We hope everyone has a safe and fun day with lots of candy!!!
Love,
Amy, Chris, and Madi
Friday, October 31, 2008
Monday, October 27, 2008
Camping
With the exception of Saturday being so nice, I feel like we have been camping in our own home for the last couple of weeks. We spend the day all bundled up and at night we sleep with two comforters on the bed. We have avoided turning on the heater. It's silly, we only get one month of nice weather where we don't need the a/c or the heater. But it's nice getting that electric bill and having it significantly lower than all the other months. We were out and about this morning and stopped at the shop. I was sitting there talking with Chris and the heater kicks on. It made me a little mad because it was 60 degrees in the house this morning, it was cold. He goes to work and turns on his heater, while we stay at home and freeze. When we got home a little bit ago, it was still 60 degrees in the house. The heater came on. I'm so tired of being cold. We shouldn't have to have it on for too long because it's supposed to warm up again for the rest of the week.
We are looking forward to Friday. Going to try and get Madi all dressed up for Halloween. She says she wants to be a farmer and a cowgirl. I told her she could be both. It should be a fun year for Halloween. We practiced saying "Trick or Treat" the other day.
Hope everyone has a great week and a Happy Halloween! I'm going to enjoy warming up this afternoon, hehe!!
Love, Amy
We are looking forward to Friday. Going to try and get Madi all dressed up for Halloween. She says she wants to be a farmer and a cowgirl. I told her she could be both. It should be a fun year for Halloween. We practiced saying "Trick or Treat" the other day.
Hope everyone has a great week and a Happy Halloween! I'm going to enjoy warming up this afternoon, hehe!!
Love, Amy
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
New Look!
Let me know what you think of the new blog layout. I liked the old one, but I love all the colors in this new one. Just trying out something new.
If you want your own, new blog layout, checkout Simply Fabulous. The best part, they are free!! Who doesn't love free stuff. Also, checkout my fun places to go buttons on the right. I found Simply Fabulous from Tip Junkie. Loving that site also!!
My favorites on my computer is growing larger and larger. Sorry Chris, but my new homepage is going to have to be my blog!!
Love, Amy
If you want your own, new blog layout, checkout Simply Fabulous. The best part, they are free!! Who doesn't love free stuff. Also, checkout my fun places to go buttons on the right. I found Simply Fabulous from Tip Junkie. Loving that site also!!
My favorites on my computer is growing larger and larger. Sorry Chris, but my new homepage is going to have to be my blog!!
Love, Amy
Family Update
Not much going on around here. Chris is still super busy at work with no end in sight. Which is great because of all the hype about the economy but it doesn't look like we will be getting a vacation this year. Which is okay too. A little nervous about taking Madi in a vehicle for longer than an hour!
We finally made a turn around in Madi's sleeping this last weekend. For two weeks we have had quite the battle on our hands at night getting her to sleep in her own bed. But like always, it stopped as abruptly as it started. But we will see how things go the rest of the week with the rain and storms that we are supposed to get the next four days. Her being scared of thunder and the rain is what started all this two weeks ago. Other than that, Madi is doing great. A couple of weeks ago I brought home a bunch of stuff that had been in storage at mom and dads. I had two big cases of Barbie's and clothes and Madi has fallen in love with them. She loves to play with her "Darbies" as she calls them. Right now they are littering the floor of my sewing room. She can't really change their clothes or anything but she likes to lay them all out and cover them up. If I talk, I get "SHHHHHH, Darbie is sleeping." So this weekend I found a Barbie bed and a sand buggy at a garage sale for her to play with. She loves them, I'll have to find some more things at garage sales. Makes it so much cheaper. Her other favorite thing right now is Play-doh. I got out the little cookie cutters I have and she has had a ball.
Oliver is doing better. He is no longer doing his coughing thing. He is still as grouchy as ever and it gets soo loud in the house when him and Madi get going. I think he is partly to blame on her getting so amped up, especially at night. They just run and run and she gets crazy. But he always chases after her and she thinks he is just the coolest. She calls him "her pet" and gives him kisses.
I have been busy with my many sewing projects I have going right now. Mom came over Sunday and we spent all day trying to finish up the crayon rolls for Tabatha's class. We had a lot of fun. But we sure make a lot of mistakes when we are working together. We get to talking and being goofy and forget what we are doing and what we are supposed to be doing. It's still a lot of fun and something we used to do before Madi came and haven't really been able to do much the last couple of years. I spent part of yesterday down at the shop doing payroll and bills. Today we have to go back down and get invoices sent out. I am also trying to get collection letters sent out today. We will see how that goes and hopefully these people will PAY UP!!
Better get busy and out the door!!
