Surprise For Scott!

My mom is keeping Delaney over night tonight so I can work on cleaning my sewing room. This is a bigger task than most of you can imagine. I am going to move bookcases and haul at least 50% of my stuff out of the room. This will take hours. I get to drop Poop of at 3:30 to my mom's work, YEAH ME! The surprise for Scott is that my goal is to move my scrapping table in to my sewing room tonight. With any luck I will have all my crafting out of his living room before he gets home on Sunday night.

Me and Poop have been sewing more today. I have made some progress on my quilt and she has sorted more fabric. I am hoping to se able to sew the rows together on Sunday. I need to finish the row that is started, the churn dash, and add 2-4 more rows. I know it needs another black & white row.






This is Poop in the "clean" spot of my sewing room. This is the area I spend 2 hours last Sunday cleaning.

With Dad Away The Girls Will Play!

Scott left this morning to help reduce the squirel population in Northern California. Their is a bunch of guys going up. And no we don't eat the meat. Also where they are hunting squirels the woman ownes a huge orchard. She has groups come in to hunt the squirel so they don't eat her crops.

So, me and Poop are on our own for the weekend. We have had a good morning. I won 3 stamp sets, in 2 different contests! I can't wait to get them. And we have been sewing. I have been working on a UFO for me called Parts Department. I took the class last summer. Poop has been sorting the fabric for my quilt. She throws it all over the sewing room usually a piece in each hand and fabric going over her shoulder.

Delaney's sewing.

We are going fabric shopping on Saturday with Grandma too!

What We Learned This Week...

We have all learned lots this week. I will start with Poop. She learned that her finger fits in her nose. You can still suck your thumb with your finger in your nose. And you can laugh, suck your thumb and have your finger in your nose, it is very funny when mama says "Cocka Poop, cocka!" The best place to read a book is on top of the basket filled with toys. She figured out how to scoot her butt to go down her slide. She loved hunting Easter Eggs, and yelled at us if we touched her eggs. She had a death grip on her basket. Delaney has also learned that she loves Mega 100.1 R&B and Old School Favorites, so far she really likes Kool & The Gang and Parliament, not so much on the Funkidelics. Did you know that the Funkidelics and Parliament are the same group they have 2 names because they recorded on 2 different labels.

Scott is working this week one the job he will eventually take over in San Ramon. He does get home earlier since they are able to start earlier. He is running this job this week, which means he really isn't working. Scott learned how to convert a file to a jpeg to be able to e-mail it. What he is still trying to learn is how to print the houses he drew to print in blue print size. It seems everyone thinks they know how to do it, until they realize they don't have the same program to be able to manipulate the drawings so they can print.

As for me, I am brilliant and don't need to learn anything else. LMAO! I have learned that I don't need so much stuff! Needless to say I am getting rid of a lot of it. I am down to only 8 swaps for PaperCrafting and am hoping to have 4 of them done in the next week. Keep your fingers crossed. I am currently working on 3 UFO quilts. I am hoping to have the borders on 2 of them tonight, I call them the ugly quilts. Ang one is for your birthday gift!LOL. I am hoping to quilt them by early May. I am also working on my Parts Department quilt. I am hoping that my new friend Gina will quilt it. Hint, Hint. I still have 4 baby quilts to get done. STOP drinking the water in Stockton! Here is a picture of the one I did for baby Nathan.

I get to go visit friends in Texas in June! I can't wait. My dear friend Nathan is working on his PhD in Economics at University of Texas so I will spend a week with him in Austin. He is going to take me to Dallas area to see my other wonderful friends Dave and Liz. As much as I miss all of them and look forward to seeing all of them, the highlight of my trip is I get to go to Southfork Ranch. I am so excited! I love Dallas. I watched it as a kid and I am watching it now on Soap Network. I have also bought the seasons they have released on DVD. Lastly I have been working on the kitchen cupboards this month for my Resolution. I was going to do one a month but I am about half way done already! Let's see if I finish by May.

Did you know...

That 1 in 5 kids in American suffer from Obesity. This is a big concern to me. That number just seems way to high. Did you also know that everyone needs to take 10,000 steps a day. That's not to loose weight, just to maintain good health. Also not all babies stop eating when they are full, doctors are WRONG!

