Rain Rain Go AWAY!!!

I am so tired of this rain...........its been raining for over 2 weeks now..........and we are suppose to get rain throughout next week too, I am hoping the weather changes and we get some sun.......Anyway I did this Cinderella today......started her early this morning, and just had some time tonight to finish her......I think she can out cute but noticed I forgot to add her necklace and I don't like how I stuffed her neck.......she looks like she has a long neck............I might redo her with a lighter blue too, and not stuff her so much.

Here is a side view of her.

I received this Toilet paper cover from April with the key chain and some candy. I think this is too cute.

I finshed my living room afghan..........one of them anyway, I think it took me about a week.............I will make a pillow before making the second afghan.

I received this from Tiffany for the Amigurumi Food w/ faces swap, and these are so tiny and cute!!! the other stuff is for a Birthday swap, and I love them too.

Aiden's father is in town until Monday. We hung out at the house today and had dinner at Applebee's tonight, and now both boys are sleeping, and that is where I need to be. LOL

Update

Mr Aiden here with a Spiderman scooter that had belonged to AJ when AJ was small, we didn't realize we still had this, but apparently my father had put it away in the garage, and AJ found this this weekend........so Aiden was using it today, and had fun with it...........I took this photo this afternoon. Talk about warmer temps, we had to turn the air on, the temp inside was around 80 degrees, and outside its about 84...........it was hot in here.

I took this today outside too, I love how the sun shines down through the trees through all the leaves and you the shadows and stuff. We spent a lot of time outside...............Aiden playing on his scooter, and AJ was planting his flower that he got from school today.

now is this not the coolest little jedi boy you have seen?

Well I started Pokemon Lucario Sunday night, and worked on him for about an hour, then a bit more on Monday, and then put him aside last night to finish another strip to my living room afghan...........I have 7 more squares to do to finish one.........but anyway I am working on Lucario tonight and this was him earlier.......I have his arms done too now. Now that "horn" in the middle of his chest is more pointy than the original one was...........the original one looked more like a boob. LOL

We had a great Easter, I didn't take a ton of pictures like I usually do, because how many pictures do you really need? I usually end up taking too many, and I didn't want to do that this holiday.....here are the boys with their baskets, we made them......and they both loved them of course. We had to have the Easter Egg hunt inside because it rained all day.....I mean it never stopped. My father wanted to go for breakfast, but I wanted to stay home to get some stuff done and set up for dinner. So he took them in my van since his heat didn't work, well I had been in the laundry room cleaning up and didn't hear my phone ringing until I got closer to the front of the house, my dad called to say some guy hit them..........someone ran into the back of them.........the other guy told the police it was his fault as he was not looking in front of him.........anyway my van had a few scratches on the bumper but no damage, and the other cars whole front end was smashed in. I am just glad the boys and my father were not hurt and then I was happy the van was ok. LOL Anyway we had a great dinner and I was happy to get some rest later that night.

I did this pencil holder for Aiden last night and he likes it, I didn't put a button on it though. He has been walking around carrying this. LOL

I tested this really cute cow for Ivory, click her name to go to her blog. This pattern is called Strawberry the Sleepy cow. You can see its tail in the photo, some picture taking on my part. LOL

This toilet paper cover was done for Margaret, she had one listed for a wish in a group we are in. this went out today with her Grandpa........Aiden and I had to go to the Box store to find a box for him........and as someone in another group put it, he will have crik in his neck since its bent a bit to fit him in. LOL Aiden and I also had lunch together, and then relaxed the rest of the day.

I have had a headache since some time during the night, and I am getting dizzy, I am hoping its just stress and I am not getting sick.

WOOHOOOO THE OLD MAN IS DONE

Well some of you have been keeping tabs on Grandpa's progress.........so he is finally finished!!! I started him on the 20th of last month, and took my time with him, he was due to be mailed until the end of this month........and I wanted to work on other projects in between working on him............but he is finally done, and I could not be happier. The pattern called for using yarn in french knots for his eye brows and hair, but I used stuffing......I thought this looked more realistic!!