Love, Amy
We finally made a turn around in Madi's sleeping this last weekend. For two weeks we have had quite the battle on our hands at night getting her to sleep in her own bed. But like always, it stopped as abruptly as it started. But we will see how things go the rest of the week with the rain and storms that we are supposed to get the next four days. Her being scared of thunder and the rain is what started all this two weeks ago. Other than that, Madi is doing great. A couple of weeks ago I brought home a bunch of stuff that had been in storage at mom and dads. I had two big cases of Barbie's and clothes and Madi has fallen in love with them. She loves to play with her "Darbies" as she calls them. Right now they are littering the floor of my sewing room. She can't really change their clothes or anything but she likes to lay them all out and cover them up. If I talk, I get "SHHHHHH, Darbie is sleeping." So this weekend I found a Barbie bed and a sand buggy at a garage sale for her to play with. She loves them, I'll have to find some more things at garage sales. Makes it so much cheaper. Her other favorite thing right now is Play-doh. I got out the little cookie cutters I have and she has had a ball.
Oliver is doing better. He is no longer doing his coughing thing. He is still as grouchy as ever and it gets soo loud in the house when him and Madi get going. I think he is partly to blame on her getting so amped up, especially at night. They just run and run and she gets crazy. But he always chases after her and she thinks he is just the coolest. She calls him "her pet" and gives him kisses.
I have been busy with my many sewing projects I have going right now. Mom came over Sunday and we spent all day trying to finish up the crayon rolls for Tabatha's class. We had a lot of fun. But we sure make a lot of mistakes when we are working together. We get to talking and being goofy and forget what we are doing and what we are supposed to be doing. It's still a lot of fun and something we used to do before Madi came and haven't really been able to do much the last couple of years. I spent part of yesterday down at the shop doing payroll and bills. Today we have to go back down and get invoices sent out. I am also trying to get collection letters sent out today. We will see how that goes and hopefully these people will PAY UP!!
Better get busy and out the door!!
Love, Amy
Monday, October 13, 2008
Cold, Dreary Monday
We received a lot of rain last night. Woke up this morning to a river in the back and in front. I was up most of the night with Madi but didn't think that it had rained that much, I sure didn't hear it. Madi has been sleeping horribly this week. The wind has freaked her out and she doesn't want to go to bed at night. Once she finally falls asleep, she is usually up again around 2 am and ends up sleeping the rest of the night in our room. And then nobody gets any sleep. I finally got her baby mattress back out and put it on our floor for her. She sure goes through these cycles of bad sleeping. I'm ready for this one to be over.
If it isn't Madi keeping us awake, it's Oliver. Since Friday morning he has been having these coughing spells and they are deep and loud. I took him to the vet Friday because he wasn't himself and hacking all over the floor, yuck. Ends up that he has pneumonia and is on antibiotics for two weeks. What a pain.
Saturday we had a pretty fun and adventurous day. We went to the Yesteryear Museum here in town for their Harvest in the Fall. They had a bunch of old tractors and people doing demonstrations of how people farmed and lived from the the late 1800's to the 1960's. It was a lot of fun and a lot of stuff to see. Chris knows one of the Board Members who also had several old tractors there that he restored. He needed some extra drivers for the tractor parade so Chris got to drive one. Chris will probably be out there next year with our tractor. The highlight of the event was the Steam Engine Tractor that was brought in for the show. It's from the 1880's and it was the first piece of farm equipment to be powered by something other than horses. It sure seemed like a lot of work. It took three guys to drive the thing and it was huge and slow. Pretty sure there weren't a lot of farmers in those days that owned them new.
Late afternoon we went to the Pumpkin Patch. Dan and Jane came out to pick up the lawn mower and ended up going with us. We took the tram out to see the Bison. Wasn't as neat as it was last year. They don't take you into the same pasture with them anymore and by the time we got out there, they had all moved to the opposite side of the field, so we didn't get to see them very well. But Madi didn't care. She had more fun pointing out all the "buffalo chips" than actually seeing the buffalo. The man behind us told his daughter to watch for buffalo chips when we got into the fields. She started yelling out, "there's a buffalo chip" and of course, Madi being the follower she is, started doing the same thing. So, the whole trip she was looking over the side and yelling out "there's a bufawo ship."
We then played in the kids area and went and picked out pumpkins. I have taken her out the last three Halloween's. The first year she slept in her car seat the whole time, last year she wandered around but didn't really care about the pumpkins and this year all she wanted to do was load up every pumpkin she could pick up. I ended up taking some pumpkins out of the wagon, she just kept putting them in. Each year she keeps getting more and more fun as she learns what we are doing and why. After I arranged the pumpkins on the front porch yesterday, she keeps picking them up and kissing them and saying "I wuv pumpkins!" I always try and get three different sized ones for each of us. As I laid them out, I told her "this one's daddy, this one's mommy, and this one is Madi." She turned to me and said, "where is Oliver's?" So, we rearranged so we had all four of us.
