Love is...

spending your day off taking your wife to Roseville...for shopping? no...for dental work...nothing lovelier than have your jaw bone scraped and chiseled at and then having your gums stitched back together..pure bliss I tell you...no really, don't take my word for it. :)

But nonetheless, thank you Billy for spending the day taking me because I was too much of a baby to go alone. But we might have sneaked in a little tiny bit of shopping (for the kids, go figure).

In other exciting news, Colby finished VBS last week and this week Micah's age group is going. They are so freakin' cute running around in super hero capes I absolutely love it. I will have to post a picture of that, I just need to figure out how to get pictures from my phone sent to my blog..hmm.....

okay. that was all. gooooood night!!

the old adage...

I'm sure we've all heard this one:

"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."

Well, when I was sick again for the last couple days I kept thinking about that. Billy was on vacation this week and there were so many things we wanted to do and wanted to get done but we kept finding reasons to put them off because we had no idea I would get sick and so we kept thinking we had all this time...

Then I got food poisoning and I really started wishing I had just done them. I think that is true of lots of things, not just projects around your house or little goals like "let's have a date night while my husband is on vacation...".

Sometimes it seems like the task is too giant (like sorting through all the mail or starting/finishing up the boys' scrapbooks) but the truth of the matter is you just have to start.

It's also true for me that I over estimate the time things take. I think something will take forever but in reality it doesn't take THAT long so I really need to work on fixing my mentality to start getting more accomplished.

It would have been nice to had a peaceful mind while I felt sick but instead I felt sick AND kept worrying about all the little things I didn't get done...and then it felt like I was working double time trying to catch up.

So if any of you have any tips for staying focused I would love to hear them!

Other than that I am happy to have my good health back and so happy we made it to church tonight. While I don't always love being challenged I know that I need to be because I always have room for improvement.

I hope everyone is having a fabulous weekend! I'm off to check the target ad online! :)

*DISCLAIMER. PRETTY PICTURE FOUND ON TUMBLR AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS POST. :)

11 months

So. I figured since I was sick when Isaac turned 11 months old and I never posted anything I should do a quick little update.

At 11 months Isaac...

has 6 teeth

says "no"

shakes his head no

holds up old photo slides to the light and pretends to look at them

makes the cutest pouty face when you tell him "no"

is still nursing...but honestly I am so ready to be back in a normal, non nursing bras!

loves to climb up to the bricks around the wood burning stove

sleeps in his own crib!

loves messing with Billy's guitars

no longer will eat just anything but he is obsessed with trying to get big people food!

likes to growl and laugh at Kramer

SO...boring no? Well, what can I say? All moms find their own babies fascinating and I guess we are no different with how we feel about Isaac. I love him SO much and I can't believe it's almost been 1 whole year since we brought him home!

Vacation...

We were finally able to join the boys at the pool today. Usually the two older boys go with my sister while I stay behind with Isaac because it wouldn't be fair for Billy to miss his first swim of the summer, but today we ALL made it. Isaac loved it and I hope we make it out again while Billy is on vacation this week...

Also plan on meeting up with Josiah and going through which photos we want for our canvas order (I can't wait!)...other than that not too much planned besides meeting with some clients and finishing up some design projects. I think my sisters are coming over to make hair pretties though I know they will be no match to Miss Jacklyn's...we needed a fun girl project to work on together and my sister Tamiko thought it would be fun to raid my craft supplies and make some hair pretties so we'll see. I think I might be more of an observer than participator, but I'll let you know how it goes!

I hope everyone had a great weekend and that you found a way to beat this heat!

Happy Friday!

I hope everyone has a great weekend... What's everyone doing? I think we might try and brave the heat and go to the Peach Festival. Last year I was so pregnant and hot it was awful...I even bumped into my obgyn who told me I was "brave"...more like stupid! :) But this year I am not about to give birth so we may just give it another shot.

Other than that it will be church as usual and I have a lovely massage scheduled that I'm sure my back and shoulders will thank me for...plus we will get to debut the new look for Cakes By Request, the best bakery in town, and some sweet little twin girl baby shower invitations!

Happy Friday everyone!

*photo found on tumblr

guess who's back?

back again...Tiffany's back...tell your friends....guess who's back guess who's back guess who's back....guess who's back

Are you annoyed with me already? Maybe your wishing I was still sick with the flu?? Well, sorry! I'm back! And it feels so good to be able to vacuum and clean my table and catch up on orders/emails and all that other good stuff.

So today was not exactly a great day. In fact, if I think about it lots of it was pretty darn awful, but all in all my life is pretty great so what can you do?

I am so grateful for my mom for keeping Colby an extra night. Just the shift from 3 to 2 is so much easier when trying to clean. Not to mention she took him shopping in Roseville and now I don't have to buy him over priced shoes for school. Thank you mom!!!

So what has everyone else been up to? I hope life is finding you alive and well. :)

Oh yes. And the above photo I asked to be taken by and I was so thrilled he was able to do it, the one and only Josiah Michael.

sick :(

spent all day yesterday throwing up and am finally entering recovery mode. Seriously. Not sure if there is anything worse than the stomach flu plus 3 kiddos to look after.

Thank God we are at the end of it...just wish I could shake this yucky feeling and throbbing headache! :( Luckily my mom kept the boys for a few hours yesterday because I had really reached a low point bawling my eyes out while trying to nurse Isaac and not throw up on him all at the same time.

Not my most glamourous moment, for sure!

Today Billy and I are feeling much better and Micah bounced back like nothing. Lucky! I can't wait to be back to normal just to catch up on housework alone. It's amazing what one day out can do to your home!

Sorry I didn't have anything more exciting to blog!!!

Happy 4th!

Marked the invitation boxed sets down to $15 for Independence Day. Happy 4th of July everyone!

summer...

is tomorrow really July?

Summer is going by so fast. I can't believe before I know it Isaac will be one! And Colby will be back in school as a second grader! Where is all the time going?

Right now this is taking up a lot of our extra time. But in a good way. We love working on design projects together...just wish it was all we did...so Billy had more energy instead of working on designs after he's put in 50-55 hours at his other, not as fun job... He's been pretty tired lately and it makes me feel bad...the other day Colby asked if Billy got the summer off from work. We wish Colby!

STELLA! STELLLLLLA!

So thanks to Seinfeld...or more specifically, Elaine, whenever I hear the name Stella I can't help but picture Elaine screaming it in the episode where she and Jerry are in Florida and Elaine hurts her back and takes too many muscle relaxers.

I love that show. In fact...I kind of want to watch it right now.

But okay. What I really was going to write about are these Stella McCartney for Gap baby pjs. Originally I just ordered the seafoam blue ones, but then they came and they were so stinkin' cute and the packaging it came in was this big star, I just thought what the heck...so I ordered him the grey pair too.

And in stores, Gap is actually having a really great baby sale..though as I write this maybe it's over and it was just for this weekend? hmmm.

Nonetheless I bought a bunch of cute baby girl clothes. The prices were SO low, I could not resist an extra 30% off of the
clearance sticker! I got the little number below for $9 people...can you even buy clothes at Wallyworld for that cheap?



What did everyone do this weekend? Hopefully you made some good memories..and some good deals!