Cousins

Skye, Sunny, and Thunder were over at our house earlier today. Got some cute pics of the cousins:

Skye, Thunder, Ashley

Thunder and Skye playing "together"

Adam, Sunny, Thunder, Jess, Skye

Grammy's lap full of grandbabies!

Skye modeling Gramps' hat

Fun with Tia Jessica as Tia Ashley looks on

Bubbles!

Thunder waving "hi" to the camera

Skye - on the move

Skye trying to share an animal cracker with Thunder

Sunny and Thunder

Janel made quilts for Sunny and Skye for Christmas. Skye's was a ladybug. Sunny's was a butterfly. They are both beautiful! Yesterday Sunny brought her butterfly over and was cuddled up under it on the couch.

Thunder is sitting so good! He also flips over onto his stomach, gets up on his hands and knees and rocks a little. Won't be long before he's crawling. He loves to watch Sunny play. His face just lights up any time she comes into the room. And if she actually sits down to play with him, he just smiles and giggles and tries to talk to her. She's getting much better at playing with him.

When Dan and I were at IKEA, we spotted this cute doll bed. Sunny has an aversion to baby dolls for some reason. I put the bed in the playroom with the baby dolls in it. She promptly tossed the babies out of it and loaded it up with all of her "friends". I told her they looked "snug as bugs in rugs". She said "huh?".

Skye & Grammy - Official Eleven Month Photo

On Saturday, we ran down to Mesa to see Zach, Ashley, and Skye. I know I've said it before, but I'll say it time and time again. She is the sweetest little girl! I just love her expressions. She has the sweetest little smile. She is walking every where and wants to run. She says "uh oh" and waves and babbles words that only she can understand. Here's the latest photos...

Week 8 - Stitching Update

Wow. Eight weeks gone by in 2012. Where did they go? This week's stitching update features purchases and progress. I am once again only showing progress on one project. The other one is a gift and must remain secret.

Yesterday, we drove down to Tempe to visit IKEA, loaded up the car with a bunch of goodies and then headed to Attic Needlework in Mesa. Our youngest son and his family live in Mesa, so I get to visit the Attic more frequently than I used to. My stated reason for going there was that Jessica needed me to look for some products for her. Of course my REAL reason for going there was to add to my stash. And I got some winners! As I was leaving the store, I heard "see you next time!" I whirled around and replied that I'll be back in about three weeks when my DIL Janel comes to town. Yippee!

Thursday Thoughts

So, I found out what the problem was with posting the other day. Blogger no longer supports my browser. Really?! So now in order to edit my blogs I have to use Google Chrome. It's a pain, but there's not much I can to about it. We need to get a new computer, so hopefully Blogger will support the browser on the new computer so I don't have to use two browsers.

The weather here is gorgeous. This is why we live here. We are flirting with the 80 degree mark every day. We are to have a cold front come through later this weekend and the temps will plummet to the low 70s. The heater is off and the windows and doors are flung wide open during the day.

The appraisal business is flourishing. Dan is giving his notice at Sam's Club this weekend. It is scary, but we know it's time. We can't be turning down appraisal orders due to the few hours he puts in at Sam's Club. On the other hand, he will have to go on COBRA insurance (I'm already on it) and we'll have to find our own insurance soon. It costs so much for me that it's just ridiculous. I'm trying to not worry, but instead to pray about it whenever the worry seeps in...

I haven't posted about this yet, but... we're having a wedding in our family in March. Katie and Gabe are getting married on March 24th. We are all excited. It has been fun for me to help her with some of the details of  her wedding. They are having a casual backyard wedding at a friends' house. She invited about 80 people, but I'm not sure how many are attending. Gabe's family is making all of the food. One of  Katie's work friends is making the cake. Actually, she's having cupcakes. JD and Janel will be here, so we're very excited that the whole family will be together!

We bought an elliptical machine. Yeah. Dan and I are in deep depression over just how out-of-shape we are. It is truly pitiful. But, we are bound and determined to get into better shape. Wish us luck.

Gotta run... Enjoy your day.

TUSAL (totally useless stitch-a-long)

OK, so thank goodness I can post from Windows Live Writer. At least to my blog. I don’t know what to do about my pages. I can’t update them because they’re all in HTML view and I’m afraid I’ll totally mess them up. If this doesn’t clear up in a day or two, I guess I’ll delete all my pages and start over. Grrrr. I am really frustrated!!

 

Here’s my TUSAL update for February. If you want to join, check out Daffycat’s post here. It’s fun!

Why Can’t I Write a Post?

For some reason I can’t update my pages, write a post, or insert photos through Blogger. Is anyone else having these issues? Does anyone know how to fix it? I’m writing this post in Windows Live Writer to see if I can post from here…