Happy 4th of July!

I'm not sure what we will do today...maybe we will move Deric's desk downstairs and finish that project. Deric was at a lan party until almost 2am so I don't know when he is going to wake up and want to do anything. I made pancakes, but that Isn't super enticing to him.

We might go to RC Willey's and see if we can find the sectional we want, or one like it at least to look for on KSL later. They have free hot dogs and drinks today.

Tonight we plan on going to the fireworks.

Yah, that's about it. We don't do anything as an extended family for holidays out here...

What I can't believe is next weekend is River's second birthday! I invited the Sharps and the Boyles and Joan and Mark. Joan and Mark and the Boyles can't come, so, it's just the Sharps and us (as usual). Anywho, we are having a BBQ and opening presents and playing in the backyard.

Well, hope you all have a fun day!

Deric and his projects...and a Parrot??

So, yesterday Deric decided to launch his own project. We are now moving his "office" downstairs into the theater room behind the couches. Actually, this really helped with the organization down there. The theater "room" is where the rug is up front sectioned off by the couches and it looks almost "finished". Behind the couches will be his desk and chair, so when he has to work late he can without disturbing me...or if his computer needs to run all night for some reason. This means, however, that I have to go downstairs to edit the trek video when we start on that next week...but it's cooler down there, and River now has part of the room she can play in. This whole scenario opens up our bedroom for the recliner, swivel chair, and bassinet. Which works out pretty well. I will have somewhere to nurse Molly at night and there was no room for the basinett before. Today I plan on making little accent pillows for the little blue kid's couch I got at a yard sale. :-) Just thought it would be fun and cute.

We finished the storage room yesterday too by organizing the holiday stuff into one section of shelves, clothing in another, and so on. It looks good. :-) And it feels good. We still have a bunch of Deric's stuff to sort into bins, label, and put away. But, we are almost there!

I wish I could find my boppy cover...

I finished framing 3 of my pictures for the living room. I just have to go get more professionally framed. Deric said I can do one a month. So, I guess I will then. :-)

...Added:
SO, I caught a parrot today. I was outside in our back yard and there was this very odd loud squawk like a falcon type sound. The other birds were being really loud and obnoxious too. I looked up in the tree and spotted a neon orange and yellow-green belly of a parrot! The robins were all flustered and had their feathers all ruffled getting mad at this "intruder". I coaxed it down with an apple wedge...he didn't eat any of it, but he sat on my shoulder a while and let me pet him and talk to him. He kept saying something that sounded like "receiver" or "feedher", couldn't really make it out. Then when I tried to move toward the back door he flew away and was chased by all the neighborhood birds. I ran inside and got some crackers and my car keys and drove around the block to where he was. I found him again and he got chased off again to the next street over. I drove over there, jumped out of my car and whistled until I found him. He was sitting in a little plum tree low enough to the ground that he could come to me without being chased again. He munched on the crackers and let me take him to my car. I got home and found a box for him and gave him some water in a little dish. We got the ID number off his leg tag and called the Animal Control. They came and got him and said if he isn't claimed in 3 days he will be put up for adoption. They apparently go pretty quickly. So, it was a very eventful afternoon. :-)

black paint...

Well, today I am going to finish up painting the three frames I had that would work with the pictures I want to hang in my living room. But I need to get more paint, ran out last night. I have decided that I am going to frame just the photos I have taken for in there. So, mainly black and whites, with some color (like my senior project). I will have to find couches (or a sectional) that will match the decor in the room and I will probably have to make some black accent pillows. Which will be easy enough since I found some stuffing at a yard sale for twenty-five cents this last week. I'm excited for our Anniversary gift. Deric actually tried to use the ploy of "lets go get our couches for fun!" last night to get out of doing the basement organizing work. Haha! Foiled.

We got a lot of stuff pulled out of the storage room, all the old computers are gone. Monitors are the only things I have to get him to go through. But, we still have everything he pulled out and sorted through to organize into bins; the task for tonight. I am just going to organize the other storage down there this morning and do some vacuuming. (there is lots of dirt everywhere)

My artwork that is more colorful I have decided to frame for the theater room. I have track lighting that I am going to point on it so that it gives the room a colorful/funky/theater feel. :-) I'm excited...though I won't see this in motion until probably next year sometime at the earliest.

