ONE MORE DAY

Tomorrow is the big day! I cannot wait!!!

Name calling

I have a problem when it comes to name calling. I just say things without thinking about it. For example if Jake is being silly I tell him he is being a queer. He always corrects me saying, "Oh so I like guys now. Well I am glad you are my cover up." I also call him a jerk if he is mean. I don't think of them as being mean, but they get my point across even though for the most part it doesn't make any sense. i justify it because there are worse things to be called than gay or whatever else. Well I call my brothers and sometimes Dad is included in it, a bunch of buttheads. If I am irritated I will say, "Which one of you buttheads. . . " or "You little buttheads!" It is an ugly name, but I use it. Well anyway the point of my story is that Dad adds to it, making it funnier. So one morning I came in to the bathroom to find some of my clothing in front of the mirror and one of my tanks shredded. I came upstairs and referring to Benjamin and Jarom I snapped about what "buttheads" they were. Dad continued it by deciding we should be more specific. He now calls Benny "Colon" and Jarom "Rectum" As I stated before, there are worse things to be called than the names I use.

Room update

The carpet was laid in my room on St.Patty's day and it adds so much to my room! I absolutely love love love it!! You can see what the trim will look like in my room in this picture (above). The floral carpet is one that Dad picked out for me awhile back, but it has been the inspiration to my whole room decor. I just love that green color!

There is carpet in the closet as well.
I started putting some of my stuff into my closet. Unfortunately I have to buy some more hangers (since people can't leave my stuff alone) and I need to put the rest of my clothes and those brown boxes in my closet as well.

Let the count down begin

Four more days before Holly cuts my hair. I am very excited!!!! I will post pictures again when it is short!

Quite the Sunday

This one is out of order, but this stain glass is the window to Grandma Carole's front door. I hope you don't mind me posting the things in your home Grandma Carole and I don't know the story on all of them. Anyway this window is a duplicate of the one at St. Ann's Cathedral. It was made in memory for Jake's grandpa. The symbolism is pomegranates if I remember right. Jake and I had visited his Grandma's house and she had talked about some of the things in her home--I didn't realize the symbolism and value behind a lot of it. Pretty neat!



Jake and I at his Grandma's. We arrived an hour and a half early to the party so we were killing time.
Jake's grandma has two birds and the one just layed an egg, but anyway this is the male bird. I think his name is Chaz. Anyway he will do cat calls and whistle at himself if you place him in front of the mirror.
The fireplace at Grandma Carole's house. She told us that the fireplace came from the old columbus hospital.
I love this clock. It is so pretty. I laugh at this picture because Jake looks pretty guilty.

The window in color

This statue came from Okanawa? and greets you as you walk in through the door.
Happy Birthday Dan! It is Jake's dad's birthday March 16th. His grandma had a little birthday party today for him and we were joined by Gus, Jake's aunts Tami and Amy. His grandma sang a solo happy birthday to him, she is such a good sport, and then we ate cheesecake. Jake's aunt Tami is pretty funny. She was making comments nonstop and they were pretty funny.
I asked Jake if he loved his CUDDLE BUG. He joked that it was his new pet and it loved its neck scratched.
and we were just being dorks. as you can see I am being attacked.
After church we came home and ate some of Mom's yummy enchiladas and then we took some pictures.
Jake is the one who wants pictures and yet he is the one who will make faces and goof around with the camera.

Happy Birthday Jarom

Well I put these in backwords, but oh well. Jarom turned 12 on March 4th. He was pretty excited, reminding us almost every day of his count down to the day. I bought him a tie as he already knew and then Jake and I took him to the 3D showing of Coraline. The show wasn't too bad. Afterwards we took pictures in one of the booths. Jake was funny because he decided to get up close and personal with the camera. We then stopped by McDonald's on the way home. Jarom seemed to have a great time and even wrote a thank you note telling me he had a good time. I am glad he enjoyed himself because we also had a good time with him. I am proud of him to be getting the priesthood and I hope he takes his responsibilities seriously and tries to be a good example to those around him.


Mom made him a yummy orange marmalade cake, but couldn't find candles. So she found lollipop sticks instead. She started lighting the "candles" but by the third one the first one was burned out so Jarom just had to fake it haha.

More catching up

I love more surprises! Alla Parker gave me a birthday present and although she kept apologizing because it was a month late, I loved it! She bought me the That's Amore paper packet from Close to My Heart. She also bought me the coordinating stickease and the journaling packet. I loved it! She also made me a beautiful card! Thanks so much Parkers! I am looking forward to starting my projects with all the goodies!


Grandma Carole gave Jake and I a Valentine's Gift. She gave us a bucket of candy and a little cat shaped candy thing full of goodies. Well when I got it Benny was being a little monster that was green with envy as he said, "What you think everybody should give you gifts?" Jake and I decided to fill the cat back up with treats and this time give it to Benny. Jake was funny because he wrote a FAKE number on the back of the card and on the other side we had a kiss mark and then Jake signed his name. He gave it to Benny which was funny.