Day 47

Day 47 - A picture of your favorite place to shop.

This one is easy!

I love Target! I could spend every penny I had here. I seriously stalk their clearance racks every week. LOVE me some Target...

Day 46

Day 46 - A picture of where you wish you were right now.

Need I say more?

Day 45

Day 45 - A picture of your room.

Did you notice I skipped Day 44? I'll get back to it I promise. I need to find a couple of pictures first.

Luckily, I happened to have taken a pic of my room a few weeks ago to show some friends how ridiculous it is. It's basically a glorified storage room that we happen to sleep in.

Yes, those are giant garage-type storage cabinets that I bought off Craigslist (and yes, they were in the guy's garage). We have those instead of dressers. There is another one just off to the right and that's filled with food storage.

The headboard of our bed is actually an old dining room table minus the legs. I now use the dining room as my work-at-home space. We were going to get rid of the table when suddenly I realized it would be PERFECT as a headboard for our bed! I should be an interior designer...for white trash ghetto people.

We're going for function here folks, not beauty!

Easter!

I love Easter. Actually I love all holidays where I get to do fun things for my boys and see them get so excited. I decorated as soon as St. Patrick's Day was over.

Dollar Tree find, egg and flower yard picks!

This stupid inflatable egg deflated within one day and I ended up throwing it away. Who would've thought it would be so crappy? I mean I purchased it at the Dollar Tree! Sheesh.

These are magnets on our fridge. They decorated Easter eggs all month long!

Of course I had to have Easter eggs lights. :) I love that "Easter Tree", another Dollar Tree decoration that might be my new favorite!

Okay yes I admit, I LOVE the Dollar Tree!

And lastly, our window stickers (and our dead grass in the background).

I like to decorate while the boys are at school, then see their faces when they walk in the house and notice all the fun things!

This year we traveled to Josh's hometown to celebrate Easter with his family. Have I mentioned how much I love his family? I think I have but I'll say it again, I LOVE THEM! His mom just always makes us feel so welcome. She doesn't freak out when the boys mess up her yard, track dirt on her carpet or on her couches, or spill their milk, etc. She never makes us feel uncomfortable or like our boys are out of control! It's just so relaxing to be in her home.

On Friday we took the boys on a hike to 49Palms, there's an oasis at the end of the hike. It was 3 miles round trip. I had done this hike about 10 years ago and thought the kids could handle it. We thought if we started early enough it wouldn't be too hot, but it was still pretty dang hot! The boys did awesome though. They hiked the whole way! Well, Samuel hiked the whole way there and then made me carry him about halfway back. He wouldn't let ANYONE else carry him, only me. If anyone else tried, he sat down and refused to move or would kick and scream. Yeah...let's just say I was VERY sore the next couple of days!

Anyway, along the way we saw a bunch of lizards, chuckwallas, and even 2 rattlesnakes on the trail! One was even rattling at us. It was a little freaky.

We survived though. There wasn't much water at the "oasis". It was pretty though! I tried to get the boys to count the palm trees to see if there really were 49 of them. They had better things to do though. Like eat their fruit snacks and drink their Capri Suns!

The boys' Great-Grandpa Reed and Grandma Adeline put on an awesome Easter egg hunt on Saturday for family and some friends from their ward. It was crazy windy all day and we were worried there would be a lot of dust flying around (there's not much grass in 29Palms, California!) but the wind stopped just in time for our hunt! There must've been at least 500 eggs out there. Trey even found an egg from last year's hunt!

After the hunt we relaxed with hot dogs, chips, potato salad, cupcakes, and family!

The next day was Easter Sunday. Luckily the Easter Bunny found us. I have to say, that good ole Easter Bunny outdid himself this year! The boys forgot their baskets so they got these new awesome ones, and they were jam packed with fun things.

That little chick Trey was holding was a HUGE fan favorite! Trey got the chick, J.J. a pig, and Samuel a cow. These weren't just any farm animals though...you pushed on them, they made their animal noise...and POOPED out a candy for you!

Hope everybody had as great an Easter as we did!

Day 43

Day 43 - A picture of something you can’t function without.

This is...the internet.

If for some reason our internet is down, I go crazy. I can't survive without it anymore. Not only is it the way I make money, it is the way I communicate with family and friends, and the way I research EVERY SINGLE THING that comes to my mind. When I don't know the answer to any question my kids ask me, they say, "Mommy, can you Google it?"

Day 42

Day 42 - A picture of your dream house.

I googled "dream house in the mountains" and this is what showed up:

Yes please! Except I'd like more trees...but I guess I can't be too picky right?

