I look out the window and what do I see?

Popcorn popping on the pear tree!






Jon loves all the beautiful pear trees we have around here. Every year they bloom so beautifully. The remind me of the primary song. Jon has always wanted on of these trees, so last year Ella and I bought him one for the front yard. It was too late in the season for blooms, so this is the first time we have had any. Jon is so proud of his tree.!


Also, Easter is this week. I (I mean the Easter Bunny) hasn't finished shopping yet, so still have that to do. I did get a chance to take Ella out today to take some pictures of her in her Easter dress. She is sick, but was a great willing model. Wes doesn't have an Easter outfit so he just watched from the stroller.
I love it when Ella cooperates!

Having a swinging good time with Food Storage

Everyone LOVES our hammock that we got in Mexico. It is lots of fun!



Jon and I are also working on building up our food storage. It is a lot of work! Today I went shopping at Publix because they were having a really nice BOGO sale. They had all kinds of pasta for about $0.70/lb, pasta sauce for $1.19/jar, and Jon's favorite crackers at less than $1.50/box. I don't normally shop at Publix, but when my mom tole me about the pasta and sauce, I decided to go get some. I think I did pretty well. I got
16 jars pasta sauce
30 lb of assorted pasta
8 9oz boxes of crackers
2 cake mixes
6 can chicken broth
2 cans pineapple
3 cans oranges
8 cans tomatoes
8 cans corn
4 cans each of peas and potatoes.
All for about $70
I think I did good, but the shopping gurus would know more about that. If I got a horrible deal, don't tell me though, I don't want to know!

More birthday fun

Today was Sunday dinner at Mom and Dad's house. Since it was my Birthday yesterday, I got to choose the menu. I asked for this DELICIOUS Weight Watchers recipe for Chicken with asparagus and pine nuts. It is so yummy! I also got to request a dessert for my b-day (this counts as my "cake") So I asked for a WW ricotta cheese cake. It... was less than impressive. I don't blame Mom, I am sure she did it right, It just didn't taste good. Oh well, can't win 'em all I suppose. I had a nice time celebrating with my family tonight. I love birthdays! Now I get to start planning for Ella's special day in just a few weeks.

Finished (a post from friday)

So several people told me that I had missed posting on Friday. I was like, no way! I totally posted on Friday. Jon had even mentioned seeing it, so I know I had posted. Well, I went to check today and my Friday post wasn't there! Then I checked my other blog.. and lo and behold, I had accidentally posted my blog post on there instead of here! So I don't know how to fix it, so I will just add Friday's post here, so I don't have a gap in my 365 blog.

Today I finished my last day at HGC. I am so ready to be done with Gym pictures for a while! I even had a dream about editing gym pictures last night! I also have not gotten ANYTHING done around the house since last Sunday. Jon is ready to have his wife back too I think. The pictures went great! I am so excited with the way that they came out. I really enjoyed working with the coaches and the girls. The team girls were especially fun, as they did all sorts of neat tricks for their pictures. One of the girls who trains there also goes to Church with us, in fact, I was her primary teacher a few years ago. Her Mom gave me permission to post her picture, I wanna show off how incredible she is! I am so grateful for the opportunity to do this job. I hope that I have impressed the owner, and the parents with my photographs. Now I am back to my slower paced life, at least until the orders come in and I have to do those!
Tomorrow I will relax, it is my 28th birthday and I plan on having FUN! No photography at all, well except for snapshots to show you all the fun we had.

Goodbye for Now HGC!

Happy Birthday to ME!

Today I turned 28. It was much like turning 27 I suppose. I had an AWESOME day. We started off having to do some chores, so after getting everyone up and ready to go, we headed off to Sam's club to do some shopping. We also had lunch there before we left.


Then it was time for the fun to begin!
We met my parents at Bridgestreet at the Monaco to see "How to train your Dragons". Which turned out to be a really good movie. We didn't see it in 3D, because Ella won't wear the glasses, they give me a headache and Jon thinks they "dim" the picture. We like our pictures in 2d thank you very much! I highly recommend the movie. We were all happy with the choice.

On the way back to the car we stopped at the carousel and each took a ride. Wesley enjoyed his first ride, and liked watching the pretty machine as well.




We also made a pit stop at our favorite ice cream place, "the orange tree" We LOVE their frozen yogurt. Honeydew melon and peach are my favorites!



After filling up on sweets, we headed back home so that Wes could take a nap. I had Jon hang our hammock we got in Mexico and I relaxed and read a book while Ella played outside.

The end of my day didn't go quite as smoothly. We were supposed to drop the kids off at Mom and Dad's house so that we could go to dinner together. We did that, but when we got to PF Changs, the wait time was 80-90min!!! So we decided to try the Mexican place across the way, also too long, so we decided to go to Outback, where there was a 40-50min wait! Finally we made it over to Sakura hibachi place where they told us there was only a 10 min wait. What they didn't tell us was that after the 10 min wait to be seated, we would be waiting an additional 30 min to have our orders taken! The food was good, but we ended up not getting home until right around 9pm, an hour after we had promised to pick up the kids!


AT my moms I had a nice surprise waiting for me. My visiting teacher had dropped off a beautiful cookie cake and a card for me! That was soooooo sweet!

Now I am exhausted, so I am going to finish this post and drop into bed.
Thank you to all who sent me well-wishes today!