A random thought.....

Today it's raining (storming actually)....today... I DO NOT look like Gretchen (scroll down if you're wondering WTF!). Thanks AGAIN Shelly!

House Update

Slowly but surely the house is coming back! I will post new pics soon! I didn't like the landscaping so I hired someone else. The paint is gorgeous!!!! It TRULY transformed this entire house! Curtains come in tonight and couch will be Sat 4/4! Lindsey's room is under construction, AGAIN. The girl is never satisfied! The porch looks fantastic!

1st Movie without Mommy

Dear Lord keep her safe....said over and over and over and over and over......Maddie, Lindsey, and Amy went to the movies alone for the 1st time Saturday 3/7/2009. Only a mother that's lived to tell about it knows how very difficult it was to drop my baby off and NOT go in and hide....to simply love and trust, oh and hand her $30 bucks too. All for MALL COP! Really!!!?!!!?!!!?!! The ladies in Home Depot (next door to the movies :) kept asking, " Ma'am are you ok?" Crying as I shopped to waste time......We remember the moments......

A beautiful trio of young ladies, Thank you Lord for my many MANY blessings.

Change of Plans...

Little miss Diva (Kaleigh) got really sick Thursday morning, so no sleep over and no quiet house. Poor sweetie threw up so much and high, high fever! Painters are gone and NOW after the throw up, the carpets are clean too. This is all I can manage for the moment since "the big house on Molasses" is still turned completely upside down, it's like we're moving in again ~ having to put everything back up and essentially decorate again....the house looks great and here's a sneak peak.....

Whooped, I say!

Well, good grief and darn I'm tired. Lotta work going on around here and messing up my schedule w/my young uns'!!!!! But it will be worth it in the end. Landscaping is done and we are still paint progress. I added more rooms, might as well get the girl's done b4 summer and then I can relax and head out for the water. My sweetie bought me the new sony cybershot touch screen camera (he wanted me to think that all I got for valentines day was a washer and dryer ~ol sneaky pete!!!) so look for new and improved photos to come! Stay tuned for more b4 and after pics.....all should be quiet this weekend, both girls will be gone so I can take pics and post.

Oh! and by the way....I went blonde (or lots of highlights) and I dont think I like it too well!

The Transformation Has Begun!!!!

Before Landscaping......after picture to be continued
New chandelier / no before, just small dome light (couldn't afford
the Elk Antler chanderlier darn it!, Will post new pic after paint!)

After Laundry Room / LG appliaiances and cocoa pecan walls
w/black shelving! B~E~A~UUUUTIFUL!

Before Laundry Room, White appliances & white walls ~ YUCK!

THEY'RE HEEEERRRRREEEEE!!!!!! OMG!!! Normally appliances aren't allowed as Valentines gifts, but since mine weren't broke, I'll let it slide! Excited just doesn't cover it! We have started to transform our house, kinda went out of order but it's cheaper to do a pergola in the fall and contractors are booked till then anyway, so movin on....

The new LG washer and dryer is da bomb! Wash and dry 30 minutes flat! I painted the laundry room Saturday b4 cheer competition and the washer/dryer came the next day! I was highly motivated ~ these things are tall with the pedastels under them, so it would've been hard to paint with them already in.

New foyer chandelier is up and beautiful and landscapers for the front come today! Paint is booked for March 7 & 8, woohoo can't wait!

Furniture comes in after that!

The Real Housewives of Orange County

OK. Everybody has their reality tv show they are addicted to for some reason or another. Miranda's is Jon & Kate + 8, Shell's is The Bachelor (ette). I love, Love, LOVE Bravo TV's The Real Housewives of Orange County, Gretchen Rossi is my fav! That woman is BEAUTIFUL beyond words, inside and out! I also love The Girls Next Door and I am bracing myself for it to end 4ever, but all good things must end. I think the reason I like the real housewives so much is that, as I am sure most of us do, I wish I didn't have to work and could spend my days with my daughters and working out and keeping myself nice as oppossed to running 90 to nuthin sometimes on nuthin! But that's why they put that stuff on tv ~ right! Or maybe it is.... just to torment us!