Pooped

This week has been a long one.

With three jobs, karate classes, and prepping the house, it gets to be very tiresome:

1. I teach art to kids, nanny, and take care of my grandma throughout the week. 
2. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday I attend Black Belt prep until late into the evening. 
3. Don't forget soccer Wednesday nights (this week the game was at 10 PM!).
4. I didn't get much of a weekend seeing as I was painting all day today. 
5. I furthered my ambitions and painted the baseboards and doors in my own room, cleaned up the walls a bit, along with rearranging the furniture and "re-decorating." 

Did I mention I did this on 3 Oreo Cookie truffles and 2 bites of a burrito? Once you get busy, food becomes an after thought...

Max is celebrating Taylor's bachelorism before the big day. I'm not quite sure what he will think, but the room definitely needed a change. It was driving me crazy and it was so messy.

Nothing feels better than a clean room, with a fresh look, and clean sheets on the bed to fall asleep in...

Christmas Surprise

I felt like a little kid tonight.
I ordered a Christmas CD from Amazon.com for Max.
Not just any Christmas CD. A Johnny Cash CD..

And it came today! So I was frantically texting Max, asking when he would be home if at all since he has class tonight at SacState. I cleaned up the room, made the bed, hung up clothes and put shoes away. I was going to wrap it up and leave a note strategically placed on the bed. But he got home.

Change of plans. I asked which car he was taking because I needed to "get things out of it before he left." I left the wrapped present on the seat with my note reading:

"For those 'Johnny Cash' moods you get around the holidays" 

(Since the other day he turned MY Christmas radio station to a Johnny Cash CD... not that I don't love J. Cash, but I ONLY want Holiday music on for the rest of the year! ha)

So there it is. The perfect gift. For him. And maybe for me too :)

Holiday planning..

So, my mom had us all sit on the stairs (mom, dad, grandma, max and I) to take our Christmas picture. Here we are, sitting in a torn up house on dusty stairs, freezing our butts off... my dad manages to pull off one of those "I'm-so-uncomfortable-being-squished-onto-the-staircase-what-the-heck-are-we-doing" type smiles. I'm in sweats and in Max's hoodie. Max is the only one still dressed in his Sunday best (good thing we put him in the FRONT of us homely looking folks, you know being in our "lounge wear" attires). 


Needless to say, this is all leading up to Shutterfly's promotion going on! Thanks to Cassie E. for posting on her blog about it!). All you need to do is go to Shutterfly and register for the promotion. Write about it on your blog and let them know! You'll get 50 FREE cards of your choice for doing so!
It would be fun picking out a design for this holiday season. It has been a crazy year! Check it out on Shutterfly.com! 

This whole card is perfect. The setting, the outfit, the design. Love it.

Pop of red rings Christmas!

Fun and festive. Not over the top. Love it.

Check out other projects: 

new year’s invitations to http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/new-years-cards

holiday cards to http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/holiday-cards

Christmas photo cards to http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/christmas-photo-cards

Happy Holiday

The past couple days have been so great. Especially since it meant getting out of the torn up house for hours at a time. The Getz crew came into town. Turkey Trot 10k (which I wasn't registered for...sneaky sneaky). Football for the guys and kickball for everyone else. Had a fabulous Thanksgiving dinner prepared by my mother-in-law. Played with my nieces and nephews. More eating and loving. And don't forget Black Friday madness.

BTW, I have never partaken of the grueling, sometimes satisfying if you're lucky, Black Friday frenzy that sweeps this nation the day after Thanksgiving. Nope. But it was so fun talking about it and looking through all the ads with my family. Needing, wanting, dreaming... Consumerism! Sheesh. BY FAR the best deals were at Michaels. Yeah, sure I'd love all those neat electronics and goodies at Target, Walmart, Best Buy... But the art supplies and crafts?! I went to Michaels twice! Couldn't resist it. Can't wait for Christmas morning to open it all and get creative! And yes, that second time I went, I got myself some goodies that I can use before christmas day, ha.

That day was so long and a little surreal. It was 5 pm yesterday and it hit me, "It's still Black Friday." Key word still. I'm cool with the long day and all since it meant "more time" with family, but 3:40 am is a little early for me! And my sister, E... she's prego and even got up at that time!

Needless to say, last night's sleep was like heaven.

Sadly, I have no pictures documenting the past few days.

Unfortunately, money doesn't grow on trees and I can't just buy that dream camera I want (you know... the kind every MOTHER has? fancy.)

... I tell Max I need one when we start having kids which could be as soon as this time next year... who knows ;) HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Life is good.

Happy times. I love that guy!

1. Forgotten Carols tonight with Mom, E, and G-ma
2. Floors are finally getting installed this week! I'll post pictures of the work and progress of it all.
3. Getz Clan on Wednesday.. PARRRRTYYYYY
4. THANKSGIVING on Thursday :)) Who doesn't love food?
5. Harry Potter SOMETIME this week. Max is dying to see it too ;) haha

Blog make-over

I know it's Christmas theme... and for some, that may seem pre-mature... but what the heck! It won't last forever, and before you know it, it will be 2011. :) Happy Holidays!

Fresh flowers for Wifey

Crazy how much I love this... This now makes #3 :)