chocolate

Ok so funny story! We must really love chocolate at our house; I love the honesty of small children and then funny things they say. On Thursday I was getting Trevor dressed so I could take him to day care and Eric to school and it was very cold so I put on the only long sleeve shirt I could find at the time. It was a brown shirt with no pictures on it and Trevor looked down and said, "A chocolate shirt!" so I said, "yes a brown shirt" to which he again told me "yes, a chocolate shirt." It was so funny to me and later when I told Travis to ask him the color of his shirt he also told Travis it was chocolate! So here are some pics in his chocolate shirt playing wiht Dad and his big brother Eric. Later, Amy

a shower

OK so I am soooo tired this will have to be a quick post. Todd and Travis laid down the tile floor on Saturday so that is done (needs grout). My Dad and I have been laying tile for 2 days (we started on Sunday) now after I get off work and I am working 8 hours a day. I took a permanent position as a coaching agent at Convergys; which I have already been doing for 4 months now as a temporary agent. We have four walls up with the tile and just the doorway to go. We will grout next (hopefully within the week) and be able to start installing everything else. I have weekends off for now; unless I take a shift on the weekends. I am still part-time but working more than my regular hours now. Later, Amy

Seniors

Hi I just thought I would post some pics I shot yesterday of Lacey and her cousin Shelby for their graduation party invitations. It was very cold outside with snow on the ground so thanks girls for meeting with me so we could get them started. Later, Amy

Tile

The shower floor being laid down, it's a very pretty brown with specks of a lighter tan color in it.

This larger tan tile will be doing the bathroom floor and the shower walls with a 4 inch border of the brown on the walls of the shower.

The large tiles in the middle of the floor is all that have been laid right now because all of the rest of the tiles will need to be cut down to fit into the correct space. It is coming along but not fast enough if you ask me. I am getting very excited to see new progress after weeks of nothing being done in here. I hope we get a little further along this weekend than we did last weekedn and see at least the floor in the bathroom laid down. Once this is done we can really start getting everything else into place and have another bathroom in our house. I just thought I would give an update for everyone wondering what is going on at our house. Later, Amy

Snow again

I shoveld the side walk this morning but I am not sure why because an hour later you could hardly tell that the snow was moved off from this side of the house! I didn't even bother to shovel the side walk out to the road and now I am glad I didn't. Lol!

This is our bbq grill where we just got it out and cooked yummy steaks on Saturday.

The trampoline where the kids spent all last week playing and jumping since it was soooo warm. I don't like the cold but the snow can be very beautiful.

The snow looked really beautiful on the chain link fence to the side of our house.

Hi, I know it has been a while but they had my shift changing about every 2 days last week and I am soooooo tired now. I do not know how we were ever young! I am not a morning person and I am now going to work some days at 6 a.m. it is pure misery for me and then I have to get the kids ready for bed and have family time so I am not getting to bed any earlier! Lol! Well enough complaining hopefully my shift will not be changing so much now. Well we woke up this morning to a ton of snow! We were running around Saturday in our shorts and t-shirts and then Sunday and Monday just awful; it is only going to be yucky weather all week. I am glad I didn't plant my flowers yet (and yes I will try to grow flowers here with my black thumb :) Later, Amy

nice weather finally

ok so Sunday afternoon was beautiful here and we put our trampoline up at our house instead of at Grandpa and Grandma Waddoups' house. Our kids were so excited to finally have it in our back yard since we have had the trampoline for years at Grandpa's house. We really love having a huge yard that is all ours and Travis and I took some time and put up some solar lights along our side walk out front also. It is so wonderful and we are really enjoying having something all ours. Later, Amy

Happy Birthday Sammy

Yes it was a weekend full of birthdays for us, it was my sisters little girl Samantha's birthday this Sunday March 15th and she turned 9! We had dinner, cake and ice cream. It was a lot of fun and filled with girls, girls, girls running all over the house. Later, Amy

