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HAPPY 16th Wedding Anniv. THE BOOK!

So today is my 16th wedding anniversary.  We had no plans..  been there done that.. ya know?
well I of course.. couldn't sleep past 5am.. why you ask?  cuz today I was going to be allowed to sleep in!
HA! so as I'm laying there trying my best to fall asleep.. I get this Idea.. COFFEE TABLE!!
Up I go.. Dressed I am!  in the garage like a woman on a mission!
Its so early the dogs didn't even wanna come with me..
Now to build me a table.. if only I could find the darn tools!
I have a ton of empty cases.. where lovely tools USE to live!
after about a hour or so.. Logan comes out(in undies of course!) thinkin he was going to kill some stranger that was taking his stuff!
sees its only me .. yells HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! and off he goes..
comes back in a bit dressed and ready to build..
I've now found tons of stuff I thought we had lost.. and even some tools.. so I'm thinkin.. OK! LETS START
I even have the air compressor locked and loaded!
course now Logan and I are standing there going NOW WHAT!
I only had the vision of the top of the table.. ya know.. no legs or structure..
we cant find the nail gun.. Logan of course goes.. DING! DADDY! off he goes.. comes back and says.. daddy doesn't know where it is..
um ok.. thanks! (daddy is still in bed of course!)  PRESTO! find the gun.. but no nails.. off he goes again.. back in he comes..
daddy doesn't know EXACTLY where they are but he will be right here.. umm OK!
and yeppers here he walks in.. all smiles.. gives me a morning kiss .. tells me happy 16th.. I see the nails! 
dontcha love when help arrives only to see what it is you were looking for the min they arrive!
the door fly's open.. there is Josh in all his glory.. madder then all get out.. screaming to SHUT UP!! SOME PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO SLEEP!..
we all laugh.. and promptly notify him that it is now10am.. (I actually didn't get out of bed till 730.. not 5am~)
with a few pointers I'm off and away.. building my table..
get the rough of it done.. by now its 1:30.. and hotter then helllllllllo!
I come in.. and say.. ya know the only way I'm going to get cool is to go to the movies..
OK.. up we jump.. slimy and all.. and head to see KUNG FO PANDA!
ahhhh.. its freezing in there.. and its great!  alittle bit into the movie.. ut oh.. tummy..
off I run.. there I sit.. back to the show I go.. few mins later.. off I run.. there I sit..
back to the show. few mins later.. off I run...there I sit.. back to the show..
see the last few mins.. and its time to go..lol GEE THANKS!
Home we come.. and I just cant let the table sit.. I have another idea!
of I go.. cept.. I have no clue how to do what it is I'm thinking..
back out Cody comes.. we get that stuff done.. back in the house him and the boys go..
I decide to play some more.. do some sanding.. and make some coasters for my new table..
now its 9:30pm.. and I'm dirty.. stinky.. hungry.. TIRED.. and hurting..lol now that is a great wedding anniversary!
I think I spent about 2.5 hours in TOTAL with Cody all day! lol
anywho.. here are some pics.. now no pointing at things..
its only put together.. and only the top sanded. what I'm going to do from here.. NO CLUE!

close up of the table top

MY COASTERS!

TAGGED

OASE thought I needed some taggin..
RULES
1. Link your tagger and list these rules on your blog
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
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1. My tagger was OASE of PANDA BEAR DESIGNS
(which is kinda neat.. as I've been known as AMANDA PANDA all my life)
2. Seven facts about me, this should be interesting.
     1.  I once painted my entire kitchen with huge cow spots
     2.  I'm 10 years older then my only sibling
     3.  I've never met my father
     4.  Before my boys were born I collected Noah's Ark stuff
     5.  I was going to name my first boy NOAH
     6.  I wanted to be a vet when growing up
     7.  I'm terrified of FROGS
3. Now I have to tag seven people. I am going to tag :
I choose ALL THE DSO GIRLS (links are to the right!)

HAPPY?? Memorial Day!!

