Working on my tan....

So to speak.. Today was weeding day  out in the garden.. Didn't get the front ones done but hey tomorrow is another day.. A lot has happened since my last post.. its been crazy.


We should be done with our training by now.. but um we kinda hit a speed bump. We put our house on the market. Yeah.. Basically we had been toying with the idea forever but nothing was moving.. and all of a sudden.. BAM House market starts moving.. so the ball went rolling! We had several projects to finish and declutter the house... omg I was having panic attacks and stress out the wazoo, So much so that my hair started falling out again :/ Such is life.

 I feel like we do everything backwards.. Now everyone is asking WHY we put it on the market.. Don't get me wrong I LOVE our house.. But its just to small there is no extra space for storage because we don't have a garage.. only the shed. If it comes down to it we will stay here and pay off our 2nd and then refi and put a garage in. It was a now or never kinda thing. So we just did it. If  it sells it sells if it doesn't its just meant we are supposed to be here longer! Plus I got a finished nursery out of it :).
   We put it on the market at the first of June.. and haven't had one single one single person look at it. Kinda disheartening... But I guess time will tell..

We are very close to starting the home study process.. our certification worker wants us certified by the end of next month.. We literally have to initial some packets and get our physicals turned in and then we can start... Honestly i'm scared to death.. I hardly have anything we need, toys, clothes and im sure a bunch of other little things!! Yeah.. ensue more panic there. I know everything will come together its just a matter of time. I'm worried about things like child care and how that will all come together.. me and Danny are hardly ever gonna see each other because of different days off so we can cover child care.. Ugh.. I guess this is normal for parents?

I just have to keep saying to myself.. this is the path that we are meant to go on, when the path changes is only up to the lord :).

Thats whats been up in our neck of the woods.. Crazy.. work and life is a crazy journey.. and we are learning more everyday to say the least! I'm dealing with a super annoying immature co worker lately.. OMG whole 'nother subject there!  To say the least i'm always sure there is more to put in the post but I can't think of any LOL but this should bring you up to speed :)

~Nicki

PS: 35 days till vacation in July and 96 days to  Disney World!

Yes I'm alive...

Just very busy with this thing we call life!


~Still doing training for Foster.. is only took them forever to get it to us and get everything situated... omg.. They were 'changing' things at the department.. thanks for the heads up.. guess its a taste of things to come.

~Doing CPR class this next wed.. Woo?

~Still getting crap done around house.. talked to a realtor..about maybe selling.. its still up in the air.. but doesn't look feesable .. We have out grown this house.. I have literally gone thru all of my belongings and everything I have.. I want to keep.. We need a garage hands down. But we're broke go figure.

~Have everything for the nursery just need to put it together.. Wishing it was for our own... Feeling pretty upset about that lately but I guess its normal..

~Wishing I could be doing treatments.. maybe soon?

~We literally spent all weekend outside.. it was beautiful.. PS: Grass in garden beds suckkkssss.

~Garden is planted and flower beds look pretty! Tree is trimmed lol.. Junk mostly hauled off!

~Disney in 138 days or so!  So busy.. life is defiantly getting in the way of all things :)


~Nicki

PS: Pretty sure i've missed a bunch! Hope a real update soon!!

Super Duper Lazy.

Oops I slept till almost 10 today!! I woke up at 8 intended to sleep for just a few more min.. guess I was tired!!

So... lately I've been dwelling on whether or not to do another IVF or embryo adoption.. Part of me says just go 100% for embryo adoption.. its easier on my body vs. another IVF. Embryo adoption we get all their left over embryos, IVF unless my eggs cooperate we get nothing after wards.. Sooo.. yeah my whole thing i'm stuck on is.. a Biological child.. Granted I could love any child like its my own.. But the fact that I may have to explain to a child one day.. I carried you but you aren't really mine? I probably could in the future.. but the thought of it right now scares the daylights out of me.. I guess if I wasn't scared tho i'd be weird ;)

Not to mention after I get another lap.. Danny says we should do it when we get back from Disney. Not against it but..its in the middle of the Holiday season.. and we now have a new leave process at work. Ew. It does not sound like fun.. so i'll have to get information on that! We will do a few IUIs and maybe a miracle will occur??

