my car is getting worked on tomorrow...soooo i will be home all day...i planned on going to the grocery store tonight for a few groceries and a couple 2 liters of diet coke to last me tomorrow and thursday....essential for my happiness!!!!! (seriously...i'm not joking!) So, as soon as heath gets home I'll grocery shop, he'll put the kiddos to bed...blah blah....and tomorrow without my car will be a cinch. But...
...it started snowing around 2pm today...so i thought...OK well as soon as the kiddos wake up from their naps we are RUNNING (while driving carefully of course) to walmart for coke and getting back cause i won't be able to go tonight...I was thinking---well the snow is only going to get worse so i should go now before it gets too bad and too dark.
um....note to self...check the weather report....if it says, "heavy snow, severe weather" don't venture out. Stupid me. I live around nothing but hills and highways. I headed to walmart....thinking that the snow wasn't too bad yet...I can do this! I got soooo close to getting my d.coke then decided to turn back home asap (you know...the feeling that says get your stupid butt back home now~!~!) My kids were loooving our little snow adventure but then
I GOT STUCK in the snow...they weren't so happy. Me neither.
Thank goodness I was only stuck for like 3 minutes....whew. Cars just went around me for a few but then my little tires decided to forgive me and NOT MAKE ME LEARN the hard way. Thank you thank you thank you. Will not be venturing out for addictive substances during a snow storm ever again.
-j
Tuesday, March 23
Thursday, March 18
what does this look like to you?
UPDATE: Added a picture of the shoe boxes per Tenille's request :)
Does this little image for tomorrow's forecast here in Broomfield Colorado...look like fun to you?! I tell you...my BOY IS SO EXCITED!!! I told him that it will snow a lot tomorrow and he's response was, "Wow Mom its going to snow AND STACK!? Can I please please play in the snow!" Yes!! Wow its so cute to see how exciting the white cold freezing stuff is. Yay.New favorite treasure... plastic shoe boxes from The Container Store. Oh my...if you haven't discovered these amazing creatures for organizing you should RUN to get them. They were recommended to me at an organization class I went to last week...the next day I went on down to that overpriced store...and FELL IN LOVE!! Confession: I've already purchased 2 cases (20 in each case)...they're $.20 cheaper per unit when you buy them in a case... My kids' closet is beautiful and my kitchen closet/pantry thing loooooves me, and up next.......drumroll....my craft stuff!! I'm absolutely giddy!
UPDATES: nothing new really...our first ward party is this weekend...jacob and lexi are loving sharing a room (like i hoped and prayed would happen!!)...they nap everyday with a few exceptions (in heaven)...I've been to walmart or target almost every single day since i moved here (ok that's just embarrassing!)...um...I'm excited for dancing with the stars---what's wrong with me?! I've never watched that show before...but I really want to watch Kate fall on her butt. haha. No really...I'm excited.
I'm off...to take advantage of this precious time with napping kiddos. j
Sunday, March 14
to do
note: tonight I'm slash happy...you'll see...
making my to do / shopping lists for the next few days...to start it all off with a bang i asked/begged my heath to load my goodwill donation / junk into the car tonight to i would have to do it in the am with my 2 little piglets at my feet...much to our joy/surprise/annoyance (word?) THE CAR was COVERED in SNOW! Ugh.
So....back to my to do list for tomorrow
1. scrape white crap off car
2. shake white crap off kids before putting them in the car
3. drive like a grandma to the post office
4. unload kids and try to keep them from playing in the white crap while we make a 2 minute run into the post office
5. shake white crap off kids and put them back into the car
6. drive like a grandma to target...
