froggin' around

On Sunday a friend and her son along with Katey and I went for a walk in a local park that has nature trail behind in. On our way into the wooded area, I for some reason looked in the water puddle that was huge, since we have had a lot of rain the puddle was very big. But anyhow, I looked into the puddle and I seen a TON of tadpoles!! The two kids were amazed like we were. I have never in my life seen this many tadpoles in one spot ever. So on Monday I called two of my cousin's and told them about our find. We planned on Thursday to go and "rescue" a few of these tadpoles and let the kids watch how these things without legs turn into frogs or toads. Well the weather is suppose to be really nice and sunny and with it being warm we were able to see the little tadpoles "house" dry up. Then today we choose to go to the park and let the kids play and before we left we would grab some of these tadpoles.. After we got done playing we went over to the puddle and noticed that the lawn mower just went thru, we felt bad thinking that the tadpoles were gone. But then we also noticed that were the tadpoles were at, their were about 4 guys standing and looking at them. When we walked closer we could see they were pumping the water from this puddle into the pond nearby. We quickly scooped up some tadpoles and placed them into our new "fish"tank and brought them home. SO if anyone in blogger land can give me a few pointers on how to raise tadpoles I will take them!

box of all boxes

About a month ago(see how far behind on blogging I am??) Camron seen a commercial about a kid playing in a box, so he wanted one. I called Lowes, Walmart, Kroger, Meijers, and every where else I could think of that might have a big box. Then I thought of my dad, who works at a farm mach shop. Thinking he might have a box big enough. He was on a service call but he said when he gets back to the store he will look to see if they have a box for Camron. Well yes they did, Two of them and my dad and mom would bring them over in the week. Well when they did come over the kids were excited and well yeah I was too, nothing better than watching your kids play play with a box. But when they dragged this box into our house carring a box cutter so I could cut doors in it, my jaw dropped. You see this BOX is sooo big I, yes I said ME little ole' ME would be able to LAY in this box with my legs just ever so slightly curled up and be nice and comfortable. Yes the thought of mailing myself did come to mind also, but then the cost of shipping myself, I choose to stay home. This box had I guess some combine part in it. The box is sitting upright in our dinning room right now since the kids from time to time will get it down and play with it, but its getting closer to the time for this box to say good-bye to our family, since I am tired of sweeping around it, walking around and just tired of looking at this darn thing.

That is Jacob's leg getting caught in our door to the box, You can really see the size of this darn thing but I am about 5'10" or so.

Camron letting Jacob out since he didn't like opening the door himself.

I gave the kids markers to draw on the box and they had a blast. I should take pictures of the box one last time before it gets put to the curb next trash day.

not me mondays

Time for a Not Me MONDAY again. Head on over to MCKMAMA'S to join in the fun.


I have never ever put Camron in the bathtub at 9pm at night because he missed his bathtub that night and I wasn't in the mood to listen to him whine. I never give into his tantrums, what kind of mother would do that? It doesn't teach him anything. NOT ME!!



When we went garage saling this weekend we did not buy Katey a "new"bed for her room with a matching dresser and a nightstand. NOT ME!! Gotta love garage sales!



Jacob is not in his big boy bed only after two days after I made his baby bed into a toddler bed. That would be just a waste of time to "make" the toddler bed. NOT ME



I did NOT go 20 days without posting a blog! I blog everyday sometimes twice a day. NOT ME!!



I don't have a lot of catching up to do with blogging and adding pictures since I DID NOT go 20 days without blogging. NOT ME!!



My boys are not in the tub this morning so I can type my not me monday out. I have more time than money. Who would let their kids play in the tub just so you can have a break, a small break but a break never less. NOT ME!!





