On with the new....paint that is

This is what my past few days have looked like, lots of teal paint everywhere. On my fingers, on my clothes, in my hair & some on the walls too. KAS got a new grown up bedroom set for Christmas cause after all she IS 13 now, and the sweet baby horses running in the meadow has to go. She's had a Company Kids quilt with horses at our house since she was 6 so a change is needed anyways. I have picked up some new pieces of furniture off craigslist and Im still on the hunt for a few other things though.



I have the trim around the ceiling, the inside around the blinds, and the closets.....Ugh! Maybe I can just add doors and forget about the closets right...? In my attempt to do the first closet, (cause yes there are two in the same damn room) this is where I added teal paint to my, pants, Elton John tshirt & hair. Yay!



The new bedroom set is cute, and since there is green but no yellow this was a quick fix paint job only painting two walls, two inside closets, and the inside trim of one window. Its gonna be a teen room makeover! Hopefully she will like it when she comes on Friday. Since she's not a pink girly girl I got the teal bedskirt and yes teal paint. The set was on sale after Thanksgiving, Thank you Target! Im excited about the finished product...to be continued.

Highwaters

KC is growing! Poor thing is taking after me in the height department....(hopefully not forever) but he is adding inches. I can tell because all his jeans have turned into highwaters and its driving this OCD mama crazy! He's skinny as can be so all his jeans have been size 2 but now they are all to short. He still has 18 month shorts that fit. I spent Sunday cleaning out KCs closet & room and removed 14 pair of shoes and a kitchen sized garbage bag of clothes, excessive. But Im hanging on to some things "just incase" and giving my friend who's having a little boy Thursday lots of stuff too.



So as much as I hate to shop, Im going to have to =-) I do love shopping on ebay, thats where I find a lot of deals. I like to find a few different sellers who have lots listed so I can save on shipping. Then I resell a lot of the name brand clothes and shoes back on ebay. For shoes I use Zappos.com most of the time, I am a VIP member and I can order shoes late afternoon and have them at my doorstep the next day. If I need to return them they return and reship for free. I LOVE them! I Love purging things to, its such a relief. This is the end product of my day...


Uhhh and the Stanley Steamer guy will be coming this week to! On to KAS's room!

KC the Fisherman

For Halloween KC was sick, but we managed to make it to the IL's (in-laws) church Fall Festival and to Gigis house. KC was a fisherman this year and I had fun putting his costume together. Most everything came right off ebay for next to nothing, and the most expensive thing I could only find at Wal-Mart (lord help me) & that was the rubber boots at $17.00 freakin dollars! The grown mens boots were only $2.00 more, whats up with that? But I bought them, because the ones off ebay wouldve cost about the same with shipping. The little fishing pole is a game, and it was about $13.00, the vest was brand new and it cost less than $7.00 including shipping. I also found the patches, and the decal sticker from ebay. The lures all came again, from Wal-Mart and I removed all the hooks. The fishing hat he wore was my Dads,and I remember my Dad wearing this hat many times while fishing it didnt matter weather we were out in the gulf or on a river, that was his fishing hat. What is the funny thing is that KC would not keep a hat on his head to save my life before Halloween night; I tried a few times before Halloween putting the hat on him and he would take it off & throw it down, & Hubby tries constantly to put his hat on him to no avail, but he wore the hat with his costume then entire time and wouldnt take it off. Hes even been wearing it around the house! It makes me smile to remember the images in my head of my Dad wearing that hat, & to now see the little man in my life wearing it.

We started our morning off with some Halloween cinnamon rolls with orange icing & some black sprinkles, Thank you Pillsbury! KAS wasnt with us Halloween weekend & KC wasnt feeling to hot so I finished carving the pumpkin because Dr. appointments & x-rays threw the whole week off. Before dark we went to the Fall Festival to see Meme & Papa and had hot dogs, boiled p-nuts, and chips & we also let KC trick or treat through some of the games. Then we went to Gigis to see Gigi, Nan & Pop, and we ate Halloween brownies that Gigi made. By the end of the night he was wore out but he didnt want to take off his boots, he wore them all the way home until he passed out in his seat. We never made it to the Halloween Party since he wasnt feeling good, so maybe next year Mr. & Mrs. Pacman will make an appearance.

Hope everyone had a great Halloween, now....on to the good stuff!


Had to get his pictures made in his Fisherman costume!

Our breakfast

My little fisherman






Us at the end of the night minus KAS

KAS finally getting her Halloween bag, & KC trying to steal her candy already!

Halloween timeline

Since Halloween is so close, and Im not quite done with this years costume I thought Id post some previous Halloween costumes & photos. I love this time of year like most people, but being in Florida theres not a whole lot of change except you can watch football, strawberry season, and pumpkins - which remind you how close Christmas really is. I have lots of Halloween decor that Ive collected over the years, but since KC came along Ive started decorating more outside. KCs dressed up as a monkey for his first Halloween, and KAS was Hermione from Harry Potter that year. Last year, KC was Nacho Libre which his Dad picked on a whim 2 weeks before Halloween. Thanks to ebay, a few websites, and huge local Halloween store I pulled it off. KAS was Allison Vernon-Williams which was the love of Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker from the movie Cry-Baby. The girl loooooves Johnny Depp! She had the whole outfit, & a wig that was hilarious. This year KC will be a Fisherman, because once again thats wat Dad picked out. Inspired by Dads favorite music idol, Les Claypools song "John the Fisherman". Thankfully this has been alot easier than Nacho was. I have no idea what KAS is going to be, I have asked her several times but no answer yet.

