Contest #2 Question...

How many strikes would you need to post a perfect 300 score in ten-pin bowling?

This contest ends Sunday night at Midnight MST.

(Becky, you better get this one right!)

Cute-Cute-CUTE!

I came across this etsy shop tonight and just had to share.....

What Your Soul Really Looks Like

You are very passionate and quite temperamental. While you can be moody, you always crave comfort. You are not a very grounded person. You prefer dreams to reality. For you, it's all about possibilities. You believe that people see you as a bit small and insignificant. People pay more attention to you than you think. Your near future is a lot like the present, and as far as you're concerned, that's a very good thing. For you, love is all about caring and comfort. You couldn't fall in love with someone you didn't trust.

Inside the Room of Your Soul

Those who know me IRL, what do you think?

My new talents

Well, fairly new...

"I can situp by myself!"

"And, I can crawl!"

"And, I look cute doing both!"


P.S. This is the reason I'm still up this late posting. She woke up and I started taking pics of my cutie patootie!

Winner of Contest #1

Congratulations! Almerry is the winner of Contest #1.

(There's also a handmade Christmas ornament that I'm working on!)

If you were lost in the Sonoran Desert, the pulp of the saguaro cactus would be an excellent source of water.

FALSE!



"Many cacti contain high concentrations of oxalic acid and would be more likely to make a hapless wanderer ill than to quench their thirst."


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I've always believed than you could/should eat a cactus if you were lost in the desert. Looks like we all thought that! According to the internet, you can eat a "barrel cactus", the saguaro could actually poison you! See, I could have just saved your life with this little 'ole question!



Question #2 will be posted on Friday morning, will end on Sunday at Midnight! This one will be for handmade Christmas Ornaments.

Contest #1

I've got one entry in my first trivia question contest! So far I've got a couple of Mary Englebreit things in the prize package and will be working on a matching Christmas ornament to go with. Come on everyone, take a guess! I'm drawing a name tomorrow night at midnight!

Why?!

These are actual Christmas ornaments that I found online....

Nothing says, "Feliz Navidad!" like a taco on your tree...

"Beef, it's what's for..." Christmas?!?

Symphony and sickness

Ok, so last night we had our much anticipated date night at the symphony.

We started our night by meeting up with Michael's former boss and his wife at one of my favorite restaurants here called Caffe Boa. We went there about 2 years ago for Michael's office Christmas party and I had the most wonderful chicken saltimboca EVER. I've been wanting to go back ever since, and finally got my way convinced him that last night was the night to go back, especially because we are moving soon. Oh my WOW. It was just as yummy as I remembered....

After that, we raced to the symphony. Michael is a talker and he we lost track of time. My review of the symphony itself, is that they did a great job. Some of those people, especially the pianist and the lead violinist in particular, really take their jobs SERIOUSLY. I mean the pianist put everything he had into each 3 or 4-note spurt that he had and that lead violinist couldn't keep his bum on his chair. They really got "into" it. We, on the other hand, could not have been more bored to DEATH. I'm sorry. I've gotta' be honest here. The first symphony was about unrest, completely dark, slow, and depressing. And it was an hour long folks. The second was about a man's love for his beloved. It had nice periods of uplifting and lovely waltz's, but ended in the man's execution with fleeting thoughts of his beloved throughout these depressing and dark periods. That too, was an hour long. Seriously, we will probably never go again. LOL

I did enjoy wearing my coat though! I'm glad I didn't wear my tall heels and just wore my kitten heels as we had a nice little walk from the parking garage to symphony hall. All-in-all, it was a nice evening. I told Michael we probably would have had a better time just hanging at the restaurant longer with our friends. The symphony was a waste of time and money. Oh well, now we can say we've been there!

Now, on to the sickness part. Michael woke up with a head cold this morning and a pounding headache. I woke up with an "almost" migraine and nauseous because of it. I've gotten headaches all week. I have been able to knock them down with 800 mg of ibuprofen, but they come back. Anyways, we stayed home from church today. We pretty much lazed around because we felt crummy. My headache is pretty much gone but I can tell it's still hovering and ready to come back at any moment. You know the kind...


The weather has FINALLY cooled down around here. It's down in the 60's at night, 70's during the day. It's starting to feel like fall! We actually had to turn on the heat this morning to take the chill off of the house. I know Becky is soooo laughing at me right now up in Washington! What is it, like 35F up there???

