A new home?

Well we've found our house I think. We've been looking at quite a few and keep gravitating back to this one. Now we need to get our house on the market. Because this house is a bank repo you can not do a contingency (sp?) on it. So we've got to get our house sold so that we can make an offer. We love it and are trying really hard not to get our hopes up. Wish us luck and hopefully we'll get the house...

Dance Weekend

This weekend was Lena's dance recital. I always love her recitals because her teacher takes such care in planning a theme for the show and then making sure each dance and song goes along with the theme. This years theme was "Disney Through the Decades" Lena was a part of A Whole New World from Aladdin and The Enchanted Tiki Room! She looked beautiful and did a great job. This year was especially fun too because I had friends who's daughters were in the show so I knew kids in numerouse dances not just our own. Another year down and can't wait for next year! Most of these pictures were taken by my wonderful sister in law Jen.

Remodling to move up

We have begun the process of preparing our house to put on the market. We have lived in this house for 10 years and are now ready for an upgrade. My family has out grown the openess of the 1600 sqft design that makes up my home. There is no rec. room, no room over the garage, no play room. My kids don't like playing in their rooms they always want to be in the living room under foot. So we decided that it's time for an upgrade. Along with the process of looking for a new home we are having to re-do some things in our house to get it ready to sell... our first project is the master bathroom. We are completly renovating it. We have painted the walls ripped the big ugly mirror of the wall, hung a new light and now are needing to replace the flooring, bathtub and sinks. It's a bigger job then we expected but we are having a ton of fun doing it!! Stay tuned for before and after pictures of the bathroom!!

First photography experience

Last night I joined Radley from Artiem photography his friend Dave and Naomi also of the studio at the Kafe Beach Bash. I had my first experience as a photographers assitant and as a candid shooter at an event. I have to say I SUCK as a candid shooter. I just don't have the confidence wtih the camera yet to get in peoples faces. I hear it comes with time and even the seasoned photographers have a a hard time with this one. I had a really good time and got to play with a really neat camera. All in all I learned a lot and had a ton of laughs (these guys are so much fun to work with) and I can't wait until my next job!

What Aaron says about me

I asked my 6 year old these questions and here were his answers...

1. What is something mom always says to you? I love you
2. What makes mom happy? Me
3. What makes mom sad? When I'm bad
4. How does your mom make you laugh? tickling me
5. What was your mom like as a child? I dunno
6. How old is your mom?30
7. How tall is your mom?how tall? I don't know taller than me
8. What is her favorite thing to do? Work... (uh okay)
9. What does your mom do when you're not around? Work (you'd think I wasn't a SAHM for the last 6 years)
10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for? Being on a game show.
11. What is your mom really good at? Guitar Hero
12. What is your mom not very good at?Expert on Guitar Hero
13. What does your mom do for a job? Work at McDonalds
14.What is your mom's favorite food? Lasagna
15. What makes you proud of your mom? Giving me kisses
16. If your mom were a cartoon character, who would she be? Pinochio (??)
17. What do you and your mom do together? Read Stories
18. How are you and your mom the same? Our skin is the same color
19. How are you and your mom different?Our Hair color
20. How do you know your mom loves you?Because you give me kisses
21. What does your mom like most about your dad? That he works (ROFL)
22. Where is your mom's favorite place to go? Home

My silly niece...

I get the pleasure of being able to watch my neice most weeks for a day. I've come to the conclusion that she idolizes her cousin Aaron because everything he does she copies. Way back like 6 months ago he had been going on an "adventure" and had a gameboy case across his body like a purse and his "sword" as soon as he put them down Carley was dressed up the same way. My son has an obsession with guitar hero and being a rock star he will turn anything into a microphone... guess who has this obession now too! Carley will sing into anything and loves to sing. Then I had her on Wednesday for whatever reason my son had a butterfly net on his head. Yep you guessed it as soon as he put it down little miss Carley had it on her head too!! I think it so cute that she loves to copy Aaron... I think I just need to be careful of what he says and does from now on!! My little Miss. Bean is more of a nut I think!!!

Tag is a kids game...

My friend Holly at SnowMommy tagged me with this cute little lemonade stand. Holly is one of the most amazing people I know. She is a mom, a wife, a friend, a student, a daughter, an aunt.... the list goes on and on. I could sit all day and tell you the amazing things about Holly...

The idea is to talk about the person that tagged you and then tag your friends. You are supposed to tag 10 but I don't know that many! So I tag:

Jen and Snapshots of a Life: I know you hate these but I had too!

Samantha at My Life as I Know it: Love you girly just giving you something to blog about!

Amanda at Jampac Clan: You haven't blogged in ages... get on it!