Happy 30th to me, I think..

Funny thing when you have kids...your birthday becomes your kids and their friends birthday! I turned 235, those are the only candles my mom had I guess, they sang happy birthday to the kids, the kids got to blow out the candles...um, I thought it was my birthday.

Oh well, they had way more fun then I would have had blowing(spitting) the candles out!

Do you really have time to post?

Ok, so I love the idea about blogging. I think it's a great way for people to stay connected with your family, but finding the time to do it, no way! It's frankly stresses me out.

I could spend hours reading about how all these susie homemakers live, cook, clean, craft, scrapbook, knit, make their own...well everything. And after i'm done reading them, I find that I'm not inspired to become more like that, I just find myself feeling like crap. Man, if I could only be like so and so...

I decided that reading blogs may someday be beneficial to me but right now with 2 kids 2 and under, i'm going to stick to what I do best...cleaning up poop and feeling good about it! LOL

I'll send out a shout out here and there, but I'm no longer going to STRESS about being a mama who can do it all. BTW, does anyone even read this thing?!

House Before and After

The inside of our house has taken us over a year to finish and there's still somethings to do, but it was time to get to the outside.



After months of colors swatches all over the house, Danny picked these colors(with a little help from me). He's really good with colors..maybe it's the Art degree!





We've had complete strangers stopping by to say how beautiful it is, that it looks like it was meant to be these colors. Our wonderful 95 yr old neighbor, Irv, said " thank you, the white was blinding me!" He cracks me up! We really love how it turned out. Danny worked tirelessly on it for several days, still a little to finish but overall it's done.

Let me know what you think!



Thought I'd throw one in there of us over the weekend in MN. Townes stayed with Bebe and Papa(we missed him like crazy) and we headed to the cities, had a great time!