Early Christmas Present

A little music shop in Gresham is having an awesome sale on electric and acoustic guitars. Ryan & I stopped in.. and we now have a new addition to the family... meet Lucy (as in the vivacious red head we all know and love, Lucille Ball)

She is my early Christmas present. I Love it. My first metal string guitar I purchased from a store. I already have a nylon string classical, it is an heirloom and I love it, it's kinda exciting to buy a new guitar, and now I have TWO!
Which doesn't quite compare to Ryan's 5, but I'm working on it. ;)

One of the quotes I really liked from General Conference...

I really like this. It's a good reminder for me, cause when I see cute little babies, I freak out a little sometimes cause I think I want one right now, but I need to remember they are not a stamp collection (or button collection in my case) and they take time and preparation. But I also need to remember, that when having a child/children, it's on the Lord's time table.

(no I'm not announcing anything, Ryan and I are just in a point of our marriage where we are talking more of the "when are we going to?", not just, "someday" and discussing the next 5 years with those types of things to consider.)

Pickletown

Okay we're not really in Pickletown, we're in Bickleton. But my friends call it Pickletown and insist that zombies live up here, cause what else would? My brother and his family of course! Ryan & I made a quick trip up here lllaaaattteeeee last night. We saw 6 deer and killed a zillion bugs on our windshield, but we made it! We've been relaxing and watching general conference. Ate cinnamon rolls and cheesey dip so far. In between the morning and afternoon sessions, we walked to the post office and grabbed some lunch at the cafe and got back just in time to eat and then fall asleep during the session.

Here are some (a lot) photos of our endeavor into the windy town of Pickletown.

love that girl

Just Curious...

Not announcing or hinting, but just curious,
when you name your kid, a name that has a common nickname, for instance, William->Will, Samuel->Sam, Anthony-> Tony
Are you allowed to somehow politely stop people from calling them that nickname if you don't like it?
I mean, until said kid has formed own opinion of being called whatever nickname, but until then will I have any say in that? .... did that make any sense? I like the name Harrison, but I wouldn't want to call my boy Harry... there's only one Harry in the world, and his last name is Potter.

Subway Art

So a new trend in decor, is subway art. I absolutely love it. I know that the bloggers who make them use those fancy photoshop programs that I have no idea how to work, or could even afford to buy. But I do have a couple of programs that had tools to mimic what they do, so I tried to give it a shot. First I want to show you some of my favorite holiday/seasonal subway arts that I got at http://eighteen25.blogspot.com/ such a fun/cute blog!!!

now here's my attempts to mimic. I love the unique ways of having scripture and prophet quotes in the home.


Theirs:

Mine:

Ta da!

Goal

So my friend Erika (who is hilarious and has the most adorable chubby fuzzy haired baby Eloise I've ever seen) started a weekly goal thing. You post your goal on a link party so it's out there for all to see and we can all cheer each other on. SO I made a goal this week (and probably next week and the week after) that I will stick to my daily chore chart. Hopefully this will help with being more organized and nothing getting too out of hand, also maybe Ryan can help more knowing what is on the days' list.


Monday
Darks
-wash
-foly
-put away

vacuum

Tuesday
bathrooms
-disinfect
-tidy
-clean mirrors

dust

take out recycles


Wednesday
whites
-wash
-fold
-put away

bedroom
-tidy

Thursday
kitchen
-disinfect
-sweep
-mop

garbages
-empty all big & small

Mally's Litter box
-clean
-refill

Friday
dishes catch up
-wash
-put away

sheets
-change
-make bed

Saturday

NADA! (hopefully all will go according to plan)

Daily
sort mail

keep dining room table clear (have a huge problem with this, it's my i'll-put-this-away-later-keep-this-away-from-the-dogs area)

tidy house

dishes
-rinse and put in dishwasher

make bed

And Cause I know you're dying to see a picture, here it is. ;)

The top says 

"...clean enough to be healthy, dirty enough to be happy"

I think I'm going to stick it on the laundry room doors.

What is your goal this week?
It's okay, we're friends, you can tell me.

Nothing & Something

Do you ever feel like doing absolutely nothing, but also like getting up and doing something at the same time?  That's how I feel today, and it's maddening.

Bleh. Even my comfort movie and comfort food aren't helping me feel better.

In my defense, I moved/cleaned/organized a lot of crap yesterday, so I guess that's something.

Little Stinker

How cute is this kid?

So. Stinking. Cute.

Speaking of stinking, we were downstairs playing some Mario Kart on the wii when the most unfortunate odor came upon us... I asked, "UGH, WHO was that?

And Davin, with a grin much like the one in this photo looked up at me and said.

"That one was me"

Baha, he's a Bowles.. no doubt about that.

From the mouth of babes

My nieces and nephews crack me up.

Throughout the week (hopefully) I'll be posting about our activities and quotes from the wee ones.

Davin:

 We were playing on the new swing set my parents bought and Davin ran over all excited and exclaimed


"I LOVE SWINGS FLOWERS & BUTTERFLIES!!"

WESTON:

The gazillion bubble machine was blowing a gazillion bubbles and Weston said:

"I'm the bubble king!!"

Playing on the swing set Weston asked me, 

"Do you know any kung fu? Cause I know real kung fu....for reals"

Ivy:

Is an awesome dancer. And she cracks me up. 

But when she's on the swing she cracks me up by softly cooing

"Weeeeeee"

They're coming....

My nieces & nephews are coming to visit this week.

YAY!!!!

Note: These are all really old when they were babies or really young

The only one I'm missing from my collection is Talia!!!