A busy weird week

So this past week was crazy busy, and definitely weird.  The week started off great.  Rob and I got up early to hit the gym at the beginning of the week.  I took the following picture on the way there.  It was of the sun rise behind us.  I love the sun rises here they are truly beautiful.  I took this one as a good sign for the upcoming day.  It was a good day, then the simplest thing went wrong and it caused the week to become a little more unusual.

I was not fully prepared for the week and I was hurrying to get all prepared for the boys so they could stay on track.  However things fell apart when I ran out of ink.  I could not print or photocopy anything,  Since I really had no extra money right then I had to do things by hand instead of getting ink.  So with all my regular  work and teaching the kids I fell behind.

I took it as a good learning experience for the boys.  I wanted to show them that just because your planned idea of how something should go failed does not mean that it still can not happen.  You just need to change your method,  The above photo is how I got them their Story of the World maps.  I used tracing paper and copied it from the book.  Then hung it in the window to make it easier to trace on regular paper.  They got their maps still, just took me a little longer.  I had to make a couple other things by hand too, they got to see me never quit though.  I however am going to buy new ink tonight.

The disappearing woman

"WOW SHE REALLY DID DISAPPEAR! THAT IS TALENT"

Well there I go disappearing again.  Man life really does get going so fast and you lose track of things.  I have been so busy living life I forgot about this little blog.  I really do want to get back to it.  It was such a great way to express things and to share too.  Well I think it is time to come back since it has been more than a year.  After all there is so many things to share with you guys in our daily life.  Well maybe you guys want to follow along as I try to figure out the things in our life.  It should be pretty fun either way,  so come along for the ride.  First thing first until I get back into a rhythm of doing the blog I am not promising a lot of post.  Also I think it is time to update the page, give it a face lift.  Lets see how this goes and I hope that there are still some of you that are out there wanting to go along for the ride. 

A test..

I am just testing right now to make sure the blog is still working.  I took the picture of the boys this morning in case anyone was wondering if they still looked the same.  They are just as handsome as ever!  Hope to be back soon.

A New Year....

I hope that everyone has been having a wonderful holiday season.  Ours has been good, very busy though.  Between the illness spreading around here since Thanksgiving and trying to get all our projects done, there really has not been much time to breathe let alone blog.  That makes me sad because I really do enjoy blogging.  Well there is still alot going on around here but we are starting to feel better.  Now it is time to try and get caught up on things.  So to start off with last night I asked all of my boys (Rob included, LOL)  on what they wanted for goals this year.  I thought that I would share them here.  This way they are out there and we are more responsible to do them.  Up first the youngest of course.

Gabe's Goals
1.) Learn more Jazz moves. (He really loves his dance classes, Jazz is his favorite right now)
2.) More cooking time.  (He really loves to cook and wants to improve his skill alot.  It is really nice to see the pride in his face when he does a good job.)

Sam's Goals
1.) To learn to knit.
2.)  Learn more about architecture.  (He actually started working on this today.  He is rearranging his room, so he measured everything and made a lay out of how he wanted things set up.  I will try and share that later)
3.) Make more sculptures.  (This kid loves art and building things)
4.) More ballet moves.  (He is in love with all of his dance classes, but ballet is his number one right now.  That might be because he is the only boy in the class :0))

Dad's (Rob) Goals
1.) Get Healthy!  (Love this one, doing it together)
2.) Balance our budget better.
3.) Go back to school.  (I am very much supporting on this.  I think he will be amazing)
4.) Learn a new style of art.  (He is not sure what yet, but he will figure out something.  He just wants learn something new)

Mom's (Mine) Goals
1.) Get Healthy!  (See it is one my list too)
2.) Get Sabe Creations stocked and running consistently. 
3.) Stay ahead on Birthday/holiday crafts.  (I really love making alot of the gifts.  I just get behind and get really overwhelmed on everything.)
4.) More me time.  (O.k. every stay at home parent is probably putting this one on their list)
5.) Improve on my knitting ( I know very basic knitting skills, Sam wants to learn so I am going to help him and hopefully improve my own skills at the same time)
6.)  More photography time.  (I really wamt to work on my skills more)
7.) Blog more (See already working on that one :0))
8.) Read more.  ( I LOVE a good book)

As a family goal we want to learn the piano.  Living in a small apartment there really is no room for a piano.  A great alternative came our way during Christmas.  Rob recieved a new iPad as a christmas bonus (very cool).  Then the boys recieved a piano to go with it.  So we figured that this is a good starting point for us.  Then when we have a bigger place we will look into upgrading.

That is our family goals for this new and wonderful year.  I am so excited for it.  I hope you keep reading this year and see how we are making it through our goals.  What are your goals for the new year,  I would love to know. 

In closing tonight, since it has been so long since I posted I thought I would share a picture of two of my favorite guys. 

All the best wishes for a wonderful and amazing new year.  May all of your goals be met succesfully!

A New Start...

(Picture from my front door on New Year's Eve)



I hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday season.  Ours was really nice, but glad things are starting to slow down.  I am looking foward to the new year with some high hopes.  There is going to be lots of changes and fun things going on around here.  I hope to share as much as possible with all of you.  Over the next week or two I hope to revamp the blog some, so please patient with any mess you see during this time.  It is a lot to learn.  Alright I did want to just check in a let you know we are still here.  Gotta run now and get some more work done.

Just a quick update

I wanted to let you know that we are still here just really busy.  Here are a few things that we have been up to...

So that is just a bit of what we have been up to.  Promise I will start posting again over the next few days to explain all of our fun activities that we have been doing.  Until then have a great day!

Sooo.......

Did you miss us? I do see that some of you are still here after all this time, so thanks for that. I am sorry that I have been gone for so long. Life has been crazily busy around here but really good. I mean how could it not be good look at those little faces, I get to spend my whole day looking at that. I do have to say I am pretty lucky on that.
Since my last post I have become the dreaded tax season widow, yuck! That makes my days a little more full. It is probably the main reason that I have not gotten back here. Which stinks because I really do love this blog. I am going to put in more of an effort to get things done on here because I feel so much better after it is done. (Now that it is written maybe it will actually happen.)
We are still very busy with dance classes for the boys. Gabe is doing his Tap, Ballet, Hip Hop, and Acro. Sam is doing a Tap class too. He is in Hip Hop and Acro with Gabe. They are really excited because they have now started practicing their routines for the recital.
Another big change was that Gabe went and turned 7 on us. Where did the time go. My little baby is getting so big. Even though it is sad to see him turn older I have to admit I was glad that his birthday finally happened, he was a bit on the excited side this year. He started planning it back in October. LOL
Still very busy with the homeschooling. The kids are loving it so much. Sam is showing such a maturity in his work now. It is a lot less of a fight to get him to do his work. He is taking a lot more pride in it to. So that is really wonderful. Gabe is doing better, still some fight in him though. It works best for him if I can make lessons where he can move, that is rough though when he has to practice writing.
If I was not busy enough with all of that, I have decided to try and open my own crafting business. I know I am definetly losing it. I am taking my time on getting everything together for it. Hopefully soon I will be up and running with it. Since I am going to start the business I want to be able to put some stuff on my blog about it. I was thinking of adding tabs along the top to keep things seperated. Does anyone know how to do that? I would appreciate any help that you could give me. Thanks in advance.
So that is pretty much what we have been up to around here. What have you all been doing I would love to know.
Alright I am off to try and type up a few more entries to post over the next few days. Try and get ahead of the game. LOL Good night all.