Cookies

We devoted yesterday to baking cookies... Chocolate chip, M&M, Reese's Pieces, and of course Sugar cookies..mmmmm

I stopped counting after 18 dozen.. yep! that's a whole lot of cookies! We made most to give away as gifts! The boys & Callie helped.. Well Callie liked eating the dough!

Happy year and half Callie Alyssa

Today is Callie's 18mth birthday! I can't believe she is a year and half already!! Where o where did my baby go?? Today we celebrated by doing errands.. oh JOY!! I left the house this morning at 8 came back around 1ish for Callie to nap and then off again.. we came back in for the night around 4ish.. What a long day

and of course I had to have a "photo shoot"

5 weeks of sewer misery!!!!

Where should I begin with this novel... the part where Owen flushed part of the toilet brush down the toilet about 8 wks. ago or where Jason hit a sewer cap with the mower about 6 wks. ago??

How about I fast forward to only 5 wks. ago, It was a Saturday and I was scheduled to be at an all day conference for church when the girl who staying in our basement comes up and says her toilet is bubbling... OH BOY!! There went my Saturday and Jason was heading to the local rental center to rent a plumbing snake... he thinks he gets it after several hours and we return the snake...

The following Friday night Jason noticed it was bubbling up outside when he pulled up from work.. so off to the rental store first thing Saturday morning.. Ah he gets it.. so he thinks!

The 3rd week I notice it when leaving for a hair appointment.. So not a way to start a beautiful Tues. morning... this time we call in the experts and Ray's Plumbing comes out for 10 min. max and says that should do it flowing nicely.. What??!!

The 4th week I noticed it again... this time while taking Carter out to the bus.. it was pouring out of the vent pipe near the street...So I called Ray's again and they came out and this time he told me it was more than what he could do and said I needed to contact my local sewer authority.. Now we are talking! Someone else is liable for all this mess.

The 5th week... Mon Morning (12.8)E.Cocalico water & sewer Auth. came out and ran a camera through the pipes. they were here looking for quite sometime but never came to the door to let me know anything and then they left.. no news is good news right?? WRONG!!!
Tues. Morning(12.10) The Water & Sewer dude calls me to explain that something of a circular shape with a bolt or screw is lodged in our piping 4 ft. away from the vent pipe( which puts it right under our sidewalk)... and he tells me that we are probably going to have to excavate to correct the problem.. my heart sank and all I could think of is "How are we gonna pay for this" . After he said excavate I zoned out. although I did hear him say that he has to give me the official notice, which will be mailed today or early morning, stating that I will be held responsible in getting this problem corrected and I have 30 days to do so.... I just wept!!!

Then this afternoon I called Ray,they seem to think they can push it out to a larger pipe and we will be OK without excavating.So someone came out, done their work and left in close to an hour. He said he feels confident that he pushed it through as the 1st time he went in he was met with resistance and the 2nd time he was not.. I still requested that someone come out with another one of those cameras and check... the Township is requiring that we submit what we done to resolve the problem!! I am praying that Shannon (the guy from Ray's) got out the LID FROM THE SEWER PIPE!!!! yes the object in question seems to be that dang thing that Jason knocked in!!!

Here's to unclogged pipes!

Hurray!!

We scored today!! we got a big T.V... 42" can't wait to see it up! I got a new camera(Merry Christmas to me), a new vacuum(how boring) the kids toys, slippers, a thermos for Jason, a flashlight for my dad, towels for a niece, uuugggggg what else.. With today's shopping I am just about complete with my Christmas list.. YAY!!

shopping here we come!!

Tomorrow morning Jason and I are battling the crowds and going black friday shopping! Are we nuts?? ABSOLUTELY!! Jason plans on waking me up at 4 in the freakin morning and leaving here shortly there after.. I will report back after our affair...

A time for Thanks giving

It's not only a holiday but something we should do every single day! Give thanks to our Lord God for everything great that He does for us!! AMEN! It's so important to remember where the good stuff comes from... as a family we sit down every night and talk of the blessings that we have received from God that day.. I will admit that some days(the stressful ones) is hard to find a blessing but there is always, always a blessing to be found!

So today we celebrated with my family(no drama) and gave thanks for all the wonderful blessings in our lives.. stable work in a crappy economy, family, health, love, wonderful parents(thanks Owen)good food(thanks Jason for pulling everything together) and most important we give thanks to God because without Him where would we be???

Christmas before Thanksgiving?? What!

So I stepped out of my norm and took Callie to see Santa before Thanksgiving.. I just couldn't resist.. although Callie could have done without sitting on his lap! But she did make a really cute pouty face..

Then to make is seem closer to Christmas that it really is... mother nature teased up with some snow! The boys were very excited by this.. Jason was not(he has to work in it).. and of course I just had to bundle the kids up to play in the light dusting that we got..

I've been tagged....

Becky got me so here is my photo...
Callie Alyssa in her "little house on the prairie" dress


Here is the rules:::

1. Look in your "My Pictures" file on your computer.
2. Find the fourth picture in the fourth album/folder.
3. Post the picture and tag 4 others.

I tag.......
Angel & Summer (sadly I do not have 2 other blogger friends to tag)

Trick or Treat

Lastnight was Halloween and we went door to door in a near by development. There was a lot of kids out and about... I wish would have had more time but we had a late start and we had to scoot to the church party!! The kids got lots of candy and had a great time with everyone!

...:::Me & Callie:::...


...:::Peggy & Callie:::...


...:::Callie & Scotty:::...
((He wanted her nuk))


...:::Me, Callie, Be, Peggy, Lacey, Cailan, Scotty, Carter & Owen:::...


...:::My 3 ghouls:::...
Spiderman...Carter ::: Witch... Callie ::: Ninjaboy... Owen

just a trim

I have been noticing that Callie's bangs are getting long wispy ends that are starting to get in her eyes. I try to side sweep her hair to keep it out but her hair is so silky that it doesn't stay over. So I try bows.. HA!! You would think that she would leave those things in since she has had something in her hair since birth.. PLEASE.. The moment I'm not looking she yanks it out.. hair and all!!
So I decided that she needed just a tiny trim of her bangs.. Good Grief what am I about to do, I asked myself.. Was it not just this week that I messed up Owen's hair due to wormy pants and now I am actually gonna attempt to trim ms.antsy pantsy's bangs!!
I started with a good bath! Let her play a Lil and then my plan was to cut them just before I got her out so I wouldn't have Lil red hairs everywhere. Oh my gosh!! that slippery Lil worm would barely let me comb her hair. So after I was done with her bath I wrapped her up in the towel and sat her down on my bathroom counter.. where she had way too much stuff to get at!
Luckily enough when I got her hair combed just right(after she was done trying to comb it) she held really still while I snipped every so gently.. maybe she was hold still because I was squeezing her cheeks. Well whatever the reason she held still!!

this one really isn't a good BEFORE pic but I adore it...




AFTER..