Book Quote

"But just so you know that we are, each one of us...held together by the invisible threads of our histories. ...But these strings are all the good and all the bad that our families ever experienced. And when the world tries to pull you loose - and it will - there may be some stretch. But someone like you, with so much love holding her together, will never fall apart." -The Friday Night Knitting Club, p. 229, by Kate Jacobs

I don't love the profanity in this book, but so far I am liking the story and the characters and the way it is told and of course the parts about knitting! Only slightly more than halfway through, so we'll see how it goes.

Halloween

I wish I had gotten a few more pictures of Ravenna's costume. She was the victim of a 'cereal' killer.


Christian decided he wanted to be a goatherd and just hold the baby goat all night.


Spencer as the Grim Reaper


Geneva as a Goth Cheerleader


Dexter as a Vampire, complete with red eyes, (only in the photo of course, I didn't really make him wear red contacts)


Trevor as a Baby Goat Gruff

Not before, just After

Well, I thought I had a picture of our old gate on this computer, but I guess it's on a different one.

So, here is a picture of the new gate, from inside the backyard:


The gate has been stained and so here is a new 'after' picture taken from the front yard:
I blurred our last name on the sign, since this is a public blog, and I do want to keep some privacy for my childrens' sake.

A Birthday

My Dexter son turned 4 years old! We had his party at my parents' house on General Conference weekend. When we were loading the car to come home, we put all the balloons on top of the luggage in the back of the Yukon. He turned around and looked at them and said, "Wow, how did you get such much balloons in the car?!"

Kids' say

Dexter's new favorite phrases are, "Not really," and "Stop talking."


I told Spencer (age 11) to say, "I'm a big kid now." (Those that are old enough will remember the Toys R' Us ditty.) I don't remember why I told him to say that, but he said, "No, only little kids say that."

Baby Update

Well, I can't help posting a baby update in a place where I know I won't lose it.
Trevor is growing so fast and working on his skills! He popped his first two teeth through last month. He's seven months old now and he is definitely crawling forward with purpose. He has made it from the living room into the kitchen and the bathroom.

He can say 'Ma' when he's sad and 'Da' when he's happy. He likes to make raspberry/spitting sounds, sometimes to the point of looking like he's foaming at the mouth. He also makes some pretty good snorting sounds, especially when he's laughing.

He's up to 23 pounds already. His eyes are so dark brown, you have to look closely to distinguish the pupil from the iris.

Home Improvements

This is to explain my lack of blogging during the month of August.
Before:

After:



This bathroom wasn't the only part of the house that got destroyed and rebuilt. We replaced sheetrock, along the outside walls, in all three bedrooms, because of mold, and replaced the last 5 windows in the house that weren't already double pane and removed the carpet from the kids' bedrooms, and now the outside is being re-stuccoed. I'm not even sure that is a word, but that's o.k. So, it's been pretty much an all summer long project, first cleaning out the garage and my Dad & Mom built awesome new shelves in there. Then, we cleaned out the bedrooms and living room. Well, some of the bedroom stuff got put in the cleaned out living room and garage. We almost have the kids rooms put back together, with a fresh coat of paint, too, but, they both need curtains now, and shelves, and...
It is the construction project that never ends...