Caffeine For the Creative Mind

So I found this book called Caffeine for the Creative Mind. Its full of exercises to wake up your brain. So here's one for ya.

I think my seven year old could beat me in a race.
The perception is that adults do everything better than kids. Au, contraire! There are tons of things kids do better than adults. Your task is to name twenty things that you think kids do better than adults. Here are mine

1. Energy, Wow if I could have that much energy!
2. Playing, I wish I had that that much time just to play
3. Love, They can Love everyone without the worry of getting hurt.
4. Make Messes, That's just a given
5. Eat, They can eat anything and not gain a pound
6. Draw Pictures, They are the sweetest pictures even if your arms are just lines
7. Make you smile, Just looking at them makes you smile
8. Snuggle, The best!!
9. Talk, You can carry on a conversation about lizards, and princess forever
10. Sing, At least better than me.
11. Video Games, Oh I don't even go there.
12. Swing, Oh it makes me sick
13. A Good Friend, I try to stay in touch with mine, but life gets ahead of me
14. Gives Encouragement, You can always count on your kids to say whats on there mind
15. Cry, When they are upset they really know how to let you know
16. Laugh, You can always get a good laugh from them
17. Tuning out noises, You could have a rock band concert going on and if they are doing something they don't want interrupted, it wont be!
18.Listen, Well only if its something they really want to hear.
19. Bug there siblings, Again need I say more??
20. Smile, They always a smile on their face.

Leave a comment and tell me what you think kids can do better than adults. Exercise your brain today!

Jaime got his job!!

Jaime got a job offer with Sephoria this week. He starts on June 23rd and will be gone training for a week in Baltimore. We are so excited for a change, and change is always good. It will be hard for a while as he gets trained and they get up and running, but Jaime is always up for a challenge.

Better late than never!

Happy Father Day to my wonderful husband and wonderful daddy to my kids.



Happy Fathers Day to Jaime's dad, grandpa and brother.



Happy Fathers Day to my own dad and to my 3 wonderful brother in laws - Glen, Danny, and Steve. Hope you all had a wonderful day. You deserve. it!

Wow!! How Time Flies

I cannot believe that its already June. Carson is out of school and is ready for summer. He already thinks he can stay up late. We will just see about that. Here is a self portrait that he took to show how excited he was that school was out.


Abbi had her dance recital tonight and she danced her little heart out. Well as good as a 4 year old will dance in front of a audience of 100 people. We are so proud of her.

I just got back from a show in Buffalo NY. The show was good but being with my Rusty Pickle friends makes it all worth it. Kim and Libby you are a blast to be with.

Niagara Falls was beautiful. I am so grateful that I have this kind a job where I can travel and see all the wonders of the world. Big Thanks to my wonderful husband and kids for letting me travel.

You only live once, but if you work it right, once is enough

What have we been up to?

Well we haven't been up to much lately. We are just busy with our day to day life's.
* Jaime and I have been busy with work. Sephoria is putting a warehouse here in Salt Lake, and Jaime has turned in his resume. We will see what happens. I am getting ready to go out of town again on May 6th. I will be in Detroit for a few days. Looking forward to it. I really love my job, they have been so good to me.
* Carson has been playing soccer, Friday night they tied the game to the best team in there league. Those little boys work so hard, but they have so much fun playing together. Carson is looking forward to the summer and can't wait until school is out. I gotta find something for him to do all summer. Any suggestions???
* Abbi is still in dance and loves every minute of it. She will put her tap shoes on at home and dance around. She is working hard to get ready for her recital in June. She loves to go to preschool to see her friends and to learn new things.
* This weekend we decided to do a little Spring Cleaning. I started in the house and cleaned out the kids rooms, toys, closets, under beds, and drawers. Then we went outside and WOW! do we have our work cut out for us. We have alot of spring cleaning to do outside. I am looking forward to it, I would rather do yard work then house work. Abbi helped me mow the front lawn today, Jaime gets the back. The kids really enjoyed being outside. They sure get wiped out playing outside.

Have you ever seen the Worlds Largest Catsup Bottle???

Well we ventured out one night to go find it. It started in Applebees at dinner. We saw a picture of it so we decided to take our pictures next to it. We thought that was pretty cool and that would satisfy our curiosity. Well after laughing and taking pictures by the picture in Applebees the hostess had a friend tell us where to find it. I got instructions and we ventured off to go find it. You would never think it was such a big deal but to us we were on a quest to find the Worlds largest Catsup Bottle. After a few detours and a good look at old downtown Collinsville, I saw it ahead. It was all lit up and looked like it was floating in air from aways back.




It was quit an adventure, Thanks Kathy, Kim and Nanette for all the fun we had in St. Louis.

CKC St. Louis

Here is the Rusty Pickle carnies that worked the booth. Me, Kim, Kathy, Nanette. If you ever worked a show before you know what I mean by carnies. You set up one day work the next 2 days and then tear down for the next show. And you move on to another show and do it all over again.