Neighborly Kindness!

Well we just got hit with another winter storm. I think we have gotten somewhere between 10-12 inches in 24 hours and it is still snowing. With very thing that we have going on here, snow is just one more thing to add on. A few weeks ago My Dad called David to ask him if he would be willing to help as a back up work for the company that my dad works for. He works for an excavating company and they do a ton of snow removal. So David said of course he would, He would love to drive a great big tractor and play in the snow, plus he would be making extra money! So Friday morning my Dad called and asked if David could help out after he got out of work. Well let me remind you that David works second shift (3-11pm), so that meant he would be working very late. Well David not wanting to pass up that opportunity he did. Well he did a ton of snow removing at other places, but we also got a ton of snow in our driveway. So in my little head I was thinking I should help him and go out and at least shovel the end of the drive way so that he didn't have to do it himself after working 18 hours straight. OK I know very well that me being almost 5 months pregnant I should not have been shoveling but I did.



But my real point to this story is how that with everything that is going on in this world. There is still neighborly kindness in my neighbors. After I had done about 15-20 feet myself and come in side to get warm. Here came my neighbor on his tractor with his snow blower to finish the rest and to make it so that David didn't have to do any of the shoveling. I just wanted to share the neighborly kindness we were giving after our first snow storm of 2009!

And So this is Christams!

Well we had a good Christmas to spite all the things that had happened the few days before Christmas. We packed up and went to my parents and had a good time like always. Things went just fine becuase Papa (my dad) called Santa and told him that Carson was going to be at his house this year. We had a great time My sister and her family came over to Papa and Gigi's house on Christmas eve and we ate ( like always) and opened gifts and had a Birthday party for Jesus. We all had a really good time. In my little family we are not going to play Santa up real big, but thats because we want are kids to know what the true meaning of Christmas is. We don't get a ton of gifts for Carson, we only do 5, One big gift from us, one from santa and 3 from the 3 wise men. I love Christmas and the whole giving thing so like always I spent WAY to much again this year on Chirstmas. Oh well I can try better next year. We ended up getting up around 6:45, Carson was not to sure what to do at first. And then he saw it, his new GeoTracks that was all set up ready to be played with. he opened a few more gifts and then we all got ready to move on with are busy day. We started at home (papa and Gigi's this year) then to the Snyder's for a fast Christmas and then to my Aunt and Uncle's for My Family Christmas. We always have lots of good food and tons of fun so we had a pretty good Christmas.

Carson and Maya making a cake for baby Jesus

Carson showing off he new game "Candy Land"

Papa reading "the night befor Christmas" to his grandkids.

Carson and his new geo tracks.

We ended up staying with Mom and Dad for two days and then we stayed with my sister and her family on Friday (thanks sis). Saturday we had someone look at what was wrong with the plumbing and we where able to stay in our house on Saturday evening. We still have a lot more work that needs to be done, but for now we can live in our house.

Heres the Birthday party we had for Jesus!






We hope that you had a Great Christmas and a Very happy new year!

I WON'T let it ruin my Christmas!!!!!!!!

We just became new homeowners this past October. We work hard for what we have and would for once like a little break. Let me tell you how my Christmas week started. Sunday was very very cold here with a wind chill of -28 or something like that. I had been at my sisters working on a Christmas gift and didn't get home until that evening. I knew it was going to be cold out in my salon so I went to check on the water in the sink, Frozen! Had no idea what to do. So David told me we would deal with it on Monday. Well like some pregnant women I don't sleep very well, I had gotten up at 5:00am, to get a head start I was going to turn on the heater out in the salon. Bad Idea. I had layed down for about an hour and got up to start my day and went out to check on how things were going. I could hardly open the door. WATER was everywhere. A Pipe had broke. I yelled for David to get up and shut the water off to the salon, because I had know idea where it was! After shutting off the water we went out there and there was about 2 inches of water on the floor and water everywhere. Everything was soaked. David started to push the standing water out the back door and I went to find all the towels that I could to help clean up. Well needless to say we got it all cleaned up and we think that the only thing that needs to be replaced is the floor. But we had talked about doing that anyway just a few days earlier. I guess that's what we get for talking about it.





