tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44604868928955687712012-01-09T22:17:06.350-06:00Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02021570219536693538noreply@blogger.comBlogger2351100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460486892895568771.post-40085469601444935972010-12-14T08:40:00.002-06:002010-12-14T08:42:53.782-06:00

1st quarter at a Leander Lions football game.

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For the second year in a row I participated in the "I MUST be nuts" event known to others as Black Friday. My husband even set his alarm so he could help me get out the door and to the store by 3am. He even loved me SO much that he had a 1/2 pot of coffee programed to be brewed before I had to walk out the door. The BEST stop of the morning had to be Lowe's at 5:30am. It isn't what I bought there

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Despite feeling like complete and utter doodoo I was able to get the kids dressed for Halloween and my DH (who is also super sick to the point that he's going to doctor for first time in about 6 years) took them out for Trick or Treating. They scored! Plenty of candy to rot their teeth and have them bouncing off walls for weeks AND enough for hubby and I to "graze" as well. Kids had a great time

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There are some people who even if you've not spoken with them in 12-ish years, the minute you say hello again it was like you were just together chatting last week. So was the case with a dear old friend, Jeri Ann. We quickly caught up on the big picture topics and next thing you know we were laughing over old memories (older than I'd like to admit...dang time flies) "COBWEBS!!!" and sharing the

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So yesterday evening we had to have a talk with our 5 1/2 yo daughter about NO KISSING BOYS!She informed us that there was a boy she liked at school so she kissed him but he didn't like it. Neither did we! Didn't think we'd be having to talk about no kissing at this age. It about killed Ray. LOL...

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(pix coming)I can NOT believe it! My oldest babies have started SCHOOL! Hadley started Kindergarten this year and Ryan is going 1/2 days to Pre-K. Both kids really like their teachers so far and they are looking forward to riding the bus. First couple of days we're taking them. To make it more exciting, Nanny came to visit and help us with the transition. The kids were especially excited about

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Not only have I been busting butt during the work week, often bringing home work at the end of the day, but I'm so swamped that I've sadly found myself plugging away on the weekends. I've gotta get a handle on things before my family forgets who I am and I go made from lack of downtime.

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The subject sums it all up....

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Third trip in a month with the new job. Not bad though. Only terrible part is that coming home it is always the midnight arrival. Tack on close to an hour to get home and that makes getting up for work the next morning tough.I AM however, beginning to make some good headway on my knitting. Have close to 6 hours each trip to knit. Mom is coming to town tomorrow while I'm in CA. She's coming to

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We took the kids for their FIRST ever movie at the theatre. Decided to watch Toy Story 3 in 3-D. HOLY COW!! While it was an EXCELLENT movie and we had a GREAT time, it was SOOOOOO expensive! Not just because it was 3-D either. I mean, sure, that added to the cost but OMG movies for the family is a wallet emptier. All the same, it was a wonderful time and kids had a BALL! That's all that really

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...not just because I love her so, which I DO, but I tend to get SO MUCH more work done on all my projects when Nanny is here.

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Very excited and nervous about leaving in an hour to head to the airport for my trip to CA. Flying out to interview tomorrow with several members of the executive team for a company looking to bring on board someone in Austin to head up their recruiting efforts. We are excited to make it this far in the interview process and I'm looking forward to learning more about these guys, and the position,

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Reese has begun taking his first steps. His very first tentative ones were last Thursday evening, supposedly. I didn't see them so they don't count, do they? Ha ha. He took 3 steps on Saturday and Sunday found him trying to take more. He doesn't get more than about 3-5 steps at any given attempt but he keeps trying and will be running through the house in no time at all. We're STILL working

Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02021570219536693538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460486892895568771.post-37265760709707946442010-06-15T12:42:00.001-05:002010-11-02T11:41:43.751-05:00

So my one-eyed monster knit up pretty quickly. I LOVE him! I've been wanting to knit him up for some time now. Making a toy for the baby seemed like a good excuse to create this fun little critter. Maybe when the baby doesn't want to play with him anymore, he can cheer me up at the office. On the complete opposite end of "quick knits" is what my DH calls the "most expensive green bag in the world