Here is the old man from the side

and with his coat open...........he was a pain at times, but now I know what changes to make for Grandma to make her easier to make. if you pull up his pants, you will see white socks and his skin. LOL How cute.

I am doing good, just been tired, My dad was sick today, had what AJ had not too long ago, and I am hoping Aiden doesn't get sick or me...........short update there, will have a longer one soon.

Woohoo Pokemon Charizard is done!!!

OMG!! I finished AJ's Pokemon Charizard tonight....I am soooo happy to have him done........I took my time with him, so many pieces to him....lets see let me count 38 pieces to crochet and put together!! LOL I have to say this lady did an awesome job designing him, as she does with all her patterns, if you want to check her work out She is Bizzy Crochet Just click the name to find her. Aiden is posing with Charizard so you get the idea of how big he is.

A side view of Mr Charizard!

This is Aiden's little Alien ship with Alien. he loves it and was flying it around the house tonight.

Well here is Grandpas body....he is still headless, I have his head done, but no facial features yet.........I had to redo his belt loops as I had originally done them in the wrong color. LOL

Took this today of Aiden and I.........I was taking some pictures of some crochet stuff, and he wanted some of us.........so here we are........you can see that I am letting my hair grow out.

It was a very cloudy day today, and they said rain......but its actually snowing right now.........will try to post an update this weekend.

These are the little aliens I did last night, and am working on the space ship today, but have not had much time to crochet. They are faceless right now, poor guys!!

This is a close of up of the two strips I have done for the living room afghan

and this showing that it will be 7 squares long. I think these are about 7" squares,

Mr Aiden in deep thought here.

AJ and his team mate, Brett. I love the uniforms this year. Usually he got stuck with drab colors, like grey and black, but this year they got a really cool green.

Just before Aiden and I left to go to "Bro's" soccer game, Saturday, we spiked his hair.......he loved it.

LOL AJ and I wearing each other's glasses............neither of us could see a thing through them.

I am very tired........I need to get to sleep........I am just not feeling well, so its hard to fall asleep. I have a headache and feel like I have a stick stuck in my throat going across it, and my ribs hurt.......I think its just bad heartburn though, but it sure is making me feel odd.......I also might be coming down with something, hope not though. I think its just a combination of stress over the past few days......I don't really want to go into it........but today was better. I got some laundry done, both boys were good today............AJ usually is really helpful when he knows I am upset or sad..........he will really help out, and be there for me.

Yesterday was pretty warm...........in the 70s, but very windy..........AJ had a soccer game, and all the boys got dirt in their eyes, the ball kept blowing around........it was just awful out there. His team played well considering.

I have two strips done for my living room afghans..........each afghan will be 35 squares, 5 across and 7 down.............I had drawn out how I wanted the squares, but I was doing them, and decided I didn't like how it was turning out......so decided on just doing one row going down in one pattern, and then the second row another pattern going down..........so I had to adjust the squares I had already done.........time consuming to have to do that, but its done, and I have the first two strips for one.........I also decided since changing them, that I will do one at a time..........they will both be done using the same squares, but in a different order for each. Once I got the two strips done, I decided to work on the Alien and little ship.....you can find the pattern by clicking the name I am going to be making 3 of these..........one for Aiden, one for me, and one for a friend of mine. Aiden wanted me to finish tonight, but I was too tired, and not feeling well, so I stopped at the two aliens...........I took pictures of my crochet today, but my phone is not sending pictures at the moment. I will try again and post tomorrow.

