Tuesday it actually snowed! When we woke up in the morning there was snow everywhere, and it kept on snowing into the afternoon. Charly had tons of fun playing in it with Daddy, and even Annie was out there with them for awhile. I think she got tired of having snow thrown on her though and she came in way before they did. I of course staying inside, for the most part, and was finally able to get some serious work done. My dislike for snow didn't stop me from taking pictures, and you know Nate took his camera out with him too! So we have some awesome pictures to share with you all. I put them in a slide show for easy viewing:
Today's Thursday and there's still a lot of snow hanging around. With all the bent and broken trees we see, I'm shocked that I haven't heard about any power outages. Talk about blessed! So Nate had a snow day on Tuesday, and Charly was off school for a teacher workday anyway. Then Nate had to go back to work yesterday but schools were still closed, and Charly had a 5-day weekend! I think she was about as glad as I was that today she went to school. :)
...hi! I know this blog needs a major REVAMP!..And I'm currently working on that. It's been way too long since I said anything on here, I've been so busy with the Silly Beans stuff. I added blinkies in the sidebar to the left of this post so you can see my shops, and another image so you can see my design blog. There's not much Silly Beans stuff yet, but there will be. :)
We just got back a few days ago from our awesome Christmas vacation! We spent a total of 7 days in the car and 8 days visiting. We got to see nearly everyone, and had a great time. This week I've been playing catch up, with designing, starting the Bible in a Year study, and cleaning. Can't forget cleaning. We also decided to get a dog. Don't know why, but we did, lol. I prayed about it, and then received an email about a dog someone had found that needed a home. I had said I'd like to have a puppy so it would grow up around Charly, but I don't want one because I would need to potty train it. Then this one comes along, and it's a puppy, and it's being potty trained. So there ya go, in the true spirit of my mother's child, I will probably be bringing home a rescued dog. And it's so goofy looking too! If we get it, I'll be sure to post pictures, which I'm sure will be accompanied by rants along the lines of "Why did I ever agree to get a puppy?!"
But anyways, we sure are happy to be home. I worked in the nursery last night and got to play with some awesome toddlers. Nate resumed his games duties at Awana and got to play too. Charly is learning O and P this week in school and painted with pine needles yesterday. Her shirt told me what color the paint had been. I'm looking very forward to being back in church on Sunday. I'm so blessed to be attending a church I love.
I started a Project 365 blog last night, there should also be a link for that in the left sidebar. Basically I'll take a picture a day for a whole year. Should be fun. If you know me, and we see each other in person, then you'll probably wind up in my Project at some point. But hey, gotta use the super fancy camera sometime!
Speaking of pics, I have none for this post, but I will soon.
So that's it in a brief nutshell. Thanks for stopping by!
Sorry family and friends, I've been a bad blogger yet again. I was tagged by Maria, which I will explain later, and was trying to find 7 blogs to tag back, that hadn't been tagged by Maria also. Suffice to say, I don't know a lot of people. But that's no excuse, now is it?! So I will do the tagging in another post, but don't worry Maria, I haven't forgotten about it!
We had a great time in Oklahoma and didn't want to leave! Charly caught her very first fish, swam on her own for the first time (with a life jacket of course), and rode her first horse. So lots of firsts for her there! I will post the pics to Snapfish as soon as I can, there are so many awesome ones!
Charly started school last week--full-time preschool. This officially marks the beginning of her school "career." And also marks the first time I've had hours to myself every day since before I was pregnant! So I've been slowly catching up on projects, including house cleaning. Ick. But I've also been dabbling with designing a little, and have decided to create a blog just for my "scraplife," lol. My design name is Silly Beans Scraps, after what we call Charly. Cute ain't it? And as far as scrapping goes, I'm now making ads for three designers, making previews for one, and doing regular duties for another. So, altogether I'm on 5 CT's. Woohoo! And Maria is almost done working on a super-secret project that I'll be able to talk about any day now, as soon as it's officially announced. It may mean some awesome stuff for me!
In other catchup news: I'm trying to get the 2008 pictures finished up so I can post them to our Snapfish group. For those of you who haven't been invited, let me know and I'll get you the info. It's a private group for Charly's family, and is where all the pictures will be going from now on. It's way cheaper than MyFamily.com (ie: free). I also plan on working out at least three times a week, but I want to get the house in order and get caught up on projects a little first. And no, I'm not procrastinating, just busy. I knew schooltime was coming and I let things get a little piled up. God bless my wonderful husband for putting up with it! I'm planning on having my first yard sale ever on Sept 20th. Yay! So I have a couple weeks left to go through everything (and I do mean everything) to sort out stuff for the sale. I think I'm going to lose my mind preparing for it, but I keep trying to tell myself I won't, lol. I just hope people actually buy our stuff.
I start a Beth Moore women's study on Friday. I was supposed to go yesterday, but Nate had the day off and Charly still had school, so I got to hang with hubby. That was pretty cool, spending time together when it's not 11 o'clock at night. So the women's study should be really fun, I know a lot of the women already, but it'll be a nice way to hopefully bond with more people, so Heidi doesn't have to be the only person I hang out with socially, *wink. Here's the book we'll be studying, To Live Is Christ:
On August 9th Charly actually pedaled her bike all by herself for the first time. It's a pretty big thing cuz for some reason it's just completely hard for her to do it. And it's hard for us to try and figure out a way to teach her to do it. But isn't she just too cute!?
And here's the video of her doing it, the quality is a little lacking, but hey, it's my first Youtube video!
And no, the pic and vid aren't two different days. She has two bikes, lol. Spoiled, I know.
This year's Awana also started last week and Charly is in her 2nd year of Cubbies. For those of you who may not know, Awana is a once-a-week program for kids to help strengthen their faith in and knowledge of Jesus Christ, and is another way to strengthen their Christian beliefs on the whole. It's a lot of fun, and Nate is a worker this year, helping with the games. I'm volunteering in the nursery. I'm still contemplating joining the church choir, they really need people, but I'm still so shy about that! I just keep hoping I can lead or help with a little kids' choir that I've been asking the music pastor to start for some time. The only kids' choir we have starts at 1st grade. I offered to do it, so we'll see what happens. He may not even remember that I offered.
So yeah, we've been super busy! And for the most part, I like it that way. :) As I always promise at the end of one of these long update posts, I'm going to try to keep this thing updated more regularly. We'll see!
I'm a SAHM and Army wife, two of the best things in the world to be. For now I have only one child, my 8yo daughter Charly. I love digi-scrapping and photography (my life would be harder if I loved one without the other). And I owe my life to Jesus. Without Him nothing is possible.
