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This is probably what I will being doing today... This fine cold January day I am sitting here in my bed with a stuffy nose, NO motivation to get out of bed and I have a list a mile long of chores that I need to at some point get to before church tomarrow or by Monday.
But when I am sick the hubby is pretty good at spoiling me, so its a toss up.

So ready to stop being cold

As I am sitting here tying this I am actually serious whe i say I cant wait for the warm weather to get here. ENOUGH SAID!

My Sunday, My Day, My Life

I look at my boys (and nina) and I cant believe how big and grown they are still going at right now. My Boys, Jesus, Thank You for my boys! My Aidan so full of love, so sweet at heart, so giving and so welcoming, making friends at the drop of a hat. I call him my "honest Abe" because lets face it we are raising him to be honest and at times it bits us in the foot 65 % of the time. Awww, my little pabby, my little chicken nugget, the nicknames go on and on!!! Look at the kiddster, posing with such character. I remember this day when Aidan wanted to do his own hair, I am not going to lie, but it bothered me when he wanted to do his own hair, I felt like he didnt need me anymore. And even though now I still have to, no I want to do your hair, I just cant let my boys grow up.

Look at him, my little pabster, sleeping so peacefully who knew that he even knew how to do that back in the day :). So little, so blonde, so calm, so cute!!! Goodness I miss those days. I will never be able to get them back. Boooo Hooooo seriously I miss them. And that pillow what in the world happened to that pillow?

need I say More? A.D.O.R.A.B.L.E.!!

Then this picture, I just love this picture, I just love my Jesus! I love this New Church, I love this Pastor, I love going to church, I look forward to it on Sunday, Wednesday and I want to be more involved and Lord, guide me, Love Me, Forgive Me, and teach me. I love You Lord, and I will serve you, never will I leave you. Thank You for dieing on the cross for me. Everything I do Lord, I do it for you.

Rain, Rain, Dont go away

I woke up this morning to such a wonderful sound!!

Rain, Jesus knows how much I love the rain. I also love the reign that my Savior is in my life. Idon't want to start or end my day without him, after going through a dry spell for a while, I love that I am backin the same accord with Jesus.

I love to think ahead, as to when I get to see him face to feace and he gets to hold me and I get to hold him for reals, its not something I need to imagine but something I can always do. I have messed up so many times and there he is just waiting to hold me.

I can only imagine, that song is so true, I love that song, will I sinf halleluigh will I be able to sing at all? Would it be like meeting a celebrity or will be an "at Home: kind of feeling?

I want to do so much for Christ this year, for my family, for my life in my New Church, I Love, Love this church. I want a New family in a New Church I want to be involved and I cant wait to crack out of my shell and become amazed.. I love You my Jesus!! Thank You again for this beautiful day!!

OH! I AM BACK

Psh, since August 2010, I hang my head in shame, I cant believe that was the last ost I did on my blog, it makes me sad that for nearly two years I wasted not posting memories but failed to facebook and was more active there. Just give me a sec. while I ust the the cobweds an blow all the dust out of the way. O.k. all is cleared and clean. Look at them handsome boys, I am one blessed mama you know that? I have a husband who is amazing, thats right now is the only word to best describe him......AMAZING!! Along with God, he blessed my life with these two wonderful, full of life I'm going to fight with my brother everyday boys. My little Aidan, you just want to inch those cheeks and Gabriel I just want to kiss that cute face all over!! At this very moment my Aidan is 9 an in the 3r grade thriving as ever witn nothing but A's and B's, and my littel"pabby" is in kindergarten 6 and hating every minute of it!! (LOL)

I daily Thank my God for not only forgiving me of my sins, but for giving me life again. I was near falling away but I am more regretful to say that I nearly did that then to have actually done anything stupid! God continues to give me chances and I make sure I take them, because my life isnt complete with out God. He's what I was raised on, hes who I turn to, hes who I thank daily for life and my abilties. Hes who I plead his name over when sickness or pain hits our home, hes who I call out to in my time of need, and never not once has my God faile me nd I know he never will. So in ending this, Thank You God, for being.....YOU!

Last Year and this year I have been wanting change, last year I changed by lossing a good chunk of weight, I am so still proud of my doing that, i want that to continue into this year, having a hard kick start but I know with Gods help I can do it. But this year I have started out with a bang for my bucks in couponing I love, love, love to coupon, my goal is to make my stock pile so big that I am able to help extending family I am even going to pop my collar on this and say I am started my own other blog about the wonderful world of couponing its got a mix of everything, from God all the way down to couponing!! Its still a work in progress, but I have big plans for it. And if it's gods will it will thrive and get readers.

And lastly i still have my assion of alwys wanting to be that Good Ol fashion wife and style. Being the keeper of the home has its perks, and its terks but I love it. The feeling to have a sparkling clean house at the end of my day spells success! Which as of right now i am tying this and I have a laundry basket begging to be empty and dusting and counter cleaning and some ironing, But Praise God any how everything I do Lord, i do it for you!!!

I am breaking out the posts again......so on with the blog I go!!!