Well I had a rough day........I got up and did nothing, but spend some time with Aiden, then after lunch, I had told my father that he needed to help me get the washer and dryer pulled out, so I could clean and vacuum up all the dust bunnies and find out if the hoses were kinked in the washer as it hasn't been working right.....dryer has not been drying well either.........so he did that and we found a ton of junk clogging the hose to the washer and in the little screened connection.........so we got that cleaned out and I told him to help me vacuum the hold that the dryer hose goes into to vent outside..........well omg...............it was clogged big time, so he went outside and it was clogged there, but nothing on the ground, so down to the basement we went, took the wall off to the crawl space under the dryer and man........was it filthy........the pipe or whatever that the dryer vented down into and then outside was not connected anymore............so the dryer had vented down in the crawl space, it was eery looking with all that dryer lint, I mean it was all over everything, the cords, the floor, gross!!! so he pulls out the pipes to clean and put back together, then the fun part of getting all the dryer lint swept and wiped up and out of there, a whole 30 gallon trash bag full......lord knows how long that was like that, I am just glad we decided to do this now.............its done, and hopefully no more problems with that. I had to sweep up the kitchen and dining room as the boys and my dad kept tracking that stuff everywhere...........I was so happy to get into the shower!!

AJ got to play with Chris too a bit today, and they kept trying to say they were going to help clean down there, but I knew they just wanted to play.

AJ is done with math testing at school......he said that nothing really stumped him but a couple of questions, so hopefully he did well on them. May is the last month of school, I can't believe how fast this school year has gone.......

I started on my squares for the living room afghans............will do them at the same time, so one square done for the couch and one square done for the love seat.....wooohoo huh? LOL I will also start an ami for Aiden tonight too. I think I will start on the little space ship with alien, I have to admit this is way too cute for any sci-fi fan, so I will be making one for me..........and a few other people.

My chest is hurting tonight, so I am going to go relax and work on some squares, I want to get at least one strip done for both.

Well I am really tired and sore tonight.............So far this week has started well, just trying to stay caught up with everything around the house......The washer is not wanting to work right, so I need my father to pull that out tomorrow and see if any lines are kinked up. so doing wash is taking a bit longer than I want it to. Today I cleaned the living room, a full clean, meaning moving all the furniture to vacuum, clean base boards.........up and down on the ladder cleaning shelves up high, sweeping the cob webs for ceiling.....I have to say I slacked off in the cob web department, I hate doing that, and we have those stupid popcorn ceilings.....but luckily I only say one, but there was dust bunnies around the fan......so I had all those little spikes from the ceiling attacking me. After that I cleaned the boys room, did all the dusting, they pretty much picked up the toys and stuff, but I also had to clean the closet, move toy boxes around, and also managed to FINALLY organize my yarn totes.......I am sure they will get messed up again.

AJ went to dinner and a magic show with Communities in School last night and had a lot of fun with that..........Did some shopping, and I think with all the errrands I had to run yesterday and taking AJ to and from school, and picking him up later after the show........I was in and out of the van 14 times...........so no wonder my knees hurt last night.........

I managed to get the details of my matching Dragonfly afghan done, I am doing two for the living room, one for the love seat and one for the couch, will do the squares in a Dark Sage, and a light sage for the pillows..........I saw some pillow at Wal-mart that I wanted that would match perfectly in the living room, but for two pillows each for love seat and couch, would have cost me over 70 dollars!!! Didn't want to pay that much for 4 pillows, so will make them......I already have two pillow forms, I have the yarn, and once I buy the other two pillow forms.........I will have only had to pay out less than 8 dollars..........I think I will try to wish for the pillows in a group though.........that would help out too. So anyway I am starting on my first square......I will be using the squares that I designed.......which are still being tested.

I also got some patterns this past week and some more today, so want to get started on a few things for Aiden.........I have a little alien and his ship to make, and a crayon holder for Aiden, finish AJs Pokemon Charizard..............and swaps!! Busy Busy

Aiden's father will be coming out sometime in May............but he wants to bring his other son, Mathias to see Aiden, since they are brothers........I don't like using the term "half" brothers.........and I agree, but of course this means his wife will have to come too......which would normally not bother me, but since this woman has been so jealous of me and Aiden, I am not too comfortable with it............but I do see the need for her to come.......Mathias needs his mommy too........just as Aiden does me..........I can't get over the things she has said about Aiden, and how she from day one, wanted Thien to have nothing to do with his son, Aiden...........she was jealous of Aiden too...............I can see her not liking me, and that is fine, she can say all she wants about me, but NOT MY SON!! you don't take your anger or frustration nor your jealousy out on an innocent kid...........so if she does come, I hope that she will not mouth off to me, I don't think I will be able to control myself.....LOL............but I certainly don't want her to have an attitude towards Aiden.......We will see though.

