I’ve been Tagged

I’ve been tagged by three separate bloggers in the past couple weeks! I love making such good bloggy friends, and I love it when they give me awards. Sometimes I’m not good about responding. Today I want to get them all into one post, and tag some more great bloggy friends!

*Sadly I cannot find the other two nominations! I know who they were, I just cannot find their blogs….and well Joel is chomping at the bit to get cows moved today! I’d better get a move on so I don’t upset him! LOL So if you tagged me, please please let me know again in these comments and I’ll dedicate another post to it!!!! *

Jess over at Welcome to the Zoo tagged me with this lovely award! You might remember I helped Jess out a while back by getting a bunch of cloth diapers donated and mailed out her way! She’s such a sweet lady!!

The Rules:
1. Thank the person who gave you this award.
2. Share 7 things about yourself.
3. Pass the award along to 15 bloggers who you have recently discovered and who you think are fantastic!
4. Contact the bloggers you've picked and let them know about the award.

First of all Thanks Jess! You’re such a sweet mama and I’m glad to know you! I’m glad we’ve become friends!  I’ve decided I’m going to share 15 things about myself, and then tag 7 mommies!!! Mainly because of time constraints I’m doing it this way!

1. I hate doing laundry. Well not so much washing/drying just folding. I also hate to put it away. It’s not uncommon to come over to my house at any time and see a basket of laundry or folded laundry just sitting on my floor. In fact there are two baskets sitting in the living room now, and folded laundry just sitting there! :(

2.I love baseball season, and Joel is coaching. Which means I’m doing books. . . I have no idea what I’m doing when it comes to books! OOPS! I’m getting there though! Joel just laughs at them!

3. Sometimes I schedule my blog posts. Really I don’t know if I’d ever blog if I didn’t schedule things.

4. This blog post was interrupted mid way because Joel woke up from his mini nap, and declared that it was time to leave. NOW. to move cows.

5. Yes we have cows, No we do not live on a farm. Unfortunately. Hopefully soon though.

6. I love watching Food Network. I wish I could cook like that, I’m sure I could if I tried, but I don’t try. Plus some of the things they make I know my family wouldn’t eat.

7. I also love watching HGTV and all the design shows. I wish I had a $2000 budget for every redesign I’d love to do! Sometimes I secretly think I could do it for way less!

8. I’m a horrible housekeeper. Oh wait we kind of discussed that in number 1, didn’t we?

9. The reason I’m a horrible house keeper? My friends live in my computer. My sanity lives in my computer. I get on the computer to get socialization. I know if I actually got my housework done I could make real friends outside my computer…..Don’t worry Joel and I argue about this all the time, so don’t tell him I actually admitted that. (BTW Joel if you’re reading this, which I’m sure you are….just totally ignore this one!)

10. I love to cook, but can only do it if the kitchen is clean. Want to know when my kitchen gets clean? Yup right before I cook it…

11.Secretly I’d love to have  a clean house. I go to bed thinking of ways I can be a better housekeeper, better wife. Sadly when I wake up though those ideas are gone.

12. Why do all these random things have to do with cleaning….probably b/c my house is trashed and I know it! :(

13. I love to read. Books. But not steamy romance novels. Nope I like Jr & HS fiction. Why I have no idea. I can’t seem to read slutty novels or even science fiction novels.

14. I can crochet…..but I hardly ever finish anything. I’ve only ever finished 3 things. A blanket for Kaitlynn…..(that I started for MacKenzie), and the hat & sweater I did for my niece.

15. I also love to sew! But see number 14.

16……….I know I said I’d only do 15……but I forgot to tag people! :( OOPS!!! See how forgetful I am!

I’m going to tag these amazing blogs, not only because they’re my friends, but because I love reading what they write!
Katie from Katie Talks About
Amanda from “popp”ing out one letter at a time
Melissa from My 2 Blessings
Gayle from The White House
Joanna from Baby Gator’s Den 
Kelli from Betters Days Ahead

Cleaning house……or not

I’m so bad at cleaning up things it’s not even funny. Whenever I find a new website that I like I throw it into my bookmarks menu. There are some folders, but usually I’m in such a hurry to get moving that I just throw them wherever they go. IT’s bad. Really bad. Like to the point where I NEEDED a link, and can’t find it! :(

So I’m going to spend the next few hours just organizing my tabs and bookmarks! Please tell me I’m not the only one who needs to clean house on their computer?? Oh yeah & I need to get pictures put on to CD’s as well! My computer is running so slow it’s not even funny!!

