What we've been up to

Well I sure have been a slacker when it comes to blogging. We are starting the busy time of year and I have realized that I will not be home as much and out with the kids more often, which is a good thing. The weather for this week looks really great and I am looking forward to being outside with the kids going to parks, playing on our swing set, and going for walks!
We had a great time on our camping trip, the weather was really nice the first 2 days and a little windy and rainy the last day, but we managed to stay warm and dry thanks to the camper Matt's parents let us use! Thanks again Chris and Kerry. We had a great time with family and enjoyed just relaxing and doing nothing. Parker loved playing in the dirt, swimming in the warm spring with the fishes and going fishing. He said he wanted to stay there forever. The only thing he discovered that he didn't "love" about camping was the outhouse. He was afraid he was going to fall in and let's face it the outhouse was a little scary!! Paige on the other hand stayed in my lap the entire weekend. She didn't like the dirt or the other people that wanted to hold her. I was glad to get home and let her be free and give my arm a break. She has been busy going going going since we got home. I was beginning to wonder if she still remembered how to walk while we were camping.

So the project that I just completed I had started with the intention of using on our camping trip and boy did it come in handy. Matt seems to always get holes in his jeans so quickly and I started a pile of jeans for a denim quilt. Well thinking about our upcoming camping trip I thought it was a good time to put the used jeans to a new use and make a quilt. So I spent a couple of days cutting up the legs of the jeans and about a week cutting blocks. Then my mom helped me one afternoon sew the blocks into strips. Then it took another day to sew the strips together and to tie the quilt together. Then my wonderful mom sewed the binding on and we were finished with about 1 week to spare before the trip. I was pretty happy with the way it turned out and am excited to have it for all of our future camping trips, reunions, picnics and other events.

Busy Busy Busy

So I haven't disappeared, just been really busy. We have been working in our yard trying to repair damages done from cutting down 2 humungous trees last fall, and trying to get our garden spot ready. On top of all that I have been working on a project that I will post about later and we are going camping this weekend so we have been really busy. Hopefully I will have a spare minute sometime this week before we leave to post some pictures.

Arggggggg!

No I am not a pirate, but very frustrated! Matt started mowing lawns again a few weeks ago (He has a side job of mowing residential and some business lawns) and I am excited that he has something to keep him busy and make a little extra money. But today wasn't one of those days!! While he was trimming a lawn here in town an elderly lady in a mini van drove by just as a rock flipped up from the trimmer and shattered her sliding door window!! What horrible luck! He told her he would do what he could to help out with the costs, well it ends up being $340!! What the *@*#!!! Don't people have insurance for things like that! I was pretty upset, because when a semi flips a rock on you and breaks your windshield you don't go chasing them down to get them to pay for it. Your insurance pays for it. Well whatever, Matt talked to a guy that sells insurance and said that if they turn it into their insurance more than likely the insurance company will come back after us to pay for the cost of processing the claim and the cost of the repair. So it looks like we are going to have to pull the money from off of our money tree and pay the bill. I am sure that the older couple has more money than we do, for sure now they do. I can say that we (Matt) is looking into contractors liability so that if something else like that happens, or worse, we will be covered. What a crappy day, and to top it off I have horrible allergies and can hardly breathe thru my stuffed up nose. Why do bad things happen to good people!!