October in a Nutshell pt. 1

Well since it is the end of the month and I have slacked lately in my postingness I bring you the month of October!!! This blog will be a blog in pictures (with captioned stories of course). There is the good, the bad, and the SERIOUSLY DISGUSTING involved. Faint of heart you may want to back away now.

First the odd. Note to self....Do NOT knock the spray cheese off of the kitchen counter...the pressure inside will cause it to spray everywhere, even when you try to pick it up and fix it.

Next David decided to cook me some dinner. Actually I think I kinda forced him into it as when I sent him to go grocery shopping he bought strange and exotic things. I have learned over the course of our marriage that it is never a good idea to send the hubby shopping on his own. When doing so he will inevitably show up with a menagerie of random junk. This time he bought risotto, something which I have heard Chef Ramsey yell about but have never see in person.

Next we travel to my parents house. They were babysitting for my older sister Stacy. Stacy has the three most adorable children ever. Here we see the youngest of her brood 'helping' do the dishes. In reality she was pulling spices out of the spice cupboard and loading them into the dishwasher. Much to my mother's chagrin.

About mid month I realized that I was wearing the wrong pants to work. The cart ate my pants. It took a while to figure out how to take them back.
Over fall break David's older brother Stephen came and staid with us. It was really interesting to see how we interacted as a family type unit. This sounds odd I know but for once it was not just the two of us. We suddenly had someone else to focus on and make sure we were working together to care for. As many of you know we have been contemplating moving on to the next phase and it was actually great to almost play house so to speak. ...Maybe that is the wrong way to put it, but you know what I mean.

Well thats all for tonight. Tomorrow I will finish filling you all in with the oh so scary Halloween special.

Come sign up!!!

I need friends to sign up for a class with me. Next wed (I know its late notice) there is a quilt class at Gracie Lou's, quite possibly the best quilting store ever! Its called Vintage Circles and makes a great baby or big sized quilt using your scraps!

October 27- Vintage CirclesThis is a super cute baby quilt. Fun to make and the pattern gives you instructions to make a bigger one. Fast and easy. Soft edges all pieced and quilted at once. You will need 2 charm packs or 64 5" squares. 1 1/4 yd light fabric, 1 1/4 backing and batting, 505 adhesive spray, glue stick, wash out marking pen. Pattern and some prep work required. Cost for class $15.00
http://gracielousquilts.blogspot.com/p/class-schedule.html

Homebody

Feeling very Betty Crockerish tonight. The past couple of days have been kinda surreal. David had not really had any homework and we have been able to perform much like your average family. I get home from work, run errands, spend time with my fam and cook dinner for said fam. It has been wonderful.

David's older brother Stephen stayed overnight with us yesterday. That in and of itself was great. Stephen is a ray of sunshine. I loved getting to know him a bit better and feeling as if we were a family and not just the two of us....Odd I know but it was a complete feeling and I really liked it. Wish Stephen could have staid longer.

Tonight the feeling was still here. David and I watched Glee together and then later I decided it was time to bake a cake/bread/make dinner all at the same time. Hence the Bettyness. I love it our house smells like chocolate goo from the ice cream cake and dinner is gonna be delish! You will all be jealous of the bread as well. Maybe one day if I'm nice, and also if I get any requests on here I will post my mother-in-laws amazing bread recipe that I have only managed to destroy once. The funny thing is I made it for months before I realized I was only putting in half of the butter required and it still turned out great. Last time I think the flop happened a cause I was in a funk as well as I made my first single recipe instead of doubling as usual. Therefor some items were doubled and others put in correctly. Well time to go check the cake and finish the bread. TTFN!

Confession.

Okay so I will admit it. I am lazy. After last weeks deep clean of the house (which somehow missed a vacuum...oops), and a crazy work schedule for the week I did nothing.

Oh last Sunday we did clean out our refrigerator and freezer. It is wide and spacious looking now. The vast amount of food thrown away made me sick to imagine the food transformed into money. I am trying to watch those types of things much better. Back on the lazy topic. So other than that all I did was request that the hubby do dishes one day. This he did...in a small amount and nothing else moved.

The problem with this apparent lack of motivation hit me today as I realized something. The in-laws are coming tomorrow! They have a convention in Vegas and will be dropping David's brother off to stay with us in the interim. AHHH The house is a semi disaster. Mainly the kitchen and dishes and I have zero ambition to clean them. I talked with David about the need to clean and he assured me he would take care of everything. As I have not been feeling well he told me to sleep whilst he 'cleaned.'


Four Hours Later

I awaken to realize that said hubby has been playing his new video game the entire time I was sleeping. I hurriedly got up, cleaned the bathroom, and fought with him as he debated about his right to stop and clean instead of cleaning the business building (side job to earn some money). In the end I kicked him out while I did the dishes. Fast forward one day. David cleaned a bit more of the house, mainly he vacuumed, did a load of laundry, dumped it on the bed, and packed stuff into the storage area/car. Now that I am home I need to mop, finish the dishes, prepare the guest room, clean the bathroom, and grab a gift for my neighbor who should be giving birth sometime soon. What am I doing instead? Laying on the couch, resting my head and updating my blog...oops. Hopefully I get it all done. Right?

Important Weekend!

Doesn't it always seem like the weekends are too full to think straight? This past month has definitely NOT been the exception. There has been lots of family projects. Namely canning. We have done Salsa, Jam, Pears, Tomatoes, etc.

After all of the production stuff I decided that I wanted to surprise my husband. In a whole myriad of ways. As for the surprises I made sure not to post anything on here, as the hubby reads every now and again, about my plans for last weekend. So I will now lay it all out (after the fact). Last week I completely rearranged and organized a good 3/4ths of the house. It was exciting and fun. No honestly, it was. I banned my adorable husband from half of the house. Shockingly he was fine with that. Although I did not completely finish it is much cleaner than before and feels all new and shiny.

The reason behind this craziness was two/three fold.

1. Completely rearranged house! New and shiny feeling. Surprise for David as he knew something was up but no idea what. He later admitted that he thought I was pregnant and that he would get past my contrived barrier and find a crib. Really the surprise was that he did not have to help.



2. Surprise #2. New toothbrushes. This was an accident. I dropped his in the bathroom cleaner....oops.



3. David's sister Katherine was coming down from Cheyenne for the weekend. A tidbit of information which I declined to tell the husband figure. He once again disappointed a bit on the ultimate surprise of the day. As with surprise #1 and 2 he had a good reaction (but he had all week to build it up), for the real deal he just stared and acted like it was totally normal. He eventually asked me where his parents were, thinking they were all in town.

All in all we had alot of fun. Other news includes a decision. Shhhhh. I have made a dr. apt. and it is all up to your imagination as to what is happening there. Sorry you know those privacy laws, dr. pt. confidentiality and all.