OK, I have been trying for a while now to blog but my blog is acting kind of funny (I know, we all know its me) so this is going to be a weird post ,so sorry, please be patient.....

This is Ellie's Christmas present from Santa. Horseback riding lessons. And you can tell from the pictures she was extremely happy!!!


After all her emergencys around here, my family wasn't too happy about her riding but thats my girl!!!!

And Miss Ellie got a zebra print shirt......wooo hooo

Rich first thing Christmas morning TRYING to open a Barbie box....

Ahh....Lane has wanted his very own animal towel well he finally got one!!! It is a monster....fitting huh???

Oh and Rich got me a Orange Peel gift card and they put it in one the cups that they actually serve drinks in I HAD to take a picture with my new lense I got for Christmas (Lensbaby,check them out)

Lisa with an Aeropostale sweatshirt. man this girl is happy with ANYTHING from this store.

And once again Alan got skinny jeans.

Here is where I couldn't post this correctly......I wanted to show this first but......

this is the kids making out their list for Christmas....

I happened to have a few Target booklets and I thought I would let them circle a "couple" of things they wanted well..........who do you think wanted EVERYTHING in the book

you know who I am talking about................no other than Lane ;)










Look how serious he is as he circles EVERYTHING

Alan had to re-write his a few times.....

Oh and Rich..........using his phone to add up everything.........at least he has a smile on his face. Usually this time of year there is NO smile on his face!!!! LOL

Ellie was thrilled with just about anything to do with horses!!!










I got my computer back and running. Well, not me but a great man from church!!! So I am still trying to tweak a few things so I am going to try and see what I can do to fix my blog.

I hope everyone had a great Christmas and a wonderful New Year!!!

Much Love, Sherrie

Computer issues...

I will be back in a day or two. I had a bunches of virusus and other stuff wrong so I will be back.
I have to redownload software to get it up and running smoothly once again. But if you know me and computer "stuff" this is going to be painful......

much love,
Sherrie

See anything different....

Yup, I'm back and look at these great pictures!!!

We had some fsamily pictures taken and it was pretty fun. I was so excited to have these pictures I didn't have any with all of us.

I am not sure where to start with what we have been up to. Sooo......here we go.

We had a friend of Rich's, well and I's friend come down and they wanted to see the leaves changing so we drove them up to Yankee meadow look at this....

You don't see this in Las Vegas!!!

Alan is done with football so his week days are free.

The girls are doing GREAT in piano. Lisa memorized Cannon in D in 2 weeks and plays it fabulous!!!

This as a play day we took and went riding.

Check out Rich on this hill.

Here is Lane riding the motorcycle. He really likes the 4-wheeler but its time for him to move up so Rich was taking him for a ride too cute huh??

Andy, get kennedi ready to get Lane's 4-wheeler!!!

I love this one. Alan was watching Rich with some of his mad riding skills................LOL LOL

Here are a few shots of Alan and Rich's hunting trip. It wasn't too successful. They both got Elk tags and the day we went up Rich didn't know it was opening day for deer season.......so you can just imagine what it was like.....the poor boys. I think they are going back in a couple of weeks...

Lane with a couple of treasures and wearing Alan's old hunting boots.

Lisa coming back from taking a lap for being a little stinker....

On the last day we took a day trip and what great scenery!!! Until I tipped the Rhino.....I was DONE for the day!!!!

I have a chair I just finished but I can't find the before picture so I will post that next time.

I hope all is well with everyone.

Much love, Sherrie

I'll be back soon....

Ok, I am so sorry I haven't posted in so LONG!!! It has been crazy.....Alan in football, Lisa in choir, I've been helping Rich with "stuff" around the house. Miss Ellie with LOTS of homework and well, Lane..... We just had professional pictures taken, I can't wait to show them off!!! So, expect lots of pictures and my review of New Moon the second Twilight movie (I am so hoping it is better than the first!!)

I'll be back....
much love
Sherrie

Some more projects!!!

We have had so many projects to work on, I am having so much fun (Rich not so much...)

I bought this at Habitat for Humanity for $4.oo. I didn't get a before picture something happened to my camera and it wouldn't turn on (yes, the batterys were fine). The middle piece is wood and it was pretty tattered but look what I did to it....

I know nice huh??? If I must say so myself. ;)

This is a foot stool I bought at a yard sale for a dollar and once I started taking it apart the wood was falling apart so I just used the legs and turned it into this........it matches my chair.

Then I was at Joann's and found this material and HAD to have it but is was a little expensive and I forgot my coupon so I kept walking. But.....then I walked by the remnant cart and I found a piece that had something on it and I got it dirt cheap so I made a pillow. I like animal prints but a little goes a long way so I have just a couple of things here and there.

