I splurged

and bought this for my new spring/summer bag. I have been eyeballing this brand for years. Nordstrom Rack gets them in occasionally, but never in my color. Until yesterday. It was like Aerial from the Little Mermaid singing when Ursula steals her voice. It sang to me from across the room. It does help that it was 60% off of retail. That is just unreal. I absolutely love it.

Just another week....

Do you ever feel that way sometimes? The monotomy of the day in and day out? Take someone here, pick this one up, wash the dishes, make the beds, cook dinner......the routine gets so monotomous sometimes. I look more and more forward to weekends, because I slack on the weekends ;) I'm also really looking forward to an early Spring Break. My aunt and cousins are all flying out on April 2nd to spend 9 days at my grandmas. I'm going to spend a few days with them and celebrate my grandma's 77th birthday. This is something that will definitely break up the routine!
My Grandma is doing o.k. The cancer is definitely winning. She's lost 40lbs and is extremely anemic and her blood levels are super low so she's had 5 blood transfusions in the last month. They (the dr's) believe it's the tumor that is literally sucking the blood right out of her. She's such a fighter though and has a great positive outlook. She recently hired a full time nurse to help with making meals and taking her places because she does get so weak at times. I'm glad she does know that she can't do it all and to accept the help.

Have a great Tuesday.....we're off to the park to bask in the beautiful sunshine!

Genetics

It seems as though my genetics won't allow me to have low blood pressure. I have been working to get mine down for over a year, but nothing seems to be working. I've now lost 9lbs and am eating the healthiest ever with working out and building my core. But my blood pressure just stays slightly high. So I'm back on medicine. What a drag.

Back around December I had stood up from sitting and my left knee wouldn't straighten out. I thought, "oh wow, I must have sat wrong." Well for months now my knee tightens up every time I sit and it takes a few minutes for it to loosen up. I also can't kneel on my left knee or put any direct weight on it. In the last month it's been hurting all day with sharp pain, it wakes me at night and after I workout........that's the worse. My trainer said I need to find out what's going on because I could be seriously be damaging it. Yesterday I went for a series of x-rays. Unfortunately I won't find anything out for at least a week. I hope it's nothing serious. When I've spoke to some people about knee surgery stuff I start to get squeamish. I do not do well with medical /surgery stuff.

Isn't this fun stuff!?! Oh the joys of getting older! Taking the boys to Disneyland today. Austin does not have school. Nothing planned for the weekend but relaxing! Have a great weekend!

Royal Slumber Crop

What a great event this was! If you get the chance to go next year.....GO! The sponsors are more than generous, the auctions were amazing and the over feeling is just great. I didn't take too many pictures, but here are some ladies I tagged along with. (please excuse my messy hair, I got up at 5:45 in the morning!) Darlene is on the left and Pam is on the right. They have become some of my regular customers at the Red Bee that I just love! The one thing about working at my store is that I get to make some great friendships with some truly passionate scrapbookers! We picked up these cutie t-shirts at the OC Expo, but you can order yours here. The 2ND picture is my goody bucket! Isn't it the cutest? Jessica, my Flowerbed Fairy God Mother did the most amazing job decorating our table and kept us busy with games, snacks and conversation. Our 2nd day I was truly exhausted. 1. because I didn't get much sleep and 2. I was waiting to get the email from Creative Escape. (which that is a whole other posting some other time!)

Our 2nd day Darlene & I wore our red matching shirts and Pam wore this cute pink vest. Shannon is in the hot pink and she also went with us. I highly recommend signing up for the emails so you can be notified of next years event!

Today I'm just getting back into the swing of things. It's St. Patrick's Day and pretty much all the kids wore green at the park! Green really isn't my color, but I did have this one top!

Gym Shoes

I ordered a pair of new gym shoes. It's been 3 years since I've gotten a new pair. Ryan had gotten a Zappos.com gift card and gave it to me. Here's the new beauties that should arrive tomorrow!

Today is park day and I'm bringing Zach's old clothes to pass along to other mommies. I wish there would have been someone to pass along some hand-me-downs to us, but at least I can do it. Most the boys in our club are just about the same age.

Austin has running club today. Here's a snap shot of him at the track meet last month.

Well I'm off to shower!

Pictures!

Finally. I took my moms laptop to my Grandma's and worked on photos. Boy oh boy. I have more taken my fair share of photos since getting my new camera in July. I guess it's just practice, practice, practice to understanding lighting. Here are a few of my favorites since I last shared.

Classroom party. I just love the cupcake crown!

All the party guests at Build-a-Bear

Zachary & Chocolate!

Pictures from Big Bear.

March

Can it be March already? Time has flown by so quickly. I'm starting to think that my "life" is just a busy crazy schedule of busy-ness. I was so looking forward to a quiet week. Yeah, not so much.

I saw Confessions of a Shopoholic with my girlfriend Friday night and it was so cute, yet it reminded me of some crazy things I've done in the past! Sunday Ryan and I saw The Wrestler. What a good movie. Austin placed 2nd on Saturday in the Running Long Jump! I think his knack for sports is in track & field. I signed Zachary up for Kindergarten today. I can't hardly believe it!



Working out with my trainer is amazing! It's still a love/hate thing for me. I've lost 8lbs and dropped down one clothing size. Though I was up that! I didn't know I actually could have muscles and a leaner look. I plan on keeping with it for as long as I can. I think it's my new addiction!





I'm going to this next weekend. If you would like to make a donation, please click here and note that you're helping me to raise the money. Thanks in advance to whom ever does help!





My Grandma isn't doing so well......so I'm headed out on Saturday to spend some time with her.



Tomorrow night were going to the Lakers game with the kids! Should be a good time.

I need to desperately upload photos.....I think it's been some 6 weeks. Not only am I behind with that, I haven't printed pictures since we went to Hawaii in JULY!!!!!

I swear one of these days I will share pictures!