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Water, precious water!!!

After two days of being completely without water, we have our new well pump in and we have water!!! I never knew how wonderful running water is until we didn't have it. And for the last 2 weeks I've had to boil water to have hot water for dishes. Anyway, we have water in house and I am thrilled. Now I am going to celebrate by taking a long hot shower!! :)

Just a moment...

I'm buried in layouts for HOF right now, which is why I haven't been posting. It's hard to make time to do anything else when I'm in "the zone." I'm sure you scrapbookers know what I'm talking about. As long as you keep working on layouts consistantly, you keep a certain creative flow. I know that if stop scrapbooking for even just a couple of days that it's hard to get back in the swing of things again.

But right now I "flowing." Rebekah is at Grandma's, Lucas, Ty & Samantha are napping (actually, Lucas has yet to fall asleep & is yelling from his room "Mom! Can I get up now?" every few minutes. I know I'm going to have to give into him soon), so I have a few moments to print pictures. If I get those printed now, it'll save me time tonight and I can just crop away. I even have sketches for my next two "award-winning" layouts. :) I have 4 completely of the 10 so far. I'm hoping to finish them by the end of the weekend. We'll see.

Joel will be busy tomorrow replacing our pump for our well with our neighbor. The pump has been going out for months, but has gotten really bad these last 3 weeks. I can't even take a shower in my own home! The water is just a trickle. Forget taking a bath... it would take all day to fill the tub. So we've been going to my inlaw's house for showers and baths. Isn't that sad and pitiful? Hopefully by this time tomorrow it'll all be fixed.

After 2 years of promising ballet lessons, Rebekah finally started ballet & tap lessons a couple weeks ago. Isnt' she cute? Unfortunately the room she's in leaves a lot to be desired as far as taking pictures are concerned, but oh well. She is having a blast. It amazes me how quickly the kids pick up the steps. I would be still tripping over my own feet after just 3 lessons and she is dancing away.

Oh and I got our for mom's night out with a few friends from our MOPS group. Just coffee at Starbucks, but it was great to get out alone. We arrived at 6:30 and were still yacking away at 8:30 when they booted us out. What Starbucks closes at 8:30??? Ugh. But it was fun nonetheless. Then I went to Noodles Express afterwards. I rarely make it over there mostly because it's on the far side of town from me. Anyway, in the picture from left to right: Michelle, Lynn, Anna & me (green sweater) & Jessica.

Well, my photos are done, Lucas is up from his nap & I'm sure the other 2 will be soon. Gotta try to get something done in the few more stolen minutes I have left.

Four Things

I was tagged by Becca so here's my answers. :) This one was fun.

Four jobs you have had in your life:

1. Ticket Seller at Movie Theater. This was my very first job. It was great cause I got to go see movies for free, as well as getting free popcorn & cokes! :)
2. Receptionist. Actually for the corporate offices for the theater I had my first job at. They liked me so much, I was promoted. :)
3. Singer. Yes, I actually got paid to sing. I was in a 4-women public relations singing group for Southern Nazarene University. I actually travelled all over Texas, Oklahoma, Louisian & Arkansas singing, promoting the college, and uplifting God. Fun college job!
4. Graphic Designer. This is what I did the 5 years after college before I had kids. I worked for phone book doing their ads and then moved on to a prepress shop.

Four movies you would watch over and over:

1. Lord of the Rings
2. Sense & Sensibility
3. The Italian Job
4. Oceans 11

Four places you have lived:

1. Coeur d'Alene, ID
2. Fallbrook, CA
3. Bethany, OK
4. Houston, TX

Four TV shows you love to watch:

1. Grey's Anatomy
2. Alias
3. Survivor
4. Desperate Housewives

Four places you have been on vacation:

1. San Francisco, CA
2. New Orleans, LA
3. Julian, CA
4. Coeur d'Alene, ID (before I moved here)

Four websites I visit daily:

1. Two Peas Pub Board
2. Shannon's Blog
3. Sorry, there are only 2 I check daily
4. That's right, only 2, not 4

Four of my favorite foods:

1. steak
2. pizza
3. Vietnamese
4. Chili's Fajitas!