Well wait I have more! Yesterday I decided to give my sister a break and go watch the girls at her house. Because that's what nice sisters do! But when I was there David calls to tell me he got his car stuck in the driveway and that someone he worked with picked him up. He works second shift (3-11pm) so I knew nothing could be done until he got home. Well I had stayed for dinner with my sister's family and didn't get home until around 8:45pm. I was busy getting Carson ready for bed ( that needed to be in around 8:00) so I didn't even see that there was a problem with the toilet, in the only bathroom that we have let me just say. So I went on with my stuff and started the washer and wrapped some gifts. I went in around 11:15pm to use the restroom and that is when I saw that we had a problem. It was not flushing right. So I just thought I would say something to David when he got in from digging out his car. We had gotten a lot of snow drifts in the driver way. Well just about a minute latter I hear water running all over the floor in the bath room. The toilet had overflown. What do I do. I called David in to help and figure out what was the problem. we had no idea. So David ran to Walmart to get a snake to see if that would help. Oh did I forget the tell you that not only the toilet had overflowed but there was standing water in the bathtub. So now what do we do. I went to bed and poor David went back out to dig out the drive way and was out until 2:30am in the rain and cold only to get a couple hours of sleep,he has to work first shift today. So now I have to pack all of our stuff we need for today and for Christmas to take to my parents house. I was so excited to have Carson waking up in his house on Christmas and now I can't even do that. His Papa and Gigi (my parents) where going to come over on Christmas morning just to see the excitement that Carson had and then they we're going to my sister house for the same thing. The more I sit here and think about it the more I get mad. And I can't have Christmas in my house this year because the indoor plumbing hates me. I know I am sure you are thinking well you could be the one that it homeless and does have a place to have a nice Christmas. And I know that we have a nice little house and this will get fixed but i just wanted to be able to have a nice Christmas in our little home. You know I even had gotten a new coffee maker and something to make for breakfast for when Papa and Gigi came on Christmas morning. OK I am done crying like a baby now. I just want a freaking break, for once! I am sure I will have an update in a few days stay tuned!





Well anyways we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy new Year to you and your Family!

being Silly

Carson and I were just sitting at home this evening and Carson was playing with some toy. I looked up and he was playing with this basket on his head. He is just being a silly!

In addition

Well in addition to my I just don't understand post, I have an update to add. My neighbors have added one more of those wonderful blow ornaments. Now if 4 wasn't enough they have added a Santa to the mix of A snow man, Tigger, Abominable snow man, and the oh so wounderful Grinch. I really think that God just might be testing my Christmas sprit this year. I have it in my heart that Christmas is the day the Lord was born and that we are to celaberate it. Now don't get me wrong I do love the traditional decoration that many still put up and some have replaced with these silly blowups. I just guess this year I am not in the sprite to decorate. I don't have very many thing in my house even. I not sure if it is that I am pregant with the lack of motivation or if it is that fact that I just want the real reason for Christmas to get lost in my home. We have talked to Carson about Santa and he knows he will get a gift or two from him but we just aren't going to play Santa up real big in our house. I do love Christmas and the giving of gifts. I love to sing Christmas music, it is my favorite kind to sing. I am even in our church chior this year. So I guess if I don't show the sprite on the outside of my house I still have it in my heart.

Let it snow!

Today we got up to find that it had snowed over night and we now need to go and shovel the driveway so my sister can bring the girls over. Carson was very excited the it had snow and has been waiting to go out and play in the snow. He really wanted to help daddy with the shoveling and wanted to use his own shovel. So like any good parent we got him all dressed up in his winter cloths. And we sent him out with daddy.















Working Hard!















This one he needed to try eating the snow.

I am sure we will have alot more snow to play in this year!

look what I made!!!

My sister Alison and I have been wanting to start a home based business for sometime now. We feel that staying home with our kids is very important, but we also wanted a way we could make some money to help with the family funds too. So we started thinking lets do something. With being the mothers of young children we wanted the business to have something to do with kids, so we thought about making things, sewing them. We did a lot of research and came up with a few things we wanted to try to make. Now let me tell you my sister and I have NEVER really sewn a thing in our lives. So we did what any one else would we jumped in with both feet. We bought a sewing machine and the things we needed to start making these projects we wanted to try. Now let me tell you standing in the fabric store holding a pattern for a sewing project that clearly has English still really look like a foreign language when you have no idea what to do. I just have to say I am so glad my sister was there to help. So after getting everything. we opened the box to this great new machine and take it out and we are like what next. Just so you know I did take the owner manual out and read the whole thing. I know kind of know what I am doing.

The two things we wanted to try making was a tote/diaper bag and a cart hugger. We started with the bag. Come on how hard can it really be to make a bag. Well don't be fooled. When you know nothing about sewing it can be very hard. We started to cut out the pattern and I think it took us about maybe two to three hours. And to make the bag about two weeks. The first thing we started was the handles. They were the hardest thing on the bag. You take about three feet of fabric cut it, sew it, fold it, and cut it, sew it fold it in to what you think is going to be a handle just to find out you did something wrong and have to take it all apart. So finally we did accomplish this bag. Sure there are things that aren't perfect on it and we had to take the thing apart and redo it a few times but we got it done.

But I did take a few pictures of the two bags that we have made. This bag is for my sister in law Sabrina. She saw the first bag that we made and had said she really liked it and wanted one. She has been great with the kids and gives them things all the time so we wanted to make her a special gift for the kids to give her. She had told me that she wanted Hot Pink and Lime green. I think we came close to that. This bag we got done is a day and a half. So we are getting a few things figured out.

We do enjoy the time that we do spend on making these gifts, even if we get frustrated.

This next bag is the very first one we made. I use it to take to church with books for Carson and Maya( my niece). It work very well for that. And hold a great deal of stuff.