I started supplements again this time a few different ones. Started Vitamin E, Evening Primrose oil and a vitamin for my hair and such! I will add Red Clove and Red Raspberry Leaf  ( when I find them!) and then CoQ-10 again! And gotta get Danny his again too.

I need to get cleaning the spare room today.. I'm itching to sew my pillows for my couch!! Plus have a bunch of other stuff I need to attempt! Carpet in living room and dining room gets replaced on Wednesday and then next weekend I can go get my China Hutch from my moms!

When Danny gets home were going to go to Wally in Pueblo West and see if they have the blender I want and the pot Danny broke that I JUST bought and it was our last one. Sad day...

On a random note.. me and Danny just had our 6 year anniversary.. Um.. Wow. Really!? Crazy to think how long we have been together!  We have made quite the life here in our little house :) 2 lazy dogs and  3 even lazier kitties.. ( I want another kitten.. yeah I know i'm crazy.. call it my mothering instinct). << Danny doesn't know that yet LOL!

Well seeing as how its 12:40 I guess I should get cracking and do something besides eat breakfast and do the dishes and play Farmville 2.  Its just a lazy day.. Maybe I'll go check the garden to see if there is any yummy ready to eat!

~Nicki

Sometimes its nice...

To have a walk in a park.. That's what I'm comparing this cycle too.. Was definitely low key, because  unless you were Danny, the Doctors Office, and my Mother in law ( danny let it slip, but thats ok she doesn't pester!) you didn't know.. yeah I didn't tell ANYONE.. I wanted to, but it was for the better as much as I love my family and friends.. they pester and keep asking questions, which is just added stress. The cycle went so smooth and stress free.. for the most part.. Been a bumpy month money wise of course but when is it not? Next thing I knew I was triggering and then going in this morning at 930 am for the IUI.

 Thats where we hit the glitch.. lol, Danny went and gave his sample at 730am, then we went for breakfast and grabbed a couple of things and went back. So we wait... and wait.. oh its gonna be about 30 more min.. insert panic. So we just sit there.. 10 rolls around.. Jodi comes out and tells me everything will be fine, there is a 4 hr window.. so I was like ok and felt a little better!  We didn't go back till almost 1030 and then about 10 min later we had the IUI. It went smooth, we talked with Jodi for a few min and then laid there for another 15. I gave my Follistim back I have 2 300 vials from our IVF, frankly I don't think it worked well for me unless I have Menopur to go with it.. and I don't like it cause it burns!! So I got Crinone in return ;) since all mine expired in March UGH!  So thankful I love that office :)

Anyways.. Now onto the 2ww.. feeling a little crampy this time around.. we had 18.8 million swimmers by the way :).  Always on the way home I feel nauseous its weird. not sure how the wait is gonna go.. hopefully fast. We're both praying hard that this works, like for real.. I wanna be buying baby furniture and doing a nursery after we come back from Disney.. like for real I don't care if I'm preggo at Disney. You can still have fun!  We seriously.. just want one baby now.. the road we have traveled has not been easy and all we could ever ask for now is just one baby to give our unconditional love, if another one came after that.. it would be just as much a blessing.

It was nice to have a day off kinda straightened up the house and catching up on shows and whatnot. Not much else has been going on around here besides getting the garden planted, and working on the patio in back and planting some flowers up front. Just chugging along, its getting hotter and the days are getting longer.. we have our first wildfire of the season.. stupid wind and dry weather! Hoping they get it contained soon, its not near here but it still affects us and our air quality yuck.

Think thats about it.. Monday our only day off together is going to be super busy.. Yikes. Hopefully productive busy.

~Nicki

Nutrisystem and other things

No I am not being paid by Nutrisystem to say anything about their product!

