Manic Monday

Good morning/good afternoon everyone!! :-) This will be a short blog as this really is a Manic Monday for me, but I wanted to say hi and at least post a little blog. I have gotten a few emails from people who say they read my blog and can't wait to hear more from me. That's so sweet, thanks everyone, I promise I will be a lot more interesting if you bare with me for the next couple of weeks as things settle down here. Also be sure to add yourself my followers list. :-)
I hope everyone had a fabulous holiday weekend, if you went Black Friday shopping I hope you got some awesome deals. Ours was busy but great. :-)

It snowed a bit here last night, not enough to actually be anything but a little bit counts. :-) So of course its pretty cold here so we'll be staying inside.

Anyway house/mommy duties call so I will end for now, I may post another blog later on if I can. For now Happy Monday!! :-)

So Much to do Sunday

Had a late start to the day today. I was up late last night, I tally lost track of time as I usually do when I get into a project. On the plus side my mom had my little guy this morning so I was able to sleep in and catch up on some much needed sleep. So definitely feeling less tired and more energized today.

Hoping to get a TON done today. I would like to finish reorganizing bedrooms today, go through Ender's toys and get rid of things he know longer plays with. I would also like to do some rearranging, and get the Christmas tree up by Wednesday. But we have added some things since last year, like 3 frogs, so that means 3 new froggy habitats. So I would like to get them onto their stands and into their permanent places. And I need to finish refinishing Ender's new dresser and get that into his room. So we'll see how much I can get done today and over the next few days.

On the down side my hurt hand is REALLY hurting and bothering me, its looking pretty bad. Its very red and sore and acting like a burn, but I didn't burn it. So I have to baby it some and will probably go see my dr. if it doesn't improve in the next day or so.

I also have a pretty busy week ahead of me beside the things I'd like to get done around the house. Monday (tomorrow) I will be heading to Denver with my brothers girlfriend so she can meet with a breeder and pick up a new poison dart frog. So we'll probably do a little Christmas shopping while we're up that way too. Tuesday I need to run some errands. Wednesday I hope to get the tree up, see my allergist. then its family game night at my oldest brothers again. Thursday I hope to finish getting the Christmas decorations up, maybe take pictures, and also told Ender we would try to go see Alpha and Omega at the theater. Friday will be Twilight day, getting ready and then heading to the midnight release of Eclipse. (SO EXCITED!!!!!!!)

I hope everyone is having a great weekend and has a great week. Will blog again soon. TTFN. :-)

Sleepy Saturday

Hello everyone!! Happy belated Thanksgiving!! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. :-) Well its been a few days since I've posted a blog, I've been super busy. Thursday was of course a huge family day with everyone in my family getting together. Then I headed to Toys-R-Us at midnight for the beginning of the Black Friday sales. Got some awesome deals on some things for my little guy. But not sure I'll do that again. They were only letting 50 people into the store at a time, so I spent 2 hours outside in 15 degrees freezing my butt off. Then once inside it was a mad house, then spent about 2 1/2 hours in line to pay. But I did get some fantastic deals, missed a lot of things on my list, but hey ho that's the way it goes. :-)  
One of the things I did pick up and I'm kicking myself for not buying more of them is a nice plastic bin with a ton of Crayola art supplies (crayons, markers, scissors, paints & brushes, model magic, construction paper, and some other things I'm forgetting) inside for $9.99, well worth the money and will come in very handy.
Got home from there at about 5:45am, got a couple of hours of sleep, then my mom and I took Ender to the movie theater to see Toy Story 3 before its gone. He did AMAZINGLY at the movies, was quite pretty much the whole time and very into watching the movie. So I'll probably make this a weekly or every other week outing for he and I with Grandma coming with us when she can.
Today we kind of took it easy as everyone was still recovering from the last couple of days. Ender got up at 4am today and didn't nap at all, so I'm pretty sleepy, I think I've gotten about 7 hours of sleep total in the last 2 days. So hopefully I'll get some sleep tonight and be refreshed tomorrow, I've got a ton of stuff I'd like to get done.
Tonight before I head to bed I'm hoping to finish up the reorganizing of my scrapbook stuff and proof a paper for a class I'm taking. We'll see how that goes.
Does anyone know what happens ONE WEEK from today? The release of the twilight saga: eclipse DVD?!?! I'm so excited I have been waiting for this for what seems like FOREVER!! LOL So me and my twilight group we call ourselves the Twi- ♥ - Posse LOL will be out Friday night for the Midnight release!! :-) Are you Team Edward or Team Jacob?!
Anyway for now I'm going to say goodnight and leave you with a picture of my little one and I from Thanksgiving. :-)

Simply Wednesday

Well I didn't get a chance to post a blog yesterday due to a line break in the area so know one in my area had any power for most of the day, and no power means to no modem. So instead I did some art projects with Ender, started reorganizing my scrapbook stuff, and went through a ton of photos.
On to today....Its pretty cold here and we are under a blizzard warning at the moment, which I'm honestly pretty stoked about and hoping for a nice amount of snow. But we'll see this is Colorado weather after all anything can happen.