OH MY LORD SHOOT ME NOW!!
its almost 8 and I'm JUST getting done.. from.. cleaning and redoing one sons room
didn't start out that way.. Had this grand idea this morning while laying in bed , I'm going to get up and go make him a ton of little shelves all over his room!  using a lot of the left over wood from the bathroom remodel.  (they are only about 4 inches wide)  was going to put these all over in his non poster spaces.. so that he could put all of his transformers (his daddy collected them as a kid.. gave them to Logan,  Logan then started collecting them cuz daddy did... but doesn't REALLY play with them.. )
so to get them out of this huge eye sore of a box that is always in the way.. I was going to "display" them all over the walls..
GOOD IDEA!  cept.. I couldn't get to the walls!  (good thing my aunt , while here visiting, "helped" him clean his room.)  cuz 10 hours later.. IM DONE!!  minus all the shelves tho..lol  I did get everything CLEEEEEEEAN.. vacuumed, dusted, FOUND.. and then I rearranged his room.. so now those of us not 9 can WALK thru it!  always a bonus I think!
I'm beat.. but he is totally diggin his room.. keeps telling me I'm the best mom in the world.. HAHA! 
who woulda thunk cleaning the kids room
(he did MOST of the work.. ) would grant me this award?!
so that is how I spent my "Holiday"  1 room outta 10 aint bad.. right??? lol 
**side note**  do ALL boys sneak/hide food in their rooms?  I mean, he keeps our kitchen CLEAN of anything edible.. but yet.. the amount of crumbs, packages, umm.. no longer edible..lol bits.. that I found.. was just amazing..
all boys are sneakers.. RIGHT?  lol

Happy Mother's Day to me!

The boys let me sleep in.. then gave me my present
They picked it out themselves
3 hoops for the 3 of them.
a big one with diamonds from daddy
the medium sized one from logan
and a skinny one from josh..
Josh really wanted to get me hoop ear rings that were the size of cds! lolol
but dad suggested that maybe I would rather have a ring.
WHEEEEEEEEEEEW!

Early Morning M~E~L~T down

Backtracking - Last night was horrid for dinning out.. My all time fav restaurant.. is switching things. WHY? it aint broke! so me and the boys dinner basically sucked.. they at least did get a bit to eat.. I opted to never mind my order.. So Cody comes home from work/school and announces he's STARVING and to get ready to go.. we tell him the story.. now he's bummed .. cuz he wants to go eat.. so we all get re ready and out we go (its 8pm by this time!) We decide to head to Red Robin.. Never been there on a family night.. it was fun.. they had a balloon lady and face painting.. well the boys were not hungry of course.. so they got a shake.. and went and stood in line to be painted.. Josh opted for a GIRAFFE (big shocker there) and Logan opted for a DIAMOND BACK. They were so proud.. until.......... I know.. its the mom in me to add the BUT......... Until I told them.. oh dear.. its bed time guys.. I offered to wrap them in plastic.. but soon realized its tooooo hot and they would sweat the bad boys off in no time.. so we all opted for a RISK IT approach.. 5AM.. yes you read that right.. 5AM they are both up.. frantic.. and miserable.. Their paintings were missing crucial parts and smudged on other parts.. told them to go back to bed.. we would deal with it in the morn.. I did manage to catch a cat name.. .. 6:45AM.. realize I'm fighting a uphill battle.. and go ahead and get up.. tell them to get dressed and eat.. we then had to hunt for paint.. I keep tons of it around.. think we could find the colors we needed? HECK NO! anywho.. we make some changes to some parts.. and away we go..

Josh's giraffe.. ended up with no head what so ever.. and a missing chest.. most of that was found on his upper arm and face.. I didn't wanna re do the entire thing.. so we hoped for the best.. got the white base on.. got the black outline on.. and umm.. we have no brown.. we have lots of brown bottles of DRIED paint.. but nothing workable.. We did manage to get him eating something again.. I wanted to give him some branches.. josh insisted leaves must go BACK ON IT!.. ok ok ok.. my first attempt did nothing for him.. he wanted it to have BIG LEAVES.. oooooooook! big leaves it is..