Baby Noah

Baby Noah has a full body infection. He is very, very sick. Please continue to pray for the little guy.

Contest #1

Ok, in trying to figure out WHAT kind of contest to do, I decided to pull out the cards from our favorite board game Cranium, to see if there were any interesting ones. Basically just to see if any jumped out at me...I'll be doing 5 seperate contests, consisting of 1 trivia question each, up until Christmas. I found 5 trivia questions that I believe EVERYONE just NEEDS to know in their lifetime. Who knows, some just might save your life one day! Ok, just kidding but you never know.....

The rules are pretty simple. Just answer the question in my comments. You don't have to have a blog to enter. The official answer to the question will come from the Cranium card that I have in my hand. If you find a differing answer on the internet, I apologize! I'm going off the answer that I've got. I'll have the contest open for 3 days each and will draw a name on Midnight of the 3rd day from the entries with the correct answer. Simple enough!?

Ok, here goes.

#1) If you were lost in the Sonoran Desert (we live here!), the chewed pulp of the saguaro cactus would be an excellent source of water.

TRUE or FALSE?

This contest will end on Tuesday 11/27 at Midnight MST.

I stand corrected...

Because I am also a little "anal retentive" when it comes to spelling, I would like to thank Hal for correcting my spelling of the word "whilst". I have seen it in an actual book spelled my original way of "whilest" but ok, I believe you. I am no longer quite as fond of the word, since it now sounds and feels like my mouth is numbed by novocaine when I say it. I guess I won't be using my beloved (albeit
made-up) word "whilest" any longer....off to mourn the injustice of it all.





P.S. I looked up both the words "novocaine" and "albeit" just to make sure that I had spelled them correctly. I have a complex now...LOL

Coming Soon!

K, so I've been reading The Pioneer Woman (warning PG-13ish) pretty regularly lately and she's gotten me in the spirit of having give-aways. Nothing major like hers. Her recent one was for a $500 American Express giftcard. But hopefully they'll be fun none-the-less! I'll be announcing soon WHAT exactly the contest will be. I picked up the prize(s) today whilest (I love that word!) shopping.Keep checking back because there will be a deadline. That's why I'm posting a few days ahead of time. So, hopefully everyone can join in!

Funny things heard in my house...er, car.

We were driving around today. The kids were getting a little loud and rowdy in the back....

Me: Chil-dren, settle down in the back!
Hannah and Brandon: K, Mom...
Jake: Mom, I'm not doin' nuthin'. Just pickin' my boo-guhs!

I kid-you-NOT!

Friday Favorite!

I forgot to do one last week. This week's Friday Favorite is (:::Drum Roll:::)

York Mints. I found this tin in Hubby's luggage and finished it off with the kids. I asked permission first of course....hehehe.

Our Thanksgiving

Yesterday we had Almerry and her family over. A co-worker of her husband's. And another co-worker of his and his wife and daughter. Clear as muddy water you say? The details really don't matter. What matters is that we had a WONDERFUL Thanksgiving. The food all turned out great. I didn't have to cook it all. Almerry brought some food and helped me once she got to our house. We ate dinner. We visited. We ate pie. We played Cranium. We visited a little more. What a great day:) So many things to be thankful for and I'm gonna' bore you all with a short list, K?

#1) A wonderful Heavenly Father who loves me more than I'll ever comprehend and never understand W-H-Y???

#2) A wonderful Husband who loves me also. I don't understand that either but he swears he does...oh, and he's really patient with me too.

#3) My children. ALL of them. I'm learning more everyday just how thankful I am for them.

#4) My friends. I don't have alot like some people, but I sure have good ones!

#5) My church family. I'm really, REALLY gonna' miss my church family!

Oh, I could go on and on-health, food, housing, etc. but like I said, I won't do a long list.....

Black Friday

This morning Michael slept through his early wakeup call. We weren't able to snag 2 of the 4 gifts we were going to get for the kids. We made it too late. Oh well!

