Totally Talented Tuesday

ok, Matthew is just funny because he doesn't know how to act in front of a video camera. He thinks it's a still camera. The totally talented part comes from Abigail. She's going to kill me for having this on video.

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♥Lisa♥

The Kids farm animal field trip

I meant to post this a while back. Enjoy.



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Wishy wow wow

That's what it sounds like when Matthew says Chihuahua. Sometimes you gotta love speech problems, lol. I rented Beverly Hills Chihuahua for the kids.




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Spotlight Sunday- Three Peas Co.

For other Spotlight Sunday post go here.

As you know every Sunday I spotlight something I really like that I have come across on the web. This Sunday happens to be a company that I won an outfit from for Kaitlen.

It's not that great of a pic because it was still dark out in the morning. Kaitlen wanted to wear it to school. It's a cute pettiskirt with pink leopard ribbon and a coordinating tank with a pink leopard flower.

Three Peas Co.

What I am actually spotlighting from the company is they actually have a boys line of clothing. Not many stores out there do that and not this cute.


Appliqued tank top
Cool BeaniesVery hip tie on a tank.
Cute matching onesie with a tie and beanieIf you have a little boy and want something unique for him go check out their boys line. If sister wants something too there are lots of adorable girls items.... and you know, you can probably have them do a matching boy/girl set.

(all the boy clothing pics are from Three Peas Co.)

♥Lisa♥

My Gene Image give away

Over at momdot they are having a contest to win the coolest most unique thing ever! Your DNA as a piece of art!! The contest runs until the end of the month. Go over and start getting your entries in.

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Sherrice Iverson

Has been on my mind a lot lately so I thought I would look her up and share her with you.

October 20, 1989 -- May 25, 1997
She was raped and murdered in a Primm Nv casino in the woman's bathroom.
I'll let you search the story. I have almost thrown up twice just reading.

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$328,835 photo

Very nice picture, nice meaning.

Absolutely friggin terrifying

Can you imagine the people on the ground or in buildings seeing that??? wtf! Winner of the ding dong idea of the decade!


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They're not babies anymore :(

look at the tiny head, lol.

All 10 of them.

You can see the big difference in the bantams and rhode island reds.

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100$ eye buy direct GC

For the Love of Baby is having a contest for 100$ GC for eyebuy direct. Head on over and check it out! some of their glasses are really cheap, you could get several pairs for 100$.



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Our cake lady is moving

to NEW ZEALAND!!!! who's going to do our cakes. Im talking locally because my SIL makes all our get together cakes. Like Kaitlens and Abbies party shes doing the princess cakes and we are going to do Matthews party on the 4th of July at their house, but their are some times here and there we need our local baker, bahhhh.




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My MRI results

I went for my follow up appointment with Dr. H. My liver panel came back great and the liver is functioning normal. My cystic ducts are clear and there are no residual stones left, which is what he expected. The only thing that was seen was a 1cm fibrosis spot on my liver. He says that is from the surgery and that the rest of my pain is most likely from adhesions. The radiologist wants to repeat an MRI in 6 months to check on the spot. Dr H says that its nothing to worry about, that if radiology was worried they'd want me to follow up in 3 months or 6 weeks and that's not the case. So, in 6 months i'll follow up with Dr H and we'll talk more about the adhesions. Right now i'm just going to live with them.

♥Lisa♥

8 things about me

I was tagged by Jenn over at I hate Whine!!

ok, this took me like 3 days to do. I had to keep hitting save and coming back to it.

8 Things I look Forward To ....

1. The last day of school for the kids
2. Matthews 5th birthday :(
3. Our summer vacation
4. Jenn having her baby
5. Kaitlen's first ball game of the season. we keep getting rained out.
6. Kaitlen's graduation from Kindergarten
7. the rain backing off a bit
8. a good nights sleep

8 Things I did Yesterday .....

1. cleaned kaitlen's room
2. laundry
3. went grocery shopping at Walmart
4. changed light bulbs
5. made pizza for dinner, yum
6. watched some tv
7. bathed the kids
8. got their school clothes ready

8 Things I wish I could do.......

1. sing
2. knit
3. wake up refreshed
4. be organized
5. go relax on a beach in Mexico
6. go on a fabric shopping spree
7. have my own sewing room/office
8. sleep

8 Shows I watch .......
1. Nancy Grace
2. Issues with Jane Valez-Mitchell
3. Diners, drive-in and Dives
4. Chopped
5. CNN
6. cartoons
7. what ever Ben is watching
8. Sci-Fi channel

Ok that's my 8's , now I need to tag 8 blogs to play along !

