Happy New Year... EVE

I like to be the first. So today is New Years Eve. Tia likes to be able to say we are having a live band at our shindig. Well it IS true. One of my older brothers has a band. They are bringing all their stuff down to Mom's tonight to set up out in the shop and "fine tune" and amaze us all with their brilliance. Ok, so they said the first part and I added the last. I am trying to be more of a optimist... maybe that's my new years resolution.. eh.. eh. *grin* anyhow, I'm not sure what else we are going to be doing besides listening to the band, having a bonfire and waiting for midnight when we will have fireworks and then can go to bed. I had at one time planned to have a NCIS marathon tomorrow, but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO my darn package is still somewhere out there in the wide world of shipping options. so far its been "en route" for like 3 weeks or so. brilliant. Well I'm off to make cookies. yay

slobber...

slobber.....

slobber....

slobber..

Doh!

P.S. I'm pretty sure its not a good sign when the dentist is in there, filling the cavity doing his thing, then you hear "dammit".
urgh.

the weekend is over...

and I didn't blog once!

So so shocking. Ok, so I don't think anything happened to blog about so it didn't get done. So not much happend, it was cold, I didn't have to do any chores YAY and ummm.. it was cold. we played Halo with colt a few more times and he still creamed us, but we are showing tiny signs of improvement. I still haven't played the new rock band track pack yet but I did watch a NCIS marathon ALL day long one day. I also sorted through boxes and boxes of stuff and still never found what I was looking for but I did get stuff organized that needed it.

Today I went and took a stupid test, I only missed one, which is good. Of course I'm a dork and all I could think was... dammit, which one did I miss! hee hee hee

Now I have to go to the dentist and I'm not excited cause I have a cavity. blah. I also have to have a filling replaced because I broke it while chewing on ice. Waaaaaah guess I will quit chewing on ice.

Ok, I'm off, the next time I get on I will probably be slobbering and numb. yay

looooong day

Today has seemed like such a long day and I don't feel I've gotten anything accomplished. I have been looking for a certain card and I can't find it anywhere! I need to find it by Monday and its just not gonna happen I'm afraid. So today I spent almost the entire day going through all kinds of crap trying to find it. The one corner in Tia's room I had taken over to scrapbook in so my old desk is in there. well I haven't scrapbooked for a long time and other stuff made its way to my corner, so I cleaned the whole corner thinking I might find the card in one of the "catch all the crap" boxes that have made their way over there. No such luck. the corner is all clean now though and I have all the reciepts for taxes sorted into their months and all kinds of other crap sorted and put where it actually goes so that was good. but still didn't get done my objective. So tomorrow I am going to go out and sort all of the crap that has been put in the camp trailer to "store" and needs to be cleaned out anyhow but its freaking cold out there. gonna do it though. damn the card. after the camp trailer is the shed and that's just a really scary thought! :-0 oh well. that was my day. Oh except we have been playing Halo every night with Colt and Todd and I have a pact to not kill each other if possible and Colt STILL creams us! DOH!

Still Christmas!

Well I hope you all had a wonderful and lovely Christmas day. I did. Hopefully everyone else in our little house did too but to that I could only guess. after being up forever and a hour this morning I finally fell asleep again just to be woken up by Colt not long later because it was 7 o'clock and we said he could wake us up at 7. by then I was tired and no longer wanted to be awake. but I woke up... took one for the team. so we woke up, and opened presents. Todd already broke his remote control helicopter because he doesn't listen to directions. tsk tsk tsk. I did order him a new part for it so maybe there is a chance he'll actually get to play with it. It was a windy cold bugger here today but I only went outside to drive to the dump with all the trash and hell I didn't even get out of my PJ's for that. still in my PJ's for that matter. Tia got dressed long enough to do chores then she had to get dressed for tonights chores. The rest of the day we've pretty much been lazy. when someone got hungry they made themselves leftovers from last night.....or had pie. tonight the wind quit blowing and it started snowing! yikes. LOTS of snow. It wasn't almost gone earlier and the wind had even dried out some of the mud. now there is snow EVERYWHERE! yuck. oh well, spring is coming one day closer every day :-)

I hope everyone had a Happy, Safe and Merry Christmas!!!

tomorrow its back to usual.

Merry CHRISTMAS!

See now its really Christmas.... Very early but still Christmas! Now if only the kids would wake up... hee hee hee

DOH!

I'm to excited to sleep!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Oh YEAH!

What I was first going to blog about....

