Aug 31, 2010

Aug 30, 2010

Such creative play with these two boys. I love their imaginations.

Aug 29, 2010

Jonas caught this tomato worm and he was showing g-dad how it made a cocoon. He is so in to his creatures.

Aug 28, 2010

The new look. I love it!!!

Aug 27, 2010

Aug 26, 2010

Happy 30th Birthday Tamara!!!!!!

Aug 25, 2010

Jake and Jonas came over today to help make "moms" birthday cake for tomorrow.

Aug 24, 2010

Aug 23, 2010

Had to make another trip to Albuquerque to the doctor. Nope didn't find anything out, but gotta go back on Friday to see doctor #7. The good thing about it is that we have found a great burger joint. Five Guys Burgers. I hear that it is rated on zagat higher than In and Out. It was yummy!!

Aug 22, 2010

Pizza night at the Popes.

Aug 21, 2010

Jonas made his way to the top of the dinning room table to snitch some brownies.

Yummy!

Aug 20, 2010

Okay we are almost done with the remolding. As you can see there is still a big box there, and as much as I want it to be gone there seems to be now way to get rid of it. It is covering up the air intake for the fireplace. Next week we are suppose to have tile laid on the top of it along with redoing the tile on the fireplace harth.

Aug 19, 2010

8 months old and Jeremiah is crawling and pulling up. Look out world here he comes!

Aug 18, 2010

Aug 17, 2010

I know you can't hear it, but the tractor plays music and Amaya was dancing to it. Just in her own little world.

Aug 16, 2010

Seems there is always one more "honey do" that I can find for Bruce, but he knows it is better he do it than the extra holes in the wall cause I can't get it level the first 5 times.

Aug 16, 2010

Now this is the look I was going for. It apprears that the windows are taller than they really are.

Aug. 15, 2010

I know this looks like just another piece of land down by the reservior, but the plot that is cleared out and leveled will soon be full of solar panels. Bruce spent what seems to me to be an eternity apply for a grant for them. He received the grant and it is in the progress. There will be 1500 solar panels that will run one of the pumps that fills this reservoir.

Aug 14, 2010

We have been doing some remolding as you have seen in a few of the past pictures. Well that required some painting, and you know me, I just couldn't paint the one area to match the rest, so I ended up paint the dinning room, the kitchen and the nook (and that dreaded nook ceiling). I think it was worth it though. Oh and all I really needed to paint is the area where we took out the entertainment center. Now all the walls, living, dinning and kitchen are the same tanish color and the nook is a chocolate brown.

Aug 13, 2010

We got 1/4 inch of rain tonight and this was the most beautiful rainbow, actually a double one. The picture really doesn't do it justice.

Aug 12, 2010

Fam night at Schlotsky's, the boys love having a high top table to themselves.

Aug 11, 2010

Jeremiah had such a rough night at church and he finally gave it up.

Poor baby

Wow a big day for Jake today. He started 1st grade at Military Heights Elem. School. Hope it's a great year for you Jake, we will be praying for you each and every day.

Aug 10, 2010

One side out and almost ready to paint, the other side almost out. The bottom portion of this side will not be able to come out because that is where the return air is for the fireplace. Looking different, what do you think?

Aug 9, 2010

Yes, a strange picture, I know, but hear me out.
This weekend while in Ruidoso we went to a new place called Papa Bear's Cupcake Empuriom, don't be impressed. We purchased 6 cupcakes from 2 very uninterested teenages that prally had to work there cause mom said so. If you wanted to know anything about the cupcakes you had to read it on a board cause they sure weren't gonna give you any info.
Now maybe I have been watching way too much Food Network, but my cupcakes look better than these. No WOW factor to them at all. So maybe it will be in the taste. WRONG!
As you can see we decided to divide them amoug the six of us and share the taste of each one. you have going from the top right down and then the middle. Cookies and Cream, which was dry and not very tasteful at all, now Bruce did like the frosting, next is the strawberry cupcake, okay if you are gonna do gourmet cupcakes, make them from scratch, this was for sure a box mix, carrot cupcakes, it was okay, but nothing to write home about and not much to write in the blog about, red velvet, was very dry and why do you put little choc chips on top, go figure, the lemon one was about the best and was actually swirled on frosting not just smeared on. The choc. canache was Jared and Jason's favorite, but I wish I had given my to them cause it didn't pass either. So sorry, but not the place to visit it you want a good, fancy, greeted with a smile cupcake shop.
I love to bake, love to decorate my cakes and cupcakes, so I would put mine against their's anytime.
Heed my waring. hehehe!

From Wed to Sunday afternoon we went up to the cabin for family camp. It was an awesome time. The preaching was outstanding and to the heart. The kids loved playing inside and out and just say they wanna live there. We had fun playing hand and foot with Patty and Randy, wow so awesome to see them. Oh yeah Patty and I won.
I know I have put way more than A picture of the day, but tell me, could you pick just one.

Aug 8, 2010

Jason and Jared took the boys to the creek and man did they have a great time.

Aug 7, 2010

Remeber boys will be boys, no matter what age, and that means they have to wrestle sometimes, or all the times.

Aug 6, 2010

This weekend Virgil was honored at the Nazarene Family camp for his many years of services. He has his handprints on many a thing at the campgrounds. That man is a hard worker.

Aug 5, 2010

Just a couple of first for Jer this week. His first apple and he loved it and then his first cracker and he wasn't too sure of it, but this food stuff grows on you.

Aug 4, 2010

The beginging of a new look. Will keep you posted as it comes along. Yep it's coming out.