might as well ask what makes a star?

This verse from the song "Your Mother and Mine (Peter Pan)" pretty much says it when it comes to my mom.....
What makes a mother all that they are?
Might as well ask, "What makes a star?"
Ask your heart to tell you her worth
Your heart will say, "Heaven on earth."
Another word for divine,
Your mother and mine.

[me and my mom 1980ish]

Mom....you really are the best!

Will and I both love you a whole bunch!

Happy Mother's Day!

spidey art

my aunt commisioned me to do spider art for her to give as a mother's day gift.  this is what i came up with.  she's pretty sure it will be a big hit.

i'm ba-aaack

this is probably going to end up being like 10 posts in 1 because we just got the internet hooked back up and i have a moment to sit and type. 
a lot has happened this last week.  we finally moved into our new house which has been a dream come true.  i had the week off work to get us unpacked and settled.  it was so wonderful to have a break from work and spend the days settling into our home.   
my birthday was wonderful thanks to my husband and my mom.....plus all the other awesome family and friends who went out of their way to make my day special.  i felt like queen for the day or actually for a few days because i milk the "it's my birthday" thing as long as i possibly can.  when i find my camera i'll post pictures from my birthday.  i took a bunch while we were on the fun run.

the highlights from our week:

when we pulled into the u-haul lot to pick a truck up i said to Will, "i really hope we don't get that disgusting spider one."  we go in and fill out the paperwork and the guy hands us keys to....you guessed it....the scary looking spider truck.  we laughed about for most of the day.  i mean we had to laugh about something because moving certainly isn't something to laugh about.  moving is one of our least favorite things.

as we were bringing things in from our garage one day Will noticed something tiny run into the garage.

we didn't want to hurt the adorable little fella so we tried our hardest to make it run out.  actually it hopped which made it even cuter.  we tried catching him to release the little guy into the vacant field next door but that was silly. we looked like a couple of clowns chasing the rascal around the garage.  finally he made his way out to the field.  i'm sure we terrified him.  seeing the adorable little critter made our day.

after her day at the groomer Mascara came over to the spend the afternoon with me.  she wasn't happy about being groomed and she wasn't happy about being in a strange new place for a few hours either.  she just wanted to get back to her house in the mountains with the rest of the babes and i heard about it.  she whined for most of the time she was here, especially when Will came home.  she loves him so much and she was thrilled to tell him her story.  the only time she was content while at my house was when i was right next to her relaxing.  when my mom came to pick her up i told her it was like watching an crying baby for several hours.  i was thrilled to have some time with her though because ever since we moved we have really missed the dogs. 

in closing i'll leave a few pictures of the decorating we have done so far.  i'll post real pictures of the house once everything is in it's place and my camera decides to appear.  

 

[one of my many owls]

[decals we put up in the art room/guest room]

[a wall in the living room full of art i made]

goodbye twenties

tomorrow i will be kissing my twenties goodbye.

my twenties have been a mix of

wonderful moments that i wish could last forever

and

moments that i'd rather fast forward. 

but so it is with life....

you take the good

and the bad

because you really don't have a choice.

the number one question i've been asked lately is...

are you nervous/sad about turning 30?

my answer has been.....

no, i'm excited.

anyone that knows me knows i worry and stress about everything

so i guess it's natural to assume that i wouldn't be accepting this

milestone birthday with grace.

i've only had one moment of panic about turning 30

in the past few days,

despite all the teasing and horror stories of creeping into a new decade.  

i think the biggest reason i'm so calm is because

my twenties ended with a bang! 

29 brought me the happiest event of my life so far,

marrying the man of my dreams. 

the twenties started out with intense sorrow and a  huge life lesson.

the subject of that lesson....death.

a subject i never thought i'd deal with but when my dad left this earthly life

i did.

there were years

between that event 

and today.

some a blur.

some incredibly memorable and perfect. 

but all in all these twenties of mine

have just improved as the time has flown by.

i can only imagine it will get better from here. 

bring it on 30, i'm ready for you!

this way...

[notice the cute quail sitting on the sign]

.........to a magical place that we signed papers on yesterday!
it is a done deal very soon and we couldn't be happier!

{taken in the magical place}

p.s. thank you for your input on our weekend plans. 

it looks like we are going to try to juggle our time and do a little of both.....

moving and fun running!

 

decisions decisions

isn't it crazy how several weekends can pass without any big plans then one weekend comes up that has so many things going on you can't decide which to do?

we are in the process of deciding how to spend our saturday so maybe you can vote to help us make a decision since we tend to have trouble with such things. 

saturday marks my 30th year in the world.   originally we had grand plans but those all changed when we found out that we could be moving into our new house saturday.  we stopped the plan making and i came to the conclusion that moving into our dream home, which we've been trying to get since november, would be the best birthday plans i could ever have.

will keeps saying that he feels bad about us celebrating my 30th by moving and insists we should do something more elaborate.  

may 1st also happens to be the yearly fun run.

last year during fun run weekend we took out will's old car and cruised from seligman to oatman with all the other car enthusiasts.

it was the first time i had been part of such a thing and it turned out to be such an amazing adventure for us.  

we have been talking about going on the fun run together again since it ended last may.

  

so.....what should we do?

*option 1- be responsible and move into our house.

*option 2-go on the fun run because moving can take place any day.

*option 3-neither of the above. go for something a little more elaborate to celebrate the big 3-0!

like(enter your suggestion)

at lunch today will opened his fortune cookie and read it to me like this:

"you thrive on adventure, try something new, and talk your wife into going on the fun run this saturday"

i sat there for a second in shock thinking how did that fortune cookie know we were trying to decide whether to go on the fun run this weekend......after the second passed i burst out into laughter and pretty much haven't stopped.

  

the money bird

i have this new thing i like to do when we are in a drive thru.  it goes a little something like this...

i like to call it the money bird.  basically when it's time to pay i flap the money around like it's a bird flapping it's wings.  at times the bird flies right in to my loves hand but sometime it flies all over the vehicle and he's chasing it.  this proves to be quite amusing to me and quite frustrating to the husband.  he still puts up with it every single time and sometimes he laughs with me.