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I posted 18 new posts in one night - happy reading!

Still going .... keep the cookies and chocolate away from me!

Me in Oct of this year! Since Jan I have shed 50 pounds. Yahoo! Still trying for more. Will update at the beginning of Feb 2009 Hopefully By then I will have reached my goal. Wait! I mean check back in Feb I WILL HAVE reached my goal. There. thats more like it! :)

Weight loss update

ME in January of 2008. At a very heavy weight!

Rhy messing with my camera! I couldnt resist I love this camera. At times I'll catch these little pictures as Im uploading from the camera. I'll say to myself ..when did I take that pict? Then I realized ...ugh...that little girl. DOMMMMM!!!!!!!

screaming at him I say .....she got into my camera AGAIN!!!!!!!!! ( She does the same thing with the camera on the cell phone) Thats my fault I showed her how to use it. bad mommy!

Thanksgiving with my parents!

Rhyan garnishing (in her own lil way) with my left over sage! Bless grandmas heart she rescued her before mommy yelled "leave the sage alone - its time to eat"!!!

So Dom captured grammy and Rhy making my turkey look pretty. See nawh nawh actually cut an orange for Rhy to add to the platter.

An almost finished wall - at this pt we're getting anxious! ESPECIALLY DOM!
The wall temporarily stopped for a lizard rhy needed buried. She found a tiny lizard played with him too rough and he died. So Dom took a break and carried the reptile to the edge of the yard to bury him. Mommy wouldve thru him over the fence and grumbled now stay outta trouble to the little girl. See that why hes a good daddy! lol

my grumpy hubby saying - get that camera out of my face! lol. I was trying to catch him in action shoveling dirt! fierce isnt he?!?!lol

Child labor laws!

frame prior to laying concrete down. We chose not to use a compactor with fine sand. Can u believe we dug that out with a shovel and our arms. Rhy helped too with a play skool plastic 5 in shovel .lol !

More of the retaining wall. second course (i think) with the landscape fabric and gravel. Next see the drainage pipe

More retaining wall pictures - see rhy! This is the first course of the wall. My hubby worked so hard - uh hm.... as so did I! Really I did!

Happy Halloween 08

We invited wolfman to our halloween party - he loved all my treats! Isnt he adorable!

Franken Brownie

NOt sure if I showed you my franken brownies I made for our lil halloween party at the house! Arent they cute - idea from a better home and gardens magazine from 2007 or was it 2006?!

Again my little sweet neice, K, at her Christmas Preschool program. Isnt she so adorable. She looks just like her mommy and a lil like her daddy!

My beautiful neice showing us (via txt msg) her build-a-bear pal Wall-e.

Retaining wall project 2008

Okay so this is what Ive been working on for the past two months. My hubby and I finally tackled the backyard retaining wall project. We were racing against the weather. We wanted to make sure it was finished before the first snow. So luckily we completed the task in two weeks (after the ground was all dug up) prior to Thanksgiving. Whew! Im so tired of shoveling dirt and gravel and stone. LEt me tell you -major grunt work! UGH! OUr backs were so sore every morning. Some mornings we were whinning just prior to crawling to the shower! lol. So its finished except for the wall caps and the drainage pipes out to the alley way. Kewl huh. thank you auntie and uncle for all those HAndyman magazines! A very valuable resource!

This is poor grammy lucy being dragged around town for christmas shopping by nana and I one saturday in December. Grammy was such a trooper on our errands I rewarded her (when nana wasnt looking) with a Frosty from Wendy's. Let me tell you she loved it. Grammy is 87 yrs young and still a pistol! Wonder what she would say about her pict posted on this thing called the "internet". lol. Luv u grammy !

My wonderful tree christmas morning (at 6am - see the sun is not even awake)! I was so excited - more excited than the family! I was up at 6am and the other two bums stayed in bed till 9:30 and 10am. I couldnt wait for the Disney Christmas parade, the ham I popped in the oven, the holiday music on our XM stereo, the gifts - and relaxing in my clean house!!!!!!!!!!!!

A clean house - yes - a clean house. Thats a big feat for me especially while monitoring my dinner menu, shopping, and crafts! See the big green present with the gold bow - thats the present santa dropped off for rhy. She asked for a disney scooter. We found it for $24 at Walmart. Cheapest of all places we looked (Target, Amazon, toyrus). Yahoo!

A family picture with Sister C. before she left for another assignment in upper NM. Look at my Rhyan - isnt she just a ham! Dont I look tired. I was on my third batch of cookies and this was a few days prior to Christmas day! Hope you all had a wonderful christmas.

Frost on our tree after the SECOND big storm blew thru our lil town in NM. Yeah, we actually had a white christmas! lovely......just lovely

One of the many cards I made for my christmas mailers to family and friends!

I cant take credit for this crafty candy bag, M. Guimaraes my old upline demo for stampin up made it. I bought it from her at a local craft fair. Cute arent they?!

Although today at Walmart I saw this plastic reindeer that dispenses reindeer poop in the form of chocolate covered raisins. Too cute!