Lack of Posts

I SWEAR! I am the WORST person when it comes to doing anything that requires a steady dedication. I'm so sorry for the lack of updates. It's been so long! It's been so busy! That might be why, but still, it's no excuse to at least post a sentence here and there, right?

Anyway, we've done a lot... and there's still so much more to do. So much to post, so many pictures to fix up, so many things to tell and share, and so much-grr-aahh!!! Just SO MUCH! lol

Bottom line? Life has been a roller coaster. Our van went out but we got a new (used) vehicle, the holidays were great, though we pretty much couldn't go anywhere much this year... We're still stuck in our tiny little home for now, which would be okay if it weren't for all of the little things that irritate me about it...

As for the new year, there's so much I hope that will be different this year. For starters, I'm hoping we can pay off my loans this year. Maybe start actually saving to get a home of our own some day. Tricity will be starting school this year, and though I will be stressing out and freaking out about it, maybe it'll give me a chance to finally catch up on some projects that I've been meaning to do around the house. I'm getting everyone's birthdays, and hoping I can actually send an email or special greeting or something to everyone this year. Cards would be too expensive, I would think. For some days, there are three or four birthdays on the same day! I also want to try growing a few more things besides tomatoes this year on my porch-garden. Last year's tomatoes didn't hardly grow at all, if any, but I know it was from lack of care. Maybe this year they will grow better?

Ah well... Time is short. Busy, busy, busy! Gotta run for now. Someone kick me in the butt and remind me to post more! lol

I Made Homemade Bread and Butter!

The bread and butter I made was AWESOME! And knowing that I made it myself, and I knew what was going into making it just made it even better. You know what would top it off? Having fresh raw milk cream for the butter, and my own fresh eggs and stuff for the bread. Adam keeps using my wheat for sandwiches. I said "Use up all the old bread first!" and he said "but I don't want that bread. I want yours!" so that made me feel really good. I'll have to make him some white bread to use since he likes that better. I like heating the bread up, and putting on the homemade butter and just eating it like that. MMM! I guess I'll try some of the white when I make it too, with molasses :-D I wish I knew how to make THAT on my own, too! lol

Still didn't get Halloween decorations up... I would have done that, but Adam's family was having a get-together. It was so much fun! We went fishing while they barbecued. We didn't catch much. Me and Adam didn't catch anything, but it sure would have been nice to bring home some catfish, especially now that I know how to clean them! Buddy was able to get Gabriel and Tristin so it was nice to see them again, too. And Stormy was there with her little boy :-D Poor Tricity was the only girl, so of course she got left out while the boys played video games, chopped wood, and jumped on some hay bales, but Tricity played with the puppy that they had, and followed Stormy around. She loves her :-) It was cute... They messed around with Buddy's truck, the motorcycles, and went off to get some wood for the bonfire. Then after supper, we had desert, and then we went out to sit by the bonfire and have a few drinks.

We got home really late, and then I found out that work tried to call me to come in, but I didn't have my phone with me, because there wasn't any service at their place. It would have been nice to know sooner though, because I had missed a day the other night from being sick and I could have made up those hours... Ah well. It's not like I could have called back when I got back home, because I had already been a little drunk, so I just took a shower and went to bed.

Feel like crap today though! lol I've had a headache, and just now got rid of my hiccups. I managed to make laundry detergent, though. Haven't bothered to get up and see if it works yet. It didn't gel up like it was supposed to, but I think it's because I didn't have a 5 gallon bucket to make it in. I just tried to make two gallons by parting the recipe. (It's a four gallon recipe, so I parted it by four, you would think it would have worked...) Ah well. It should wash clothes just fine. We'll see, and then I'll post about it. lol It's not like our clothes get that dirty anyway. Just the ones from yesterday that smell like smoke and fish.