I started last Tuesday with what my mom gave me.. and then decided hey this isn't bad and doesn't taste horrible! So I think I decided on Wed I would like to order it for my self since they were running a free shipping and 40% off :). We got a pretty good MyShare bonus this time so I paid for it with that!  I can't wait for it to come it.. Should be here tomorrow!! I've lost 4.2 lbs in almost a week :)!! Excited to see how much I loose in a month!! I did cheat some yesterday but not overboard.. got to every once in a while!

Also.. if you knew me in real life.. you know I haven't gone more than a day without soda.. Now I don't go overboard.. like drinking big gulps of the stuff.. I drink at least one soda a day.. Maybe 2! But I have gone 5 days with out drinking it.. Now I rely on my 1 coffee a day LOL which I didn't even have today!

So in other words I'm pretty excited!

I'm itching to get outside more and get the garden going.. of course the weather has to be a butthead and not cooperate.  We did tame the grape vine the other day before we had to go to work.

Finally got the 3rd season of the Tudors :) exciting. Watching the first episode before I start vacuuming the house.. Lets not even go there LOL.

I'm sure there is more to say but I'm distracted and need to get this house cleaned.

~Nicki

When anxiety attacks.

My chest gets heavy and its hard to breathe.. and I become very shaky and jittery. These just started 2 days ago when we learned our initial loan did not get approved for our IVF.. We were devastated... Our hopes of having a child just go ripped out of our hand. While texting a good friend that this had just happened.. they offered to cosign with us.. How could we ever accept that, how could we ever thank them? My parents had already said no.. don't even know why I asked. Me and Danny took a while to think it over since Saturday Sunday they aren't open. We just reapplied taking their gracious offer.. and are just waiting.. I'm praying with everything I have right now that it works.. we couldn't go with the actual offer we wanted which was 2 fresh and 2 frozen.. we had to go with 1 fresh and 1 frozen..


If this doesn't work we have to wait.. until after the start of the new year to reapply. After more bills are paid. I just don't think I have the patience to wait this long.. but I guess I will have to make it work in my head.. I can't imagine what some women feel like waiting longer than 4 years.


Waiting is horrible.. Yesterday before they came over I thought something was wrong with me.. I've never had and anxiety attack before.. sometimes I feel super anxious but never have any physical symptoms before. Well yesterday I thought I was having a serious problem with my Birth Control.. IE Blood clot, heart attack, because my test was feeling kind of tight and  I had to keep taking deep breaths... and I couldn't stop shaking as if my blood sugar was low. I was on the verge of calling my RE.. BUT my Nurse called and I explained it to here and everything that is happening. She said it sounds like anxiety but would talk to the Dr and get back to me.. well she never did so I'm assuming all is ok since i've been on BC for over a week.


On top of all of this horrible news.. We discovered where a leak from our bathroom is coming from.. when our hot water heater went out the one pipe we didn't replace.. failed.. and has been leaking.. for quite some time.. so we will be shelling out $200-300 to re do my entire floor.. including the sub floor.. and tile.. Danny had to get under the house to turn off the main water to fix the leak.. and it was a mud pit and the floor was soaking wet and dripping.. I about died. So.. yeah.. there is a ton of anxiety in my life right now.. I can feel the attacks coming on.. and try to reassure myself that everything will work out in God's time.. and that it will all be ok in the end.. And they start to subside.. sometimes.. Work should be interesting.

Thats what happening in my life.. besides.. my garden doing WONDERFUL. Life has been ok.. just trying to chug along... Now I have to go make breakfast and finish my lunch and check on my ornery furchild...

PS: I actually made myself a decent cup of coffee....:)

~Nicki

Wits end...?

I think I may be approaching this.. THANK GOD my vacation.. well more or less..Staycation starts tomorrow at 4. For 9 glorious days I will not have to work.. Then Danny starts his job with the Feds.. YES FINALLY!!! On Monday the 16th :) Here's a run down of whats been going on in our neck of the woods...

