28 more days and counting...

...and I'm not talking about the turkey and mashed potatoes. The hot rolls and 10 different types of pie to choose from. No, I'm counting down to the day my storage room WILL be clean! 21 years worth of stuff has accumulated all in one spot. If ever we didn't have a place for something, it went downstairs in the "junk" room, which is also my food storage room. My goal is to eliminate the junk, and add more food, but in order to do that, I need shelves built for my food, which meant the junk had to go to find room for the shelves. These pictures were actually taken after 3 days spent de-junking, so you can imagine how bad it looked before, but it's getting there. I've set the deadline for Thanksgiving, because traditionally I set up christmas the day after, and I can't get to my christmas boxes under the stairs with all the junk in the way. Besides, I figure that will give me more incentive to get it cleaned out if I tell myself the same thing I tell my kids, "I'm not setting up Christmas until your rooms are clean!"

Our house is now haunted...

Ask Trey what his favorite holiday is, and he'll tell you. It's Halloween. And it's not just the candy, or dressing up, or watching Halloweentown on Disney for the umpteenth time. Trey loves to decorate (i don't know where he get's it from), if he doesn't think I have enough decorations to go around, he steps in and makes his own. He's getting pretty good too. This is what I came home too from work today, bags of leaves disguised as ghosts, skullatons, frank, drac, and mummy. I think he did a great job, now our home looks much scarier...but for me, it's all about the candy!

...much ado about nothing

So, here's my dilema. I love to blog. Problem is, I don't have anything to blog about. I am the most boringest person I know. I don't travel, (except to work and the supermarket, and due to recent events, I now work in the supermarket, so travel is really limited these days) I don't rub shoulders with the rich or famous, (although I help a member whose last name is Reeve and he claims to be a cousin to the late Christopher Reeve, but he made have just been kidding) so celebrity gossip is out. I don't even own a digital camera to take cute pictures with (the family and wedding pictures posted are thanks to my wonderfully talented and un-boring cousin Faun, whose blogsite is posted, check it out!) So, if you ever need a boost of creativity or a good laugh, you've come to the wrong site. But if you ever just want to read much ado about nothing...
Welcome to my World!

Whew!

All is not lost, except for a few hours of sleep that I lost worrying about my precious blog! As for me, I have learned to leave well enough alone. Sorry, I guess the cute seasonal backgrounds will just have to keep until I learn better how to use my blogsite, I've had enough scare to last me for awhile, tis the season!

what the heck!

this is what I get for thinking I'm all that...so I thought it would be fun to change my background to a fall or halloween background. Found a cute one that I liked and tried to download it, but it didn't work. Changed it to the plain one, thinking maybe that was where I was supposed to change it from, the minima, next thing I know, I have a plain blog, and the layout tab is gone!
Along with all the cute pictures I downloaded! So now I have no pictures, this lame-o background, and no way to get in and add the pictures! My layout tab is missing. Help me out oh computer knowledgeable friends, where did I go wrong and how do I get my tabs back! Help!

I'm having fun now!

I must admit, I feel guilty! I have the house all to myself...Kayla is camping with friends, Tary and Trey are on the deer hunt, and today was the day I was going to get down and dirty in the basement. I have 21 years worth of STUFF to get rid of, organize it, or donate it, and it must be done by Thanksgiving, otherwise I'll never be able to get to the christmas boxes. And yet, as you can see by the blog dates, I have spent all day at the computer, but boy am I having fun!

Chelsea's wedding

It was a year ago I was busy planning the wedding of my firstborn, Chelsea.
I had alot of fun planning her special day, she didn't have much of an opinion,
she just wanted to get married! I guess years of being on the homemaking
committee and planning super saturdays paid off, cuz boy did I have fun
decorating the church, trying to make it look like a Winter Wonderland...
here's to great memories!

I am feeling pretty darn good about myself...

Wow, who would have ever thought I could have made myself a blog! Just yesterday Tary and I learned how to e-mail pictures, (all by ourselves, no children were present) so while I was feeling so good about our progress, I thought, 'what the heck, I'll try to blog', and here we are! I still don't have any clue what I'm doing, or how to get all the cute-sy stuff to go on it, but it will be fun trying! Now if I can just figure out how to load pictures onto my blog...Help!