From Beginning To End--To A New Beginning

I meant to post this blog a week ago but have been doing my other blogging stuff, that I am just now getting around to doing. (watch, I will be struggling this weekend to find a post to write.)


Anyway last week my husband decided to make a surprise for me. He went and bought the lumber and I kept guessing and guessing but he never would tell me. When we got home from his Lowes trip I had to lay down and take a nap because I was wiped out.

When I woke up this is what he had done. Well he had it a bit more put together. He asked me to help him put it up on some saw horses so he could work on it some more. I honestly can not remember what he said for me to pose this question but I said "Why, its just a bench?" His reply was.."Yeah and?" Ha Ha he told on himself! I knew what my surprise was. Well not so much of a surprise now.


So here is the work of my bench in progress.

 Logan had to help too!

 Then of course I had to help also. 

Here it is! My hand-built, custom made 8ft. bench. Trust me it has gotten great use just this one week of its new life. Its nice having a place to sit outside and watch my son play or watch the birds. I have been getting up in the mornings when my husband comes home from work and sitting, just me and him outside watching the birds and just chatting. This is the beginning of new memories for us. It is amazing how such a small thing can play such a role in our everyday life. Especially an 8ft. bench.

Linking up with some weekend blog hops

Weekend Blog Hops

Hello all! The weekend is here and I hope everyone has some great plans. I myself am really hoping to go on a motorcycle ride with the husband. That is if he gets it fixed. We are also planning on the real celebration of my daughter's past birthday. She requested Lasagna for dinner. I hope it all turns out. In my life we have a tendency to make plans and it all gets messed up somehow.

Today I am the featured host on Karen's blog at Tots and Me! I am so excited to meet some new bloggers 

 Everyone join in on the blog hop and lets have some fun and visit some new people!

Welcome to the thirty-seventh weekend of Lovin' the Weekend Blog Hops.

Giveaway Linky is the bottom linky!

First things first:

Don't forget to check out my co-host's blog

In case you didn't know, I have also started randomly choosing a Featured host each week from the Lovin' The Readers linky. This week I would like to introduce you to Melissa from Dreamweaver's Wife

Here is what she has to say " I started blogging back in November of 2011. I had been reading some other blogs here and there and the idea of me starting one ran across my mind. I am of course addicted to facebook so I posted on there what people would think if I happen to start a blog. I had a lot of encouragement from my friends and my husband. I was told that I was real and my writing was done very well. So I took a shot. It took me awhile to keep up with it because I get so sidetracked. I start one project and never finish then move on to something else. I had some family members contact me and encourage me to keep writing so I started to keep up with the blog. During the journey I have met many other bloggers and eventually joined in a few select blog hops and it has grown since. I love participating in the blog themes and blog hops. The days that are free from the themes that is when I will write something random that is on my mind. My blog contains anything and everything from the themes to movie reviews or just a random rant I have and need to get off of my chest. I absolutely love the comments I get. 

Through blogging I am able to have a sort of release of my energy and it feels great to write. I also have started my hobby in photography and have found that through blogging I can share my photos and get feedback from someone other than family and I am learning some awesome tips and tricks through a lot of the photography blog hops. 

About myself, I was a teen mom who had to drop out of highschool but on my own I got my GED and went on to college to get my associates degree in Paralegal Studies. I had a rough start and its still not easy. I have been married three times. This time I do believe I have found my soul mate. He has supported me in everything that I have pursued. He is my biggest fan of my blog and my photography even though he does give me "constructive criticism." I have 4 kids from the ages of 14 to 16 months old. Three of them do not live with us because they are from previous marriages, my two daughters and my step son. Logan was born Feb of 2012. My little baby boy Logan lights up my life everyday. Of course all of my kids do. I never thought I would have a son of my own or have another child after I had my two girls. It is a wonderful journey learning all the baby stuff again.I have a few obsessions, fingernail polish, shopping for other people and butterflies. 

I am a stay at home and it is the most rewarding job ever! I am hoping that my hobby in photography kind of takes off so I can bring in a little extra money to help out some, and of course all of us bloggers hope to make our blog a success."

Please make sure to stop by and say hi, let them know you are visiting from the Lovin' The Weekend Blog Hops. Don't forget to link up to the Lovin' the Readers Hop if you would like a chance to be a Featured host next week. Please comment with a way to contact you, especially if there is not an obvious way mentioned on your blog. I would love to include a little write up about you and your blog in the next week's Lovin' The Weekend Blog Hop post, including a link to your blog. And you will get to include the linky codes on your blog. Sound fun? I'm looking forward to getting to know my readers better.

Here's how this blog hop works. I would appreciate it if you would follow myself,  my co-host and the Featured Host via GFC. If you no longer have GFC please follow me some other way. After that there are three different linkys you can link to. Whichever one you choose to link to, please grab that button and share it on your blog (the codes are on my sidebar). I'd love it if you could tweet or in some other way share about this blog hop, the more people who know about it, the more potential visitors and new followers of your blog. I'd love to meet some new friends this weekend.  

I have noticed that some people are more interested in just increasing their numbers, while others really want people who appreciate their blog and want to keep up with their posts. So, I decided to create two separate linkys. The third linky is for you to link up your giveaways.

