Thank Goodness Its Friday!

I am so glad today is Friday. Tomorrow is Pilly's birthday party, and we are all looking forward to that. Lynn ended up going back to her parents' tonight so she wasn't here to help with cupcakes. That actually worked out alright because I realized that the wafer cookies probably would have gotten soggy if I had made them tonight. So I will have quite a bit to do tomorrow morning. It also worked out alright because I just finished work and it is 9:40. I was supposed to train on another account, but it was just too much on top of my regular work today. Since the party is this weekend and Sunday is our Sunday School Superbowl party, I knew I wouldn't have time. Thankfully, they were willing to let someone else do the work!

I need to admit something. I would have finished 15 minutes earlier if it were not for YouTube. I spent 15 minutes watching the Gummybar Song. Hilarious! My favorite language for it was Swedish. Cracks me up. I am listening to it again. If you need a laugh, you should check it out! I'll have to show it to the girls tomorrow! My favorite is the Swedish version. He has a website:)



This child has mastered taking her diaper off...while she is wearing pants. I do not know what she does! She started fussing and Joel picked her up and her pants were all wet and her diaper was down around her ankle. What a squirt. Look at those eyelashes.



I just like this picture and wanted to put it on here. I think she looks pretty:)

My mom came over to tackle the curtain issue, and she decided that the curves were not quite curvy enough so the binding will not lay flat. She took one panel with her and is making a new, curvier pattern. My mom is awesome! My poor dad. He is going to get a complex reading about how great she is. I guess if he had rushed right over to put the wire on top of the chimney, maybe he could get some blog-love too. He shouldn't have even delayed after reading of that!

Well, it is almost time for The Soup so I need to go get my snack!

The Curtains are Driving Me Crazy!

I have an announcement: I do not know how to use binding on a scallop. I can't make it go smoothly around the curves. So tomorrow when my mom comes over for what she thinks is going to be a half-hour visit, I am really going to kidnap her and chain her to my sewing machine. While I do my work, she can sew all of the curtains for me. I think they are going to be really cute, but they are driving me crazy! I'm really glad we put only three curves on them instead of seven!

I want to make the girls these love note pillows for Valentine's Day, but I need to get some fabric. I have quite a few projects in mind. I told my mom today that I like quick projects so that I can get results. That is why I like laundry and vacuuming and sewing stockings and baby doll quilts. I get my results quickly. I am not sure if I could do a quilt for the girls' beds. I have two different patterns in mind for them, but they could be 52 before they are ever finished!

I have decided that Pilly is going to have horse cupcakes for Saturday instead of dogs. They are a little bit easier (and cheaper), and since this is my first time trying this, I wanted to pick something not quite as hard! Poor Pilly, we don't really even have any decorations or anything. At least, she probably won't remember it! We will have to make sure we take pictures...

I am freezing so I think I will go sit on top of the register with a blanket now. Have a good night!

Snow day!

Tonight will just be a short update as this is Lost night!! What did we do without it?

Joel stayed home today since it snowed so much and then got all icy on top. It rained all day and everything is now just coated with ice. Yuckity yuck yuck. I keep reminding God that I think Hawaii would be nice... Anyways, the girls and I liked having him home for today. He made supper and funnel cakes at lunchtime!

I got the girls curtains ironed and the scallops cut out. I am going kind of slow because I do not want to mess these up! I do not have extra fabric!

Friday night, my friend Carolyn and I are going to decorate Lily's cupcakes. Carolyn doesn't know it yet. But she will because she is sweet. Plus, she is better at attention to detail and that kind of stuff so hers will probably look way nicer. Maybe I will assemble parts and she can ice them. I have a really neat cupcake book and we hopefully are going to try one of them. Probably a puppy dog but possibly a penguin. The penguins are very ambitious!

I need to get my snack set up and be all ready as I only have 12 minutes left. Hope everyone is having a wonderful night!

Awesome giveaway

There is an awesome giveaway going on here.

My Climber

My goodness, it is 9:25, and I just finished working. I need to stop goofing off in the afternoon...actually there was quite a bit to do today. I want my evenings back! This will not be an option tomorrow night as Lost comes on at 9:00. :)

I wanted to share with you all Pilly's new skill. It thrills me to my bones. Or shakes me to them.



Yesterday, she demonstrated that she could now climb up on the kitchen chairs. Lovely.



Today, she added climbing onto the table from the chair to her repertoire. Wonderful.



Then her sister joined her and added to the naughtiness.

Pilly is funny because she is desperate to climb the chair. If I push it under the table, she will either push it out and climb it or try to (the much funnier option) climb it while it is under the table and get her head stuck between the back of the chair and the table and refuse to get down even though that would get her un-stuck. Sadly, she did fall off of the chair today. I was not quick enough. However, that fall taught her nothing as five minutes later she was back at it and I had to put the chair on top of the table. She then tried to climb into her high chair (which is a baby chair attached to a chair), but alas, she was too short. She keeps me hopping!

I did Tae-Bo today, and wow, it was tiring. It was pretty fun, but it really keeps you moving. I did it for 20 minutes. I can't imagine what would have happened if I had done the whole 45 minutes. I probably would have fallen asleep on my feet. But I like it so I think I will add it into the routine with my Pilates.

I want to get working on these curtains so I am off!

Correction

I was hoping to be able to work on the girls' curtains tonight, but again, that was put on hold. I had to work a little bit tonight. And then I got caught up in the Bloggy Giveaways. There are over 700 entries. I didn't make it very far. It was overwhelming. But I entered some that looked interesting.

Today was cleaning day again, but it went better this week because Pilly actually took her nap. I also learned today that she can climb up on the kitchen chairs. Not good. She turned one a little over a week ago. She also today for the first time was singing the alphabet song. She didn't really pronounce the letters very well, but she had the tune going. We have a Leapfrog Magnet Set that sings it and she just pushes the button over and over.

Speaking of pushing buttons, I am ready for Spring to come so Pnut can get outside and burn some energy and stop pushing mine! That child asks so many questions and does crazy things because she is just bored and wants to run around. If it would get a little warmer, I would take them out, but it is not fair for Pilly who isn't quite as stable on her feet and falls down on the cold ground.

My mom pointed out that I had put the wrong amount of soy sauce in my french dip subs recipe, so I changed it to 1/2 cup...not 1.2 cups!! Sorry if anyone made it the wrong way. It was probably really salty!

I hope you all had a great start to your week!

Bird Hole Still Open

Our friend Andy was supposed to come today and help Joel take care of the chimney. However, his wife called this morning to tell us he had been throwing up all night. So I called my mom tonight to find out if my dad could come tomorrow to help. He went back to where I grew up to go snowmobiling. Obviously, he does not care if I am eaten alive by birds. He should have just read that post Friday morning and called off of work to come over here and take care of it. Actually, my mom said that his ladder is too long to put on the back of his truck so we are going to have to wait for Andy to get better. I hope no more birds make an appearance in the meantime. Don't worry, when the trauma fades from my mind, I will stop posting about this:)

We had a nice, relaxing day today. This is the first time since two weekends before Christmas that we didn't have plans on the weekend. We enjoyed our day together and are looking forward to tomorrow. I hope to work on the girls' curtains tomorrow, but I'll be honest with you. The Pink Panther is on TV tomorrow night and I haven't seen the end of it yet. I thought it was hilarious when I was watching.

I hope that you all have a great rest of the weekend!

Oh, one more thing...I will be the featured person on Lolly's Sunday Recipe tomorrow. However, you all have the recipe already because I am doing the Double Chocolate Gooey Butter Cake.