TIA GOT HER LICENSE! YAY

and my insurance went up! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I am glad she got her license though.

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

MERRY CHRISTMAS! almost!

in a few short hours it will be Christmas.. YAY! I don't know why I am excited for Christmas, we are not getting anything to exciting but I am still happy for it to get here!. yay. we opened our obligatory pj's and now the husband keeps saying at midnight we can open presents. NO! we are going to not open presents til morning! Morning I say!!! We all played Halo with Colt, the three of us against him and he creamed us. He's such the snot. Before that Mom and Willie and Boober came over for dinner. generally Mom and Willie go to the cabin but she had to work today so I invited them over. Boober was already coming. So they came over and we had dinner and then BS'd for awhile. then we opened our pj's, got in said pj's and then played Halo. now we are watching a movie (kind of, tia and I are also on the Internet) soon we should go to sleep so we can sleeeeeep til present time :-) we will probably have pie sometime before then too. Ok, so that's about it. Pie, did someone say pie?

Its Christmas Eve Eve!

not a whole lot going on. Tia is off at a friends for the night, Todd Colt and I just gone done watching NCIS a short while ago. Today was the kids last day of school until after the Holidays. They're very happy about that. actually so am I. I like having them home with me. Today after I picked them up and we had lunch we finished putting together the "neighbor plates" and went and delivered plates of cookies to those we found at home! ok, we actually got all the cookies and presents delivered except to 2 people and I'm wondering if one of them is out of town. Anyhow, got all that done and got the boys put in for the turkey hunt draw, watched NCIS and now I'm planning tomorrow's dinner. And blogging of course :-)

Anyone reading this that knows where I live is welcome to come over for dinner tomorrow night. we are having a boneless prime rib cooked on my Traeger (which is the most awesome BBQ/Smoker in the world I tell you),grilled marinated chicken for Tia our no mammal eater, cold shrimp (as tia used to call them), Shrimp pasta salad, corn salad (It's a Iowa thing I think), homemade rolls, raw cauliflower, carrots and celery (there's cheese for the celery), olives, and deviled eggs. then banana cream pie, pecan pie, turtle pie (oh poor POG and Tina! ha ha ha)and pumpkin pie. If you show up at our house on Christmas day you'll get the exact same things only leftovers. :-)

Well that's my story for the day. I'm glad its almost Christmas! yay! then it can be spring. :-)

it's 2 freakin 30 am! what the hell.

Ok, so here I am awake again. I've been awake since 1:30 when Alice jumped onto our bed and I immediately thought, get away from my feet! then I thought that she might need to go out but then the dog door was open and she did NOT think I was nice when I threw her out the front door anyhow. Now I can't sleep. If I have only been asleep for 2 to 4 hours then me waking up is a bad bad thing as it was like a power nap and now I'm ready to be awake. If I hit that magical 5 or 6 hours of sleep then I don't want to wake up and can fall back asleep easily for the most part. today I only got to the 2 hours and now I'm wide awake. What is it about nighttime that make everything seem so much louder. especially when you actually are trying to sleep? or is it just me? Todd usually sleeps with the tv on which drives me batty. you'd think after being married to him this many years I'd be used to it but I'm not! well tonight he decided to sleep with it off. YAY! Well maybe yay. so with the tv off the turtle filter sounded very very loud. The tank needed some more water added so the water falling back into the tank was splashing uncommonly loud. I was to lazy to get up and fix it so figured I'd do it tomorrow (which is now today and of course I had said that the day before also and then forgot about it) well anyhow, so I fell asleep. In my dream there was all this rushing water! (dammit) Tia, Colt, Todd and I were at some peoples house with the peoples son waiting on the parents for some stupid ass reason. So there we were in their house looking out the back window. or what should have been a back window it was actually just a big huge open square in their wall that looked into the back. there was water running everywhere around the place and the house was also flooded, which for some reason didn't seem weird at the time. the weird part was the frikkin crocodiles! they were everywhere, which is why we were watching out the back. we kept jumping between the bed and a couch trying not to get into the water because every time you went into the water one of the darn things would lunge at you. well pretty soon this ginormous one kept coming after us anyhow and came up onto the bed we were standing on so we all put ropes all around it and was wrapping it up in a sheet when the parents finally showed up. They were mad because we let one of the crocs get in their bed. They didn't seem at all perturbed by the fact that their house was underwater and their were crocs to begin with! then Alice jumped into bed with us and I woke up. So I put Alice outside and filled the water in the turtle tank so it would be quiet and then tried to go back to sleep. no dice. so now Aggie woke up and wanted out of her kennel so I just let her outside and now I'm not sure what she's doing out there. maybe she put herself to bed in her outside kennel, the heat lamp is still on in her house out there after all. Maybe I should go see.

