just another work day :)

just another work day for me. :) i went & did a case early this morning & was home by 8:30. nice!!! no complaints here.....

so i called my friend audrey to see if we could meet up. audrey had a little girl 6 weeks ago & we had to meet her.

here is bella camille...

what a cutie she is!

so we met audrey's family up in fernandina to paint pottery today.. well i pretty much painted the pottery while finn sat on my lap & played with the paint brushes. :)

we picked a gecko to paint. finns grandpop loved gecko's so as soon as i saw it i knew we would paint that one. we had so much fun painting it & i can't wait to get it in about a week & a half. i'll make sure to put a pic up of it.

here is finn with some "war" paint on his face. he made sure to get some on me also. :)

we went back to audrey's house to eat lunch & to play. what a nice day we had!

i am soo sooooo grateful & blessed to have this new job of mine. i still can't believe it. it's so awesome to pretty much work part time but get full time pay. the job holds a lot of responsibility & sometimes some crazy driving but it is so worth it! i absolutely love it & love the fact that i have seen more of my 2 boys lately. :) LOVE IT!

with dan's schedule it's hard to spend family time but now it is so much better.

anyways, enough about that.

my mom had surgery on her hand this morning. she had 3 trigger fingers fixed so hopefully after a few uncomfortable days she'll have so nice relief in her fingers on that hand. she'll have to go back soon to get the other hard fixed as well.

my dad went to the eye dr yesterday b/c his vision has been bothering him the last couple weeks. it's not good news. it's macular degeneration that's already progressing. he goes to see a specialist on monday b/c there is a type of injection that is supposed to help. i need to research more on this condition but it for sure is not good news for someone who uses his eyes so much. :(

well, i have another very early morning tomorrow so i'm gonna wrap this up so i won't be up too late tonight.

good night!

my husband, the baker.

dan's newest adventure.....

watching daddy....

my boys....

the finished product! and boy is it yummy.....

a day in the life....

this week finn's learned to do this....

and he know's he's not supposed to do this....

a few dinner photos here.. well, yummy banana bread...

and yummy chicken & orzo soup for dinner...

with a side of pita bread broiled quickly with oil & seasoning on it. YUM!!!

peeking in the "dirty" trash...

not supposed to be doing this either...

playing before bed time...

emptying the dirty clothes & then putting them back in....

soggy bottom boy...

good night!!!

he did it!!!!!!!!!i

after months & months of showing finn where his nose, mouth & teeth were.........

tonight i asked him where his nose was & he did it!!!

he put his hand to his nose!

yay!!

LOVE my boy :)

new words

finn has been saying some new word's lately..

today he said juice & clap clap.

his favorite is clean clean, my child loves to clean!

he can also say kristy now without so much pronouncing the "k".

we decided our boy will be going to school starting in aug.! the program is at a local methodist church just a few minutes from us. it's called wonderworks. i went & visited this week & liked what i saw. finn is a very very busy boy...to say the least. we believe that he is getting to a point where he needs a little more stimulation than what he's getting. he also needs to be around other children. he will be going 2 mornings a week. i'm so excited, i know my little man is going to absolutely love it!

on a side note, it's just me & my finny this weekend. dan is headed up to ga tomorrow morning for a boys only camping trip with my brother-in-law, nephew & a few other boys. they've gone once before & he always talks about how much fun they had. i'm happy he get's to go & have fun & get a break for a weekend. :) he deserves it, he works so hard & is such a good daddy he needs to let loose once in a while...

i'm off to watch another hallmark movie tonight before bed. i love my dvr! i record all the movies i want to see & then watch them later so i can fast forward through the commercials, it's wonderful!

well...

i did it again. i took 2 photos today that i wanted to post & now they're not on my memory card. what tha? i have no idea what happened. this happened once before too..

so i'll show you this...

this was how my little shaggy headed boy looked before & here he is now..

cuteness!