And the last thing... I pureed my strawberries and had everything ready to be dehydrated for fruit leather... You know what happened? My dehydrator went out! :-( I had Adam go to walmart to see if he could get me a new one but they don't have any. Boo! Walmart sucks! So now I'll probably have to order one online unless I can find one anywhere else first. I just had to keep the trays stacked and I put them in the freezer until I get another dehydrator. Any donations would be nice! lol I was going to make mom some fruit leather too, this time, and then some more beef jerky...

Anyway, that's all for now :-) This post is long enough, and I really do need to get some laundry done. lol Have a nice day!

I Got a Breadmaker

I got a breadmaker! Instead of paying $40 at walmart, I went to the thrift store and got one for only $4! And as far as I know, it works! I'm so excited. I haven't tried making a loaf of bread yet, but I will try it out tomorrow. That would be awesome to make my own fresh bread, and try out different kinds, and know what's being put into my bread. We also got groceries, and I picked up some cream so I can make homemade butter, too. Mmm... I can't wait! Homemade bread and butter... *drool*

I guess the older I get, the more concerned I am with what I'm putting into my body. If only I could give up Mt. Dew! I don't like the idea of drinking vegetable oil... Anyway, not only that, but homemade stuff just tastes better and has more love put into it, I think. Or at least that's the way I feel. I REALLY can't wait to have my own chickens one of these days!

I've also ordered the supplies so that I can try and make my own wine. Adam let me order a hydrometer, champagne yeast (because I want to try and make sparkling wine), and air stops, because I really don't want to use a balloon or condom to let the co2 out while keeping air from getting in... I don't want there to be a rubber taste from a balloon, and the idea of using a condom for making wine is just disgusting...

Anyway, I'll keep you updated on how it goes!

Ta!

Tis the Season to be Spooky

Well it's that time of year. My favorite season! We still don't have our decorations up yet for Halloween, but that never stops us. Not even this splitting headache... Muah-hah-hah-haa!Tricity's been wearing her Scooby Doo costume. We mainly bought it so she can play dress-up in it, since Adam got her so crazy about Scooby Doo... This isn't a very bright picture, but I'll get better ones later on when she wears it out for Moonlight Madness. I just wanted to post the picture that I got the other day in the bedroom. Here's my silly little girl!
Scooby Doo isn't who she's going to be for Halloween, though. Moonlight Madness is just a town event where the kids walk around the courthouse and get candy from businesses, pretty much. For Halloween, she's going to be a pirate, and so am I since I have to match her costume every year :-D (Yes, I have to dress up, too! lol) In a later post, I will share our matching costumes from previous years. This picture is actually from Pirate Fest (which I still need to get pictures up for), but here is a preview of what we'll look like:
She also picked out her Halloween clothes for this year, and of course when she tried them on, she had to pose for me. lol Every year, Walmart has these cute little outfits, so we get her one each time. This one says "Daddy's Under My Spell". Here's my dazzling little cutie:

Homemade Laundry Detergent and Baby Wipes

Okay... so now I'm looking up more stuff on youtube (man, I sure do love that place!) and I came up with even MORE ideas for our home...

Homemade laundry detergent!

I haven't tried this out yet, so don't take my word for it, but here's what it says to do:

Take a bar of soap and grate it into shavings or powder
(I'd use a bar of Dove soap because I love the way it smells!)
Mix it into a big pot of boiling water.
Be careful because it bubbles up, so add a little bit at a time.
This will also help keep big soap clots from forming...
In a 5 gallon bucket, add 3 gallons of water
Mix in your dissolved soap water
Add 1 cup of Arm & Hammer Washing Soda
and 1/2 cup of Borax
Stir well, making sure to break up any chunks
Let stand overnight.

When you check on it the next day, it should be kind of lumpy or like jello.
Add a cap full (or more, depending on your desire) of Downy liquid fabric softener
Stir, stir, stir
Either leave in the bucket and mix it up each time before use, or pour it into individual bottles and shake it each time before use.

