Thursday, December 21, 2017

I got my Christmas pulled together. Despite everything hectic and crazy going on, I'm almost ready to ship out my gifts. 

Heh. Heh. Heh.

Of course, there's the last minute preparation, and you know me, I think of something to make and I'm determined to make it happen. 

So here I am, scrambling to finish this one last gift, and this one has to travel pretty far. I'm not sure if I'll make it on time, but I'm not giving up. 

Sigh. 


Sunday, December 17, 2017

Sickness, Surgery and Setbacks

This week has been nothing but sick kids. Carter has been sick all week. He had a fever of 103.5 on Wednesday night. He has a fever of 101.5 right now. Will too has been sick. He has been lucky to not have the sickness as bad as Carter.

Will fell off the couch and landed on his hand very hard. We found out he has a slight buckle hairline fracture in his wrist. He doesn't have a splint or cast on it though. The doctor felt he was okay without it? Yeah. Weird.

Logan has been fine until Friday when he started complaining of his head hurting and stomach feeling gross. Then he threw up and went to bed.

Samantha was the one who brought this home and has been sick for just over a week.

Phoebe is not sick, knock on wood, because I need her to stay healthy. We are trying to schedule a surgery for her to get her tonsils out over Christmas break. Hopefully we will have it scheduled tomorrow.

And because we are awesome and strong, despite all of this week's obstacles,  we finally put our tree up and decorated it on Friday. Also, we put up a lot of drywall and Trevor hooked up a few more electrical circuits and put in some salvaged light bulbs. We pulled back some of the mesh covering on the "insulation" and found out that the insulation guys cut a few corners and didn't foam between the cracks around the windows where there is a mess of 2x4s. We foamed it in and when Trevor got out of church today, he ran over there to check on things and took a few photos for me. We still don't have heat over there, because the hvac guy has not come back. We hung blankets on the doorways into the boys bedroom, and turned on two heaters in there. It gets it warm enough that the kids can hang out in there all day with their coats and snow pants on and stay pretty warm. It's better than sitting in the car all day.

Sunday, December 10, 2017

Long Time, No Talk

Hey all,
It's been crazy, crazy, crazy lately. I have barely had time for sleep. Last weekend was not spent at the house working. On Thursday I went to Boise to take photographs for my niece on the day before her wedding. Then I left and drove home to get ready for the craft fair that I participated in last year and somehow decided would be good this year too. It actually was good. The craft fair was on Saturday from 9 to 5. I saw a lot of customers from last year and a lot of new ones for this year.
Alysa was my right hand lady and Sami came and helped for the day too. We served 18 families total. That's pretty good I'd say. That's an average of 1 photo shoot shot and edited every half hour.
That was last week.
Yesterday we started in on the pile of drywall. We have most of the living room done and one bedroom. Drywall is not very fun, but at the same time, it's exciting to see the rooms taking shape.
And I also entered a contest for "best holiday cat" photo. Something like that. It's for Trevor's work.