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We had a lovely family day.

After receiving the BEST gift EVER (see my video in the post below!!!!), D & I went out to bagels for breakfast. We came home and relaxed a while.

Then we met the rest of the family (Grampie, Grammie, Elle, Drew, and even Jade's friend, Kyle - but not Sar because she had to work :( at the movie theater for IRON MAN 2.

Then we went to Islands for dinner. FUN - as always!

After that, to Cherry on Top for frozen yogurt (thankfully, they had caramel mocha with heath bar topping for Grammie - YAY!).

Grammie opening her Brighton nightlight.

Grammie in her favorite spot she created to eat her yogurt!

Grammie obsessed with Titanic :)

Then they all stopped by our house to see how the closet is coming along (I LOVE to show it off).

Then everyone quickly dispersed. Lando headed back to school, Jade took Sara out for a date, Elle headed home, G&G also went home (Grampie just got back from Thailand and is BEAT).

All in all an enjoyable and love and family filled day.

And now it's REAL people, because I blogged about it!... so you can relax, it actually happened!

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What a special gift I got this year!

In addition to a custom website from JADE, I also got personalized messages from each of the kids and D.

Then they put together this spectacular video.

(Yes, you BET I got teary!)

While I spent the day lounging at the pool with my friends (ahhhhh), they were secretly putting this little gem together.

Jade & Lando wrote the custom lyrics - FUNNY!!!!

Deevs & Lando sang - ahhhh!

Miss M made the video - awesome!

And, like I said, Jade stayed up late into the morning MAKING the site - so great!

MUTE the music at the side - and for a "full size" version (not cut off because of my blog lay-put), link here http://mom.maslyn.us/family/

It was so funny later to hear all the contortions they went to to make this in 24 short hours! Sara wanting to show me something on the computer but then realizing she couldn't because they were making this, so she comes out and says "I can't show you right now."

I say "OK, why?"

She says "Um... cuz I'm HUNGRY".

hahaha

Me, asking Lando where he is and him saying "Where AM I???"

"Yeah"

"The canyon"

"what canyon"

"Um.. modjeska canyon"

"you sound like you're in a house"

"I am in a house... in the canyon"

"oh, who are you with?"

"Diego"

"But whose HOUSE are you at?"

"Oh... um... taylor stanton"

"Oh. What are you going to do."

"A photo shoot."

"For the music you'll be playing?"

"No. Just for fun."

"Where?"

"At this pool out here."

"Canyon pool?"

"No. A different pool."

"OK... well have fun."

hahahahahaha

Miss M suddenly deciding not to stay later for painting & costumes at drama.

D and Deevs taking HOURS AND HOURS AND HOURS to get Deev's ears pierced and me asking "why is this taking so long? how hard can this be?" (They were supposed to be joining us at the pool, but never came.)

I am SO glad I was nice and understanding and patient instead of crabby and demanding like I can sometimes be :/

What a sweet and loving gift.

*sigh*

I'm rich.

From the song Poor Folks Town "we're rich in love and that's one thing that we've got plenty of"

Happy Mother's Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Deevs Does it

Awesome young man.

Good character.

Strong grades.

Wise choices.

Great attitude.

How could we say "no"?

More Home Updates

I took a gamble on Etsy and got a pair of vintage pinch pleat drapes originally from Sears & Roebucks. Do you remember these from your Grandma's house?

We went and bought the traverse rod and put the hooks into the pleats and hung them up.

I thought it would be complex and difficult, but it was actually VERY self-explanatory.

I am pretty happy with how they look.

I think they will look even better with the new paint color - when we finally choose it!

Here is a little vintage kitsch - the napkin holder.

AWESOME!

(You can also see some paint possibilities taped to the wall behind... not sure what we are doing... we shall see.)

The closet is continuing to shape up day by day.

We picked a light and D installed it.

SO EXCITED!

I told D "it is all turning out better than I could've imagined it!

I can't believe it is actually happening!

PS

Dining booth is ordered.

Won't be here for 5 weeks.

Now that I have decided, I am IMPATIENT!

Sooooooooooooo excited!

Closet Continuation

As D progresses on the closet renovation, I simply MUST gush a little!

His expertise and work ethic have made this probably the cheapest renovation on the face of the planet. It has taken VERY little in the way of supplies to create this room... it has take WAY more time and knowledge and sweat equity. He has saved us a fortune (like he does on SO many things like car maintenance and repair etc.).

It is moving along at QUITE a steady pace, especially considering he is also running his own business and going out on appliance repair calls!

New door cut into wall between our bedroom & new closet.

View of framed in new wall with drywall still to be hung.

View from other angel - looking in at what USED to be a huge, floor to ceiling window that has now been framed in and covered with drywall.

View from our room of what USED to be our closet - with all the shelving & hanging rod removed - into the new closet.

Rubiks Cube Bros

A few years ago, Deevs was on a Rubik's Cube kick. He got one for Christmas then went online and learned algorithms to solve it and was quite a pro at it. Then over time, his passion faded and he kind of forgot a little (not entirely).

He got a new one this past Christmas and his love resurfaced a little, but not much. Then something happened a couple weeks ago where he found his cube again and has been timing himself solving it. Then he found ANOTHER one and has been timing himself solving two!

Then Jade came over and - their brains work very similarly in many ways - Deevs was delighted to not only share the formulas, but also to let Jade borrow one!

Maybe now they can RACE? ;)

2 of our genius kids.

Deevs teaching Jade how to solve the Rubik's cube.

We Heart Popcorn

Have I mentioned that our family LOVES old fashioned (real) popcorn?

Dad loves movie popcorn DRENCHED in butter and the microwave "movie" popcorn best (poor guy, why do I always buy the low fat kind?).

Mom (I) am not a huge fan of either one.

The kids like movie popcorn. They will not go out of their way to make microwave popcorn - but will eat it if it is around.

But we all LOVE yummy, oil popped popcorn with salt.

I grew up with this and it is what my taste-buds CRAVE when I think of popcorn.

Storing this monstrosity of a popper is no easy task... but it is worth it! Yum!