Beautiful!

This is one of the great things about living in the country! Sunsets and Sunrises out here are absolutely beautiful!! This photo was taken this fall.

Now who wouldn't want to have this to look at every night.!!

Old Birthday card.

I am not a "saver". For the most part I love to throw stuff away. If I am in the cleaning mood, my goal is to see how many bags of stuff I can take out of the house. This can be good and it can also be bad.

However, cards are the one thing I do keep forever. This card is one I receive from Tim probably 10 plus years ago.


I love it!

Too much time on your hands

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0LtUX_6IXY

Christmas Gift

This is what my husband gave me for Christmas. If you are really nice I will share it with you.

Do you feel the love?

He couldn't wait for me to open it.

Mikkena's to do list

Mikkena woke up this morning with a long list of what she wanted to do today. I am not sure why, but folding laundry and cleaning out the pencil/pen drawer were top on the list.

I am having a hard time getting my to do lists started. I guess she is just trying to get me motivated. Maybe I should send her to the store to get our Christmas shopping done.

Art

I love this picture that Mikkena made for me.

There is something about child artwork that makes me smile.

My favorite Anniversary card

I found this card for Tim a few years ago. I just love it.

When I found it our anniversary was 11 months away, but I just had to buy it.

I have it posted by my desk.

Still funny after all those years.

Eatting while Hungry

Its 10:45pm and we just just got home from Cub. Its been a long day and I guess I didn't feed myself very well. You know what they say about shopping while your hungry. Well, I really didn't buy too much junk food. My problem...... I lost my self control once I got home.
I ate 8 pieces of honey ham, 1/4 jar of Zinger sweet & hot pickles and part of a M&M cookie. Can you say stomach ache!!

I put away everything that needs to be in the fridge or freezer; the rest can wait until the morning. I am going to bed. What kinda of dreams to you get from ham, pickles and m&m cookies. Tune in tomorrow to find out.

Winter

I am not a huge fan of Winter, but these are my favorite kind of mornings.

Years ago one of the children wondered how glitter got sprinkled over everything. (Kelli was right- you need to right these things down. You think you will remember who said it and how, but that's not how it works.).

Christmas hair

Here is the Christmas hair-do.

The green looks better in real life.

The colors aren't as bright as usual because we didn't re-bleach it.

bears, beets....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wNEr92GJug

My husband

Tim wanted me to blog tonight. This is what he wanted me to say:



Bears

Beets

Battlestar Galactica

Looking to borrow a book.

If you give your teenager too much space your ignoring her.
If you try to interact with her she says your bugging her and tells you to go away.

Does anyone have an extra Teenage How To Manual ? I seem to have misplaced mine.

A Few Thoughts

1. Most of my Christmas decorations have glue holding them together. I can't tell you how many heads I have glued back on just this last week. Those poor wise men just don't have strong necks.

2. If you want to know when we are getting a lot of snow (You know- enough to have to plow the driveway) just call and ask if my husband is out of town. If he is gone, then Yes we are getting lots.

3. When I plow the driveway it doesn't look anything like it does when Tim does it. I am sure he will laugh when he sees it. It's way harder to plow than I thought it would be. (It was kind of fun though- but I was a little nervous that I would break his 4-wheeler )

4. I can think of lots of things to blog about, until my fingers are touching the keyboard.

Bad day

Having a bad day today.

The kind of day that you question if your capable of raising children.

Seriously, I am not sure I can do this.

Ps: Mom: I am so sorry for all the things I said and did as a teenager. To think I could have ever made you feel as bad as I do right now makes me feel terrible.

The Kid's rooms III

This is Mikale's room. 5 1/2 years ago when we moved he wanted a "Jungle Room". The top part is blue (Sky), the bottom part is green bush like. You can't really see it, but in between is a jungle border that is very cute. Mikale has wanted to re-paint is room for the last year or so. He wants to paint it Camouflage. We will probably try to re-paint it. Mikale does a pretty good job at keeping his room clean, so it wasn't too hard to get ready. Mikale is NOT a collector, sometimes I have to encourage him to keep things.

The Kid's rooms II

Here is Megan's Room. This was the easiest room. Megan does a great job keeping her room clean and organized. A few years ago she took all her toys out of her room and gave them to Mikkena (toy horses, barn, stuffed animals.. etc.)

The Kid's rooms

Here are 2 different views of Mikkena's Room. This was the most difficult room to get ready.

Can we say :Too many little toys?

Polly Pockets, Little Pet Shop Animals........and so on. Mikkena is a collector and doesn't like to throw anything away. I just packed tons of stuff into boxes, and put them in the closet.

House Cleaner

I have been cleaning, organizing and so on for the last 2 weeks. Getting the house picture perfect. The idea of someone coming to take pictures to post on the Internet just freaks me out! Just what every women wants- photos of their homemaking skills posted for the world to see. Well I am done- the Realtor came- photos were taken. Thank Goodness!! I think my children were about to have me committed. So how tacky would it be to post photos of my EXTREMLY clean house on my blog? I am not sure I can ever get it this clean ever again!! Someone come buy my house!

To do list

Mowing the grass one last time was on Tim's to do list today. Here he is! The kids were mad because he is recking the snow.