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Monday night we had to say goodbye to a precious part of our family. Ginger, our dog of almost 12 years passed away. We found a beautiful place in the yard to lay her to rest. We miss her so terribly but are at peace with the fact that she is no longer in pain. God summoned a beast from the field and he said, "Behold man, created in my own image. Therefore, adore him. You shall protect him in the

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Recently took the kids to the dentist for checkups. Hadley got a perfect score on her teeth. Ryan almost got a perfect score but has to go back for a very small cavity fix. They each also have a few "issues" with new teeth coming in. One will likely have shark teeth as the adult teeth are pushing through faster than the babies will fall out. We'll keep watch on this to see if (1)it actually

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Our 5yo daughter asked her daddy if fairies were real. He responded with, "What do YOU think?"After pondering for a bit she replied, "Well, tooth fairies are real so that means that all fairies are real." Can't argue with her logic on that one.

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It's been mid-90's for severals days now and we're still in the beginning of May. PLEASE don't let this summer be a scorcher like last summer.

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You have gotta love it when it is Pajama Sunday for the kids at church. Talk about easy to get the family out the door...and we have a WHOLE month of them! Yippee. Kids love it too.

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Felt like forever since I last posted and when I saw the date of the last post on the blog, I realized it HAD been forever. I'm still here...just been super busy with this and that.

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How can one NOT love this face?I can't believe my precious bitty baby is already six months old. Time is flying by and he's growing up far too quickly.... especially since he is my LAST.I love you my sweet, funny, oh so precious, baby son.

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First bloom of the year was from my yellow iris that Naomi and I dug up last year from a couple's yard (after Naomi went and knocked on their door and asked for permission, of course). It was a beautiful glimmer of sunshine in my day.

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It won't be long now until my little guy is crawling...or at least we think he's gonna crawl. The way he's been warming up for things, he may crab walk instead.

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Wild hair strikes again! Of course, it hit so fast that I didn't think to take good "before" pix but was able to drag together some to at least give you a glimpse of where I started.Decided to refinish a plant stand and garden bench that both were beyond even what would be considered "shabby chic". After much sanding, painting, staining and sealing I'm SO thrilled with the end results!Garden

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Craving a vehicle by which to eat mustard, I decided to try and make some pretzels today. They aren't as good as the ones I like buy but they were pretty darn yummy. Yes, I wrote "were". They didn't last that long. YUM-MY! That was our something salty treat. For our something sweet, I whipped up a from scratch batch of the 5 Star Brownies that the family loves so much. The kitchen now looks like

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What a beautiful day Saturday turned out to be. Just to think that three days ago the kids were building a snowman! Love that Texas weather.Early morning, after getting the baby fed, I headed outside to clean the pond filter (ALMOST took a fall into the pond...THAT would have been COLD!!), finish sifting the dirt for the garden (just need to add the amendments now), and dig post holes for the

Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02021570219536693538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460486892895568771.post-5409293683369295482010-02-26T13:32:00.002-06:002010-03-02T08:56:26.823-06:00

Hadley: I don't ever want to go to that place AGAIN!Ryan: Me too!Today was Hadley and Ryan's "well kid" check-ups at the doctor. Both are doing great, I'm very happy to report. Hadley continues to be off the charts on her height. Ryan is right at about 50-75% percentile on his growth. Despite not being able to hear me when they are told to clean their rooms, both their hearing checked out just

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Sunday was 76 degrees. Tuesday found the children having to bundle up cause we had SNOW ...LOTS of snow, for Austin! In fact, it was the first time we'd had any measurable amount of snow since before our first child was born. Bundle up, go outside and play until frozen, come inside and warm up. Bundle up, go outside and play until frozen, come inside and warm up. (Keep repeating.) The kids had a

Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02021570219536693538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460486892895568771.post-57058716230257147922010-02-22T12:48:00.002-06:002010-03-02T07:52:27.454-06:00

