Clyde

Jeremy'd been looking for a little ankle biter dog.  After some searching, he emailed about a craigslist puppy.  Turned out, Jeremy's works with the guy.  So we went and looked at him and couldn't pass him up.  He's a 10 week old chihuahua and weighs 3 lbs.  He's quite the cute little devil and full of energy.  After days of deliberation, or procrastination, you choose, we decided to name him Clyde.

And do you know how hard it is to get a decent picture of an active little dog?!

W....i....n.....d

I jinxed it, it's all my fault.  In this post, I just happened to mention how the ever incessant wind had yet to crank up.  Yesterday it cranked up and it's blowing full force now.  Last I heard 45-50 mph was expected.  And it's all my fault.  I shall fall to my knees and repent.  We also got our first snow of the season, which came horizontal and was a measly amount.

On a more fun note, I have a surprise to share with all 4 of you tomorrow, my faithful blog readers....

Teddy Bear Mittens

Just because she was being so cute, I had to add this.

Pre-Halloween

Finally, a post with some pictures of the stuff I've been doing. First we have some jammies I made the girls.

Then we did a dry run of our Halloween costumes, making sure everything was good to go. We don't want any wardrobe malfunctions J

Otherwise autumn is in full force. We have had some rain, cool temperatures and the ever incessant wind, although it hasn't cranked up yet…we still just have a breeze.

Ssssssssnoring….

It seems over the last several months Jeremy's snoring has gotten worse and worse and worse and, well, you get the idea. One time last summer he woke up feeling out of breath, so he called our family doctor and made an appointment. He ended up having a sleep study in early October. They reviewed his results and he has severe sleep apnea. A total of 117 episodes in an hour…incredible! So he had a followup sleep study to fit him for a CPAP machine and a mask. They are coming to install this thing and get it all adjusted sometime in the next week. It will be wonderful to sleep in the same bed all through the night without one of us going to the couch. This has been the case for months now.


I haven't been great at posting the things I'm creating right now because most are Christmas presents. I do have a baby quilt, for my stash, no specific baby yet, that I'm working on the binding now. So hopefully I'll be posting that here soon.

Middle of October, already...

Wow, life has been passing us by. I looked at the calendar a few weeks ago and asked myself, "Where the heck did September go?" I'm looking at the calendar again wondering, "How did it get to be nearly the middle of October, already?" And long time, no blog.

I have been busily sewing Grace's Halloween costume. After unsuccessfully finding a suitable witch costume, I found a super easy pattern for a basic dress. She picked out some pinkish/purplish fabric and I commenced sewing. It was pretty quick and decent looking, however, it was HUGE! After some alterations, it was proclaimed to be a witch dress. I found some fun fabric, shimmery purple with spiderwebs on it, and on sale, for the cape. Then we found out she cannot be a witch for the Halloween party at her preschool, too scary for all the kids. So she's going to be a witch when we're trick-or-treating and a princess at preschool. All we needed to buy was a crown and a magic wand!

Anna is going as a monkey for trick-or-treating and a ladybug to preschool. The only reason she has two is because the monkey outfit it heavy and warm, not something she can wear indoors all day long.

Since Grace's costume was fun, I decided to make the girls some jammies with a pattern I had. The jammies are turning out very cute, but I got a very sore shoulder. It feels exactly like how my RA feels before I went on medication. Of course, it's the right shoulder. I figger it must be the way I hold my arm when I'm sewing un-straight lines. I never have problems when I work on quilts….So I'm taking it slower on the finishing touches on the jammies.

I got to work on Monday, with a sore shoulder, cranky kids that weekend, and non high-quality sleep, only to be given the news that a coworker had passed away on Saturday very unexpectedly. It sure makes you stop and think…about life insurance, living life to the fullest, enjoying every minute with the ones you love.  He was only 54. Rest in Peace, Ken, I'll miss the chocolate!

I'm back

Wow, I know I’ve been gone a long time! To catch you up….I went to Park City, Utah (where the 2002 Winter Olympics were held) for a week for a National Hydraulic Engineering Conference. The resort the conference was at was, wow!, pretty classy. It’s the off season, so the rooms were reasonable and it was pretty deserted. In hindsight, I should have taken the family as Jeremy took off work to watch the girls while I was gone.  Here's a shot of part of the resort.

My parents came up for a visit last weekend. It sure was nice to see them since they live so far away and we don’t have the best accommodations. Sorry for the air mattress on the floor, Mom and Dad.

I’ve had some proud moments on the Mommy front lately. After preschool one day, Grace came to me and said, “Mommy, watch me write my name.” And she did an Excellent job. I have also heard her saying her Pledge of Allegiance. New daycare/preschool is doing great things for her! And then I’ve been halfheartedly trying to potty-train Anna all summer. I put her in undies and tell her to not get them wet. The other day she was running around the house in her undies and told me she had to potty. We ran to the bathroom and we both heard the tinkles and Anna got lots of praise and some candy for doing such a good job. I hope she’s like Grace and once the deed was actually done, it was a downhill slide to complete potty training from there.

And you gotta have the Burger Queen shot.