I found a site that offers drop down menus, so it takes up less room, of course I only found one that offers 10 links, but still its a lot easier, when I want to change the background of blogger, I don't have to add all those links in, just re copy the code that I have saved.

Well off to watch Dog the bounty hunter and hope my pain pills take effect soon.

Last Snow of the.......Season?

Well Friday we got a ton of ice that fell, then Saturday morning it started to snow finally, but stopped early afternoon, so we decided to go sledding..........this is AJ, my dad (papa) and Aiden getting ready to slide down the hill........Aiden loved it........he could not get enough. I think it was too much fun for AJ though, he was sick since Thursday, but seemed to be feeling better Saturday but after we got home from sledding, he got sick again...........but luckily he is feeling better now. I had called to see what time the hair care place closed today to get his AJs hair cut and they said 6, so it was about 5:20 so I told dad to hurry and get there, they said they were not busy...........so they got there and the lady tried telling dad some guy was ahead of AJ and that they were closing soon, so they could not do his hair, even though there were two people working.........so my dad told them it was only 5: 40 of course they spent time arguing with him.......and he argued back, saying they had plenty of time to cut his hair..........so they did, but did a really crappy job of it.............his back is very uneven, and so is the top, he said to buzz it on the sides and back, but leave the top just a bit longer............well they didn't and didn't even shave his "sideburns" they are not even cut, stupid idiots!!! I will be calling tomorrow to have someone do it RIGHT!!!!

well out of order here, but a finally got a good shot with AJ, this was in February when we had company over for dinner and games.

A tree full of ice

Aiden kept walking back up the hill and sliding down on his belly, he would do this over and over, and was having so much fun. LOL I went down too, and man I paid for it later that night.......I was in some serious hurting time last night. My everything hurt.

I finally finished the tulip flower pot., and my mother quickly overtook me to snagged them. LOL

Winter Wonderland and WIPs

Well the week went ok, but Thursday morning, AJ woke up for school and he spent all morning in the bathroom vomiting and "stuff" so he stayed home, and spent most of it in the bathroom, he did manage to get out of there long enough to go lay down, and literally spent the whole day in bed...........he went from being so pale, to later that evening, turning bright red with a high fever.............This morning he was fever free, but still pale and icky, and weak......but was able to hold down soup and jello. We will try for more solid food tomorrow. So far Aiden is well, with just a few sneezes here and there.

We are having a winter storm................yep, first part of Spring, and I finally get my snow...........but so far only solid ice has been falling, all day and night............with a few breaks.............very cold, and the lights have flashed a couple of times tonight, and I am really hoping we don't lose power. We have our flashlights ready just in case. The snowfall is suppose to start anytime, but they have been saying that since Friday afternoon. LOL

So I spent today working on some WIPS that have been sadly neglected for some time. picture above is a birds nest with some eggs, haven't done the birds, and the only thing I needed to finish with it, was stuff the eggs and sew them shut...........I also sewed them in the nest too to keep them from falling out.

I also finally did the flower pot.........I had the dirt done for awhile, but could not find that color for the pot.......I finally did find it a few months back, but never worked on it after that..........but today I did, you can see the stuffing in the dirt, that will come out once the flowers are done and then the stems will go in there. It was easier to stuff them as I sewed the dirt top to the dirt sides. LOL I will work on the tulips tomorrow............

