Things from today...

1. Since we have a pond lots of people ask if they can fish on it. Bryan usually tells me when he has told someone they can fish.
2. The weather today was really nice.
3. Some people were ice fishing off our dock.
4. I had just cleaned all my floors and gotten rid of the mud that gets tracked in.
5. I had just cleaned the main floor bathroom.
6. I was alone and doing my own thing.
7. I hear a knock on the back door.
8.Two girls about 14 and 5 years old. "Can we use your bathroom?" Muddy boots. "Can you take your boots off, please?"
9. 5 year old comes in, 14 doesn't want to take her boots off so she stays out. 5 goes into the bathroom and is in there forever!
10. 5 comes out and wanders into the family room and says "Can I play with that little dog in here?" "No, he's shy, you better go fish."
11. I go to use the main floor bathroom and there is pee all over the floor by the toilet!! and on the toilet and well, you get the idea.
12. I cleaned the main floor bathroom again.
13. I am doing my own thing upstairs and...
14. I hear a knock on the back door.
15. Father and 9 year old son "Can he use your bathroom?" Son starts to tromp in muddy boots and all. "Can you take your boots off, please." Son heaves a huge, Kathy Kroeker type, sigh and says "Dad, help me with my boots." Dad heaves a huge sigh.
16. Son goes to the bathroom, turns on the light, leaves the door open! and proceeds to do his thing.
17. I clean the main floor bathroom again.
18. I am grumpy.
19. I am really glad I have no clue who these people are.
20. Lock the doors, go to the store, get a few groceries. (Key phrase: LOCK the doors)
21. Made Bryan a Valentine.

Three Choices...

Bryan gave me three choices for a Valentine's present:

1. A piece of jewelery from an Antique store

2. A new faucet for my downstairs bathroom (don't laugh, I seriously almost picked this one! I hate my bathroom faucets.)

3. Something to add to the doll house I am building.

I made my choice.

Tonight after work we went downtown to Timeless Treasures. 

It's the ruby one in the middle. He's a good man.

So I've been baking cookies...

I told Jayme I was only excited about Valentine's Day because it meant I could make cut out cookies and decorate them. Her comment was "Cause no one wants cookies any other time." Well, ok, but it is an excuse this week. So here they are.

My first half was strictly pink, red and white

Then I got crazy with colors...

Tried a little display for photo purposes only...

Because it kept wanting to fall over so...not going to work.

Hudson and I came out here since we had lots of time on our hands at home. He wanted to play "the pink game" so that's what he did. 

And he played with Mae and Oliver.

Today I said to him "Did you have a good speech class with (name is left out to protect myself from a law suit) yesterday?" and he says "(no name) is stupid" I about died laughing. Mainly because, he sort has a point.  Probably not the word they want him to concentrate on but it is a good "S" sound. 

But we are working on not applying that word to people. 

Super Bowl...

 Thought theme cookies were in order.

 The Packers got their colors and then Pittsburgh had to just have black and white. 

 I made Jill her own special cupcake shaped Green Bay cookie pop.

 Bobbi invited some friends over

And Presto! Super Bowl party.

It IS addictive...

Jayme was out this afternoon and we got a craving for sushi, so we made some. 

It exceeded our expectations! 

Tempura shrimp, cucumber, cream cheese and mango!

 So good.

This is about the point...

where i say "What was I thinking, why did I say I could paint a big painting, this doesn't even look like what I want..." It's always that way when I start a painting.

Just have to get past that point.

Should have had a video camera...

I just braved the -20 wind chill factor to go over and feed the horses. Oliver and Mae thought they needed to go too. As I was coming out of the barn, I look over at the icy driveway and there is Oliver literally being blown across it by the wind. He couldn't get any traction because of his immense 5 pound body. Mae just stood there watching him slide across. She kind of had a "What the..." look on her face. Would have been a classic video.