I really dislike snow!

And it just keeps coming! Is it April yet? I would like it to be April! Oh wait, then I'll have goats milking and kids to feed. Darn. I still want it to be April!

Happy Hannakah!!

To all my loyal viewers who are Jewish! there are none? well that's just sad.

So today was a lovely Sunday. We built the still unnamed mare a new pen so she could drink out of the cow trough, which will be getting its heater put in shortly then we won't have to break the ice for the cows or the horse. that will be good. It was also kind of neccesary as the snow had drifted so high in the poor mares pen that she could hardly move around in it. we could have used the backhoe and cleaned the snow out but she needed to be moved anyhow for the trough.

I baked cookies for neighbors today also, we made two kinds. the chocolate chip ones I always make and then this years "new" cookie... it was not so very great. I don't think we are giving them to the neighbors! I also made rolls and a weird loaf of bread, that started out rising wrong and then I forgot was in the oven so it has an even worse problem now! hee hee

Not much going on today, except the spurt of outdoor work we've been kind of lazing around in the house where its warm. yay

I did get a little ahead of ourselves on the not having to drive Tia around anymore post, because she doesn't have her license yet. we have all the paperwork to get it so if the weather isn't horrid tomorrow we'll drive to the drivers license office in Richfield tomorrow. otherwise... we wont.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TIA!!!!!

Today is Tia's Sixteenth Birthday! YAY!
no more having to drive her everywhere!
Now if she'd just save some money and buy a darn car that would help.

Love you Moo! SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCH

Here is a pic of her cake

So, today was another day.

Bet you didn't know that. Still no job.. blah. Still didn't do alot today, chores, laundry pick up the house, same ol same ol. after school took Tia to take the food handlers test, she got 100% of course, then took her to guitar lessons and did some run around errands in town during both things. Next month she can run herself around and I won't have to figure out what to do whilst I'm waiting for her. Although I have gotten used to visiting the library on Wednesdays so maybe I won't let her drive after all. mwah ha ha. Ok, so we've figured out her birthday events.. we are so lame! but it will be fun regardless. We were wishing Mandarin Garden was closer cause that would be scrumptious to have for her birthday but as its not, I guess we will go to the Loft, or the pizza house whichever she picks (not many other choices here in our lovely town). I already know what I'll have depending on which one we go to.. the loft- a small prime rib the pizza house- seafood alfredo Mmmmmmmmm hmmm to bad Olive Garden isn't closer. sometimes its too bad ANYTHING isn't closer. There is a cafe in town still but I honestly haven't eaten anything good there except breakfast. The cafe we used to go to for dinner closed awhile back. There is also a Mexican place that is usually decent. A new Mexican place is being built as I type. then there is a McDonalds, a Subway, a lotsa motsa and a local burger joint. yep, unless you drive for quite some time that is our lovely dining options. blah. Wow, that got off track from Tia's birthday plans. So we will give her her presents. She is getting... Psych! like I'd put that on here with her being my only reader! sucker. anyway, presents, cake, dinner and then we are going to have a Rockband fest. Not much else to do in our lovely town this time of year. Monday, I think we will drive to Richfield and look for a drivers license office and probably grab a burger. unless of course its snowing in which case we will stay home like good little girls.

Ok, that's about it. whooooooooooa feel the excitement! :-)

Bella is a fair weather dog....

So all of us know that Bella has taken over Todd's recliner.. but few people know her real favorite spot to sleep as of late. When no one else is home and its just her and I, THIS is where she actually spends almost all her time...


Yep, that's right. right in front of the pellet stove, with the warmth blowing all over her. She only goes back to the chair once Todd gets home from work to prove its still hers. *grin* all I can say is its a darn good thing she's not a outside dog, I think she'd die.

sounds like something Colt would say....

savage chicken funnies are very humorous *grin* you can see more at http://www.savagechickens.com/

I'm still awake...

So I haven't slept all that much in the last 24 hours but that's all good. I was rather bored between 2 and almost 5 this morning but since then it has been all good. We are down to 22 goats I think. I'm pretty sure that's right. we do have four others that are still going to leave to their new home sometime also. but for the most part we are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down and I'm glad. I'm also quite excited to be focusing on the two breeds instead of going in all different directions trying to keep so many breeds going.

