Ouch...

Yesterday, my mother, Natalie, and i were out shopping and were on our way home. We were waiting to make a left hand turn. well when we got the green arrow to turn, my mother started to turn, then all of a sudden we hear a horn blaring and this white car is in our way...before we knew it, we hit it. We couldn't understand where this car came from. It wasn't there when we went to turn. I heard some one yell something, but wasn't paying attention to what was said. Not 5 seconds after we hit, we heard police sirens...i thought, damn that was fast! But there was a police car waiting in the traffic, on his way to another accident that was down the street from us! So we got out of traffic, and waited for the officer to come over to us.  He had gone to talk to the other driver, who gave him some lame story about how he went thru the yellow light, and we failed to yield to him! Yeah, that's not how it happened fella! When the officer came to talk to us, we told him what happened, and he told us what the other guy had said...and we told him we were positive we had a green arrow so he leaves and comes back and says that there were 2 witnesses who told him the same thing we did (that something i heard some one yell...was WITNESS!).  So the other guy was wrote a ticket for running a red light. We ended up having the car towed to the dealership, due to the driver door would not open...even a little bit, and i just didn't want to chance driving it anymore...it just didn't feel like it was driving right afterwards (coming from the one who was sitting in the passenger side!). Besides, my momma was so shaken up, i wasn't about to let her drive. so we will see what happens. 

The three of us are fine, thank goodness! Momma and i are quite sore, but nothing was broken. Natalie was in her 5 point car seat, so she didn't feel a thing! After impact i looked back to see how she was, and she was holding her feet looking kind of stunned, but said she was fine. When we were out of the car getting what we needed before it was towed, she looked at the damage and told me..."grammas car needs a big dand aid" lol...dand aid of course meaning band aid! My mom was a bit shaken up and upset not only from the accident, but because the car was still brand new to her, less than 2 months old. 

I wish i would have had my camera with me, but all i had was my phone...so here's the only pic i took!

Hope this blog finds you well. =)

Made In China?!!

Well we all know that things that are made in china seem to be defective at some point...whether it be lead in toys or mis matching leg length!! Yes, the pajamas were made in China!!

When i was shopping for school clothes for Natalie...i went online to check a few stores out and ended up at Kohl's...i NEVER EVER shop there cause the prices are ridiculous and i have never seen a good sale, even though everyone i know raves about their sales!! So i figured what the heck...ill just check out the site and see if theres anything good...well totally glad i checked, cause i got some MAJOR deals!!! I got 6 or 7 shirts, panties and 2 pairs of adorable jammies! But one of my favorite buys was this pajama set, it had a dog on it and polka dot pants...well i was excited to get the steal that i did. I was so anxious to get the package in the mail mainly for this one set of jammies. Well when the package finally came...i went through all the clothes looking for these jammies...well i was so excited, cause they are so freaking cute! So I'm folding all the clothes to put them away, and i go to fold the pants of these jammies I'm in love with...and about cry...cause one leg is noticeably shorter than the other!!!! I couldn't believe it...so bummed. Well i thought i would just take them back to the store, thought it would be an easy exchange....well it was, but they didn't have the same set in the store. So i went to the customer service counter and asked if they could order me another set, she said no id have to order them off the net again, so i asked if id get the same deal (they were really cheap!), she said no, they wont offer that.  Then she checked the surrounding 5 stores and not one had them in stock, said the status at this store is to be delivered, but she didn't know when they'd actually come in.  I went ahead and returned them, wanting to cry as I'm doing it!  This was a few days ago, and since then i have been checking Kohl's daily to see if this set is on sale, it has been...just not as much off as i had purchased them for...and her size was gone. The more i thought about it...i shoulda called the number that was on the invoice, maybe i coulda got the same set with the same price! 

Of course i had to take some pictures! This story cant be told with out pics, cause you just cant show how off the legs were!!!

Well i hope you got a giggle out of my story...i kno i did, even tho i was heart broken i had to give them up!

A Little Late...

