Finally a Post

I'm finally getting around to posting again....I know it has been way too long. Have I mentioned that we have a problem with our computer, and it won't load photos properly? (I know I have, probably about 20 times!) Well I just never feel like trying to load things, so I just never post. Ryan has been researching our problem though, and thinks he has figured out what is wrong. So...hopefully, with $50 and some new RAM we'll get the little problem fixed and loading photos will be a cinch. I'm hoping to do better at posting and reporting what is happening with us more often (starting next year-when we get the RAM in January).
Life has been rolling on for us. We had a great Thanksgiving here with my sister Lindsey, and her husband Kenny. They got to spend a week with us here in Kansas. Also, Ryan's sister Jenny, and her husband Nick got to come up for the day and hang out and eat with us. We were really sad they couldn't stay longer. We are excited to see them some more at Christmas though. They took the time off work for Christmas rather than Thanksgiving-understandable!
Carson's birthday is this week. Our little boy is going to be 5 years old. I can't even believe it! Speaking of birthdays...my sister Aubry had her little girl on the 3rd of December and she is oh so adorable! So if you know her, or just want to see her cute little Jada Monet (cutest name huh?) go check her out here (I think she is putting up photos tonight....if not, they better be up soon!)
I have still been working on my projects. The years is almost up and I still have a handful of projects to do to make my goal. So...hopefully I can get things together and finish it by the 31st! Here's some of them.
#36 I made some pumpkins for Halloween-don't underestimate how much time it took to cut these out and glue together! It was time consumingI made Carson this cork board to match his room. The photo is supposed to be turned the other way, but oh well-you get the idea. Project #37I made two of these earlier in the year...or maybe it was last year. And I have wanted to make one for myself since then. I finally got around to doing and finishing it. I'll hang it in my kitchen after the holidays are over (I've got something else hanging in it's place for the season.) #38A couple friends and I got together and tied the ribbons on these buckets then made some tags for them. They will be perfect for giving away some goodies this month! #39Ok, I know I still have 13 projects to do in just a couple weeks, but I am determined to get them done. They won't be super time consuming projects, but I'll be reporting my progress as they get completed! Here's to a jam packed month of crafting!

Happy Halloween

Yes, I'm back after a long absence from the world wide web. I've been so busy-my inbox is a nightmare that I still haven't faced. Here are the highlights from our Halloween. I made Carson and Ryan's costumes this year so they are also two of my AC projects (#31 and 32). Here's our night of howls hoopla.
I love taking photos in the dark because everyone looks so awkward...in this photo we were trying to be weird though. Here are the pumpkins Halli and Carson designed.

The good witch
The Bat..not batman, just a bat
All of us in our costumes

My masterpiece
We went to a Halloween party last week and Carson got his face painted-it was awesome!

A different kind of project

Ok so this week I'm taking on a new kind of AC project (just for one week!). Instead of attempting creativity this week, I'm going to be attempting cleanliness. My house is pretty clean most of the time. Everything that is except the basement. We don't go down there much, and especially since it is a disaster. So this week it is me VS. the basement. I hope I come out on top, but with them mess down there I just don't know. Here is what I have to tackle.

I cleaned the food storage room on Friday, and it only took me 2 hours! Basically everything that is in my craft room was in the food room (due to the leakage issue back in January...I never moved everything back to its place.). Here is the finished project though...ahhhh much better! I can actually walk into and around the room instead of tiptoeing over my scrapbook stuff.We had a fun Easter holiday this year. I kids really enjoyed dying the eggs, finding the eggs, and eating the eggs (the goodies inside the eggs that is, they didn't really like the hard boiled eggs). Here they are in action.

Look at this little miss sass!!!

This was at the city Easter Egg Hunt yesterday...more like an egg dash. It was hilarious to watch all the kids scrambling!

Last item on my list of things to blog about-my projects from the month of March. I'm such a slacker at posting. It just takes so much time with our computer being retarded loading photos. Don't even ask me how long it took me to get all these photos uploaded. Maybe I'll get faster at our "new" method of getting photos on here, then it won't be such a huge task. Anyways...here they are. First are the scrapbook pages AC#11. Then I finished another head wrap. I gave the first one I made to my sister Aubry, then I wanted one for myself so I had to do another one. I did the flower on them both too (the photo of the other wrap didn't show the cute flower). I had a friend come over and talk me through the crochet lingo to figure out what the flower pattern says, and it wasn't as hard as I thought! Anyways-headwrap #12I made some Thank You cards for project #13

And this week I tried something I have wanted to do for a couple years and did some egg blowing to decorate some eggs for Easter. It took me a couple eggs to figure out the right force to use when getting the egg out, but I got the hang of it and got to work. Here they are #14.