God Bless the USA

We had FHE last night. The theme was America. We sang America the Beautiful, read stories that remind us of why this country is so great and talked about the freedoms we are thankful for.

I'm a pretty patriotic person. You can tell by the way my house is decorated :) I love our country and I love our military. I am so thankful to live in this wonderful place. As we get close to the 4th of July, I find myself thinking even more about the United States and what it means to me. We should all be so grateful to have so many options available to us. There are many people in this world that don't have what we have. We truly are blessed to live in this great nation. I'm so thankful for the members of the military and their families, both past and present. They make so many sacrifices for us. If not for the sacrifices of the brave people in the military, this country wouldn't be what it is today. Thank You!

Monday Again

Ken was a good sport today. I worked an eleven hour day today and he took the kids swimming and to the activity at Thanksgiving Point. I think the kids had a pretty good day. They got all their chores done so they can earn their next Silly-Dilly Day Camp. I'm surprising them with t-shirts this time. They're simple shirts done with iron-on transfers, but I think they'll like them. The Silly-Dilly Day Camp theme this week is The Wonderful World of Art.

Saturday we had a great activity at the arts center. We had a fabulous turn-out and lots of volunteer help. Hopefully next Saturday goes as smoothly. We're doing face painting at the Freedom Festival to promote it.

My Crazy House

I live in a pretty crazy house. I'm very thankful to be living in a house, and not an apartment. My landlord is great and fixes what needs to be done, but still. It's pretty bad sometimes. Today he told me he had seen evidence of raccoons living in my attic. If I find one in my house, I'll die.

There was a bird in my basement this morning... yes... a bird. I was so glad Ken was here. If that stupid bird was down there while he wasn't around, I would've panicked. (As you can tell by the video, the girls and I panicked even with him doing the catching.)

The video isn't great, but I couldn't snap pictures because it was flying too fast. Here are more pics of crazy things in my house over the last few months, for those of you that never saw my myspace page.

This was the water that came out of my faucets when I first moved in. Big surprise, I took it to the health dept. and it wasn't safe to drink.

This was the first snake I found in my bedroom in December. The pic was taken with my cell phone and came out small. I had to catch him myself. It was horrible.

This is my "Ghost" pic. The pics taken just before and just after don't show anything.

This was the second snake in my bedroom. Thank goodness Ken was visiting. This was the day after we got married. We had been up and down the stairs all day, and then one time I headed down the stairs and there he was. Yikes!

We've also had spiders like crazy, but happy day, they sprayed and we haven't seen any since.

Ken

So... Ken's finally coming to visit tonight. He left Carson City about 8:30 pm my time. Which means he'll get here at like 4:30 in the morning. He'll be staying for about a week. It'll be really nice to have him home, even if I have to work every day. I'm glad he'll be here on the 4th of July so I don't have to spend it alone.

My Yo-Yo Quilt

I've been working on my yo-yo quilt forever (or so it seems). I started it last April, then put it away for months and found it again in January. I've been workin' on it off and on since then. I'm probably about a third to half-way done with it. It's a lot of work. It's the longest crafty project I've ever worked on. I don't usually have the patience for really long projects. If you've never seen a yo-yo quilt before (I've never seen one in real-life besides my own) you make a million...lol... not quite a million but it seems that way, little yo-yos and sew them all together to make a bedspread. I'm making mine to be a twin size. I have an antique bed that my great-grandpa made, Caleb sleeps on it now, but some day I want to have it in a guest bedroom and put the yo-yo quilt on it. (I'm scared to put it on a bed that gets used all the time. It took too much work.) The whole thing is done in blues. None of the patterns or colors match. They're all just blues. I think it's really awesome. It'll be gorgeous when it's done.