I finally caught the kids' cooties and, unfortunately, mine has progressed into a major sinus issue. My SIL and sort-of-SIL told me about the netti pot. With nothing to lose, I tried it out. That is just DISGUSTING! That said, it IS working well and I think I'll be back in good shape soon. Hoping so anyway. Being sick with two young children and a baby in the house is not fun. There is no "sick

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So we had to postpone Reese's 4 month well-baby check-up as he was in the ER the day before his originally scheduled appt and the docs said we had to wait until he was all better to get shots (which he'd be getting at 4 month appt). We just recently got in for that check-up and he's doing FABULOUS at 4 MONTHS! He was sitting up for the doc and was all smiles for her....well, until shot time of

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Mom & Dad used to tell me, as a child, that one day my birthday, which I thought took FOREVER to arrive each year, would someday come quicker than I wanted. I thought they were crazy. Never could that happen, right? Recently I celebrated my 38th birthday. Ug. The day began with a call from mom wishing a happy bday from her and Dad. When Ray heard me on the phone with her he cried out, "Crap! It

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Needing a break from my bigger knitting projects, and not having been able to find my bookmark lately, I decided to knit one. I had some white cotton-type thread in my stash so I pulled out the size 0 needles and a simple lace pattern and cast on. While it was a simple knit, knitting with thread and needles that small was tedious. It is a bit more delicate than I'd use for my every day reading

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Been awhile since I've blogged much. I'm still kickin'. Life has just been getting in the way. Well, life and a 5 yr old, 4 yr old, and a 4.5 month old.... Rather than write an epic story of what all has been going on with us, I'll just try to do better going forward of posting this and that. Baby starting fuss...gotta run!

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Got a note from my gardening friend, "Garden Hoe" Naomi, that she has accepted a job that, while excellent for her, is going to require that she relocate to Texarkana!! WHAT??? Because it's all about ME, I just want to voice that I'm NOT happy about her moving away. I'm going to miss playing in the dirt with her. Naomi and me at her and John's recent Bon Voyage party.

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21 lawn and leaf bags filled and gone thus far and about 1/4 to 1/3 of the way done. I've not, in the whole time we've been here, ever raked up ALL the leaves after the fall/winter drop and they have drifted around the fence horribly, not to mention covering the yard. Anyway, this year, I want to get them all raked up. Just makes the yard look so much cleaner. Well, as clean as our yard can.

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So with all the nice weather we've been having, I've been getting the gardening itch. And, since the dogs had pretty much destroyed my whole gated pond garden area, I am starting from scratch on everything! I got the wild hair to take down the fence around the pond and put that fencing around my garden which I've also decided to extend a bit. Fix up the front flower beds and the back bed are also

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After being up a good part of the night sounding like a wounded seal, we took little Reese in to see the doc. Turns out he had the croup. The doc checked his oxygen level and he was just good enough that, if I promised to drive directly to the Children's Hospital with him, not passing Go or collecting $200, that she'd allow me to take him rather than send him via the ambulance. Praise the Lord

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I can't believe it has already been four years since my, now oldest, little guy came into our lives. He's very much into bugs and destruction these days...typical boy. The other day, he stomped on a pill bug after tormenting it for some time (I mean "playing" with it) and said, "Mommy, I just sent that bug to see Jesus!" LOL... I was ROLLING with laughter.We had a wonderful birthday celebration.

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All my seed catalogs, that is. Happy, happy, joy, joy!

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Just when I thought the kids couldn't get more excited about our weekly visit to the library for story time, the library hosts Pajama Day! The kids have been squealing with glee over the fact that they are going to wear their pajamas to the library. I don't know why, but that cracks me up! We love story time with Miss Jane.

