We are here in Missouri

So I have not been keeping up with my blog and I am sorry about this.
We got to Missouri in August with hardly any hiccups. We had a blast going to the Cadillac Ranch In Texas. If you have never heard of the Cadillac Ranch it is something that you will need to see. It is a bunch of Cadillac that have been buried in the ground. Not buried all the way just the front end has been buried.You can take spray paint with you and spray paint your names, pictures, or just graffiti the cars as you want. We did not bring any spray paint ourselves but a very generous family let us have theirs as they were leaving the ranch. it is not really like a "Ranch that has animals" it is just a bunch of Cadillacs in the ground nothing else around it.
Here are some of the pictures I was able to take before the camera battery died on us. It was a lot of fun and Dewey loved being able to help Daddy spray paint our names.

   

Right before we went to the Ranch we were pumping gas and I was standing next a gas nozzle talking to John and Dewey was messing around. He knocked a gas nozzle off the hook that hangs on onto the top of my foot. It felt like my foot had been broken and it swelled up instantly. As you can  see it looks like a growth was on my foot. Up until a few days ago my foot still hurt when i won't try to bent my toes forward.

When we got to Mo (Missouri) the weather was very humid. It was so humid outside that we had to use the defroster and the wipers to wipe all the dew off the window. It was so cold in the car that the outside temp was fogging our windows up. I had never seen this before and I thought this is very weird. It rained off and on the first week we were here, which made the humidity off the chart ridiculousness. We got a storage unit and all of our house stuff into to in one day. I am still finding stuff that I think I should have kept that stuff in the house not in storage.
The kids have been outside playing a lot. Thanks to Jacqui Baldaras we have a police car and John Deere tractor that they ride a lot. They are having a fun time too.

 

 

I still have not found a job yet. I have applied for a couple of jobs at the local hospital with little to no feedback on them. I think that I might have to get a job at Dollar tree or a Customer Service place in order to start earning money for my family to start our life here in Mo. Please pray for my family and I as we try to make the best of life here in Mo. I know that we will love it here we just need to start planting our roots in the ground here.


I hope you guys are doing well and we are trying to make it back into California in December for Christmas.

New NEWS and projects!!!!

Hello,
I know it has been a awhile since I have been on these blog. I want everyone to know that we have been good and decided to move the family to Missouri.

I know you are going to say why Missouri? Why are you moving so far away? What is out there for you that you don't have here?
My answer to those questions is: John's parents and sister are in Missouri(Mo). We have been wanting to move to Mo for 5 years now and we figure this is a great time to move. I have not been able to find a job here that will either keep me or even consider my experience. So we are starting our packing and leaving California on the 29th of July. I will be missing out on a lot of stuff here and missing a lot of people here in California too. I am a little bit nervous on how this move will be on the kids and me. I know John will be OK cause he will have his parents and this sister. He has always wanted to move back there since his grandparents moved to Mo and now he has that chance. I will try to keep up with this blog after we move so that you all know how life is with us back there. I will post picture of the pic and the family as much as possible so you all don't miss us to much. LOL

On another note I have been trying to keep the kids occupied with the TV lately. It is really hard to do when the temperature outside is 105. But we  have done Two out side projects so far.
The first project we did outside was I took a picture frame that I had a repainted it and the picture inside of the frame was just cardboard was we painted it and made hand prints on it.
Dewey was not interested in the painting on the frame or the painting of the cardboard. He sat in the house and watched TV while me and Taylor did the painting. I did the frame and some of the cardboard.

I think that this turned out pretty good for just the two of us and the heat was redonkuless.

We waited for the paint to dry on those and went in the house to get out of the heat for awhile.

Next we all went back outside( Dewey included in the all) and choose what color hand prints we wanted to put on the cardboard. This part Dewey liked cause it involved him getting his hand dirty and no caring that he is playing paint. :-)

I am sorry I did not get one of them putting their hands in the paint but it is hard to get them to put their hands in the paint on the cardboard just right. So I helped them to do the project right. After all I will have this hanging in my house and I will be looking at it. Lol right!

They had fun doing it too.

Here is the finished project. I had my sister add some writing to the bottom of the hand prints that says there name and age. That way YEARS down the road I and they will know how old there were when we did this.

The next project that  we did was fun to. This time both of the kids wanted to do it.

We made marshmallow shooters out of cups and balloons. The kids loved them.

