Wii... Where Have You Been All My Life????

The Wii came. It arrrived on Thursday afternoon. I'm not as young as I thought... my muscles are screaming; thank goodness for Advil! Jess came over last night around 9... and didn't leave until 130a! Christian sat and watched and talked a lot of crap because I don't know how to box. As soon as we woke up this morning, I forced the control and nunchuk on him :) Guess who couldn't live up to his talk?!?!

I'm pretty certain that I'm going to lost that 30 lbs I gained last summer from the knee surgery!!! This thing rocks!

L A M B C H O P S ! ! !

Time to introduce everyone to Lambchops. He's my new friend. He is a Persian/Birman mix. For those who don't know... Whiskers is a Birman... they are SUPER friendly cats, almost dog-like, and have the sacred white paws of purity (a legend). We got him on May 23rd and went through our "adjustment" with him. After a few weeks of my abuse and smothering and he is slowly becoming my little lap buddy (when he isn't exploring, running, chasing, eating fuzz balls off the carpet and wrestling).

This is him at 6 weeks


Here he is the day I brought him home. He made immediate friends with Bailey!


Over the past week, he and Stripey have decided they are best friends. She keeps him in check!


I took this last night. He climbed up on Christian's turntable and made a little house (which he is currently hiding there right now and looks adorable!)



I'll bust out the good camera and take some cute action shots of him over the next few days. He's such a fun little ball of fluff and the pictures do NOT do his fluff justice! Since his arrival, my nightmares of reliving Smashy's murder have reduced. So, I guess he's doing his job!

Shades of Purple Sundress

I'm making "Shades of Purple" for my glorious gf, so I did a small scale for Keely to make sure I liked all of the FOURTY different fabric patches of purple together.

The bodice is a little boxy and big. That tends to happen when I do my own designs. I'm still learning :)

SO... here it is...

Keely's 1st Lost Tooth

It happened. It was disgusting. She was eating a hot dog and out it popped in her mouthful. Crunchy!




Took these pictures the night before because we thought it was ready to go... Christian said it wasn't. We were going for the "Dad punched it out" story...

Grow Little Garden... GROW! 12 days later

Last week I was pretty dang sick. Couldn't move, let alone blog. I'm better now!! YIPPEEE!

The garden has taken off in leaps and bounds. The squash section is trying to take over... and it succeeding!

Here we are now, 12 days after my last post. All images are click-able for better viewing

Blackberries... all of which were consumed moments after taking the picture


The lettuce just poking through


The newest addition to the garden... RHUBARB!! It won't be ready until next year :(


AAAHHH the squash that is taking over... There is Straightneck, Crookneck, Butternut & Zucchini


What's under those big squashy leaves??? Why look... the straightneck squash has blooms and the beginning of of some delicious treats!


Two varieties of Green Beans


GROW LITTLE SOYBEANS!! Grow!!! Tofu and soymilk are expensive. One day, my little soybeans, that will be your fate!!!


Keely's Cherry Tomato plant is the only one with tomatoes so far. The other 4 varities are flowering, so it won't be long!


If you look closely... inbetween the invading grass and weeds... yes, there they are! ONIONS! I REALLY need to finish getting the rest in the ground!!!!


My lavender is in the front yard and went int a beautiful bloom


SSSOOOO... that's what we've got! Still no buds on the grapevine :(

The Garden At My House

Pictures are click-able. Sorry for the ones that are on their sides. I'm too lazy this early in the morning to fix them :)

I figured I would blog about the garden this morning.
Here is the start of the adventure... We rented a tiller from Home Depot. Christian didn't trust me with it.

Here is the after shot before any of the planting.

Here's the start of the growing season:

The herb box not doing anything:


Strawberries galore:

Orange and Yellow Bell Peppers which have just started to poke through and 4 different varieties of tomatoes:

Soybeans on the left for making soymilk and tofu. Green Beans on the right.

Different green beans on the left. Zucchini in the middle. Butternut, Acorn, Crookneck and Straightneck Squash on the right.

The flower on the Striaghtneck Squash...


The Lettuce and Cabbage have just started to poke through to the sun, but I didn't take pictures... didn't think you would care to see the dirt. I also have some Rhubarb that I just planted (a division from someone's garden I bought from Ebay) and it's not doing as well as I had hoped. I have 50 Sweet Spanish Onions growing. I have 50 Walla Walla Onions (my fave onion) on their way (again, an Ebay purchase). I have a TON more that I have yet to plant at my parents!! Stay tuned!!!

My black raspberry bushes have a few little berries on them. SO YUMMY!!!


The Thompson Seedless Grapevine is growing rapidly, but there are no grapes to be seen, yet. I have another 4 strawberry plants in hanging baskets on the patio cover that have some berries on them. The mint is flourishing as it always does.

That's about it for the garden at my house. I'm going to my parents later today so I will blog that probably tomorrow.....

In Like a Lion... Out Like an Elephant

Yeah, life hasn't been handing me too many easy days lately. So instead of cry out to the world of my problems and the injustices, I figured it's easier NOT to blog.

We had a few near tornadoes form overhead. We have had more dr's appointments than I care to even think about. Colin is going on a new medication to see if we can get some of his aggression under control AND it will also put him to sleep!!! Keely is the best reader in the whole Kindergarten class!!!! Her downfall is her comprehension. Guess we will be working harder at that over the summer.

Some know... some don't know. The neighbor's pitbull pulled my kitty, Smashy, under the fence and violently killed her 5 feet away from me. It's really messed with me having to see it and not be able to do anything about it. My beloved Smashy....




I have found that cutting and sewing squares is very comforting to me. I have fallen in love with patchwork. I am making patchwork skirts, sundresses large squares that go to nothing... I love me some patchwork!!!





OH... Keely had a dress as your favourite book character day at her school... she wanted to be Elphaba from Wicked, but I said that they may not appreciate that at school. So, she picked Dorothy from Wizard of Oz. The dress took some skill, but I made it and am very proud of how it turned out!!!




Yeah... that's about it. I'll post more when I have some good fun things to post about....