Happy Birthday Lacey

Hi everyone! So my hubby is all torn up that his little girl is 18 and moving out into her first apartment. Lacey is 18 everyone and yes moved out of Grandma and Grandpa Denny's house already. She requested a rainbow sprikle with chocolate chips cake with cream cheese frosting for her party, which I gladly made but due to my diet did not eat, so I don't know if it was good folks (no one said anything about it being yucky!) We had a huge party, about 50 people, for her on Saturday March 14th (on her birthday) and had a moving out theme to all the gifts. She got some great advise and things needed for her new place. She will not have to buy dishes herself! She also got a big supply of 2 ply toilet paper since she would be too poor to buy anything but 1 ply after a while, lol. Travis is taking is very hard everyone and had some of us in the room in tears. I love this wonderful man and how much he cares for his family! Later, Amy

valentines pics

Hi everyone, I just finished putting my kiddos valentine pics together. These turned out really great; thanks again Jenni for doing pics for me all the time. I am so bad our local Walgreens offered me a commercial account with them! Lol! Enjoy! Later, Amy

back packing

Trevor came out of Grandma's computer room wearing this backpack of Grandpa's. It was so funny and Grandpa decided to put the pack on and carry Trevor. Trevor loved it and made Grandpa run around for 20 minutes. Enjoy the pics Later, Amy

Amyology

I saw this on someone's blog & thought it was kinda fun! Let others know a little more about yourself, re-post this as your namefollowed by "ology"

FOOD-OLOGY

What is your salad dressing of choice? Ranch

What is your favorite sit-down restaurant? Food for Thought !

What food could you eat for 2 weeks straight and not get sick of it? don't know i am picky

What are your pizza toppings of choice? sausage, pepperioni and olives

What do you put on your toast?Butter only

TECHNOLOGY

How many televisions are in your house?3--family room, & two of the bed rooms

What color cell phone do you have? silver and black

What does the first text message in your inbox say and who sent it? lol Sandi

BIOLOGY

Are you right-handed or left-handed? right

Have you ever had anything removed from your body? nope

What is the last heavy item you lifted? shelves

BULLCRAPOLOGY

If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die? maybe, i have small chilren and would probably leave something special behind for them.

If you could change your name, what would you change it to? Rayne, its what i wanted to name my daughter but i am not having any more babies and have all boys

Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1000?I would say yes, but i am a wimp

DUMBOLOGY

How many pairs of flip flops do you own? four, maybe

Last time you had a run-in with the cops? a couple years ago, no seat belt ticket

Last person you talked to in person: Eric, my son

Favorite Month? August

CURRENTOLOGY

Missing someone? i miss my Grandma Wilma

Mood? Emotional now,

What are you listening to? i listen to 98.5 but nothing now

Watching? Fav. show now is Eleventh Hour

Worrying about? getting Eric's school project done on time.

RANDOMOLOGY

Whats the last movie you watched? Egore

Do you smile often? not as much as i should

Do you always answer your phone? No way!

Its four in the morning and you get a text message, who is it? Sandi

If you could change your eye color what would it be? wouldnt change

What flavor do you add to your drink at Sonic? vanilla

Do you own a digital camera?yes

Have you ever had a pet fish? yes, only pet we have, hard to kill

Favorite Christmas song? little drummer boy

Whats on your wish list for your birthday? a night out

Can you do push ups? not unless i am forced to

Can you do a chin up?Definately not.

Does the future make you more nervous or excited?In this economy, NERVOUS!

Do you have any saved texts?yes, 2

Ever been in a car wreck?Unfortunately, I have been in several

Do you have an accent? depends on which part of the country calls me, some say yes