I have been working on a stuffed grandpa for a friend online, and I got his legs done and his body, chest and neck, but he was a pain.......as is his head which is done, but the facial features are not..........I took a break from him though, I did finish his socks this morning, and packed him away in the "WIPS" tote. LOL

I am up late, wow 3:30.............the boys and I watched Lost in Space earlier Friday night.......that was good...............I even put my crochet away to watch the movie. I guess I should go to bed and listen for any news update, I am hoping to wake up to find lots of snow on the ground!!! I am ready for this snowstorm, then will be happy to follow Spring!

Busy Sunday

What a busy day.........Yesterday was somewhat of a busy day, AJ had his soccer game and I got sunburned watching him play.......just on my right side! LOL Anyway afterwards, we came home made lunch, and cleaned up the dining room a bit, and relaxed, but decided to invite a friend over for a BBQ, made chicken tenders, hot dogs and hamburgers with macaroni salad. Today I decided to go outside and let Aiden play, it was really windy, but warm, and after awhile, I decided to get some cleaning outside done, sweeping and raking, we have this awful tree in front that has these ugly stupid brown buds that fall from it..........I hate seeing them laying around.......I had to wait for my father to get home to help bag up the leaves. You can see my little helper out there, who decided he wanted to help his mommy.......his shirt today? "Mommy's lil helper" LOL

Aiden sweeping the porch.

My father finally raking up the leftover leaves that had been sitting in that play truck forever.......I had swept them all out.

Here is the Pokemon charizard that I am doing for AJ, of course he pointed out that I hadn't done the yellow belly.......ugh!! LOL

OMG It's Friday Now!!!

Well these are my handsome boys, and Aiden got his hair cut yesterday....he looks so handsome. He cried, but he didn't move and let her cut his hair, and I think he looks very handsome.........have I said that before? LOL Anyway we had some friends over yesterday for lunch, and then off to Wally World we went........so all in all a fairly good day. I had a headache all night and then this morning too, but finally this afternoon I managed to get rid of it.

I also took this of Aiden tonight........he was being so cute and snuggly..........so I snapped this with my phone. We had to run to get my moms medicine today and had lunch, and had a pretty good day..........We might be getting some rain this weekend, and AJ has a soccer game tomorrow afternoon.

I did this Mermaid last night, and finished her hair today.........pictures come out better when I take them outside in the natural light. I love this Mermaid and don't want to part with her, but she will be going to someone soon. I am thinking of adding some extras to her fin. Not sure yet.

Dragonflies Dragonflies

Ok I finally have some better pictures.......I took these with camera outside on the porch, this blue one was the second version. It came out perfect with the pattern, so I did not come across any mistakes.

This pink one was the very first one I did, and really it's so much like the first one, that it was a lot easier designing this one. I am making these in black too for a wish for someone.

Ok this is a really crappy picture with my phone, I think its just the lighting, will take a better one tomorrow, and my camera battery is dead...but anyway I got into another design mood, actually when I first designed the, "Two Dragonflies" square, I had two others in mind, this one and another one that has only just begun. LOL Anyway this one is called, "Dragonflies Around" and AJ helped me come up with that name.

Busy weekend, today was a very nice day, instead of doing laundry, I took the boys to lunch, and then we headed off to Exploration place, where they have a Whale exhibit....which was awesome!! they had skeletons that were huge, these things don't look that big when you see them on tv swimming in the ocean..........anyway we looked around at the other exhibits and then watched a short "finding nemo" type of cartoon in the Cyberdome..........Aiden really liked that, when the light was light enough for me to see his face, it was just lit up and smiling looking at the huge dome. Anyway I really enjoyed this exhibit as I have always loved the ocean and stuff I got some great shots!! of the boys and I anyway they would not allow us to take pictures in the exhibit.

This was actually after we left, and we were in Wal-Mart parking lot.

This is the Indian statue we have close to Exploration place, so we went here and this bridge reminded me of the one in San Fransico. it was really pretty there.

This is AJ and Aiden sitting on the rocks.

This was the boys waiting to see the Movie in the Cyber Dome.