A great vacation…

I have been in Colorado visiting this little guy and his mama Jess and my niece Kate…I came home to no internet service and have been working on that since Saturday.  Just got it restored today!

Is he cute or what??  We did a lot of crafting and shopping, but the favorite part for me was hanging around with family.

Jess is such a good mama!

I got in late (or early depending how you look at it) because the Denver airport was closed.  My first flight was cancelled and I was on three other flights before the Denver airport reopened. So my first morning there I had only slept 4 hours, so Brady and I took a nap together.

We made a laid back trip to Lowes to get some spray paint for a project that Jess wanted me to help her with.

Brady is pretty much a “go with the flow” kid!  He is really sweet!

One night Jess and Kate were cooking dinner…Brady had just eaten so I got him out of the highchair and found this!  He had poo under his arm and behind his knee!  Very talented I tell you!

So he had to have a bath right there in the kitchen sink. 

Throughout the detox process he was just as happy as a clam! 

Jess and I got pedicures…my foot is on the right and it is a Muppet color, Gonzo something or something Gonzo!

Brady was fascinated with the flashlight.

Maggie rode along with us to see Kate and her cat Brutus!

Brutus is not so excited about being on a leash!  Nothing like taking a leashed cat on a walk or a crawl as it was!

Brady started eating puffs while I was there…he wasn’t so excited about them at first.

He was asking to be picked up…the puffs were trying to get him!

Such a happy baby!

Brady is especially cute when he wakes up from a nap…

Jess loves the snuggle time!

I set Brady in the sink thinking he would be safe there while I was finishing my “beauty routine”…I had turned the faucets off tightly thinking he wouldn’t be able to turn the water on.  Wrong!  He gasped loud and I looked down and he had the cold water streaming onto his tummy and into his diaper. 

The view from outside my bedroom!  I just love the mountains…just couldn’t get enough of them!

I asked Jess to take some new pics for me for the blog. Love them and thanks so much Jess!

We ate good food…avocado chicken salad in pita and fresh cucumbers. Scrumptious!!

Brady also got his first tooth while I was there (bottom right in case you can’t see it!).  We had to snap a pic of it, much to Brady’s chagrin!  The next day it was much taller…he had been a bit fussy and not acting himself for a few days before, so we knew something was up!

Anyway, thanks to Jess for her great hospitality!  I love you guys so much and can’t wait to see you again!

40 BAGS 40 DAYS Week Two Progress

You can read about my first week’s progress here. I have been continuing to work on cleaning out drawers and that sort of thing, but haven’t actually gotten rid of anything else.  Unless you count the indoor garage sale that I took those 26 bags/boxes to yesterday!  I made over $100 after expenses and got rid of all that stuff! And it happened in the midst of 10 inches of unplowed snow!  So I had to go to the storage building and wade through snow to the unit, find that the lock was frozen over and trudge back to the car, drive to the truck stop (we’re talking big time desire to get rid of this stuff!), get some lock de-icer, and trudge back through the snow to work on the lock for ten more minutes. 

Here’s the day before…my car got plowed in so I had to trudge (really getting a lot of use out of that word!) down the street to a local hotel because the university’s snow plows had plowed me in on three sides and it was still snowing.  The street I work on looked like a parking lot, so I was afraid I couldn’t get out anyway. 

So anyway, I digress, I finally got the lock unfrozen and starting the trek back to the car dozens of time.  I may or may not have made several inadvertent snow angels with my butt either to or from the car!  I fell several times, but hey, that much snow is soft!  I got most of it in my car (my help cancelled on me at the last minute so I had to leave some of it behind in the storage building) and a very nice man carried it in for me at the garage sale.  So, anyway, most of it is officially gone.  At least it’s not coming back into my house!

Go here to see everyone’s progress!

 

Robin Egg Blue Flower Garland

Spring is just around the corner!  Right?  Please tell me I am right!  I have the flu now and have been sick for 5 days. Anyway, I had a brief energy spurt during which I made this cute robin egg blue flower garland. 

I love this color!

I bought the flowers already cut out…I think they are made by Martha Stewart (well, I am sure not her personally but they are part of her line).

I am thinking this garland would look great on my bulleting at work…

Milo helped me take the photos for…I think he just wants to get his teeth on the garlands!  He’s crazy like that…he still has major puppy brain even though he is 18months old!

Just to keep things in perspective, I also made these two felt snowflake garlands too! 

I’m loving these felt snowflakes.  Sometimes I need to make a super easy project…this is one of those times!

I just might be linking to these great parties!

 

What I have been up to lately!

I found this cute wire cloche candleholder at Michaels this week…

I love this picture of my son…he is so handsome and smart and I am so proud of him.

My mom has been visiting for the past week and she brought her dog Jack…he’s a Jack Russell Terrier (you didn’t see that coming did ya?)…

Milo is happy…he smiles like this all the time…

Jack and Milo in the sun, hey guys, if it is too hot, why not move to the shade?

I had my chimney cleaned…just had my roof replaced this fall and probably the jiggling around on the roof caused a blockage in the pipe just above the stove.  I started a fire before I realized this and had to carry the smoldering logs out after I figured out there was no air flow!  Lovely…by the way, that is a mummified bat in the left front of the stove!  Ewwww!

I made 32 washcloths from old bath towels on Saturday!

I saw this on the way to work one morning this past week, yep, I stopped and took the picture!

This holly bush was outside my dentist’s office and I have always wanted to photograph it, so I took advantage of the fresh snow to get this shot!

Jack is smiling here…the weekend after Christmas I had five smallish dogs in my 1300 square foot house!  It was wild.  I felt like I should have had a license to have that many kennels in the house. 

The three rat terriers (or the rat pack as I call them) were happy to go home at the end of the weekend!

The paperwhites are blooming wonderfully for the past 3 weeks…I planted three pots of them about 10 days apart so I have had a great show the past 3 weeks!