I did however meet my friend Almerry at Joann's and got some REALLY cheap (I mean inexpensive, yada-yada) fabric. I single-handedly knocked out 9 Christmas gifts at Joann's today for about $21 with tax. Cool huh? I've already gotten 2 of them done for Hailey. Here's the pic to prove it....
One of those no-sew blankets and a snoedel (snoo-duhl?). Basically lots of soft, snuggly, cozy goodness just for her:) Albuquerque has SNOW this time of year. Did you know that!? I haven't seen snow in like 3 years...anyways their gifts this year will be warm and snuggly to prepare us for NM. I'm also getting the kids each a stuffed animal from Becky that you warm in the microwave and send to bed with them...

Everyone else that I didn't quite know what to get something for are getting "Blessing Pillows". I got the idea from here. I, of course can't afford $35/person for those so I'm making my own. Joann's had flannel on sale for $.97/yard today so I totally took advantage of that! I'm advertising her site here though because I think hers are so great and I sortof feel guilty for using her idea....

After Joann's we headed to a quilt store in Mesa. It was a really nice store. I was impressed. Not that thats saying alot but I'm really, REALLY snobby when it comes to quilt stores. Either they "have it" or they don't. It's THAT simple people! I couldn't really tell you what the *it* is, but some just don't have it....

Tonight, me and Michael played Cranium with Hannah and Brandon. It's really an adult game but we worked it and we all had fun! This was the game that we played yesterday with all the adult guests at our Thanksgiving dinner. I guess I'll have to go ahead and write up a post about that next. Huh?!

Happy Feet

This is *SO* not really important in the scheme of things but look what I found on clearance on Saturday. The shoes that I wanted earlier this Summer! They were almost half-price:) I told Michael to make them one of my Christmas gifts this year.

My feet are happy now.....

Pray for Noah

Prayers are needed for baby Noah. He is back in the hospital with something seriously wrong with him.....Please Pray!

Cute Hailey pic. Ignore the cookie on her shirt...

Aren't I cute with my hat on?!

Hailey "eating" a ribbon decoration at Michael's office.

Michael's "trashed" office. Notice the fake snow on his pictures.

(BTW, I've gotten sick. I'm bummed because we were having a missionary speaker and our church's Thanksgiving fellowship today. We missed it.)

Wool Contest Photos

I listed all of the people that I know personally that were there yesterday. Liane (far left) is my friend from church-she is a fellow homeschool momma. She crocheted a beautiful poncho and won first place in her gategory. Her daughter Emily next to her sewed a really beautiful grey dress that has pink trim and won first in her gategory. Lane, won first place in her gategory and sewed a really cute 2-piece outfit. I think she made her own pattern even. Her sister is Courtney who sewed that really cute purple plaid skirt-she won 2nd in her and Hannah's category. Then there's Hannah, she didn't place this year but she had lots of fun! Next is little 'old me! I won first, there was only one of me in my category. Then there's my good friend Almerry. She's the state director of the competition. She didn't have anything to do with the judging! The judging was done by 3 indendent ladies. They have degrees in fashion and either teach or own their own businesses.

Me, Hannah, and Almerry

(This is the outfit I'm wearing to the symphony next weekend.)

I've got to find my camera cord to post pics from the contest yesterday. Ooooh, the suspense!

I just wanted to make a quick post that my friend Becky is trying to raise some money for Christmas and is selling a few things on Etsy. Please visit her shop and see if there's anything you might want to get for gifts this year:) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Update~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Becky, look what I found while surfing the net today! I hurried to add it to this post. This is Becky's old website banner from about 5 years ago?? It was on someone's banner exchange page. She used to sell her bags and I was selling handmade soap at the time.....

Blah, Blah, Blog

Got the dress ALMOST done. I've just got to sew up the hem tomorrow night. It fits also! Well, it zips up without too much trouble. That counts right!?

Tomorrow is going to be a very busy day. I'm dropping the kids off at my friend Almerry's house first thing in the morning so me and Michael can go and clean an office quickly. I hate cleaning an office while they're all there so I'm hoping to be in and out without too much intrusion on our part.

After that we come home. Hubby's got some work to do from home. We'll be heading to his office tomorrow afternoon for their monthly BBQ. He hasn't been in the office for the last 3 weeks since he's been up in Vegas. They are supposed to announce his promotion to everyone tomorrow at the BBQ. I bought a bunch of party stuff today and dropped it off this afternoon with his boss with explicit instuctions to "TRASH HIS OFFICE!". I got streamers, silly string, etc....it'll be a hoot! I'll try and remember my camera. He has no clue what's coming....(sinister laugh here)