Work...it's a family affair

I told you earlier that we worked out at the land this weekend. It goes by so much faster when we have the boys and we can be slavedrivers and make them work too! But this weekend we were blessed with more people helping! We had the boys, my mom, my aunt, uncle and even Kerris boyfriend Mike. I don't remember how many trees we ended up cutting down, but I know that it was a bunch!
Here is an old friend of mine, Kitsie, Vicky my aunt, and Pat, my mom.... Now, it looks like we are doing nothing...but actually we were just on a break...well, with the exception of Kitsie...you can tell she didn't come to work cause she has on white shoes!!! Needless to say they were not white when she left our place!
Ok, here is me in my snakeboots... now one would ask why on earth is she wearing her snake boots when they are not even out this time of year? Well, for several reasons...1) I do not trust that snakes are on a schedule...they could pop out at any point and I kind of like my fat stubby toes and hope to keep all of them... 2) it was muddy, I didn't want to get any other shoes dirty...
aaahhhh, the dreaded burn pile... that fire gets so big that we all hate to go over there and throw the stuff on. But someone has to do it... why not the boys that don't really need eyebrows???? I need what few I don't get waxed off.... here is Ty throwing a couple on.


And here are the rest of them. These trees don't quite load like cedar trees do.

Enjoy!

Weekend in Review

Pretty uneventful.... I had the neighborhood crop group over on Friday night. We had fun talking, not sure how much any of us really got done, but we shared lots of ideas. I also got some free Maya Road goodies. THANKS MICHELLE!!! I can't wait to alter them...Saturday afternoon we packed up and went to the land. Steve and the boys changed the air filters and oil and filters in all the four wheelers and then we went to town to eat. Sunday morning we got up to a thick fog. We took off walking in hopes that we would see some deer. Well, we didn't. The boys who didn't want to get out of bed to go quickly changed their tunes once they saw tracks and heard noises in the woods. Here are some of the pics we snapped early. The boys walked back before we did and cooked breakfast for us. They did this on Saturday morning too....(I could get used to that!!) Once the fog lifted and the sun broke through we had a great day! It was in the 60's and we got quite a bit of work done. I wish daylight would have held up for another 5 hours so we could have gotten more done in the perfect weather!

Here is a cardinal that we spotted.What a beauty on this dull morning.

Just because I love black and white I had to add edit this one and add it too....Thanks for looking!

I have a washer and dryer...now i just gotta do laundry

Well, after a week of no washer and dryer the Hicks/Fuller laundrymat is open for business again....I just need an employee to do it for me! haha.... last week, or was it 2 weeks ago? Steve gutted the laundry room of the washer/dryer/fridge and I painted it. We put off the tile as long as we could (until he was down to just a couple of pairs of underwear) and then we had to get started with the hard part. Tile. We started on it Monday night, laid the tile that night, and then finished up with grout on Tuesday. Wednesday night it was baseboards and sealing the grout and last night he and Ty moved all the appliances back in. Come to find out, it really wasn't that hard at all! Now, my legs ached for a couple of days, but I survived. Next on the agenda? The master bathroom! I have wanted the carpet out of there since we moved in 4 years ago.... Finally 4 months before we put the house on the market....I GET TILE! Funny how that works :) Someone else always gets to enjoy it. Oh well. If you don't hear from me for a while it is because I am still doing laundry!

Old Friends

It is always great to reconnect with old friends. I was surprised by an old friend that saw my name and number come through on her office fax as I was placing an order with a coworker. After confirming I was the same person we began to chat. That friendship was back in my "other life" my pre-divorce days. A big group of us neighbors from a previous neighborhood and a couple of others we drug into our small (ok, it was kind of big on occasion...) would get together pretty much every weekend. I loved those days! I love to play hostess. I love to have large gatherings at my house. It was a blast MOST of the time. There was the exception to the fun when one of our husbands would drink too much and put us into a tailspin, and on occasion, one of us women might get a little sloshed and make the whole night worth it! You see, the men drank, and the women talked, compared decorating tips, griped about our husbands, oh and we occasionally watched the kids! I would not trade those days for anything! I did a lot of growing in that time (both mentally and physically!!) After the divorce the separating of friends happened. I was sad but it usually happens. I still talk to almost everyone still from that group on a regular basis. But this person. She surprised me with pictures of her kids and I hope that she will send me more in the future. It was really good to hear from her and I hope that through all of the years that have passed we will still remain friends though we don't see each other. Oh, I left out a part. She said that they are now the party house, with their pool and they host the bbqs with their neighbors like the ones we used to throw. That is great to hear! Not enough of that goes on....(with the exception of you hippie chick and hooker....I know I can come to yalls street and something is always happening.... love ya ;) )
Ps....I don't know why I felt the need to write this except that I gave her the website to the blog and hopefully she is reading it every once in a while and I hope that she knows I still love them!
I'm signing off and going to my real job....the house! Have a good evening!

Weekend in Review

This weekend was pretty packed. Friday worked out at the gym. Yes, I thought he was killing us, but I survived! Then finished painting the laundry room. Saturday went to the movies and saw The bucket list. Get out the kleenix for this one! It was good, but sad! Then off to get a haircut and the scrapbook store where I picked up the Lux Trinket line that I was dying for! (see post below...) Then we spent the evening visiting with Doye and Vicky.

Sunday morning we went to church then I cropped for the rest of the day!!!! It was so nice to get back to doing that. I didn't get as much completed as I wanted to, but I will hopefully get to finish up later in the week. Hippie chick came over to join in the madness. She also brought me a little sumthin.... I don't know why on earth she would have thought this would be appropriate! Thank ya Cary, I mean Hippie Chick!

Red light tickets...don't try to fight em, just pay up

Well, I spent my lunch hour driving to Rowlett to try to fight a red light ticket. Now, one might ask how on earth can you fight it? Either it was red or it wasn't. Well, that is the same thing the guy (what I thought was going to be a judge but wasn't) said. It was red, even though it was faint and I can barely see it in the picture and you might not have been able to see it from your angle, it was red so pay up or make another court appearance to see an actual judge that you thought you were to going to see today.....blah, blah, blah, it was crap. Never run a red light. If you can't see because they have the light on some temporary wire and it blows in the wind making it difficult to decipher what color it is, just stop. Right there in the intersection, get rear ended, but don't run the red light......

I need...ok, I just want....I GOT IT!!!!

Ok, those of you that know me and have looked at my scrapbook room, you know that I don't need these....



But I want them.....Cute, Cute Luxe line Trinket.

No one around here sells them unless I go to Waxahachie....uhhhh hello, Guess I will just have to pay for shipping since gas is $3 a gallon!!! With Valentines approaching soon and those cards that need to be made.... I need to snatch these up. You should too! See their blog for some awesome ideas on how to use the papers and the rub-ons! http://blog.luxdesigns.com/ or http://www.luxedesigns.com/

BORING.....

Ok, now that the hustle and bustle of the holidays is over, it is down right boring around here. The first week in January I had a closing on a house and 300+ cards that were due to a print shop. Now that they are all done it is time to relax. But I can't! I always have to have something to stress over... so forgive me while I take time to stress out over the fact that I have nothing to stress out over..... I ordered 3 books off Amazon last night. 1 about photoshop CS2, one about digital photography and 1 for Ty to help with PSAT's.... I will be anxiously awaiting their arrival. (I did free shipping, so it could be forever + a day before I get them....) Well, back to work before I don't have my full time job and have a reason to stress out! I'll leave you with a pic from a morning in the park the other day. Thanks for looking!