Remembering Mom

Today marks Mom being gone 2 years. This picture taken about 3 years ago....Mom, Dad, Justin, and I went to the coast for the day. Her favorite place....today we are going to the Ocean for Dinner and to just be there....something about it...

I miss her so much! I miss that she didn't get to meet Clayton and watch her grandbabies grow up....I miss that she isn't just a phone call away...she always made everything better...

Mom - We miss you and Love you!

Busted!

Clayton loves to get 'into" things...the pantry is a favorite...so if we leave the doors open and he catches his eye to it...beware he is on it....busted getting into my Ziploc loot! Crazy kid!

Thomas the train room

Todd always has a "honey do" list...although he is getting project done (down to 6 for now)...here is one he hopes to complete today, with Justin's master painter skills to help!

This will be Thomas Red on the bottom and Thomas Blue on top, white strip in middle and we got some "Thomas" decals at Target to add to the room. Pretty exciting.

Reading together.

Yesterday I was putting laundry away so the boys were in Justin's room "reading" books. This does mean taking all the books off the shelf...but they were in there for at least 30 minutes...Justin was very cute and when Clayton would get a book he shouldn't have, he would says "No Clayton, you can have this one"....or if he was chewing on them, etc...

So cute!

6 years ....

Yesterday Todd and I celebrated our 6 year anniversary. Wow has life changed since we got married....countless moves, 3 houses, a few cars, and 2 kids later...we find ourselves back close to my hometown (I never thought I would move back). We spend yesterday working around the house, getting plants for outside and then a nice dinner with the kids....

I have the best husband in the world! He works hard all week long and then works hard on the weekend around here with us.

Cheap Chicken

So, I just cooked up a bunch of Chicken for Cooking Club...it has been in the freezer for 2 months...a 4 pound back from Safeway. Now, usually I like the tenders from Costco, but when Chicken is on sale, I buy some...we bought some last Cooking Club when on a good sale...so we had some for this club cooking.

So, after I had cut off all the "gross" stuff, it was 20.50 Oz. of gross stuff to throw out. what a waste of my time. Tenders only have a tiny bit that I throw away and I never get bloody spots in them either. Here is my calculations

there is 64 oz to a 4 pound bag at 6.76 on sale, making it .105 per oz.

I had a good 43.50 oz to cook, still paying 6.76 for the 4 pounds bag, making this .155 per oz...and then if you calculate it, I paid 9.94 for that bag and 2.48 per pound!

So, moral of the story, but the good stuff from COSTCO!

Clatyon is Crawling...

Our house yesterday (saturday)

Clayton was still very fussy all day yesterday, so we hung out in the house...you can see his eyes still not 100%, luckily today he is better (sunday). He was happy for a bit pulling out all the books...and I was fine with it....I had been holding him for over 24 hours...on and off all the time since he was so sick...glad for a bit of a break.



Todd and Justin washed the Tahoe and cleaned it out on the nice sunny day we had yesterday....

More projects on our house...

Oh where oh where has my husband been? Busy building Clayton's built in for his room. Yes, the boys will have seperate rooms. Clayton has been in his own room for a few weeks now. He is such a light sleeper that every time we moved it woke him up...then he would cry, and all night of this was too exhausting...so now he gets his own room.

This is what it looked like before the project. The empty spot on the LEFT used to have a computer cabinet, but we sold it at our yard sale (which was awesome)....

Before....


And the after:


We are hoping that the measurements worked out correctly. Hope that Clayton's Crib will fit in there for now and then someday a full size bed....he hasn't ever actually slept in his crib....well, once for a nap. So, tomorrow we will move the crib over to his room and call it good. Will post more when that is done....so proud of my hard working hubby!

More projects on his "to do" list too.