It says it only uses about half a cap full for each load, but if you are like me, you'll probably use more than that each time, which is why you may have wanted to look up this recipe in the first place! lol

And then I found a homemade thing for baby wipes!
You take some paper towels, cut them in half, and place them all in a stack.
In a bowl or something... pitcher, whatever... mix:
2 cups of olive oil
1 cup of baby oil
1 cup of mild baby wash
Stir, and pour this mixture over the stack of paper towels
put them into a container or ziplock bag, and use :-)

I wish I had found this one when my daughter was still a baby, but oh well... I'm sure they can find some use in the bathroom :-D

Inmate Brew?

I'm going to try and make homemade wine. Not all fancy-schmancy, mind you... I don't have the know-how, experience, or money to go all out... The kind I'm going to try is called "inmate brew". Have any of you heard of this? Or have any of you ever tired to make your own wine??? As far as I've seen, it's just fruit juice, raisins, yeast, sugar, a siphon, and a balloon, pretty much. I've been watching videos on YouTube about it. It seems pretty easy, but I'm nervous because usually everything I try turns out completely wrong! LOL Oh well... If anything, it'll be an experience for me  :-p  Maybe I'll be able to splurge a bit and actually get some of the proper equipment?

Fall Weather

Yesterday was such a nice day, that we had to go outside and play. I love this weather. I would much rather have to pile on clothes instead of having to deal with the heat. Adam is the opposite, I think. He always has to crank up the heat and even when I'm hot, he says he's freezing. I think it's the old age getting to him... lol

Anyway, I got some pics on my phone, so the quality isn't as great... but here was Tricity playing out on her swingset yesterday.

This one is kind of dark, but you can make it out. It's a monkey on the monkey bars! ;-)

Actually, she can't really do them by herself, so Daddy helped her across :-D

She wanted to get on her bike, so we got it out for her... And then she wanted to be pushed. Adam told her just to petal so it would be easier for him to push her, but she freaked out and wanted to get off, because she was worried she would fall. He convinced her that she would be okay (because of the training wheels), and he had the back of the bike, so she petaled... until they hit a pothole in the ground. Then she fell sideways, hurt her leg, and freaked out, crying "See! I told you I would fall, and I did!" and then of course she came crying to me. lol I checked her out, assured her she was fine, and she went back to playing...

So then she decided she wanted to pick flowers for us... Little white flowers among the weeds :-D one for me, one for Daddy, and one for her.

We saw a caterpillar eating lunch. I never really seen one eating up close in person that I remember. But then again, my memory fails me a lot lately...

She also had her babies out with her (Baby Tricity and Baby Devin), and Uni, the Unicorn.

She's so funny and so silly...

Then we went inside... Daddy had to get ready for work, and it was already getting cold :-D

I'll try to create a video with the little snippets I got here and there, too...

Now I just have to put my Halloween decorations up before it gets too late! It's already the 6th, for goodness sakes... lol I got a few new things this year. I can't wait to decorate and take pictures again. It'll probably be about the same as last year on the outside. This year, I have some things for the inside, too.

Hope your day is good :-)

To My Surprise...

To my surprise, when I came home from work this morning, what did I see? I was off for the last two days and therefore I had stayed in the house and did not notice this before... but when I got home from work this morning, I could tell...

New flowers!

New flowers bloomed, and I noticed a couple of the other plants had buds on them, too. This late in the year and more flowers are growing? Wow. I was surprised. Of course I really don't even know what was planted to begin with. lol It was a mixture of seeds that I just tossed on the dirt and covered with mulch.

I can't wait to see how they turn out. Here's a few pics I got this morning. I don't' even know what these are!!! lol

Golly, Look at the Time!

Time sure does go by too fast...

Once again, many things have happened since my last post. lol
Here's the things I wanted to put up since last time that still need to be done:

• 4th of July pics and video
• summer fun pics and video from us swimming
• Renaissance Fair pics and video
• A picture of my 'perfume ladies' collection
• cool things I got from the mall

And since then (a little over a month ago), we've had my friend Tahnee's birthday come up. We took her out to eat and I got her a present. Then we went to do a mini-photoshoot. That part was her idea, but you know I was all for it :-D Even though it was unexpected, I got some pics with Tric and they were SO CUTE! I'll have to share pics as soon as I get them.

