in thirty eight days....

i'll be turning twenty six.

and i just do not know how i feel about that......

You are Not Forgotten

"Sisters, wherever you are, whatever the circumstances may be, you are not forgotten. No matter how dark your days may seem, no matter how insignificant you may feel, no matter how overshadowed you think you may be, your Heavenly Father has not forgotten you. In fact, He loves you, with an infinite love.
—President Dieter F. Uchtdor"


...i needed to know this today more then i could ever say....

around here (yesterday evening 6:30pm)

i was out shopping. the fall "crafting bug" has struck. and yarn is all the rage right now for fall wreaths.

do check back to see how it turns out won't you dearies?

a birthday with to many themes (that sounds so lame <--------)

*sighs* ...that week....the one i talked about in my last post....oooooooh was it a doozy! so much so, that my brain just couldn't focus on the right "theme" for angelus's birthday this year. so whats a girl to do but go to target and just get a little of everything into the pile. yep. that's right..i was going SO insane that very busy week that for his school classroom party (i do that to save money instead of spending tons at some lame kids party place) i did everything in star wars. for his cake at the "family" party, i went with TRON because lame O Walmart proclaimed they were out of star war  cake decor and transformer decor. again, i was SO over it at that point that i didn't.    even.     care!

but, needless to say the cake was ordered, the school party was a success (with no help from my work not willing to cut me a break) presents were bought and wrapped....and i even manged to take a shower ANNNND help him with all his scout projects. did i forget anything? hmmm...OH yeah....all of the decor for his family party was transformers....So lets see....Transformers, Star Wars, Tron....I think i just about covered it wouldn't ya say?


Enough with my whining. Next week we are off to the beach and I'll have plenty of time to forget about the world while there. *SQUEE!


To note 9 things about my not so little man is as following:

1) He recently learned how to snap his fingers. My little snapper snaps ALL.    THE.   TIME!

2) Legos...Legos.....Legos! Thats all he plays with. I mean really, how many Legos can a guy have? TOO MANY! His little life right now is all about earning money to buy more legos.

3) With reading we have entered into the stage of reading all things about The Diary of a Whimpy Kid series.

4) When he grows up, he proclaims that he will be an astronaut. And I am currently on the hunt for an astronaut costume for Halloween because I quote "that's all i want to be" is always stated very dramatically. Or any ideas on how to make one? Let me know.....

5) Plain Hamburgers with ketchup or plain hotdogs with ketchup or corndogs are his fave.

6) The kid lives for sweets and breads....if i would let him, he would eat my homemade chocolate cake, kit kats, or oreos or any type of roll or bagel for every meal.

7) He is still the most polite kid I know. I look at other little boys at school and i think to myself...I don't know how I did it but he is very respectful of others around him and his manners. *sidenote: a kid at school gave him a dollar for his birthday during his classroom party and he said "thank you but i cant take your money, you need it" and gave it back. WITHOUT my prompting to do so. I was so proud!

8) His favorite song right now is Tonight by Neyo and Pitbull.  He sings this with a little heart content in the back seat. It's too funny!

and finally 9) He still has this major crush on his older cousin Hailey who is 18teen. She was all he wanted at his birthday party! It's the cutest thing ever! When she called to wish him happy birthday and i handed him the phone, his whole face lit up and was smiling from ear to ear.

a nine yearold birthday

i am so behind! last week was one of the hardest weeks in my working career up to this date! and wouldnt you know it, anything and everything had to be jammed into that week(church YW activities, nephews major school project due, his scout projects due, house to clean, laundry, his birthday parties to plan, presents to buy, cakes to order etc etc) and yet work demanded a lot of hours. darn that hospital! hence me being wayyyyy behind. anywho....

my baby turned 9 on saturday. NINE! as in this will be his last year in single digits and then double digits from now on. NO. FREAKIN. WAY! it really was just the other day that a 16teen yearold tierra was holding and feeding and changing diapers to her brand spankin new nephew. sidenote: i gave him his very first bottle and changed his first diaper when he was only 4 hours old. and didnt have a clue to what i was doing LOL your probably askin why is that? where was his mother? and to that i say...i'm still asking where his mother is.....but thats another story for another day. -----------------------> moving on.

did you hear me say he's NINE!   NINE      NINE      NINE! ....my goodness time flys. and i don't like it one bit. that day on september 3rd 2002 it was pure love at first site. i will admit to feeling very left behind when my brother had announced that there would be a new baby in the family months prior and was just surrrre that i would lose the top spot in my brothers radar.

and you know what...i did.

and it was 1000% worth it the minute the nurse popped in the room to where my sisterinlaw had just given birth and wheeled a beautiful baby boy into the room who was very fussy and hungry. infact....my brother lost his spot on my radar as i picked him up and did what just felt natural. even though he wasn't fully mine and i wasn't the one who had given birth to him...he became a part of me that will forever be attached.

from that point on my world was completely  turned upside down and made magical and very busy thanks to that sweet baby boy. he has been my constant in a life full of ups and downs. he has shown me what it's really like to be a  mother and to really embrace and love the divine right that heavenly father has given to us women to hold and nurture and care for a child.

Happy Birthday my sweet Baby! more birthday madness to come....