Halloween Decorations

I went to the dollar store and bought a bunch of goodies to make Halloween decorations...here are a couple of things that I got completed.

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I made these great vases with two candlesticks and two vases! The great thing is I can use them all year round!
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Sadly thats all I got done so far, I still have some projects but I will get them finished and use them for next year!

Halloween...so sad

Okay I'm a horrible mother. Lol. But with all the chaos going on in our house we just got super distracted. I asked around and found that everyone had plans for halloween and that Kade wouldn't have anywhere to go trick or treating so we made him a deal. He could pick a bag of candy and a Wii game or he could go trick or treating in our empty neighborhood. He chose the Wii game and candy! So we didn't really do Halloween this year even though its my favorite holiday! Heck I even took down all my halloween decorations that I worked so hard on a couple weeks ago because I was so frustrated with the kitchen. I will show some of the projects that I did in another post

Kitchen Disaster

About three weeks ago Greg noticed that a spot on the wall above the stove, near the ceiling looked odd. So I climbed up on the cabinets to take a look. I touched the wall and found only mush, the only thing that was keeping my fingers from going right through the wall was the layer of paint on it! We had a leak!!! The pipe that drained all the water from our upstairs laundry room and guest bathroom was leaking, the plumber said that it probably was leaking for years! But there was no signs that anything in the house was damaged. We called the plumber the next day and this is what he did to our wall:

During his work he cut a whole near the floor behind the stove and this is what we saw:

Yep thats what you think it is MOLD! We had to take the upper cabinets down to find the extent of the damage and this was the greusome discovery:

I don't have any pictures of when we took out the bottom cabinets but there was a ton more mold down there hidden behind them. I was utterly devastated! My house is usually pretty clean but this made me feel really dirty and icky.
Here's a little side note....I have been sick for weeks now and couldn't figure out why. Now I have a pretty good idea because I'm extremely allergic to mold! Luckily neither of the boys show any signs that it was bothering them. We took down the entire wall and was left with this:

Its been a few weeks since we tore the wall down and we just got the drywall finished yesterday. Today the boys are working on putting in the bottom cabinets, then a guy is supposed to come by and do the texturing. When that is all done I will paint and we will hang the upper cabinets! Hopefully not to far in the future!

First Day of School

Okay I'm playing catch up again....

I was incredibly lucky this year to get Kade into a new school, Benjamin Franklin Charter School. It is an amazing school and a bunch of his Jarman and Edmunds cousins go there. They have a really great curriculum and I know he will excel in their environment. He has to wear a uniform if he wears shorts and they have a strict dress code for the times when he doesn't want to wear shorts! He already loves the school, his teacher, and his classmates. I have an amazing sister in-law who watches Kade before and after school!

Here is Kade's first day of school pic.

Kindergarten Graduation

Kade has officially graduated Kindergarten. I can't believe my little baby is going to be a 1st grader. That's just insane. His school provided a personalized dvd and a portfolio (see below) for his graduation. This makes me sad, I can't believe our schools will pay for something like this but expects the teachers to provide supplies for their classes. This is just dumb.

My 28 day journey continued...

I posted a month ago that I was starting a 28 day program written by Denise Linn, since then I have been very slow about doing it....lazy would probably be a good word to describe whats been going on. I started doing other projects and getting wrapped up in other things instead of doing something I know will be helpful to me. I am rededicating myself in the month of June to take control of some things that I have been putting off or just being plain lazy to start. I am looking for someone to help me start becoming a Reiki master, but I have already started doing some work with my Chakra's to get prepared for this big step that I would like to take. I am also going to have make a big jump in my exercise and healthy eating routine. As I go I will probably post more....at least if my Mom had her wish I would be very dedicated to posting on here!

The Infamous Hutch....

My new project is an awesome find on craigslist. I found a gorgeous solid wood hutch for a cool $100 bucks....thanks to my hubby and his dad for driving an hour away to pick it up!!!! These are the before picks....I will update with my progress.

This is the top half!

This is the bottom half! I plan on refurbishing the hardware, I like the classic look of it but it needs to be updated with a little spraypaint!

The Loft....

We have lived in our house for just over two years now...our loft has looked so plain and unwelcoming the whole time but since it is out of view when company comes over we just haven't done anything with it. We had some friends give us a couple couches for the loft and they just sat in the garage because I refused to take them up there until we painted the walls....whats the use of moving stuff when your just going to have to move it again! Finally bought the paint and then it still took me a couple weeks to get up the umpf to start working on it. Well its finally finished, minus a few small touches. Here is the end product!

Kade's First Play

Kade performed in April. He was a garbage man for a play the kindergartners put together. He had a lot of fun and I got a kick out of watching him. Here are a couple picks.

An Altar:

One of the steps that the author asks you to do is to create an Altar.

Some of my followers might think that this is sacrilegious. I do not believe this to be so. This "Altar" is supposed to be a place that represents what I want in my life, what I find to be most important in my life, and anything that I feel represents myself. This is a work in progress but it is a start. This is the place where I will try and do my assignments given to me or a place for me to just meditate on the things going on in my life.

My 28 day journey begins....

I am going to try this 28 day jump start program.