I also picked a day with her to photoshoot Tricity in all kinds of outfits and costumes, so I'll have to share some of those, too. (I could do that now, actually, but I'm about to put out breakfast at work, so it'll have to wait.)

Then there was Pirate Fest. I was supposed to be a guy and Tahnee was going to be the girl, but she forgot her costume, and I couldn't find my man stuff, so I was a woman, and I looked good. I also got a pirate costume for Tric to wear, and she was cute, as always.

I got to see my grandpa, probably for the last time while he's living in Missouri, and we got a few more things from his place. Among them was a penny collection that was my mom's and she passed it down to me. Now I'm excited about collecting coins! lol

It's October, so that means decoration time. I can't wait to decorate the house! Halloween is almost my favorite holiday. It's like 50/50 with Christmas, pretty much.

I've also decided to go ahead and start packing boxes... If we ever get to move, then I'll be ready to go, I hope. If I get them done before then, that is. I told Adam that either we get to move into his grandpa's place, or we're finding somewhere else to live, because I can't take the crappy air/heat system, I can't take all the mice and ants, and I can't take living in a trailer park. It irritates me to no end how nosey the neighbors are. I'm always convinced that they go through our mail and mess with our stuff.

I've also got hives again this year. It seems like they come and go every seven years. I went to the hospital this time, because the itching was driving me up the wall, and because this time, they came with a pressure allergy. That means, if I got up to walk, brushed up against something, got scratched (like with hives making me scratch?), or anything like that, even biting my bottom lip absentmindedly, then my skin would raise up really bad and be more itchy. So the doctor gave me allergy medicine. I wonder how long I'll have to take it before it goes away? IF it goes away... I can't describe how maddening the itching can be. And people wonder how I have so much patience... You don't even know! :-(

Anyway, I've run out of time and I must go now. Hope to write again soon!
xoxox

Random Pictures

Here are a couple of more pictures that I put up on facebook, so I wanted to share them here, too.

Here is little Miss Tricity, looking as sweet as ever in her dress-up clothes. She loves wearing these things around the house. Thank you Santa for the Barbie dress-up trunk that she got for Christmas ;-) Maybe he'll bring her another one this year? lol She usually wears this, her Tinkerbell dress, her barbie dress, and I need to find her Sleeping Beauty dress so she can wear that one more, too. No fun in having costumes if you can't get your use out of them, right?

Adam also managed to pick up one of those glow-in-the-dark thingies with the light pen from the thrift store (well kind of like a thrift store, only they donate the money to a good cause). So now... this is what we do before bedtime. We'll play on this thing for a while (mainly me and Tric since Adam goes to sleep) and I thought it would be cool to take a picture of her name in glowing letters... I also put my phone against it, and it reflected the background of my phone, which was her photo. I got a pic of it, but it was kind of too blurry to make anything out of it... Anyway, here was this one:

And of course anything Mommy does, Tricity wants to do, too. Just like the time I went to ask her how she wanted her hair, and she said she wanted it in a bun... That's how I usually wear my hair (to keep the tangles out since it's soooo long). So I put it in a tiny little bun, and she loved it. lol This time, though, she wanted her towel wrapped around her head like mommy does it. So I did it for her, and she was so proud of it, that I had to take a picture, and that is her favorite towel, her "monkey" towel!  :-D

Along with dress-up, she's also got a thing for rings now. The little blue circle-shaped one on her first finger is the one I just gave her recently because it was a perfect fit, and now she thinks it's really something to have a bunch of rings, one for every finger. I told her I'd have to take a picture and show everyone her bling-bling. She thought it was funny...