So the first day of school was on September 2ND. Well, i haven't blogged about it yet, so I'm gonna now!!!

Let me explain something before i get into my blog! I just have to let you all know that i SHOPPED and SHOPPED and SHOPPED for a nice pair of sneakers for her, and was sooooo peeved that i couldn't find a nice comfy pair that fit her foot right...shes got these SKINNY feet, and they are hard to shoe! I had something lace free in mind, so she could easily put her shoes on, as we are still working on the whole tying thing! So anyway...i think i went to every store imaginable and just wasn't pleased with the styles, the fit...every thing! So the day before school started i went shopping yet again, and settled for this pair of Nike's. They were tie less, but they were so clunky, hard to get on (yes, they were the right size!)...i didn't like them at all. So just keep that in mind when your reading!

I think i was more anxious than she was. I wasn't upset or nervous this year like i was last year...i had really come to enjoy my 3 hours of alone time everyday! But i was a little nervous how ever as to who her bus drivers and aides would be...i was so hoping she would have the same drivers and aides that she had last year, as she loved them to death, and they were all so good with the kids. Natalie had really bonded with the morning driver and aide...well mainly the aide, every morning she ran to Ms. Eileen to give her a hug, but would rarely even say good morning to Ms. Karen (the driver)...lol...but Ms. Karen loved her just the same! The afternoon bus driver (Sandy) was awesome too, she always took a certain route to our house that passed a house with (real ! ) horses...and that scored major brownie points with Natalie! The afternoon aide seemed to vary alot, but towards the end of the year, quite a bit of the time it was my neighbor, Jeanette...so that was cool! I was also anxious to find out if there was gonna be other girls in her class this year...last year she was the ONLY girl!!! Not one other girl came in thru out the year! So needless to say, i was kind of excited to see what the first day held.

So the morning of comes...i go into her room to wake her up and get her dressed before we head downstairs to breakfast. Well I'm getting the 1st day of school outfit out of her closet that i was so excited to see her in, i knew she'd be adorable in it! Well little miss had something to say about it...she refused to wear it! Argued with me, i couldn't get over it...i thought to myself...I'm not really arguing with a 4 yr old am i?! It was all over the shoes! She wanted to wear her new tennies, and not the ones i had picked out! Well after a few minutes i gave in and just picked out a polo and a pair of jeans so she could wear her tennies! Then we go downstairs and eat, do her hair and now its time to wait for the bus...I'm getting really curious at this point! A few minutes later i see the bus coming...i think we are both jumping up and down at this point! The bus pulls in front of the driver, and it turns out...new bus driver :o( !! But she seems really nice, i was just a little bummed that Ms. Karen wasn't the morning driver again. This drivers name is Ms. Nancy and the aide turns out to be one of the few from the afternoon bus last year, her name is Tracy. So they both seem really nice, so its all good. I look on the bus and there are only 2 other kids on the bus...and both BOYS! I thought to myself...darn! Both were in her class last year, so i didn't think anything of it, that she would be totally fine. I go back in the house and start to enjoy my 3 hours of alone time with the usual wifely duties and what not. Well bout a half hour or so goes by when her teacher (same as last year!) calls to let me know that she made it fine, and was doing good. She said that Natalie's eyes were a little welled up (with tears), but once Natalie seen her, she got a big smile and ran and gave her a hug, and was totally fine the rest of the day! This just broke my heart! I didnt think she would get upset, or even tear up...cause she LOVES to ride the bus, and knew she was going to school. But when i thought about it, everything was unfamiliar...the bus driver, the aide, she knew the boys, but couldn't see them from where she was sitting. So...awww! My poor punkin! The end of the school day comes, so I'm watching for the bus...it comes and i run out to get my baby! The bus driver is the same as the morning one, and the aide is one I'm unfamiliar with. So i say hello to the driver and ask if shes gonna be the driver for both to and from school all year, she says yes...so i thought bummer (i was still hoping for a familiar face from last year!), but cool at the same time! Natalie sees me and screams "MOMMY"!! and gives me a great big hug...it was great! She told me she had a good day and that she wants to go back tomorrow.