- Ornery Puppy. I think I might go crazy with Rocky just by himself. I think I found something that doesn't understand the word NO or his name.

-Waiting for my next period.. in hopes of starting IVF.. We are still totally in limbo.. We just don't have a date on when he will go to Georgia.. is has to be with in his first 60 days.. So.. Yeah  If we do it and then he gets his date after his 2 weeks.. we will SO be screwed. I kinda need him here.. LOL and want him here!

-My house is falling apart.. we have decided to fix/spruce it up and sell.. Refinancing did not go as planned...Our 2nd mortgage (that we were told was not going to exist) pretty much screwed us over!

- My house is such bad shape.. I really just need to pack crap up and be done with it LOL but I have attachment issues.. yeah.. 8 yrs later and I still have clothes from HS and think I will fit into them again one day?

- I stopped working out.. almost 2 weeks.. didn't even see results not even a 1lb. even tho the RE's office said so? Clothes still fit the same if not worse! But I haven't gained any back.. even tho.. I have the worst/ longest craving ever for BURGERS.. The only thing I think of eating for dinner.. is a Burger.. don't care where its from.. just a BURGER.

- I get to watch Chloe on Sunday and Monday because he sil is camping :) we watched her last Monday too.. I sure hope we don't get Miss Cranky Chloe again on Sunday!  I would like Happy Chloe :)


- Um.. Its actually rained.. More than 5 seconds! 


-My garden is doing lousy.. its huge and green but hardly any veggies...Need to fertilize on Vacay!

-Can I hire a maid?

- The plan while we're off is to redo the kitchen cabinets.. repaint my door trim from shit brown to white.. then we have to repaint the walls eventually too. Um and maybe clean the house lmao.

Thats about it in my world.. besides my horrible cranky mood, snapping at everything and everyone... and super sleepyness and craving.

~Nicki

PS: I think I may loose it.. I hope not hahah I have alot to get done in 9 days! With out over doing it!

The Garden 2012!

I'm really excited for my garden this year.. Lets see on the list this year...

- Grapes! Its loaded once again :) hopefully Concord Grape Sorbet this year! YUM!

- Peppers.. To Include Jalapenos, Sweet Banana, Green Bell, and a Garden Salsa :)

- Tomatoes... I broke down and bought 2 plants.. One Bonnie Original and a Beefmaster!

- Cantaloupe.. my seeds never came up.. so I bought plants.. Low and behold we go to dig that hole and there are the seedlings poking up! I'm going to have cantaloupe out my ears!

- Watermelon.. they are sugar baby variety.. same thing with the seeds..but they haven't showed up yet.

- Pumpkins... Sugar Pie Pumpkins.. NONE of my seeds have come up.. hoping the ones in the bathroom under the skylight will come up.. fingers crossed!!

-Strawberries!

- Raspberries.. although I'm not sure i'll get berries this year just planted it :)

- Red delish apple- The tree is LOADED!! They are about golf ball size right now :)

- Carrots

- Green beans :) Gonna plant a few more seeds as some magically dissapeared?

-Onions... only yellow this year :) the red ones are funky....

- Lettuce and Celery.. If the lettuce ever pops up too. gotta plant the Celery stump :)

- And Potatoes! Just red tho :) we're giving them a go!
Here are a few pictures of the early stage :)

 Apples!! For the first time EVER (we've had it 3 years)

 My raspberry that has finally survived!

 Some baby grapes :)

 Carrots and onions! The lonely row next to it was supposed to be lettuce.

 A few greenbeans

 The Original tomato and Sweet peppers

Potatoes :) have been covered again since the picture! Growing like weeds!

I'm very tired.. so I'm off to bed.. My period is due anyday now.. my mood swings are crazy and have some pretty bad cravings! Ugh SO hard when your trying to diet!  Goodnight!

~Nicki

Horrible I know.

