Happy 15th Birthday Destiny!

 Today my oldest turned 15 yrs old! We had dinner at Cracker Barrel down in Loveland, CO and then home for cake and ice cream and presents at home. She absolutely loved her Zelda cake and gifts. She already wants to start working as well! I am so glad I instilled such a great work ethic into her. There are 3 places here in town she can work at now and we discussed that her earnings will go into a savings acct to save for a car when she gets her drivers licence. I'm very proud of you Destiny!

Happy 12th Birthday!

Happy 12th Birthday!

Family life is many things
And one of the nicest joys it brings
Is having a daughter as dear as you
Who's thought of in a special way
Not only on a special day
But warmly and with love
The whole year through!
Happy Birthday

Destiny's Birthday

A birthday should be fun and exciting but planning Destiny's birthday this year is well rough to say the least. I'm so broke but thankfully my sister and her hubby are sweet enough to help out. (I'll pay them back as soon as I get my first pay check in a few weeks ^_^) But now is the time we need to get her cake ordered but she wants Twilight. Normally its not an issue at all but this Wally World here doesn't have any Twilight! Makes me wanna scream and cry but luckily we can take in a picture and they can put it onto the cake so I let Destiny pic out a pic tonight and Heather and I will go in tomorrow and get it ordered before i go into work for a long 7 hour shift. Then I can come home and bake 2 dz cupcakes and then decorate them so Destiny can take them to school for her class on her birthday. So here is the picture we are going to put on her cake:

She insisted we find one with all good guys and bad guys on it. And the cake will be black with pink borders. Yes black and pink are her 2 favorite colors atm.

Happy 11th Birthday!

Today my oldest turned 11 years old! Where has the time gone? I swear just yesterday she was this little 3 year old running and smiling and giggling about our tiny apartment. She has one more year left of Elementary school too! I'm so proud of you my darling!

Homework is just so exhausting!

I just had to share this! My poor Destiny fell asleep on my bed while doing her homework tonight. She is finishing up the 2nd grade and her teacher gives them all several hours of homework each night but its been a good thing.

Happy 9th birthday Destiny!

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Our Halloween pics

 A rare picture of me.

 Destiny as a Monarch Butterfly

Destiny's face painted.  

 The whole painting. We tried to re-create this from a gal on Youtube, as you can tell I'm not an artist.

 Kiley's fairy paint

 Her mean face, I guess she chose to be an evil fairy?

 The girls together

 Our neighbors decor. It went up before trick or treating began and was down before we even got home.

 Another neighborhood decor, it would blink, just made me laugh

 Destiny before her makeup and wings

And I end with my favorite scent of all time, pumpkin spice! This is a Wal-mart candle and its just scary how tall the flame got, it actually melted my burn even metal ghost topper. So sad...

Grass and a pumpkin update

Here is my kitty as of last night. I already know I want to finish it like the one in the picture but different fabric of course. :)

Finally our grass was delivered and DH has been busting his butt getting it put in just right! After he got about half of the yard done yesterday the girls and the boys just couldn't resist and had to go play in it!

Today he is installing more of it and then tomorrow it will be finished off. Its called Kentucky bluegrass which stays green all year long! Yes you see Zeus with his leash on as the truck that delivered the grass couldnt fit through our double gates so the 2 1/2 pallets were left in the open doorway! Zeus had to be put on a leash or he would have run for it lol. Duke is my good boy and stays by my side mainly as he is a momma's boy. Well i'm off to make dinner and then i'm going to try and finish my pumpkin piece. :-)

My House *pic heavy*

Well since my dad wanted pics and a few others of you have been asking to see pics of my "new to me" house, here they are. Please ignore the mess. LOL

My Kitchen, small but I love it! I plan to do a coffee house theme full of reds and browns. I'll have to show you the picture my mom bought me which was my inspiration for what I want to do in here.

My diningroom, just as small as my kitchen. In fact you can kinda see the picture I was talking about in this picture hanging up on the wall.

Destiny being cute before school this morning

My entryway. You can see my couch in the bottom right.

My livingroom plus Kiley holding Manzo

These two pics are of my craft room. I know its pretty plain right now but until we have more income I can't do much with it. In the cabinet is all my yarn and then i have two more on the other side filled with all my other crafty things including my sewing machine.

These are of my husbands office. He keeps all his military clothes here and all the big things are in trunks in the garage. They give him enough stuff to fill a good size room. Crazy considering he only uses half of it and the other half is used once in a great while.

Here is my small laundry room. Just big enough to fit my washer and dryer. I'll get some decor put here later on as well.

NOW THE DOWNSTAIRS

Here is Kiley's room. DH will hang up her posters and stuff for her when he returns from the field.

Right next door is her sister Destiny's room. She loves princesses and Twilight and yes you see the wall at the end of her bed? There is an Edward and Bella poster hanging right there! She told her dad to put it there so its the last thing she sees before she falls asleep. LOL

My hallway as you come down the stairs and also where we keep kitty food and water and there little play houses, though the bigger one broke cause Manzo is so big. These apparently aren't meant to hold Maine Coon's. Yes that's Manzo in the pic. He was suddenly hungry when I was taking pics. :-)

And finally my room though I'm not showing the part of the room with my viewable closet, TV, and the mess on the floor where the kids and I veg out in the evenings. Its messy LOL.

And that's all folks! If you made it this far congrats!