Goodbye my marvelous Midge

first off--we bought Midge for $9,000 back around the

end of May 2006, right before we moved to Texas. We bought her with less than 30,000 miles on her still under the original warranty and even though she had no 'extra's' I had always wanted a YELLOW Saturn VUE so I thought she rocked!!!! Granted, she wasn't given her name Midge till a few years later when BOB (and of course our dog Red) came into the picture--I have never been a fan of 'that 70's show' but my husband use to watch it and there just seemed so many similarities that we figured, why not.

2003 YELLOW Saturn VUE--why oh why did you have to have such a lousy transmission, had it not been for those Stinking VTI transmission we would have kept you for many more years, but alas, after we had the 5th one put in you we knew we had to part ways.

you were so stylish and thanks to your 4 cylinder engine instead of a V6 you got awesome gas mileage

I took the pic of the back seat because years ago Dominic left a sippy cup full of milk on it's side, we didn't notice and because of the heat the milk leaked out of the 'non-leak' sippy cup and was soaked into our back seat, middle of summer and we couldn't go anywhere without the windows down for weeks because of the retched smell of sour milk--I tried everything, we carpet cleaned, we covered the seat in baking soda till it looked like Utah in December--nothing worked to get rid of the smell and we we never made that mistake again--you can still see the stain even after all these years

the seat covers came with the car--I don't know if we were ever able to figure out how to take them off and wash them--I don't think we have ever seen the seats beneath them...

all these pictures were taken at the car dealership after we traded her in, so sorry about the quality, I forgot to take them before hand.

I could go on and on about how that engine guard protected us when John 'ran us into a cement wall' but since he denies it ever happened I guess I won't mention it.....

here is the side step that survived!!!! (read on and you will see why that is important)

see, no 'extras'--not even a CD player, yes it was rough, but somehow we made it (note, both the vehicles we traded in were chuck full of extras, we of course only owned them a couple of years)

I took this pic to point out the missing side step--yep, I took it off when I hit a curb--a rather high curb, while taking our babysitter home one day, the next time I took her home I was rear ended, she never let me drive her home after that. Another funny story about the missing side step is that I took it to the shop before it was removed to ask them how much buying a single side step would cost (turns out they only sell them in pairs--who knew) but shortly after pointing to the tech the damage I did I then asked about the luggage rack ontop, the tech was short and so he stepped up on the broken side step to see the top of our car, when it shifted under his weight he was so scared he jumped off it we all almost died of laughter (probably a 'had to be there moment' but trust me, it was hilarious--the other techs gave him such a hard time about stepping up on the obviously broken sidestep)

yes, I know I shouldn't be taking pics of my liscense plate, but since we already gave her to the dealership I felt like it didn't really matter at that point. notice the broken reflector? I did that backing up into a pole at my insurance agents office--when I hit the pull instantly I realized my son wasn't in his car seat and freaked out thinking I hit him---yeah, he was safely at the babysitters, I on the other hand was lucky no one saw me do it. needless to say this bumper was hit by a a lot of things--but look, the only think that actually broke was the reflector--boy how I love Saturns

well, now not only have I officially said goodbye to the vehicle who helped us move not just once but 3 times (outlasted 4 houses) but also showed everyone why I had no problems giving up driving (I only listed a few 'incidences' that occured in Midge--and that was before the movement disorder)--so goodbye midge, you will be missed!!!!

Adam and Eves 2nd batch of babies @ 10 days old

it is always a special treat when we get to meet the baby bunnies--this was special special cause we discovered 7 healthy babies all 10 days old with their eyes open!!!! Can we say SUCCESS!!!!!

