Silly Sammyboy

Sammy Boy is counting now...up to 5 and close to 10...give or take a 7 or 8. But maybe someday I will tell him that yellow is not a number, but I just can't yet...

Musings of Jackyboy

Last Sunday while sitting in Church Jack wanted a really cool paper airplane that mom had already failed to produce, so he went to dad and asked him to use his master dad tricks to provide a fairly awesome paper airplane that he could have bragging rights to his friend and pue neighbor, Jacob. Well Dad's response was "Well Jacky boy, I will do my best". As he fumbled the paper around and roughly creased each fold, he presented Jack with not-so-awesome paper airplane. Jack looked at Dad and asked with question in his voice, "This is the best you can do?" Dad looked wearily at Jacky boy and saw the disappointment in his eyes and trying to reassure him he replied, "Yes Jack, that is the best I can do." Unconvinced, Jacky boy looked down at the plane and looked at dad and replied, "Okay, I guess."

Madison turned 8

Maddie turned eight on July 1st. She is going to be baptized this Saturday. She is so excited. She is growing up and its flying by. I keep think what happed to the last 5 years and I really have a hard time remembering. It makes me feel like I need to keep better records. Journal, keeping track of stories, keeping up with scrapbooks, etc. Its a little tap on the shoulder telling me to slow down and enjoy the ride....

I think I fell off the face of the Planet....

Well it could be true if you base it off my blog entries!

But I am alive....not going to go over the last two months for you though....not really much to tell.

But I am alive!

my brothers are so crazy! funny but totally insane

WATCH THESE.....NEED I SAY MORE?

here are some pictures

not my most pro pics, just using our point and shoot. But it shows what the room look like now...

 

this is the new armoire for the computer.

  

I still need to paint the wall rust red that the phone is on, but that won't happen until next week.

I must be Crazy!

Do any of you watch Oprah? I confess, I sort of do a little (which means I DVR the episodes and pick and choose which ones I want to watch, late at night, while folding laundry)

Well they have been having this series on her show about cleaning up your messy house. So this months challenge was the Home Office. (Which if you saw my office you would know that its going to take more than a month )

SO... I started my project and realized I need to separated my home stuff, like paying bills, etc from my work. I decided that it would be great if I were to put an computer armoire in my dinning room and use that as Control Headquarters. (since the table is where most of the stuff lands anyway.)

SO.... I found a used armoire  on KSL for a reasonable price and went to get it. But now the spot where I want it there is a china hutch. So I decide to list the hutch on KSL. Which means that I have to clean out my kitchen cupboards to fit the set of dishes and other items the hutch houses. Then I think in my head that it will look so weird to replace that china hutch with such a small armoire. But if I paint the room maybe it won't look so weird. (since this hutch has been in the same place for 27 years)

SO....I decide on a paint scheme and go to Lowe's and buy paint. The next day I start to prep the walls, spackle and all, and totally dismantle the whole room. I get it all done in ONE day!!! That's not easy on a Saturday with 3 kids.

Then, after moving things around I realize that the hutch will work  so now that I have completely emptied it and cleaned it I can now put everything back.

But all in all, the dinning room looks great! But wait a minute, the office is still a disaster!