All the Sadness

I am weeping, as I am sure all of you are that waste your time coming to my blog. My internet has been down forever. Since my last post anyway. I have a repairman coming finally on Saturday. So Sorry. I am borrowing my moms computer right now. I am hoping to receive my socks soon!!! Have you got yours? Today is the last day of school so that makes me weep also. Now I have to have a lot more structure in my life. Well, soon I will have pictures and fun to make up for the last few weeks of nothingness. And I hope to be done weeping too!!

A Better Day

This has been a much better week. First off i got a pedicure (which every mom of 3 monkey boys needs). Just look at these cute toes!! Too bad that soon they will be covered with some funky socks!!! Then I got some new nails. I admit I am totally addicted to my fingernails. I haven't been without them for some 13 years or so. I really need them. I use them all the time. I think I should be able to write them off (what do you think Di) because I use them at work all the time, in fact I am a lot better at my job when I have them all.
Then I got me this new stylin hair-do

Then to top it all off this beatiful piano arrived today. My Grandma gave it to me and we got the piano movers hired and here she is. I am so excited about it. It really needs a good tune job, but it is beautiful to me. I am sure it is some kind of an antique, it used to have a player in it you know.
Then another wonderful thing happened. Coldplay(they are a band for you losers that don't know) came out with 2 new songs and I ran home and loaded them into my itunes right away. If I can figure it out I am going to put them on here, so you can all listen to the wonderful tunes.

Sock Crazy??

So if you have not been to the Smiling infidel blog, I suggest you go there quick and sign up for the sock exchange!!! It will be so fun!!! I already ordered my socks and you will want them!!! Check my sidebar for the link.

The Vandalosers

Sorry, I have been absent from blog world lately. Maybe it was due to my crappy week. This is a lovely picture of what my week started out with.
I have these 2 boys who are now dubbed the vadalosers. These pics are just two of the many places that black spray paint ended up in my brand new house.

There were many other places, but I have gotten rid of most of it now. These lovely boys of mine did this at 10 o'clock last sunday night. I was in my sewing room trying to meditate, and also thinking of how quiet my house was with all the children in bed. Then my husband who was out with the horses came in and asked me if I had seen my boys or my house. No, I said.

He proceded with the grand tour of my newly painted walls, carpet, beds, dresser, countertop, cabinet and 3 (yes I said 3) pairs of my SHOES!!!! Also some of my jewelry. These very lovely children had gotten themselves into the bathtub. They were also covered in paint, hence the black handprints. Well, to keep me from prison, my husband ushered me away from them, and he scrubbed their little vandaloser bodies with paint thinner.

So all of my week has been spent in severe punishment. Not only of the boys, but of coarse it is punishment for me since I have to watch their every move, and make sure they are scrubbing every inch of the floor, which they have done twice this week.

You would never have guessed that these two would be little vandals. Would You?

Our New BABY!!!!!

This morning about 5 am. Twinkle Toes' horse Shona had her baby!!! We have been waiting forever. (She was due on April 1) and of coarse she waits until we have a rainy night and day.
She is so cute!!! Nothing gets you out of bed in the morning like a baby horse. It is a philly (girl) by the way. So CUTE!!!! My littlest monkey wants to get right out there and ride it.

Why i live at the circus

Tonight i was so politely reminded of why I live at the circus. First one of my friends came over to get a haircut. I don't usually do this at home, but she's going on vacation so her and her daughter came over. Well, right after I got done with the haircuts I happened to glance over to my mud room and noticed my little monkey #3 (wearing only his pj bottoms, which are shorts, and his cowboy boots) peeing in a chicken feeder bottle that happened to be on the floor in there. Mind you the bathroom was all of 2 feet away from him. Then he turned around with a proud as punch smile on his face. Oh, was I embarrased!!!! Then he just thought maybe he would eat the eggo that he had put in the toaster this morning. Here are the pictures of him trying to warm up his eggo. He almost spilled the leftover birthday cake that was on the stove-top.

Isn't he just so cute! Not today, is what I say. Right as this was happening my Middle Monkey leans over and says "Mom, did you know that in China you can eat as much rice as you want, and you can eat it all the time" What the heck, where does he get this stuff. Besides I am sure that I have a years supply of Minute rice in my pantry and if he wanted it for every meal that would be fine. It is a little nutricious, right. Oh I hope someone elses house is as crazy as mine.

What a Day

Yesterday was a very eventful day. First, off Monkey 2 turned the ripe old age of 6. Second, we decided to go to the zoo with 8 children. Third, i had a few projects that needed to be done by today. So, here we are at the zoo. Standing by the elephant statue. The zoo has made a few improvements since i was there last. New elephant home, a tiger habitat, and a baby giraffe.
We of coarse had to pose by every golden statue we could find.
Here we are on the train. Our auntie is taking a picture right back at us.

Now, we can get to the good stuff. Here is a quilt i just finished. It was a baby gift for my nephew Junior(who is now 16 months old) I finally got it done and bound and gave it to him yesterday. This was so fun to make! It is a stack and whack from buggy barn.
I found this kitty pattern on Amy Butlers website. It is a free download. Twinkle Toes has a Birthday Party to go to tonight. So last night we whipped up this cutie.

Isn't he cute!!
Then I am meeting with one of my friends for lunch today. Her bday was on the 9th. So I made her this swing bag from amy butler. It turned out way cuter than the one I made for me. Hope she likes it.

So yesterday was very eventful. I actually accomplished some things though. Which for me is a big deal. I am the queen of procrastination. Like right now when I should be getting ready for work. But, my brain says I still have 5 minutes so why hurry.