Here is a 1927 Bosch Radio we got off Craigslist. I have to say this is NOW my favorite!!! (for now)Here is a close up of the shabby chic I did, with the Toile material behind the speaker.

Here is the $5.00 fireplace from a yard sale. Rich painted this and I shabby chic'd it.

And I just bought that beauty of a picture above the fireplace. I have been eyeing it for a year and a half and I just happened to go back to the store and it was the last on and it was half off!!!

WHOOOO HOOOOO!!!!

I made this pillow for Ellie's room. I found these place mats at Pier one last year for a dollar each and I wasn't sure what to do with them so I made her a pillow for her bed. It matches her bed spread. Her bedspread has vintage little girl dresses on it. I am in the process of making something similar with those REALLY inexpensive valences I found at Lowes a couple of posts back. What till I post that!!!

This is the pillow on her bed....


This is a mirror I got for her room at the DI for $1.50. I painted it and now she has a mirror for her room, she was very excited!!!

We went for a little drive a few weeks ago and when we got that sideboard I got this too....

This is sitting outside my front door just waiting for visitors (hint,hint!!)

Lane's room is done in a firefighter theme so Rich brought home this old turn-out jacket and I hung it up here. He built these shelves,they are ladders and they are both sides of Lanes's room .Too cute huh? Ok so that's what we have been up to. Well, I have been helping out in Lane's class room. Taking Alan back and forth to football and his team is doing great!!! And I have been keeping Rich very busy!! (as you can tell!!) I have to, while I have him at home for a little while. But the house is looking pretty good.

We are still waiting for some visitors. I have a cozy guest room!!!

I hope you enjoyed the pictures.

Much Love, Sherrie

Look what we have been up to....

Well here I go......

Alan started football and it has been a love, hate thing. He likes it and he doesn't......he likes playing and learning new things and the kids on the team are nice but......he is missing playing with friends, boy scouts and just everyday "stuff". I feel bad for him because it is a huge commitment but we are making him a stronger young man. (I hope)

Check out that push up!!!!!He has had some grulling practices with 2 hours 5 days a week for the first 2 weeks and now 2 hours, 3 days a week and it being over a hundred!!!

This was Midnight Madness...(He's in all white on the left)

This is after Midnight Madness. Tired and hot and dirty!!!

This was ascrimmage the other day and they kicked butt....(Alan on the left again)

This was his first game Saturday..The only way I ever know who he is is by his shoes.....they don't have their jerseys yet....

I am sure the coach was telling him to hold on ,I will put you in .....Alan told me he kept asking him.....I gave him a few pointers for next time to let him play more,we'll see if it works.. ;)

Here is Alan croutched down in the middle of this picture. Does he look professional or what!!! ;)

We went camping over Labor day

Rich trying to relax before the kids realize the hammock is up...

Who do you think was the first one to discover him but.........Lane and he would NOT stop pushing Rich. So here is Rich trying to ever so nicely tell Lane to STOP pushing him.

Ok here is where the day went a little crazy............ Ellie fell in the stream.

Alan threw something at Lisa.......

Thats Lisa giving Alan a dirty look....

So then Lisa throws a stick at Alan thinking he would move down,he didn't..................

she hits him in the lip with the stick

He has swollen top lip in this picture

So Lisa gets a time out....

eww..she hates it when I take a picture when she is pouting!!! LOL

Mean while Lane won't be quiet and he gets sent over to Rich who is TRYING to make dinner.

Then there's Ellie....hmmmm taking it all in giggling because she has the hammock all by herself and doesn't have to share. All this happened in about 5 minutes.

Then there was I'm sorry.....to the wrong person but, there was an "I'm sorry"

Ellie didn't have any camping shoes so off to Walmart we went and Ellie just HAD to have these shoes. I know,not so cute,but for $9.00 she was so happy.

Too bad I didn't get a picture of before they were filthy!!!

we finally got "the chair" done this is before, before...I almost forgot to take a before picture so a bit of the material is off,opps..

This is after it is painted...This is 'Thank goodness it is done!!!"

It is going to be a while before I can get help from Rich for another project like this one ;(

I think it came out pretty good,just don't look to close ,LOL

Do you remember this.....

Now it looks like this at the end of my bed!! I love it, it didn't take me too long to get this done. But boy did my fingers hurt from taking out all that tufting.

We took a little road trip to Kanab and bought this sideboard off Craigslist. I totally forgot to take a before picture so here is the after. Rich took off the doors on the sides so I am going to put some cute baskets in the openings. What do you think? This is going to go in my craft room. I love this piece.Here is close up of it "shabby chic'd" cute huh?Well, as usually you can tell we are busy. Rich is at work the next few days recooperating!! LOL

Much love, Sherrie