PHEEWW!!!

It has been a crazy week of working on the house....we painted and put up a border in Richard's "man room", put a border up in the kitchen, got paint for the downstairs bathroom, rearranged the living room, cleaned up my scrap room, got all my decorations for Christmas and Thanksgiving arranged, hung up tons of pictures, etc. and ended the week with explorative surgery.
Yes, you heard that right surgery...I was to have a hysterectomy but my insurance thought that it would be better for me to have this explorative surgery to see if my doctor was really telling the truth about what I have....and guess what........he was RIGHT!! So I have to have another surgery....ok, lets pray that the insurance approves me having a hysterectomy..I dont want to live with this adenomyosis anymore.
Adenomyosis is described as: a condition that occurs when the cells that normally line the uterus grow into the muscular tissue of the uterine wall. Its painful and not fun for me or the family to deal with..
My mom took the kids with her for a week so I have time to recover and get a few more things done around the house. I am hoping that I can get into that scrap room and have some fun! ALso, I am hoping to have a date with my husband and go see a movie!

I cannt belive that it as been two months since I have blogged anything! ACK! I got so wrapped up in Dominic's school that I just totally forgot about most everything on the web!
We are finally starting to settle in to the house and staring to get it all arranged how we want...

Dominic finished his first grade year and Cayleanna is going to be going into Kindergarden! I cannot believe where the time has gone!

I have not been able to scrap too much but I was able to get this layout done for National Scrapbook Day...its me and my sis in 1983 0r 84...
Used Sassafrass or this layout!

Easter!!!

Easter was great this year! We had a wonderful morning hanging out at home playing with what the Easter Bunny brought before we headed over to Aunt Candice's house for dinner and more egg hunting.

The smiles on the kids faces, the laughter, the absolute joy written all over them makes all the hard work worth it.

They truly are the best thing about me and the best thing I have ever done!

A new family member!!

This last Saturday we went and got a dog from a man that was just not able to take care of him anymore....

It was love at first sight for all of us and we are all adjusting to having a dog. Dominic is doing great with him and is starting to understand why he had to be a little bit older to have a dog and what responsibility means....

Shadow is adjusting to us as well, it will take time but we very happy!! He is definatly loving all the attention and walks he has been getting!

And what they say about a boy and his dog is so true!!

AAAAACCCKKK!!! I was tagged!!

So my wonderful and talented friend Susan tagged me about a week or so ago and I just now saw it....so I better do it or she will be on me like bees on honey!!!!

Rules: It's harder than it looks! Copy your own note, erase my answers, enter yours, and randomly tag 10 people (including me). Use the first letter of your name to answer each of the following questions. They have to be real... nothing made up! If the person before you had the same first initial, you must use different answers. You cannot use any word twice and you can't use your name for the boy/girl name question.Have Fun!!!!!Whew... Here goes:)
1. What is your name: Callie Jean
2. A four Letter word: Cool
3. A Boy's Name: Colton
4. A Girl's Name: Cayleanna
5. An occupation: carpenter
6. A Color: cobolt blue
7. Something you wear: cuff links
8. A Food: cookies
9. Something found in the Bathroom: conditioner
10. A Place: Calistoga
11. A Reason for being late: car wont stop
12. Something you Shout: CUT IT OUT!!!
13. A Movie Title: Care Bears
14. Something you Drink: cold water
15. A Musical Group: Coldplay
16. An Animal: cat
17. A Street Name: Creekside Lane
18. A Type of Car: Caravan
19. Something Scary: cougars
20. Ice Cream Flavor: chocolate chip

Now I am tagging:
Anyone!!!! If you want to do it....then do it!
It is harder than you think....just do it!

Someone turned five!!

Our sweet little girl turned 5 this last week! She is so excited to hold up a whole hand when asked how old she is!!!

She was so excited to have her best little girfriends over, her Nana come down and of course pink candles on her star cupcakes!

Time has truly flown by and I am proud to say that I will be that mom that is crying when she drops her "baby" off at Kindergarden....I have truly loved the time at home with her!

They say Thursday...

Is the day that we will get the keys to our house! I am just praying that they are not wrong! I am so excited about getting the keys in my hand!
Richard and I truly have worked so hard for this, not unlike anyone else, so we are very proud of ourselves for making this step in our lives. We have fallin in love with this area so much that we want to raise our kids here...what more can you ask for?

I have to say....I have never been so excited to actually get out the paint brush and get some paint in my hair! I cannot wait till I have my own scraproom and yes it will be in the color PURPLE!! The creative juices will be flowing....