10 years in the blink of an eye.

10 years ago on this same night at 9:12 pm I gave birth to a beautiful little baby girl! She was perfect! 10 years later she is beyond perfect and makes my heart go pitter patter. She sings loudly to Beatles albums (yes the albums...her record player is her greatest love). Her room is full of construction paper and glitter due to the fact that she is a tiny little Martha Stewart wanna be. She talks a mile a minute and she giggles like a crazy person. I couldn't imagine a minute without her.

Happy 10th birthday sweet girl!!!

Disheveled housewife and change....

Okay, I admit it. I am a sucky blogger. I mean a really, really sucky blogger. I came back to look at my blog today and noticed dust bunnies and spider webs hanging from every corner. My life has taken over and I haven't had time to breath, let alone write a word or two.

My life has been taken over by homeschool and making a wonderful life change. We have decided to pack up our home and throw out the clutter. We are starting over in a little cabin in the woods. Our life has been hectic and out of sorts for the past year. We have decided that we need a start fresh so we can enjoy our lives to the fullest. So... our adventure will be starting in the next few weeks...*weeeeee* I'm so excited! But until then it's pretty much packing and living out of boxes. I look forward to recording our new life here and watching the change.

Playing with silhouettes

Sunbeams out of the clouds
Faith out of all my doubt.
~Terri Guillemets

Rainy day You Tube fun....

I heart faces....Fix-it Friday

original photo

This is my first time trying out the fix-it friday and I had tons of fun working with this sweet little guys photo!

Okay the details of my fix- it are as follows....

First off I used my PS7.0 in order to work with this photo. Once in PS I used one of my fav-or-ITE actions from the ever cool pioneer woman. If you haven't seen her actions you really should check them out!!! The action I used on this photo was called colorized. I loved how it left the rosy tint to his little cheeks.

The Disheveled Housewife plays homeschool Tuesday....

Somewhere over the rainbow...

Today we mixed simple household items and made our own personal rainbow. The lesson was geared towards learning about the color wheel and seeing what happens when primary colors (red, yellow and blue) are mixed together to make secondary colors. (purple, orange and green).

First we find all our ingredients and throw them out on the table....

1 cup o' milk...

carefully pour that 1 cup o' milk in the bowl...careful not to slosh...

Three drops of red food color is squirted by a squirt towards the outer edge of the milk...

Next the squirt, squirts three blue drops of food color about 1/3 away from the red....still on the outer edge.

Now we grab the yellow and get to squirting three drops 1/3 away from the blue....

See all three drops, hanging out in a bowl of milk.

Mkay...the squirt is getting restless now and a little antsy about the fact that we are playing with his all time, favorite, coolest of all drinks...Milk....

But I talk him into grabbing a bottle of dish liquid....

We plop one drop of dish liquid right smack dab in the middle of our milk....

Then we wait for the show to begin....Ooooo....Ahhhhh.....Ooooo La, La...

After a few moments we are looking at our own personal rainbow...do you see the reds, oranges, blues, purples, yellow and greens? CooOool!!!!

Now you try it!!!

Things I'm sure about.

I'm fairly sure that eating mashed potatoes with your face is hilarious...

I pretty much know that having it all over your face at the end is the bees knees...

I'm beyond certain that eating tiny corn with your fingers is only reserved for the coolest of people.

and I'm completely positive that my children make me laugh daily!

suburban chicks....

What's the difference between farm chicks and suburban chicks. I really don't even have a joke for that...I thought I did but I don't Oh well...

So anyway yeah we have suburban chicks...tiny little chick a dee's...

Meet....

Austin Jr.

Cutie

and Chicken Little

Ooo I got it...

Why did the chicken cross the road?

To borrow a cup of sugar...because it lives in the suburbs and well that's what we do when... you know, we live in a neighborhood...

hahaha!

Okay yeah I know...whatever!

Kick it dude.

Spring soccer is in full swing and the little red headed monkey is going out for his first year.

This should be very interesting! ;)

Tom.

So yesterday while my 6 year old and I sat outside enjoying the sun, he let me in on the fact that he had an imaginary friend. His friends name was Tom and he was on the slide at that very moment cause' slidin' is his favorite thing in the whole wide world to do.

Why is his name Tom? I asked.

Because that's what he told me his name is Mom, DUHHHH!

Yeah, he threw the Duhhh at me...I deserved it!

Welcome to our home, slide loving Tom!

sun.fun.and little boy giggles

What happens when you tell a little red headed boy that spring is right around the corner?

He wiggles his little pink toes out of his snow boots and runs out the door.

He smiles so big, that the sun can't help but shine brighter down on his beautiful red head.

He jumps for joy....

and then jumps some more.....

He counts the many wonderful blessings that come with spring.

1. flowers

2. gardens

3. grasshoppers

4. mud!

He then jumps on his swing and tries to swing to the sun...in order to explain to her that she must stick around because, the world is so much more beautiful with her bright shiny face.

I hope you dance.

"Little girls dance their way into your heart,
Whirling on the tips of angel wings,
Scattering gold dust and kisses in our paths"

Author: Unknown

mini model

I wasn't fully impressed with the color on any of these photos.(I'm hoping to get the hang of photoshop soon) But, we had a blast enjoying the sun!

Happiness is feeling the sun on your face again

After weeks of snow, clouds and temps so cold our toes were froze, it was nice to see some sun. We had a great weekend, just soaking it all in!!!

My beating heart day

In honor of "puffy heart" day here are the things that make my heart go pitter patter....

1. The giggle that comes from the belly of my children

2. The front porch of my house...the entrance to my life.

3. Pink

4. cupcakes with sprinkles.

5. The grey on the top of my husbands head

6. My fathers smile

7. My click of my camera

8. Knowing that I have a best friend forever in my mother.

9. late nights around a campfire

10. Hearing my 14 year old tell me he loves me even if it's followed with "you crazy woman"

11. the smell of roses...the simplicity of sunflowers

12. Listening to the pink martini's

13. Disney World and the magic that lives there

14. rubbing my feet in the sand

15. Knowing my life is good and will only get better

16. good memories

17. the red on my youngest child's head.

18. Sticking my feet out of the covers at night

19. my daughters pink toe nails

20. cheesy movies

21. Mike Rowe (MMmmm...shhhh don't tell Bruce...)

22. Strong coffee

23. The feeling after I workout

24. The popping the comes from my record player

25. Singing really loud to my old country records

26. aprons

27. cool whip straight out of the tub

28. Sharing my cool whip with the little red headed dude that lives in my house.

29. my glue gun!

30. ultra dry red red wine

31. beer cheese and crackers Mmmmm

32. banana peppers

33. Knowing I'm one of the luckiest girls in the entire world

Happy Happy puffy heart day!!!!

Valentine Party

Emma and I found our inner Martha and opted not to go with the traditional boring valentine cards this year. Now if the snow will cooperate and melt away so we can get to school in the morning. *Fingers crossed!!!!*