I included some pictures from our adventures on Saturday and also a little video of some of the cool things we saw. Enjoy and have a great week!
Love, Amy
If it isn't Madi keeping us awake, it's Oliver. Since Friday morning he has been having these coughing spells and they are deep and loud. I took him to the vet Friday because he wasn't himself and hacking all over the floor, yuck. Ends up that he has pneumonia and is on antibiotics for two weeks. What a pain.
Saturday we had a pretty fun and adventurous day. We went to the Yesteryear Museum here in town for their Harvest in the Fall. They had a bunch of old tractors and people doing demonstrations of how people farmed and lived from the the late 1800's to the 1960's. It was a lot of fun and a lot of stuff to see. Chris knows one of the Board Members who also had several old tractors there that he restored. He needed some extra drivers for the tractor parade so Chris got to drive one. Chris will probably be out there next year with our tractor. The highlight of the event was the Steam Engine Tractor that was brought in for the show. It's from the 1880's and it was the first piece of farm equipment to be powered by something other than horses. It sure seemed like a lot of work. It took three guys to drive the thing and it was huge and slow. Pretty sure there weren't a lot of farmers in those days that owned them new.
Late afternoon we went to the Pumpkin Patch. Dan and Jane came out to pick up the lawn mower and ended up going with us. We took the tram out to see the Bison. Wasn't as neat as it was last year. They don't take you into the same pasture with them anymore and by the time we got out there, they had all moved to the opposite side of the field, so we didn't get to see them very well. But Madi didn't care. She had more fun pointing out all the "buffalo chips" than actually seeing the buffalo. The man behind us told his daughter to watch for buffalo chips when we got into the fields. She started yelling out, "there's a buffalo chip" and of course, Madi being the follower she is, started doing the same thing. So, the whole trip she was looking over the side and yelling out "there's a bufawo ship."
We then played in the kids area and went and picked out pumpkins. I have taken her out the last three Halloween's. The first year she slept in her car seat the whole time, last year she wandered around but didn't really care about the pumpkins and this year all she wanted to do was load up every pumpkin she could pick up. I ended up taking some pumpkins out of the wagon, she just kept putting them in. Each year she keeps getting more and more fun as she learns what we are doing and why. After I arranged the pumpkins on the front porch yesterday, she keeps picking them up and kissing them and saying "I wuv pumpkins!" I always try and get three different sized ones for each of us. As I laid them out, I told her "this one's daddy, this one's mommy, and this one is Madi." She turned to me and said, "where is Oliver's?" So, we rearranged so we had all four of us.
I included some pictures from our adventures on Saturday and also a little video of some of the cool things we saw. Enjoy and have a great week!
Love, Amy
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Wow, what a difference one day can make. We had that nice slow rain all day yesterday and by 5:00, we had grass poking up out of the ground!! How exciting. You can see little patches of it coming up in the front and back.
I just could not wait to share this super cool craft project I have been working on for the last two days! These are crayon rolls and they hold 16 crayons and then roll up and stay snug in their little pockets. I think these are neat ideas. I hate trying to get crayons in and out of a crayon box and it is almost impossible for little ones. So instead of dumping out the whole box and having crayons roll everywhere, these are easy to slip in and out. Plus, how long does the box last anyways? Within 10 minutes, that thing is already been torn and the crayons really never stay in.
I made a girls and boys crayon roll. My mom and I are going to make these for Tabatha to give to her 1st grade class for Christmas. Plus, we have a lot of little ones coming for Christmas this year (hint, hint)!
Madi is still getting used to it. We don't do a lot of crayons unless we are coloring together. I am going to adapt the pattern and make one that will hold her Color Wonder Markers. I love them, she can color anywhere and anytime and I don't have to worry about making a mess.
If you want to make your own Crayon Roll, check out Skip to My Lou. She has awesome craft ideas for kids and kids to make. Plus tons and tons of other ideas. Or let me know and I can make some for you!
I just could not wait to share this super cool craft project I have been working on for the last two days! These are crayon rolls and they hold 16 crayons and then roll up and stay snug in their little pockets. I think these are neat ideas. I hate trying to get crayons in and out of a crayon box and it is almost impossible for little ones. So instead of dumping out the whole box and having crayons roll everywhere, these are easy to slip in and out. Plus, how long does the box last anyways? Within 10 minutes, that thing is already been torn and the crayons really never stay in.