Gone but not forgotten...so cliche', yet so true

I feel compeled to put this here since I consider this my journal..via blog. What aheck of a month this has been.. This is "my popo"...the first man in my lie that was my hero...why the title hero? Because he rescued me, from a life that I Thank God everyday that I didnt have to contiue to ever live again.

He was a man of few words but to tell you the truth those few words were filled with truth, wisdom, and love.

I hope that I can keep everything he taught me in my life and heart to pass on to my kids.

But for now I continue to miss him with his sny comments and hus beautiful smile....

*kiss on the forehead*

Love and miss you my popo

Pretending...even as an Adult

When I was a little girl I had an imagination like no other, I had a little sister that I longed to play with and share a room with but in my crazy mixed up life that just wasn't going to happen. But now after what 18 years later I finally have the little sister I wanted all along....buts that's a different story for a different time. Back to my imagination....WOW I must admit it was one of a kind, and I have to admit I still got it, there are times I like to pretend that I once lived in the simple, fun, family easy life of the 1950's time, I have said it before and I will say it again I was so born in the wrong era. There are times that when it was just myself with the Lil Gabers I would put my apron on and be Joan Clever so to speak. I do my laundry in a fast paced movement with a smile strapped to my face, cookies baking away in the oven, the house spit shined and the towels so fluffy it makes me want to bounce on them.

I like to think/pretend that we have a tiny farm with my three chickens running around in the back yard, that I can someday build a barn in the back filled with more chickens and goats and Hay all over and a tired swing inside and the boys going out back to fetch me some morning eggs for breakfast or to do some baking from scratch.

I like to pretend that we don't have a care in the world, that money does in fact grow on trees and that a simple peck on the hubby's cheek will cover for the fact I didn't make dinner. I know its all a fantasy but hey its my fantasy and I like that I have a simple one and that even though I have shared a bit of this with you all that I still can pretend like I used to when I was 11. Something like an imagination is something that you will never loose, it's important to have as important as having a Dr. Pepper daily to me that is.

My boy with the many character traits

Not only can my boy act and look like Cat in the Hat, a T- Rex, a ninja Turtle and a list of many others, he can pull of looking like the Fonz too......aeaaaaaeeeee..
I gots me a cute 50's boy

I'm no Dr. Suess

But in my opinion I got me one cute Cat in the Hat.........

I'm Back and ready for some action.

I can not believe that it has already been five months since my last post. In all honesty I wasn't enjoying it anymore, I felt like I had to do all the time like I had a dead line and that the "boss" was going to punish me if I didnt meet it. But this time around it is merely going to be for fun, this is going to be my "online" family album, and scrapbook for us to turn back to...and seriously I kinda felt guilty about just leaving it..Marisa Lerin, I do believe you owe this poor little blog am apology.......I'm terribly sorry for the neglect I caused you. Lets start frest dust off the cob webs and blow off the dust and jump into it.....................shall we?

The big 5-0

My Dad's party was a hit....if I do say so myself. here's the cutie stopping what he was doing for a moment so that I could get a photo op of him.....ain't he a cutie pie. Doesn't even look 50 does he? Here's my daddy collecting his loot. And wearing the big button the read "Over the Hill" he did it wiht out a fit too he was a good sport about it.

Here it is....what he and my sister take pride in....the cake......it doesn't get much nicer then that does it?

When you walked in to the house we had records hanging every where and jukebox's it was pretty sweet......

I think the sister and I may have a knack for decorating for birthdays....

Our Saturdays

This is what happens at our house on a Saturday night when you have washable markers, are broke and bored.......

UP before the Sun

It happened yet again. Every Friday my day off from not having to get my child up, make lunches, and send him off to school, I wake up at the crack of dawn's early and I mean early light. By this time after the devotions are read I sit here and debate..should I go back to bed to get warm? Should I watch a little T.V.? Should I take a shower? Should I start the day with some laundry?

Choices...........Choices........

But one choice that is for sure, is that we are going to party till we are purple tonight. It's our dad's 50Th birthday party ( not officially 50 till Sunday), all the decorations are hanging and everything is in place. After everything was done we took a step back and prided ourselves on what we had accomplished. Our creative bug bit us and we showed it what we got. It's a mess of sheer beauty.

Then came the talk to the kids which we all knew went through one ear and out the other.....they must get that from the father...I plead the 5th on my side.

So with my party hat nearly on and the house needing to be cleaned a bit (alot), I have made my choice and this hinny of mine is going back to bed....it's early what the heck am I doing up right now....but then again in a few minutes the sun will be telling me good morning with it's ray's. Aww what the heck I got an eye mask around here somewhere.

Pictures of the party coming soon!

Back to the roots

Can you believe this I have been away from this blog for 2 months now.. Shame Shame! But I must say it is very good to be back, I tried to go to something new but I had to come back to my baby. Isn't the Lord good.....his Love indeed does endure forever.

So this must be put into Salas history, with our recent addition to our family it only mad sense (to me apparently) to switch rooms with the kids....the idea hit my mind for sometime now and I was determined to do it. So I did! Yesterday!

