Extreme Make Over Part 2

Well Monday was CRAZY busy at the Extreme Make-Over house. With deadline looming everyone was running around crazy! But the difference in the house from when we left on Friday and came back on Monday was insane! The house was up, the window was in (must have solved that problem), the floors were done, the rooms had paint and wall paper, the bathrooms were complete, the kitchen was done and the laundry room was to die for! I basically just cleaned the floors for about 3 hours and then we were hustled into the basement so they could film upstairs. We worked for a bit on the 2 bedrooms in the basement, but then stopped and realized they probably forgot about us as we had been in the basement for about another hour! We heard the crowd outside cheering, so we went upstairs to see them filming the "unload the furniture" scene. We snuck out the backdoor and went down to the food tent for some dinner. When we came back to the house we were turned away (by some very cranky designer assistant) and told to come back to clean in about an hour. Well that was at 7 and our shift was done at 8, so we left. We never got to see Ty ;( But this house is amazing! We did see Michael again, (he seemed cranky) We saw Ed again, and this other chick designer that I do not know. Pauli was there, on his cell phone or what we thought was Pauli...but turned out to be a producer of the show...lol...I am so happy that I was able to take part in this and to have a chance to see a behind the scenes of this show that our family loves to watch!

Extreme Make Over Home Edition....

Sorry for the delay in the update, I have been fighting a horrible cold and sore throat! Mick actually asked me to stop talking on Saturday because I sound too much like a man! LOL....Anyway-Ty was not there on Friday when I worked, I worked from 2 pm to 8pm and had a blast! I pretty much just worked in the basement and tried to keep the mess to a minimum. A few friends and I had to climb into the crawl space and push broom that out-let me tell you that my thighs were killing after that! We also helped carry out excess supplies and swap out de-humidifiers and massive fans so help the drying process of the floors and dry wall mud. I did see Michael, he was wearing leather pants! Let me remind you that is was raining and freezing! Leather pants? He came in and did a few takes by the HUGE bird cage they are building in the house. I also saw Ed, he actually looked more like a volunteer, he was in jeans and a sweatshirt and did a few takes. Also-Pauli was there, he was outside helping the carpenters figure out a problem-the MASSIVE picture window was too big to fit! I think they have it in now tho....it was really funny though because in the show it looks like the designers are there the whole time working and that is soooooo not true! They ride up in their little gators and hop off and do a few takes and then head back to the comfort of the warm, dry trailers! Ty was in Pennsylvania doing a home reveal on Friday, but I heard he was back in town now, so maybe I will get to see him today! We are not allowed to bring cameras, but a few of my friends have picture phones so I will post some pics of me in my hard hat when I get some! Oh and I know you are jealous- I have my own blue Extreme Make Over T-shirt now!

Rub a dub dub

2 babies in the tub
and who do you think they would be?
A cute little blond boy whose name is Luke
and he's about to turn 3!
Another little blondie whose name is Em
and she is as cute as can be!

Extreme Make-Over Home Edition...

is coming to town! Well, they are already here, as they arrived this morning and suprised an amazing family in Pekin! The family is off to Orlando, Fl for the week while everyone back here works endlessly over the next 7 days to give this family an awesome gift. And guess what?! I am going to be helping out!!! I will at the house for 6 hours on Friday and again on Monday! The reveal is on Tuesday, so I am really hoping to be able to see the house...oh and see TY! I just saw him on the news and told Mick that it made my "heart jump!" He then replied "Well, the only person that makes my heart jump is you honey." Oh how sweet! Yeah Right LOL, if Jennifer Aniston or Gwen Stefani were in town he would have his "heart a jumpin`". ;0)But seriously though, this is such an awesome oppourtunity and I just know that this will make a huge difference in this family's life. They family is from Pekin and they have fostered over 250 children in their home and they have 5 (I only think one is adopted). The little boy has dwarfism and "brittle bone disease" and basically just pushing an elevator button can break his little fingers. Can't wait to see what the design team comes up with! I will be sure to let you know when the show will ait also. For more info about this family check out www.week.com or www.pjstar.com

Flowers and Buzz??

Here are the babies ready for Howl-Zoo-Ween tonight!! Luke was pretty excited, but I do not think he really knew why...LOL. Once we got there though, he quickly caught on and had his bag filled with treats! The zoo was pretty cool at night and it was lite up with a ton of orange Halloween lights and decor! Luke... I mean Buzz... loved jumping in the big blow up bouncer as well. Emily just hung out in her stroller- it was pretty chilly, so I think she was happy to be all bundled up and nice and toasty! Well, even though Halloween is still 2 weeks away...Happy Halloween!!!!

Dadadadadadadada.....

All Emily says anymore is dadadadadadadada.....she has some serious tone changes though so it is hilarious to listen too. Her new thing is to carry these keys in her mouth all over the house- She will probably want a really nice car when she gets her license! LOL

This one is for the Sandbergs

As promised to Kindrid- here is a picture of Sargent. I know that he misses you Kindrid and Brennan, as do all of the rest of us Dobra's! Also- thank you for giving us your old baby gear as well. Kindrid's bedding set from her crib has a new home in Emily's pink bedroom and this jumper used to be yours as well! Hard to believe that your baby just turned 5 and that my baby girl is now using them! Talk about recycling ;)

SMILES!!!!!