Hubby & I have a costume party to attend after trick or treating & its a toss up between Mr. & Mrs. Pacman, or Fat Albert & ummm Mrs. Pacman. Im gonna be Mrs. Pacman by myself if I have to, because thats going to be easy & cheap to make.


Hubby, KAS "Hermione", & KC "Our lil Monkey" 2007


My Nan & Pop with KC "A sleeping Monkey" 2007


my Mom, Gigi, Me, & KC "My Monkey" 2007


KC & KAS, "Nacho & Allison" 2008


KAS as "Allison Vernon-Wlliams" 2008


KC as "Nacho Libre" 2008

Finally....some Easter photos & a update on Hubby

I still dont have my laptop, and with everything going on its not been high on my priority list. I have been posting my pictures from this dinosaur but I am not able to resize or edit them because I have none of my programs, or favorites, or anything on this stupid thing! The Hubby is finally home, he was able to come home Thursday afternoon. After spending 4 days in there he was ready to come home, even though the food was great! That place is just the greatest place, people are there from all around the world for one common cause....cancer. I brought my camera Wednesday when I took KC to visit him in the hospital, but Hubby said if I took a picture as soon as he got out of there he would smash my camera into a million tiny pieces, so it never came out of the bag. Guess you could say he did not want any memories of this huh? Im playing nurse until Monday when I get to remove his catheter. Wait...what did I just say?? You read it right, they taught me how to remove a catheter from my husbands penis before we left the hospital and I will tell you I am about as pleased at that as my Hubby is. I also learned how to properly flush a bladder through a catheter with a giant syringe & some saline. Fun huh? On a lighter note, he did tell me that hes had more women touching his pecker (his exact words) in the last 4 days than he has in his whole life. I laughed so hard in the car on the way home I cried. I had to add the fact that a few men had done the deed also, since he has male Drs., he didnt find that to funny though.

I wanted to share some Easter photos because if I dont I know I never will. On Easter KC, KAS, & I went to church, then after church we went to my familys to eat lunch. KC got to hunt eggs for the first time, even though he was by himself. He still had a blast! KAS & I colored eggs on Saturday while KC was napping because its just to messy for him still. We did tie dyed eggs, camo eggs, and some other cool ones too.

Enjoy!


KC in his Easter outfit complete with paci.
Our eggs

KC with his Easter basket

KAS and her Easter basket

Prayers for Nanny

Please say a prayer for my hubbys family, his Nanny (moms mom) passed away just a few moments ago. She was 90 years old and had really gone downhill fast since September. She was in & out of the hospital a few times and had to move into a rehab facility. We went and saw her on Sunday morning and she was doing ok and she really enjoyed seeing KC. She lived 3 doors down from us until moving to the rehab place, and after KC was born we always went for walks to see Nanny. She made the BEST homemade strawberry jam, and good chicken & dumplings too! KAS spent alot of time with Nanny to, she used to pick KAS up from school every Monday and Wednesday until she decided she couldnt drive anymore in May of last year. KAS even has Nannys middle name. Nanny had 1 daughter, 3 grandsons, and 3 great-grandkids and they were all her pride & joy! Nanny will be dearly missed by every member of our family, but we know shes in a better place.


This is KAS, Nanny, KC, and Syd at Nanny's 90th suprise birthday in Nov.


This is Nanny & KC the day we came home from the hospital. Since she lived a few house from our we stopped to see her before we went home.

Houston we have a MAJOR problem!

Ok Im mortified, disgusted, pissed, and many other ed words. We have just discovered we have a lice outbreak under our roof! EWWWWWWWWWWWWE! My hubbys cousins daughter came over and spent the night with KAS a few weekends ago and she had head lice. Now KAS has it, my mom came over and checked me and oh YUCK I have it. Hubby also has it and I dont think KC has it but Im going to check him when hes asleep when hes actually still. KAS uses my brush when shes here so that why I have it, Im so grossed out! I cant stop itching my head now, and the hubby is going nutso too. I think he is officially shaving all facial hair, so thats a bonus for me ha! Im really mad becuase I had to go to CVS and spend $62.00 and RID spray & shampoo to treat everything, and Im now doing Sundays laundry all over again. This is NOT the first time she has given KAS head lice either, the last time the rest of us were lucky. I think babies under 2 can not be treated at all so Im praying that KC doesnt have them. Im off to treat hubbys hair and then shave it all off, me...I have a 8:30am appt. with my friend that does my hair shes going to treat it and then give me some dye or bleach or acid to make sure those little bugs die a very rapid death!

Ok now that I have shared my dirty little secret, I know you are sitting there scratching your head now arent you.?

Ugggh I feel so icky!

Wordless Wednesday...a pretty little girl