I pick :

1. Hubby, Bully, & Boys... Oh Wine!

2. Just a day with the fam...

3. Lily Mae

4. Mommy from the midwest

5. What's meant to be will always find a way

6. The official blog of Krimsin

7. Our life as an Air Force family

8. Life is to short not to be happy

Here's the rules:

1. Mention the name of the person who tagged you.

2. Do the lists of 8.

3. Tag 8 Bloggers.

4. Let them know that they have been tagged!


♥Lisa♥

May is Asian Heritage Month

I had no idea!! I definitely think that a trip to our favorite Filipino restaurant is in order. Maybe I'll actually attempt to make biko. Show the kids the Philippines online. Share with them where 1/4 of their heritage is from.
Betty and Bill should be here. Isn't that what grandparents are for. They would have been telling the kids about it the whole time.


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Organix Coconut milk Shampoo and Conditioner!!

Over at The Screamin' Deal she is giving away 5 sets of Organix Coconut Milk Shampoo and Conditioner. Head on over and check her out. With 5 set being given away, you have a good chance at winning.


♥Lisa♥

Life in the country

I found this on our porch today. It is really gross, so I'm being nice and linking you to the pic and it's your choice if you want to look at it. *here is the link* It appears K9 and could be a coyote foot/leg or someones beloved fido. Thanks critter for bringing it on my porch.

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Totally Talented Tuesday

Back in March, the Ides of March. Ben and the guys went fishing. They actually stayed up all night and then fished all day. I think these are strippers. He brought some home and we still haven't ate them.

for more TTT go here.


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Abbie drowned my phone

I don't remember what day it was but Abbie brings me my phone and it is dripping wet. I take it all apart and leave it to dry. I had some hopes it would come back to life, after all, I have washed and dried the kids hand held video games and they still work. My hopes were dashed by one flash on the screen and then straight to black. sigh.... by smart phone.... smart phone I only had since December!!!! maybe it wasn't so smart?? Why didn't it yell for help, lol.

Again, I'm not sure what day it was, maybe friday? idk. I was enjoying my freedom from the phone. The two kids and i left early to go eat lunch before picking up the older kids from school. As we are eating Sonic Bens pulls up and announced we are hard to track down. lol. It was almost 3, he should have been at work, not in our town at our sonic,lol. He hands me a phone. I tell him I don't want it, take it back (i really was enjoying no phone, lol). He says nooooo, take it. It's not a smart phone and that he renewed thomas' cell contract and got the phone for 20$.

So I took it. what else was I suppose to do. It's an LG Banter and I like LG, it's a pretty good phone. If it was a smart phone I'd like it better than my MotoQ. So this is my temp phone untill we plunk down the money for a full price smart phone. I'm going to go with Blackberry this time.

oh, Thomas you ask? Yeah... he has abused his cell phone privilages way to many times by running up the bill. He no longer uses the cell phone.

♥Lisa♥

I broke down and bought 'em

Ok, all our light bulbs literally go out with in the same week. Trust me, by bulb 4-5-6 I'm cussing at it. lol. So, at walmart today i bought a 3 pack of these bulbs. My box said lasts 6 yrs though. I swear I'm keeping the receipt and box and they better last 6 yrs, lol. Oh, and it shines no where near as bright as a 75 watt bulb. My next grocery shopping trip I'll pick up another box and so on until all my bulbs look like little tornados.

♥Lisa♥

Spotlight Sunday- Be Jewelry

Spotlight Sunday. You can find my other spotlights here.

Today I want to share with you Be Jewelry.

Let me tell you how I found her. I was searching online for Down Syndrome Awareness (that's another post for later) when i was looking at the images I came across this.

Then I clicked on the image, I just loved what it said. (What a good brother, huh?)
"this pendant was designed by Micah. his little sister has Down syndrome, aka trisomy 21, and this represents three chromosomes on the 21st set, a total of 47 instead of the usual 46. Micah's creativity is AMAZING. :)"
So I looked around her site a little more and saw this bracelet and fell in love with it.

so much so, that I emailed Betsy to ask her if she could make me one with dandelions instead of shamrocks.
After emailing back and forth she had a design in mind and it was going to be a pendant instead of a bracelet cause funny thing is???? I don't wear bracelets or even a watch, lol. I just loved her bracelet :)
The front of my bracelet has 3 dandelions on the it. It's for me, Kaitlen and Abigail. I was going to do something for the boys later. Then Mommy guilt hit me and I definitely didn't want 5 dandelions on the front that would be to much so on the back she put a heart and then the first letter of each of the kids names T.C.K.M.A. The back turned out so great I could really wear the necklace either way. oh, the fly-a-ways on the dandelions, 5 of them are holes that go all the way through,1 for each kid. She came up with that. I knew some were going to go all the way through, but she came up with the 5, one for each kiddo. Yes, she's a mom. mom. to. 4. boys. one of which is a Matthew.... i tell you, it's the name, and it's no coincidence when a child is named Matthew :)


Another item of hers that i really liked was this necklace.