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The kids and I drove to Flower Mound to spend Christmas with my family. My brother and SIL graciously opened their home for the get together this year as they, with a one month old and me with a 3 month old, were unable to make the trek to our parents house for the holidays this year, and I with a 3 month old wasn't up for the long drive by myself much either.It was a GLORIOUS time! We made it

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...and we hope that you did as well.Our first Christmas "home" in our current abode was a great one. In years past, we've been able to travel up to my parents' home in the Texas Panhandle for the holidays (and let me just say that there is NOTHING like my parents for Christmas!) but this year, with Ray having to work and with a 3 month old, it was just no doable. We hung lights on the house and,

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I participated in a test knit for one of Erica Jackofsky's (of Fiddle Knits) beautiful new hat designs, Yellow. Unfortunately, the yarn I used was not ideal for the project. The alpaca in this yarn created far too fuzzy a texture to be able to really see the beautiful stitches that make up the hat. I also ended up with some extra yarn from the skein I used and wish I'd been paying closer

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The guys shared a little "dude" time together recently when Ryan needed a little help with weaving in the loops on the potholder that he made for me.

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These are the words we hear so often from the lips of our darling daughter. She loves to dress up and show us her various "outfit creations" as well as loves to show us the various ways in which she can put clips in her hair, even when style "Z" looks just like style "A" and the other 25 hairstyles she's decided to do. I decided to share a couple of her recent "looks" with you. (Don't you think

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I just LOVE, LOVE, LOVE his little grin. He's such a charmer and KNOWS he has his mommy wrapped around his little finger. I can't believe, however, that it's already been 3 months since he entered our world. I can hardly remember life before him... Oh wait, I do recall sleep being part of that pre-Reese life. HA HA... Just kidding. I'll give up my sleep for this precious little man.

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My older two decided to be very helpful while their Nanny was visiting (I can't get them to clean like this when she's not here) and washed the dishes. They did a wonderful job and when finished with the dishes, they scrubbed their chairs and little dinner table...and, gasp, helped clean their room!

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FINALLY, I'm posting pix of the baby's room. I've had them on the camera for eons but am just now getting around to downloading the pix. Blame the delay on having three kids and too many projects...We were going for a "vintage sports theme". It is a handsome little guy's room, IMO (in my opinion)....AND making it even more stellar, again IMO, is that this is predominately a "re-mix" room...one

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Guess who came to town? That's right. SANTA! He visited the Cedar Park Library during the kids' weekly story time. There was a TON more kids there to see Santa than we usually have for story time but that was understandable. The kids all sang several holiday songs before Santa made his big appearance. Although both the older kids were very excited about seeing Santa, by the time our turn arrived,

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This past Saturday we celebrated my darling daughter's fifth birthday. I still can't believe that it was five years ago that the hospital sent us home with this little bitty thing and expected us to be able to raise it. Our first child, we were, looking back now, so clueless as to what we were doing. It's amazing she turned out as well as she did. LOL... Just kidding. Anyway, Hello Kitty was the

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While I've eaten just about anything you can kill, I'd never had cow tongue. Hubby wanted some though, so cow tongue I made. Cleaning it fell somewhere on the gross-o-meter between pulling chicken innards out before you cook a chicken and cleaning the slime off of deer meat. It was SO nasty. Anyway, we cooked it up. First I boiled it for a while. Then, after removing the outer taste bud layer, I

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Happy 5th birthday to my oldest, my darling, sweet, baby girl. She is growing up WAY too fast. I can't believe it has already been five years since she first came into our lives. We're having her bday party this Saturday.

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With only a little bit left to knit, my unofficial ADD got the better part of me and this little sweater, which I began knitting right after having had Reese, went into a mini-hibernation. FINALLY, today, I finished it. I'm very tickled with the end result and can't wait for my littlest guy to wear it.Also knit up a little scarf collar for DD. She'd picked some yarn from my stash and wanted

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The Saturday after Thanksgiving the family headed off to get our FIRST family photo taken by Stephanie Huebinger of Huebinger Studios. She does EXCELLENT work and was able to make all of us look great...so much so, in fact, that it is going to be difficult to choose which pix to order. I'm very excited about the fact we got an "official" family picture though. Costly as it is turning out to be,

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So our now middle child Ryan was running about the house in a superman cape hollering "I'm a Super Hero!" I asked him if he was going to help people. His response?"No, Mom.. I'm just a pretend Super Hero. Not a real one. Only the real ones help people."

