Friday Just a Moment*....

I've been away from my camera time for most of the week, busy with house stuff and kid stuff. So, today we went to the lake, cold and windy as it was....


(Sarah on a sandbar)

*inspired by my friend Nin.

Friday Fifteen...

(squirrel on the roof!)


(sunshine on the oaks)


(flooded yard)


(mostly cleaned out garage)


(table project, not yet underway)


(favorite mug)


(Sarah)


(girls bunks)


(new color for the laundry room)


(Papaw's yard clean-up)


(book purging)


(kitchen in the morning)


(bird and/or cat watching)


(Papaw)


(Sarah's friend)

Friday 15, in no particular order...

One day I'm gonna share about our hoarding experience(my mother-in-law) but all the pics are on a computer I don't have access to right now. For now, I'll focus on the work and play from earlier this Spring...


(house minus some really ugly bushes!)


(Boopa and Macaroni)


(Amy having her arm signed by members of A Bullet for Pretty Boy)


(pine root in the front yard)


(spring flowers)


(rescued frog at Papaw's, a snake was after him)


(testing new paint color for the porch and shutters-Secret Garden by Valspar)


(Wisteria at Papaw's)


(Daisy from the block)


(mossy chair)


(new light, new paint-day)


(at night)


(perigee super moon)


(Sarah's piggy butt)


(Jefferson Mardi Gras)

CUTENESS!!!!

Maezy(might need a home-laid back curious personality)


Bijou(has gone to her forever home in the country-with 6 kids no less!)


Biscuit(needs a home-sweet but fiesty personality)


Macaroni(probably staying with us-smart, very sweet personality)

What's been going on...

Thanksgiving started off with a bittersweet event. I looked out the kitchen window to see a large hound running across the neighbor's yard toward the street(we live on a busy corner). Sarah ran to see it and was just in time to see the hound's partner get hit and killed by a truck. The driver didn't even stop. We brought the hound in, hoping he had a tag. He was so sweet and stayed with us for 2 nights, sleeping on the bed with us. His owners had gone out of town for a funeral and came back Saturday afternoon. I hated having to tell them about their schnauzer mix.


Sonny and Sarah

We went the next weekend to collect our Christmas tree from Danville Farms. This is our favorite tree farm and we've been coming here almost 10 years. Of course this is not the first one that wasn't properly measured. The tag said 9 feet. I can understand 9.5 or even 9.9 or something, but 11 feet 7 inches?? That is WAAAAAAY off! We cut 10 inches off the trunk and it was still too big to fit under the ceiling beam.



We were pressed for time so there aren't many pictures. Here's Jasper doing his part to keep the tissue paper under control.







Meanwhile...



Fozzie was a busy boy and fathered, despite our best efforts to keep them apart, a litter of puppies with Sparkle. She went into labor on December 6th, exactly a year from the day we brought her home. Doesn't she look miserable?





Her babies, all female, are 1 week old now and we are in love with them!


Bijou, Biscuit, Maezy, and Macaroni

I hope everyone is having a wonderful, peaceful holiday season! I don't blog nearly as much as I want to, things are crazy with three extremely social kids.

I has a food blog

I post recipes on my facebook occasionally and have many on my previous blog(not so much here though). In the interest of saving them for my kiddos, not to mention finding them myself, I have decided to post them all in the same place.

Please visit me sometime at...

De-Cluttering Help...

My bloggy/fb friend Makin' Projiks posted this on facebook this morning. Oh My Gosh. I am now in love with Clutter Busting with Brooks Palmer. All of my plans for today are out the freakin window because of him. Dadgumit.