I got tagged! I've always wanted to be tagged!

My cuz Lindsay tagged me it's craszy how many questions we have the same...It's like we are related or something.

1.. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? My middle name is Louise after my mama.
2. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED? yesterday at a fireside put on by a couple in our ward. He has ALS ( also known as LOU Gerigs disease) Ithe fireside talked all about their Jouney. they are an amazing couple! very inspiring!
3. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? nope. I'm a leftie...looks like chickenscratch
4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE LUNCH MEAT? chicken fajita
5. DO YOU HAVE KIDS? If you read this it's obvious 3 cuties
6. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? heck yeah
7. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT? heck yeah
8. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS? Yep
9. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP? Sure.
10. WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE CEREAL? honey nut cheerios or the occasional Golden Grahams
11. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF? never
12. DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG? Physically? no. Emotionally? no Spiritually? Yes, I have my moments
13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE ICE CREAM? anything breyers. Really diggin the Vanilla with white chocolate pieces in it
14. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE? Their skin. Mostly because I'm jealous of them because I still have a teenagers skin.
15. RED OR PINK? Red
16. WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? While we are on the subject my skin. But I am also a huge procrastinator.
17. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST? having a clean house and time.
18. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO SEND THIS BACK TO YOU? Of course
19. WHAT COLOUR PANTS AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING? Jeans and black socks w/ red and grey polkadots on them.
20. WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ATE? superstore brand Nacho chips the best.
21. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? bugs life
22. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOUR WOULD YOU BE? Green
23. FAVOURITE SMELLS? after Dale takes a shower and puts on cologne and aftershave he smells great
24. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE? dale
25. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU? Yes!
26. FAVOURITE SPORTS TO WATCH? none rather be playing
27. HAIR COLOUR? recently a brunette! first time I've done that. kinda like it!
28. EYE COLOUR? Blue
29. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS? No I should though
30. FAVOURITE FOOD? love all sorts I made a great roast beef dinner yesterday even with yorkshire pudding deeelish!
31. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS? Happy endings of course.
32. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED? I fell asleep in the last Die Hard movie have a hard time staying awake lately with the baby getting up every 2 hours in the night
33. WHAT COLOUR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING? cream
34. SUMMER OR WINTER? Summer for sure. I'm waiting for it right now.
35. HUGS OR KISSES? hugs from everyone! kisses from Dale!!!
36. FAVOURITE DESSERT? I made magic bars the othr dsy recipe on the eagle brand website. evil. I love nanaimo bars
37. MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND? Everyone I hope!
38. LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND? I'll be optimistic and say everyone will respond.
39. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW? none, just the BOM
40. WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? haven't been using it it is too slippery on the desk Dale made
41. WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON T.V. LAST NIGHT? nothing no TV weird.... that is rare.
42. FAVOURITE MUSIC? I am hoping to get an Itunes gift certificate for christmas so I can download some tunes. I used to listen to a lot of punk rock. now I am more mellow stuff Ben Harper, Jack Johnson,Ben Lee to name a few...
43. ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES? Beatles,huge beatles fan! rolling stones are to crusty and immoral, bad combo
44. WHAT IS THE FURTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME? Ottowa or Mexico which is furthest.? probably Mexico
45. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT? people say I can sing. I like to think I'm a pretty good scrapbooker. I'm pretty artsy I guess It's my right brainededness from being left handed.
46. WHERE WERE YOU BORN? St. Albert

got the basement done!

I'll post pics as soon as the Easter hullaballoo is over my sister's Marilyn's coming up today! good times! oh and I've been sooo into the fly lady lately... check it out! I think it's my answer! check it out! www.flylady.net/

day 6

So maybe I started Operation Organization. on the wrong week. Our Renters Move into our other house on March 15th. Maybe I should fill in the small crowd of people who read this. We rented out our old house to someone I thought was mature and responsible. but last month she went AWOL. left the place pretty trashed. we didn't know until about the middle of the month, even though she had left the second of Februrary. Luckily we went on a little vacation the beginning of Feb. so he took out the his vacation pay so it covered both mortgages. so we were fine when her stop payment cheque came back to us in the mail. I am a little embarrassed to say that we didn't even notice. I should have kept better track of that. Anyhow. Dale and I (mostly Dale) have been spending any or all of our free time Paining, and cleaning and hauling out all of the junk she has left behind. After some prayers and faith (they were needed because it has been sowing down here) we found some hopefully good renters. references have been checked, but who knows.
So needless to say I have not been focusing on my little plan to have my house in better order. and the toy room was a bad place to start and see some real success, because every time I have gone down to organize the toy bins the kids are right behind me dumping the bins out and playing with them, can you blame em?? I did buy a frame for a really cute poster I bought so I will take some after shots it just might not happen in the timeline that I had hoped for... Rarely anything does in my world.
Wow can I blab!
on a different note I got to go over to a friend in the ward's house to record a song for the enrichment this Tuesday. It's a song off the Curious George soundtrack called "with my own two hands" I am putting together a slide show with the sisters in ward in it . I hope it turns out. it's late. sleep time is precious.
Over and out.

Day 1 of Operation Organization

I've had enough!
My house is in a rough state. We've been so busy lately with the rental property and all I just have been using this house as a pit stop. I want it to be more organized.
I don't want anything to be on top of our dressers unless it's supposed to be.
I want stuff in my house to have a home. I want my scrapbook room to be more welcoming to scrapbook in rather than just a dumping zone. I want just one or two bins of toys out at a time- not ALL of them.
The books go back in the shelf after we are done reading them.
Heck! maybe we will make our beds everyday!
bills will get filed and payed right away when they come in the mail.
Videos and DVDs will go back in the basket when we are done watching them.
CD will not be left out of their cases.
Laundry will go in their laundry baskets at the end of the day. Not all over bedrooms and our living room or wherever my kids strip.
There will be a place for the too big and too small kids clothes and they will go directly in there right when I think of it..

Mind you I am good at some of these things some of the time. Just never all of them all of the time. They say that your surroundings reflect how you feel inside and that is so true. I'm feeling pretty chaotic lately with three kids, and just life in general. I'm done procrastinating. I need more order in my house and in my life. My house just doesn't have a lot of square footage so I can't afford the chaos.
the whole reason I'm recording this online is to be accountable to a source. I have to record my progress everyday. Have goals of the week and such. so here goes...
This week I am working on toys.
All the toys have to go back in their respective bins and in the closet downstairs. I had this cool idea that I actually will carry out -of printing off pictures of the toys on the outside of the bin so Jonah and Geneva actually know what is inside. The toy room is in the basement. a real cave looking place. but I have had some art and stuff I was going to put up to make it look more welcoming. I think I will actually do it.
So that's this week!
I'm just putting toys away.
Hopefully journaling about this every night will help me stay motivated , but if all goes well I am going to have a well oiled machine of a house by April 5!!!!
these pictures are embarrassing I know but i knwo that i can get it to look better in one week. Who knows??? maybe I'll lose some weight in the process!
she's got a soother in her mouth I know... don't go there

Respect.

my house is in a state.
Today I'm using an "oprahism" .
I'm going to clean up and take care of the stuff I have because I respect the things that money can buy.
Whatever mindset it take to tidy-up hey???