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.

Updated Family picture

This is the first time in about 6 years that we have all been together for Christmas, so we decided to take a current family picture. It is so current that our son got engaged on Dec. 19th and we took pictures a couple of days later and decided we just had to included his fiance Kelsi in the pictures (she is the cute one in the black shirt on the far right).

Swimming in October

Today is the first day that I take over this blog. It was started as a family blog, but I am now going to use it as my 365 blog. We'll see how well I can keep up because it has been very sporadic up until now.
Garen got home from his mission on Oct. 19th, so the kids decided to go swimming to break him in. The water was cold to everyone except Maddie and Kira (they live in Chicago).

Pillow Case Dance

MiCayla participated in the variety show at EFY this past week... Here is the video of them doing their pillow case dance.

Girls Camp

Ok so i just got back from girls camp and Kira was asking me to post some pictures of the trip. The camera though was being weird so i didn't get as many as i pleased but here a few of the pictures and 2 videos.

Just to clarify...

MiCayla actually only got 90 words. I beat her!