beforethedawn

We had a nice storm yesterday afternoon. It rained pretty good and washed a lot of the yellow pollen away. Yippee! LOL. I’ve been wishing for that stuff to get washed away. It was all over everything and with it being hot and the windows open, the pollen would come in the house and settle on stuff. I have enough regular dust, didn’t like yellow dust added into the mix.

Not much going on here. I helped Justin clean his room yesterday. Then I vaccumed and shampooed his carpet. Been playing on Nutropets a lot. I have one more piece of the puzzle to get… so close!

We might be driving down to Clement Park for their July 4th festival and fireworks show tonight. Don’t know why they aren’t doing it tomorrow O_o. Then tomorrow we might go over to the lake, but they won’t be doing fireworks since we’re in the mountains ;). I bought a confetti cake mix and ice cream cones to bake cupcakes in. So I hope I can make them today. I’m worried about the ice cream cones falling over while they are in the oven. I need to go read about tips on making these cupcakes. Since the confetti is patriotic colors, I really want to get them made today.

Current Mood:

Going through my inbox, cuz it’s a mess. I saved these verses (from klove emails) to write down in my mini notebook.

Those who know your name trust in you, for you, O Lord, do not abandon those who search for you.
~ Psalm 9:10, NLT

We are made right with God by placing our faith in Jesus Christ. And this is true for everyone who believes, no matter who we are.
~ Romans 3:22, NLT

Every word of God proves true. He is a shield to all who come to him for protection.
~ Proverbs 30:5, NLT

Don’t worry about anything, instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.
~ Philippians 4:6, NLT

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I can never get enough of hugging my kids! <3

I have GOT to get our recent pictures saved, sized, etc. I keep procrastinating about it… I also want to change the graphics on my site again. There’s a new cute linkware set from Kathie that I might use.

EDIT: Finally got all of our latest pics done, even the ones we took today! I know, it’s a miracle LOL.

Current Mood: Hungry

Paypal restored my account, finally! Was starting to think I’d have to call them on Monday. I guess they actually read my email. I’m surprised.

Upstairs tenants had a party yesterday. So it was noise central for about 24 hours. Needless to say I was completely stressed by 10pm when they were still being noisy, like dropping things on the floor and stomping around like we didn’t exist down here.

We are on our way to the library to sign the kids up for the summer reading program.

Current Mood: Bye

Making muffins this morning, triple berry and blueberry. Using the “just add water” (or milk) packets cuz I don’t have muffin recipes yet. But the packet ones still taste good. Too bad they make only 6 muffins per though.

I need to get another crochet hook. I lost the one I originally bought. The one I got from M, when she was teaching me, is too big for the project I want to try next. I also need something to hold my cross stitch stuff. I was using the kids’ Christmas popcorn tins, but somebody squashed the one with my cross stitch supplies and the seam of the tin broke

Current Mood: Awake

Paypal is annoying me right now. I tried to order more tokens from nup and paypal won’t let me use my money.

Your account access has been limited for the following reason(s):
Jun. 19, 2008: Our system detected unusual activity on a credit card linked to your PayPal account.

So using it twice on Sunday was unusual activity??? I haven’t used it since. I have $7.11 left on my credit card and $17.89 on paypal that QR just payed me. I purposely cashed out that exact amount so it would combine with my cc to make the $25. I want to use up the remainder of the card, I put the money on there so I want to use it!!

Anyone know how long it takes for them to lift the limit? Do I have to wait until next month? It’s a prepaid card, I can’t rack up debt with it. And if other companies online can know the difference between a real credit card and a prepaid, why can’t paypal? I don’t have a bank account to get verified and I think it sucks that they try to force you to have one to use their service.

These money sites are ticking me off *rips out hair*

I tried signing up with revolutionary money exchange when they were doing the $25 bonus promo, but for some reason there was a problem with my SS# and it wouldn’t let me finish signing up. They sent me the $25 bonus, but when I went to sign in, it said my account wasn’t complete and to input my SS#… which didn’t work cuz then would say it was already attached to an existing account. UGGGGGGGGG! That site was of no help so I gave up.

Current Mood: Frustrated

Saturday we went to the Renaissance Festival. Justin played games, and hubby and kids went on some of the rides. Justin even rode a pony, a camel and fed the animals in the petting zoo. All of which he was afraid to do all the other times we’ve gone.

We ate all kinds of food. My favorite is Steak on a Stake, they weren’t that great this time around :(. However we didn’t find the place that sold them until a half hour before closing, so that may have attributed to the not so greatness. We still had lots of great food though. It’s definitely one time of the year I eat what I darn well please LOL.

Anabelle got a Unicorn towel and a princess hat. Justin got a hat too, but wanted to play games instead of buying something so that’s all he bought. I got some soap and more incense sticks. Gary and I both got something at the rainbow place, not sure what it’s really called, but we always get something from this lady who makes pottery stuff and paints them with purples, blues and greens. I’ll have to take some pics, Gary’s cup is funny. xD

I took a bunch of pics at the festival, but all I’ve managed to do was copy them to my computer. The camera uploaded some of the pics out of order, I hate when it does that! So I have to go through and label them as I delete them off the camera so I can get them all back in order. It’s a time consuming process, another thing I don’t like doing.

On the way home from the festival, going through Indian Hills, a deer ran out and we came so very close to hitting it. Totally freaked me out of course. Gary did really well with missing it, he kept swerving so if we were gonna hit it, it’d not be dead on (in the middle), didn’t want a deer coming up over the hood and into the windshield. And thank the Lord the car behind us was not following too closely or he would have rear ended us. The kids were asleep in their carseats and weren’t hurt from the slamming of the breaks. I was concerned about their necks because they sleep with their heads off to the side and whatnot, don’t know how they can sleep with their heads like that! It always looks so uncomfortable. So I’ve been thanking the Lord that we missed that deer! Plus we just got this car, didn’t want it totaled so soon.

Sunday, we missed church. We were all really tired and sore from walking around all day on Saturday. Gave Gary his cards and Father’s Day gifts. Later we went to walmart and got some much needed things, like food for the next couple weeks. Gary made BBQ pork and broccoli for dinner.

And now it’s Monday and the house is a mess from the weekend, same ole same ole! Looks like we’ll be having thunderstorms today and tomorrow. So if it gets bad, I will be turning the computer off.

We also had a huge pollen drop on Saturday. Everything is covered in yellow. I can’t wait for the wind and rain to clean it up a bit outside.

Time for lunch!

Current Mood: Hungry

Found some Mentos in one of my duck tins in the cupboard. I was surprised there were still some packs in there! The kids go through candy like you would not believe.

Finally got to visit everyone on my blogroll

The kids and I took Bailey for a walk today. Bailey was SO excited when I got out his gear  (we have to use a no pull harness on him) he’s so cute. We made all the other dogs bark, like they’ve never seen him running around before???  He broke his collar yesterday so hubby had to stop by Walmart and get a new one. This one doesn’t have plastic pieces that click together, it’s the belt type and so far so good! We need to get him a round collar though, cuz the flat ones mat his fur. I take off his collar when he comes in for the night to help his fur not mat.

Weather has been up and down lately. The last two nights I had to put on a sweatshirt cuz I was so cold.

Well, we are off to Walmart to do some Dad’s Day shopping!

TGIF!!!!

Current Mood: Bye