Wordless Wednesday

Catching up.

Baseball season officially is underway. Which means we’re going to be busy for the next 6 weeks or so. Even more busy than we were last year because Joel is head coach for Dahrran’s team.

So what have we been up to the last two weeks? Well let’s see. My step brother graduated from High School, which I baked cakes for. Dahrran had his last day of school, and so trying to entertain them all has been a challenge. We’ve had a bonfire at Grandpa’s house.

Here are just a few pictures from Graduation day. Jake is the last of us kids to graduate! We’re so proud of you bud!

    

I promise to catch up on the blog, and get back to regular programming soon. Hopefully this summer doesn’t kick my behind. I’m going to cherish every moment. Next fall Dahrran will be in second grade, MacKenzie will be in Kindergarten, and Kaitlynn will go to preschool 4 days a week 1/2 days! I won’t know what to do with myself!

Carry on, back to your regular scheduled blog reading now.

Nifty Nappy Giveaway Winner

I’ve taken days longer than I’d expected to get this winner chosen, but now I give you winner number 414.

Carolena is a super sweet new blogger with a cute little girl named Elenore. You’ll love all the pictures on her blog!

Congrats Carolena, you have 48 hours to respond to my email!

A little update on us!

So this week is Graduation week at our house. No I do not have children graduating, but I do have a step brother graduating High School. He is the last of us kids to graduate high school. So I’ve been a busy beaver this week. I offered to bake cakes for graduation, and I didn’t realize it would be such a task.

I’ve used 8 2lb bags of Powdered Sugar in two days. We bought 4 bags to begin with, and I figured it would be enough. As you seasoned cake experts now laugh at me! We then bought out the little convinces store. I then ran out again. Dad brought over what he had. I ran out again. So this after noon we went back to get a couple more bags. FINALLY I am done making cakes!

So since I didn’t get around to closing the Nifty Nappy Giveaway, I’m going to leave it open for another week!!! Why not? Plus I’m not going to have time to post tomorrow as tomorrow is graduation, and on Sunday I’d like to just relax! It will now end Thursday May 20th.

As far as everything else goes. We had our last calf born the other night. It gives us a grand total of 2 bulls, &  4 heifer calves.  3 black, 2 red, and one smoky grey. So that ends calving season…….and begins/continues breeding season! YAY!

My house is filthy! Worse than the pictures I posted before. There is CLEAN Laundry everywhere. My step sister is in town and before she can even go to bed tonight I have to get 2 loads of unfolded & 3 loads of folded laundry!

So I’d better get my but in gear. It’s 11:34. I’ve been awake since 7:30am with only 3 hours of sleep.

Wordless Wednesday – OR NOT

Cloth Diapers for a friend. I know I haven’t posted this yet. And I promised an email to all the mama’s that helped me out, with pictures. But I’m sorry this is going to have to do!

Jessica is a great mom to two beautiful kiddos. But just a few short months ago her life changed. She was called to be the caregiver for her two small nieces. Did I mention she has two kiddos, and her oldest is only 4? Her nieces are young as well. This mama has 4 little kiddos under the age of 4 living at her house. She’s one strong mama.

One night she mentioned that she’d love to be able to cloth diaper both girls to help save on their diaper bill as well as save some of the trash going into their can. This is when my brain child was born. I decided I was going to put a box of diapers together even if I had to send her all my diapers.

Thankfully there are a ton of great mom’s out there on Twitter & they answered my call on #clothdiapers search! I asked them to send one diaper they wern’t using and I would send them all on. Some mama’s were able to spare 3 or 4 diapers! In total we were able to get her 18 more cloth diapers, as well as some wipes, fleece liners, and a gift card to Top to Bottom Baby Boutique.

Bottom Row of Diapers, Top row of Diapers

   

My sweet little helper!

  

The total Loot.

You can read Jessica’s post here on her box.

Thank you to all the ladies who helped me out!!!

Katie Sanchez
Chanda Pressley
Andrea Campbell
Renee Tower
Joanna Stepka
Jessica Quick
Kaylyn Buckner|
Shannon Story