Gourmet Frog Anyone?

We went to my mom's house for dinner the other night, and she made this frog out of bread dough. It was very tasty and very cute. My mom is always trying to make things fun. Thanks Mom.

Working on the "Dirty Stuff"..

Well now that the snow is gone, there are things we have to do outside.

Friday Andrew and I cleaned out the garage. It's full of stuff still, but now it has rhyme and reason. Before "everything" was "everywhere. We couldn't even walk through it without leaning, ducking and tucking. Thank you Andrew for helping me.

Then Justin and I tackled the shop. That too was chaos. But now it is organized, clean, and ready to be packed up for the move. Thank you Justin for helping do EVERYTHING.

Saturday and Sunday Andrew and Justin brought out the "Big Guns" for the backyard. They dug more dirt in one day then I have ever seen from any 2 guys at any digging site. I don't know how many wheel barrel's full of dirt they moved. All of the kid's helped in the backyard, but Justin and Andrew kicked butt!

Then we took on the front yard. Everybody helped in the front flowerbed. We took out a couple of old tree stumps, dug up all of the overgrown grass, dug up all of the weeds, and planted a bunch of pansies. It looks really nice and the kids really liked being in charge of where all of the "72" flowers would go. Thank you kids.

Tuesday (today) I took on the two big pine trees in our front yard. I cut some dead branches, and cut some living branches that stuck out over the sidewalk too far, put that out on the road for curb-side pick up. Then I cleaned out the bottoms of the trees. I raked out 16 bags of pine needles and debris. These trees never looked so good. My bad. Then Andrew came home and helped me trim the bush under our front window and clean up all around it. It wasn't that bad, but it all sure looks nice now.

Now back to the backyard for some unfinished business there.

Hope it pays off soon. Looking for that offer.

Peace out.
Me

What no pictures!?!?!

Yep, that's right, no pictures. I'm so bad. But I did want to let you know that somebody cute just broke in her first tooth. Yeah Michelle. She is getting so big. She climbs up all of the stairs that we have in our house. She climbs down all of the stairs that we have in our house by herself. She claps "yeah", she gives the thumbs down, "booooooo". She plays peek-a-boo, blows kisses, waves, tries to talk on the phone, eats almost everything we do (yes and until today without teeth), she hums, she dances, she walks all around all of the furniture. She is really growing up. She still doesn't have very much hair. I'll get a picture of her up soon.

Also check out Rachel's blog. See link on the right and Justy's baseball team's blog, Desert Heat.

Our New House (not our furnishings)

These are pictures of the front of our new house, in both the summer and winter.
This is the entry.
This is the front room.
Formal dining.
Kitchen.
Kitchen dining.
Family room.
Family room.
Master bedroom.

Master bathroom.
Justy's and Matt's bedroom.


Rachel's bedroom.
Michelle's bedroom.

Andrew's bedroom.
Exercise room.

Backyard, (fort/swing set stays)
Back of house.

Have ya met me?

Well if you don't know me by now, I am a major procrastinator!!! I just don't get the things done that I want to do. Like................ take pictures to post on this sweet little blog. ha ha.
Anyway, we are getting our house ready to put on the market. We have been making little improvements and what you would expect along the way. You think that I would have taken pictures so that I could show before and after pictures. But nooooooooooooooo. However I can still tell you about it all, can't I?
Okay so here is the low down.............
So far we have mended the back yard fence,
Painted our kitchen cabinets,
replaced our front porch railing,
replaced some light fixtures,
put wood floors in our entry and through to the whole kitchen and dining area,
upgraded all of the interior doors,
replaced the kitchen appliances, (got a steal on some " almost new" stuff)
Patched, painted and cleaned, cleaned, cleaning, cleaning!!!!!!!
BTW, I'm looking for some large wall art to barrow so I can take down family pics but still have something for showing. Let me now if you have any.
Well that's what I've been up to.
Wish us all luck.
Love ya

Reptile Gardens South Dakota July 2006

Rachel
Matt
Justy

Last Day of School ...Old friends. Summer and Andrew

Hi, Big Girl.

This is my mom and Michelle. Sorry it's sideways. DEAL with it.
Pumkins do grow on trees you know?!?
Oh, she looks so cute in her elmo clothes.
She makes Elmo look good in these other fashions as well.

In disguise. We have to lay low so that the paparazzi can't find her.

Team Spirit.

When Andrew played foot ball we had a lot of fun decorating the van. This is window paint and window markers. Looks pretty cool huh?
Did you guess that this was the side painting? If you did you are right. That's me painting on the back.

Huskies Banners

These are some of the banners that I painted for the team. I didn't get pictures of all of them. But they were all fun to make.

This is on of the first banners I made for the team. Kaitlyn and Justin are holding the banner. Kaitlyn has a twin brother on the team. His name is Kory. Andrew, Kory and Kaitlyn all were born on the same day, Nov. 21, 1991. Their mom's name is Denise. I miss her.
This banner says "RIP EM UP, TEAR EM UP, GIVE EM HELL, HUSKIES!!!"
This is another banner I made. See the little cheer leaders, and the balloons? This was a fun day. Bonnie is in this picture. She is the closest to the camera, on the right. She has her back to us, and she is looking to the right. Hi Bonnie.
Yes, yes, yes. This was a fun banner to make. I used green paper, so I had to paint the huskies arms and face. But I think it turned out really good. See all of the names of the players?

This is a partial of a banner that I was in the middle of. It was a team celebration banner when they were going into the finals. There was a husky for every player on the team. They all had their real numbers on their Husky or around it. And they all had their initials in the pupils of their eyes. Ill take a picture of the whole thing and put it up later.

Campimg. Fun times.

FUNNY FACES from the past.