i still can't get over how different he looks, he looks like a little boy now, no more baby. :(

his busted lip is now gone by the way....

we had a kindof crazy week this week. i unexpectedly had to go to south fl to our office for training over night. our babysitter was away on a cruise. need i say more??? dan had to take a day off to watch finn. his mom covered for us until i got home thursday evening. stressful to say the least. i'm so ready for this week when our babysitter is back to watching finn everyday..

dan did an incredible job watching finn, i know it's not easy, our child is a handful to say the least. dan is a wonderful father & finn absolutely loves him. i'm afraid i don't tell him enough though. there's several things in our relationship that i need to work on. we're going through a little rough patch at the moment. marriage is hard work, huh? it's all about compromising & working together & i sometimes forget that. i'm trying to change & have a better appreciation of things. and i'm trying to let my husband know more how much i DO appreciate him & all he does. not saying he's perfect now, there are things he can work on too. :) i'm sure he'll be reading this. i'd like a card & flower's this week by the way. j/k....

anyways, today we had a nice day. got a lot of talking out that we needed to do. had lunch with his mother and that's about it... i stayed home mainly & enjoyed it. same tomorrow. i'm keeping nursery & then his mom is fixing us lunch. i'm so glad she's close by now!!

i've got my work van finally. i'll take a pic of that soon & post a picture of it. it's a beast! i'm just happy my little car can take a nice rest now.. i cleaned it all out tonight & put everything inside that i need(napkins, notepad, pens) etc....

now i'm off to bed although i'm not the least bit tired. nothing a good book can't fix though.

nightey night!

the flip side...

to my wonderful new job is that it's very unpredictable...i got a call yesterday letting me know that i had to be down in south fl at the office tomorrow thru thursday. so we made arrangements for that for finn(the babysitter is on vacation this week), and then i found out we(the other new trainee) had to be there tomorrow morning at 7:30. yikes! it's a good 3 1/2 hr drive, so guess what? she's picking me up at 3:15 & we'll be on our way.

so, until thursday......

good (short) night :)

before & after

before.....

and after....

weekend wrap....

well, it's been a busy but good weekend. we had our neighborhood yardsale yesterday which i of course participated in. every yr i say i'm not gonna do it again, and every yr i do. i'm a sucker, what can i say? anyways, our friend shawn & my MIL gail had stuff they were selling too. so between the 3 of us, we made out good. lots of work though with lots of sun. i was pooped by last night & so ready for bed.

today was better. we went to church this morning where the message was on marriage. it was really good. we all need reminders on what our spouses need from us. after that we went to my MIL's, its so nice now that she is just 4 miles down the road. then house stuff & grocery shopping the rest of the day..

so here's how we have to put the ottoman now. finns finally figured out how to climb up on it & fall off & bump his head on the coffee table. nice...why don't little boys have any fear???

oh my...we have to keep an eye on my little huck finn... :)

i love coupons so every week when i go to the grocery store its like a game to see how much i can save. and today dans mom watched finn while i went so i could actually focus & it was so nice! so today i did the best i have ever done. so excited! i spend $80, but i saved $56!!!! sweet! i had some awesome coupons & publix just happened to have really good deals on what i needed. i also had 2 $5 off coupons but even without those i would have saved more the half of what i spent.

the best deal of the day though was the all detergent. they were on sale for $2.99 & i had 2 coupons, each for $2 off. so they were only .99cents a piece. LOVE it!

and here is what i bought at our neighborhood yardsale. i bought finn a little workbench. it's so cute & he loves it. i got this for $7 and i also got him 3 articles of clothes for .50cents a piece. i was so proud of myself for spending only $8.50.

playing with daddy..

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so its been a lovely lively weekend which is the norm around here. finn is now in bed, dan is in his "man space" out in the garage, and i'm in here blogging. after my shower i'm going to hunker down with some coffee & cookies & watch a hallmark movie tonight..

good night y'all!!