...
do you see how annoying it is to make my to do list when I start it off with THE WHITE CRAP!
on a happier note...honestly, I've been praying for snow...seriously I have...my boy has been wishing and begging for snow cause he just hasn't had enough fun in it yet...of course! :) so yes, I pray for the white crap. its not annoying cause its cold...its annoying cause its dirty. yes, I think the pretty white stuff falling from the sky makes everything dirty...the salt, the mud, the literally stripping at the front door, dirty car carpets, yucky snow and salt at the bottom of my favorite jeans, no sandals...neeeeeed I say more!?!
have I mentioned how happy I am here?! I am PROMISE! :D
i'm off :) nighty night!
making my to do / shopping lists for the next few days...to start it all off with a bang i asked/begged my heath to load my goodwill donation / junk into the car tonight to i would have to do it in the am with my 2 little piglets at my feet...much to our joy/surprise/annoyance (word?) THE CAR was COVERED in SNOW! Ugh.
So....back to my to do list for tomorrow
1. scrape white crap off car
2. shake white crap off kids before putting them in the car
3. drive like a grandma to the post office
4. unload kids and try to keep them from playing in the white crap while we make a 2 minute run into the post office
5. shake white crap off kids and put them back into the car
6. drive like a grandma to target...
...
do you see how annoying it is to make my to do list when I start it off with THE WHITE CRAP!
on a happier note...honestly, I've been praying for snow...seriously I have...my boy has been wishing and begging for snow cause he just hasn't had enough fun in it yet...of course! :) so yes, I pray for the white crap. its not annoying cause its cold...its annoying cause its dirty. yes, I think the pretty white stuff falling from the sky makes everything dirty...the salt, the mud, the literally stripping at the front door, dirty car carpets, yucky snow and salt at the bottom of my favorite jeans, no sandals...neeeeeed I say more!?!
have I mentioned how happy I am here?! I am PROMISE! :D
i'm off :) nighty night!
Tuesday, March 9
wow...funny
and it would probably be even more funny if i had actually seen High School Musical...one of the 100 movies they made.
j
Monday, March 1
napping kiddos :)
I loooove napping kids...don't you?! So far today I've washed and folded a few loads, unloaded the dishwasher and cleared out a few dishes in the sink, stepped in poop that smeared into the carpet (yuck!)...cleaned out the dining room area (basically just moved it all to my bedroom...its not all put away...um...and watched clifford with the kids. Love it. Lexi slept in her bed all night last night and didn't wake up once...so why do I feel more tired today than I have all week? And...Jacob slept til 8:30 this morning...saweeeet. I have no diet coke in the house and no motivation to leave to get some. Um...something MUST be wrong with me if I'm not willing to do a diet coke run!?! Geess. Lets see...in the way of updates...
We attended our new ward yesterday. It was good... and very similar to my old wards in Hemet and Corona CA. A good mix of ages and sages as I call it. We felt welcome yesterday. I think we found a babysitter...haha...that was HUGE on my list. lol. We won't be attempting to schedule a babysitter for a few months...but I wanted to scope out the teenager scene...worked out great and I really like her mom...we sat next to each other in relief society.
My master bedroom/office/storage room (yuck) isn't set up entirely yet...so my sanity isn't...I'll just stop there. I'm loving the weather still :) I CANNOT wait til I can take my kids to the zoo or the aquarium...I promised myself we would get passes to both as soon as I get this home in order...I looooove to take the kids to the zoo...I honestly think its more fun for me than it is for them...sad face...wish my mom could come too. Alrighty...maybe I shouldn't blog for a little while...I'm a little depressing... I'm fine over here! Honest....It just all creeps out when I'm blogging :D Oh well.
Thanks for all the love being sent my way...via email, comments on my blog, texts, etc...I really appreciate it....and need it. :)
and pics sometime soon...
j
We attended our new ward yesterday. It was good... and very similar to my old wards in Hemet and Corona CA. A good mix of ages and sages as I call it. We felt welcome yesterday. I think we found a babysitter...haha...that was HUGE on my list. lol. We won't be attempting to schedule a babysitter for a few months...but I wanted to scope out the teenager scene...worked out great and I really like her mom...we sat next to each other in relief society.
