Cake Contest

Just wanted to let you all know I haven't forgot about the bakery name contest. Keep leaving your suggestions here or in the original posts comments. I'll be setting up a poll of my favorites soon.

How do you like my boobs?

This was a quick cake order. They called yesterday around noon. They needed it for today. I had to work from 2-10:30 last night. So that meant decorating LATE last night. Luckily since Jacob is so awesome at helping with fondant he finished it up for me at 3:00am when he got home. I think he just wanted to play with them. :)

Driveway

We had a busy day today. Was only suppose to be gone about an hour and ended up with a day that went like this...

First thing I stopped by work and picked up my paycheck. :) Then we took Connor to school. After that we went and got insurance on the new car.. oh crap I forgot to take pictures.. I'll do that tomorrow. Anyway I was happy that our insurance didn't go up. I was worried because of the train wreck. We to go get license. Found out that SOMEONE never paid out taxes.. ooops! So that meant a trip to Hartville. We ran by the house to pick up something and saw that the workers putting in the driveway were there. All I had to take a picture with was my cell phone so it didn't turn out the best. Jacob chatted with them for a little bit and then we left and headed to Hartville. Paid the taxes. Went to go to the license office over there. Waited in line OVER AN HOUR!! I'm not kidding! Got up there and was told that we had to have it inspected.. URG! So left there. Saw that Millers BBQ was in town. We just had to stop by because... Well, who can pass up Millers?? Back to Norwood we drive to go see James to get our car inspected. He's not in and won't be in until the morning. By this time I have a big headache. Go by another mechanic so that Jacob could ask him a question about something but he's not there either. Finally came home. I took some Excedrin and laid down. Took about an hour nap. Mom called and asked us to dinner. After dinner we went to rent a movie that Jacob and Connor wanted to see. They were out of the movie but because they have a guarantee they gave us a ticket to rent it for free when they get a copy back in. That was pretty cool.

What a day. I'm pooped. Seems like I haven't gotten a thing done in the last three days I've had off. Next week I only work three days!!

That's all for today. I'll get some pictures of the new car hopefully tomorrow.

Snap Happy

We came home to this in our driveway. This big fella was hanging out in the muddy ruts of the driveway. And as big snappers usually are... it wasn't too friendly. It jumped about a foot when Jacob tried to move it along with a stick. I knew it would snap but never expected it to jump that far.

My brother-in-law Francis I think is about to start a zoo for little creatures at his house. Maybe We should take it to him. :)

A Day Off

The deck is almost done. The only thing left to do is the steps. The steps there are the ones Jacob made when we first moved in just so we'd have something to get inside the house. They are just temporary. It sure turned out nice. I'm VERY happy. Jacob and his parents did such a great job on it. It ended up being a great size for us. My patio table is still over at my In-laws house. My mother-in-law brought me some pretty hanging baskets!! You can see one of them and part of another in the top picture. :)

After 5 LONG days I have a day off!! YIPPY! Now 40 hours may not be that bad people but
I'm not use to working that many hours. I have 3 days off!! Tomorrow we get to go pick up the car we bought almost a month ago. When we first bought it we had every intention of fixing it up and reselling it but I'm DONE car shopping! As long as it runs good I'm keeping it. If Jacob wants another car... more power to him but I'm not shopping anymore. Hopefully it will run good or I might just have a nervous breakdown.

Oh Deck!

The deck has a floor. Jacob worked on it Friday and then his parents came over on Saturday and they made great progress. I've not been here for much of it since I've been working so much. They are going to work on it more today. It's going to be finished in no time!

The building of a deck.

I've not posted in a few days. You know the whole line of "if you can't say anything nice..." Well, thats been me this week. Poor Jacob would be a rich man if he'd had a dollar every time he's said "oh honey please don't cry. It's alright".

On a positive note my deck is being built! YIPPY! The first picture is of the lumber. Sure doesn't look like much for over $600!

The second one is of the whole crew here helping to work on it last night. This picture was taken just a couple hours before mom was rushed by ambulance to the hospital . They wanted to fly her but she was having NO part of that. Sure am glad you're feeling better Mom. I love ya and am not ready to lose you anytime soon.