I've been a horrible blogger. I have just been working and trying to stay busy on the weekends.. Well somewhat unwanted busy. I Don't even know where to start!  I've seen my Godson a lot this month which makes me happy but then I think.. its probably the last few times i'll get to see them moving to Louisiana :(. I'll probably never get to visit.. because I hardly ever get to see my OWN family.. let alone friends. Ugh. Sometimes life just sucks.. Money is the worst thing ever!

 I'm terrified.. that on Monday I'm going to call and make an appt about the next step. How are we going to afford that? We are so hoping and praying that Danny gets picked up by the feds, because if he does he can pull his PERA and 457 which will be a nice chunk of money and we could pay almost everything off except car and house payment. How nice would that be? Um.. Lets say Fantastic.  But.. they are in the middle of a Warden change so we probably won't hear anything till the end of May. Praying SO hard. Things need to fall into place soon.. For now I will be happy that they are getting their 2 1/2% raise back and insurance is going down Woot! Plus they are not paying out comp time so Danny is sucking that up and earning as much as he can so that come July they have to pay out because July begins a new fiscal year for the State..I'll take an extra 500-600 dollars on the Paycheck!

In other news.. Finally got the garden going.. it only took forever!! Now it just needs to get warmer...Only planted lettuce, carrots and Onions and trying my hand at potatoes... I really hope new Gala apple became friends with my  Red Delish :). I need more strawberries, also my raspberries keep dying!!!  Its sad.. I'm on like my 3 set of bushes  :(  I really want some!  So Hopefully the garden goes good this year :)

On the baby front.. I think I seriously had a good O this month or i'm having one lol!  I've had some EWCM out the wahzoo!  I'm wondering if its from the antibiotics I was on for my lovely sinus infection. Thank the lord that's over, it was the reason for my lack of sleep.. Which was SO nice to have back.. I love sleep.

I think that about it.. Oh and My Animals are done with their behavior issues.. and are back to their loving self :)

~Nicki..

PS: Thanks if you have stuck around to check for updates!! I hope to update more often!!  <3

Day 12 and 13!

Sorry been pretty tired after work.. when I should be working out.. I need to ditch the lazy bug somewhere or give it to someone else.. cause i'm done with it!

 Day 12 - List 5 pet peeves.
Lets see.. For those of you who KNOW me.. this is my biggest one. Ever.
I HATE Repetitive  motive... if you are tapping your pencil..  I will grab it and tell you to stop.. anything moving, poking prodding me or around me will be thwarted! I blame my brother.

2. Dirty windshields.. they drive me insane I will wash a window 50 million times to get a bug smear off. So I waste the heck outta washer fluid :)

3. My forgetful brain..  I can literally walk out of a room and forget what I was going to do.. and stand there forever trying to think of it.. then I go back to previous room.. and remember what I was going to to do or get.

4. My cats.. yes I love them.. but sometimes they drive me up a wall!! With all the hand, foot butting for attention and Volts not stop meowing!

5. A sink full of dishes.


 Day 13 - List 5 guilty pleasures.

Hmm..

1. Ben and Jerry's Cheesecake brownie ice cream.. OMG YUM.

2. Fishing out on a  lake.. so quiet and peaceful :)

3. Baking. I love Baking

4. Gardening and playing in the flowers!

5. Jason Aldean.. Yes.. he is :)

In fact.. I'm going to go bake some cookies... the BEST Chocolate Chip Cookies EVER. And my mom is confusing me.. And I'm GOING to go back to school if it kills me... or a car due to commuting.

~Nicki

Few things on my mind....

I think I over did it a bit today.. Bending over in the garden, bending over to fold, wash and dry laundry... Did a butt load of dishes... and vacuumed.. Ugh. And we made yet MORE pickles.. ( I can tell i'm tired.. I just had to retype pickles about 5 times) I made dinner for myself.. and Brownies.. Which I have had.. about 3 I'm stuffed.. So I guess that means no Reese coldstone ice cream for me.. Boo. Oh well I don't need it anyways ha!

