Thursday

Uh oh got behind again sorry. Hmm, it was only two days ago but seems like a lifetime. I decided that I needed to refocus my stress so I started sewing envelopes or little bags with dog food fabric, weird but fun =) Don got to head out for a little guy time, I was glad he was able to talk to someone else besides me and get away from the normal hum-drum of our daily lives. The kids and I headed to the store for some special dessert and I realized it was the first time I had taken the kids out by myself in ages. I miss my alone time with all of them sometimes but not enough to give up what we have with Don being home.

The eyes have it

Tuesday

Today will be a double posting day. Tuesday was spent by me making wrench holders for Don's metric and standard wrenches. I used some old fabric and embroidered the sizes on each spot so he can know exactly where and what he has. I didn't take any pictures though, not a super exciting item. Ty finished up his Captain America shield which I will take pictures of later. It was a fairly uneventful day.

Sunday

Hmmm, a day late oh well. We headed to church and had a good time. We have gone to the early traditional service two weekends in a row. Can't say that I am a huge fan of hymns but I love the people there. We had to greet two people older than us and one that was younger and Don and I didn't have anyone younger than us to greet. We were quite popular as the youngers though haha. The kids really enjoy the sunday school that they have during first service more than second so we do it for them. The preaching is the same both services so maybe we will meet some great grandma/grandpa type people through this. The two older kids went to the mennonite home with the choir and sang carols for people living there and we ended our evening watching a football game (So bummed for the cowboys, the last few seconds were super frustrating) and then the season finale of amazing race, also bummed that one of our favorite teams didn't win, also thankful our antenna lets us see regular network programming so well, and Brock finished his treehouse he's been working on all week. So cute. Don't know what super exciting things Monday will hold but I will share none the less =)Oh and after looking through pictures we also fingerpainted as you can see.

Don did a little painting on Cale with the spray snow

Saturday

Today the older kids had dress rehearsal for the Christmas program and we delivered the props, etc. Had to do some tweeking on the stuff I made which was no surprise but as always Don's products always impress! It was fun to hang out with the younger two kids today, it was much quieter =) Don spent a few hours this afternoon chatting with our pastor about our future, etc. I think it was good for him to have someone completely removed from our situation to listen and give helpful words. Oh and I realized last night that I don't get to sleep in until next year. Every day of the week I have daycare and then weekends the kids have to be at rehearsal on Saturday and then Sunday is church. My night owl personality doesn't let me fall asleep easily at night so I am tired. Good thing I can catch little cat naps during the day or it would SUCK! Still haven't put up the Christmas tree but I am nearing the end of one Christmas gift project for the kids, woohoo, they are going to be so excited =) Night all, wonder what boring thing I can think to write about tomorrow. Is anybody out there?

Friday

The major part of today has been taken up by a rather large Christmas prop in our garage. Don did an awesome job if I must say so myself.

Still alive again!

I seem to be a broken record with the fact that we are still alive. We've now been thru Halloween, and Thanksgiving and not really taken many pictures, also our home internet charges for our data usage so uploading or whatever you call putting pictures on the blog or facebook is not super cheap for us to do. It has been brough to my attention that people still read my blog and would like a little more info into what is going on in our lives. Things are tough, I will not lie finances are about to become nonexistent besides the daycare and we cannot physically survive on just that so any and all prayers for that would be greatly appreciated.

Thanksgiving this year was fun, my mom, my brother and his family came for a visit and we got to meet my nephew for the first time and the cousins all had an awesome time hanging out together. It was fun to get to know my sister in law better and find some odd things we have in common, like scary movies and of course crafting =) Almost everyone worked on sewing some christmas ornaments while they were here. I admit I stupidly didn't use my camera much so not much evidence of said good time. We have also finally organized our garage and made it into usable space for working on miscellaneous projects and also given Don a place to get away from the noise that tends to reach high decibles around here during the day. 
Christmas is on it's way and we are furiously handmaking things trying to finish so they can be mailed for the big day. I wish I could share but alas you that read also receive in some instances. I guess I will take pictures and post them later =)
I think I am going to try a picture or post a day with some info of our day. Today Don is going to work on some prop type things for our churches Christmas play and I will be making salt dough cookies and Christmas vests also for the play. My older kids are in the crew so they are excited. They love the behind the scenes things, they are also getting to know kids at church which we are loving. Most of them homeschool which helps them all understand each other much better.

Anyhow, I will post a picture if it will download of our Thanksgiving fun.

Tisha trying to fix my stupid serger, it's still in my closet ha!

Jason and my boys crawling around on the garage floor.

Don putting the checkerboard on our friend Riley's cake

Finished product