I honestly think this is the first photo I have taken of Emily when she is totally smiling!!!! Too Cute! She is 7 months old and such a happy girl now!

Time for Tanners!

Took the kiddos to Tanners Orchard this morning and we had lots of fun! Here is Luke kissing Emily's hand after we picked some apples and below Luke is searching for the perfect pumpkin! He told me on the way home that he did not want his pumpkin to get rained on though....not sure what to do about that one yet....LOL

How much did CVS pay you??!!

LOL! That's right! I was paid to take all of this off of the CVS shelf's today! My total savings for this shopping trip was $126.93 after coupons and CVS sales! And my year to date savings is $1119.62 since I began CVSing in June!!! My original total was $61 and some change and after my coupons it was down to 6.82 which I put on a free CVS Gift card I received for transferring a prescription to them (and with as much as I am there why not get my refills there??!!). I received $17.79 back in ECB's, my largest ever!! So since I had a free gift card and spent nothing out of my own checkbook I was essentially paid $17.7p for all of this! Oh and if you can not see the picture real well here is a run down of all I got: 1 Gillette Fusion Razor, 2 Sunsilk hair products, 2 Benadryl to-go packages, 2 Covergirl make-ups, 4 bottles of Dawn dish soap, 1 Contour meter, 2 Hershey's bars and a package of m&m's. I still have 4 more coupons for the Dawn dish soap, so I plan on running back there later this week to stock on more free dish soap! I *LOVE* CVS!!!!!

Bath Time!

My babies love taking their evening baths together now and it is bringing back so many memories from when I was little and would take a bath with my brother. And no it is not GROSS! We were like 2 and 3! LOL Anyway-Luke loves helping wash Emily and Emily loves trying to catch and eat anything that gets too close! In fact, she was probably trying to catch the camera in this shot!

All About Emily!

Wow- I can not believe how fast Emily is growing up! It makes me sad when I think about her not really being an itty bitty baby anymore. She is holding her bottle by herself (for the most part) and she started crawling last week! This baby girl is going to be a hand full! She loves going after her big brother's toys and sippy cups too. Luke is very good with her and usually remembers to take things from her gently. Her eyes are still super blue and just beautiful! Her hair is still pretty light and she has little rubberband thighs and arms that are delicious to nibble on! She is getting around so well already-it is shocking! It feels like we just brought home yesterday~but it has already been 6 1/2 months!

Best CVS by far!

I have been to CVS a ton the last few weeks, but since our home computer crashed I can not load pictures right now. Mick is letting me use his laptop today (thanks Sweetie!) so I can catch up on emails and some other computer-related stuff. So in my last trip to CVS I bought 4 Rightguard Deodorant's (on sale for $2.89 and you earned $2.oo ECB's for each stick) and 1 Contour Blood Glucose Monitoring System on sale for $14.99 and earning $5.oo ECB'S. (I know I do not need the Contour system, but I plan on donating it) So I used a $2/10 coupon, 4 $1 cp's for the deodorant and a $14.99 coupon for the system (See why I bought it now?...if not... it was FREE and I was paid $5.00 to take it off their shelf!) I did use a $5.oo ECB and afterwards my total was .15 cents! I know!!!!! 15 CENTS!!!!!! And I earned $13.oo ECB's for next week! SWEET!

In other exciting family news Mick and I are planning on taking a trip for our 5 year wedding anniversary coming up in May. We have not decided where we want to go yet, but we both know we want to be gone for about 5 days and really just relax and focus on eachother. The kiddos will be staying with grandparents of course and having a blast! I will be done nursing Emily by then too!

Speaking of the kiddos-they are growing up so fast! We still can not believe that Emily is 6 months old now and is just days away from crawling! Last night she did 1 full rotation (moved both arms and legs forward) before she fell flat. So I guess you could say she took her first crawl! ;) Luke is wonderful and loves hugging and kissing on Em. He is very excited as I took him shopping for his first belt the other day and he loves running around showing everyone his "belt like daddy!". Oh and did you know that I am a princess? No-you didn't? Well Luke says so! He told me the other day "Mommy- you my Princess" and I said "Aww-thanks Sweetie and you are my Prince" his response was "No mommy I a Knight!" You can bet that made Mick smile!! It was sweet. I can not wait to get some pictures so I can do a scrap book page about that conversation!

Speaking of scrapping I have completed 4 pages in Em's scrapbook so far! Now for you non-scrappers that seems like nothing, but as CS and KG can attest that is HUGE! I am still very far behind, but life is slowly starting to show some routine and allowing me to have some "me" time in the basement working on the scrapbooks.

As soon as we get the computer situation worked out I will add some pics of the kiddos. Sorry!

Summer concert continued...

Summer Concert Fun!

We took the kids to the final free summer concert last night sponsered by WCIC. Aaron Shust is the artist we saw last night and he rocked! Luke had a great time playing football with daddy while waiting for the concert to start and once the music started Luke loved it! He danced and sang and prayed and had a great time! Emily was all smiles until she fell asleep 2 minutes into the concert-go figure I couldnt get that girl to nap at all yesterday, but as soon as the loud music started she crashed!