odd and ends...

How is it almost Memorial Day weekend already?!  This time of year always gets so crazy with all the kids stuff going on.  Baseball season, birthdays, end of year concerts and field trips.  Time seems to just get away from me.

We've had a few projects going on too to fill in any free time we may have had.  We had a yard sale.  Does anyone have these?  They are work.  Whew!  But what a great feeling to clean out some  a ton of stuff we didn't need anymore. 

We (really my husband & boys) installed an in-ground dog fence for Snickerdoodle.  We priced for the professionals to come out and to do about 3/4 of a acre it was around $1200.00.  So for $250.00 and some elbow grease we saved a bundle of money.  That would make Dave Ramsey so proud!

I don't know if my new i-phone actually counts as a new project, but it sure is taking up enough time like it is.  All I can say is I went from a phone that didn't even text to my new best friend Siri.  I love Siri!

This weekend the projects on the agenda include planting the garden (I know we are late, but you know that saying better late than never, it applies to this project.) and my daughters birthday sleepover. 



Snickerdoodle is loving his new glow in the dark ball!  I wouldn't even know he laying there is he didn't have that ball with him {smile}.

Happy Wednesday!!





so close...

You know that sense of accomplishment you get from finishing about 9 loads of laundry.  I love that feeling!  Only this time just as the dryer was shutting down with the last load, I heard it.  That noise that you hate to hear.  Someone is the house is vomiting.  YUCK!

Unfortunately, we had one fall to the 24 hour bug.  But, fortunately he is feeling better!  See there's always a bright side {smile}.

Poor kid had to sleep with his bucket.

Off to do more laundry.

Happy Monday!!

poor little Snickerdoodle...

It amazes me how quickly a pet becomes a member of the family you never knew you were missing until you have them.  Our little Snickerdoodle has completely filled our hearts.  He is so loving, mischievous and gives the best greetings ever when we get home.  He has chewed so many Webkinz that I've lost count and flip flops seem to be his shoe of choice.

But our poor little guy hasn't been feeling the best over the last month.  Today for the third time in a month he has dislocated his patella.  Ironic that I'm a X-ray tech and see this often in people,  but I never thought I'd have to deal with it in our puppy.  So soon we'll have to make a decision on what we want to do with his knee.  Several thousand of dollars for a knee surgery isn't exactly what I had in mind.  I hope Dave Ramsey understands if we have to change our plan a little bit.

I just pray that we get this poor little guy back to feeling better soon.

weeds...

Why is it that we spray and try so hard to get rid of weeds?  I know they aren't all beautiful, but you can't deny the dandelion!  The really are an amazing little weed.  At my house I actually consider them a flower, although my husband would definitely disagree.  I've been telling him this year we can't treat the yard because of having the puppy.  In secret it's because I love the dandelions {smile}.

Now I just need to get a macro lens to really be able to capture these beauties.

Happy Wednesday!!

peeps...

It's that time of year when peeps become the staple of most of my daily meals.  I find they are one of those things you either love or hate, there's no in between.  I my friends LOVE them. 

Over the weekend the kids wanted to make s'mores.  Although, it's not warm enough to make them outside we improvised and used the microwave and replaced our normal marshmallows. 

They were delicious!  Graham crackers, chocolate {Hershey's, of course}& peeps.  So give it a try next week when you have peeps up to your ears and don't know what to do with them all.

Happy Monday!!

spring has sprung...

Well it's official, it's Spring.  Even if the calendar didn't say it, my sinuses sure are.  The mild weather this winter it making things come to life a couple weeks earlier here.  So I guess if it's not going to snow {sigh} we may as well enjoy the 70 degree days that we've been blessed with.

Daffodils, how can you not love them?  The neighbor lady has a ton in her front yard and they are like a sea of gold.  Love, love, love them {smile}. 

I'm kinda embarrassed to say I got a new camera for Christmas and I just haven't picked it up as much as I should have.  Truthfully, it frustrates me a little.  I had the Nikon d50 for about 5 years and moved up to the d7000.  Don't get me wrong, I love the camera and can tell a huge difference already, but the centering selection drives me nuts.  I like to manually select my center spot especially if I'm using my 50mm lens, but just can't figure it out.  I just ordered a new user book, the manuals that come with the camera are just to much for me.  I'm a trial and error kinda girl.
So when I get some free time here, I'm going to try to break out the camera and my new book and figure this thing out.  In the mean time if anyone else uses the d7000 and wants to give me some helpful hints I'm open. 

Happy Spring!!

time is running out....

Old Man winter has been very confused in our next of the woods this year.  We're even giving him an extra day in February to try to get it together and to produce some snow and still nothing {frown}.

I'm not greedy, really I'm not, but we need one good snow fall.  Just enough snow that the kids could break out their sleds for a day.  Instead of them arguing before school in the morning that I don't need a coat today the weather man said it's going to be almost 60.  And then they stomp off to the bus in their coats, hats and gloves.  I can't help it I tell them that it's 30 degrees when you catch the bus and 60 degrees when you get off {laugh}. 

And as they stomp off  to the bus I yell I love you, even though I'm the worst mother in the world for making you wear the get up, lol!!

So as you can see the little daffodils and tulips are starting to make their appearance.  They don't even seem to mind my little snowman sign hanging right over top of them {smile}.