The Teenager gets a haircut...

The teenager and Katie!

(Whew! Finally, he was getting a little scruffy)

Miracle in the Garage...

My Strong Silent Mysterious Man got a promotion at his job last week. We are pretty excited about it. And with the changes for him, he was offered a company truck. In these times with gas prices, that was huge for us! So the teenager and I worked 2 hours yesterday getting the garage ready to house a couple of vehicles so all of our cars don't begin to spill out into the street!

It was a dirty messy job, somehow we only ever remember doing this job without his Dad, we were for sure he missed the last 3 cleanings... where is that guy when it comes time to cleaning out the garage anyway?

I wish I would have taken before pictures, but here is the finished product!

Two cars in the garage, a car for the teenager on one side of the driveway, and the company truck for my man on the other. And I can still get to my freezer and the boys can still get to all the fishing and camping gear and tools. It is still my dream to have a garage organizer come in and put up the necessary shelves and racks to house all of our "stuff", but in the meantime it is up and out of the way and in a semi organized manner.
I am officially moved in now... these were the final boxes of files and paperwork that had been moved from house to house to house waiting to be sorted. My man threatened a thousand times to throw them out. Now they have been sorted. I knew there was tons of junk in them, but I also knew there were some really important things in them... I just couldn't remember what.

Until I found these precious pictures!

( I knew they contained hidden treasures I couldn't live without)

(Jacob and his Uncle Clyde on his baptism day)

The teenagers baptism!

(entering the waters of baptism with all his cousins and his family watching on)

I know I am pretty silly for not knowing exactly where these priceless pictures were, and not having them in a scrapbook by now.

But I have them now and I am feeling much more motivated to get scrapping... remember I have a goal to get all the Halloween pictures scrapped in a book by the end of summer! I haven't forgotten!

Misery loves company...

Back to the Doctor again... I am really feeling like a big loser lately!

It is like my 4th trip in a month and I was officially sick the entire month of July.

I hate complaining, but I really feel like I have to have some kind of excuse for not getting anything done these days. I have just been so sick!

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired!

There... so now I got that out of my system... I don't have to complain anymore, right?

Well, at least I have had good company. These guys don't leave you alone when you are sick... they lay right with you. Even Rudy came out from under his blanket to lay with me.... and that is a huge sacrifice for his little "all about me" personality. He kind of only gives love when "HE" wants to. So I feel privileged to have him by my side these days.

With Morgan, it's a given... she is there, no matter how you feel, good times and bad right by your side!

And then there's Taylor, well if that seat is taken, she will just pig pile up and double decker that spot. She totally cracks me up, she will lay anywhere, and almost as funny as her laying on top, is that Morgan is so layed back, she lets her stay there!!

"She aint heavy, she's my sister"

This is about all we have had the energy to do in our spare time, watch the birds!

They are almost as entertaining as kitty cats at our house... they can really raise some feathers in short time around here!