (even when I was over 200, YES at one time about 6 years ago I weighted in at 203lbs) then due to my PCOS for me to have kiddos running around I HAD to drop some of the pounds. I dropped I think around 20 then when I got pregnant I dropped 17 with Ryder, then it was the same with my Averee. Now 2 years after I'm DONE having kids I'm back on this roller coaster ride of trying to drop the pounds. My problem... I can never master both at the same time! Eating well and working out just never seem to cross the same path and stay together. Can someone please explain this to me! About a month ago I did so good eating then the last couple weeks it's been working out, BUT NEVER AT THE SAME TIME! What the heck!!!

Spring Photos!

Yesterday it was Sunny and in the 70's, so we took advantage of it and headed out to Smith Rock for photos of the kids in their Easter outfits. It was so so pretty! Next up is hopefully the WHOLE FAMILY!

shoot for the stars? Maybe..

Let me just start this story off first by setting it up a little. We live about 2 mins from the Super Walmart here in Redmond and it's where we shop and go for just about everything. It's close and convenient and it's bran new so it's actually really nice and open 24 hours. Ryder LOVES Walmart. We crap up cause it's seriously the only place he ever wants to go, well other then the dollar store. (wow I'm sounding really high class right now, lol) Any ways we were all sitting at the dinner table last night and out of the clear blue Ryder told us yesterday at school he told Mrs. Donna that when he grows up he wants to work at Walmart!! Justin and I looked at each other and died cracking up.. I said well maybe you can shop there and be like a firefighter or police man then you can get all the bad guys. No mom he says, I want to work at Walmart...

What have I done to my child!!! lol.
I don't have anything against the people that work there but you kinda want to hear your kids shoot for the stars, not want to work at Walmart.

Howd that get there?

During the middle of the birthday party my sister went in to the bathroom and all we here is a scream! This is what she walked in to. lol Thank you Uncle Craig!

My 2 master pieces

I took on the challenge in making Hailey and Averee's cakes. I think they turned out so adorable! Averee's does look like it's kind of melting, I don't know what that is about, but over all they both were still cute.

Averee's 2nd Birthday!

This last weekend we had a weekend full of birthdays! Saturday we celebrated my niece Hailey's and then Sunday we had Averee's. It was a very fun filled weekend will lots of family and a house full of guests. Averee woke up Sunday to the house decorated for her party and walked out just in Awww. She loved every inch of it! The party started early so we did lunch and then painted our flower pots. Very easy simple party but so much fun. She cracked us up, she really caught on this year that it was "her" party. When we said it was time to open presents she actually screamed. lol.... Here are a few of the pictures.

I made her a purse cake, cause she is OBSESSED with purses and shoes. :) (after talking at her party we should have done a Dutch Bros party for her that is another obsession of hers, she even has daddy stopping for "cocos" now!)

She got her own gardening kit and it was filled with Sesame Street seeds. She loves her Sesame Street!!

lip gloss!!! Need I say more.

Ryder really got in to the painting

and he loved it

Averee wanted to eat it

my hand made decorations! It was such a cheap party, everything was hand made and from the dollar store!

Happy Birthday to the cutest girl around! So happy you are part of our family, love you to pieces Miss Averee.

what's been taking up my time!

Here are a few of my projects I have been working on the last month or so!

my kitchen table

an adorable chair we did.

my couch pillows I made myself!!

before

after
This is my entertainment center. In the big picture it's gorgeous!

before

after

My sister and I have been having so much fun redoing furniture! It's a new found love!!

what are our options?

As many of you know my sweet little girl has been dealing with some massive ear infections this entire winter. We got a break for about 3 or 4 weeks but now they are back. One right after another! It stinks... I did break down and buy a Middle Ear checker thing and it actually has been helping a ton. Averee shows no symptoms at all when she has them and then BAM we will have a night from hell and we know she has one. I had to take her in this morning for another one and she has a slight infection in her left and a BULGING one in her right. The poor girl was throwing up all last night and the doctor thinks it was from her right ear. I usually take both my kids to Central Oregon Pediatrics BUT I am not happy with all that they just "let go". With Ryder it was his Asthma and with Averee it's been her ears. It took us taking Ryder to Urgent Care for a doctor to care enough about doing a little more testing and giving us an inhaler for him! And with Averee I was done. I took her in to the clinic I go to (they see families also) and the doctor was wonderful! We spent about 45 minutes just talking about what we can do for her and what our options are. Here is our dilemma with putting tubes in right now... Averee is a water girl, LOVES the water and if we put tubes in that is going to limit a little of that and we are going in to Spring and Summer where they will probably go away for the time being. Tubes last on an average of 7 months that puts us right back in to the same situation we are in right now! So we are on a monitoring with the Doctor for now and she was very open to my suggestion of trying a Chiropractor and see if that helps. My wonderful friend has answered all my questions I had about this, here is the info if any of you are interested.

http://blog.yourbodyofhealth.com

I'm planning on trying all I can for now. If I need to put the tubes in then I will. I'm not against it all I just want to check out all my options. :)

Happy Birthday to Me!

This past weekend was my 30th birthday weekend!! I had such a great birthday. It started on Friday with dinner and Alice In Wonderland with my sister and best friend. A delicious seafood dinner and a wonderful wonderful movie! Got home late but kids were still running crazy throughout the house and a couple adults playing the Wii. Finally got everyone tucked in to bed and crashed for the night. The sun was shinning and perfect weather all weekend, it was out just for me, right? ;) Saturday was filled with shopping, iced coffees and walking along the river with the kiddos and best friend, and it all ended with a yummy Strawberry Cheesecake (my fav!) then Sunday came and we headed out to my nieces soccer game, in flip flops and short sleeves, then we sent the kids home with my sister and had an afternoon of just me and the hubby. It was delightful. It really all went to fast. I really just didn't want it all to end!

This week is preparing for a FULL FULL weekend! Averee's birthday is on Thursday and my nieces birthday in next week so this weekend is a barbie party on Saturday and a garden party on Sunday! Wish me luck have tons to do this week to prepare!!

P.S. Just have to put this out there... SUPER EXCITED TO BE IN MY 30'S!! I just feel like they fit and I'm going to love them!