So the next morning comes and i asked her what shoes she wanted to wear so i could get her clothes together, and she says her lady bug shoes...i asked you don't want to wear your tennies..."no, i don't like my tennies...they hurt my feet." ugh...so now i have to go store to store looking for another bloody pair of tennies...fun...so i get her dressed and off she goes...and the whole 3 hours i think, what the heck am i going to do for shoes? She can only wear her loafers or what ever you want to call them! for so long before the rain and yukki weather comes! So i had no choice...we had to go shopping yet again for shoes...ugh! I love to shop, but when i know I'm not going to find anything worth shopping for...i don't look forward to it! She gets home and off we go...we only went to one store, cause i know whats at the others! I try on prolly 10 different shoes and finally just say to heck with it, and just settle for a pair! While at the store, it seemed they fit. But the next day she wore them to school, seemed fine in the morning...but when she got home, she was walking in front of me, and i could see them slipping on her heals...ugh! AND....the more i see them on her feet, the more i don't like them...lol...i told this to bigga (the hubby!), and he goes...doesn't matter! we are done shopping for shoes! I think i agree! So these will be her shoes for the winter...at least until i see something better!

So anyway...here's a "few" pics from the first couple days!

My stinker refusing to look!

This ones blurry :( But SOOO cute!

from this....

to this...my favorite! 

Editing...

As i told you in my first blog, I'm new to this blog page...so you will probably see many tweaks to my page until i learn what the heck i am doing and can get it just right! This site is really different from the ever famous myspace..which Ive come accustomed to over the last few years.

Here's a few pics of Natalie playing in the boxes while we were unpacking! 

 

"No, Mommy...Close the door!"

so, until next time...which will prolly only be  a few hours from now =)

We've Moved !!

WARNING! This is gonna be a LOOOOONG blog. I have LOTS of pics to share!

Well its finally official! After almost 10 years in our other house, we have moved! We are all moved into the new house and almost all unpacked! We have still have a few stacks of boxes in the garage to finish unpacking. We definately 

had our work cut out for us in this new house.For starters it was a rental and the last tenants left it a bloody mess, so we had to clean up the mess they left, and then when the house was built it was a model so theres 20 different styles goin on that dont mesh well together! But thats not the biggest task so far...the

house WAS wallpaper from floor to ceiling in every room! and in one room there was a wallpaper border on top of wallpaper! I have never seen so much wallpaper in my life! They even wallpapered the light switches and outlet covers, AND the vents!! Not only was there wallpaper everywhere...in a couple rooms it was the original wallpaper from when the house was built(1970s?!) because the wallpaper was placed on top of the sheet rock wich made it really hard to get off! We have totally redone (taking wallpaper off and painting) the back living room, the dining room, and the bedrooms. We have to finish the front living room and start the bathrooms. We need new flooring in every room, and would like to remodel the kitchen...ahh yes, we have big plans for this house! But one project at a time...right?! I hate the color blue, and the whole house has blue in it! Well, mainly downstairs, the wallpaper and carpeting and some wood work is/was blue, and the carpet in the upstairs hallway...but as i said...one project at a time!  

So where did we move you ask?! We moved a whole 11 houses down the on the same street!! Thats right, we stayed in t

he same city, same neighborhood, and even on the same street!! That wasnt the plan, but it just worked out that way!! I think the square footage of the new house is actually bigger than the old, but the rooms are set up different, so our furniture dont fit the same! So we plan on selling our furniture so we can get some that fits comfortably in the new house!

 

Well heres a few pics of the work thats been done so far...  

The back living room...before, during & after! 

Heres the dining room chandelier. The hubby and i couldnt stand it, thought it was as ugly as ugly gets, so we changed it!  