What is the last song to make you cry? dont know
Plans tonight? dinner at mom's house
Have you ever felt like you hit rock bottom? yes, sometimes
Name 3 things you bought yesterday? phone line, drawer pulls and drawer knobs
Have you ever been given a rose?yes
Current worry?Money
Current hate right now?Money
What song represents you? i am bad with names, sorry
What were you doing 12 AM last night?Sleeping
What was the first thing you thought of when you woke up? i hate this earlier work schedule

making cupcakes

This is a ton of photos but really fun to look at. Trevor was at Grandma Margaret's house on Monday while she was reading a magazine and on the front of the magazine was cupcakes. He decided he needed to make some cupcakes himself! So Grandma got out the apron and let him have at it. He put the lines in the muffin pan, stirred the mix (including icky eggs), put them in the oven, then licked the spoon, tried frosting them (mostly he ate the frosting) and then shared with all of us his wonderful muffins with sprinkles on top. What a fun day that Grandma Margaret allowed him to have! Later, Amy

excited

Oh, I feel so behind, so much has happened! First things, first, this Saturday I got my new washer and dryer from Sears! This is a long story but we got a front loading washer and dryer set for only 600.00 but the catch we had to wait until march 5th to get it and we bought it the day after Thanksgiving. Well March 5Th came around and we got a phone call saying there were more shipping delays and they wouldn't be in until April 16th! We couldn't wait that long since our old set was about to kick the bucket any day so I was not a happy person. I will tell you the persistence pays off especially when dealing with a large corporation. I went to the Sears store three times and called them everyday for a week and got nothing but the run around, but in speaking with soooooo many managers there I was immediately notified when another customer returned a washer and dryer set and went down and picked them up the next day. The washer was still in the box and we ended up switching the dryer (a gas hook up, we don't have) with the floor model at the store (an electric hook up which we can use). I am very happy to say I can now dry clothes faster than I can cook dinner and it is wonderful! Lol! I also finally got Travis to agree to put in some partial shelves up stairs in the dead space next to the washer and dryer where the pantry will be when we get the hook ups down stairs for the washer and dyer, so we will have full shelves there eventually but convincing him that I needed any shelves right now for storage took about a month! I was so happy all of that happened Saturday for me so I was already happy as a bug in a rug but then my hubby surprised my with tickets to Mystic Theater here in Chubbuck; we had wonderful prime rib and saw a collection of Broadway musicals (a song or two from each musical.) And I took my hubby's advise and wore a dress he loves and got tons of compliments about it, I knew he had good taste when he married me! Lol! I had a wonderful weekend and it was all worth the early mornings and frustration with this temporary schedule to hang out with my family the whole weekend. Later, Amy

Doing well

Hi everyone! Well good news is Travis doesnt need surgery but bad news is we still dont know what is wrong. I am really enjoying the new work I am doing for the next couple weeks but it does leave Travis in charge of the kids in the morning and can be very entertaining for me to hear them getting ready for the day. Last Saturday I worked 8 hours and Travis took the boys to McKee's pet store, they love going there since the store has a "petting zoo" you can walk thru. I don't know why they call it a petting zoo since all the animals are comfy, cozy behind fences but the kids love it. Apparently they have a goose that was pecking at the fence if you go to close to it and Eric kept jumping out of the way of the goose. Well Travis thought he would be funny and offered to pay Eric a dollar to let the goose bite him! I know it is a Dad thing, lol! I almost died when Travis told me but what came next made me laugh so hard I almost wet myself. Eric, being my very smart and brilliant son, took a pair of gloves out of his coat pocket and said ok! Lol! Isn't that so funny; who carries gloves around and then actually thinks to use them so it won't hurt so bad to let the goose bite him! I am still laughing over this one people and just wanted to state how brilliant my little Eric is. Eric also got his hair cut today into a flat top which he loves. Next, I was at work one day this morning and heard Trevor jumping on our bed and Travis singing the "monkeys jumping on the bed" song, then I hear a big crash and Travis saying I told you the monkey fell off the bed! Lol! Travis then tells Trevor we won't call the doctor because he costs to much; the difference between mom's and dad's is amazing isn't it? Last one I wanted in here was yesterday Trevor had daycare and before he left big brother Eric was helping him put on his shoes. In a very funny but cute way; Trevor was lying down on the couch with both feet in the air and Eric was trying very hard to stuff his foot into his little shoe. It has been a whole new insight into my family life with Dad in charge. I am very grateful for this wonderful man who is always willing to step in and help out when my job asks me for the hundredth time to change my schedule. Later, Amy