If you are interested in increasing the number of followers to your blog via GFC, Linky Followers, email, Twitter, Facebook or Google+ link up here. I will follow you back if you follow me (just note which one you are linking to):

If you are interested in gaining followers to your blog who will read and comment and truly find an interest in your blog, link up here:

If you have family friendly giveaways to link up, here's your spot. Please make sure to include an end date for your giveaway.

I am so glad you stopped by. Please leave a comment if you link up and I will be sure to stop by and follow back.

Don't forget to check out my "Blog Hops" page for other great weekend blog hops!! Stay tuned for more info in my:

Birds and Bubbles

I am still waiting for birds to come to my feeders. I have seen ONE hummingbird. *sigh* What do I need to do to get these little guys to come around?

In the meantime it was a pretty quiet week. The husband working on his bike to get it ready for riding, kids trying to stay out of trouble and just evenings at the park.  When you have four kids and on a tight budget you really can not take the kids out and do extravagant things. That is okay for them. They enjoy the small things.

Last night we were all sitting outside and I thought I would get some bubble pictures with Logan. I have seen these and have just thought they were the cutest photos! Here are my first tries ever getting bubble shots with the baby.

I have taken a lot more but have not gotten around to editing them all yet. This is was just two of my most favorite that I wanted to share. 

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend! Do not forget your Dad's tomorrow.






If you like my Logan picture with his bubble go on over to the hop and like my pic. Click on the image below

Black & White Wednesday

BLACK & WHITE WEDNESDAY

Not sure what type of look he is giving me.

Concert, Did You Say??

My husband works for Wal-Mart. He actually works at the David Glass Technology Center which is part of Wal-Mart home office.  This week has been a huge event for Wal-Mart. The shareholders meeting has been in full force. One of the perks of these meetings are the free concerts. Usually the general public is allowed in. This year they decided to go about it a different way. Instead a mass e-mail went out to ALL the employees and gave instructions on how to obtain tickets for the event through ticketmaster. No general public was allowed. 

My husband followed the directions and got our tickets the minute they went up for grabs. This year the concert Tuesday night, Carrie Underwood and Chris Young and then on Wednesday night was Cheap Trick and Aerosmith! 

I was happy and tickled my husband got tickets to Wednesday night. I have always been a huge huge fan of Aerosmith ever since I could remember and even had tons of their CDs as a teenager.  

My mother-in-law came down from Springfield MO and stayed the night to babysit the kids so my husband and I could go to the concert. (thank goodness for her)

We had a blast and the place was packed! Not an empty seat in the place. I am so happy that I get to mark something off my bucketlist! I am so in love with Steven Tyler. Now I had heard of Cheap Trick but could not recall their music. When we got to the concert and they played their stuff I knew exactly who they were. After the concert we went and ate at Denny's. We had a great outing together. 

On our way to the concert!

Us After the concert. 

Okay anyways I get up this afternoon and look at facebook and this is what I find. This here is a comment left on my facebook status that I posted saying

Only a few more hours until Aerosmith

I wanna know how the Hell you got tickets when you don't work there and neither does your husband. that was 

suppose to be for shareholders only. NOBODY was able to get tickets but you. funny how that Shit worked out.

My Reply

 April my husband does work for wal mart!

 You might want to know the facts before you go posting comments like that

Her Reply

I just think it's funny how you were the only one able to get tickets. don't tell me about knowing facts. here's a fact for you. did you know that somehow this "zone" was listed as a foreign country and that's apparently why nobody else could get tickets?

Anyway, glad you had Fuckloads of fun because nobody but you and Justin were able to.

I can not get over how someone could be 

Jealous over a concert. You 

Know I can not help but roll my eyes

at people like this. I grew up with this 

person. I am sorry for the language

but that is exactly how she put it. Copy 

and paste!! Hope all of you enjoy your

Friday. I have a photo shoot at noon!

Ooops I Did It Again

Yes I disappeared again dangit! I just get involved with other things a lot more than I did it seems. When my husband is off work I tend to be spending most of my time with him and we just watch t.v. Yes this is our life. 

Our t.v. list includes

American Idol

Duck Dynasty

Love this show

and

Supernatural

We have watched Supernatural for awhile now but decided to start watching it again from season 1 and on. So that is where the majority of our time is spent doing. Yes we will stay up until daylight watching episode after episode. Man I love the Winchesters!!

Now I will say this is not what we do from the time we wake up until we go to bed, just half the time because the other half of the time the t.v is stuck on one channel and one channel only

I had a photo shoot Sunday. Two individuals from a band called Oxygen Edge. This is what I consider my first photo shoot. I still have a lot to learn but I am pretty proud for it being my first. I am posting some pictures in my portraits tab. Check them out and tell me what you think. 

Join in the blog hop!

Blog Hopping

So Today is Friday! Yay for a lot of people out there but for this family it really is not a big deal. See I am a stay at home momma so everyday is the same for me. It does not matter whether it is Friday or Monday. My husband works only 3 days a week 12 hour days and his days off start on Wednesday. This lovely Friday is consisting of playing with my baby boy (Logan) and my husband mowing the lawn. Oh yeah it is Easter Weekend. Unfortunately I do not have my older kids this year, they are spending it with their other parents and Logan is only 14mths old so he has no idea. I may find something for him. I am just not sure what. 

Last weekend my kids did put together an Easter project. My mother was going to do this but decided she did not have enough time. My 14 year old and 10 year old had fun putting this together. 


This Friday I decided to participate in a blog hop. Down below you will find some blogs that I enjoy to read and maybe you will too. Happy Hopping