Not alot else happened today, its freaky cold and I don't like it. we need to break out the trough heaters. blah. so since it was so cold, Colt got the brilliant idea to go get slurpees... so we did. Mmmmmmm slurpee we also looked at some Christmas lights came home and were all jolly.. then Tia poked my eye out. oooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwww ok, so really she didn't poke it out.. honestly how do you poke an eye "out" anyhow, you can poke it "in" much easier. ok,so really it wasn't even her fault other then she was a little over exuberant with her hug and forgot to pay attention to the fact that I was scratching the corner of my eye at the time. whine whine, my eye is sore.

Doh!

I should be sleeping! I woke up at 2 am today and couldn't get back to sleep, so here I am boooooooooooooooooooored. There's not a whole lot to do even now at a litle after 4. I played some Zuma, read some email and now Fresh Prince is on the tv. Later on this morning I am making a quick trip to Salina, might as well leave now but then I'd just have to sit around in the truck with nothing to do while I wait for stuff to open! So I might as well do that here. I'm BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORED

Snow sucks...

So its snowing.. and cold.. and nasty outside. I can honestly say I can think of nothing I like about winter. I know, I know, we need snow to make moisture so we have water but really I hate it. I hate the cold, I hate chores in winter, I hate the cold muddy crap, I hate driving in it, I hate how other people drive in it! The only good thing about this time of year is the lovely warmth from the fire of course I'd trade it in a heartbeat for the warm sun of the summer and the artic blast of the air conditioner... ok, if I could really pick I'd pick the nice fall days. where the nights are cool and the days are warm. Call me picky. Ok, I must go to town now, I will continue this later....

.....Ok, its later. So yeah, snow really sucks. Todd and I went to town as IFA was having a huged sale. Too bad we didn't need anything! Why can't they have this sale during the summer when I actually need feed and animal supplies and such. blah blah blah we did buy Todd 3 long sleeve pocket t-shirts. Exciting eh? Then we went to the grocery store and bought onions for breakfast tomorrow and dog food for the pooches. I wish there was somewhere closer that sold Nutro dog food. we've been feeding Black Gold again and I like it alright but not as much as Nutro and its getting freaky expensive. Oh well. Not a whole lot more got done today, we were going to go haul hay but first the wind was blowing, then some man in this house decided to take a nap instead and then we lost our two hour halfway decent weather window and it started snowing. So I took a nap. Might as well go to bed now too as there is nothing better to do. Not sleepy though so I guess I'll upload more pictures. lets see how much trouble I can get into tonight.

Grrrrrrrr...

Ok, today there are things I could blog about maybe.. at least I did more then stay home and do chores. but I don't feel like it. I will say I'm tired of crabby grouchy pissy ass people.

hmmmm...

Ok, seriously there isn't alot to write about today. nothing interesting happend today. Whoa exciting life eh?

December is 1/3 over!

Soon the end of the month will be upon us! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Ok, just kidding, I really don't care. Tia's birthday is soon and it is her 16th and that's supposed to be a landmark birthday but I'm just not a good celebration person and it will be sad when she just gets her cake and present, we'll go out to dinner but alas no hoopla. Maybe since its on a Saturday we should go North to a movie (what the crap is coming out!) and have dinner up there.. but then wait, what about the cake! I have the cake all planned! I know I'll make the cake the day before while she's at school and then hide it! where the hell will I hide it! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Ok, I'm alright again. Today was yet another long day. Filled out yet another job application which actually out of all that I've filled out I'd rather get this job... kind of... not necessarily doing what it is, but as a foot into doing what I actually wanted to do there a few months ago. hows that for cryptic. honestly there is nothing that happened today that is interesting. woke up, chores, straighten house, take Tia to guitar lessons, make dinner, get on computer. Dang, I'm boring.

The last couple of days Phil one of the brothers has been emailing me. It was kind of a shock the first time. He seems rather nice... on a computer screen anyhow. of course I admitted I don't know how to play poker or croquet and I drive all FORDS. I could be disowned all over again! :-)

Well Colt, the brat who spent an hour playing HALO on my computer just remembered he has homework he needs to do on it so I gotta go.

I'm blogging...

Blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog. :-)
I'm bloggin, you happy now Tia!