I know I have a lot more things that I haven't done but I have one boy yelling at the other boy, so I guess I should go and see what the problem is before something happens.

busy busy day

Wow what a busy day it has been here. Today was the garage sale of all garage sales. Allison Oaks garage sales. Its a big subdivision thats normally very busy. I mean cars parked on both sides of the road and somehow you still manage to fit cars down the middle of the road. Yes you run in the idiots who can't drive and try to squeeze their cars into places where they shouldn't go, when they should just wait a few seconds then the car next to them would move and then they would have plenty of room. But anyhoo, I thought the garage sale's were down from last year, but we still found found a great deals today... What did we find you might ask.. Well Katey for awhile has been needing a new bed. Her bed was ok but, it was getting shaky and needed some major TLC to make it good again. The bed we found was the one that has 3 dresser drawers under it. It came with a really nice headboard. We also bought the nightstand and 3 dresser drawers also. So tomorrow my dad and hubby have to carry the bottom part of the bed upstairs since mom and I weren't able to do that. Oh it even came with a really nice mattress also! So after we got done garage saleing today, we had to re-do the boy's room since we had to switch mattress, Katey's old mattress went to Camron's bed, and Camron's mattress went to Jacob's bed. UGH Iam pooped just retelling this. Then we had to take Katey's old bed apart, carry it all to the curb, and carry all her new stuff up to her room. After we got done with the kids rooms we headed over to mom and dad's to go out to chicken dinner with them. yummy. Before we left we talked Katey into us pulling out her tooth, since it was just "hanging" in her mouth. With dad, mom and I all working on getting this darn tooth out of her mouth,darn slippery little teeth anyhow, it finally came out!! So now I have to call the tooth fairy to make sure she visits our house. Now that my 3 kids are all sleep and the house is nice and quiet I think Iam going to go and put my feet up since I am sure tomorrow will be a busy day also since dad will be here helping Jerry trim some of the trees in our yard.

broke free from the bars

For awhile now I have thought about putting Jacob in his big boy bed but he seemed to not like it. I tried to let him play in it. He wanted out just as soon as I put him in it. But you put him on Camron's bed he would play forever. So I just one day last week, made his baby bed in to a toddler bed. You see we have had this bed since Katey. I made it into a toddler bed for her and she SCREAMED about being in it, so she went right into a twin size bed. Camron when it was time to get him out,I found a cheap little tikes car bed so that is what he slept in until we got the boys bunk beds last year. So I debated if i should make the baby bed into the toddler bed or just take it down and put him into the twin bed and listen to him yell since he didn't want to be in it. I made it into the toddler bed and hoped for the best. He did really well and of course I had to put the gate in front of his bedroom door to keep him in at nap time. But at bedtime he stayed in his room my only guess it was due to Camron being in his room also. Two days after making him his toddler bed I asked him where he was going to sleep. Normally he points to his baby/toddler bed, But OH NO he pointed to is big boy bed. Which on most normal nights would be ok, but you see the day before I asked him this question I was going thru some of the totes in thier room looking for some shorts and such and since Jacob wasn't using his bed I thought shoot I will use his bed.

So I had to move the totes and the dresser drawer in order for him to sleep in his big boy bed. He jumped into his bed, messed around with his brother for awhile before they drifted off to sleep for the night!

Jacob's first nap in his toddler bed. This was his very short lived, since two days after sleeping in this bed he moved to this bed.

Camron is on top, and if you look closely you can see Jacob on the bottom under his green blanket. Can anyone find this blanket either? I have look everywhere's and can't find the darn thing. I would love to have an extra just in case. But he loves his new bed and soon after I finish going thru the totes of clothes that I have to go thru I plan on re-doing their room so stay tuned.

20 days???

Wow has it really been 20 days since I last blogged?? Where has the last 20 days gone? I swear I wake up Monday and next thing I know its Friday already. Why haven't I blogged in the past 20 days you ask. Well its been crazy here. By the time I get a chance to blog its late, Iam tired. By the time I read everyone else's blog, Iam tired. And I guess I have been lazy about blogging also. Their I just admited it I have been lazy. Anyone else been lazy about blogging or anything else?? I say its the weather, its nice and warm one day and the next its rainy. But I hope to be getting back on the blog train again since I have a ton of pictures to post and blog about. So just stick in thier I will be back soon and hopfully BEFORE 20 more days have past!

wordless wednesday

More to come to explain this picture :)