The Hunger Games

I just finished this book a couple days ago, in just one day. WOW! I read about it from StephenieMeyer.com and knew I had to give it a try. Boy was she right, I just could not put it down! Amazing story and writing. Suzanne Collins wrote a best seller there. If you love to read I suggest you going out and getting this one. I was sad it ended, but am so happy it was only book 1 of a series.....now only 11 more months until book two comes out.... Sept 9, 2009.

I am now reading Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr. I'll let you know what I think. I am totally loving YA books right now lol :)

Nikki

PS. Thank you to all the lovely wonderful ladies who commented on my last blog post, it meant alot to me and I am so glad I am not going through this alone. Thanks girls! :)

Depressed

I hate feeling so blue :( but lately it's starting to really get to me. I know a lot of people are going through stuff right now with the economy being so stinky right now. I am depressed right now. Mostly because of the fact that I still do not have a working car for me. It's been since the first week of June that the transmission went out on the explorer. We have fixed it so many times since we have gotten it and with money and Dustin only have the one job now money is just to tight to spend $3000 to fix it. I was fine with it at first, I got to use my MIL's car (she has a couple, so it was not putting her without a car) this past summer for Aidan's preschool which is a bit far if you have three kids to walk to. I was so grateful for that. But just as soon as school started for everyone I was without a car again. I now walk if we need to get somewhere during the day that is close by. But being stranded in this home for the last 4 1/2 months has really gotten to me now. I was doing good losing weight but as the weeks go by I get more blue and I now have gained 5 pounds. I miss doing the normal things, like shopping at the store, running errands just being able to be apart of the outside world that is more then a few blocks away. I miss having some kind of independence, I now have to rely on my husband for everything again, Doctors appointments, shopping, I have to wait around for him to get home if there is something I want to do, then I feel guilty for everyone ( hubby and the kids) because we have to drag everyone out if I want to go to the library or anything that has to do with me. Another thing is I have tried to get a job, putting in apps in a few places but a lot of people are being laid off right now, so that is hard. I just want things to get better :( I am so tired of feeling this way! I hate being depressed, it makes me moody and causes problems with everyone.

Anyways sorry for the downer post, I am just blue today and this has been on my mind. I am going to go finish the rest of my book before Dustin and Austin leave. They have a date with my MIL and her family at the movies to see the new James Bond movie (my MIL's treat) This gives me time to spend with Aidan and Bella tonight. I am thinking some reading, coloring and a movie, they will like that and maybe I will be able to relax some :)

I have some pictures I will post tomorrow to make up for the downer post :)

Nikki

Bad Blogger, Pumpkin patch

I have been such a bad blogger. Sorry :) I have a ton of pictures to share of stuff that has happened in the last couple weeks, which I will post in the next few blog posts, in the next couple weeks. I did upload our Pumpkin patch pictures. We went to the same place we went last year. The kiddos were really good about mommy taking pictures this time :) Even Bella did good. We went kinda late so some of the pictures have a bit of an orange glow thanks to the HUGE lights they had in the patch. Okay so these places so do not get their money from their pumpkin sales. Can you believe it would have cost us $40 to let the boys play on the jump houses for 15 minutes, HELLO....no thanks. Then they were charging $10 for a pumpkin the size of my hand. No thanks there too. So we got so great pictures and that's it out of this pumpkin patch trip. Hope you like them :)

Nikki

Cx Sept assignments :)

I just got the okay that I could post these assignments so I uploaded to my CX gallery and now to my blog. I was so thrilled to get these assignments. First I got to use the amazing new "Ambrosia" line from Basic Grey ( One of my favorite companies, along side my addiction to October Afternoon and Chatterbox lol). The colors in this new line are amazing, they just pop out at you and they really can be used for just about any theme. I also got to use the BRAND NEW Blackletter cartridge by Cricut (Provo Craft). It's one of their new solutions carts and at first I was a little nervous about this cart. I kept thinking, WHAT on earth am I going to use an old English type of font on, but let me tell you, this has got to be one of my FAVORITE font carts right now. I am now addicted to it and will totally need to add one of those bad boys to my personal cricut cart collection. I was sad to have to send the borrowed cart back to CX lol. It has that great font PLUS a bunch of amazing images on it. I also got the chance to use my Design Studio software on my layout. After getting the hang of it, I had so much fun working with it and made the scalloped flower bordered background on my layout with it and the Accent Essentials and George and basic shapes carts. I can see me using the DS so much in the near future. Anyways enough about my small additcions (LOL) to all things cricut and basic Grey and on to the pictures....right :)

well I have another post to make about today (Halloween) which I will make as soon as I finish uploading the pictures I took today and tonight :)

Nikki

I'm a Bella :)

Try the quiz it's FUN :)

You are observant, diplomatic and often aim to please. You are unaware of your attractiveness and despite being uncomfortable with any form of attention, people enjoy your company. You can be impatient, stubborn and headstrong, but you are true to your word and mature for your age, often taking care of your family and enjoying a good book over chatting with girlfriends on the phone.