Tough Love

Dear son,

I would just like to let you know that this scenario...

will NEVER HAPPEN. If you get thrown in the slammer, your dad and I are leaving you there. Are we clear on that?

Love always,

Mommy

Day 41

Day 41 - A picture of your pet.

Okay, here's the BEST pet ever! Isn't it so cute?

Yes, it's the easiest pet to take care of! It never requires food, it never poops or pees on my carpet or chew up my furniture or walls or doors! It doesn't stink and it doesn't require attention.

(Nope, you're not blind. I don't have a pet and hopefully never will.)

Day 40

Day 40 - A picture of your favorite Disney character.

MULAN!

She pretty much kicks butt.

Day 39

Day 39 - A picture of your favorite movie.

I haven't forgotten about the challenge, just been swamped with work and baseball! Both J.J. and Trey are playing right now and we're pretty much living and breathing baseball lately.

Okay, favorite movie. A Facebook friend and I were discussing our mutual love of "Tommy Boy" the other day. I really love that movie! I'm almost guaranteed to laugh until I cry when I watch it. Plus, when Trey was a baby he looked a lot like Chris Farley.

But I do have to say that I LOVE this movie:

Normally I don't like stories where there's any kind of infidelity going on but I do like this movie. Maybe because I love Reese Witherspoon and I love Joaquin Phoenix. Does anyone else find him extremely attractive? 'Cause I do! And I think he's an insanely talented actor.

Cinnamon Toast

Trey: "Mommy, I love you more than cinnamon toast."

Me: "Aw, I love you too Trey!"

Trey: "You know why?"

Me: "Why?"

Trey: "Because you won't wash my mouth out with soap."

Me: "Oh..."

Trey: "Mommy? What will happen if I say a bad word on accident?"

Oh Trey Trey Trey...

Day 38

Day 38 - A picture of the best part of your day.

The best part of my day is actually the best part of Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday at this time:

Why you ask? Because that is when all 3 of my boys are at school, and I finally have time to turn this:

Into this:

Yes, today it took me until this time:

To accomplish this amazing feat. I put away stuff, vacuumed, swept, mopped, did the dishes, laundry, etc. And now...it's time to go get Trey from school.

I actually enjoy cleaning though! Yes, I know I'm strange. With the house to myself I blasted first AFI, then some good ole CCR (a fellow blog friend quoted it and now it's been in my head since yesterday) and I got as much cleaning accomplished as I possibly could while I don't have 3 tornadoes leaving trails of destruction faster than I can clean them!

Day 37

Day 37 - A picture of the people you spend most of your time with.

Yup, I've definitely fallen behind on this but I refuse to give up! After all, thanks to this challenge I've already blogged more in the past month than I did all last year!

Okay, this is a no-brainer. Obviously the people I spend the most time with are these guys:

This is probably one of my MOST favorite pictures of all time. I just love my boys! The ONE question I am asked the most is, "Aren't you going to try for a girl?" As if my life is not complete until I have had a daughter? Or else implying that I need to have children of both genders before I'm done having kids! But the truth is, I love having all boys. Not that I wouldn't have loved a daughter if I had had one, of course I would have! I would have loved her just as much as I would have loved boy #4, boy #5, or however many boys I would have been blessed with had I kept on popping babies out!

I am VERY happy with my 3 sons though. And the husband guy is pretty awesome too. Yes, there's a lot of testosterone flying around my house. It's nearly impossible to keep my house as clean as I would like it to be. There's a lot of toilet seats left up, and lots of rough-housing taking place. Yes, I am afraid my house is going to smell like teenaged boy someday, and that they will eat me out of house and home.

But I'm of the opinion that there really is nothing like a little boy's love for his Mommy! I soak it up with the handful of flowers (weeds) J.J. brings home for me everyday after school. I soak it up when Trey tells me he loves my smile and that I'm beautiful. I soak it up when Samuel, who doesn't speak much to begin with, asked for a "big hug" from his Mommy.

As cheesy as this sounds, I'm honored that I get to spend most of my time with these boys.

Day 36

Day 36 - A picture of your ‘other half'.

Well OF COURSE this has to be the husband right? I love this guy. And what better day to do this post than on his birthday right?

Happy birthday Josh!

April Fools!

A friend of mine gave me this link for some April Fools ideas, and I had to try one of them out on my boys!

I really wanted to do the spaghetti and meatballs idea, but didn't have all the stuff/time to do it. So I did the mashed potato idea instead. They turned out pretty cute!

I don't think I really fooled J.J., but Trey looked pretty confused. After they figured out it was really vanilla frosting, a yellow Starburst, and caramel syrup they were all smiles!

Dang, Blogger is being stupid and I can't post the video I took. Well, if you're my Facebook friend you can check it out there. :)