On the infertility front.. I'm excited and nervous to get on the bandwagon again.. Knowing that some endo and a kinked tube was unkinked and removed.. what will happen now? A quick BFP or a longer struggle? I'm hoping that my body cooperates with me.. I'm due for AF in about 8 days.. If that happens.. I will be right on time.. and could do a Cycle starting right after my Post Op on the 4th.. I'm praying and hoping thats what happens.. if not.. maybe ANOTHER natural cycle would end up in a miracle BFP? The question is out there somewhere.. Just hoping and praying that something happens!


Here's something I've always wondered.. People always ask me why I have to buy name brand stuff, granted I'm getting better at buying non-name brands.... I Figured out why on a few items as to why I like name vs. non...

~Non brand Peanut butter.. Taste WAY too sweet.. Jiff. Is JUST RIGHT.. Danny doesn't care hahah

~Cling wrap.. just discovered this one.. Great Value Does NOT have little teeth to rip with.. Glad Cling wrap. DOES. Amen.

~Laundry Soap.. Lower name brands don't get your clothes clean and they don't smell as good or are over powering! I use All :) it smells fantastic and gets my clothes clean! (Granted this is personal preference)

Hmm.. i'm sure there are a few more but those are the major ones I can think of :)

Ahh Fall.. I LOVE Fall.. Now if it would just get COOLER!!! With Fall brings the comfort of Baking and Cuddling up on the couch.. Pants and all my cute shirts :) haha! Oh and my cute Justin Boots!!

My garden.. is dwindling.. I now know why I HATE growing tomatoes.. they are easily infested... Yeah.. My volunteer tomato has Aphids AND Spider Mites.. Nope not growing anymore even for Salsa.. I'll go buy umpteen million lbs of maters for making Salsa.. Our Pepper plants are finally starting to Die.. We have LOADS of peppers left.. Its crazy. I keep finding ridiculously larg Cucs... I'm talking would cover a 1/4lb burger, you'd have a pickle in every bite! I did pick one that made a whole pickle he's marinating in the fridge as I type!

I now have 3 sugar pumpkins.. just noticed the 3rd this morning.. I'm not water as much so I'm not sure if he will be tasty... The 2nd is turning orange.. lets see if the 3rd makes it!

Speaking of pumpkins.. I know its only the 21st.. We got our pumpkins for carving.. We get ours from a local guy in town.. he grows MASSIVE Pumpkins! Its crazy! His biggest one came up to almost my waist.. It would have taken a few hours to clean him out! (But I still want him) We picked 3 HUGE Pumpkins for 20 bucks :D!

Now if you know me or my parents.. this is one thing that is a MUST at Halloween.. I've done it every year since I can remember... Yep even when I was out of HS... and in College.. Just ask my parents.. I Beg.. and or Go buy my own.. Danny never did this much growing up.. I think its a wonderful thing to do! Its fun sticking your hand in the goop and scooping out the slime! Sometimes we bake the seeds :) Just like going to cut down a Christmas tree every year has become a tradition.. This has too... Its good to have them :) I was estatic when we drove by on the way to the bank that he was selling.. So.. we had to stop by... We got 3..!! Here they are!





And just so you can get and Idea of the size...








And just because :) This was from a random road trip we took a couple weeks ago.. we Ended up at Lake O'haver.. It was so beautiful and peacful!




Sorry for the Long winded post!

~Nicki

Canning... and gardening :)

I am thoroughly enjoying this new found thing!! It takes sometime but Its all worth it in the end!

Now I just need to get a bigger garden to yield more hahah and have some fruit trees and I'll be set!

Me and Danny we up till.. get this.. 3 AM.. EEK! So didn't expect it to be that late! But we have a case worth of Salsa!! ( recipie from pickyourown.org) and More pickles (we cut them thicker this time) They were a little mushy when thin... So they better be good.. I'm tired..and we got 8 hrs of sleep.. I'm not exactly having the healthiest lunch.. Hahah Amp and sinckers! I need a boost before work.. Totally exhausted..!

