Happy Mothers Day!

Happy Mother's Day! I hope everyone is having a day as great as mine! My kiddos woke me up with a wonderful breakfast in bed of peanut butter & jelly heart sandwiches and BIG glass of milk. Then I received not one but three homemade cards. I think daddy might have helped with some of the stamps. Then they finished off the morning with an original song called "I love my Mama". It was so cute. Braden planned the whole thing himself. Too cute!!!

Just some more cards

I made a few more cards today. I guess I'm getting hooked. I don't have any sentiments though so I had to leave them blank for now. I like the star one the most.

I think I'm done with the with the football dude now. I think I have a basketball gal somewhere. Maybe that will be the next card. Oh no! I'm planning my next card. I need to make some pages!!!!

My First Card

I scrap just about everyday but i've never made a card. I don't make them because I don't send them. (I know bad bad bad but at least I can admit my fault) Last night I decided to give one a go since I wanted to make something and it was already 8:30 pm. I knew I would be up until at least 11 pm if I started a scrapbook page. This is what I made. I'm going to stamp "happy birthday champ" inside. I'm pretty happy with it. The first football dude I stamped got trashed after I colored him in. He just didn't look right. I guess I'll have to practice coloring.

the beginning

It looks like a good spot for a house to me. This is our lot. I know it's not that interesting to look at but this is it. Look at all those palms to the right of the picture. I wish I could dig those up and save them. The city requires the builders to clear the entire lot. No saving trees or building around them. I really hate that. It seems like such a waste of good trees.

First the will clear everything off the lot. Then they will bring in loads and loads of dirt and build it up so the house will sit on it's own little hill. They have to do that for drainage but it really make the mowing rough (not that I know from experience). After the house is built, I'll spend a few hundreds dollars each to buy more of those palm trees for my yard.

There should be a non-profit organization to dig up some of the smaller trees to use at parks, schools, etc. At least then they wouldn't be a total waste. I think the city turns them into mulch. It's free mulch but I would rather have a free palm tree than a pile of free mulch.

Pictures of the House

After 2 hours of flipping through samples that are way to small to make a choice from I decided on the color combinations above for the inside of the house. I really don't understand why the samples have to be so small. I'm glad my eye sight is good. I think I like my choices! :)

We had the hardest time picking the outside colors and the roof. We had a more limited number of combinations and of course most of them were different shades of builder beige. Our house now is a wonderful meadow green with white trim and a black roof. That's what I wanted but we ended up with a gray that has a tint of green to it with white trim and a Driftwood roof. I'm not sure what the roof will look like because it was a 2x2 square. I'm just not that good to imagine that 2x2 square as a roof but.... the choice has been made.

Here are some pictures from inside the model home to give you (MOM) an idea of what it looks like. The first picture is the kitchen (stating the obvious here, I know), from the family living room. I choose the same counter tops and the exact same cabinets. I really really wanted to upgrade the cabinets to have cherry instead of maple but the dang porch cost so much that I had to give up the cabinet upgrade. I also picked black appliances instead of the white since my counters are mainly black.

I will be honest and tell you that the island is the reason that I picked this house. I love love love this island. It's huge! The sink and dishwasher are in the island. To the left of the picture you can see the den/office door. That is going to be the kid's play room. I'm really looking forward to that too! To the right of the picture you can see the breakfast area and the walk in pantry.

This picture is will be the kids bathroom. You can see the counter tops and the cabinets good in this one. It has a bath tub on the other side of that wall next to the toilet. It also has a pool door. Which I didn't know what a pool door was until I moved to Florida. It is a tiny narrow door that could lead to a pool (stating the obvious again). The house comes with it but we could have upgraded to a door with a window but I didn't really care. I'm a little unsure about how I feel about a door in the kid's bathroom. I guess I figure that out in the coming month.

This picture is of my huge walk in pantry. You can't see in the picture but there are shelves on both sides up most of the wall. There is so much room at the back of the pantry that I'm torn on what to do with it. It would be a great spot for the recycling stuff but with the garage being just as close, I'm tempted to set up shop in there. That way I could close the door when company was over and no one could see my mess. :) I'm going back and forth on that one.
Here is the master bathroom. I love the huge vanity. I do hate that it isn't as high as the one we have now. I know that a higher counter is much more comfortable for Mike. You can see that circle mirror's reflection. Under that mirror is the garden tub. It's smaller than the one we have now but that's ok for me but it won't be as much fun for the kids. They like to swim in the big 2 person tub we have now. The shower and the toilet are in a separate room opposite the vanity.
That's all the pictures I have now. If sure that's enough for you (MOM) to have a dozen questions for me!

It Came and It went.....

Well Braden's appointment came and it went and nothing happened. Mike and I got up early (5:10 am) got ready then we woke the cranky bears! Everything went smoothly and we were in the medical center at 6:17 am! They asked us to arrive at 6:30 for all the pre-op stuff so were early. I'm still shocked about that one.

Braden started getting nervous when I was helping him put on his hospital gown and booties. He took a stuffed friend for comfort but he was getting more and more nervous as time passed. Then just a few minutes before surgery the whole thing was called off. Braden's surgeon had a family emergency so they sent us home. Braden was very happy with that outcome! Me not so much. I was ready to get it over with but....... There was nothing that could be done to change the situation so now we have to wait for his doctor to return and reschedule the operation.

It's scheduled.

Well after 4 appointments in the past 2 weeks we now have a plan. We are taken B to the surgery center at 6:15 am. (Yikes that's early!!!) They are going to put in the tubes, snip his tongue (he's a little tongue tied), and then draw some blood to do an allergy test.

The doctor said his hearing will improve almost instantly. That will be great! I'm interested to see how quickly his speech will improve.

Just wanted to remind everyone looking for cybercrop for NSD that Memory Book Inspirations will be having one Saturday. Even if you don't want to scrap or don't scrap then you may want to check out Bert's bingo game. It's always a hoot to play.