My camera is back! I'll be posting soon:)

Finally!

I waited 6 long weeks for my SCUBA picture:) It was worth the wait, I love it!!!!

:(

I miss my blog.... I miss posting and I miss reading comments and I miss everything about it! However, if I don't have a camera to download pictures, it's just not that much fun to post:( Gotta have pictures to go with stories!

My girl makes me laugh!

Jona asked me about the middle finger today? "Mom, why is it so bad to hold up this finger all by itself?" I tried my best to say people do that when they are really really mad and they can't find words to use. OR they are in a car and the other person can't hear them. BUT these people are very naughty b/c it't just not nice.
What the heck am I supposed to say. So I said "it's like when someone says a really really bad naughty ugly word. It's very bad and that's what the finger kind of means to?" She listened intently and said Drum roll please....

"Oh, it's ok then for me to use it all by itself as long as I"m really really mad at somebody. It's like when dad yelled that word after sitting on the table and breaking it? If I was big and yelled SHIT instead I'm going to hold up my finger all by itself..... OK mom?"

OH MY LORD>>>>> I laughed so hard there was no point in continuing the conversation any further:)

I love my girl!

How come I can't type in color anymore?

Ivan and I went to a Brazilian masquerade ball last Saturday! He won first place for best male costume... I'm taking credit for picking out the mask:)
I wanted the daily quote that you have on yours Shalimar... How come I can't figure this stuff out? I don't want this creepy Einstein thing?

I had a moment...

Today Spencer and I started packing for Island School! Out of absolutely nowhere tears just started flowing. First I got a little sick to my stomach and then tears a rolling:( I know he will have a fantastic time and I will live through the event without tarnish! It just hit me at once that my baby is leaving really soon:)

A most Productive day! Almost:)

Woke up rather late... have no idea how it got that way??? Loaded up the dishwasher, no emptied it first. Switched the laundry and started a new load. Vacuumed the downstairs, cleaned some windows, did some dusting, made some lunch and hmmmm. Oh yeah, then Olyvia and I had such an awesome time together. We went to the barn to play Laura Ingalls. We raked and raked and scooped and scooped! We cleaned out the entire thing together. Fed watered and collected eggs and then we had a great idea. She and I are going to make money at the farmer's market this summer. We are going to sell the barn manure from the neighbor and from our barn as "Farm fresh garden fertilizer." We'll bag it in the smaller size trash bags. The kind that are bio degradable. SP?? There are so many earthy kind of folks that use the Ada and GR farmer's market. Lots of them garden. There's even a huge plot of land that I used to pass near Fountain somewhere that allowed city peeps to garden. They would eat this stuff up. "Well, not literally." Then we will also be selling our Cage free chicken eggs. We will make some "green" signs that simply state.... 1 Dozen eggs, $1.50 plus your own egg carton to trade in. That way, we're teaching people to recycle. We don't have to buy them and we'll just keep trading them off. Oh, I'm so clever! Now we can't WAIT for spring and summer to get here! The money we make will be minimal, Olyvia thought she'd get rich! However, we'll probably cut even with all the feed they eat and might even be able to have family lunch once a week:)

Jaden is so funny!

Jaden woke up first this morning and I found him on the computer. I asked him "have you had breakfast yet?" He replied "yup, I had cookies:)" Jaden, you can't have cookies for breakfast! He replied "why not, they sure do taste great and I love um!" hahaha

Once again last night Jona was refusing to go to bed and crying and crying unless someone laid with her. She's done this for months now. She falls asleep in a matter of minutes, but wants someone in the room. It doesn't matter that Jaden is right next door sleeping... she wants someone in the room. I told her "stop whining, use your words, what is it that you are afraid of?" Of course she whines more, starts tearing up, can't put words to it. "I'm scared of this, scared of that, I have this, I need that!" Finally I said "JONA, use your words and tell me what you are afraid of and why you need someone in here to fall asleep?" Jona sits up, looks at me and states "Mom, I can't sleep alone, I don't want to sleep alone and for the rest of my life until I die and go to Heaven I do not want to fall asleep alone in my room!" I was stumped as to how to reply. She used words, she shared her feelings, she was clear about her distress, soooo, you guessed it! I laid my darn head down and watched her fall asleep!

CAN YOU SAY SUCKER????????

and this one...

I love these pictures!

Wii Olympics

Ivan left my blog open on his way to work... does that mean he wants an update?

What do you call a house full of competitive male athletes who live in a house that Santa delivered a Wii to? I don't know what you call them either but they sure are funny! Jaden held the high score bowling today for several hours. That was until his older brother found out. It took him about 45 minutes but her finally broken Jaden's record. Highscore is 245... Jaden had it at 230 for awhile:) I finally broke 200. I'm at 201!!

It's 4:11pm

Happy New Year's to you all!!!!! Ivan is jumping out of his skin at this point he is soooooo ready to go dance!! After 3 days of txting and 4 hours of back and forth phone calls, I think we 99.99999% sure we finally have a destination!!! I'll post pictures in the future... can't do it anymore with my broken camera! Borrowed mommies for Christmas Pics:) Hang in there Shalimar, puppies take work!!!! Don't you have a tree out back that you can tie her to with a really long rope so she can run around?