In other family news- my cute baby nephew (only one I have by blood) is able to sit up on his own! Only six months old, and he's even pulling himself up on the footstool and he'll stand there by himself. He says Dada now, too! I'm so proud of him. I happened to get this picture when I was over at mom's house the other day! Isn't he a sweetie? And he looks just like Khloe and Jolie at that age, too. You can tell they're all Tommy's kids. lol I sure do love him to pieces! And he loves his Aunt Candice, too. I'm so happy I got to be there while he was being born, because I feel like we're really going to be close. He's the little boy I haven't been able to have :-)

And that's all I have for now. I hope you all are enjoying all of this. *love and hugs*

My Flower Bed

Well, I said I would post pictures of the flowers I was able to grow this year, and here is what I had so far... I was ACTUALLY able to grow flowers! First time for me! lol I've tried growing stuff before, and usually failed, but this time, I had success! I grew more green stuff than anything else, but I managed to get some pictures of the flowers as they bloomed.

This first one is the very first flower that popped up. I forgot what it was...

These bachelor buttons actually looked purple in person, but turned up looking blue for the camera.

I thought these were going to be red until they opened up. No red flowers this year...

Girly Girl

I guess the teenage years are starting early? lol Nah, I've just got a little girl with a lot of spunk! :-) Just a short post with some pictures. On a shopping trip, our daughter just HAD to try on the different hats, so I got pics of her. She's such a girly girl, and I never really cared for pink until she came along. Now I love it almost as much as she does. lol Purple is still our favorite color, though ;-)

Farrar Arts Photography

My best friend Tahnee has decided to start a photography business, and OMG... She is SO AWESOME with photography! She took pictures for me on one of her visits to Perryville of my daughter Tricity, and they turned out SO BEAUTIFUL! Here are a few.

She's been a photographer for a few years, but she's always been into it as long as I can remember. She also has a Bachelor in Arts, so of course she knows what she's doing. Just click the images for a larger view.

It's Been a While - Update

I don't even know what order to put things in, since it's it's been so long since my last real entry... I guess I'll just write things as I remember them. My memory isn't the greatest, so I guess I'll just start with the most recent news for our family.

Adam got a job! I'm so happy for him. He isn't starting out with that many hours because some bonehead told the manager that he was still in high school. (Does he really look that young? LOL!) At least he'll be working, though, and when they are ready to give him more hours, he'll already have a position there. He's a cook at Pizza Hut. Tonight was his first night. Granted, it's not the best of jobs for a grown man, but it's a job nevertheless, and I'm so happy for him :-)

Poor Tricity, though, she's had a fever for the past couple of days. It goes down with medicine, but after a few hours, it comes back. Of course you wouldn't know it by the way she's acting. lol She said that nothing hurts, and she acts just fine. We took her to the hospital last night. Of course we waited about three and a half hours before they would even see her - nighttime at a hospital in a small town, how busy could they be? They said her right ear was just a little red, and tried to pass off some medicine to give her that was so bitter that it would make you puke. We tried that medicine before. Been there, done that, and I told them there was no way she would even take it. Even I wouldn't take it. Then they gave her this other kind that I thought was pretty good, but we still had to fight with Tricity to get her to take a dose... She's getting better now, though. I'm so relieved. I'm always sad when my baby girl isn't well...

Today is my mom's birthday :-) I got to go over and see her for a while. I should have baked her a cake, but I didn't think of it... And I got her a card I thought was funny, but I completely didn't get the joke like I thought I did until she explained it to me. It had balloons as the party guests with faces and everything, and it said 'Happy Birthday' and something like 'and the room fell silent as someone thought they heard a pin drop' and I was thinking... Oh, I get it... Everyone's quiet because you came into the room and it's your birthday so they stopped celebrating... haha, funny... But then mom explained it's because they are balloons, and a pin? Pins pop balloons? Then I busted up laughing because I realized I was wrong, but I finally got it. lol Sometimes, I can be an "air head". Get it? Balloons? Air head? :-p