I made a girls and boys crayon roll. My mom and I are going to make these for Tabatha to give to her 1st grade class for Christmas. Plus, we have a lot of little ones coming for Christmas this year (hint, hint)!
Madi is still getting used to it. We don't do a lot of crayons unless we are coloring together. I am going to adapt the pattern and make one that will hold her Color Wonder Markers. I love them, she can color anywhere and anytime and I don't have to worry about making a mess.
If you want to make your own Crayon Roll, check out Skip to My Lou. She has awesome craft ideas for kids and kids to make. Plus tons and tons of other ideas. Or let me know and I can make some for you!
Monday, October 6, 2008
Another Haircut!!
Chris and I worked down at the shop all weekend making bookshelves for downstairs. They turned out really great. We made three and since we didn't stain them, we were able to get them completely made in two days and are already in the basement. I've spent most of the morning getting our books and collectibles out of storage and getting things arranged. The downstairs is almost done, except for decorating. Next weekend the plan is to get the entertainment gadgets all hooked up and finished. We need to mount the projector and get the speakers mounted and all the wires run. I'm ready to get that done so we can start spending some time down there, other than just using it for Madi's track and field events.
I've also included some pics of the new furniture and our "tv room". It still seems sparse down there and we are debating on getting a couple of recliners. There is definitely room for them but we just have so much stinking furniture in this house now, I am tired of buying furniture.
So, while Chris and I were busy working on the bookshelves, Madi was running around the shop playing with everything she could get her hands on. Saturday, within 20 minutes of being there, she was a total dirt ball. Completely covered in dirt and marking chalk, her hands were black and her face was gross. Chris had gotten the shop all cleaned up last week so we brought her bike along for something to play with. Sunday she got bored and I started a movie for her in the office. I went in to check on her and she was sitting on the couch with scissors in her hand. I freaked out and took them from her and then noticed a big pile of hair on her lap. Then I really started to freak out. She had managed to chop off quite a bit of hair on the top of her head. It looks totally stupid and sticks up in the air but there is nothing I can do with it unless I chopped it all off. But I won't. I've been wanting to get her pictures done for months now. We were finally slowing down a bit around here that I was hoping to get them done within the next couple of weeks. Not anymore...I just hope it grows out enough by the time we get Christmas pics done. Needless to say, she went to Nana and Papa's shortly after this happened. This also confirms that she is a monkey, those scissors were on top of a filing cabinet and she had to have stood on the back of the couch to have reached them. I'm just glad she didn't cut herself or worse (shudder).
We have had a slow rain all day long so far. I am loving it!! I spent all last week watering the front and back yard. It literally takes me all day, moving hoses around, to get it all watered. It's giving me a nice break and I'm loving the free water too. I just hope it starts growing, we have yet to see anything poking out of the ground.
Well, need to get back to the basement. I am hoping to get started on my newest sewing project. I'll show you what I am working on next time!! Have a great week!!
Love, Amy
I've also included some pics of the new furniture and our "tv room". It still seems sparse down there and we are debating on getting a couple of recliners. There is definitely room for them but we just have so much stinking furniture in this house now, I am tired of buying furniture.
So, while Chris and I were busy working on the bookshelves, Madi was running around the shop playing with everything she could get her hands on. Saturday, within 20 minutes of being there, she was a total dirt ball. Completely covered in dirt and marking chalk, her hands were black and her face was gross. Chris had gotten the shop all cleaned up last week so we brought her bike along for something to play with. Sunday she got bored and I started a movie for her in the office. I went in to check on her and she was sitting on the couch with scissors in her hand. I freaked out and took them from her and then noticed a big pile of hair on her lap. Then I really started to freak out. She had managed to chop off quite a bit of hair on the top of her head. It looks totally stupid and sticks up in the air but there is nothing I can do with it unless I chopped it all off. But I won't. I've been wanting to get her pictures done for months now. We were finally slowing down a bit around here that I was hoping to get them done within the next couple of weeks. Not anymore...I just hope it grows out enough by the time we get Christmas pics done. Needless to say, she went to Nana and Papa's shortly after this happened. This also confirms that she is a monkey, those scissors were on top of a filing cabinet and she had to have stood on the back of the couch to have reached them. I'm just glad she didn't cut herself or worse (shudder).
We have had a slow rain all day long so far. I am loving it!! I spent all last week watering the front and back yard. It literally takes me all day, moving hoses around, to get it all watered. It's giving me a nice break and I'm loving the free water too. I just hope it starts growing, we have yet to see anything poking out of the ground.
Well, need to get back to the basement. I am hoping to get started on my newest sewing project. I'll show you what I am working on next time!! Have a great week!!
Love, Amy
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