insta-friday 1.3.2014

Can you believe it’s already the first Friday of 2014?!? 2014! It’s crazy.

Here are a few of the pictures I’ve snapped with my phone over the last week.

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Can I tell you how much I love Famous Footwear? I loooove Famous Footwear. Like I want to sit in a tree with them.

The Man-Child needed/wanted some new shoes. The boy is seriously the roughest person on shoes ever. So he and I headed over to Famous Footwear to find some shoes for him. It wasn’t difficult since he already knew what he wanted. I pulled out my trusty little Famous Footwear app and realized I had a $20 reward certificate and they had a $10 coupon on their app. I can handle saving $30 on a $50 pair of Vans.

If you don’t have their app…get it!

And no they don’t pay me to say that…but they should!

Well I guess they kind of do with all the money they save me on shoes!

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The girlies wanted sparkly finger nails and I gave them very sparkly finger and toe nails!

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We have enjoyed some pretty amazing sunsets lately.

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We spent Sunday evening watching movies. I love, love, love that Hammie will still climb up on my lap and cuddle.

Such a sweet boy.

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And speaking of Hammie…

He finally had his last physical therapy appointment. It has been a really long 5 months and it’s nice to be done with all the mess with his leg.

He still has a little bit of a limpy run with that leg, but it hasn’t slowed him down in the slightest.

To get the full impact of this broken leg saga you have to go back to the beginning of the Chaos story. The leg he broke was the same one that had so many issues when he was little and had so many years of therapy already. The limpy is just another bump in the road that will be overcome in time. This boy is a serious miracle child!

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New Years Eve was spent with my Family. We had a great spread of food so it wasn’t a problem to stay awake and welcome in the New Year.

All the drinks from QT might have helped also…

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Well not all of us were together for New Years Eve. The Man-Child and Einstein went to the New Year Eve Dance with Cousin Emma. Aubrey stayed home with the rest of us and played games.

It’s nice to finally have cousins that are the same age as the kids living so close to us.

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On January 1st Christmas was cleaned up. I am usually ready to take the Christmas tree down the day after Christmas, but this year it took a little while longer to get the job done.

Plus my Christmas decorations had outgrown our totes and we had to add a new one this year. It drives me crazy that it’s red with a green lid and not green with a red lid… OCD much?

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By the time Christmas was cleaned up it was time for dinner and thankfully crappy pizzas hit the spot.

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I was pretty pathetic on my reading last year and this year I vow to get my reading mojo back.

This is the first book of the year…with a goal of reading 50.

I better get busy reading.

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Rainbow Loom…

Need I say more?

The girlies are getting really good and fast at cranking these bracelets out. I’m not quite sure I need 7 rubber band bracelets…and how long do they really expect me to keep wearing them?!?

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insta wrap-up

It’s funny that I post a wrap-up of the pictures I post on Instagram, because honestly most of the pictures on my blog are from my phone. Who carries a camera around when everyone has their phone handy?

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Summer in the desert usually means amazing thunder and dust storms. The storms have been pretty disappointing this year. We have been dealing with hellacious heat and humidity without the relief of evening storms. Last Friday we had what looked liked a pretty good storm building…

But it left us pretty much rain-free. Blech…

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The clouds do make for an amazing sunrises.

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We usually take 2 cars to church since the Boyz go early to set up chairs. It was fun to have us all together on the way home from church last week.

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For Christmas last year I got the awesome charm bracelet from Lisa Leonard. Every month a new charm comes in the mail to add to my bracelet. I was so sad when I put my bracelet on this week and realized I’ve lost my February charm. Sadness.

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As a stay-at-home I spend a lot of time alone in my suburban…

Stuck at this stupid red light…

And driving this road eleventy-billion times a week.

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I wear flip flops almost every day…except for the days I wear really cute shoes.

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O.P.I. you have outdone yourself with the new San Francisco line.

I am head over heels in love with Peace&Love&OPI.

It’s an awesome grey based duochrome that shifts from blue to purple.

Love it!

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I make a ridiculous number of stops to the library every week.

And I don’t mind it at all because it means my kidlets are reading…a lot.

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Einstein posted this on his Instagram account:

Not only did he hug me…he actually posted that he did.

Love him.

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insta-friday 8.30.2013

It’s Friday already?!?

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Last Friday night I was happy to have a little snuggling time with LaLa.