As for me, I got to go to my first writer's meeting. I'm the first virtual member, I suppose, since it's held in Cape, and I can't go there for the meetings, so I'm stuck here in Perryville... My bestest friend Tahnee set up her camera and mic for me so that I could see and hear what was going on, and I had mine on too, so they could meet me and I could participate as well. I thought it was fun. I hope no one minded. I even got to participate in my first writing activity! We were making pass-around stories, where every person starts their own story and then we pass them on to the next person, and everyone keeps adding a little bit more to the stories. We used to do that all the time in high school, so it was a nice refresher and homage to that time in my life. We had a lot of fun with our stories back then :-) This is what I wrote for my first story in the group:

'Today was a hot and sticky, with the humidity as high as it was. I never did like the humidity. I could take the heat, but the humidity always hung thick in the air and sometimes even made it hard to breathe. The weather was much more pleasant when it was crisp and dry. Luckily, I wasn't out for long. I just wanted to go out to my garden and see if anything new had grown overnight. I walked under the trellis, my hand lightly brushing the daffodils as I passed. A flower bed had bordered my garden, and the flowers were already in full bloom, with bursts of color like bits of confetti, and when the breeze blew their scent my way, the smell was absolutely delightful. I smiled. I loved my garden.

The tomatoes were particularly plentiful this year, so I always had at least two or three ready just about every day. I gathered them up and stuck them in the huge pockets of my apron. There were some bell peppers and cucumbers ready to be picked, as well. I was so involved with what I was doing that I hadn't noticed...'

Let's see... My real life flower bed turned out great. I guess I need to make a separate post for that one so I can share some pics...

The 4th of July was a lot of fun, too. I'll have to make a post with pictures for that as well...

Of course we've been doing a lot of swimming, and I WAS making a video of that, but I always get sidetracked by something else and never finish all of the things I've started... I'll get it up though :) Speaking of... Can you believe how this HEAT is this year? It wouldn't be so bad if it weren't so humid, but the humidity is killer!

We also went to a Renaissance Faire with Tahnee and her fiance James. Tahnee let me borrow one of her costumes, and she made a new one for herself this year. When I get those up, I'll post pictures of them, too. We're supposed to be going to a Pirate Fest (hopefully) with her in September. I can't wait to dress up for THAT!

Tricity's birthday was great. HOT, but great. Yet again, I need to put up pics.

hmm... let's see... what else has happened? Time goes by too fast, you know?

I've finally come up with a solid idea for a novel. I wanted to make a story involving real witches, but I wanted to keep it interesting, as well as keep it real. I don't want to give too much away because I'm always paranoid someone will steal my ideas, but I think it's a good idea, and I can't wait to write it. I'm just now getting started with it.

Come on, lottery! I actually won $4 about a week back. That's usually the highest I ever get :-p Any time now, I'll hit that jackpot. Then we can finally take care of things... Some of the first things I'd like to do is get insurance, get my teeth fixed as well as my family's teeth... Get our living will made and have our funeral arrangements taken care of, and then build my dream home, take vacations, and start a business. As long as I have my dream home, I'll be happy :-) Anything I want to do for fun will pretty much be built into my dream home. A grotto and solarium, a crafting room for Tricity and I to do all of our arts and crafts, a playroom for her with a ballpit, lifesize dollhouse, etc., a small home theater, an exercise room, a small skating rink, a gocart track, my mini farm with goats and chickens, my greenhouse, orchard of fruit trees, an office/library, Adam's massive garage and workroom, an outdoor kitchen, and other things :-D And it's going to look like a castle, too, because that's my style. lol

I've started a collection... Among my grandmother's and Adam's grandmother's things, there were a bunch of Avon bottles. No, I'm not collecting actual Avon bottles, lol, but I'm collecting the ladies they have. There are perfume bottles that are shaped like women of all different kinds (and I have a guy in a tuxedo, too) and in different colors. I'll post a picture of those when I get them all together. I guess you kind of have to see them to know what I mean :-)

Another thing I guess you could say I'm collecting is... mustaches... lol They are stick-on mustaches that I've been getting out of quarter machines. I slap them on, take a picture, and then pretty much put them back in the plastic ball I got them in, and stick them in the dashboard. One of these days I might show you a few... hahaha (doubtful :-p lol)

We had a little bit of extra money a couple of weeks back, and we went to the mall in Cape Girardeau and got a few things. Adam got some spike earrings, and I got some rainbow hair clips. I would have gotten red, but since my hair is red now, it would have pretty much just blended in... So I got some rainbow ones. Just like everything else I've been talking about, I'll have to show you some time.