Four places I would rather be right now:

1. Where I am, at home, but all alone
2. Hanging out with Shannon
3. On a date with my husband
4. At the scrapbook store shopping with someone else's money

Four bloggers I am tagging:

1. Shannon
2. Cami
3. Maureen
4. Lisa

Photo Scare

I was such a good girl today. I started shooting photo from the moment I got up. It was a beautiful, snowy morning, so I thought I would shoot some photos. I even took photos on the way home from driving the kids from school. This is how it looked going up my driveway this morning. Pretty incredible, huh? Beautiful blue sky with snow still clinging to all the branches. I even got a few close ups of the snow, practicing my photography skills. And because Rebekah was at school & the boys were at Grandma's for the morning, I decided it would be a perfect time to do a photo shoot with Samantha since it was just the 2 of us. She was dedicated on Sunday & I wanted some portraits of her in the family christening gown. So I set up the shoot & shot about 80 photos of her, no joke. She was in a great mood! After we were done she fell asleep, so I rushed into the computer to download the photos and check them out. Well as I was downloading a deleting photos as I went (which I always do), I accidentally hit "Delete all photos from camera" button. No joke. That button really should NOT exist. And it deleted it all. All the photos I took today. When I realized what I had done I literally got sick to my stomach. All that work, all those photos... GONE!!! So I went to the 2Peas photography board. I knew SOMEONE else had to have done this before. Yeppers. I was lead to the program "Digital Photo Recovery" and $30 & 2 hours later, I'm happy to say all my photos are back!!! Yeah!!! For if I hadn't been able to recover them, this sweet photo of my beautiful 7-week-old daughter would be gone forever. Tragic.

A little behind

I haven't posted in a week now. Yikes! It's been a busy one. With CHA & HOF around the corner, I've been scrapbooking every spare second. With 4 kids, one of them a newborn, there aren't many of those spare seconds around. My husband was an angel and let me scrapbook most of the weekend. I've also been doing it in the evening after the kids were in bed. And instead of going out for a movie last night like we usually do on our date night, we came home & I scrapbooked. I'm a scrappin' fool. LOL.

Off to print some pictures!

It's the hormones...

Is there anything worse than a fight with your husband? Joel & I rarely fight, but this morning was a knock-down, drag-out. Ugh. I love him, but sometimes he can drive me batty! :) But of course we wasted the whole freakin' morning being mad at each other. What a waste!

In hindsight & being the big woman here, I can tell that the fight was my fault. I am such a hormonal mess after having a baby. Don't ya just hate hormones? After every baby I am such a whiny, weepy, grumpy brat. And I hate it! But I feel like I have no control over it. My moods are up one minute and down the next. It is getting better though. And yes, I have talked to my doctor about it. :P Things are starting to level out a bit, but I am certainly looking forward to being "me" again.

So, if I seem off or if I say something rotten to you, please, PLEASE forgive me. Really, it's not me, it's the HORMONES!

Tagged

Tagged by my best friend, Shannon. Looks like fun, so I guess I'll play. ;)

2 names you go by:
1. Sheila
2. Mommy

2 parts of your heritage
1. Irish
2. Who knows?

2 things that scare you
1. My kids getting hurt
2. Bills

2 of your everyday essentials
1. My Bible
2. My computer

2 things you are wearing right now
1. Jeans
2. An orange sweater

2 of your favorite bands or musical artists (at the moment)
1. Harry Connick, Jr
2. Sara Groves

2 favorite songs (at the moment)
1. Anything not VeggiesTales or Disney Music
2. Ditto

2 things you want in a relationship (other than real love)
1. Friendship
2. Patience

2 truths
1. I am not a fun person when I don't get enough sleep
2. Whining drives me batty

2 physical things that appeal to you (in the opposite sex)
1. height
2. eyes

2 of your favorite hobbies (besides scrapbooking??)
1. Reading
2. Photography

2 things you want really badly
1. An iPod
2. A full night's sleep

2 places you want to go on vacation
1. Paris
2. Australia

2 things you want to do before you die
1. Watch my kids grow up and become Christians
2. Learn to be patient with people

2 ways that you are stereotypically a dude/chick
1. I cry
2. I like getting flowers

2 things you are thinking about now
1. Going out without the kids
2. Scrapbooking

2 stores you shop at
1. Target
2. Gymboree

2 people i would like to see take this quiz
1. Shannon (which I did!)
2. Vicki