My master bedroom/office/storage room (yuck) isn't set up entirely yet...so my sanity isn't...I'll just stop there. I'm loving the weather still :) I CANNOT wait til I can take my kids to the zoo or the aquarium...I promised myself we would get passes to both as soon as I get this home in order...I looooove to take the kids to the zoo...I honestly think its more fun for me than it is for them...sad face...wish my mom could come too. Alrighty...maybe I shouldn't blog for a little while...I'm a little depressing... I'm fine over here! Honest....It just all creeps out when I'm blogging :D Oh well.
Thanks for all the love being sent my way...via email, comments on my blog, texts, etc...I really appreciate it....and need it. :)
and pics sometime soon...
j
Friday, February 26
stealing internet AGAIN....
Heath will probably have a heart attack when he realizes that i'm blogging while we're at a company party...I'm stealing away a few momnts to update my peeps... :0)
So....life is good here in Colorado...Loving our town...the shopping here is AWESOME! We live right next to Flatiron Mall .... I'm literally less than 2 miles from tons of restaurants, walmart, target, mcdonalds, chick fil a, um...what else do i need to survive? I'm looooving the area.
As far as my sardine can that I now call home...we're settling in...I'm very happy with our decision to move into a smaller place...I feel like I'm decluttering my life and shedding all the junk that we seem to have accumulated over the last 5 years.
THE WEATHER....I'm actually liking it...not to be comfused with Loving it...I think I prefer to be able to wear my flats and flip flops everyday... in sunny CA or AZ. There is snow on the ground...and moving day wasn't too tuff with that...cause the walkways and such were shoveled.
OH MY>>>>> Get this...while we were unloading the truck my boy PULLED THE FIRE ALARM!!! Seriously, kill me. I was already stressed out cause I was tired, and at any moment would burst into tears cause of my new found loneliness in my new city, I was sad cause of the size of my new home, and my kids were little punks (and rightfully so considering the last month of chaos)...and my 4 year old decided to top it all off with ALARMING the entire complex of their new neighbors! Welcome!!! The fire truck came and everything! Oh my. They were totally understanding and nice about it. Jacob went straight to time out and didn't know anything about the fire truck cause he was in trouble... Totally a funny event...but totally made me want to die. The fire alarm pull thing is 2 feet outside our front door....we literally walk by it every single time we leave our home.
I was joking with my sister (who is here for the week helping me with the move :) ... I said that I had Jacob pull the fire alarm to see how many stay at home mom's are in my complex...they all came running out with their kids....poor moms.... I just wanted to see how many are around...what a way to make friends...eh?!
I'm missing my mom. I want to go to her warm loving home for dinner on sunday. I want Jacob and Lexi to go to McDonalds with their friends and cousins. Sad face. I want to get a diet coke for me at sonic and pick up and extra for a friend... : ( boo hoo. I miss everything.
When my princess sees the snow outside she yells, "Snowman!" Cutie...she calls snow...Snowman. Love it. She's such a cutie. She will NOT wear her cute boots...and she won't wear her new snow hat. dumb.
My sister chelsey goes home tomorrow....boo! I wish I could just have her, kacie, and my mom rotate every week....so I always have a friend, helper, and a hug....all month long!
Ok...I've been away from the partay for like 15 minutes now. PLUS, I'm now officially emotional and look it...shoot. People keep popping their head in heath's office to say hello to the bosses wife...and I'm looking like an emotional wreck. Ugh.
So....life is good here in Colorado...Loving our town...the shopping here is AWESOME! We live right next to Flatiron Mall .... I'm literally less than 2 miles from tons of restaurants, walmart, target, mcdonalds, chick fil a, um...what else do i need to survive? I'm looooving the area.
As far as my sardine can that I now call home...we're settling in...I'm very happy with our decision to move into a smaller place...I feel like I'm decluttering my life and shedding all the junk that we seem to have accumulated over the last 5 years.
THE WEATHER....I'm actually liking it...not to be comfused with Loving it...I think I prefer to be able to wear my flats and flip flops everyday... in sunny CA or AZ. There is snow on the ground...and moving day wasn't too tuff with that...cause the walkways and such were shoveled.