Well, i think I will get moving...

Frames

I am a bit bummed. I guesstimated how much it would cost for me to mail that stupid bag...and it was off by $5. So, I made *no* money on making that for him. :-( I am too nice...I hate to overcharge, and I always take the hit. In the end I made 1 penny. Blah, oh well...if he orders anything else in the future I will just charge more.

I am starting on an art project today that should keep me a little bit busy the next couple days. It is framing my artwork. I have been collecting picture frames at yard sales if I can get them for a quarter or so. I am going to paint them all to go in my living room (like mom did). Though, mine will all be black. Then I am going to put my artwork in them. I don't know how many of my pieces will fit in the ones I have, so that is my project today...figuring out what I have and what pieces will fit and what I will need in addition. Then I will paint the ones that will work and save the others for projects I do in the future.

Tonight we are going to tackle the other half of the storage room downstairs. Deric's stuff that has been peed on by the cats and needs hosed down and organized into labeled boxes if it is useful or (this is what I am hoping) mostly thrown away. FINALLY after 4 years of keeping it around in the condition it is in...yuck. So, wish me luck!

Housewife.

Today...

Spent the morning from 8:30-11:45 at my neighbor's house. River played in the kiddie pool (and froze!), swung on the swings, and "flew" in their airplane...and fell out and got a bloody fat lip. Fun. I mainly just spent the time complaining about how I have been feeling. It has been really hard to keep my emotions level recently. :-( But, she says she feels the same way when she is pregnant. Which is why she is having a hard time wanting to have the next one she knows she should be having. I just said, "Well, the thing is, it is hard for a little while, and then you get used to it and it gets easier." That's all we have to hold onto as moms sometimes!

Came home and napped a little, started laundry, did dishes, vacuumed the upstairs, tidied a bit. Now I am making our week's meal plan so I can go grocery shopping. I need to get to the post office too. I made Rob Parkes a purse for his Mom made out of a pair of Navy pants he ripped. I hope it is what he was wanting. Tonight I am going grocery shopping, Deric will mow the lawn, and we are having shishkabobs. :-) Well, ta ta for now!

Toilet and other stuff...

Sorry about the unrotated pictures. If I can figure it out later then I will fix them. I just wanted to get a few up here: 1.) River with one of her two babies at 23 months old 2 & 3.) This is the finished girl's closet (I have since put another set of drawers on the bottom where those boxes of clothes are and hung up a lot of Molly's clothes on the top.) 4.) This is River's T-shirt Tunic dress I made! I am very proud of it, it just needs the neck brought in a little. 5.) Me at 30 or 31 weeks pregnant. I will probably get another picture or two soon. 6.) This is one of my favorite pictures of River from May (22 months) when she was doing an impromptu parade. Too cute!

Well, our toilet is leaking. Yippee...So, we have to call up someone and find out what exactly is going on. It seems like it is almost coming out of the top of the thing and spilling over. Weird...

Anyway, went to a meeting for Enrichment committee at 9 this morning. Had some monkey bread. (perk to having someone who LOVES baking as the president!) Going to church today, don't know how River's nap is going to work out, but oh well...this will be how church goes for me for the next 8 years since I will always have a child that needs their nap during the time of day our church is held. I am having *the* worst time actually sitting through the meetings. Not all the classes have nice cushioned chairs, and sitting still makes me antsy, uncomfortable, and light headed. So, we don't go the whole time because of that. Oh the joys...

We now have a week break for the Trek video making because everyone has to cut up their clips on their tapes and convert it all to a usable format for our editing. I can't believe that it is fourth of July this next weekend! This summer is speeding by at breakneck speeds. Still hoping for July 31st for Molly to be born, which puts me less than 5 weeks away. I even have the ladies in my enrichment praying for her to come then. I am very curious to see how this all goes. :)