When you have lemons make a mimosa!

This morning my husband I were discussing what needs to be done around the house. Enthusiastically (along with jazz hands) I told him not to worry because I already have Saturday planned out for us. He gave me a "WTF" look as I began to tell him whats in store for Saturday.

"... we are going to wake up super early on Saturday to conquer the back yard so that we're not working while it's hot, then at noon I'm going to go visit my uncle while you stay with the kids, then later on we're going to do some spring cleaning in the house.."

As I'm typing this I realize how psychotic I sound and also how much I appreciate my husband. I mean he is married to moi. I just need to chill out and maybe add mimosa to the top of my To Do List for Saturday morning!

Speaking of mimosas, look how lovely this lemon, strawberry and basil mimosa looks. Yummm!

And speaking of lemons...We have an ugly large grey planter that sits on our front patio. This planter is huge and looks like it's from the 1980's. It was here when we moved into the house and it's super heavy. There used to be a dead sorry small looking tree in there that was great for Halloween but embaressing to have all year round. My husband and I decided that a lemon tree would look like nice in the planter as well as add some life on our front patio.

We weren't sure if we wanted to start growing a tree from seeds or just go to Home Depot and buy an already grown little lemon tree and replant it. After browsing the internet for some direction on how to grow a lemon tree from seeds we decided it seemed to hard  and complicated so we've decided over the weekend a Home Depot we will go.

I did see some pretty lemon tree inspirations on Pinterest. How cool would it be if you grew an indoor lemon tree! If you want lemonade (or a lemon mimosa in my case) just walk over to your little indoor lemon tree and grab a lemon. It's right there in your home! Here are a couple of pics of beautiful indoor and outdoor lemon trees I found...




I love this!



Tonight we are taking my step-son out to dinner and have a long over due visit. Frankie is now a man and it makes me sad. I'm just so proud of him that he's growing up and learning resposibilties. Or maybe I'm sad  because if he's getting older that means I'm getting older too! Either way I'm excited to see him tonight and can't wait to give him big hugs!!

Target Thursday #1...

If you really know me, you know that I love Target. Actually I think I'm obsessed with Target. I'm always telling my husband, "I'm running to Target real fast"! But then end up staying there for about 2 hours then lying to him when he calls my cell phone, telling him, "I'm in the check out" when I'm actually looking at shoes.

My biggest pleasure about going to Target is the clearance sections. I love love love clearence! Really I love clearence at any store. In order for me to buy regular price it has to be something I absolutely must have. My kids on the other hand, I do buy regular price, but I always look in the clearance section first.

I've decided to share some of my fashion finds from Target clearance. Some women get a buzz from couponing, I get a buzz from finding awesome clearence pieces! Then double buzz when I get compliments and shock people when I say "$8 bucks at Target"! It puts a smile on my face all day!

Check out this weeks Target Thursday look...

• Yellow Peplum Top - Target Xhileration Clearance $5.08 was $16.99
• Orange Red Pencil Skirt - Target Merona Clearance $6.88 was $22.99
• Cream Sweater - Target Xhileration Old - Raided from my closet
• Nude Heels with Bow - Target Xhileration Old - Raided from my closet but I remember paying $14
• Pearl Necklace - Garage Sale

Total Look $11.96

Looking at that number makes me a giddy girl!! Make sure to check out some more of my Target Thursday fashion updates.

Happy Belated Easter...

So it's been awhile since I've been on here and I have to say I've missed it. I changed departments at work and well just got busy with life. Not to mention sickness plagued my house big time! My kids were sick, my mom got sick then I got sick...it was flu fest at the Ventura residency. But all is well now and I'm back!

How was every one's Easter? It seemed as if we celebrated Easter all weekend. Last Friday my son's class had a Spring Party along with an egg hunt. He came home and told me that they served pancakes in class with strawberries and syrup. He proceeds to tell me that one of the moms made the pancakes and they were "plain brown with no dark marks like yours Mom" Hmmm...so I guess he doesn't like my lightly burned pancakes. Sorry Son, I will try to make my pancakes "plain brown" next time.

Then on Friday night we colored Easter eggs. I've been seeing on Pinterest the egg coloring technique using Kool-Aid and sorry to say but the colors weren't as vibrant as the little egg coloring tablets you get in the store. Plus using the Kool-Aid you had to leave the eggs in the colored water longer and that just wasn't going over to well....let's just say little hands and bowls filled with colored water = a great big mess. Along with the Kool-Aid water we did use the coloring tablets as well and used glue, glitter, pink sand and pipe cleaners to add to the decor. Also I didn't boil the eggs as I normally do. This time I hollowed them out by blowing the yolk out one end then filling them up with confetti. Our eggs came out great! And on Easter day we smashed eggs on each others heads. It was fun!

On Saturday our city celebrated Bunny Days at the local community center. They had games and there was a chance to get your picture taken with the Easter Bunny, but that line was super long and I know my daughter was going to loose her sh** if she saw him. We did see two guys dressed up as Batman and Robin and even that freaked her out! She's not into seeing characters too much, except if it's a Disney princess. My son on the other hand happily posed with Batman and Boy Wonder.

She did like Cinderella!

Then on Sunday we went to church and after church my sister-in-law and her family came over to our house and we barbecued ribs and hot dogs for the kids. It was a pretty relaxed dinner. Then we had our own egg hunt with my two kids and my niece and nephew. Overall it was a pretty relaxed day. I'm glad we had a relaxed dinner. Sometimes I put so much pressure on myself for everything to be perfect and then find myself frustrated that nothing went my way. This time I just let things fall into place. It was a good day!



Happiness...

Do you ever have days that you feel so happy you just want to smell the flowers, jump for joy and conquer the world! I'm having one of those days and it's not because of anything in particular I just feel happy!

Hallelujah! Houston I think we're potty trained!

Yay!!! I am so excited about this joyous event in our house that I just have to blog about it!! My baby girl will be turning 3yrs old next month and we have been working on potty training in what seems like forever! Actually we started not to long after she turned 2 yrs old. At the time we didn't really push it because of we felt she was still young but we wanted to introduce it, but for the past week she's been going "potty" all by herself! I don't even take her anymore! She says, "I gotta go potty"!, and runs to the bathroom! I'm hugging myself with glee!!! I tell my kids all the time I want them to stay babies but the whole potty training bit is for the birds! I'm so proud of her!