Now for our room...this was another tedious job of removing wallpaper, the one wall was wallpaper over drywall with no paint over it...so when the wallpaper came off, it would peel the paper off the dry wall. ugh! Take note of the vent thats on the wall in the top pic, thats one that was wallpapered! Dont you like how only a portion of this room was wallpapered?!  

 

Natalies Room...Before & After...hard to tell by the after pics, they kept coming out dark no matter what i did! Any way, her walls are lavender and her trim is pink...i need to get some pics of the total finished product, but am still working on the finishing touches!  

This is what was left for us in her room! 

This is her closet...crappy shelving and hanging bar, a grand total of 3 different wallpapers (some is already taken off)!

 

The family that lived here before,had decided to redecorate this room...but didnt bother taking the wallpaper off, he just mudded the whole room! right over the wallpaper! so we had no choice but to paint over it...hope it doesnt cause problems later.  

And finally, the finished product!

I totally forgot to get a pic of the inside of her closet! Ill post some later when i post pics of the total finished product!

The fan blades were brown, they just happened to be white on the other side, so we flipped them!  

 

Aside from the wallpaper, heres the worst room in the house...wich is robs (my bro-n-law).

Before...

After...

Big difference huh?!

So, for as much work thats been done to the house, theres 10x more to do! But i guess thats what happens when you have a house, never ending projects!

**PS...i do realize that i should have lightened the pics, but i didnt realize it til i was looking at them on here, and since we just restored my computer, i dont have any editing software on here just yet...so you all will have to look at my dark pictures and like them!!!!

Thanks for reading...hope you dont want your time back =)

Wow...Im an Official Blogger!

I cant believe i have finally created a blog! Ive been wanting to do it for sometime now, but just never got around to do it! Theres alot of family in and out of state that i would love to keep up to date on our life...so i thought this would be perfect! Some times its just easier to keep in contact thru the computer...sad but true...i know our schedules dont always  coincide with others to call or stop by...so at least this way we can keep everyone up to date on the happenings of our lives that i know they are all sooo curious about! Ok, lets face it, this is just another way for me to brag about my beautiful daughter!!!!

The title of my blog is called "You Are My Sunshine" and the meaning behind it is this...its a song of course, a good one at that, but its more than that to me. My brother Brad has always sung that to his kids (I was 14 when he started having kids!), and so i have always associated that song with the love of a parent and child. Well when i had my daughter (4 1/2 years ago...yikes!), i could honestly see why he sang that to his kids.  I then would sing it as a lullaby to my daughter. I soon realized that i didnt have just one sunshine, i have 2...my husband being the other...i could be having the saddest, gloomiest day and just seeing their faces makes my dark clouds go away, and the sun begins to shine. 

FYI...i have used yahoo messenger for years (message me if you want my screen name!), and i tend to do the ever famous computer lingo (3 letter words, shortening of words, combining words), so if it looks like i cant spell or am speaking bigganese (haa haa!), its just cause im use to the messenger world, im not really that illiterate! Ill try to keep it all in english, but sometimes bad habits are hard to break! 

Now on to a real topic. I cant believe today is the 7th anniversary of 9/11. I remember perfectly where i was and what i was doing when i heard. I knew it was a bad situation, but didnt realize how bad it was until i got home that day and turned on the news. My heart broke into pieces for all the people that were involved in that tragedy. I think about it often, esp. when i look at the clock and it reads 9:11. As silly as it may sound, when i see that the clock says 9:11, i say a silent prayer and hope all the families that were involved in this are doing well. They say thru tragedy comes triumph, i hope this is true for all of them. Since i have been alive, this is the biggest piece of history that has truly affected me, that i remember what i was doing exactly when it happened. It kinda saddens me that this event will just be another page in my childs history book. That she will never know how every one in this nation came together after that day.That the words UNITED WE STAND were never more true than after that day. Those who would normally not stop to help, were running to help. It was just a good feeling to see everyone set aside all their differences and help those in need. To see everyones true colors come out, had let me see the sun shine thru all the hurt.  

Well thanks for reading my first blog...i think im done for tonite. Check back often. =)