Things I've recently done:

Summo wrestled with Pita

And won all 3 rounds!

Decided to paint the inside of my washer

Had a can of paint in the storage above my washer and you guessed it-the can fell in. This was the day after Estefan's surgery and I was tired. It made the washer leak black water. Lucky for me that Estefan's brand new carpet was there to soak it up.

Got bit by a DOG!

I'm in the library..

and this mother is tormenting her daughter! Forget that I slipped away from my kids for half an hour to check on my life (I do my banking, networking, work and a million other things on here!) and this girl is looking for a book and mom is playing 20 (degrading) questions! Poor girl you know she is a pre-teen and mom is so SNARKY! So... anyways what I came on here for is to tell you that I have been on home arrest for 5 days now! Help me cause Estefan feel's like POO POO! Surgery has up's and down's. Estefan is NOT good with pain and you can see his good personalitly every 2 hours AFTER he has been drugged. For some magical reason the meds don't work at NIGHT! I will NOT be having a baby or WANTING a baby ANYTIME soon. Thank you very much! By the way...no EVER told me that his breath would be the worst part! Oh sure it's in fine print some where in the 10 page packet they give to you but honestly I think I deserve a bio-hazard mask included at least (: He was AWESOME the first day due to drugs-he said this:

Estefan: mom my stomach is bieng weird
Me: oh ya?
E: ya some air/bubbles keep moving in there (pointing to his tummy)
M: oh ya love that's probably gas.
E: Ya well I've been wasting a lot of gas lately!


I couldn't stop laughing-I will be back will ALL the deets since ANNIE has encouraged me to continue to wrtie. Ah this feels good (:

we (heart) fridays

Because it's Lent season and we don't eat meat on fridays.....

I find lots of ways to keep them meatless.....

Meet Dungenness Crab-I think it's a girl:) Kinda like you Madjesty

Estefan is really learning to cook with me lately

But nothing beat freaking the crap out of your little sister!

i'm straying.....

I couldn't help but post some personal stuff. But I 'm stretching that a bit, cause these aren't my own. Stories from a nurse:

Has been a nurse for 6 years.

I've "called" a man before. Had his family in to say goodby, everyone left, and later (while he was still hooked up) his heart start beating.


Yes while moving a "stiff" dead body onto another gurny-we dropped him! We treid like crazy and struggled so hard to get his body off the floor and onto the new bed.


Had a very handsome man who had cancer, ask me to hold his hand while I injected medicine to sedate him for surgery. Tears rolled down his cheeks and mine. He never made it through sugery. He was my age.


Being on the recessatation team: The most beautiful women came in, she was in heart failure. We tore her shirt off to find perfectly round fake breast. Her make up was perfection and well as her thin body. We were lossing her fast and needed a very large vien. When we cut off her pants-she was a he! She died due to complication from having butt implants that got infected.


The swine flu is serious! We used to have tons of cases in the hospital. A whole floor dedicated to them, but we don't have a 1 anymore. There ALL dead now.

odds and ends

Don't let the sun fool you!

Jack frost was more than nipping

But somehow these two found ways to keep warm!

(let me share with you why I chose these 3 pictures-first and foremost-something is wrong with every single one and won't be used by them. The first one is slightly out of focus and the sun washed them out-but I wanted to show you what the two look like. Picture #2 has that nasty shadow across Roberts pretty little face. Oh how I adore that look on his face-yes he is my nephew (only by marrige!) but this look is killer ;) and the last-well it reminds me of teenagers and what happens in old cars! or new ones for that matter but you do have a little bit of "floaters" in the upper left hand.

This week was crazy busy! I had two sets of pictures to take. I don't charge for them (hello-I don't use photo-editing and i'm no pro) so on Thursday I did Megan's maternity, went to see my mom and sis in Mesquite Fri. night, went yardsaling (is that how you spell it?) on Sat.and then went up to Carp to take some engagements. My nephew Robert and Kirstie will be married this June:)

7 months preggers

May I add that there was not a stretch mark in sight! *sigh*

I teach First Communion class at church and today a little girl told me a story that chocked me up a little. Her name is Brisa and she told me how her sister had fallen down the stairs and her dad ran to her and found her tongue blocking her airway. He swept her tongue out and the girl bit down so hard-it exposed the bone. The story wasn't about the father (who suffered the most damage) but about Brisa's fear. "I was afraid that my sister was going to leave me and my family" That did it for me,that one sentance out of an 8 yr old. She couldn't say die-so she said leave. Brisa couldn't even look up at me she was still so shaken. The sister is 14 and I suspect had a siezure, because she has no recolection of the entire event. Not even biting her father.

I wil share pictures of my loot from the yardsales later. When the are cleaned and where they belong.