My House *pic heavy*

Well since my dad wanted pics and a few others of you have been asking to see pics of my "new to me" house, here they are. Please ignore the mess. LOL

My Kitchen, small but I love it! I plan to do a coffee house theme full of reds and browns. I'll have to show you the picture my mom bought me which was my inspiration for what I want to do in here.

My diningroom, just as small as my kitchen. In fact you can kinda see the picture I was talking about in this picture hanging up on the wall.

Destiny being cute before school this morning

My entryway. You can see my couch in the bottom right.

My livingroom plus Kiley holding Manzo

These two pics are of my craft room. I know its pretty plain right now but until we have more income I can't do much with it. In the cabinet is all my yarn and then i have two more on the other side filled with all my other crafty things including my sewing machine.

These are of my husbands office. He keeps all his military clothes here and all the big things are in trunks in the garage. They give him enough stuff to fill a good size room. Crazy considering he only uses half of it and the other half is used once in a great while.

Here is my small laundry room. Just big enough to fit my washer and dryer. I'll get some decor put here later on as well.

NOW THE DOWNSTAIRS

Here is Kiley's room. DH will hang up her posters and stuff for her when he returns from the field.

Right next door is her sister Destiny's room. She loves princesses and Twilight and yes you see the wall at the end of her bed? There is an Edward and Bella poster hanging right there! She told her dad to put it there so its the last thing she sees before she falls asleep. LOL

My hallway as you come down the stairs and also where we keep kitty food and water and there little play houses, though the bigger one broke cause Manzo is so big. These apparently aren't meant to hold Maine Coon's. Yes that's Manzo in the pic. He was suddenly hungry when I was taking pics. :-)

And finally my room though I'm not showing the part of the room with my viewable closet, TV, and the mess on the floor where the kids and I veg out in the evenings. Its messy LOL.

And that's all folks! If you made it this far congrats! 

MLOTS weekend update

Here she is after the last four days of working her. I know not too exciting lol. But I was able to get a lot done on her. We spent the 4 day to ourselves relaxing at home since DH left for the field for the next 10 days. He did work on the fence though so now we have a 7 foot fence out front. Yay! The side will be harder as he has to build it up with cinder blocks so its level and then he can build the fence on it. We are guessing it will take several weeks to do and several hundred dollars as well which we dont have at the moment so I have no idea when that will get built. 

I'll post pictures of my house tomorrow since my dad has been pestering me for pics of it. LOL.

Updates

NON-STITCHING:

My husbands grandfather (Opa) passed away this past Sunday. The funeral was on Thursday. It was in Germany and since we couldn't afford the flight we remained here. My husband was deeply close with his Opa so it hit hard. He was a type 2 diabetic and mere weeks before his death he had gone into the dr's for a different reason only to find out he had cancer through his entire body. He was 75 yrs old and so Chemo just wasn't an option. He just wasn't strong enough.

On happier news my sister had her baby shower on the 15th of August and my husband was so kind to record the put a tp diaper on your partner while blindfolded game so I'll post a few of those up on my next post.

DH is home for a 4 day weekend before a 10 day trip out to the field so he is steam cleaning the carpets while the kids are in school and I need to get the downstairs cleaned up so when he is done with the main level he can come down here and clean the carpets.

STITCHING NEWS:

I completed this color all the way to the bottom of her dress! Yay cuz I am so tired of stitching 415 on here. Not that the next colour will be all that more exciting. But a change which is nice. Think I can finish her this year? I'm certainly going to try!

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!

MLOTS and school

STITCHING NEWS:

I got more of MLOTS done! But sadly i lost my camera somewhere in one of my thousands of purses I own so i'll be on the look out for it. In the meantime here are some crappy pics taken on my cell phone:

Finished beading her arm and did all of the owl including the backstitching on the owl and her hand.

So onto the bottom section I go. This is all one color and its weird how it looks a different shade of the same color up above it. I hope when i get done and wash the whole thing it will look alright. This pic is as of 3 days ago. I haven't touched it since but hopefully i can this weekend.

NON STITCHY NEWS:

The kids started school on the 18th of August! Woohoo! So as always here is their first day back picture.

And today my DH got to play golf instead of actually working! LOL a lot of soldiers had a tournament today. DH had fun and got 3 birdies (2 hits to get the ball in) out of 18 holes! So here he is having fun and he even got his lucky number golf cart assigned to him, funny huh?

And so i leave you with a few pics I also took on my cell phone of Kiley and our Maine Coon, Manzo:

Dont mind mine and Destiny's feet at the bottom, lol Kiley is listening to her new Tinkerbell green 8 gb IPOD Grandpa Banfill bought her. no worries Kiley got a Princess pink one for herself thanks to Grandpa Banfill :-)

And this was taken today. Poor Manzo squished like that. Though he didn't seem to mind too much. 

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND EVERYONE!

My birthday, my neice, and another finish!

Today is my birthday! I'm 29 years old now, yikes!

Ok so last Thursday I completed baby blanket number two for my sister Lynnette's son to be born in November. She is naming him Weylyn Owen Jones. So here is the blanket i completed:

Later that evening my younger sister Heather calls me and said they are worried if she goes full term with her 2nd pregnancy (she is 6 weeks away from full term) they are worried the baby's bowels will perforate as she has cystic fibrosis and that caused her 1st poop to get stuck and so her bowels were building up with well poop. So anyway they decided to induce her. I grabbed a few things for her and the baby and had DH drive me to Aurora, Colorado. Poor girl was in labor for like 2 1/2 days before they decided to use pitocin to speed up the process. Her husband and I were there at her beck and call the whole time.  FInally on August 7th she came into the world! So everyone meet my first neice!

