Food Storage Pantry Frenzy!!!!

We used a lot of our per diem in Houston building up our food storage. My wife's a genius!

Check out these before and after photos:

It could be worse!

There is something in the works that I want badly to work out.  I think that, subconsciously, I must have been wondering if, in the event that this thing did not work out, "could it get any worse?" because I had a really  weird, vivid dream last night. 

In a nutshell:

I lost my job, and we ended up renting out a portion of our house to a small business.  The business did well, hired me on, then started making massive, beautiful improvements to our home (like a farm and barnyard in our backyard!).  They then fired me, I freaked out and evicted them.  All improvements then stopped halfway, a huge water pipe burst in the house, and a fire broke out in our attic.

I woke up having my subconscious question answered:  even if this one thing doesn't work out, yes, there are much worse things that could happen!

Other news--after almost a year in this home, we are finally painting max's room!  We will stick with the green, but we are giving up the geometric wall idea, even though it might have been awesome.  Instead,  we'll try our hand at a cityscape, to help give the room a superhero-in-Gotham type feel.

Also, our media room is now ready for mad parties, thanks to the generosity of the B/C Sheeners.  Come, partake!

Texas is sad, Utah happy, this week.  Traci gets back Monday.   Hope she has fun!

Hello, blogger, old friend.

Fresh and Organic!

 I really wanted a spring/summer garden this year but with all of the house projects we just didn't get to it. Thank goodness we live in Texas because we can plant a fall garden! It has turned out really well. We planted some good cold resistant plants. Included in our garden is Sugar Snap Peas, Swiss Chard, Lettuce, Broccoli, Carrots and Radishes. The radishes (right side on the picture) have worked our really well, almost too well. Anyone have Radish recipes? Anyone? *crickets chirping..... SO has the lettuce which is good because we eat a lot of it.

Anyways, it's exciting. We are loving it. Derrick is building a little border for the garden as we speak. 

One question though, do you know if Sugar snap peas are a bush or a vine? Do you know if they need a cage? Just curious....

Our little garden patch, there is LOTS of grass....

 

Our first harvest, some radishes and lettuce.


 

Disneyland Vacation 2012

So, a long time ago we went on vacation, and it was great!  I finally put up all of the pictures.  You  are going to see lots of photos of my children, because they are crazy and awesome.

California Dreamin'

Doesn't it look fun?

For those of you that are not on Facebook....

Max started school this week!  I only cried a little after dropping him off in his class on Monday. (Seriously, though, he's my baby!) Today he got to ride the bus for the first time and he LOVED it.  They pick him up and drop him off at our house. I'm not sure if we are going to keep it up though, school is from 8-11. They picked him up at 6:45 and didn't drop him off until 11:45. 

 Max also got a great teacher, Ms. Matthews. We are excited to start this new phase of our lives! On a side-note, Max is the tallest kid in the class, and he is also happy to have a great friend from church in his class, Abigail!

Another Room Completed!

Hey guys. Does anyone read this blog anymore?  We finished the Media Room! If Derrick would like to come on here and explain this sweet wiring job, he is more than welcome to.

Before

After

I am hosting a little movie night every month, this is how the first one turned out.

The walls a pretty boring in the media room, but at least it's painted! Max's room is next to get painted. Can't wait to see how it will turn out!

Sewing and a little photo shoot...

Magnolia really needed some new short sleeve shirts. I was going through her shirts today and noticed that she had lots  of really cute long sleeve shirts that still fit, they just had long sleeves. VOILA! New shirts! I left my comfort zone of pillows and curtains, and went to work, and only an hour later, Maggie has 6 new shirts to wear! Here she is modeling her new tops:

First shirt, the blue one, super easy to do I just cut off the arm cuffs that were at the wrist and moved them up to above the elbow.

 I just had to make sure that the gathers would end up near the shoulders. Super easy and quick.

This shirt I was just going to cut the sleeves off and call it good, but I saw all this cute polka dot scraps and added a little flower, and sewed the cuffs of that shirt onto this one. This one was the quickest one to do. Seriously like 5 mins. It looks better on her then I thought.

 This is the polka dot onsie that I used this scraps from above. I did layered ruffled sleeves on this one. I think this one might be my favorite. I just cut the sleeve off for the first ruffle, and sewed the underneath ruffle  to the seam that was already inside the shirt for the shoulder. I just then trimmed it down to the length that i wanted the second ruffle to be. If that makes any since at all. This one took a little bit longer maybe 7 mins. I had to be careful with some of the stitching. (Ignore the mess!)

This one was super simple again, just moved the elastic wrists up. The print hides the seam. You can barely tell.

 This shirt, i just folded over and stitched down. I also got to use some of the leftover fabric to make little headbands!

 This black onsie was the hardest one to do! I moved the cuff from the bottom up, but I needed to make sure the gathers were at the top of the the arm, and there was no print to hide anything, so I just had to be really slow with this one. Total time, maybe 15 mins.

I am so happy how all of them turned out. Gotta love new shirts for FREE. Now go re-purpose something!
P.S. which shirt is your favorite?