Logan's snake had much bigger issues.. half of him was on Josh's back side.. (I told them to not sleep in the same bed - but some nights.. they just sneak it) other parts of his snake.. were flat out.. GONE.. others.. on the face and LEG.. lol guess you know how he sleeps! Once again.. this darn snake is covered in brown.. so I get the white base back on.. (had to just redo the entire thing) and it started mixing with the black.. so its gray.. he thought that was cool.. GREAT !!!.. get almost done with everything.. I'm now on the head.. and he screams.. STOP!!!!!!!!! the lady last night had used glitter paint.. GEE THANKS LADY! well I don't have glitter paint.. now could I find glitter at this time of the morn.. I'm amazing myself I'm getting paint on a human.. so we alter the face a smidgen.. of course.. he's now much meaner.. with bloody fangs and glowing red eyes.. He thought .. in the end... that it looked better then it did last night.. WHOOO HOOO.. YOU GO MOM!! Course the lady last night used face painting paint.. and I of course used reg paint.. so mine is already cracking.. So I guess I know what I'm getting next time I go to the store.. now to just fine the GLITTER STUFF!!

CHECK OUT THIS LAYOUT!

KimB did this AMAZING layout using a paper from paper pack1.. had I know you could do something so amazing with it, I might have just paid her to do things with all my stuff! Im just in Awe over it.. STUNNING

embarrassing.. but oh well.. people wanna know

So we have belt tests approx every 3 months. This particular belt test dang near got the best of me. Ive yet (until this one) to have a issue breaking any of boards.. actually quite the opposite. I'm known for my powerful breaks..
(I know I'm fat! so stop going.. uhhh YEA RIGHT! - but my legs are solid muscle) I even have several of the honored holes in the ceiling! ANYWHO! This break we had to spin around and kick from behind.. well I'm not sure if you noticed or not.. but I'm no ice skater! No matter what I did.. I kept missing.. or wasn't lined up right and didn't have the power I needed. Well after about the 6th try.. I got it.. FINALLY! and just so happens our mental note for that belt was PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE! fitting don't you think??

Vday bags are DONE!!!

Here is the gift that Logan is giving to his SPECIAL GIRL OY
He took me to the store and picked the stuff out and said.. MAKE THIS.. umm OK!

Here is what Josh is giving his SPECIAL someone.. He has always given jewelry to his ladies..lol

I was informed.. NO GIRLIE.. they wanted Tux's for their bags.. umm.. NO.. this was going to be as good as it gets..

LOGANS CLASS

JOSH'S CLASS
and yes.. the girls things are now in bags so no one can see.lol BOYS!

my not so ordinary life

So this will be the cover page fora album Im going to do for my boys.. they LOOOVE hearing stories about me being a kid and so on.. and love hearing about our life.. so Ive got to start scrapping them.. for the future!

TEACHER GIFT!

This was my first time ever using Polymer Clay.. It was pretty fun.. I can see why this is addictive! All I bought was the clay.. I didnt buy any of the "tools" they say you need. I just walked around the house and found things I could use..

shoot me now!

om gosh.. someone PLEASE shoot me!
so my friend calls at 9 last night.."come sit with me in the ER"
3:45 am.. I roll into the house.. to find hubby still up.. proclaiming hes been waiting up for me... my reply... "then who will be up with Josh all morning since we are both up all night?" he says " well we have managed to sleep so far.. WEEEEE will figure it out!" HA .. WE HAHAHAHAHA.. so here I am.. with a migraine.. dead to the world.. sore throat.. tummy ache.. Logan be bopping around.. josh proclaiming to be healed! and Cody is fast asleep.. WE sure did figure it out! lol OY...

My latest project!!

started this stupid things weeks ago then with josh and life.. it just got put off..
then I discovered.. AFTER my first sketch was drawn and the wood cut.. It was not going to be what I wanted..
so I sketched again.. went and had more wood cut.. only to discover.. it cant be built like that! (this is where a carpenter would laugh his buns off at me)
so 3rd sketch and a tetris of sorts of the cut wood.. this is what I have.. it was suppose to be a wall of cubes.. like a cubed book shelf kinda thing.. *coughs* well.. maybe in my next project..lol
this also was suppose to STAND..lol but when I asked hubby to hep me assemble.. he crabbed the warped wood.. so its the leaning tower of paper now.. which is FINE.. he helped.. so I don care! it can lay just as easy as it can stand!!
but this will hold ALSMOST all my 12x12 papers..lol yea.. hubby is not thrilled at my amount of stuff gather again.. but I tried to show him.. I've been taking things out of where they were so I can SEE them..
so I think my next project is to make myself a desk/work table.. and then attempt those darn cube things again..lol

Another wild hair...