As I stated, I have a webcam now. Me and my bestie Tahnee have been video chatting lately :-D we did it by accident one night and just kept it on, and had so much fun that now. So now I had to go out and buy a camera so I could have my video on, too. There's some special effects that we've been playing around with to make each other laugh. Sometimes I swear my soulmate was made into my best friend.

Let's see... what else? :-D

hmm... I hurt my toe a while back at the thrift store. I was opening a drawer looking for toys, and ran my toe right over, ripping the nail halfway... It's just about grown out and healed up now, so that's no longer a big deal... Just something that happened during the time I wasn't posting.

Adam's niece, I suppose I can call her my niece, too :-) , works at McDonald's, and it's fun to go through the drive through and see her once in a while. I've only got to see her once, but it's amazing to think that she's so grown up now. It reminds me that he and I have been together for five years, as of this month, actually. When I knew her, she was just a pre-teen/tweenage girl, and now she's already been through a serious relationship and is even past being a freshman in high school. And then I get to thinking - wow, my baby girl Tricity is already four, now! How can time go by so fast when it used to drag on when I was younger? It's not fair... I want more time in my life...

Two of my cousins are having babies. My cousin Luella is having a girl, and my other cousin is having a boy. They are even due around the same time. Maybe like a week or two apart. I'm really excited for them, but man... I wish I could have another one so bad... The whole time I was growing up, I'd never imagined it would be me who was the one to blame for not being able to have kids with my partner. I always thought that if that was going to happen, it would be the guy's fault, but it's all because of my hormones being imbalanced, and it messes up my system. I wish I could afford hormone therapy, but we don't have that kind of money...

My friend Tahnee is opening up her photography studio. Yay! I'm so excited for her! She's a fabulous photographer! She took some of Tricity for me, and I was in love with her work. I'll have to post a few some time, if I haven't already. Sometimes I'll backdate new posts about past events to when the events actually happened, and then you'll see them before posts like this, where I talk about updates.

Now that Adam is going to be working again, he mentioned that maybe we can put Tricity back in gymnastics. Man, that would be great. She talks about it every once in a while, so I know she remembers it. We just didn't have the money to put her back in, but it was a great way for her to work off some of that energy of hers, and hopefully she'll be better at listening this time, too.

I think that's pretty much all I've got for now... I'll work on getting those pictures put up and doing more updates, but I can't guarantee anything. Life just gets so crazy sometimes! So until next time... Ta!

Early Birthday Prezzies

Well I'm a redhead again. After five years without dying my hair, I felt like having a change, so I bought the cheap ones this time, and dyed my hair red as a birthday present to myself. If Adam gets me anything, he can get me the expansion pack for Sims 3. I didn't get any pictures of it yet since I haven't fixed it since taking a shower... lol Plus I'm not too confident on taking pictures of myself, to be honest...

I got a package from my Aunt and Uncle yesterday. They got Tricity a Disney Princess swimming suit for her birthday with a swimsuit cover. It's SOOOO CUTE!

Mom also got her a Tinkerbell swimsuit that maybe she can wear tomorrow if they set up the pool. I don't have it with me (she's going to put it on when we go over there), so here's a picture I found online of it:

She got her some other things for her birthday, too, but I'm not going to spoil the surprise just yet until after Tricity opens them ;-)

For me, they sent me another fairy from the Flower Fairies collection. I got one for Christmas that is a mistletoe fairy, and this time, I got the Iris fairy with a little garden orb and some mini watering cans. I love it. Mom said "Keep it up, and you'll start a collection!" and I said "I hope so!" I love fairies :-)

Lastly, I made Tricity a bracelet for herself. It used to be mine, but she liked it, so I took off some beads so it would fit her, and then I retied it so she could have it for herself.