We experimented with Green Beans.. we dill pickled them.. Kae at work said a guy swears by them.. So we will see... We still have a mass of Jalapenos that need to be picked.. They will be pickled also.. just not dill hahah. Unless danny wants them that way I don't eat them! we have 3 over flowing plants.. The season is coming to and end. Its getting cooler .. Sort of.. we condsider 80 cool haha! No its getting in the low 40s at night.. first frost is FAST approaching!! Grow Watermelon GROW!!! and My pumpkins ;) I have 2 Now! Mr. Watermelon sounds hollow as hell.. he has to be close!! But no sign of him letting go of the vine.. Boo.

I love how I can grow my own produce and can it and preserve it!! Its an awesome feeling :) something that got lost along our current day and age! It tastes SO much better than store bought! I'm just tickled pink with myself :)

I was going to type something else.. but I lost it.. I'll get back to you on that haha!

~Nicki

Really... Really.. REALLY?

So... today I had my appt with the Dr.. everything was going great.. Car was fixed, weather was gloomy that kinda weather! On time.. Then.. we go in the office.. ( I didn't get asked to pay my co-pay so that bill i'm sure will be in the mail) All of my labs are perfect! I very unlikely have PCOS...He thinks I have endo... and I have a cyst on my right ovary.. Boo. So.. I'm schedualed for a Lap and an HSG (i'm assuming he called it some weird long C name) The 16th is when its schedualed for.. I'm nervous as hell and don't know what to expect!.. Danny was almost in tears (kinda funny)

We're getting in the elevator I see his bottom lip puff out.. I

Me: whats wrong?
D: I just got told my wife has to have surgery
Me: well I was kinda expecting it.. get it out of the way so we're not 5 months down the road and 4 failed cycles..
D: Thanks for keeping me in the loop
Me: you don't ask questions on anything.

So.. Then we head home... I get a perfect Starbucks carmel machiato.. Then we're off to Panara bread for a cinnamon crunch bagle *love* We get there.. Get it.. smooth sailing.. OH NO! We get just past Ft. Carson.. all of a sudden my cooling gauge goes thru the roof and the little senser is beeping.. a trail of fluid is leaking from my car as I pull over.. SERIOUSLY!?!? (Mind you this happened as my car JUST reset its self from the replacement of the nutral saftey swtich..) I about died.. we eventually make it back to Safeway get water in hopes thats it.. Nope 2 hours later after pulling over 500 times to let the engine cool and put more water in.. we make it home... Holy crap.

Thankfully a thermostat does not cost and arm and a leg.. Praise the lord! Its waiting to be put in tomorrow..

I guess I should be thankful that

~The Roof is fixed ( Thank you Dad)
~My car WAS fixed at least this next one is hopefully a cheap fix.
~New door on Water heater a REAL door haha Hinges and all!
~Caulking around windows redone...(Thanks Babe)
~Weeds semi controled ( thanks mom)
~Allergies have been decent lately :)
~My garden is growing wonderfully! ( Picked my first cantaloupe!



So Yummy!!

Lets see what else.. I'm dead tired.. I have done all the laundry.. just gotta fold the Whites.. I'm leaving the putting away for Danny haha.. Dishes are done.. I had a WHOLE post written out in my head... hahah Of course its gone! Oh well!

I took a bunch of pictures of my garden, as I just love it and hope next year it will be better than this year!


My Watermelon I hope it gets the 35-40 lbs its supposed to before the weather gets cold!!





My lone Sugar Pumpkin! All the other ones keep falling off :(




My 2nd Cantaloupe hope its ready in a couple weeks!



I seriously hope september brings much better new and luck.. I must have broken a mirror, walked under a ladder, or killed some bamboo somewhere along the line.. God If your reading this.. Please let me have some better luck Next month.. and forthcoming months.. my poor sanity can't take much more thanks.. and much love

~Nicki

PS: Yep its along one!! Hope you all enjoy my garden :)We have more Jalapenos coming out are EARS!