We also have a new froggy family member. I first saw this little guy on Sunday when I went to the pet store to get food for our others two frogs. He was still there today and I couldn't resist. He is a Dumpy tree frog, he's still young and will grow to about 2 1/2-3 inches. His name is Kiwi, here are a few pictures.

I also hurt my left hand today. I slipped and scraped up the top of it and took some chunks out of it, so its all bandaged and wrapped up making some things hard to do.

I also have a few projects I'm going to start working on, probably after New Years but we'll see. For now I'm going to say goodnight and hopefully I'll get more time to blog this weekend.

Manic Monday

Happy Monday everyone!! So we didn't end up having a Harry Potter movie marathon last night. We ended up watching some of the original Nightmare on Elm Streets instead and playing board games. It was a great family night. :-) Didn't get a lot of sleep so pretty tired today.
Today was spent doing a little reorganizing, some Christmas shopping, and I got everything together for 3 art projects for my little guy and I to do this week. And I also got a bunch of Christmas/Winter projects together for us to do during December. Oh and I got our yearly gingerbread house today, we have been doing these since he was teeny tiny.

Today's project was just a turkey coloring page but was a lot of fun just the same, here are a couple of pictures.
The one on the left was the first one he did but he accidentally poked a hole in it and of course that made him sad, so we did another. :-)


And of course one of Ender and his Turkey. :-)

Good Morning!!

I hope everyone is having a wonderful Sunday!! I'm feeling lazy and running behind today as usual on Sundays. LOL Its super windy and chilly here today so finally had to officially pull out all of the winter gear. I just wish we would get some snow, the way I see it if its going to be cold at least give me some snow!! :-)
Had a crazy day yesterday. My attempt to finish up my Holiday stationary yesterday was a flop because my program decided to stop working all together, I don't know what that's all about but fine. I see that as a sign to get off the computer and do some actual hand crafting, but that ended when one of our frogs (ok its really a toad and good size one at that) Nessie magically got loose all on its own. ;-) I tell you never a dull moment around here. :-)
The baby (yes even at 4 he's still my baby) is finally feeling better and getting over this horrible cold going around. My voice is FINALLY back. WOOOHOOO!! Does anyone have any idea how hard it is for me to rest my voice?! Haha
Not a whole lot going on today....finishing up laundry and then the baby and are off this afternoon to spend the night at my oldest brothers and have a Harry Potter movie marathon!! Still need to see the new one, first time we haven't seen one opening day. Should be fun.
Planning to do some Thanksgiving art projects with my little guy this week. Other then that not a whole lot going on today. Should have more to share later in the week.
Also I wanted to share one of my favorite crafters websites/blog. I absolutely LOVE this lady she is amazing and so inspiring!! You can check that out here sewhooked

Anyway that's all for now. Have a good Sunday everyone. :-)

My First Blog Post

Hello blogging world. I'm finally getting around to doing something with the blog I created a couple of weeks ago. Having a killer cold that has held on for a few weeks has really gotten the better of me and put me behind in everything. So I decided to create a blog mainly for myself, but if others find it, like it, and decide to follow along that's great!! :-) I decided on My Muddled Madness because it seemed very fitting. I'm completely random at times, and like a whole slew of random things, and have a whole slew of random hobbies. Things I don't think all of my friends always want to see or hear about on my facebook or otherwise, so I thought I'd take all my Muddled Madness and create my own little blog corner. :-)

But above all else I am a mom. My name is Aly, I'm 26 and I have one amazing little boy who is 4 years old. I'm finding that this winter is going to be hard as he is totally an outside kind of guy, and here in Colorado its often too cold to play outside. So I'm sure I'll be trying to coming up all kinds of indoor activities to keep him entertained, and will surely be blogging about them as well. :-)

But for now its about 50 degrees outside so time to get some fresh air maybe take a walk with my little guy, laundry calls, as do other chores, and I want to finish my holiday stationary. Bye for now :-)