OH MY>>>>> Get this...while we were unloading the truck my boy PULLED THE FIRE ALARM!!! Seriously, kill me. I was already stressed out cause I was tired, and at any moment would burst into tears cause of my new found loneliness in my new city, I was sad cause of the size of my new home, and my kids were little punks (and rightfully so considering the last month of chaos)...and my 4 year old decided to top it all off with ALARMING the entire complex of their new neighbors! Welcome!!! The fire truck came and everything! Oh my. They were totally understanding and nice about it. Jacob went straight to time out and didn't know anything about the fire truck cause he was in trouble... Totally a funny event...but totally made me want to die. The fire alarm pull thing is 2 feet outside our front door....we literally walk by it every single time we leave our home.
I was joking with my sister (who is here for the week helping me with the move :) ... I said that I had Jacob pull the fire alarm to see how many stay at home mom's are in my complex...they all came running out with their kids....poor moms.... I just wanted to see how many are around...what a way to make friends...eh?!
I'm missing my mom. I want to go to her warm loving home for dinner on sunday. I want Jacob and Lexi to go to McDonalds with their friends and cousins. Sad face. I want to get a diet coke for me at sonic and pick up and extra for a friend... : ( boo hoo. I miss everything.
When my princess sees the snow outside she yells, "Snowman!" Cutie...she calls snow...Snowman. Love it. She's such a cutie. She will NOT wear her cute boots...and she won't wear her new snow hat. dumb.
My sister chelsey goes home tomorrow....boo! I wish I could just have her, kacie, and my mom rotate every week....so I always have a friend, helper, and a hug....all month long!
Ok...I've been away from the partay for like 15 minutes now. PLUS, I'm now officially emotional and look it...shoot. People keep popping their head in heath's office to say hello to the bosses wife...and I'm looking like an emotional wreck. Ugh.
Saturday, February 20
moving update...
Blogging from my heath's laptop mooching off my parents wifi...
Leaving for CO tomorrow!! Yay! Most of the hard work is done...Truck loaded...house clean... :)
Saaaweeeet. Thanks to all my amazing friends for their help this week ... for their babysitting help, hugs, words of encouragement, fun girls lunches... I'm so sad to leave all my girlfriends!
Thanks to MY FAMILY for all their love and support...and HARD work during the move! My mom and sister in law cleaned my bathrooms!!! (and lots of other stuff...) Aren't they totally amazing!! I'm so sad to be moving so far from my BLOOD! (hahaha...morbid...LOVE IT!)
Seriously my heart is so full right now and empty at the same time with my thoughts of leaving AZ, tear...
next blog will be from BROOMFIELD COLORADO! :D
Monday, February 15
never thought this day would come...
I need laundry soap...
yes...I'm out...What the stink!?
Today...in a laundry furry I started a load...water running...and didn't have SOAP for it! Ugh!
Me...the stockpiling...couponing...domestic goddess (ok...the last one is a stretch) doesn't have laundry soap. Gees!
I started to panic and everything...seriously, what's wrong with me? I used oxy clean instead...oh well...off to walmart during preschool tomorrow...
Let me just say...I hate that I'm currently using up all my stockpiles...not coupon shopping...and not watching the sales! Eeek. CAN'T wait til I have time for that again.
Deeeeep sigh. Going to walmart to pay whatever price they have for me...maybe I'll grab a coupon if I can make myself go to my dreaded coupon box...that I haven't touched for weeks. sad face. Oh my beloved coupon box...I miss you.
j
yes...I'm out...What the stink!?
Today...in a laundry furry I started a load...water running...and didn't have SOAP for it! Ugh!
Me...the stockpiling...couponing...domestic goddess (ok...the last one is a stretch) doesn't have laundry soap. Gees!
I started to panic and everything...seriously, what's wrong with me? I used oxy clean instead...oh well...off to walmart during preschool tomorrow...