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On Sunday we enjoyed one of our favorite treats: Fruity Pebble Treats.

I may or may not have hidden a couple of pieces to enjoy on Monday while the kiddos were in school.

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Right now it seems that my life is as chaotic as my bag…and not as nearly as colorful.

Maybe if I organize my bag my life will follow???

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We live in the neighborhood behind our school so I usually pick the kidlets up at the back gate of our school. But since the back gate isn’t very wheelchair friendly it means I have to take the kidlets to the front of the school.

I can’t wait to be a back gate person again.

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Who would have thought that this picture would start an unexpected war at our house?!?

Nobody’s phone or ipod was safe.

But soon they all turned against one person in particular: ME!

It took a few days to get them all back, but I finally did…it didn’t matter if that included posting less than flattering pictures.

I did have to call a Hacking Truce so that certain people could relax and not worry about sleeping with their phone…Man-Child.

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Since I have to take Hammie into the school when I drop him off it has really changed my morning routine (and to be honest, my afternoon too). I think the whole school is thankful that I don’t walk the halls in my jammies and no makeup.

Who knows? It may be a permanent change to my morning routine.

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I love that just a few minutes from my house and I can be in the desert.

It’s amazing how pretty and green the desert is since summer is still in full swing.

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Have I mentioned that I love where I live?!?

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I had fun experimenting with OPI’s sand polish. I love this polish for my toes because it lasts FOREVER. This was the first time I have used it on my fingers.

I’m kind of digging it. I thought maybe the texture would bug me, but not so much.

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It’s always a good day if it includes a stop at QT.

It may come as a shock that it’s Coke and not DP flowing into my cup. I ‘m just shaking things up.

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Where has my reading mojo gone?!?

I usually finish a book every couple of days.

This summer I’ve only read a couple of books.

I need less of this:

and more of this:

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We are really on the countdown for Hammie to get his cast off.

As of last Wednesday he only has 2 weeks left. Woo Hoo!

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Yesterday I got my first call from a school nurse of the year. Boo!

 

And double Boo because it was soon followed by the second call of the year.

Roo went back to school today but Hammie got to start his long weekend early.

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throwback thursday - kisses

I miss my babies being babies!

insta-friday 8.23.2013

It’s been a few weeks since I did a Insta-Friday post so I went back a few weeks and grabbed  few pictures from my Instagram feed.

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Things have been a little stressful at Casa de Chaos for the last few weeks.

I love that my skin likes to freak out when I’m stressed. Which doesn’t add to my stress at all.

I feel like I am going through puberty again…because it was so pleasant the first time.

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These two Boyz…

They are such good kids. They were all ready to go to Baptisms at the Temple and I couldn’t resist taking a quick picture.

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Back to school means too much time sitting like this:

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The nastiness of a foot in a cast:

Enjoy!

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I’m not big on being over-scheduled.

On certain Tuesdays I am supposed to get 3 kids to 3 different places…at the exact same time!

Done, done and done!

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It’s August in the AZ.

There are the most hellacious bugs and spiders everywhere. This lovely guy was hanging out by the door in the garage.

Not a fan.

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Even as a sophomore he is willing to embrace Nerd Day.

I can’t even explain how happy this makes me. And the amount of begging it took for him to let me take this picture was ridiculous…hasn’t he learned that Mom should always get her way?!?

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I had to do a little search to find this picture of Roo.

She claimed the first broken bone for the Chaos Crew before she was even 2.

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We had a follow up appointment for Hammie.

His leg is healing great and the cast comes off on September 11th. YAY!!!

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He has a pressure sore on his heel that needed checked while we were at the doctor. To do that they cut a hole in his cast where it was hurting and added more padding to his heel.

Now his cast is super-heavy-duty and even more colorful.

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He is also getting brave and is trying to do new things.

He was so happy when he found a way to get down on the floor. Silly boy!

The best part is that he can get up off the floor without any help also.

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I was talking to Einstein and all of a sudden he got so excited!

He realized that he is finally taller than me.

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Marching Band season is starting. Last weekend the Man-Child brought his quads home for a little extra practice.

You know how loud these are on the football field? Imagine that sound in your family room. Nope…it’s louder that you can even imagine! But it still sounds pretty awesome.

Tonight is the first football game of the season.

Go Dawgs!

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