Finley enjoying Pho!!!

So here are the girls (in 2 posts) enjoying our favorite lunch pho. We're going to deviate from our normal schedule a bit and head to Walmart to get them some new earrings since Finley lost one and her hole is going to close if we don't get her some new ones soon. Next pic- earrings!!!!

Mia enjoying Pho

Beautiful 80 degree day. Eating at food court play area

Our relaxing Fridays- The Chronicle of our day!!!

The girls and i both have Fridays off and we have a bit of a tradition. We wake up late (they wake up early and watch tv do mom can get a few extra minutes of sleep--thanks girls) and go downstairs and have breakfast (and I drink a pot of coffee- I know it's bad but I gotta wake up somehow). They play around the house and at about 11am we start I'm crafts. They usually draw like crazy and make some tape and paper thing. We then get ready and go to pho- Vietnamese noodle soup. It is sooooooo yummy and the girls and I love it. Plus it is $6 out the door for soup big enough to serve all 3 of us plus have left overs. We usually go to a park Or our local outdoor mall that has an outdoor food court/ play area. We usually chill there for over an hour till its time to pick up the boys. We pick them up an come home and will then bake something special- cake, cupcakes or cookies. Friday nights are usually out family nights where we make homemade pizza or something like that do our baking is our dessert- which we rarely have dessert so it's kinda fun!!!

It's a fun day we look forward to each week. Ya we mix it up here and there but in general, our day goes just like I mentioned.
So, because I now can post to my blog straight from my phone, I'm going to chronicle our lazy Friday. This first post (remember I can only post one pic or video from my phone per post so it will be lot of posts- sorry) is if "craft time". Next comes pho. I'll post soon.

Crazy hair day!!!

Great night!!!

I came home to flowers and cards and we then went to a new dumpling restaurant I've wanted to visit and then came home to a home made chocolate torte with raspberry sauce and whip cream. Great 40th!!!!

What I came home to after work!!!

Trying to find easier ways to post

Ok, since I turn 40 tomorrow I must blame my lack of posting on me being old and unable to handle the multitude of things I have going on in my life. So, in an effort to streamline into my 40's, I am attempting to find easy ways to post on my blog.


Here is the problem. I am not as with it as I use to be and I forget my camera most of the time. Secondly, if I do have my camera, the pictures sit on the SD card forever because I am too lazy in the little bit of downtime that I have to actually download the pictures and then post. So, what do I end up doing??? I simply take pictures with my cell phone and then immediately post them to my facebook. Then, in an attempt to be as lazy as possible, I then save the facebook pic on my computer and then upload them to my blog for a post. Sadly, I cant even get around to doing that very often. So, I am trying to see if I can directly post videos from my phone to my blog via email. I took a few little videos the other day and I tried uploading them just now from my phone via email and it looks like it worked. I think the downside to posting from my phone via email is 1- the quality is very poor but we all know I'm not going to get around to posting nice pics so poor quality is better than no pictures at all. And 2- you can only post one picture or video per post (unless any of you  know how to do more than one and if so, please let me know). I will try to post from my phone and we will see what happens but just understand that one post may actually take up the space of 4 or 5 posts.


Below you will see the little videos I took of the kids playing the other day. I will try to experiment with this more today and maybe I can post more videos later.

WWE Smack down Mia v. Fin

The boys have been teaching the girls how to wrestle. The boys have always loved to wrestle but it's just not a girl thing to do-- I dont get it either. So, Owen attempted to teach the girls how to wrestle the other night-- what do you think? They did a pretty good job!!! I love Mia's ending move where she mounts Fin. I also love how Fin looks like she is hugging Mia  most of the time-- patting her back. It's too funny!!!!!

WWE smack down - owen v. The girls

So here is Owen and the girls going at it. They did a pretty good job on this one-- or at least Fin did. Mia can be---ummmm.... well.... a baby sometimes and here is a great example. Fin will literally get smacked and never complains. She is so darn tough!!!!

What can we do???

OK, Kev and I went to bed last night discussing the options for celebrating our 40th birthdays coming up---ugggg!!! Im not a super "I hate getting older" type person, but turning 40 is pretty big. I remember baking my dad a cake-- just us kids- for his 40th birthday. I was in high school. It just seems old. Besides always feeling like I could go to bed, I dont feel very old. People say that the 40's are the best years and I think, based on where we are in our lives, that I would probably agree with that statement-- but 40 just sounds old.

Soooooo, I turn 40 in 2 Mondays- March 6 and Kev turns 40 on April 4. We usually do a - between our bdays celebration-  and go away for a weekend but this year, with being on Dave Ramsey and paying off our debt and saving for this adoption, we are not sure we can afford the Venetian in Vegas with all the awesome eating out. So my question is, what should we do? This is a big birthday but we really cant do the awesome weekend away and we cant do the big party so what should we do?

One idea is maybe we do the weekend away but we make it very budget friendly. We live about 3 hours from Vegas and we love going there just to relax and eat-- we don't do shows or gamble-- just eat and relax. So one idea is staying at a super cheap place-- like $40 a night which you can easily do- and then eat maybe a bit cheaper-- maybe hit some of the super cheap places to eat with maybe one nice eating out night.

Or maybe Palm Springs?? We live about an hour and 15 min away from Palm Springs and we can easily do a weekend out there but it is not cheap like Vegas. I just really want to go away for at least a night so Kev and I can have some no kid time to reconnect. We can also maybe go to the beach- only about 40 min from our house- but it it is not cheap for hotels or for food-- although we probably can do restaurant.com.

So help. We have no idea what to do or do we just not do anything?? Ideas??