Project 365. . .

I think I have found my most favorite app on the iPhone.

Project 365. . .every day it sends me a reminder to take a picture. I go in tap the date for the day and take a picture of something that we are doing that day. I can write a little caption and it saves it in a little calendar.

I never used to be good at journaling, but they have really made things a lot easier to do that now. When the year is up we'll have a little blurb about each and every day.

And how much fun is that?

Here's what we have been up to this week. . .

A big train track in the Living Room.

Addison reading "Pinkalicious" to J.D. (our dog) in his kennel.

Green Eggs and Ham for St. Patty's Day breakfast.

... biggest mistake

". . .but the biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us make:

I did not live in the moment enough.

This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs.

I wish I had not been in a hurry to get on to the next things: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less.

~Anna Quindlen

Cable or no cable that is the question?

What do you do to watch TV?

We recently changed our TV situation. We have had a DVR for a long time and when HD came out we got that as well. We have always had either satellite or Cable.

We have been batting around the idea of cancelling our cable for sometime now but never got around to it until we got a big push to cut some expenses :)



So for about two weeks now we have had no cable, no DVR, HD sometimes when the antennae reception is good and WE ARE SURVIVING! :)



Funny how you think you won't, and although as I sit here trying to watch The Biggest Loser the reception keeps cutting in and out (it's like a big game, when they flash the weight up on the screen the TV cuts out, haha, funny!) it's not to bad. We stream Netflix through the Wii and we plug the laptop in when we want to watch something else.



It's all very reminiscent of when I was a kid. Only we also had no remote for a long time and plug your laptop into the TV?! What's a laptop?

My kids have no idea how this works and still ask if we can "pause the TV". But we are saving money, a fair amount monthly. And we hardly miss it!

Changing our focus, slowly but surely we are getting priorities in the right order!

"Nickolody" and a "Flamango" anyone?

We love Mangoes at our house!! At least the girls do! Joe and Peyton can take them or leave them.

But Addison keeps asking for "flamangoes".

We like the HONEY MANGOES.

They remind me of the Philippines, only in Tagalog they are called "Matamis na Mangga". So delicious!! We used to eat them during mango season for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Well now I think that Addison would do the same thing if she could.

So while she eats her mangoes she likes to play "Nickolody", which is code for Nick Jr. online. She has just recently been able to play on the computer but she picked it up quickly. :)

And now that she has the hang of the mouse she likes to play as much as we will let her.

We just recently cancelled our Comcast cable, but just before that Addison got into "Bubble Guppies". Have you seen that show? So cute!! It might be one of my favorites! So now Addison plays Bubble Guppies on Nickjr.com. It gives her her fix!

Isn't friendship great!!

Addison had a friendship day at school that Peyton and I got to go to (Joe was out of town). It was very cute. They sang songs and made a craft and got to play with their friends. According to Addison she has 2000 friends in her class :)

What a fun time in life!! Everyone is your friend! I am lucky to still have some of those friends I made as a 4 year old. I don't see them all the time but when I do it seems just like when we were four :) (or at least that comfortable)

Friends are wonderful! So this video of Addison's class is from us to all of our friends, young and old!! We love you!

Happy Birthday finally ends. . .!

We drug Peyton's birthday celebration out for about 3 weeks. How cool is that!!

And it will be stretched a bit farther because as a family we had a choice with birthday's this year. It was all or nothing for the whole family.

Here was the deal:

No friend birthday parties.

No birthday presents from Mom or Dad.

No birthday presents for Mom or Dad.

No dinner out at a restaurant.

We can have a dinner at our house with family. Birthday person's choice.

In exchange we would go to Southern California as a family.

Go to Disneyland.

Go to Legoland.

Go to the beach.

I gave everyone the deal and then told them they could think about it. It took about a week and after finding out that it was highly likely that they would still get presents from grandma's and grandpa's and cousins, we were on.

So we will be going later on. The kids don't know when. They keep trying to get me to tell them but I told them it was surprise! They will never know when we might pull them out of school and just head to the airport.

Breakfast in bed.

February 20, 2011--THE REAL BIRTHDAY!!

Cookies on a stick, dinner and presents at Grandma and Grandpa's house in Utah when we went the first of February. Yummy Chicken Cordon Bleu, one of Peyton's favorites (thanks Aunt Andrea!)

LEGO cake the week after his birthday. Dinner at our house with Joe's family--Meemo and Grandfather, Matt and Andrea, Grace, Keith, and Max and Derek, Selina, and William. This time it was lasagna, salad, french bread. (and chicken noodle soup--as Peyton's tummy has been a bit off)

More money for his birthday. Remember he is still saving for that LEGO deathstar (Star Wars). It costs $399.99 (that's right you heard me). He won't buy anything else with his money. We counted it all up today and he has $303.00. WOW!! He's getting close. Joe thinks we should give him all the options that he can buy with that amount of money before purchasing it. Probably not a bad idea!

Here's to cultivating a great mind!

Great minds discuss ideas.

Average minds discuss events.

Small minds discuss people.

~Eleonor Roosevelt