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LOL okay I took the male one too :)

I am Edward (I thought this was strange, I thought I would be Emette)

You are talented, knowledgeable and people are drawn to you. You like a good challenge and enjoy the company of a select few, but this is because you are picky and can be set in your ways. Sometimes you over react when things don’t go well, but your intentions aregood and you’re priority is protecting the ones that you love.

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How funny, I think both discriptions sound like me.

Also, I found this amazing short Story Stephenie Meyer did for her LSD church at Christmas 2006, check it out HERE.

Nikki

Army Wives

Oh my gosh, This show is one of my favorites! About a month and a half ago I was sitting in our bedroom, working my way through a HUGE pile of laundry, folding, hanging and I was channel surfing. I landed on Lifetime movie network. There was a marathon on of this show and after watching the first one, I was hooked! I love this group of gals (and guy lol), Roxy is a hoot, and Trevor is so sweet, they are my favorite couple on the show. If you have a bit of free time Go rent the first season, sadly the second season comes to an end this Sunday, I can't wait to see how the season ends but am sad it's almost over. Okay quick go watch it ;)

Nikki

Goosebumps

These are all Austin's books...

And the stack is growing, every time he does good in school and he will be getting more for Christmas :)When I was a pre-teen one of my most favorite authors was R.L. Stine (I loved reading spooky things, I was reading some Stephen King at 11 lol, I even wrote a hardcover book in 8th grade about a murder mystery (think Friday the 13th, watered down lol, yep it was a campy horror thriller, who done it). I also remember a story I started in high school, about a young girl (teens) having to say goodbye to her childhood home in a big city and best friend, only to move into a new small town, where horrible things were happening to the teenagers there, it was a who done it. I loved spooky, Scary stories (I also liked adventures) When I did good in school, my dad would take me to an awesome hole in the wall book store in the old town and country mall (now known as Santana row) (I tried to google for the name of the book store but nothing came up, maybe my dad remembers), it was an awesome store though, stocked full of R.L. Stine and Christopher Pike books. I always loved CAMP book too lol,I know I blogged about that here a couple years ago) camp boos were fun and reminded me of summer camp at the YMCA when I was younger.

Anyways, the point of my post was, :) Austin, is now a HUGE R.L. Stine fan, He is addicted to the Goosebumps series. This series is nothing like the spooky Fear Street series I read from him when I was younger (Fear Street was more teenage themed, Goosebumps is more grade school kids). Goosebumps is fun for both Austin and I. We always have reading time together but we both really enjoy these stories. I read them to him and he reads them to me. They are good stories for his age range. He likes spooky, he loves that show "Truth or scare" on the Discovery kids channel. He also LOVES the goosebumps movies (we own a couple, yep we have seen the haunted mask a million and one times lol). I am so excited he found a series he likes to read, he's just like his mama :)

Library Trip

It is always an adventure when we take all three kiddos out with us, but it is ALWAYS tough when it's the library lol. We do tend to get a few stares lol towards the end of the visit when the kids start getting restless. I always go prepared ahead of time, I get all the log info and book call numbers online before we go so it can be and in and out visit, but it's one of my favorite places ever (you know how much I LOVE books lol), I could spend hours there, well I tend to get distracted by all the lovely books lol. This time I went with the intention of getting three books, well I left with this...

LOL, I could not help myself, there were so many to chose from and so many I let behind for another day :) Notice the subject of the books :) It's always been a dream of mine, ever since I was younger. I used to write short stories all the time :)

Nikki

Bella's Halloween costume...

Yesterday we went out to get Bella's costume, we made it a family affair lol. We headed over to BabiesRus because about a month or so ago I saw a super cute witch costume that I wanted for her. Well when we got there we only saw two left and they were 2t and 4t, which is WAY to big for her, she is almost 17 months and can still fit into some 3-6 months lol. So Dustin said we should look at the Halloween Spirit store.

The boys loved this store right away! Austin and Aidan would not stop playing with the dry ice bubble maker, it was so cool, they looked like real bubbles only when they popped they made smoke, very cool! The store was really picked through, I went straight over to the baby/toddler section and there was maybe four costumes left but only ONE 12 month (pretty much here size, nwhen we took it out). It was a very cute flower fairy costume. I think it was perfect and she can even play in it long after Haloween if she wants :) It was missing the headband that comes with it so we got a wand that matches the costume pretty much free. When I get some pictures of her in it, I will post them :)

The boys were pretty good in the store, once Aidan knocked over one of the HUGE inflatable scary creatures they had near the bubble machine, thankfully it was easy to put back up lol and not breakable. Here are a few pictures of her costume...

Nikki

Soccer games

WOW Today's games were fabulous! Both boys did so good! Aidan's team won today and he scored two points for his team. He really is getting so good at Soccer. Because the boys games were 30 minutes apart we got to Austin's game at the end, but I was able to shoot a couple pictures, Austin amazed me today too, he is getting so good himself, not so afraid to go after the ball now. Here are a couple pictures from today's games...

Aidan played against the Green Dragons and Austin played against the Orange Dragons lol (Aidan's team is the blue sharks and Austin's is the Blue Dragons.)