Today Jacob worked outside on the deck and got a sunburn. I think he was trying to even out his sexy farmers tan. :) I had to work tonight. :( One down 4 more days until I have a day off! Hey, at least this week I'll get the same days off as Jacob.

Happy Birthday Emmalee!

Happy Birthday to my niece Emmalee! She turns 7 today! We love you Emmalee. Sorry we weren't able to make your party. I really wanted to come. We'll see you soon!

The picture is of Emma and Connor rolling on the floor last Christmas. They both took a moment to smile and let me take a picture which I thought was very cute!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GLENDELA!!!

Today is my sister-in-law Glendela's birthday. She may be my sister-in-law but to me she's been my sister my entire life. I don't remember life before she was a part of it. I hope you had a great day Della. We love you BUNCHES!!!

Frustrated!

STILL have yet to find a car... and STILL no title from the dealer so that we can drive the stupid car we already bought. It makes it so frustrating. I'm working 30 hours this week and almost 40 hours next week. We have to have a car to get Connor to school. Today I had to take off at noon to go get Jacob and Connor then I had to take off 15 minutes early so that I Jacob could pick me up so I didn't have to walk home in the thunderstorm. This is only my second week! My boss seems nice enough but I wonder how much longer they will put up with it. So far I like my job. I really do not want to lose my job because I don't have a car.

So on top of this because I've been working so much I forgot to send Connor a show and tell item today to school. Which made him VERY upset. I've missed the deadline to sign him up for t-ball. Not that I'd have a car to take him anyway. I can't seem to find the time to call the school to get an apt for kindergarten screening... which may I add is a bunch of CRAP!! I mean they say you HAVE to take them or they can't go to kindergarten. Sorry people but my son is old enough to go and there isn't a dang thing you can do if I don't go to your stupid screening. My kid has known all of the stupid required stuff since he was 2. As much as I LOVE my house I'm seriously starting to doubt why I wanted Connor to go to this school. After seeing the differences in preschools there is NO WAY I'd have sent him to Norwoods. No thanks I'm not looking for just a babysitter. I can just already tell that I'm going to have problems with this school.

I'm just as the title says "frustrated". It's my blog. If I want to be in a bad mood I'm welcome to do that. It's not been a good Friday the 13th.

How do people be a good Employee, wife and mom all at the same time? I can't seem to be either.

A Cake For Jake!

Poor Jacob doesn't get to eat very many of my cakes and he loves cake!

So tonight I made him his own cake. Well, him and Connor.


Don't forget to keep adding your name suggestions below!!

Name???

I need a name for my cake business. Orders have started to pick up and my web page is almost done. I need a name.

Anything you can think of.. Put your idea's in the comments section. In a few days I'll pick my favorites and make a poll.

Oh and to make things fun.. I'll make a free cake for whoever comes up with the winning name. :)

Car Shopping

We're still car shopping. Yes I posted that we bought one a few days ago and we did. Unfortunately we are still waiting on the idiotic dealer to bring the title. Which makes me a little more than slightly frustrated. The plan was to buy 2 cars anyway now that I'm working.

So today went like this.. We found this car.. it's BEAUTIFUL!! First it's PURPLE!!! Which as most of you know scores BIG points with me, I only wish they made more pink cars.. Anyway it's also a convertible!!! It's also priced well within our price range. So I'm thinking purple Firebird, convertible and priced great, how much better does it get. Well, then we decide to test drive it... Yep you guess it.. smells like a lemon to me! The car died twice before we got it out of the parking lot! The back seat belt was broke, the window and door locks didn't work... oh wait I take that back when they were messing with it after we got back from driving it the door locks worked.. worked so good they locked the keys in the car!

Second car. It's a 1997 Chevy Malibu. Cute 4 door car. No damage of any kind. Not many miles.. Priced even cheaper than the last car. Only problem I see up front with this car is that it's white. Now don't get me wrong I love white cars but Jacob has this thing with them. Him and my brother Scott have what we call "White Car Syndrome" They can't drive one without it breaking down. So we test drive it. It runs pretty good. For some reason when you let off the gas the RPM's do something weird. Jacob looked it up and doesn't think that it's a major problem. He's going to ask our mechanic about it. I still think it's probably a really good car. I'm just a little worried.