Christmas funnies!

How come the button disappeared to let me change txt color? Over all Christmas was a great success.... just long and kind of loud! Jaden takes the cake for funniest comment of the entire day. Ivan didn't know anything about the Wii so he handed out gifts kind of in the wrong order. Olyvia opened the remotes to the Wii first and freaked out and got all excited. Jaden looked at her kind of puzzled, shrugged his shoulders and said "to bad we don't have a Wii Olyvia, can't use those!" I laughed so hard, we all did! Bye for now!

Absolutely Hilarious!

Jaden's turn to help me bake tonight! While reading off ingred and adding them to bowl I said outloud 2 and 3/4ths flour! He quickly said "OK, I got it!" He then opened up the drawer and started counting out forks.. hmmm?? I asked, what are you doing babe? He replied, counting out the forks.. you said 2 and then 3 forks!!! I laughed so hard that he even started laughing and I don't think he new why?

Left over's from my birthday! Wanna bite?

Olyvia is gorgeous in this picture and I have no idea why? She is folded up in Nanna's old lady moveable bed:)

ONe More!

That's a lot of snow!!

My big boy playing in the snow:)

Ummm yeah, we gotta little snow goin on!

THe drifts were up to my thighs!!! Snow all in my boots!

Never in my wildest DREAMS!!!

I know... I always take great shots of Janet!

more....

Birthday!

I don't know why but my pictures aren't uploading the same way anymore... I don't know how to type under them b/c they don't show up? The bottom picture is on my Birthday! I was able to go to lunch with two of my fantastic friends and had a fantabulous time!!! I'm so blessed to have both of them in my life:) Ivan and Jona putting up Christmas decorations on a freezing cold day! He had on two hats and a head band ear warmer:) My sister and I on Thanksgiving and Jona posing for model pictures again.. That's 4, what was the 5th?? hmmm

Getting ready for CHristmas and some Thanksgiving!

OKOKOKOK

I always forget that if I want Ivan to do something... ANYTHING at all.... all I have to do is very simply ask....
OR make a comment something like this.
"Ivan you will never" "Ivan never" "Ivan doesn't ever"
That's all.... if I put those few little words in my sentence he hops right on it!
After my last post and all the "girls" and his sister razzed him, he came home and cleaned the entire house, did at least 6 loads of laundry and then shoveled out the entire barn!!! All that because I said he didn't go out into the snow and cold to do any kind of work:) WOW! My man was a very busy beaver yesterday and I love him dearly:)

ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

OK OK let me just vent here for a moment before I yell, cry, scream or pour myself a glass of wine at 9:08 in the morning...

Woke up, (nope) not going to be a snow day!
Get kids ready for school, (nope) their still sick, keep two of them home!
Get one ready and to the bus..
Get the ladies up, fed, dressed and to their rides!
Start the dryer again, and start another load of wash!
Shovel the deck and front of drive to get into garage!
Feed outside cat and collect the trash can and recycle from road! ( a truck hit them)
Salt the deck and drive b/c mom's resident is coming for 2 days and she is in a WHEELCHAIR!
(Oh yeah, i have no ramp for wheelchairs, I carry her up and down the stairs!)
Feed Jaden and Jona breakfast and restart dryer!
Bring all the inside recycle outside that has been piling up for 3 days!
Go to barn to water and feed chickens... Door frozen shut, go find WD-40!
Get into barn... OH YEAH.... 3 eggs, one dead chicken and I'm really irritated!
Scoop dead chicken, water chickens, feed chickens, shovel up some chicken shit! AND wonder why I'm doing
it b/c this is dad's project?? hmmmm, that's right, dad hates winter and won't go outside in the snow....
(still irritated)
Come back inside, load the dishwasher, check my sick kids on couch and decide that this day stinks already, how will I change it around? AFter all, it's only 9:03 in the morning and I'm spent.
Sit down to type this and find Olyvia's lunch and breakfast, the one I reminded her to grab at last 3 times:(

Note to self, remember to shower today, it's been 4 days at least????

Always find something to be Thankful for, in everything give Thanks!!!
Well..... hmmmmm, I bought those happy Vit D tablets... the ones that are supposed to be like sunshine to my soul! The sun is shinning right now in the back yard and I don't think it has in about a week! AND, I need a new job really, really bad and Porter Hills called yesterday to set up an interview... I'll pray for that new job, just as soon as I have two seconds to breath:)

Thanks for listening to me vent all:)

hugs, Dusty

Oh my gosh, it worked!!!!!

Click the picture and it brings you to this really cool sticker site... I just love how cool technology is and how fast everything is. I just hate that I don't get much of it!! ANYWAY, I'm thinking that I found my next and last and final tatoo!!!!! Whatcha think??? Throw in a black U2 and I'm set for life:)