Let me just say...I hate that I'm currently using up all my stockpiles...not coupon shopping...and not watching the sales! Eeek. CAN'T wait til I have time for that again.
Deeeeep sigh. Going to walmart to pay whatever price they have for me...maybe I'll grab a coupon if I can make myself go to my dreaded coupon box...that I haven't touched for weeks. sad face. Oh my beloved coupon box...I miss you.
j
Sunday, February 14
from a garage sale...
Do you shop garage sales? If not...then you might not enjoy this post...
Yes...I'm crazy. The weekend before I'm moving out of state...I went to garage sales...I HAD TO!! My sisters and I have a little tradition...most Saturdays we go around 7am to QT (gas station that I LOOOOVE) and get me a d.coke, donuts for all of us...and we go shopping!
Some Saturdays we're gone for 2 hours...some only an hour or so...I always bring Jacob and Lexi...they love/hate garage sales...and always get something by the end of the trip.
This week...
Jacob bought:
back massager (um...ok...he liked that it spun on the table while it vibrated...alrighty)
helicopter (like he doesn't have enough toys)
I think that's it...he spent $2
I Purchased:
drum roll please...
TONS of gap and old navy winter clothes for LEXI! yay! Like 12 pieces and 2 sweatsuits, 1 bathing suite and a bathing suite cover. Saweeeet...winter clothes for Colorado that will fit clear thorough next winter...and a cute suite to fit this summer! Price: $16 - um HELLO!? :) I LOVE name brand clothes for the kids cause they are do durable (thanks to my amazing friend Jen Kent that passes on AMAZING & expensive clothes to Jacob :)
Puddle Jumpers, pink $2 - to help with the snow for now...her current pair of boots aren't water proof...plus I would rather die than to have her walk in the dirt, snow, rain, mud...with her adorable black furry boots. haha.
SNOW SHOES!! for Jacob! Just his size...very nice pair that are totally new! $1 can you believe it! Bonus...they are black...so totally unisex for Lexi to wear in a while. yay.
Here's the deal...I was SICK about that fact that my cute boy would want to play in the snow when we get there...but that I wasn't prepared to let him do so cause snow stuff just isn't as available here as in Colorado....how sad...I'm transplanting him to a new place and he wouldn't even be about to explore the first few days there til I buy him boots...my son LOVES to play outside and dig in the dirt :) scroll down and you'll see a few pictures from previous posts. Now he can! (minus the parka he will need...anyone have one?)
SNOW SCRAPER! for my car! Seriously...I found a snow scraper in Arizona! It's cute...it has a fur mitten thing over the handle so your hands don't get covered in snow. LOVE IT! $.50
Another story...I had a bad dream Friday night that I was in my new home and sad to be in Colorado and all I wanted to do was to get a coke and go grocery shopping with my kids...but I was so unprepared for the snow that I couldn't even scrape the snow off my car...I was crying in my dream trying to get all that snow crap off my car to take my kids to the grocery store. Stupid...I know...but I worry about stupid stuff like that. And ... I found a snow scraper ... awwww .... He cares about the little stupid things in my life.
Um...what else...oh... a soap dispenser (dumb) but it was so pretty, child lock door handle thing, 3 books (I have an obsession with hardback books that are pretty colors...not the book cover part...the actual book...I'll take pictures sometime of my collection...) ... I think total I paid $4 for all that. ps...my book obsession doesn't even come CLOSE to my sister Chelsey's obsession...and she actually reads the books! what a concept!
So total we spent $25 but LOVED every minute of it...getting time to be with my sisters and getting WINTER stuff for COLORADO! Yay!
Yes...I'm crazy. The weekend before I'm moving out of state...I went to garage sales...I HAD TO!! My sisters and I have a little tradition...most Saturdays we go around 7am to QT (gas station that I LOOOOVE) and get me a d.coke, donuts for all of us...and we go shopping!
Some Saturdays we're gone for 2 hours...some only an hour or so...I always bring Jacob and Lexi...they love/hate garage sales...and always get something by the end of the trip.