It was a grueling process that seems to have made me regret it and my hubby regret listening to me. It went rather smoothly..which was odd for us because we are used to have a flub up now and then.

The it hit...and big hurdle...and I mean big...never the less we did it we finished my peewee idea...that I will never think of again and spent the night in our "new" rooms.

Now as I am sitting here typing this I feel every piece of furniture I moved, and then some.

But baby I am back even if this is just something I do for me you are welcome to come join me.

Day of Worship

Put all distractions aside today and focus on God!

2:50 am and the neighbors

I in natural am a light sleeper, so at 2:30 this when a nice breeze was coming into my room and I didn't hear the wind chimes on the front porch I opened one of my eyes...what did I hear instead?

My down the street fighting in the middle of the road like it was 2 in the afternoon, and about as drunk as they can be.

Now I am not going to repeat the words that were said come on people this is G rating here but I will telling it was somewhat rather amusing.

I nudge the hubby..."Do you hear that?" I said

"Where's is coming from" he asked

I opened my curtains over there...........I had to go get my glasses on because my contacts were resting in the place, when I came back you should have seen the crowd scatter like flies..

I said a quick prayer.."God please protect innocent people out on the road tonight"

After the show was over the hubby and I stayed awake for a while talking...Why are we always the "lucky" ones to have to get neighbors like that? Seriously every time we have moved we have always had 1 neighbor that had to by "it"....what happened to bringing food over when a family member is sick, or taking a welcome dish to a new neighbor...but on my behalf the new guy across the street literally gives me the chills.....moving on!

I guess we just have the luck......but for now I will be pretending that I live in Stepford and that the Robot wives will forever be my friends and won't be up at 2 in the morning fighting, because they are well rested in their beds awaiting the next morning when they can come over to my house and share a cup of .....something!!!

Oink, Oink

LAdies and Gent's the Swine flu it our house.. GROSS!!!! I felt so dirty..my oldest was the one it hit...he was out for a week from school with the sickness that plagued our house and went from one child to the next.

We are over it now and all is well as can be....but I would have really freaked out of the kids grew snouts and started oinking at me.

The house is still in recovery fromthe sickness everything needs to de rewashed resprayed and removed.....

So in case I am absent yet again the maid will be catching up on much needed cleaning.....But I won't be gone for to long......

I have some catching up to do!

Good day Friends,

Well looky there I have some catching up to do here don't I? It seem's I have been absent for quite some time now.....it has been a crazy house for the past few days, we have some sickypoo kiddos on our hands, so our nurse abilities have been put in to overdrive.

Let's see where do I begin? Oh yes the exciting part is that my wonderful sister and niece have moved in for a while, she thinks its a short move but I would like it to be long, but it seem's there is no convincing her, and the boys love that she is here, as do I....it's nice to have some female here along with me.

It seem's we are on the battle field with a few things, and at times like these it can be hard to stay on track and trust God,what can I say I don't handle stress very well.

Well looky there it's Saturday and the time is 7:41 and I have been up already an hour ugh........my little Aidan isn't feeling so great today, so I must tend to my child and return very soon...because deep down this whole time that I didnt blog, I missed it.

See you next time.

While sitting on the couch in a black shirt and my newly pink Tinkerbell pj pants, I patiently wait for Oprah to come on. I don't watch all watch her daily, only when something catches my eye.

A dear, sweet woman that I have come to know through the blog world, was to appear...I have followed her blog for nearly two years and I followed her recovery after her and her hubby survived and air plane crash..

While anticipation stung me.....I watched...and watched and recorded and watched again. This woman is amazing. Plain and simple..AMAZING! You literally feel how much she loves her family and even though her appearance has changed due to the accident....she is still as beautiful as can be.

She doesn't have to do a thing but blink her eyes and it makes you want to be a better person, a better mother, a better woman. I told have the time right now to cover the whole story about her and what happened, you can find that yourself by going to Oprah's website.

I am Thankful that I have a Loving and Forgiving God,

I am thankful that I am saved and that my God died on the cross for me..he literally paid a debt I can never repay.

I am thankful for me health.

I am for my family.

I am thankful that I have the ability to get out of bed daily with no pain or trouble.

I don't want my children to always remember me on the computer, while they want me to play with..and so on.....I don't want to take little things with my life, family, and God for granted.

So Thank You God for giving my so many many chance's for a do over with everything in my life until I get it right. Thank You for loving and setting me free. Thank You for that ever lasting Love that you have for me along with your Forgiveness and Grace. Than You God for being.........God!!

Cool is in the Horizon

Well folks it seems to be finally cooling off here in the Arizona parts. And when that happens I like to break out with my pumpkins/Autumn stuff. Here are my leaves that I put on our dinning table, every year.. I have been patiently waiting to put these here.

These are on my end tables, my leaves and pumpkin bowl..for some reason when I see these I think candy corn?? I don't know!!!

And then this....... I got this wonderful apron form my mother...adorable...I have always wanted this type of apron....good thing she read my blog.

Hate to cut it short, but we are having a BBQ for celebrating, that the cool air is starting to finally come.

Until next post....... Fall Blessings