These turned out pretty blurry as it was really dark outside and I don't have a good low-light lens... but we had a good time!!


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I have had SEWING floating around in my head for the last two weeks. It got so bad that last week I went to Joann's, and with the last remnants of my bank account bought four of their 99 cent patterns and 3-ish yards of a chocolate-and-cherry plaid polyester that was on clearance.

Then over the weekend I made this:

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Today is Shasta's 30th birthday ( Read more... )

So after the accident two weeks ago, our friend Kim (who owns her own welding business) came over with her badass truck o' welding equipment and took the bumper off the back of Shasta's car. My dad was there too, trying to help... I whipped out my new camera and took a few photos and Shasta tried it out too. :) They turned out really great but I ( Read more... )

I'm very late posting these and actually have several things to update, so I'm going to make a series of posts today. First we have our Halloween 2008 report ( Read more... )

We had a really lovely weekend -- on Friday night, Shasta's brother Jeremy came into town with his wife and their three kids, so we went over to her brother Marvin's house and hung out with them and talked until well past midnight, which was really nice ( Read more... )

Well, we threw a little party over the weekend and had our friends come over and help us tear up the parquet flooring in the entryway, and we finished laying the laminate through the kitchen and hall. *happydance*

Shasta's brother Marvin, Ashleigh (ashes_renee), our friends Kim and Christina & Cesqua all came over and we got the work done in a couple of ( Read more... )

Now that we have a huge stack of flooring in our living room, we've been working steadily on getting our downstairs floors replaced. This is NOT an easy process. We've torn up the carpet and padding in the family room - which was *nasty* as there was at least a half inch of dirt and dust underneath. I am convinced now that the carpet we removed ( Read more... )

We went to the grocery store last night after our workout, because Shasta needed to use the ATM...

And when she came out of the store she brought me flowers. ♥ My favorite color and everything!!


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