Ok, so today I didn't do a whole lot, woke up, did a bit o laundry, some dishes, swept the kitchen (you all excited yet?) ummmmmmmm.... put up the outside christmas lights. Ok, that wasn't a big feat, I only put up two strands! Tia and I took a baby christmas tree to the cemetary to put on Grandpa Nels grave its cute, I took a picture. I, being forever the pessimist KNOW someone is going to steal it. Our stuff always gets stolen. rude.


cute eh? Then, Todd and I went to town to avoid a church dinner (snicker, we are so immature). came home cooked dinner, watched NCIS (YAY! I love that show) and now the NFR is on while I've been wasting my time uploading pics to myspace. Now I was reminded I haven't blogged so here I am a blogging. I can't remember if I didn't anything else exciting so I'll leave it at that.

oh yeah one more thing.. THE SNOW MELTED! YAY!!

the sun will come out tomorrow..

I hope. Today was a much better day. I don't know why but I just decided life goes on and things are no different then they were before. I have a great little family here in my little house and parents who love me just a few miles away. So anyhow life goes on. Today I slept in. I opened my eyes and it was 9 o'clock! :-0 I hauled some crap to the dump, cleaned a small part of my shed and moved some stuff around. A couple of totes of stuff I had to move for Christmas I think will just stay out there until sometime in the future when I have a real place to put it. I wrapped some presents (see picture in last post, which was actually taken today)then picked up some more and made dinner. That's about it. Is it Christmas yet? I want it to be so the presents that aren't opened yet can get opened! hahahahaha I do have a couple more to wrap so maybe I'm getting ahead of myself on that note. Tonight I started to put up a few strands of outdoor lights and it was snowing and ugly! YUCK YUCK YUCK. I really don't like winter all that much. blah blah blah. oh well, every day is one day closer to spring! YAY

my poor house..

Ok, first I really do like Christmas but the last few years I just haven't been that into the whole Christmas decorating thing. Mostly because we have to much crap and a tiny house! to put up the Christmas stuff I want to we have to pretty well dismantle the living room, find a place to put all that crap and then put up Christmas stuff, just to undo and rebuild afterwards. So this year we are going minimalistic. Much much easier on me, but still my house looks like a bomb went off. Colt and Tia went with Willie and Mom to get a tree. I kept hammering it into them that it had to not be very big around and it was ok if it was short. So that's what I got and I am very very happy about it! Todd had to build a new tree stand because we have never had a tree with such a small trunk but there it is in the corner sitting on its table with its little colored balls and lights. We did have to go buy a couple packages of small shiny ball ornaments to go on it as its too little for the regular sized balls or our other decorations. I still like it and I only had to move one bookshelf to get it in. Of course we did have a bit of a present problem. Todd's present was entirely to large to fit under or next to the tree. we had it there for about 15 minutes when I said he should just open it! Of course the kids then said they should get to open one if Dad got to so we had a very VERY early open on present this Christmas! maybe I will tell them on Christmas eve they already opened their early present. Oh crap Tia will read this and know my clever scheme. but at least the rest of the presents should fit under the tree now. I haven't taken a picture yet but maybe tomorrow I will.... or not

Hey look here it is!

For Tia....

*Epic Sigh*

Look Tia, I used your word.

I really don't know how to do this post. So I will probably just ramble a bit, please forgive me. Of course there are only two people who read this, ok, really only one now and I do think I have mentioned before that blogs that are only full of happy and sunny stuff are stupid as noones life is perfect and people shouldn't try to pretend it is... ah hell, this message is looking bad already isn't it. *SIGH* oh well here goes.

