Get to know me...

I received this email a few weeks ago and deleted it thinking I didn't have time to do it then. Then it resurfaced on a few friends blogs and I thought what a great idea. So here is my "get to know me" I hope you enjoy it. Thank you Sarah for the idea!:)

1. What is your occupation? Wife, Mom, Teacher

2. What color are your socks right now? White

3. What are you listening to right now? Lucas playing with match box cars.

4. What was the last thing that you ate? Peanut butter/Jelly sandwich

5. Can you drive a stick shift? Yes.

6. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Purple my favorite color.

7. Last person you spoke to on the phone? My friend Kathy

8. Do you like the person who sent this to you? Yes although I did copy it from Sarah..:)

9. How old are you today? 31

10. Favorite drink? Water, I know boring but true. Coffee comes in a very close second.

11. What is your favorite sport to watch? Lucas' b-ball games, b-ball in general

12. Have you ever dyed your hair? Yes.

13. Pets? No, although Kaleb keeps asking for a dog.

14. Favorite food? Eggs,PB&J sandwich, chicken, wow, hard to name just one I like so many!

16. Favorite Day of the Year? Thanksgiving. I love seeing all my extended family.

17. What do you do to vent anger? I run or workout it always works. Of course I never yell:)

18. What was your favorite toy as a child? Probably my bear I slept with every night or my bike.

19. What is your favorite, fall or spring? Summer oops not on the list:) ok spring is a close second.

20. Hugs or kisses? Hugs

21. Cherry or Blueberry? Cherry

22. Who are you living with? Ben,Lucas,Kaleb,& Roman

23. When was the last time you cried? Maybe a month ago? I can't remember.

24. What is on the floor of your closet? Shoes

25. Favorite smell? Lilac's I have a bush planted by my front door and it smells my house up in the spring when it blooms.

26. What inspires you? A good sermon, my friends, my family.

27. What are you afraid of? I'm so claustrophobic it's not even funny, also elevator I got stuck in one as a kid at my grandma's apartment complex.

28. Plain, cheese or spicy hamburgers? Cheese

29. Favorite car? Lincoln Navigator we sold the gas guzzler and bought a mini van.

30. Number of keys on your key ring? 2

31. How many years at your current job? 12

32. Favorite day of the week? Saturday

33. How many states have you lived in? 1, MI.

34.. How many countries have you been to? 7 I think. USA, Canada, Antiqua, Netherlands, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. My dad is from The Netherlands so we made a trip to Europe when I was 8.

35. What is your favorite tv show? Grey's Anatomy, CSI, Women's Murder Club

Reusing Leftovers...Frugal Friday

One of my favorite ways to use leftovers especially sauces is in soups. If I have left over taco meat or spaghetti sauce I will quite often use it as a base for vegetable soup. My kids devour this vegetable soup. All I do is take a large pot put my leftover meat/sauce in the pan with enough water to make a nice soup base. I bring this to a boil and add whatever vegetables I need to use up in my crisper. If I don't have enough I will add frozen veggies whatever you wish. After those are cooked I will add some kind of noodles. My kids like the alphabet noodles in it. I also add seasonings to taste like garlic, garlic pepper, salt and a little bit of Italian seasoning. This makes a large pot of soup and also a great way to use leftovers from dinner as well as veggies that need to be eaten up. For more great ideas on how to use up leftovers head over to Crystals blog for Frugal Friday.

Roman's hand problems...

Here is my little Roman all full of smiles and such..not so when he's been waking up this week. It seems as he's napping he sleeps on his hand the exact same way. He wakes up screaming and crying because his hand hurts. I quickly realized he keeps waking up and his hand is asleep it's really quite funny actually. I know my poor baby. His mama has so much sympathy I did the first two days by today I was almost laughing. He cracks me up here's what he says.

Roman: "mommy, I need a band aide my hand hurts".
Me: " your hand hurts"?
Roman: "yes it's pickly"...hahaha love it.

Walgreens..free photo's

I've been wanting to get new pictures of the kids taken and just haven't done it. Lo and behold over at Money saving mom Crystal had posted about a Walgreen's deal. It works!! I ordered three packages of pictures one of each of the kids from our vacation pictures. I knew I took over a 100 pic's on vacation for a reason:) Best part it all the pictures are free yipeee I just love deals like these.

Warning..picture overload:)

Alright I'll try and make these the last of our vacation pictures:) The first ones are at the beach the second time we went. Everytime we go to the beach Lucas digs a hole a hole why you ask well looky here...
Prepping the hole..

Digging....digging....digging....some more.

Buried he loves to get buried in the sand. I will say he dug a huge hole by himself and then his brothers proceeded to bury him which they thought was great fun. We actually had to dig him out a bit.

I just thought this picture of Ben and roman was so cute. One day we went to the zoo which is where I took this.

This tree was at the zoo and it's called a West African Rubber Tree a.k.a. a fig tree. all the kids were so fascinated by it and played in it's branches for quite awhile.

Kaleb in the Tree isn't he just so handsome my little bug is growing up to fast.

Roman in the tree boys love to climb trees they thought we should have this in our backyard. I will admit it would entertain them for hours at a time.

more pool pic's

Lucas and Roman lounging...

This is a picture of Roman and his cousin who is also three. These two were so cute the entire time they acted like twins. They got along really well all week. Here they were making soup by the pool. They were inseperable it really was adorable. I just had to share this conversation with Roman on the way home from church on Sunday when we were in Florida. Acutally Roman was talking to himself and I was butting in:) His cousin shown here in the pic was in another van with her parents right in front of us.

Roman: "I'n(I'm) a working man"

Roman: "And my working girl is in the other ban(van)" "yup, I'n(I'm) a working man".

Ben and I were laughing so hard it was just so cute. Roman would go around the condo with pretend tools and "fix" things while his cousin would follow him around with her barbie backpack. She must've been his sidekick. He called her his working girl the whole week it was just priceless.

Home and resting..

We got home yesterday around 9:00 in the morning we had good driving conditions and the kids did really well again on the drive. Most days we spent by the pool just relaxing and having fun. Here are a few pic's of our days by the pool.

Here is Roman sporting sunglasses.

Kaleb and Lucas posing for a picture.

There are two slides going into the main family pool this is the one the kids liked the best. Here is Kaleb going down.

Lucas ain't he cute:)