Sorry.....I have been a little busy.

I seem to be saying this a lot lately...sorry I haven't talked to you in a while..sorry I haven't updated my blog FOREVER...sorry that I am just now returning your phone call/e-mail! This last month has been busy to say the least, so to all of you have been wondering what happend to me...I think that I am back, life is slowly settling down a bit, and I feel the urge to blog again...Yeah!

So here is what I have been up to in a nut-shell...School/tumbling/soccer/remodeling(small projects), and oh yes my favorite, my Betsy (van) was in the shop for 2 weeks with a blown transmission, and a ton of money!!! Do you know what it is like to try to juggle cars for that long??? Not very much fun, a big thanks to Mom and Dad for taking a two week vacation right at the right time, and allowing us to use your very wonderful, and handy extra truck! We love you! Oh and by the way somewhere in there I turned the big 30...that's right I am thirty now three decades...and to be honest I couldn't feel better...you heard me right, I feel awesome, I think that I am in the best shape that I have been in for 5 or 6 years, and I really don't feel a day over 20, not to shabby! Here is the big day/cake event! My husband did a big dinner with some of our best buds...but of course we forgot the camera...so you'll have to use your imagination!

Here are some of the pics from the first day of school!

Jackson's first day of school, he LOVES it!



Okay so about a month ago...I got the hankerin for some improvements to our childrens rooms...(thanks Jessica for having the perfect house that sparked this motivation...with all of your perfect rooms) So Rachel (of course) wanted to paint her room pink (all of it) I couldn't see me loving a room that looked like bubblegum barfed on! So instead we decided on Lime green two shades and chair rail (thanks to an awesome husband who can do everything, and let's me do whatever I want, even though he ends up doing all of the hard work that he didn't want to really do in the first place...what is wrong with white everywhere?) Anyway after a lot of time and $$$ for which I am now going to go and get job:) I think that it turned out awesome...Rachel loves it and I love it and everyone is happy, it has also stayed cleaner for some reason...apparently if you love your room, you try harder to keep it cleaner...this benefits us all.

This is from the doorway...



From every other angle of her room...I think that it turned out beautifully. What do the rest of you think? Let me know!

We also started on the boy's room (for the last year and a half Rachel and Jackson have been sharing her room, so part of the room makeovers were in celebration to her getting her room and back and the boy's sharing a room now! We have a white bunk-bed that was in Rachel's room, but when we moved it into the boys room, we decided it would look better black...) Now you will have to use your imagination a little more when I show you the boy's room, because it is still a work in progress!

Now picture that everything that will be hung on the walls will be red, with a red valance...and the dresser will be black and I have some really cute wall saying to go on their walls too!

Anyway that is where I have been, I plan to be a better person, better friend, better daughter, and better blogger...not particularly in this order! Thanks to all who put up with me!