Craft project

About a month ago I saw these old white wooden shutters laying out in someone's trash. I picked them up not sure what to do with them.... until this week. I made a headboard for our guest bedroom and all for $5.00. Husband did the cutting for me because it was 2 very long shutters that I needed to make into 4 smaller ones, I purchased some new hinges and spray paint. I painted this saying on it because I thought it was so true and a lot better than sweet dreams "The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep".

Some days I feel like a robot when it comes to getting things done. I have always been the type of person that once I put my mind to it, it cant wait. It must be done right away, it drives my husband nuts sometimes because I have been known to get in car and drive to get what ever crosses my mind as far as projects go.
So... Because the weekend was so busy for us and so many kids in and out I decided to make use of the last sunny day for the week to clean carpets, its suppose to be rainy the rest of the week and not be as warm. I cant clean carpets in the winter because it takes to long to dry but a good sunny,windy day and they are dry in no time. Today was that day. Robot mode got me this done already before 2pm.

All upstairs carpets cleaned-check
hour at gym-check
home to let puppy out-check
playdate at park for Preston-check
home to let puppy out and put Preston down for nap-check
All downstairs carpets cleaned-check
kitchen moped-check
purchase and delivery of wireless petsafe system-check
Everyone is fed, popped and napped-check

This day needs to end before I pass out from exhaustion.

Terrible Tuesday

Yesterday must of been lets see what we can do to test Heathers patience day....

It started off with my allergies acting up and the benedryl the night before still in my system so yeah I was feeling pretty out of it. Good but out of it. Pupils were huge!!

Around noon'ish it started to hail.

Electricity went off, then on, then off again.

Preston threw up all over me, him, the couch, the blanket. No warning, no symptoms just out of nowhere. At what point do they learn to run to the bathroom to barf?

Electricity going off and on made the smoke alarms start beeping and wouldn't stop beeping. Note to self: Puppy does not like beeping sounds.

While Preston is in shower getting throw up off of him, puppy is barking mad at the alarms, electricity is going off and on which scares Preston who is in the bathroom with no windows, I'm trying to clean up mess, Im on phone with husband trying to get instructions on how to get alarms to stop. Husband ends up coming home early to help out, try and get the alarms to stop only to figure out after I have removed 3 of the 5 alarms that its not actually the smoke detectors beeping its the carbon monoxide alarm beeping...GREAT!

Needless to say I could of done without Tuesday. Thank goodness its Wednesday!

Easter

We celebrated Easter a day early with my inlaws. The kids made out like bandits and still have a surprise tomorrow morning from the Easter Bunny. This is the kids on their search for Easter
eggs...and this is our new puppy after 3 kids hyped up on sugar played with him. Happy Easter everyone!!

Newest edition to the Bolin household

After months of Preston begging for a dog, after visiting the local pet shop many times, after our grill was stolen off our back porch steps away from my back door and after losing sleep for the past week we got a dog. Lets say my husband surprised me with a dog because Im pretty sure as he was walking out the door the last thing he said was I will be back, Im going to get hamburger buns and when he returned he not only didnt bring me buns but he had a puppy in his arms instead. Meet Jazz-(preston named him after a transformer) he is part boxer/shepard.

Dear Victoria Beckham wanna be girl in my gym. First off the treadmill is not a catwalk, stop walking as if you are on the runway.
Second, your blingy hats are distracting and blinding if the sun hits it just right, stop wearing blingy hats with a star on them, they are not cool.
Third, your baby tee's look like they would fit my 7 year old.
Fourth- EAT SOMETHING YOU SKINNY B_ _C H!!!

Valuable info from self defense class:

I went to a free self defense class offered by our local swat team and it was wonderful and I learned some valuable info that Id like to share . If you ever get the chance to take one of these classes I highly recommend it and take your children. There were a lot of little girls around the age of 7 last night who learned how to protect themselves from strangers which I thought was the best thing their mothers could of done for them.

Most of you know to put ICE (in case of emergency) in your cell phone address book instead of a name along a phone number, but the police also mentioned that you should also put ICE 2-a second emergency contact in case they cant get in touch with the first person. For those that don't know about ICE, here is an example: Instead of listing my husbands name I would put ICE and put his phone number in so that if in a wreck the police would know who to contact.

Most cell phones have a built in GPS system that you can set up on your own for emergencies only. This would be used so that the police can find your location should something happen. They can call your cell phone and find the nearest tower close to you. We have all seen this on TV before where someone went missing and the police called their cell phone to pinpoint their location near a tower but its not something your phone will do automatically for you. Not all phones have this capability ,but if yours does it is worth changing it and your kids cell phone. You can also take your phone to your nearest cell phone dealer and they can change it for you. Its called ALI (automatic location information). Go to SETTINGS and then scroll down till you find LOCATION from there you want to change it from 911 ONLY to LOCATION ON.