We used Two paper cups, Two Balloons,Marshmallows, and some duct tape to help keep the balloon around the cup. I was going to try and use plastic cups but they kept collapsing on me so I got paper cups.

We cut the bottom off the cup and we used as marshmallow storage :-).

Tie the end of the balloon like you would when it is blown up. Cut the top off the balloon and put it around the bottom of the cup. 

I had to tape the balloon on it cause it keep coming off when Dewey would pull back on the balloon.

That is all you needed to do to get the shooter going. Now you just put the marshmallows in the cup and shoot away.

Here was the target that the kids wanted to shoot at. Our cat Stripes; they never once hit him cause they could not aim very well.

  

The kids had so much fun that they were still playing with them until Taylor's broke on Saturday(7/6/13).

 Hope you all enjoyed this long old post. I will keep this updated from here on out.


Love you all and God bless you.

Starting a new Business

I am trying to get started in a new business to earn some money for my family. I am tried of being broke all the time and not being able to buy general items: Such as shampoo, conditioner, body wash, razors.etc... we have using what my grandma left here at the house and samples that you can get in the mail. I HATE BEING BROKE ALL THE TIME. So I am going to start selling Lia Sophia Jewelry. It is a little price in my opinion but there are people that are willing to pay for the name. I am going to do better this time selling stuff unlike Party Lite I was not very pushy at getting parties booked.

Taylor is officially walking everywhere. She is into EVERYTHING. The other day she was on the fireplace walking back and forth. Looking at me and pretending to lunge off the fireplace. The drop off is probably a foot or less. John was telling me to get her down and not to let her do that. I looked at him like he has never had a kid before. Stop the child from doing something that she knows she can do all by herself. I said to him you take her down and see what she does when you do that. He said I know what she is going to do but I want her to stop.
She is a a daredevil too,she climbs on everything. For one thing she climbs on the  play table sits on the edge of it and dangs her feet off the edge. She just claps her hands and smiles from ear to ear and squealing at the same time cause that is how happy she with herself.
I thought that Dewey would be my one that I had to watch for broken bones. I think I have changed my mind I say it is going to be Taylor first. I love her to death to and I think she is more like her brother then I had hoped. I wanted a calm child and she is turning until him.

Here are some recent pictures we took camping. Some of you have seen them on Facebook from John page but I want to post some on here too.

Here We go!

I am starting this blog so that our family all over the places can stay up to date with what is going on with our lives.

First off we will talk about my Son! He is in the terrible twos and a handful of energy that I wish I could bottle up and use on myself sometimes. We have got him "potty trained" I say it like that cause we still have an issue with the Pooping. He goes on the grass like a dog. He will tell you as he is going that he is going like bear does. He acts like dog lately to, he pants like a dog and when you ask him to find something he sniffs for it. He started to bark and chase stuff over the weekend with his Uncle DJ. Other then that slight issue he is fully potty trained and has not peeped or pooped in his pants/ underwear. He is growing up so much that I am hoping this terrible twos leaves soon.:)

We have Taylor that is turning 1 on Saturday. I can not believe that I have two kids under 5. I must be crazy and wanting to pull my hair out. I love my kids and I love my life I just wish I had an outlet from them sometimes like all moms need. We have already had a big party for her First Birthday and it was so much fun for her and us. She did not shy away from her cake at all. She dug right into that cake and didn't stop until it was almost done.
She was starting to walk around that time but with the help of hands or the occasional steps on her own. Now she is all of a sudden walking into every room in the house and not crawling. She wake one morning and decided she was going to walk and not crawl anymore. She is everywhere and into everything.

This video is when she was trying to walk and when she was needing some help. I had to try and catch her doing the walking. I hope you can see it.

We are so excited about the holiday weekend that is coming up this weekend. We are going camping to Hume Lake with my parents church friends. We go every year but we missed last year cause I was having the little girl . This year should be an adventure cause she is going to be walking for the first time with shoes on. She has never walked with shoes on cause I have been trying to steer away from the struggle with trying to force her feet into shoes.

I am going to try and start a business to earn money for our family somehow. I am going to selling Lia Sophia Jewelry. I hope that I can do a great job at this business. I have my first show in September. I want to succeed at this and hope to able to bring enough money in that we can be comfortable and not live unemployment check to unemployment check. Wish me luck and if you want to have a party let me know I will be happy to schedule you a show.