Family Trip

Santa brought us a vacation for Christmas.  Thanks Santa because if I have to pick up one more toy.............

Any way, our trip was to San Diego.  It was a lot of fun, the kidos loved it!!

We did basic touristy things, zoo, animal park, sea world and lego land.

We also did something I have never done before and that was sea kayaking.  I loved it!!!!!  It was amazing!!!!  I want to move to the ocean so I can do it every day!!!!

We went on a little tour with a group in kayaks and paddled out to some cliffs and caves and learned a bunch of stuff.  I highly recommend doing it, it was fun, fun, fun.

The rest of the trip was the beach and tide pools, which my children can never get enough of.

Vacations are great but with the aftermath of Christmas and our vacation, my house looks as though a tornado hit it.  I wanted to reorganize it any way, so I guess this gives me a good excuse to start as fast as possible.  I will post some before and afters in the next couple of days.

Big or small?

I have what some people would call a big house.

It has many rooms and enough spaces to do everything, it is 4,200 sq. ft.  I am not telling you this because I want to brag.  I am telling you this because, well because it is truly overwhelming.

I love this house, we bought it 7 years ago.  When we bought it, we knew that there was work to be done, but that it was not a lot, mainly cosmetic stuff.

But as time went on, we realized there were a lot of things that we wanted to do to make it more *us*.

So for 7 years we have been slaves stewards to this house, changing it little by little.   

We usually do what we can when we can. We save and tackle and save and tackle.  We have made huge progress, but still have many, many things to do. 

I also get very overwhelmed by the amount of housework I have to do.  Somedays it is impossible.  I have to break it down by rooms, because if I try to do the same task in every room, say like vacuuming, then there will never be a room that is totally clean.  

*I do have three children, a husband, two dogs and two cats*.

So it is times like these that I dream of living in a small house, like this:

Ok, ok maybe not this small, well maybe........

So as I write more on this blog I will try to show before and after pictures.  We don't have a lot of before, I always forget to take them, but we do have afters and like I said we still have plenty of work to do.

Bad, bad, blogger!!!

I have been a really bad blogger.  

(Maybe someone should rub my nose in the keyboard.)

When I started this blog my goal was to write something every night, but as usual in my crazy world, that did not happen. 

And when I say crazy, I mean 

crazzzzzyyyy. 

Life sometimes just takes over and you have no control.  So I am hoping this year that I make it a priority and stick with it.  I really need a place to share my life and my creativity.  

So with that I hope to have a post tomorrow or later tonight ; )