Saturday, August 20, 2005

Sleepyheads




The stinky boys fell asleep before me Thursday evening so I snapped this photo! Stinky boy #1 (on the left) is Ammon and stinky boy #2 (on the right) is Paul.

Monday, August 15, 2005

Happy Birthday Jim!



Here's the cake I made Jim for his birthday. Its silver white cake with vanilla frosting. I made the cake from scratch but since I still haven't figured out how to make good frosting so I stuck with Duncan Hines. As you can tell from the photo, I also am not the world's best cake decorator but Jim liked it and that's all that matters!

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Finally something crafty!



Its been a long time since I posted anything crafty! I've had a hard time starting any projects involving yarn in all this heat but I had to get this baby blanket done before the baby arrives. I don't know if the baby is a boy or a girl so I used "Ranch Red" for the color. Anybody who I've made a blanket for in the past will be familiar with the pattern. I've made it so many times now that I think I could make it in my sleep. This is the first crochet project I've done since I learned how to knit and it was lots of fun!

The next project in the queue is a cross stitch of a strawberry picture that is the mate of the blueberry cross stitch I finished right before coming home from Oregon. Now that I've written about it here, I have to start it tonight :)

Wednesday, August 03, 2005

Stormy Night

Last night we had the most violent storm I can ever remember. First my lawn furniture (ok, my crappy plastic chairs) were tossed about the backyard, then the tree out front sounded like it was going to tear the front of the house off, and then it started to rain. The wind died down a bit once the rain started but then came the thunder and lightening. I am one of those nerdy people who still counts the time between the lightening and the thunder to see how far away it is and last night I wasn't even getting to 1! At one point I opened the front door to see how much rain was puddling up and I saw the sidewalk totally submerged and the water starting to come up into the front yard! Luckily it stopped raining soon after that and so my yard did not flood. When I left for work this morning the tree and cacti were all still standing and my house didn't look like it sustained any damage, so I guess it all turned out well for me.