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We were talking to Hadley about the possibility of her getting a bicycle for her birthday (I can't believe we're about to celebrate her FIFTH birthday!) and she was just certain that she wouldn't get one. Her brother told her that she would "for sure!". She disagreed with him. When I told her that Ryan was being optimistic, she replied, "He's not smart enough for that." It cracked us us. Will she

Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02021570219536693538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460486892895568771.post-71397773177975614722009-11-19T09:07:00.004-06:002009-11-19T09:13:40.322-06:00

My SIL gave birth to their second child, a son which they have named Beckham Pierce Patterson, this morning at 5:23. Welcome to the family, little guy. I wish I could be there to meet him but with our own new little guy, traveling isn't in the books at this time.It was funny... When Mom told me the name they'd selected for the baby, I commented, "Pierce. Good name." Mom knew where my mind was and

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Ryan dropped his baby brother on the floor. Okay, so "dropped" might be a bit strong of a word. Ryan was looking for the baby's pacifier which had slipped under the baby while in the swing. He picked up the baby and was putting the baby on the floor and just sat Reese down, rather than lying him down, and over the baby fell. Kerplunk. Ouch. Baby cries. Mom freaks. Ryan is excited he found the

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Just wanted to share a pix from the other day of the littlest guy in my life. This pix of him givin' me the "Hey mom...what's up?" look cracked me up.

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With hubby's folks here to watch the baby, we took the older kids out for trick-or-treating this year and what fun they had! To start off the evening, my DH took the kids to a nearby church for a "trunk or treat". THAT was, I think, the highlight of the kids' evening. We finished off the night walking around visiting houses. Ryan was Spiderman, unmasked (he decided he didn't want to wear the mask

Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02021570219536693538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460486892895568771.post-67001195594511460202009-10-19T11:46:00.002-05:002009-10-19T11:48:33.570-05:00

Overheard oldest son the other evening wishing upon a star..."Star light, star brightfirst star I see tonightwish I may, wish I mighthave a gun."WHAT? When asked what he needed/wanted a gun for he informed us that he needed one so he could find the deer and shoot them. LOL.... He'll be hunting before we know it.

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Hubby didn't care how I marked the recipe, with 5 stars or what, as long as I promised to make it again. Had a ton of eggs and was seeking a from-scratch yummy recipe for brownies that would use a few of them. Found one that wasn't difficult to put together and the results were beyond stellar. DH stated they were the best he's had! That said, I'd recommend the recipe to anyone seeking a decadent

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"No wonder you are downright chipper this morning" was my husband's response when he heard that the baby slept enough during the night that I was allowed almost four hours of glorious, uninterrupted sleep! Despite the fact that my day began a little before 4 a.m., he's right... I am a bit chipper. Amazing what a little sleep will do for a person. Here's hoping that this becomes a new trend (but

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When presented the option of having dessert, my children tonight said they wanted a bath INSTEAD. When offered the idea of dessert and then a bath, they voiced that they didn't want dessert, just a bath. I know baths can be fun..all the bubbles and splashing and such, but REALLY??? Bath over dessert? What have the aliens done with my children?

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Ray took the kids (our older two while I stayed home with the baby) to their first football game Friday night. What fun they had! I'll upload a hilarious video he took soon!

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Yeah, it has been a couple weeks and I'm WAY behind on posting pix of Reese (of course, how many baby sleeping pix does anyone other than me want to see...okay, so my mom would want to see as many as I do as well... besides us though. HA HA.Just wanted to share another pix of Reese. (You'll probably see this one again on his birth announcements, should I ever get those done. Yet another thing on

Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02021570219536693538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460486892895568771.post-84060178031714607942009-10-10T12:07:00.005-05:002009-10-16T10:49:03.227-05:00

Very sad news of a gardening kind. Our friggin’ dogs broke into the fence that surrounded/protected our pond and surrounding “get away” garden and completely, and I mean COMPLETELY, destroyed EVERYTHING! Screaming and tears were involved (especially considering it happened a couple days after I had the baby and my hormones were, well...haywire). Fortunately for the dogs, I didn’t kill them

Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02021570219536693538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460486892895568771.post-14712542206633764972009-09-30T11:23:00.010-05:002009-10-16T11:10:27.838-05:00

The fifth member of our family was born last Wednesday, September 23rd at 12:30 p.m. Reese Jackson James was 8 lbs 10 ozs, 21 inches long, and perfect! I'll TRY to post more pix in the coming weeks...as he currently has his days/nights a wee bit confused and we are solely breastfeeding I'm not only constantly busy with him but über tired as well.I'm very thankful, and blessed, that my parents

Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02021570219536693538noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460486892895568771.post-10220170401804915862009-09-20T13:30:00.003-05:002009-10-16T10:36:19.353-05:00

With the horrid drought we've had this year combined with my being hugely pregnant and not wanting to work outside in the horrid heat (hottest summer on record WOULD be the summer I'm pregnant...LOL) it pretty much goes without saying that most of my garden has gone kaput. ONE thing, however, has not only survived the abusive heat and lack of water but has thrived. In fact, it is about the only

Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02021570219536693538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460486892895568771.post-68018609403293368982009-09-11T11:21:00.002-05:002009-09-11T11:25:03.282-05:00

After months of record breaking high temps and nary a drop of rain it began storming last night. After a brief intermission this morning, it is once again pouring. Our yard, which had, due to the lack of rain (or watering), turned into a big dirt plot is now a huge mud lake and one could almost tube the rapids roaring down the street. Still though, I'm thankful for the rain!

Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02021570219536693538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460486892895568771.post-67084802715141629352009-09-10T08:58:00.005-05:002009-09-10T09:17:23.759-05:00

The Eyelets & Ridges washcloth is one of my faves not only 'cause I find it a quick and easy knit but I, like the designer, enjoy the contrasting smooth and bumpy sides of this cloth. A friend recently inquired as to how to knit Row 3 of the pattern. Hoping that either these pix or the mini video (camera got cranky and I couldn't redo the video at this time so tried some pix as well....hope one

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Started with an old t-shirt that we couldn't seem to part with but never wore. Ended up with a sleeper gown for the new baby! This cracks me up and is a great way to recycle that old t-shirt and give it one more, albeit brief (as babies grow quickly out of things), life. I remember going to the Lizard Lounge once my 1st semester of college. Was down for a University Programming Board conference (

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Seeing how applique isn't one of my strengths when it comes to crafting and I'm doing it on my regular sewing machine, I don't know why it is I come up with projects that require it. Expecting the final addition to our family anytime in the next few weeks, I wanted to make our DD and DS some tshirts announcing their role(s) in the family. (When our 2nd child was born, my Mom had gotten a cute

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...was what my DS told me when I asked him WHAT in the world he was doing with a couple of his TinkerToy hoses in his mouth and blowing air into his ears.

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After almost 5 years the tables have turned...and it feels weird.We really wanted to be able to have a stay-at-home parent, if at ALL possible, at least during our children's younger years. Before our oldest was born we looked at who had the best job/benefits/etc and those along with the fact that I loved my job at the time kept me in the workplace and my husband to handle the role of Mr. Mom. He

Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02021570219536693538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460486892895568771.post-7861573465755796732009-08-26T22:23:00.002-05:002009-08-26T22:28:36.443-05:00

Since my last appt, nothing has changed except the size of my belly. No further dilation, but a lot more contractions. Doc thinks Reese has finally flipped out of the breech position and noted that it is just a matter of when he decides to make his appearance. DH said I still owe him 3 more days before I can even begin to think about going into labor. Considering my "official" due date isn't for

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Our 4.5 yo daughter has decided that SHE rules the roost around here and has taken to being a wee bit bossy (even to us). Today, DH asked her who put HER in charge to which she replied, "My Jesus." He told her that Jesus said "you should honor your father and your mother". After a very brief moment of thought she informed him that "Well, Jesus changed his mind." It is going to be a long day....

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After what seems like, oh wait, it really WAS months of work, we finally got to sleep in our "new" master bedroom. Granted, we still need flooring and window treatments, bring in rest of furniture (and take out remodeling supplies still lying around), and to fix the headboard...but we are in our new room! On to fixing what will be the nursery! I'll post some pix soon of the end-for-now results!

