Going on today...

Not a lot.
Just the usual.

Fighting, bored crazy kids.
$1 movie at the "ghetto" theater at the mall.

Work.

Home.

Move 3 sleeping boys to their own beds.

Now, I can't sleep.

So, now what???

I guess I could write in my journal.

I found a pair of earings. Not hard to do in this big city. But these particular earings are special. Not the earrings themselves, but the memory. They remind me of a pair my Nana had. I don't know that I ever saw them in real life. I only remember them from a picture of her. My favorite picture of her. They are roses (Just a little bigger than the size of diamond studs). You see them everywhere now. Tilly's, Target & Walmart, amongst others. They vary in size and are usually plastic black, red, bright pink, etc.

Her's were gold with little diamonds in the centers. Since I first saw them starting to sprout up in stores, I have looked. Everytime I go to a retail store, I look. I found almost the exact same pair a while back. But, they were $54. I couldn't make myself spend $54 on earrings. I am cheap. I thought I could find them cheaper somewhere else (these were at Dillards). If I had known I wouldn't come across them again, I would have spent the $54. I should have. It has been months, probably almost a year in fact. And I finally found a pair. Not nearly as close to hers, but close enough that I couldn't pass them up. They are just plain silver, no diamond in the middle. But, close enough. I wore them today. It makes me feel close to her, like I have a piece of her with me. Weird, huh? That a pair of $5 earrings could do that! I love it!

The infamous (to me anyway) earrings...

So, you may only read this next part if you promise not to make fun of me.
{PROMISE}
I went online just now to try to find an image similar to this pair of earrings I have been looking for for oh, soooo long.
Well, DUH!!!
I just shared that I had been looking for these earrings for how long?
It never even crossed my mind to look online!! I am "slow to learn"!!

I thought my sisters and girly cousins would like to know where to find these. But, any of you chicks that just have to get your hands on a pair...
the pair I got were $5 at Tilly's. They are silver and have no diamond in the center.

The pair in the picture above (which look almost identical to hers) are from Juicy Couture online. They are $36 + shipping. And in about 5 minutes, one lucky pair will be on it's way to my house. YEAH!!!!! To go in my ears!!! :). I am soooo not passing these babies up. I learned my lesson the first time.
And now I shall have a pair in silver & gold!

I will insert that picture of Nana into this post when I can. I don't have it on this computer.


That is all for now. I will be back soon!!!

Maybe today...

...will be the turn around for my non-bloggy ways. Maybe...but probably not. LOL! I haven't blogged in almost a year. How sad is that? And we have had sooooooo much happen. It will take me forever to "catch up". But, I will do it. (Especially now that some of my favorite peeps live so far away!) So, for your reading pleasure, a brief overview of life for the past year:

We celebrated our 10 year anniversary (It goes by so fast, right?).

Then, we bought a house and moved in.

Jaxon was baptised.

Ryker turned 7.

Great hubby bought me a cute little car.

I switched jobs, then switched back.

Finally got to take the kiddos to the "Happiest Place on Earth" (Disneyland...& it sooo was!!!).

Aden turned 6 years old (my "baby").

All the boys "graduated" from their current grades.

Then, SUMMER hit!!

Which mean "summer movie fun" every week.

I started working a little from home for my Bro-In-Law.

A trip to Santa Barbara for a whole week to visit the Goodwins (who moved there in May).

Ryker lost a front tooth.

Aden lost his first tooth & finished summer school.

Family trip to San Diego with the ever fun company of the Mowers and the Kreins. (Many more beach trips to come.)

And to top all of that off, I am about to turn 30!!! I know this is weird, but I have always wanted to be 30. I don't know why, it just sounds good.

So, that pretty much wraps up the last year. Although, eventually I will expound on all of those events and blog each one specifically for this "journal" that I am so fabulously keeping (ha).

I will post more when I can figure out how to get my pictures onto this crazy computer. Posts with out pictures just aren't as fun.

p.s. I still haven't gone private yet...I keep going back and forth. I just can't decide. I will keep you "posted". (LOL)!!!