Our Week...

Wow! This week has been a doozie! I am not even sure where to begin.

Clint did work this week. Yay! However, he is not full time yet. They can't bring him on full time until all their certifications have come through. This has absolutely nothing to do with Clint, it's just how new businesses start. So things are still not normal around here. It's kind of frustrating. I am glad that he has a job, but I am so ready for him to work the 9 hour day then come home. You know...like a normal life?! Yes, normal. That would be nice. Since he isn't working full-time we still do not have a full-time income coming in, so I have been pulling crazy hours again at work. I am exhausted, more then usual. I think the stress of all of this is catching up with me. (But I guess I have been saying that for a while.)

We did have some fun this week, though.

Monday: We were busy! Work. School. An appointment. Then I found a killer deal on a dress at the Down East Outlet in Ogden. I am really starting to LOVE that store. It was on the clearance rack for $7.00. So I tried it on, loved it, checked out, and it was an additional 20% off. I only paid $5.98 for it! That was exciting.

Tuesday: Work. School. Cub Scouts. Babysitting. I hate loading all 6 kids in the car to take Preston to scouts. Just to come home and unload. Then turn around and do it all again in 45 minutes. It's really annoying! Since the weather is warming up (hopefully) I think we are going to make this our Tuesday routine; Take Preston to scouts, hang at the park! It's so close to his scout leader. It was so nice to get the kids out of the house too! We played tag--and even I had a blast!Wednesday: Oh, that day was fun! NOT!! One of my co-workers didn't show for work. Which meant they had to cover her. I spent all day at work--literally. I even had to pick Preston and Tyson up from school and take them back with me. Which never happens. Oh man! I was tired. After work, I had to help a friend pick some things out for a project, so I didn't get home until 9:30pm.

Thursday: Same thing...work. School. St. Patrick's Day! We had a little Leprechaun visit our house. He got green paint all over my floor. I haven't even mopped it up yet! He left the kids little pots of gold chocolate and green candies. The kids all got to wear green and have class parties. We had broccoli cheese soup and homemadeLee's made green oreo cookies. (Don't judge---please. I really wanted to do festive green food. I was even going to make it. It just wasn't happening this week!)

Friday: More work. School. Craft Night!! Okay, so that project I was helping my friend with...turned into craft night. Some co-workers came over and I was able to teach them how to make those cute blocks. The ones with scrapbook paper and vinyl. She was making them for a baby shower gift. They turned out adorable. With everything we made for the baby shower...we were up until 2 am. I am too old to stay up that late! It was a lot of fun. Her blocks turned out great and so did her other projects. I didn't have a chance to finish mine until Saturday, but I still loved the way they turned out. I am addicted to those things. I think I am going to be making more!!

Saturday: Relax. Well sort of. I had a huge mess to clean up from craft night. I babysat. Then we spent Saturday evening searching for white bunk beds for the girls. I hate how expensive furniture is. I just don't know what to do!! Spend a little more for better quality and cuter style VS. Cheaper and uglier. It shouldn't be that big of a debate...but in my head it is!

Sunday: Church. Babysitting. Catching up on this blog of mine. Can't wait to watch a movie and lay in bed!!

~Subway Art~

I hadn't ever really heard of Subway Art until my friend, Shannon, posted about it on our Mommy Blog. Then I started seeing it everywhere! I thought it was fun, different, cute, and that it couldn't be that hard to make--right?! So I sat down and attempted to make my own. With St. Patty's Day this week--I figured I would go with that theme. I read a TON of tutorials on how to do these. Some used vinyl while others used a program like Photoshop. After some quick advice from Shannon--I was able to create mine using Photoshop and Picasa. I had to use photoshop to create the background. I just did the background in white for the first attempt. There is a great tutorial on how to do that on this blog. Then I was able to create all the words, fonts, and sizes in Picasa. Since I created it in Picasa it saved as a picture and I was able to print it out. (I was out of photo paper--but that is the best way to print them.) I found a cute frame for $2.00 and some cute green ribbon for $2.00. For more Subway Art ideas check out this blog. There are some WAY creative people in this world!! :)

St. Patrick’s Day

The Leprechaun snuck into our house today. He left his hands, and footprints everywhere. The kids had to follow the trail. Once they got to the end of the footprints, there was a pot of Gold candy at the end. It also had some green beads for Addy, and some green bouncy balls for the boys! The Leprechaun even left the kids all a golden dollar!! Which was very exciting. Then I made yummy dinner! We stuck with our tradition of green food meals. I would rather not dye anything, it creeps me out!! So for dinner I made Smothered Burritos in Green Chili Sauce. They were really yummy!! Click here for the recipe. I served spanish rice, green salad, chips & green salsa. As a drink we had limeade’s (sprite & limes). Then we had Thin Mint ice cream, with a thin mint cookie on top. Yay for girl scout cookies! Then we used our plastic green dishes to make a festive table setting! After dinner, we watched The Princess and the Frog. (Since frog’s are green…only kidding we rented it, and needed to get it back!)

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

♣St. Patrick's Day♣

Well, this year for St. Patrick's Day, I decided it would be fun to have a themed dinner. It's the only time everyone is home together. While Addy and Ty were napping (Preston was at school) I decorated our dining area with a bunch of shamrocks. I told the kids that a Leprechaun had come in our house and he put shamrocks everywhere. He said to keep an eye out for him, because he would be back. Addy enjoyed pulling them off. Later on that afternoon, the kids were outside playing. Which really made this alot easier to pull off. I decorated our table and counter area. (We really need a bigger dinning room table. Not to mention a new dinning room!) I used green shamrock confetti, clover looking paper plates, green cups, green napkins, Reese's peanut butter cups, and Rollo's.

The kids thought this was so much fun!! I told them that the Leprechaun did it. He ran out of "real" gold (so sad) so he brought the golden candy instead!! I also told them...he said to keep watching other things could happen.

So I went on finishing dinner while they were playing. I made cupcakes for desert, with green frosting and green sprinkles.

We had green kool-aid to drink. (It's actually Lemon-Lime--I didn't care for it much, but the kids loved it.)

Then for dinner we had green peas, herb seasoned pork chops, and garlic-herb potatoes.

When the kids came up to eat I told them that the silly Leprechaun put green seasoning in everything I was cooking. Preston thought that was hysterical. Tyson said, "Mom you did it--not the Leprechaun!" I told him no-no! It was all him. See he turned our juice green, our cupcakes green, everything.

They ate really great! Tyson especially!! I think part of it has to do with the fact green is his favorite color right now!

We had a great time...it was a fun experience. Hopefully it can become a tradition for us. Happy St. Patrick's Day!!