I have previously read another book Denise Linn is famous for; "Soul Coaching." I have been finding myself in a completly negative frame of mind for a while now and I am sick of it. I believe the way that I have been thinking and all the negative things I have been saying to myself has actually been causing me to be in physical pain. I have been through a lot in my life and I believe some of the baggage I have picked up in those experiences are still cluttering my "energy." Some people might think that I am crazy for trying this but I have a very open mind and I know for a fact that the energy surrounding you and the energy that you are composed of is all connected. "Like brings like". It is a simple saying but means so much, if you are creating negative energy inside yourself you will be surrounded by negative energy. Mind you this doesn't mean that I don't believe in God, I just believe there is more to this then just prayer. God can only help us as much as we are willing to help ourselves. I plan on taking control and helping myself, this way I can be open to any blessings that might be out there waiting for me to let them into my life. One of things that I plan on doing is trying to blog about it weekly if not daily. I know that anyone who reads this might think me insane and not care about what I am writing about. That is okay, this is for myself.

The Month of March

It was horrible....it sucked huge!!! About two weeks into the month I had a miscarriage. I thought that I was possibly pregnant (I was 14 days late) so I was very hopeful, then my world came crashing down in to a world of pain and sadness. My body keeps betraying me in the worst ways. Now I am uber anemic, making me soooo tired I fall asleep at the worst moments; driving, working, talking.... I get out of breath just walking up the stairs at my house and don't even think you will be seeing me run anywhere. I am now walking on my breaks and taking vitamins to boost my body.

There is one little light at the end of this tunnel, now that I've had a miscarriage we know that getting pregnant is a possibility. Although I've practically given up my dream of having a beautiful little girl of my own. I never thought I would feel like this about anything. I feel like a whinny little weakling. Hopefully things will change soon before I lose my mind.

Right now I am focusing on my little family and what I do have in my life. I have an awesome husband who will drop anything to help me and he will even go to the craft store with me! How wonderful is that! I have an amazing little boy who just surprises me at every turn. He reads like a maniac and does math in his head like a little computer! I have my furry babies too! And I almost stole my neighbors little two month old Chihuaha the other day...heck if they are going to let the little thing roam the neighborhood they don't deserve to have him!

Anyways!!!! Look to the future!

I am going to be a brat....

Okay so many of you don't know is that Greg and I have given up fighting on NOT getting pregnant. After working through both of our struggles about getting pregnant we both agree it wouldn't be a bad thing. Both of us have bad previous relationships, my going to hell and a hand basket during my pregnancy with Kade ruining my chance of having the excitement and wonder that a lot of new parents get during the pregnancy. Mine sucked!! It was some of the worst months of my life, not because I was sick because I was super sick but because I knew I was going to have to be single mother...I just didn't get to enjoy my pregnancy. In the past few years I have really wanted to explore that feeling...I want to have one of those pregnancy's that all my friends have...when their husband is just as excited as you are to welcome your child into this year. I have felt for a while now that Heavenly Father is going to bless me with a little girl of my own. I don't know how to explain the feeling...its almost like I can touch her! But is now become the most frustrating thing of my life. We are not pregnant and it looks like in all reality that it is not going to happen. I know a lot of people say that once you stop trying then it will magically happen. But its not. I'm really frustrated right now.

On top of all this is seems like almost everyone I know is pregnant...and to boot they are ALL having little girls. Kid you not!!!! They are all going to have beautiful baby girls. My other huge thing now is I absolutely hate going on facebook lately. All these people who are pregnant are complaining like mad crazy....oh I feel sick, oh my body aches... I just wanna scream and say you are LUCKY do you realize that! There are hundreds of women who will not ever be able to go through what you are...the feeling of creating a beautiful thing.... YOU ARE BLESSED.

I am not trying to be mean in anyway. I do not actually hate anyone or am angry with anyone....I think the emotion would be the green one....JEALOUSY. Thats right I'm jealous of all the lovely mothers I know who get to experience this. I'm probably jealous also that I've never had the kind of support that my friends have had. I now have the most amazing husband and I just want to experience that with this man.

January.....

The most noticeable thing that happened in January was that Greg's brother Brad and his wife Lisa took Kade and his cousin Kode to Disneyland. It was Kade's first visit and he had an absolute blast. He and Kode got their faces painted, ate lots of sugar and had a blast hanging out with each other. Kade even got to battle Darth Vader after becoming a Jedi! Then at the end of the day they fell asleep hardcore on the way home! Check out the pics they are great (Kudos to Brad and Lisa for taking so many awesome pics...over 200 of them!)

December.....

This was a great month. I got to see my brother for the first time in years, I had a wonderful surprise when my parents flew in at the same time as my brother for my birthday, Kade turned a year older, and we had a fun but simple Christmas.

I can't believe Kade is six now. He started kindergarten this year and he is excelling at school.


We had a wonderful Christmas, Kade got his penguin pillow pet that he wanted all year.


We went and saw the Mesa Temple lights that night.

Holy cow....time flys.

So I have obviously been incredibly negligent in updating my blog but one of my goals this year is to change that. I plan on posting at least once a month and hopefully once a week. Hopefully this is one habit I can keep. I am going to start with December 2010 as it was a very exciting time for me and my family.