We have not really had a fun 2 weeks. Delaney got more teeth and we are still waiting for 2 more molars to finish coming in. So that means in 5 weeks she got 2 little teeth and 4 molars. On top of that she has had a double ear infection, conjunctivitis and a few other -itis' I don't remember. She is in good spirits though. On top of all this Scott gave her a whole Quesidilla. She ate it all, she also puked an hour later.

For me, I did get 9 of my 10 sewing projects done in March and I only spent $9. I am very happy with the out come. I did not finish any of my UFO's but I finished a few projects that hadn't even made it to the list. I did work on 2 last night at quilting though. I am going to enter the Paper Craft Magazine Idol contest so wish me luck. I will post a picture as soon as I get my entries done. And yes Nathan the entry way closet is finished (I found a box of wedding gifts we never unloaded). I also did the top of the fridge and the cupboard over the fridge. I can't believe how much I have got done on my Resolution list! I also bought a pedometer yesterday(Tuesday) I am going to see if I am even walking close to my 10,000 steps a day.

And now for Scott. He is working in San Ramon right now. He has been asked to run the next release of houses (about 15) so the other foreman can get caught up. We are also waiting for another job (apartments) to get released and then Scott will take over a different job still in San Ramon. He has been asked again if he would go to Nevada. He has agreed to go help get the job started (first few weeks only) and to go up if the foreman needs a vacation or help for a week. The problem is where he would stay while he was their. Someone said he could commute. NO! I do have family in Reno that he could stay with and he would have to commute to Genoa, which is more than an hour away.

Sorry I still don't have pictures. I killed the battery in my camera and haven't bought a new one. Maybe next week.

Coming to the End

Well the month is almost over. I am half way productive. For my New Year's Resolutions I am half way through cleaning the entryway closet and we are cooking at home about 3 nights a week. Me and my mom are going to Dinner My Way this Friday. My house is running low on food. As for my March goal I have only spent $7 on sewing stuff and I have needed that stuff to finish projects. Of the 10 thing to be done and gone 4 are done. This last week I finished baby Nathan's blanket, an outfit for Natalie and I made Poop some Cinqo de Mayo pants. Today I am finishing her Easter dress. Not bad for me. I'll have pictures next week.

Poop is walking all over the place. She finally decided it was time. We had to buy another garbage can for the recycles at our house because we would find her going through the bag and finishing the cans of Diet Pepsi and bottles of Beer. She does hand them to us when she's done.

Scott is still in San Jose for work. We are hoping soon he will be in San Ramon. He just finish designing a second house to build and they should be breaking ground on them both soon. He also started to clean up the back yard so we have been eating dinner outside. Jackson is not to sure about it. He can't figure it out.

I Have Decided...

Everyone needs to be Celebite in June. I really can't take anymore birthdays in March. I still have 5 birthdays to go this month, I have already made it though 5. It feels like we are eating cake every other day. I have also decied that bathtubs need to come in the color of soap scumb. It took me an hour to get mine clean yesterday.

Delaney is walking more everyday. She has gotten 3 new teeth in the last 10 days. I think that is why she has been mad at the world lately. We picked up her birthday pictures today. So you will see them soon.

Scott is still working in San Jose. We are hoping that he will be moved to a track in San Ramon in the next month. He has also been working with a new guy, that wants to learn more and stay with Scott.

As for me I am working on cleaning out the entry way closet this month. Yes it will take a month. I am doing good on the New Year's Resolutions. I am working on my March goal of 10 tings done and gone from my sewing room. One item is gone and 8 are close. I was trying not to buy any fabric to get the 10 things done, so far I have spent $5.30. Not bad for me. I do have only 10 days to make Delaney's Easter dress in. She is having her pictures taken in it on the 23rd. Wish me luck.

We made it through Delaney's first Birthday. She got tons of toys and clothes. She loves all her toys. Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt Linda and Uncle Josh got her a mini swing set. She loves it. This next week it will be moved into our living room for her to enjoy. On top of it being her birthday and getting shots, she also had 2 molers come in.

I have been working on my New Year's Resolutions. I have also decided that this month I will get 10 projects done and gone form my sewing room. This is the first project, a baby blanket for our friends little boy Hank. Now 9 more to go!

Scott has been working out of town still. He also has been finishing the trim on the windows. I swear this is the house from the Money Pit. Maybe by the time we sell it, it will be done.