monday madness

1. Do you have a photo blog? no, just post pictures when i have them
2. How many pets do you own, and what are their names? If none, have you had a favorite pet in the past? Two pets, one very spoiled shih tzu dog named Sadie, and a cat named Patches
3. How many times a week does the carpet in your house get vacuumed? No carpet? How many times a MONTH do your floors get mopped? We have both and try to vacuum the carpets at least once or twice a week. Mopping-2-3 times if i can get it done:P
4. Which room in your house do you spend the most time in?Living Room
5. Have you read any good books lately?No time to read lately
6. What is your biggest source of news? (Newspaper? Television? Radio? Other?) Television and mostly computer since i am on that more than watching TV.

Vacation pictures

Here are a few pictures from vacation. Didn't get a whole lot of pictures this year b/c our kids went off by themselves. I really miss having them right with us at all times like when they were little. Enjoy:)








are we having fun yet???All the kids before the heat got to them:)










Rain rain go away.Rained about 4:30pm when we were there. Kids tired out early and went to the hotel.











Ricky with Marvin the Martian.He loved all the characters.

We're back

We are sooooo glad to be home today. Got in about 11pm last night and everyone was dead tired. For those who don't know, we took our vacation to Six Flags Great America this year. Left for Chicago on Wednesday and that evening we went to the Gurnee mall. That place is HUGE!!!! The kids tired out early so we ate dinner and went to the hotel. Thursday was Six Flags....without saying too much it was fun for a couple of hours and then it rained and rained and rained. That sort of shot the fun there. Don't get me wrong the kids still enjoyed their time they had there. Friday we went to the water park side and that was great!!!! No rain just lots of sun. One nice thing about Six Flags was you can go either to the water park or the ride side and we all had lots of fun and were burnt and very very tired by 7pm and wanted to come home.Will post pictures of the trip later. Right now we are still re-cooperating and getting the house back in order:)

wordless wednesday

All in His time

As i posted the other day we are looking for a new van. Well, yesterday started our journey to find it. Boy, i didn't realize how stressful it can be to find a new van for our family. We drove a couple of them and then was the waiting game, to see which one would fit our needs and budget. In the mean time,I was stressing and ended up breaking out with hives. I knew i shouldn't be stressing so much but i am a worrier.I worry over way too many things.Ended up not getting one from that dealership.They asked way to much for the one we wanted.We are going again today to see about another van. Maybe today i can remember to let God handle the situation instead of me.

"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is life not more important than food and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life."

Matthew 6:25-27 NIV

vacation

We are on vacation starting today. Yeah!!!! The only thing though, my husband got called into work on his first day of vacation and may have to work through the weekend just because they screwed things up at work and he has to fix them. Oh well, guess it is overtime for us right?:)
We are not doing much over vacation as far as going anywhere.We are going to be painting the house.Fun thing to do on vacation,huh? I know it is work but i have wanted to paint the house for a long time and finally have time to do it. Will post pictures of before and after.
We are going to take the kids to six flags for a couple of days.We went to the waterpark there last year and it was a lot of fun!!!! We are going to stay at Six Flags for 2 days and then take the kids to the Gurnee mall for a day. There goes all the money haha.
Am going to go enjoy my beginning of my vacation.Time to enjoy some time to myself.

wordless wednesday

Nice and cool for those hot,hot days of summer.....

psych

Psych....our new favorite detective show. Check it out.

friday already??

We have had some computer issues latetly. Our internet had to be updated and to do that you had to call the internet provider which by doing that you have to be on hold for 2 hours before you get someone on the line. ugh!! Anyway, we got it fixed and now we are back online. I didn't realize how much I miss being online. That is terrible,huh:)Guess I am really hooked to the internet.
This weekend is suppose to be really hot so guess we will be staying indoors. We have company coming from Kansas so ought to be a fun weekend.Hopefully, i can get hubby to cook on the grill. Ya know it keeps the kitchen cool if you grill out and the best part is i don't have to do the cooking.:)Hope everyone has a great weekend. Stay cool!!!:)

wordless wednesday

Thursday Thirteen

What I am thankful for.......
1. My salvation most of all!!
2. My family-including extended family:)
3. My friends who i can tell anything
4. My freedom-of speech, religion,to do what i want
5. My kids-wouldn't know what to do without them
6. My husband-love unconditionally
7. My daycare kids-extended families and friends
8. My church-again freedom to learn about the Bible
9. My health
10.My online friends
11.My pets-spoiled rotten-especially the dog:)
12.My phone;) Ability to talk to the outside world since i talk to kids all day hehe
13.My computer-it is hard to come up with 13 things ya know...lol

wordless wednesday

Which pirate are you????

http://valvigirl.net/quizzes/potcquiz.html

Happy 4th of July