Middle of March Update

Many a sunrise has came and went since I last blogged.




Here's a little of what we've been up to...

Basketball
Jameson played on the Twin Rivers league and really had a great time

Connor is now one of the taller boys on his team

Snow

yes- that is up to the top of our grill

and more snow


puzzles





a puppy who has lived on the top step most of the winter b/c it was too cold for him to be in the garage


Connor's 12th birthday


(It's pretty cool to see both of my boys passing the sacrament each week.)

A fun date night to the play Little House on the Prairie where Melissa Gilbert played Ma. Bad picture taken from a moving vehicle while it was raining


Jr. High 80's dance


Valentine's Day
chairing Genna's class party at school

stack the sweethearts game

dinner at the Outback and then to the Stake dance with my sweetie

Our family dinner~
The table was set despite all of our cloth napkins and tableclothes being in storage


Fondue after our family dinner

I sure love these kids!!

Card Genna made

Connor's note

Jameson's made these



Put an offer in on this house- sniff, sniff, they wouldn't accept it with the contigency of selling our house


February Decorations

Couponing~

my system

after a shopping trip where I spent about $14


getting a stockpile

We watched Troy's sisters kids a few times and had a ball with Seth- he is such a cutie!

Currently reading: The Mitford series and the Percy Jackson series- on the last book of each of them


March "decorations" I think I am going to paint this table black

I can't tell you how happy these 2 little flowers made me when I discovered them today


that and some blue skies are doing wonders after a long gray winter


Thanks for reading this whole post- and sorry about the lack of big pictures

At my house this week...

we had a puppy playdate(with Mo's 3 siblings who live down the street)

I'm getting ready to put my heavier comforter back on my bed

I've been packing for Time Out For Women

I brought in all my herbs from the garden

drying lavendar(if I'm doing this wrong- can someone let me know!)

freezing parsley

I'm loving the view from front yard these days

my neighbor's tree

I'm in charge of Genna's Halloween party at school- so I've been getting that organized. This is for a pin the wart(hershey kiss) on the witch game.

I'm scrabooking for a sorority project. Scott Nisely was killed in Iraq in 2006 and we are putting an album together for his mother. We're just doing a uniform basic layout for now and will add titles and possibly embellishments later.

What's going on at your place?

Puppy Stuff

I never realized what a dog person I am. Mo has been accompanying me while I play taxi driver for the kids. He is such a sweet puppy who is constantly making me laugh.

Yesterday he got his 8 week shots at the Vet. It was so funny because we got there a little early (they were all at lunch) and so we walked all around the outside. When it was our time to go in Mo started heading towards the door, but the closer we got the more he started sniffing and he promptly decided he was not going to be led inside that place. The receptionist was laughing at him through the open doorway. I wondered how he already knew to be afraid of going to the Vet?

Mo had his first bath this weekend. He did really good. However, he did not like the hair dryer. Of course, our bathing him ensured that it would rain shortly and it poured yesterday. The corner of the dog kennel has settled and there is a corner where dirt runs off from the retaining wall behind it. So we had our first taste of muddy paws last night.

Here is a slide show from his first bath.

Ok, and the blog where I saw this cool vintage looking slide show also had an awesome link to a video of Jimmy Stewart reading a poem about his dog Beau. It is definitely worth the watch- but grab your kleenex!

Odds & Ends...

Jameson was thrilled to get his cast off yesterday.

He was a little worried when she took out the saw, but it all ended up okay.

He said it felt really weird afterwards.

The kids took Mo for a walk down the street to visit his relatives.

First, we stopped to see his mom. I guess he was a little thirsty after his long walk.

Then, we stopped to see his two sisters, Mindy and Bindi. We didn't realize how much bigger he is than them. They played pretty rough together. At home, he is a pretty calm guy.


And finally a few Halloween decorations...

Here's my little shelf with some treasures I found recently.

Those candlestick holders used to be gold.

This little red box holds all my bird books and binoculars. I just cover it up with a towel, but it is easy to grab when we see a bird out the back window.

This little cake plate was once red. I found it at the thrift store and when I went to wash it, the red film flaked off. It was sort of pink after I washed all the red off. Amber suggested I paint it black after we saw the cutest black cake plate at Hobby Lobby. Good suggestion- I like how it turned out.


I have a couple more things to share- but first I have to do some dusting. The bad thing about black furniture is that it really shows the dust.