So this last week has been a little rough. I was kind of shocked when Todd brought home the obituary of my father, although I am glad he did. He said he wasn't sure how to approach it so he just handed it over. of course the wrong side was up and so as I stood there staring at an obituary of "Donald Bradford" and thinking.. "who the hell is this", he looked at me like I was crazy. I finally said, I don't know who this is and he looked over and flipped the thing over and there he was. Since then it has been a roller coaster of emotions. I don't think my family knew what to do either. sorry family. The first struggle was do I go to the funeral. I knew I wanted to but I also didn't want to. I felt like I would be a funeral crasher. I know that when I was a small child he must have loved me and I'm not entirely sure what happened to make him not care anymore but its been over 20 years since I was a part of that family. I have thought about him over the years and for some reason have always been glad he was out there somewhere because I deluded myself with the thought that someday he might change his mind. apparently not. So I went to the funeral, my lovely family went with me, although I still don't think they knew what to do with or for me. The funeral was hard. I felt even more like a gate crasher and tried to just hide in the corner until it got started. It was very weird being at a funeral of a "relative" and knowing absolutely noone there (except Todd, Tia and Colt of course). I had seen pictures of the three sons on the internet Friday night so I could pick them out of the crowd. but other then that I didn't even know peoples names. The hardest part was listening to the speakers. They all went on and on about what a kind loving man he was and how family was so important to him. Which proved all my old assumptions true I guess.... It was "just me" that was the problem.... Well actually it may not have been "just me", there is another son who was not in the paper obituary but that was listed in the program at the funeral. I don't know that person either. so wether he was a part of his life I don't know..... I am however glad I went. I learned things about him that I had no idea of, ok so actually I learned I knew NOTHING about him before. Hell, I didn't even know he was a twin. But the biggest thing is I am sure if I hadn't gone I would have kicked myself forever thinking I should have gone and the whole "what if I'd gone" spiel. Now its over and that chapter of my life has come to its conclusion and life will go on.

On a better note, I did finally make it to see my Grandma Lafeen's grave. I've been wanting to go find it forever and haven't done it. I honestly don't know hardly anything about her either but all I have are great memories of her when I was little. The whole "milk and cookies grandma" kind of memories. Wether they are right or wrong I'm keeping those memories :-)

Guess that's about it. I'm going to go lie down, my head is killing me.

If I make it through December....

Have you ever heard that song? well I changed the "we" to "I" but still. urgh, I swear this month is going to make me crazy. Still don't want to talk about last nights topic. We are going to the funeral tomorrow, that should be interesting. We will be the ones hiding somewhere not speaking to people. I honestly have no idea what to wear. I don't know if it will be a casualesque type deal or a dressed up one. I think I am leaning towards the slacks and decent shirt angle. I know Tia will wear pants with me so at least I wont be the ONLY one not in a dress. Hell I'm the black sheep of the family anyhow, might as well do it right. *sigh*

Ok, so we got the cows moved home today and tonight we were watching Hancock which we had netflixed and AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH it was so freakin slow to get into and then finally we did and the last scene section wouldn't work! so it left us hanging not knowing how it ended! what the heck! what the heck I say. Oh well. Guess that's about it. Guess I'll go lie down and hope I can sleep better and see what tomorrow brings. *sigh*

*sigh*

Today I found out that my Father died on Monday. I'm really not sure how I feel about it. Honestly there's not alot to say on the subject. I haven't even seen him since the summer after I turned 16 (and that didn't go over so great) and as I just turned 35 its been a looooooong time. Nope, not sure how I feel about it. *sigh*

for tia... hahahaha

Snape, Snape, Severus Snape... Dumbledore! (grin)

dumbledore...

snape snape severus snape.. Dumbledore... hahahahahahaha ok, so no one but my kidlets will get that line, but that's alright.

So today was my third day of no job. blah. It is strange that I can take a week off of work and its fine but the moment I don't have a job at all its just weird to be home all day. anyhow, today I cleaned up the front yard. rolled up hoses for the winter, pulled up tomato cages etc. did chores, checked the cows, did dishes and laundry and made rolls to go with dinner. then I took Tia to guitar lessons, then we ate dinner and watched the "epic" movie high school musical 2. we actually watched the first one yesterday and I figured this one couldn't be any worse. Ok, let me just say I DO NOT get the whole hoopla over these movies. I forced my family into watching them because they were so over the top popular and now I just don't get it. oh well, tomorrow they will be sent back to netflix and tomorrow nights movie is Hancock! that has GOT to be better!!!

a bella fact... She's grown!

So our sweet little (?) Bella will be 11 months old tomorrow. Today I was putting some pics of her in "her chair" on her page on our website and so now I'm going to put the then and now pic of her in "her chair". The first is when she was about 8 or 9 weeks old, the second was last weekend. by the way Todd thinks its his chair, but I'm pretty sure Bella has claimed it. The rest of the Bella pics can be seen on her page http://www.utopiafarms.com/bellatrix.htm

It's December

which means nablowhatever is over. So you see I didn't post yesterday, cause i didn't have to! hahahaha Ok, so really I didn't post yesterday because I wasn't on my computer very much and didn't care. I didn't do much of anything yesterday, sent off a couple of job applications, did the dishes, started straightening up the freezers, did chores, watered the cows. yup, that's about it. On todays agenda... more of the same I'm afraid. blah blah blah. Guess I'll go out and do chores now and get started at it.