So I was looking around today at all the Fall sales and stuff.. and saw some pumpkins that I really liked.. so I came home and made something KINDA like them.. I dont like the large base but it was too easy to tip without.. and I didnt want to cut a new base so I grabbed a scrap I already had laying around.. Had many people email and ask.. WHATS THIS MADE OF?? Its a end cut from a 2x4!~ I had a scrap laying around and went to work carving and cutting..

how cool to have caught this!!

I think I will always treasure this image! Im very lucky to have such loving boys. They are eaither kissing or huggin or they are arguing.. but SECONDS after a fight. its back to the love. I cant wait until they are adults... so I can give this image to them!

not your TRADITIONAL Halloween "Jack"

Here in New Mexico we like to do things a bit different..lol

The boys just sat and watched this fella have his share of the halloween goodies and the bird feed. Im thinkin he booted the cottontails out and has made home in our overgrown shrubs!

SK8R DUDE

Here is my SK8R DUDE!!!
This is the first parts of a new kit Im working on!
Its inspired by one of his new school shirts!

GET TO KNOW ME!

1. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? yes.. Miss Kitty on Gunsmoke
2. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED?Last Monday after sparing
3. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING Sometimes-alot of people like it tho
4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT?Ham
5. DO YOU HAVE KIDS? 2 Logan 8 and Josh 7
6. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDSWITH YOU? YES.. I rock as a friend.. least I think so..
7. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT? They say I do
8. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS kinda.. I had them out but they grew back
9. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP? HECK NO!
10. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL? Capt Crunch PB one
11. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF? No, but always re tie them to put them on
12. DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG? Ive been told I am.. but often wish I wasnt
13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM? Cold Stone Cheesecake Fantasy
14. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE? shoes-it says alot about a person
15. RED OR PINK? red
16. WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? fat
17. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST My Grandpa
18. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO SEND THIS BACK TO YOU? if they want
19. WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING? no shoes.. foot is still really swollen and black and blue.. and brown shorts
20. WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ATE? bourbon chicken
21. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? some movie cody has on
22. IF YOU WHERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE? not sure.. maybe silver!
23. FAVORITE SMELLS? fresh cut alphalpha
24. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THEPHONE? Cathy
25. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU? Yeppers
26. FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH? hockey or football
27. HAIR COLOR? brown
28. EYE COLOR? hazel
29. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS? nope
30. FAVORITE FOOD? Lasagna
31. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS? Happy endings
32. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED? Harry Potter
33. WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING baby blue
34. SUMMER OR WINTER? SPRING
35. HUGS OR KISSES? Kisses
36. FAVORITE DESSERT? cheesecake
37. MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND? I don't know
38. LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND? don't know
39. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW? I dont read books
40. WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? water spots
41. WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON T. V LAST NIGHT? fly boys
42. FAVORITE SOUND? baby laughs
43. ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES? neither
44. WHAT IS THE FARTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME? Michigan to New Mexico
45. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT? several
46. WHERE WERE YOU BORN? St Joseph MI
47. WHOSE ANSWERS ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING BACK? anyone

TAGGED!!

So both Lynn and Darlene tagged me.. sheeeeeeeeeeeeesh ladies!

7 THINGS ABOUT ME

1. Ive never done anything but get a hair cut(no perms or dyes)
2. I have a brother that is 10 years younger then I am.
3. I married my HS sweetie and we just celebrated our 15th year of marriage June 20th.
4. I dont eat condiments (ketchup, mayo.. that kinda thing.. Im a plain and dry kinda gal)
5. Ive lost 15lbs in the past 2 weeks just by cutting my calorie intake and upping my excersize.
6. I grew up on a ranch and was a cowgirl.
7. I am a clearence addict

TEACHER GIFTS

So we have NO money right now and it slapped me in the face this morning that tomorrow is the LAST DAY OF SCHOOL
and I have yet to get something together for the boys teachers..
well its hard to give a GOOD gift.. because Logan has 2 teachers and 3 EAs in him class then Josh has 1 teacher..
so this is what I came up with..lol went Target this morn for laundry soap and saw they had these freezer mugs on sale for 79 cents each.
then thought ok now what..? so kept walking... and saw some gum ...lol and went OH EXTRA.. I know its cheezie..lol but hey..
butt poor = cheap..lol

but I think they are CUTE!

The teachers get 3 packs of gum..lol

and the EAs get 2!