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Being 8 months pregnant wasn't enough.... I had to make it even more difficult to get around. Now in a boot cast thing and with crutches, I'm almost pathetic. So I was merely squatting down when HOLY COW I think I broke my foot! Okay, so I didn't know WHAT I did to it but it hurt badly. I popped a couple of Tylenol (only drugs I could have being preggers) and hoped for the best. A bit later, as

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So our DD wanted a snack, specifically graham crackers with white icing. When she was told that we didn't have any white icing, she noted, "Well we have some chocolate icing. THAT would work. You HAVE to have icing with graham crackers!" So, chocolate icing on graham crackers she had. Maybe because it is a snack I had when I was kid, while I didn't taste one of the chocolate icing crackers, I

Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02021570219536693538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460486892895568771.post-62430543395215262842009-08-02T19:13:00.005-05:002009-08-22T21:55:57.847-05:00

Many thanks to the guys who came over to spend part to all of their Saturday helping Ray get the sheet rock up in the bedroom and bathroom! What a wonderful, wonderful blessing! It is looking like a REAL room now!

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It is a conspiracy and I'm sick and tired of it. The dogs have taken to destroying my plants during the night. After having lost a few plants to their evilness awhile back, my plants began feeling safe again....until recently. The dogs have decided to completely maul the pots and the contents therein of several of my larger plants. While I'm trying to nurse some of them back from death, these

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...as in really hot and not just having one of my because-I'm-pregnant hot flashes. Apparently with all the remodeling dust we've been stirring up added to the normal gobs of dust we have around here, our air conditioning filter clogged up faster than usual and I mean CLOGGED UP. To make things more fun (not) it has been sooo humid. So when you mix the humidity and the completely clogged filter

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Had to go in yesterday for an ultrasound to check on size of baby (he's normal) and wouldn't you know it but he was being camera shy. Extra frustrating in that our doc was giving us a 3D glimpse at baby. Reese Jackson James (what his name will be/is) was only interested in showing us his legs and feet. Occasionally, he'd bless us with a glimpse of an arm and had no problems showing off his boy

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Slowly, but surely, we're getting the remodel done. Earlier this week we got the studs up for a wall! How exciting!!!!Each day we get a little closer to being able to button this thing up. The waiting is SO hard. At least we are now putting things IN the room(s) vs. taking them out.

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After a week of over 100 degree weather and, as a result of it being "too hot outside", the kids being cooped up in the A/C, when the thermostat read 108 degrees yesterday we decided to load up the family and spend the afternoon at the pool. How heavenly. Okay, in order to get the "heavenly" experience you have to put you head under the water to muffle out the screams and squeals of all the kids,

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A few months ago I told a friend that while they were pretty, the hardy water lilies I'd gotten were pale and well, boring, compared to the tropical lilies they had in their pond. Well... turns out our pond wasn't boring after all. What a surprise to find that not only did the purple tropical lily I got from a fellow Austin Pond Society Board Member bloom beautifully this year in our pond, but a

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No sooner had I finished winding and packing up the magic yarn ball (MYB) to send to my swap partner for ADHD Knitting's MYB Swap on Ravelry than the mail person delivered my package! Yippee. YARN and goodies!Included in the cute tin was a sweet card, 3 skeins of Classic Elite Yarn 100% Egyptian Cabled Cotton in grey. One of the skeins was used for the MYB and unwinding it revealed some tea,

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This past Friday morning I gave the main, and right now with the remodel going on for the master bath/bedroom our only, bathroom a good spring scrubbing - from ceiling to baseboard... Despite smelling clean I still wasn't happy. Those dingy yellow-tan walls and trim were bringing me down. So I decided to take this whole pregnancy nesting thing to an extreme. I told my sweet, loving, supportive

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We have this weekend off from Tball practice and game, due to Memorial Day holiday. I thought I would take this brief breather to share some pix of our little slugger from his game this past weekend. Unfortunately, the best pix of him hitting the ball (where you can see the ball going as well) is messed up by Daddy's finger in the viewfinder. Also, we finally got in Ryan's "official" team photo.

Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02021570219536693538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460486892895568771.post-26939139749335528482009-05-21T18:25:00.005-05:002009-05-21T18:33:06.307-05:00

It will likely be a century from now before I finish this shawl so I thought I would share a pix of it thus far... Unfortunately it isn't the sharpest pix but it was the best one in regard to showing off the colorway of the yarn.Also, one of my finished items...Baby Girl Kimono Sweater. It just lacks buttons and someone to wear it (seeing how we're having a boy and won't need a girl baby sweater)

Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02021570219536693538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460486892895568771.post-42434577962340106062009-05-21T11:30:00.005-05:002009-05-21T18:20:36.350-05:00

This month, the Austin Pond Society (APS) held its annual plant swap. We had a great turnout with tons of pond, bog and landscape plants. I was actually quite good during the swap itself. I used almost all of my tickets toward three metal frogs who are now jammin' down in my garden area. I love them. Once the main part of the swap had ended however, it was a free for all and I got just a few

Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02021570219536693538noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460486892895568771.post-21803828886832003572009-05-16T19:04:00.005-05:002009-05-21T18:15:07.677-05:00

We began demolition of the master bath and bedroom today. We started getting much of the sheetrock down and was able to get the shower removed. Some things are built better in this section of the house than we encountered when we redid the kitchen. Any possible excitement over this fact, however, was short-lived when we realized what a mess the plumbing is. We knew the electrical was going to be

Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02021570219536693538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460486892895568771.post-32029458860748127462009-05-13T10:58:00.006-05:002009-05-21T18:09:37.551-05:00

If you were to examine the statistics of my husband's family you would understand why we had pretty much assumed that we'd be having a girl for our third child. After all, we'd already beat the odds and had a son. Boy were we in for a surprise. Yesterday we had our ultrasound. We didn't find out the sex of our first child, our daughter, so we could enjoy that "It's a..." experience. For planning

Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02021570219536693538noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460486892895568771.post-78980614950645750802009-05-13T10:53:00.002-05:002009-05-13T10:58:01.389-05:00

When I went out to water the garden yesterday I was devastated to see that a critter, most likely rabbit I assume, had gotten in the garden and eaten all my from seed tomato plants (the heirlooms) to the stalk. Also eaten was one of the pepper plants. URG!!!! I've gotta do some weeding and more planting but I did see a couple of paste tomatoes and purple tomatillos that have ripened as well as

Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02021570219536693538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460486892895568771.post-11070666239163159702009-05-11T15:18:00.004-05:002009-05-11T15:34:15.931-05:00

After having spent the weekend stalking the mail person, both of my packages arrived today! I've got yarn EVERYWHERE and it is just heavenly. Package one was nine skeins of grape/eggplant/plum wine (Color 9651) Cotton Flamme yarn spun in Brazil. This will eventually become the Tuscany shawl. It's perfect!Package two included 3 more balls of yarn for the Hippie Bolero, tons of crafty supplies for

Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02021570219536693538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460486892895568771.post-31278950086027415242009-04-28T12:52:00.005-05:002009-04-28T13:40:40.441-05:00

Today I found someone with 9 skeins of Crystal Palace Cotton Flamme yarn (now discontinued) in a beautiful Plum Wine Color that they are being so generous as to give away. How wonderful is a plum wine color for something Tuscan? Weight and yardage were great also and I knew immediately what this yarn wanted to be...the Tuscany shawl. Tuscany, a pattern from "No Sheep for You", is one of the first

Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02021570219536693538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460486892895568771.post-38038120137431622982009-04-24T11:42:00.002-05:002009-04-24T12:00:30.205-05:00

While I knew that a few things had some buds on them, as of yesterday evening the garden was still pretty quiet. This morning, however...WOWZA! It was like God told everything to open up over night. What beautiful flowers to adore this morning. In the pond, I've got 3 buds and one full open deep purple water iris, my guara is blooming like CRAZY...AND...my gladiolas (one anyway) bloomed!! This is

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