Mayfest - 2010

Well I forgot to tell everyone how Mayfest went, so here are some photos. There were a lot more, but I didn't want to take up too much space, so here were some of the highlights. :-D It was such a BEAUTIFUL day, and the weather was perfect. It was sunny but cool, so we could wear long sleeves without sweating. I was so glad we waited to go until Saturday.

First we went to the Craft Fair, and we didn't find much to buy... I got ideas on prices for necklaces, though. I never really know what to price my necklaces as, but going to craft fairs always gives me an idea on the price. Then we happened to find a Scooby-Doo denim skirt for Tricity. It was a regular blue jean skirt that someone sewed a tie-dye looking ruffle on it, with a Scooby-Doo print. It was only $5 and you KNOW we had to get it. Adam was excited, being the big Scooby-Doo fan that he is :-) lol

Then we went to the 'sand art' booth, and we let Tricity pick out what she wanted to do. She picked the elephant, and I helped her fill it up with the sand. She scooped, and I held the funnel.

And then here she was showing off her work of art. I plan on hanging it on her shelves with her other special stuff.

From the craft fair, we walked on over to the rides. We were just going to play games, because later that day, she was going to come back to the carnival and ride rides with her cousins. Here she is picking up fish (they don't use ducks anymore, I guess?)

She played a lot of games and got about 3 stuffed animals as prizes. She also got a tiara, a sparkly baton, this dolphin, which was as tall as her, and this very noisy trumpet that Adam didn't want her to pick out, but I let her get it anyway  ;-)

For every game, she won a prize, whether she won the game or not. These carnival people were so nice. I remember when I was a kid, if you lost, you lost, but she always wins something :-)

After the games, we went to Pizza Hut. I guess it was my Mother's Day dinner? lol It was just a day early. (I also got two tomato plants, a new memory card for my camera, and rechargeable batteries. No surprises, just things I needed... :-( and then we went over to my moms and they cooked for us. That was the best part :-D but anyway-) Here is Tricity drawing on the place-mat (and the table) at Pizza Hut:

We went back to the rides later that evening and teamed up with my brother Tommy and his wife Mary, and they had Jolie and Khloe (Devin stayed home with Grandma). Here was Tric and Jolie on the planes. Man, did she look serious or what? She actually started crying after this, because she thought she was going to fall when the plane would rise and drop...

After that, they rode in a car together, and she really started to cheer up after this and enjoy the rides. She was still too little for the swings, the tilt-a-whirl, the ferris-wheel and stuff like that, but at least they had quite a few rides for the little kids :-)

Then they rode these bucket things, and man... Khloe LOVED them and did NOT want to get off!

After that, they got on the carousel. Jolie and Khloe sat on horses next to each other with Mary holding Khloe, and Adam put Tricity on a horse, and he held onto her. (Here, you can see the Scooby Doo skirt, too)

Then they rode the carriages, which is very much like the cars only it's girly, and Jolie rode by herself while Khloe and Tric shared a cart.

They rode one more time on the bucket ride thingy, and then we only had two tickets left, so Adam took Jolie with him to ride the tilt-a-whirl. After the rides, we saw our friends Buddy and Julie there with their two boys, and I got a picture of Tricity and Gabirel.

We got a funnel cake, some cotton candy, and went home. It was a good time. I think the kids had a lot of fun together :-) We could have stayed even longer just to talk and hang out with people, but I had to get to work that night. I think Jolie got a few more tickets after we left and rode the bigger rides. I felt bad that Tricity was still too little to ride them with her this year, but maybe next year she'll be a little bigger? She's just so tiny. Plus, after her reaction on the planes, I thought maybe she would have a queasy stomach when it came to rides like Adam does. Me? I got a stomach of steel. Anyway, it was a perfect day :-D