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! 

Flowers blooming and not much else

These are some weird little pink flowers which bloom off a vine. They grow like weeds though.

These are called Seedums and even the darker green ones next to them are the same but different colored flowers. They seem to love the shade by the garage though so it may become a seedum flower bed as I have so many!

These are my first two Iris's and they are actually in a pot and seem to be doing great unlike the ones planted by the tree which Zeus seems to love playing in and running through so I am not sure those will make it.

Just some little pink and red flowers (ignore the dead one on the end)

This one I love! It was so small when she brought it to me and its just blossomed and those are all the babies on her and the ends will flower so as soon as they bloom i will show you them. 

Here is another view of the same plant. She gave me a bunch of babies too in another color but they arent growing as fast as this one. 

THIS weekend even though its fourth of july weekend I plan on getting most/all of these plants into the ground. We figure we can always move them later if we need to. I also need to go buy like 4 rose bushes too for the backyard and I would love a butterfly bush under my kitchen window as well! 

My mom arrives here Friday for a 4 day weekend visit too! I can't wait and I know she won't mind going to the nurseries with me either!

We went to the Renaissance Fair this past weekend as well but i'll post pics of that tomorrow. If you are on my Facebook list you can see them now as I posted them there days ago. 

TKD

The girls won a free month of TKD so Monday was their first day and they LOVED it! 

You can see them here in the back of the group.

Is anybody out there?

I had such a long day today and it all started out good till DH came home in one of his moods. So i did what I could and took off to check on the pups. Here's Zeus chilling in the outside chair. Please ignore the beer boxes. They were put out there to go into the trash but somehow the can ended up out front and these stayed out back. I'll go clean them up tomorrow.

Even Duke got bored waiting for me to put down my camera and play with him.

But then he gave me a smile err i guess you could call it one.

Yes Duke is standing in my planters and with all of my plants in cups and containers. Why you ask? Because my DH said he wants to make hills and stuff thru the planters so it looks "decorative" and really I couldn't give a rats butt. The dogs are eating on the cups and tipping over plants and I am losing my patience with him. So if he leaves next month on his training thing and they still aren't in the ground. I'm putting them in it without the "decorative hills" 

So anyway enough of my rant. I came inside and fed my kids a bowl of Potato soup for dinner and found Zeus looking depressed as I feel.

And i have no idea why Destiny's apron is upon my floor. I told her to put it away.....

OH! Did i mention DH got pissed enough that he broke yet another laptop tonight??? Now miss Destiny must lose her desktop to him so he can have a computer. 

Some Cross Stitching and a finish!

Recognize this? Its my Chinese Goddess piece. After I finished crocheting the baby blanket for Baby Girl Martin I was in the mood to stitch on it. I did some more of the light pink around her head. Not too much done but its progress and it was so nice to stitch on something. My big round hoop stand was destroyed in the move so I'm on the hunt for a new stand.

Here is the baby blanket I finished for Baby Girl Martin. It is the size of a crib bed. Plus its not the normal rectangular ones. I wanted something different for her. Besides we found out she is going to be a special needs child. She has Cystic Fibrosis ( 1 out of 3,000 get it). We won't know the severity of it until she is born this September.  I am hoping its a very light case instead of a worse one as I know that my sister is very sensitive and won't be too emotionally stable if its a severe case. Anyways pls keep her and the baby in your prayers. 

Memorial Day Weekend - Day Two

Saturday - Our house warming gift. :)

Time to wake those that were still asleep at 0800

Then the boys used the skidster to level out the backyard. None of realized how much excess dirt was there but it was in our favor! We had so much excess there is no need to bring in anymore to fill in the step areas

DH had to move our sprinkler pipes so Opa wouldn't run them over

There were lots of huge rocks against the neighbors fence so those all had to go.

And while Opa took his cigarette break he watered the dirt down.

As you can see even Oma wasn't immune to the high winds we had.

After she got her hair tied back it was time for more chalk coloring! They even discovered that if you dip the chalk in a bucket of water that they color darker colors and they also:

Color the water!

More work, but can you tell Jeremy didn't do much? (Glad a 12 pack a beer was his only payment)

Then while Jeremy and DH grabbed lunch, Opa pulled out the trencher to dig the trench holes to lay in our sprinkler systems. we found driveway under all this dirt on this side of the house so Opa had to get the Skidster out and remove the driveway too. It was all asphalt.

Then time to set up the main and the electronics parts. We had to find a weekend plumber to install a pipe coming out of the side of the house too. Cause our water hose connection has a no freeze valve on the inside which meant he couldn't use it to connect our sprinkler system.  

The girls played with all the blue flags. This is where you saw the steps last. Its mainly filled in now.

DH trenched the shorter sides by hand. Boy was he tired and sunburned when he finished!

Then after Opa connected all the pipes Jeremy put my girls to work filling in the trenches and patting them flat.

Then all us gals took a much needed break! Putting in sprinklers is hard work!

Opa finished up the zones getting them all connected together. There are 4 zones total!

Here is zone 1 being tested! Yay it worked! Jeremy messed up one of the sprinklers though as it goes off when zone 4 comes on and its suppose to be a zone 2 sprinkler but its a pain to fix so we just decided to leave it. At least it waters where its suppose to. This pic is just when the sprinklers flush out any dirt, before the guys attached the actual sprinkler heads to them and then adjusted them to the right direction. 

Opa was tired! Thank you so much Ron! I know this wasn't the funnest trip to Colorado Springs but definitely your next visit we will be able to do something fun!

Tuesday DH puts in the dividers for our planters and also he is working on getting the kids playset together as they also get a sandbox under it! (I wonder how much sandbox sand is?) Also we get the grass put in this week too which means the kids can't play back there for two whole weeks till the grass takes root!