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That’s just how the 4th rolled by…

admin — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:54:46 +0000

Fourth of July was a bit of a boring day for us, I know others were out celebrating. Eating BBQ, heading to the pools, the beaches & watching fireworks. Us? Well we went to see Cars 2 & left after no more then 45 minutes into the movie. Micah just wasn’t feeling it & I personally was already bored by it. So after scarfing down the majority of our popcorn, candy & slurpees in the previews we just stuffed some candy in my purse and got our butts out of that theater. Yes, I was the one holding a screaming two year old who wanted to go “byyyyye bye”. The rest of our day was spent watching a marathon of Hoarders, which gave me an itch to clean the house. We had 3 loads of laundry that needed to be put away & toys all over the living room rug…so that show got me all itchy to clean.

So yes, our fourth of July was a bit of a Saturday kind of day but that’s good since the husband has been working at least 60 hours a week. Yes I said at least. So it was very nice to just sit & do nothing. But the third of July? That was a different story, we spent the whole day at the beach with my husband’s side of the family. Which was filled with yummy food, jumping over waves & pranks. Yes we might have thrown seaweed at each other, scared each other with wrapping seaweed around each other…what? It’s nice to act like your 12 sometimes, even while holding your two year old on your hip. By the way, Micah absolutely loved when we would over exaggerate the waves that came crashing at us. And didn’t mind at all when a wave would smack him right in the face. Man it is nice to have such a laid back kid.

Me & Micah got a bit red even with 5 separate applications of sunblock. I kept forgetting my back & forehead…yes just my forehead is sunburn because of my giant sunglasses. Micah just has red cheeks & nose, the rest of him is TAN. You should have seen him once I stripped him down for the ride home. All our family couldn’t help looking at the contrast from his back to butt, a bit hilarious since I can burn after 20 minutes in the sun.

We like to relax…

admin — Sat, 14 May 2011 15:11:32 +0000

Our Friday evening was spent playing outside. And no day would be complete without some Mr. Potato Head playtime, including them all going down the slide with Micah. The weather was perfect for enjoying our grassy green backyard.

Stupid Trees…

admin — Fri, 13 May 2011 16:54:19 +0000

We had a bit of a storm yesterday with high winds & as my dad got up from under the canopy to bring Micah inside (it was just wind & sprinkling at this time). He heard a huge noise, behind him a tree limb snapped off & crashed into Micah’s playhouse and the canopy. BUMMER. Big ole’ BUMMER! It was adorable seeing Micah try to pick of sides of his house & stand them up though. Sorry kid but your playhouse is not salvageable at all.

I really hope this isn’t a preview of what this year’s hurricane season is going to be like here in Houston.

Cheap thrills!

admin — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:55:19 +0000

Last Friday I hit up a few garage sales, for the most part they were overpriced. I mean c’mon I’m not paying $15 for your old sweaters, that aren’t even in good condition. But then came a listing that said something like “Warehouse Sale”….intriguing…no clue what this could mean but….intriguing. Well I come upon a happening part of town & think to myself, “Self did you write the address wrong, there isn’t any warehouses in this nei-” That’s me stopping because I saw a warehouse with a huge homemade banner that said “WAREHOUSE GARAGE SALE”.

Tim is the collector & told me that he is getting rid as much as he can of his stuff because they are tearing the warehouse down to make a parking lot for a new bar going up. Junk heaven. Have you seen American Pickers? If so it’s like that, a warehouse stacked full of stuff. I didn’t even scratch the surface of this place. It was wonderful! For the most part I hung out in the toys/books area! I won’t name everything I got, I’ll just show you & give you a quick breakdown. 15 books, 3 boardgames, a broken clock (he insisted I take it), 33 Winnie the pooh stamps set (vintage?), 3 milk glasses & a carrier for the milk glasses. And all for the low, low price of $5!! Oh wait there was also a glow in the dark triceratops that Micah picked up while we were there, but I couldn’t pry that guy away from him!

This picture was pre-wipe down of the books. Most are board books that got a quick wipe down & are in fairy good condition. Some books are children’s book from the 40s-60s that are in fair to excellent condition. The good books we put away in our bookshelf, the ones in sad condition I’ll be pulling the illustrations out & framing them. Because there are some BEAUTIFUL illustrations but there are water damage to some books that mean that half the book is squished together. It’s going to make me sad to tear the books apart but it’s better that good pieces get a chance at a new life. I don’t know if anyone is a Raggedy Ann fan but I have a book in fairly good condition (great to frame images from the book) from 1955, if you want it just shoot me a comment/email.

That’s lame…

admin — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:34:35 +0000

You know what’s lame? When a blogger hasn’t blogged in almost a month & then comes on to make a blog post about how they haven’t blogged…..yeah that’s so lame. Glad that’s not me… *insert shifty eyes right about here*

Lots has been going on lately but life has kicked my butt and pinned me down…and well I’ve chosen sleep over blogging pretty much. But you can for sure catch me on twitter. Limiting me to 140 characters? Yes, I like that since I can get quite chatty at times & then it goes into nothingness. Yes nothingness is a word, so please stop looking at me that way.

Take me down!

admin — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 19:22:50 +0000

I have yet to talk about the demo of our garage/shed/eye sore. I’ve tweeted about it & posted pictures via twitter. But yet to make a post & now it is gone. All gone except for a few bags of trash that won’t be able to be salvaged. I would say we salvaged a good 80% of the building. Either composting the wood or reusing it for future projects, most of it is getting reused. We didn’t even need a huge dumpster for this demo. The amount of trash we had was an acceptable amount for the garbage guys to pick up. Currently my back yard looks a little like this, except much wetter because we’ve had heavy rain all morning. Which is awesome for the grass & grass seed that was put down this weekend. Way to go mother nature!

This is WAY better then what was there, it was a scary eye sore hazard! These pictures are just shy of two weeks ago. Two weeks ago when I thought, “Will this thing EVER be gone!?”. Yes it’s gone & I can’t wait to have a party in my “new” backyard! It took up the front part of the backyard making it look tiny. But now we have plans for this perfect summer time hang out. Paint, furniture, kid pool and so much more! Yes…I said paint. Just wait to see

Micah’s Great ESCAPE!!

admin — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 22:20:57 +0000

The day has come. I’ve waited for this day, I knew it would come sooner or later. I’m just glad it isn’t in a way that he hurts himself, he’s one slick dude!

Micah’s Great ESCAPE!! from Pam Del on Vimeo.

By the way, two videos in under a week…heck a MONTH….is this some kind of record for me?

Micah & Daddy!

admin — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 03:19:35 +0000

My daily thanks are…

admin — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 02:43:17 +0000

I thank God daily for so many things and people that he has placed in my life. I know yesterday was Thanksgiving (for us Americans atleast) but I like to give thanks daily. Everyday I am thankful for the following:

Having a loving & supportive husband.
A son that will kiss me goodnight & wake me up with kisses on my nose
A dad that loves my son like he was his own son
A family that will never stop loving me (ya know…hopefully)
Being wonderfully healthy

And yes it is probably so generic, but I know I am blessed to have such wonderful people in my life so I try not to let that slip my mind.