Expo Tv

So I am finally going to start uploading to Expotv.com.  It is a great way to make some extra cash and I am looking forward to getting started as soon as I get the kids down for nap today.  For those that don't know what Expo Tv is, it is a site that does consumer video reviews.  Then the consumer that makes the review gets paid for doing it by expo - $5 to $20 (not bad!) and you also get paid a penny per view for it.  People can go there to get honest reviews on ANYTHING!  From vacation destinations, to food products, electronics, you name it, it has been reviewed!  Whats great is that they are HONEST reviews because it is someone that has used the product and will flat out say if they like it or not.  They are a minimum of one minute long and some go into great detail depending on what you are looking at.  But I think if you want an honest review on just about anything, it is a great place to go.  And if you want to make some extra cash, I will update as to how good it is since I am just getting started.  But I figure even if I only make the minimum of $5/video uploaded and I do 20/month that is an extra $100 cash in my pocket, and that is at a minimum, so not bad.  :-)  I will also update when I have uploaded some and you can go view them so I get my penny per view!  LOL  :-)

I will try to update here more often as well.  We have had a lot going on lately.  My pop-pop is very ill, so life has been more focused on that.  Anyway...there ya have it!

Happy reading and stay tuned!

So I have been MIA

So I have not been posting...here I was doing so well too.  Just haven't thought of much to write about.  Kids are good, life is going pretty well, all in all not much is new.  I rearranged my family room and love it because it makes me feel like I have a family room and play room which is a nice thing.  I was so sick of looking at toys everywhere, although I still kind of do.  I mean the kids keep bringing them over into the family room section to play, but at the end of the day, when they are in bed and I am being a grown up, it is nice to feel like I am in a grown up room and not a kids play room!  We just have so little space here it is driving me crazy.  

I look around and think I need to put this or that somewhere, problem being that there is no where left for said item to go, except for the bottomless pit - our work room/laundry room/storage room in the basement.  And I am sick of doing that.  I promised Jon I would stop on the moving talk,  but I really think I want to sell and possibly rent for awhile.  We won't have the equity to be able to put down a nice enough amount to get the size house we want, but I have found quite  few rentals that we could more than afford that are triple the size of our house now.  And man while the tax write off that comes with being a home owner is nice, I am really thinking renting is a nice alternative.  I mean there are negatives to it too, but there are in any situation.  I actually was looking and found the cutest place on 1.5 acres for $500 a month less than what we pay on our mortgage!  And it has 4 beds, 2.5 baths, a finished basement, a front porch...just so many things that I have been looking for in a house.  Oh and it has an option to buy...decisions decisions.  Well I will try to post more and remember to put up pictures, but I can't promise anything.  :-)

Happy reading!

Is Spring Here Yet?!

So we had that warm spell and that was nice and all, but I hate teases like that!  I got to go for a walk out on the trail and it was so great!  I love the spring - windows open, fresh air, beautiful days!  UGH why can't February just end already!!  It just drags and drags!!  Emma was telling me this morning in the car on the way to school that she had a campfire last night with marshmallows...poor kid is remembering something from months and months ago!!  I told her we would do it again soon and she asked if that meant tonight, I said no it will probably be too cold, and she said oh man I want it to be warm!!  Me too, Em, me too!  She also got a new sun dress at Gymboree, which she just wants to wear in the worst way, too bad she will be waiting quite a few months to put that on!

I think that for me February and March are the worst months....just dreary and LONG!  Especially March, although hopefully it will warm up early.  I do have to say that I am noticing the days getting longer, which starts to help me get out of my winter funk.  I just can't wait for park days, taking the kids out back mid day to rid them of energy, zoo trips, etc!  I just can't wait for Spring!!!

Kitchen Mini Remodel - Floor!

So Jon finally got finished putting the new floor in last week. But I am just getting around to putting pictures up now...sorry bout that! :-) Anyway it turned out great and I am so happy to not have to walk around cracked tiles anymore!! Or get them away from Owen, he thought they were the best toy ever!!

Wordless Wednesday

She cracks me up....again!

So we have a trip planned to WDW in a couple of months. Emma has about 1 inch to go before she is big enough to ride on the 40 incher rides - Splash Mountain being the main one she wants to go on. Well just now she comes up to me and says, please mommy can I ride splash mountain. I said well Emma you know you have to grow one more inch, so we shall see. She says, no mommy I am big....I have boobies!!!! WHAT?!!!! She has put something in her shirt and is telling me it is her boobies and she is big now. She then goes to get on the rocking horse that Owen got for Christmas and is talking to herself and says...Oh silly Emma you can't go on that, you are too big, you have boobies now! Where does she get this stuff???!!!

She now tells me she is little again and that her (stuffed) puppy dog, was just pretending to be her boobies...so you tell me active imagination, or should I be worried?!

Crazy crazy kid!!!!!

The Next American Idol....

So we watch American Idol as I am sure many out there do. But I guess it is kind of our guilty pleasure. I really got into last year because I thought David Cook was just awesome! I mean that guy was/is so creative!! Jon even got into it and is into this year too. It is fun to watch, especially during auditions. Well this year we watch and Emma is still up because we put her down after we are 100% sure that Owen is asleep since they share a room. So she has been watching what she calls the singing show. She is very into it, but she wants to do what they do. I tell her she has to wait for Mommy to pause it. So now she is constantly asking for me to pause it. When I do, this is what happens:

As you can see she stops everything, finds her mark - based on the foam floor mat - and tells us what song she is going to sing! The funniest part is she adds to it...as you can see! She jazzes Twinkle Twinkle and the ABCs. The dances and points!! It is so cute!! But I have to say, I think I have the next American Idol on my hands...do you hear that voice? Do you see those moves? LOL!! Her name is Emma Jordan and she is the Next American Idol! Well in what 13ish years!!

Happy Reading and viewing!!