alone at last!!

Well after a year of having phill home most of the time and with summer and the kids being home all day i really haven't had any just me time, until today. YEAH!!!!!
no one is home it is quite and peaceful and i can get everything done and still have time to play or whatever i want to do today. i do love them all but it has been a long time since it was just me in the house. it will be nice the only drawback is the fact that there are three dogs in the house still. anyone want one? maybe i'll get some fun things done today and post them later. i'll try.

back to school!

here are some pictures that i took of the kids in their new back to school gear. they are really starting to look oldder now.

something fun

here is a new quilt that i am making for kay's room. i saw the idea on another blog that i read. check it out here tp://blingonmysewingmachine.blogspot.com/2007/08/shop-update.htmlthe white part of the quilt is actually towels. i think the original used chenille but i was looking for a little cheaper something. i already had all of the material for the blocks. now all i need to do is put a backing on it and quilt it. i'm going to use different colored thread for the quilting and i'm going to do stripes. when it is all finished i'll post a picture to show everyone how it looks.

here is our kitten marilyn in the washing machine i went to do some laundry and this is what i found. good thing i always look inside before i start. i usually close the lid between washing but i must have forgot this time.

and the most important thing of all today: it is the kids last day before school.. yeah!!!! school start tomorrow.YEAH! YIPPIE! YOO HOO!!!!!!!! i'm not at all in the least bit excited can you tell.

only two more days!!!!!!

that is all the time we have left until school starts. I'm not entirely sure who is more excited the or me. they are really anxious to start the new year. today will be the boys first football practice and their first games will be next weekend i think. we also got kay signed up for dance classes. she has decided to take jazz so she also has to take ballet. she is excited. i guess that the two go hand in hand. so who knows maybe we will she her on so you think you can dance or maybe i can get me a foot ball player and will be set for life. it's time they start thinking about supporting me, right. well thought that i would share a picture of my first little watermelon growing. hopefully it will get big enough before the frosts come and kill it or the deer decide to come and eat it. I'm hating the deer with a passion. i know i once posted that i thought they were nice but i have so changed my attitude on that thought.

i'm still here

i really haven't been on here very much lately but i'm still alive and kicking. not much going on these last few weeks. we have one week untill school starts. i can't wait i'm so ready for them to be in school. phill and i did celebrate our 14th wedding anniversary yesterday. so to commerate the day i made a page. it is a two page layout it is the first time i have done a page like this. i saw it on the scrapjacked website but didn't get this done until now.




i used love, elsie-rub ons and stickers, provo craft paper, cardstock i had on hand and some ribbon but i don't remember who made it.

party time!

here is the food table and some of the decorations the hieroglyphs say happy birthday joseph.
everyone that was there. i was lucky to get this one that turned out they wouldn't sit still for anything.

they made their goodie bags when they first got there.
here is lunch. we had mummy dogs and chips. oh and you can't forget the pop too. lots of burping going on.

they played wrap the mummy and a water game but they were to fast for me to get a picture of that one. there was also the pinata and a treasure hunt.

blowing out the candles. happy ninth birthday joe.

i think that fun was had by all it was a good day and he got some good gifts too.

party prep and more

here is the cake for jeh's party tomorrow. i think that it turned our really good. jeh really likes is so that is a bonus i guess that i didn't do to bad of a job then. i still have a ton of things to get done for the party but i think it will all be done in time.

othere than party prep things have been good. except for the fact that the van has decided be on the fritz again. who knows what its problem is this time. all i know is that the air conditioner isn't working and the speedometer and odometer are both not working too. it makes for difficult driving for phill. it has been way too hot for him to be driving all over the place in. we took it in this morning which we had an appointment for but they didn't get to it because they were so busy. we had the first appointment ofthe day we should have been first in. oh well what can i do about it. nothing but complaing lucky you all you get to hear about it or maybe really just read about it. so hopefully i will be able to get some good pictures tomorrow and then i can post them soon. if i remember. until then bye for now.