January 10th

My morning started at 4:15 a.m. since MiCayla had to be at basketball practice and ready to go by 5:30. I was so tired because I kept waking up during the night and it didn't help that thinking about this blog caused me to lose sleep so after Chase left for seminary I went back to bed for an hour. My day was spent exercising, cleaning bathrooms, paying bills and just general clean up around the house and I even found time to sneak in some reading. It was really cold outside, but I did take a moment to run out back and take a picture of the progress going on with the barn expansion.

January 9th

I realized during the middle of the night that I had forgot to do my blog for Sunday. So the best picture I could come up with was a picture of our fire. It was cold and after church I spent quite a bit of time in front of the fire reading. On Sunday, there isn't much else for me to take pictures of so you may see more of the same.

January 8th

Today we had a man come to grind up pine stumps in our back area where the barn expansion is taking place. We ended up having 62 that needed to be done. It is hard to tell from the pictures, but things have been really cleared out and the stumps are gone. There is plenty of room now to build a nice fire ring with benches. I'm sad to see all the trees gone, but at the same time it will help the yard look tidier with the expansion. The fire keeps on smoldering after two days. As you can see there is still plenty there to burn.

More Basketball

Another Friday night, and more basketball games. Chase and MiCayla both had games tonight against Stratford. Since Chase had the home game we attended his. Unfortunately both lost. Chase's team by 7. MiCayla's team lost by 1 in double overtime. I guess it was a pretty one-sided game by the refs, but that happens occasionally. She'll get over it and more on to the next game on Tuesday. In this picture Chase is going up for the shot. I'll leave it up to you to decide whether he made it or not.

Just another day

It is pretty sad that the only pictures I have for today is of our of crushed concrete. I wasn't feeling real good today. In fact, I took a nap this morning and then again in the afternoon (which I never do). I guess I could of had my husband take a picture of me sleeping. (Speaking of sleeping-- it is 7:15 and my husband is sound asleep on the couch--I think he has been hanging out to much with me). But what can I say--when you don't feel good, you don't feel good. I hope to be back on the mend tomorrow and get to the gym to work out. I at least got my laundry done and my bedroom cleaned up, but that really wasn't that much

As part of our barn expansion we had 2 truck loads of crushed concrete brought in so that we don't get stuck in the mud we drive back there . There will be 2 additional truck loads when the cover is done on the back to put underneath instead of concrete. Thanks you Tom for modeling for us.

Another full day

Well I finally did it! I cleaned my craft room! At some point, when I have a little more time (never) I will go through and organize it. I try to do it once a year, but time has got away from me once again. He does look a lot better now though, so I feel like I can now start a project and make another mess. Such is life. I have a huge list of things I want to do, but seem to have a hard time finding the time. I just need to sleep less and craft more!
My husband and I had talked about doing a small project to the barn to add a little more covered area. However, the project was started earlier than planned and, of course, is becoming much bigger that I thought it would be. Our son Tyson is a builder and work is slow right now, so that is another reason we are doing this project early. I will try to keep you updated as work progresses.

Basketball, Basketball, Basketball

Tonight Chase and MiCayla played our big rival, Magnolia High. (We are Magnolia West). We caught most of Chase's game first and then went to MiCayla's and arrived just as it was starting. (There are benefits to having both games in the same small town). We lost both games, but they both played well.

Sorry to say that I didn't make it to cleaning my craft room today. To many other things came up like getting to spend a little time with 4 of my granddaughters (Yeah) and also cleaning bathrooms (Yuck) and fixing my bathroom sink so that it would drain properly. But I thought I would share a picture of the molten chocolate cakes we made for FHE tonight.

During the holidays my craft room became a junk room. It is the room where everything is just put when we are in a hurry and I have to come back and clean it later. Tomorrow my goal is to organize this place so it is usable again. My only problem is I do so many different crafts and there is not enough room to put everything, but I know that it can and will look better than this. Hopefully the picture tomorrow will show a somewhat cleaner, workable space.

New Years Day

We decided to play Xbox 360 Kinect for an activity tonight. It was Chase and MiCayla against Tom and I. Tom and I won one round and Chase and MiCayla won the other. Not bad for parents in their 50's.