Surprise this weekend

On Thursday my sister Louise called and said that she and her husband wanted to come over for a visit this weekend ( they live in Arizona) what a surprise that was. We love having them in our home. Friday night they arrived about 6 pm, and we grilled steaks. We also had herb potatoes, french bread and fresh aparagus, and a wedge salad. It tasted sooooo good. That night we did our favorite thing, we watched movies!

Saturday morning Louise and I did another favorite thing, we went garage sale shopping. We love a great bargain. We scored! I bought a piece of beautiful granite for 10 dollars. Yep, I said ten dollars and it will fit my bathroom perfectly. I'm so excited to get it put on my bathroom cabinet and get my bathroom updated.

After shopping we picked up the men and went to the Avacado house for breakfast. boy is that tasty, we over ate much too much, but it was fun.

Then Louise and I went shopping at Nordstrom Rack and each of us bought a pair of shoes. Score again!

We always have such a good time with them, and so happy they made the trip over to "hang out" with us.

I can hardly wait for next week too because ALL of my kids will be together. there will be 31 one of us celebrating Easter a week early.

Life is GOOD.

Windy day today

Today was the first time it felt like winter. I walk with some wonderful ladies every morning and brrrrr was it cold. The wind cut right through us!

I"m on a quest to find 11 matching Easter dresses. Whew with the help of my girls we accomplished it! They will look cute all together, I''ll post a picture later!


Today, I canned bread and butter pickles! I love bread and butter pickles so does my family, so we will enjoy them. Yesterday I did boysenberry jam. ( Why do I love food so much?)

Just a couple more weeks before my kiddos from Pennsylvania come in. Can't wait!

Ryan at Staples Center

Last night was really fun and exciting. Ryan was drawn to have a chance to shoot baskets during the Clippers basketball game, he was given 4 really great seats and a chance to win up to 1200 dollars. He was so nervous! The Staples Center is HUGE! Well, here are some pictures of the event. His first basket he missed because as you can see the girls held up signs and covered the basket! He moved around and got better shots. His last shot if he made a three pointer enabled him to double his money earnings , SWISH he made the three pointer! all in all it totaled 775.00

We were just pretty excited, and we all had a great time. Todd and his sons also came along to wish Ryan Good luck.

Go Ryan

The New Carpet is Here!

Well, yesterday was an eventual day! The new carpeting arrived. I bought my carpet from Home Depo and I think everything went well. The workers did a good job. Here are some before and after pictures. What do you think?

My next project is do redo one bathroom, but don't know when that will happen. By the way these are my Christmas presents to me that I told Bill he was giving me! ( great idea huh?)

A brand new month

Wow, can it really already be February? I enjoyed the rains, and now things seem to be cleaner and greener.

Our family has been busy. We've enjoyed Candice and Melissa and thier families. After today Bill and I will be alone for the first time since two days after Christmas ( I think we can handle that :)

we had some fun family get togethers, and can I say we have enjoyed getting to know Joy's new friend ????? Rick Varner and his family. They are great. Details I'm sure will come later.

I'm so ready to tackle getting new carpet upstairs. We've had the same carpet for over 25 years and it has worn beautifully through 6 kids. ( too bad sea foam green isn't cool anymore) Yes, it's long time due!

Counting the days till Carolee and family comes. I hate being so far away from them. Thank goodness for telephones, and emails and camera phones!

Happy Valentines to you all in a few days!

It worked !

Well, not that this is such important news, but after another 3 hour session with my Indian friends across the sea, I now have Windows 7 on my computer! and Yes, it's way better!
whew, what an ordeal!

I'm so sad for the people of Haiti... but what a wake up call for all of us... Are we prepared for a major earthquake? they said on the news there is a shortage of fresh water. How are YOU doing with your own water supply?

Yesterday I canned some fresh chicken. It's so delicious and really so very easy! I need to learn to can more food.

I'm loving having little Lyla here with us. She is the sweetest little angel. She never complains she is so mild tempered. I love her and I just love all my grand kiddies. I'm so lucky to have so many and MORE to come!

Frustration

well, guess what I just had a long post all about what has happened since Christmas and it got deleted by mistake... bah humbug!

so I'm drained, I'm not repeating! but I will tell you it just goes along with spending three hours on the phone today with a Microsoft person ( who happens to live in India) and can't understand him... and my other computer still is not working...
they are calling back tomorrow with a more techically trained person... grrrrr, did I just waste three hours of my time.

the good news is Candice gave me a great haircut.. I love it., and I'm loving cute little Lyla who is here with me.
I'll let you know how much Indian friend works out tomorrow!