Boutique style pants!!

While searching some things on E*bay I came across some adorable jeans that had ribbon loops on the bottom.. so cute. I thought to myself.. I need a new hobby! Ha! Seriously though I thought I can do that! Naturally I googled how to make them.. found a great editorial on http://darnkat.wordpress.com/ She has a couple different editorials that I would like to try.

So here is Callie wearing hers that I made to match the Gymboree line "fall for monkeys"

Jason's celebrates his birth on 9.09.09.. 32 yrs later!!

Jason really doesn't like a lot of hoopla for his birthday and when I told him at the beginning of the week that I didn't have a present for him this year he was fine with that. I however was not! Jason always showers me with lavish gifts my birthdays, this year i got a loaptop. I knew I had to do something but what?!

Then we all got sick and didn't feel well and there was no time to go shopping with 3 sick kids.
The day of his birthday while I was showering at 3:30 in the afternoon it hit me like a ton of bricks.. Jason had been wanting a GPS but wouldn't buy one for himself.. Crap! Where am I gonna go to get one.. .walmart?? Did I mention that it was a rainy, nasty cold day? well it was!!

So I called my mom to get the 411 on dad's GPS.. she informs me that they got his at Staples for less than a hundred bucks.. cool, I thought! so after Kim picks Charlie up at 4:30 I had an hour and a half before Jason would be home.. plenty of time! Wrong.. Staples doesn't have anymore of that GPS in stock and the rest are out of my price.. load the kids up, drive to walmart at the other end of town, their prices were high as well. So I called my mom, she calls Staples to see if they can contact another store for availability and will call back. Now it's almost 6:OO and Jason will be home by 6:30... tick tick tick!

I call her back... they found 2 more in the store and were holding one for me... Get all the kids loaded back in the van, drive to the other end of town(AGAIN), get everyone out of the van, go inside to Staples (AGAIN) and go directly to check out.. whew! Buy the dang GPS .. get everyone loaded back up, drive home and get there in just enough time to get the thing in a package and ready to go... This my friends is why I never procrastinate!! Everything always comes back and bites me in the ass!!

Here are a few pictures from his lil party..

Just us & my parents!

our Backyard retreat

So for labor day we Labored!! Plus we were all sick .. well all but Jason.

Thursday I ordered 4 yards of mulch & some rail road ties that was delivered on Friday. On Saturday Jason & I picked up a skid of patio pavers and some other stuff... for our retreat!

I mulched our flower beds around our house and Jason worked on the patio. He brought home the skid loader from work to level out a pad. We worked most of the day on Sat. and on Sunday we took a break.. Jason went to church by himself while I stayed home with sick kids. .. Callie woke up from her nap on Thursday with a 101.4 fever and Carter got it as well.

Monday we got back at it and worked all day, again. It was hard for me to get motivated... I have a bad back ache, cramps, and congestion.. I feel like poo!

After we finished we invited mom & dad over , lit a fire and roasted hot dogs and made some s'mores...yummy!