I don't know if you notice, but i do. Her work is very different than what you see floating around the blogosphere. Very unique, very hands on. oh, my pendant is VERY sturdy/hardy. Nothing is going to happen to that. EVER. SERIOUSLY.
Since it's close to Mother's Day I told Ben it was my Mother's Day gift :)

When you go over to Be Jewelry be sure to click on The Beckoning link. It'll end up taking you to youtube and it is really neat.

♥Lisa♥

12 Years Ago

Ben and I met :) Tina and I went dancing at the Cowboy Boogie in Anaheim, Ca and Ben asked me to dance.

Here we are at Knott's Berry Farm. You can see part of Thomas' head. Gabe took the pic.

Here we are at my BIL's graduation from the LAPD academy. I had to call in sick to work, they wouldn't let me have the day off.

Awwww, we were so cute back then. And so YOUNG! lol. We hit it of right from the start. We both wanted lots of kids and liked the same things. We married 8 1/2 months later. Though it took longer to get our family started than we expected, we did pretty good. 5 kids altogether, would have loved 6 but darn pregnancy isn't so easy!

ETA- ok, im editing to add Tina's favorite part. you'll have to go read last yrs part.


♥Lisa♥

Win a butterfly garden

Enter for you chance to win a butterfly garden from Insect Lore over at What now baby. Head on over and check it out. Insect Lore has a lot of cool stuff.
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Kaitlen wanted her haircut

Kaitlen has been wanting her hair cut to her chin and I finally did it.

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Cherries Apron

Hi everyone. I made this cutesy apron as a giveaway over at Five Monkies Review Head on over and check her out and enter for your chance to win it. It's just screaming at you to make a cherry pie! BTW i make an awesome cherry pie, not that overly sweet goop in a can stuff. I'll have to post the recipe.


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Wordless Wednesday

Kaitlen with one of her best friends Jasmine on their field trip.
For more WW heat over to Momdot.

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Because I can, lol

Abbie is prepared ;) ok, I swear i don't have loads of free time on my hands and it only took like 10 minutes to make. She's not crying because of the mask, she crying because Cody pulled some kind of prank on her and she came to tell me. She happens to really like the mask because it's hers and none of the other kids have one. Now my kids want Dr costumes, lol.



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Paper or Plastic?

I went to the store after picking the kids up from school and she asked me paper or plastic? I looked at my stuff and said that it was ok, I didn't need either. She gave me the weirdest look (like I'd grown a horn out of my head) and said, really?.... yeah.. really. I had a case of water, a gallon of milk, cereal, and juice. Nothing needed to be bagged. I think it kinda stressed her out, lol.

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Totally Talented Tuesday

Last week Matthew's preschool had their field trip and at the beginning of it they got to play at the park. We'd never been to that park and it was very cool.
Matthew was determined to climb on that thing (it moved up and down) stand up and jump off it.
And he did!

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Are you worried about the Swine Flu?

I'm just wondering what every ones thoughts were right know since it's fairly new out in the news. I know Americans are fairing it pretty well, with only one hospitalized and no deaths. Mexico isn't doing so well with many people dieing and that is scary to me. It has spread outside of North America. It's kinda the whole unknown thing, is it going to plateau not far from where we are at or is it going to make history.

At times I feel fine about it but then I think of Kaitlen. She's my sickly one. All of my kids can get the same virus and shes down and out twice as hard and twice as long. She'll get the fever, ear inf, Bronchitis, laryngitis (she just got over that) and of course pneumonia. With her poor immune system and the fact that it's the pneumonia that's killing the people with the flu, that's what's scary to me. Then I have Matthew. He'll catch the same cold as everyone and it will only last half the amount of time it normally does with the other kids. He has an awesome immune system. Both Kaitlen and Matthew were breast fed and kaitlen for A LOT LONGER THAN MATTHEW! (and Matthew was for almost 2 yrs) so no one can argue the whole formula vs breast thing.

When i was looking for an image for this post i found this article and it was from two yrs ago. I thought it was interesting, it felt unfinished, but interesting.

Here are some links in case you haven't read about it and want to. 1, 2, 3

oh, and the image was from 2003, so even though this strain is new to us, the situation isn't.

Feel free to leave your honest opinion/thoughts. This isn't a debate and it sure isn't a board on ivillage, LOL!!! ;)

♥Lisa♥