Holy Cow...it's an Update!

I'll be the first to confess it's getting harder to sit down and update my blog like I used to. Especially this time of year when my to do list is HUGE and never seems to end. Like today..went to strip our bed and wanted Scott to help me flip and turn the mattress. It's a double pillow top so it takes two of us to do this. Anyways..not to be gross..but when we moved it we saw puppy Peso has appearantly tinkled a time or two or three under our bed!!!!!!!!!! AAAHHH and therefore I had to clean the rug before we could put things back. So..when I started that I realized and saw the bedskirt was dirty, the quilt dirty..you get it right. Well I can't wash a king size quilt at home..so this spun off a trip after work to the laundromat. Gee..what fun. But it's a good thing. I washed the quilt, mattress pad and my Xmas quilt..so everything's nice and clean. But that's how things get thrown off when you have plans to do other things.

So Thanksgiving is over and that means time to decorate the house. We worked this last weekend on the outside since the weather was really nice. Took FOREVER to clean out the garage and hang the lights! OMG it's getting harder and longer each year and we're young!LOL I woke up Saturday so darn sore and had hurt my back plus Friday night had an allergy attack that lingered Saturday. So it took a while to get my pep up if it ever did. But the work paid off as you can see here..

Friends of ours, Jill and Steve, very kindly gave us their Santa as they weren't planning on displaying it. The kids were really excited and funny as I was thinking we needed one! So many hours of work pays off and the neighborhood kids are praising our house! HA Sometimes it feels like a competition between whose house can look more like the Griswald's.LOL

Let's see what else..got some great pictures of everyone on Thanksgiving..here we all are..





and I can't forget Peso..here's one of him..


so other than trips to the Laundromat, watching The DaVinci Code(liked the book better!,decorating the outside of the house..inside this coming weekend, scrapbook crop, and that..we're not too terribly exciting!

I'll leave you with a new layout I'm crazy over!



Have a good one..

Julia

Wow I am way behind

I haven't been here since August. A lot has been going on. I am still knitting and crocheting though. I am also trying to learn HTML so I can venture further in to designing my own ebay pages. I am also doing my own knitting needles. I have taught a knitting class on knitting with wire and hope to do another one soon.

For Deidre...

I hereby dedicate this post to my buddy Deidre who reminded me I needed to update my blog. My bad..she's right. I think about it and then get sidetracked which is the story of my life lately. I always get started on something and then one of the kids or Scott needs something and then I lose my focus and forget what I was going to do. Go start something else..remember I was doing something else..and now have many things going on all which don't get finished. Sound familiar? Yep..that's me in a nutshell.

So what's new you ask? Had a busy weekend with birthday parties, errands in search of a backpack that wouldn't break. Haley broke two straps on two different bags since school started and wanted a specific one. Thank goodness I found it. Sunday we were invited to join our friends Jill and Steve and go with them to the Rams game. They have season tickets and we were too happy to say yes! Only my 2nd Rams game. Although you'd think it was a KS Chiefs stadium given how many of their fans were in the dome. WOW! Lots of red! We had alot of fun with them though.

Cleaning up around here from Halloween. I am going to reshoot some pictures with Parker as I realized I didn't get a single picture of him standing with his costume and we forgot to put his mustache on. So today before gymnastics..a Halloween retake!LOL Plus I want to have the kids put the big witch and frankenstein away this weekend..no more Halloween decorations. Enough! Can you believe last night I say a house here off Becker with Xmas decorations up?OMG!!!!!!!! NOOOO!LOL

I don't think I posted any pics of the kids on Halloween though..so here you go.




and here's a new one of Senor Peso..next to impossible to catch a busy puppy for a picture!



I do better with these!



or these..LOL


Okay that's about it for now. I'll be gone this weekend! I leave Friday morning for the Lake with some very very very fun women for the Crop & Shop! Can't wait!

Here's my latest..with Paper Salon papers...love this pic of Haley and if I do say..this layout ROCKS!



That's it..

Julia