Official Bag Lady?

Bag's, I have bags!!!

In cleaning the closet this past weekend I realized that I have way more than my share of bags. Bags of all colors, shapes, sizes, with and without wheels. The most interesting find were the bags from a local women's conference I've attended a few times and the ones from the organization I belong to (PRIMR/ARENA) for work, and thank goodness they didn't get on the bag bandwagon for many of the years I attended their conferences.

The women's conference is an amazing event who has had such speakers as: Ann Richards, Suze Orman, Dr. Phil, Soledad O'Brien, Mary Lou Retton, Linda Ellerbee, Bill Geist, Linda Evans, Nancy Brinker and Doris Christopher.

Anyway, these are now on the top shelf of my walk in closet in a laundry basket until I figure out what the heck to do with them.

Junk vs Stuff

This is just one wall of our 2 car garage at the new house. OMG, yes it needs work, lots of it. I hope this Labor Day weekend to do some laboring at home and get this and the inside of the house better than it is now. Just saying.....

Anyway I'll be back with more pics of the progress.

Introducing Skyler Andrew-Our third grandson

He has been here almost a month and I have yet to blog about him. He is Skyler Andrew born at 10:46am, August 4th, 2010. He was 6lbs 13oz and we are all in love with him. His brothers Tanner (4) and Bryce (7) love him to bits. This was our first look at him as the boys were with me (their Nina) at our house in St Joseph when he was born and we knew within a couple minutes as daddy made the phonecall that morning telling of his arrival, but we wanted to "see" him. Finally this picture came thru, and I showed the boys, but it wasn't a reality for them until they got to actually lay eyes on him in mom's hospital room in this cribette and then hold him. Welcome to the world Baby Skyler!

Family

Life is about family for us....we just don't get to enjoy them enough these days. Soon the family will be expanding as our grand-darlings get a baby brother. Our Emily is having another boy in August and we could not be happier, even if we were wishing for a little pink this time. Our boys Tanner (almost 4) and Bryce (almost 7) on our back deck the night before their Missouri vacation. Emily in late May wondering how big this boy will be.

Cobwebs and bunnies

Kinda out of order, but bear with me. I could not be happier with the way the front porch looks, but it still needs power washed at some point. Right now we're fighting the march of the ants and have some good stuff out there to kill them. They are just DISGUSTING! I love my garage sale chair and planter and my beauty had three blooms on it today. The reflection of the door shows you the side of garage as you come up the walk.

I was fast trying to be late for work the other morning when I went out the front door to get the paper and looked out at the fog and saw this amazing web on the light poll. I went back in the grabbed the camera and headed out and I'm sure my husband wondered what the heck was going on. No set up from me on this shot, it's all natural, as it was one juicy morning. Appropriate I'd say....since we are the ADAMS FAMILY!

We have PETS! Baby bunnies in the front yard. I noticed what I thought was a nest last week and mowed around it and sure enough tonight I pulled back the dry grass and fur and this is what I found.

Pauline Goes to Kenya; March 2010

My friend from work Pauline Mbuvi is from Kenya and returned there in March 2010 and visited family and friends. She visited this school that is near and dear to her heart and handed out pencils to the children.

The MONEY PIT

We moved to our new house November 17, 2009 and since then we've been working on getting the Urbana (AKA the Vermont House) ready to sell. As of today it has all new windows, fresh paint inside, a new bathroom downstairs and many other things. The kitchen got a complete overhaul with new wood flooring, new sink and faucet, new stove and refridgerator, new backsplash, and we threw in a new microwave for the new owner we hope to have one day.