This week...
Jacob bought:
back massager (um...ok...he liked that it spun on the table while it vibrated...alrighty)
helicopter (like he doesn't have enough toys)
I think that's it...he spent $2
I Purchased:
drum roll please...
TONS of gap and old navy winter clothes for LEXI! yay! Like 12 pieces and 2 sweatsuits, 1 bathing suite and a bathing suite cover. Saweeeet...winter clothes for Colorado that will fit clear thorough next winter...and a cute suite to fit this summer! Price: $16 - um HELLO!? :) I LOVE name brand clothes for the kids cause they are do durable (thanks to my amazing friend Jen Kent that passes on AMAZING & expensive clothes to Jacob :)
Puddle Jumpers, pink $2 - to help with the snow for now...her current pair of boots aren't water proof...plus I would rather die than to have her walk in the dirt, snow, rain, mud...with her adorable black furry boots. haha.
SNOW SHOES!! for Jacob! Just his size...very nice pair that are totally new! $1 can you believe it! Bonus...they are black...so totally unisex for Lexi to wear in a while. yay.
Here's the deal...I was SICK about that fact that my cute boy would want to play in the snow when we get there...but that I wasn't prepared to let him do so cause snow stuff just isn't as available here as in Colorado....how sad...I'm transplanting him to a new place and he wouldn't even be about to explore the first few days there til I buy him boots...my son LOVES to play outside and dig in the dirt :) scroll down and you'll see a few pictures from previous posts. Now he can! (minus the parka he will need...anyone have one?)
SNOW SCRAPER! for my car! Seriously...I found a snow scraper in Arizona! It's cute...it has a fur mitten thing over the handle so your hands don't get covered in snow. LOVE IT! $.50
Another story...I had a bad dream Friday night that I was in my new home and sad to be in Colorado and all I wanted to do was to get a coke and go grocery shopping with my kids...but I was so unprepared for the snow that I couldn't even scrape the snow off my car...I was crying in my dream trying to get all that snow crap off my car to take my kids to the grocery store. Stupid...I know...but I worry about stupid stuff like that. And ... I found a snow scraper ... awwww .... He cares about the little stupid things in my life.
Um...what else...oh... a soap dispenser (dumb) but it was so pretty, child lock door handle thing, 3 books (I have an obsession with hardback books that are pretty colors...not the book cover part...the actual book...I'll take pictures sometime of my collection...) ... I think total I paid $4 for all that. ps...my book obsession doesn't even come CLOSE to my sister Chelsey's obsession...and she actually reads the books! what a concept!
So total we spent $25 but LOVED every minute of it...getting time to be with my sisters and getting WINTER stuff for COLORADO! Yay!
Friday, February 12
Broomfield COLORADO!
Heath and I jumped on a flight to Denver CO Tuesday morning and hunted for our new place all day...then grabbed a flight that night. The trip was very productive and I learned a lot about how I feel about snow...
I can handle having the sun out, snow on the ground, and a temp over 3 degrees....I can handle it with my new wool coat, layers, my cute new black boots, skinny jeans, and the super cute new scarf I wore...LOL. I had fun.
I'm not sure how I'll do the first time I drive in the snow, or when I have to get out of bed at 2am to a crying child FREEZING while I walk over there...or when my kids want to play in the snow and all I want to do is sit by a fire with hot chocolate. Oh well...I LOVE CHANGE! I'LL Love this! Right?!!
So...Broomfield is the city/county we'll be living in...
Here's the wikipedia stats on it...so interesting. I'm so excited!! More details as they come...
Currently packing my life...downsizing...trying to take only 1/2 of what we have...moving from this 2300 sq foot home to 1100 sq foot apartment...yikes!
Its painful to downsize...but at the end of this new lease term my savings will WOW me! I'm so excited for that part! Plus less to clean....yay. That will be great! Pictures? Umm...maybe after I get settled a little. :)
-j
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