Mina Alexis Martin

Born August 7, 2010

At 8:41 P.M.

5 lbs 10 oz

18 1/2 inches long

She had to have surgery to empty and remove some of her bowels as the enigma didn't work. The surgery went well and they have removed her from constant pain killers to just a Tylenol suppository. We can't hold her yet as she still has plenty of tubing on her but she is otherwise a healthy girl. 

I got home Sunday night and I haven't stitched or crocheted since cause I haven't been feeling well. I still don't and being on prescription meds isn't helping how I am feeling but they are working so with any luck i will be up and going next week.

A new bundle of joy!

ME BITCHING:

Well I'm just in the best of moods today! Not! I'm losing my pink laptop that my husband bought me because we can no longer afford the payments ever since he bought his way too expensive truck! I feel like he just gets what he wants when he wants and does NOT think of the consequences ever. Of course I'm the one that pays for it every freaking time!

GOOD NEWS: Today I feel like designing. I have these cute coffee designs in mind and if PCstitch Pro ever decides to work correctly today I may get them charted out. All works out well you can expect to see several coffee related freebies here and me stitching each of them!

MORE GOOD NEWS:

Welcome Kolton Christian Warner

Born: July 27, 2010

8:04 A.M.

8 lbs 5 oz

19 1/2 inches long

My cousin Kylee had her baby! Her sister is also pregnant but not due for another 6 weeks. Yes we have 4 babies being born this year in our family. Isn't he just precious?? I definitely need a trip to Washington now!

Stitching, crocheting, rain, and clay oh my!

Ok well fabric is lighter but this shows the stitching better. This is the 2nd chair in the series from the cat's whiskers. I got this far and then did the heart like 3 times and none of them looked right so i got frustrated and gave up. I think i'll add it in a different way.

I made this little purse for Destiny. Its a freebie link is here I just changed the colors and made tassels for the ends instead of shamrocks. I organized my craft room looking for 3 crochet hooks to finish a baby blanket and they are no where so I will have to look harder or buy new ones soon!

Then we got rained in big time! The rain hit my door and flooded so hard my entry way was all wet. It had come in the bottom of my door. So instead of going outside we played with clay!

haha I know funny huh? Its all one color cause Kiley combined them all. Since Destiny is really big on cake decorating right now I made this little clay cake with a teddy bear on top. Yes she is into teddy bears too. LOL ok my miniatures leaves something to be desired. Oh well we had fun while we waited out the rain!

Have a great week everyone! The girls have their school physicals tomorrow and poor Destiny may need a shot that wasn't required before but is now.

Oh! I want to share this video. Duke just went bananas over the peanut butter this past week! I was LOLing so much!

Beeyatch by Subversive Cross Stitch

Beeyatch by Subversive Cross Stitch

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Finished this one up yesterday while watching a few movies. I just love doing up these patterns in this book. This is the 3rd one i have done. Not sure how i will finish it up so for now it will go into the finished but finished drawer

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Also for anyone thats interested we are onto Step 3 of the pineapple plant. It has to stay in this glass of water for 3 weeks. I'll change out the water every other day and we should see roots growing from the bottom. I'll try and post this weekly so you can see the root growth. I'm putting it on top of my refrigerator in the meantime. Keeps the animals and children and DH out of it.

Button Pins

Okay so i was reading someone's blog (If you originally posted these on your blog, pls comment here so I can link to you) and she found this cute tutorial for button pins so I was in the mood to try them out. The bottom two are mine and the top one is my daughter Destiny's. She definitely has more creativity than me lol. I like hers the best ;) 

Anyway click the words button pins above for the tutorial.

Also Destiny is finally going to update her blog after a year so please stop by her blog and leave her some comments. :) 

Stitching and even a completion!

First here is Chinese Goddess of Mercy. I am almost done with the moon above the little girl

Here is a freebie hummingbird i stitched and completed today. Its my first cross stitch finish this year! Freebie found here And i just realized i forgot the white on his chest! dangit! dangit! oh well cant do anything now.

Growing your own pineapple

Today was my first time to cut up a real pineapple and i remembered that you could grow the tops, so i hopped online and found this awesome site with instructions and pictures to boot! So we are on step one letting it dry out and the scars to heal itself. See all those brown spots, its going to grow roots there one day. If you want to try with me heres the link here

And since my girls or Manzo havent been on here in a while lol, here they are!

That game she is playing must be intense! (Picture by Kiley)

Yes she took her own pic, its kind of scary funny. Makes me laugh

And my cutie asleep on my book shelf. No its not normally empty but i had just finished handing out Avon books when I came home to this. 

Have a great day! Stitching pictures soon, i'm sorry!

Renaissance Fair (VERY PIC HEAVY)

Here are some fun pics of our day at the Renaissance Fair! 

This is a bone carving. Pretty neat huh?

These guys were hilarious!

An Awesome Caltic band!

The band all together

Smash the plates time! He won two pink feathers, one for each kiddo!

See how strong you are! DH didn't make it to King but he was right under it!

Barely Balanced is an acrobatic team and they were awesome and funny!

The latrines!

The girls had to try on princess crowns! Though with the feathers they look like Indian princesses!

they both shot 6 arrows, Kiley did exceptionally well!

We met a woodland fairy who didnt speak, just smiled and acted ditsy but ok.

And then we ran into one more fairy before heading home tired and broke lol.

Have a great 4th of July weekend!