I love finally being able to play with them for a few minutes each, we definitely made sure to take the Camera out so we could get plenty of pictures to share with you....

one of the 2 Jellybeans
this one definitely takes after the parents
look at them all running to cover up....we took the house out so we could better look at them all....
they didn't like that very much--but luckily there was plenty of hay to cuddle in

here is one of the 'twins'--or so I call them

Gardening time

I have been waiting all year for it to warm up and now that the boys have spring break off together we decided instead of leaving town for a trip we would have a staycation which would give us a chance to get needed stuff done around the house as well as let us explore the amazing town we live in.

today we were able to finish building our raised garden, the dirt was delivered Friday. $100 for 8 yrds (which included the cost of delivery) was not bad at all, and I was certain that I we would have to get more but after mixing it with the bunny poop compost (which we have plenty of) we were able to fill 2 of the 3 beds (we were lacking wood for the 3rd) and still have so much left (dirt and compost) (we later filled all 3 and still had lots of dirt left over)

I am so excited to get the plants and plant them. We also got bird feeders and humming bird feeders to encourage the hummingbirds who will hopefully help pollinate the plants so we get more than 3 tomatoes this year.

on that note--we are so exhausted we are definitely calling it a night early, watching 'The Wild' with my boys with an ice pack on my back (hauling dirt and moving our greenhouse was a bit harder on me than I would have thought).

on that note--we are so exhausted we are definitely calling it a night early, watching 'The Wild' with my boys with an ice pack on my back (hauling dirt and moving our greenhouse was a bit harder on me than I would have thought).

wants to thank Patrick, John, and Dominic for making me one happy momma--you guys ROCK!!!!

will post pics once everything is ready

8 new babies for Adam and Eve

was very surprised to find that Eve delivered 8 babies Thursday evening, we haven't tried to take pictures yet but when we finally uncovered them to see how many she had they were hopping around like mexican jumping beans. We are praying hard that they all survive this time around and would appreciate prayers for the little beans.

a new addition--Tulip

I have to admit--if we didn't have fertility issues I think we would be in a world of hurt. I could definitely see myself as being one of those woman who has a bunch of children all 10 months or so apart from each other--I love kids (even if they do get on my nerves sometimes, but I still think they are angels sent from God). But due to the point that we can't have kids I do the next best thing--I get pets, our newest of which is a baby girl hedge hog named Tulip.

now, don't get me wrong, by no means am I a pet hoarder. Since I have been disabled the last 2 years unable to work and little D is in school full time I find myself with a lot of free time and so I fill it with new responsibilities (seriously, if I could have kids, I would have a billion by now.)

now, to be truly honest, Tulip is little D's. Since we had to get rid of the chickens in January we promised D we would get him a new pet to replace the Red chicken Santa gave him--we already have 2 dogs, a cat and 6 bunnies and due to city ordinances couldn't get any other kind of 'big' animal, so we decided on a small pet, and since we were afraid a guinea pig or hamspter would get mean in our house (little D has a tendency to be too rough and make animals mean) we decided we needed it to be a pet that even he couldn't be mean to and sure enough he loves his little Tulip but isn't about to aggravate he.

the lady we bought her from says she was born around January 20th and we purchased her on March 1st I think, we have definitely grown to love her! Even John enjoys petting her while she sits on his tummy at night.

February 2011

• on February 15, 2011 we purchased

1. 50 lb bag of Purina Rabbit chow complete for $14.85 from the Noonday feed store

no income was made and no other receipts were located

cat on quarentine....

ok, so I don't remember when this happened, I know I have it marked on my calendar and maybe one day I will correct this post but since I am in a hurry I just thought I would post these pics to show ya'll why I am so adamant about getting your animals spayed or neutered...yes, our loving affection always wanting to cuddle male cat did this to our bathroom late one night while we were sleeping....and why you ask? because he was being quarentined till his ear healed up and he wanted to get outside to his girlfriend who was patiently waiting for him...

I guess I could take a positive spin on this and say 'ya, I been looking for a good reason to get new blinds' but then again, the curtains were purchased in October--so I am still ticked about needing to replace them.
needless to say, I didn't feel one bit bad about taking him to the vet to get his little boy parts snipped--would you?

(by the way, we put the curtains back up and he did it again the next night and completely ruined the vallance, so for 2 weeks while his ear healed and then another week as he heeled from the snip snip procedure we only had a sheet I made for Dominic's toddler bed hanging up--it looks so stylish, I think it was spider man)