None of the other lots had anything. Well I'm sure Wehr had some but I REFUSE to buy a car from them. I'd tell you all why but it might end up being a pretty good case of slander. That and to list all of the reasons I'd still be typing this time tomorrow.

Looked at a couple cars for sell in Wal*Mart parking lot. Called about 2 but no one answered.

In better news I went to a yard sale today, Yes on Monday, and I got several Wilton candy and sucker molds for FREE!! How cool is that?? Some really cool ones too like Batman and Ninja Turtles!

Picture as promised

Here is a couple pictures of Connor in his castle his daddy built for him. He says the back room is a jail.

We bought a car

We bought a car. It's not anything real great. Maybe I'm just disappointed because I liked my old one so much. It's a gold 95 Ford Thunderbird. For the most part it's in really good shape. We didn't give much for it at all so that's good. It was a long day yesterday. I was so tired from working, not getting any sleep. Ended up with a bad headache that afternoon.

Other than the car we didn't buy much. I bought a few small things. Some hair clips, couple things for crafts, Jacob bought a toy for Connor that he played with all the way home. He bought extra batteries in case he ran them down before he got home to give it to him, rolling eyes.

Connor's class went on a field trip yesterday. They went to the nursing home to hunt easter eggs. Each child got a prize from the Easter Bunny. Connor got a puzzle. His class is always doing such neat things. On Wednesday they took a "spring walk" they looked for all kinds of signs of spring. It was a little chilly but they all bundled up and had a great time. Connor said they found nests, birds, butterflies, flowers, trees turning green... it was fun he said. Right now his preschool graduation in on May 18th at 2:00pm. I'll let you all know if anything changes.

Check back later. I'm going to post a picture of the big castle playhouse Connor and Jacob built out of the boxes my washer and dryer came in.

A Fire.. no never mind...

We are home and just getting ready to head to bed when the pager goes off. We have about 6 hours until we have to be up in the morning. I told Jacob I'll go listen to see what it is... DANG IT.. a structure fire. So grab our shoes and head out. We get to the fire house I grab my gear and Jacob gets suited up. We get in separate fire trucks and we're headed out. The call is to the local grocery store. Ya know the only one in town because it's so small. It's called in by several different callers as a big fire. We pull up and yes there is smoke and lots of it but no flames that we can see yet. We look in the window and suddenly someone comes out the door!! We're like ok.. so is your building NOT on fire??? Guess not. Turns out they have a large wood stove and it was blowing smoke over the roof. Did I mention LOTS of smoke.

Anyway we all get back to the fire house where I meet back up with Jacob. Stand around and chat for a few minutes and head home. Lost my hair scrunchies at some point during the process. Oh well.

So between working the last two days, a dud fire call and staying up WAY too late I'm going to be beat tomorrow.

Goodnight

I'm tired!!

Oh I'm tired. I told Jacob I'm just not sure if I'm cut out to be part of the working class! :) I worked from 8:00am-3:30pm. Might not be a long day for some but this girl was beat! I get to work tomorrow also. It sure is going to take some getting use to going back to work for minimum wage. Oh course the ONLY thing I miss about my old job is the $15/hour. I seem to like the people that I work with well. That alone can make the difference in how well a person likes their job.

Leftover pizza is the plan for dinner and they have to heat it up themselves. While they're in there they should heat me up some too. My feet hurt and I smell like cheeseburgers which is better than my last job that I came home smelling like cow poop.

After work we went to go pick up Connor from my mom's house. Came home and I see the swimming pool blowing across the yard. We had just told Connor not to be a baby the wind wasn't THAT bad. He saw it and said "See I told you the wind was that bad". Luckily the fence caught the pool and Jacob drug it back to the house.

I'm off to crash on the couch!

New Job!!

Today I got hired for the new job I applied for last week!! YIPPY SKIPPY!!

I'm pretty happy. I'll start out only working weekends which is great because Jacob always works weekends. I'm happy to be able to work part time. It gives me plenty of extra spending money without the stress and hours of full time.

I start tomorrow!