WHAT HAVE I BEEN DOING

So is everyone ready for a three month whirl-wind tour? Get ready to be worn out because let me tell you I am worn out.

In August I started my little break. Mostly because I had lots of projects on my plate that I really wanted to give my all.

First up..... my dinning room. My husband added this beautiful wood work around my walls and I had to prime it twice, and paint it with the high gloss white. Then I had the maroon paint for the top portion.

My camera is not giving the room the justice it needs. Excuse the box in the corner it contains on of those projects we have not finished yet.

Next up, I painted a section of wall in my kitchen with magnetic paint. I also have the chalkboard paint to add but have not completed that yet. Soon....

School started and we are off to second grade.
Meet Cowboy Thomas...... Yes we bought these boots and new tennis shoes and we will not wear anything but the boots. He is in love with these things. I am thinking I need to go buy the next size up so when he out grows these we still have some boots.
Now lets head outside. This metal thing was the ugly cover that sat on top of our well in the front yard for the last 9 years. A very scary thing for a mother to have in your front yard.


Finally we have filled it and capped it off and topped it off with dirt. Big project and my back hurt for days after moving the rocks and dirt. BIG JOB!!! Oh and we did this project on my birthday. Happy birthday to me.... haha
Then I had all the tomato's that my garden produced. Sad to say but I let a lot of them go bad out in the garden. This is a fraction of the tomato's that I had.

I canned 12 jars of spaghetti sauce (two rounds of canning the sauce). I also canned six jars of salsa and 10 jars of pickles.

In my hours of boiling and canning I broke my old stove. I think all the boiling and splashing water shorted something out and broke the oven. My hubby offered to try and fix it but I have had it for 9 years and it was my mother-in-laws for about 10 years before they gave them to us.
And lead me to this.... a nice new stove. This took several shopping trips to figure out what we wanted. (stopped blogger rotated my picture and I can't get it turned back)


In the process of my new appliances I wanted to repaint my kitchen and had an issue with on of my old plaster walls. The wall had lots of cracks and issues so we took the plaster down to replace it with drywall.
Yes, this is what you find in my old log cabin house when you get behind the walls.
New wall up, and I also wanted to mention I did not stop with the new stove. I had to have a new refrigerator also. We decided to buy both since my fridge is also just as old. The new fridge did not fit where the old one did, it over lapped the doorway into the bathroom. So it moved to the new wall and I added a couple new cabinets. OK, not new but new to me and are perfect to fill the space for now. Eventually I will have an all new kitchen. Oh and remember the box in the dinning room, that is a new microwave/vent hood combo that needs to go above my new stove. I am not holding my breath for that to go up anytime soon.


Finally, we have the birthday cake that I did for Thomas third birthday. I really do love decorating my own cakes and I am learning new tricks all the time.
A lot of this was done for the birthday party we had last Sunday for Thomas.

Why are we laughing you ask? The scooby card talks and then when you close it scooby burps because he ate all the cake. If you are a mother with little boys you understand.

Among all of this we also had soccer season for Luke, I took zero pictures this season. School is back in and Luke is also taking Piano lessons through the school. Our first grading period came to an end and Luke got straight A's and I am so proud of him.

Also, I will share that Thomas has not been to the doctor since August. Yeah!!! He has been gaining weight again and seems to be doing so much better. We have added a special vitamin to our diet and either it is making a big difference or he is just getting past all this craziness.

So with all my painting, well filling, drywall sanding, gardening, canning and parenting....... it has been an exhausting 3 months.

Can't wait to catch up on everyone's happenings.

Happy Birthday!!!

Wow, it has been awhile hasn't it.

I am on here today because today is my babies birthday. Oh yes, my little guy is now 3. We celebrated is birthday on Sunday with friends and family. Here are a couple shots from our big day.


Any guesses as to what we are totally into right now? Oh and yes, I made the cake. Love my Scooby and Shaggy (Shacky as little one says) but my writing skills on the cake need a lot of work.

I have a million things to share and now that a lot has settled down I will be posting all the craziness that I have gotten myself into these last couple months.


But today we are just wishing my baby happy birthday.