Mojo Monday

Christmas time always gets my creative juices going. I love to steal away a moment and escape to my craft room. I then emerge with inky fingers wearing specs of glitter, clips of ribbon, and dabs of glue...and it feels fantastic! Here is my contest entry for Mojo Monday 168. Thanks for looking!

I used the following materials: SU Real Red Cardstock, Graphic 45 Christmas Past The Holly and The Ivy, Hobby Lobby glittered Christmas cardstock, Crafty Secrets Christmas Creative Scraps, SU Stamp Set Bells and Boughs, SU grosgrain ribbon, green gem stickers...and Flowersoft Polar White on the hat and muffler. Oh, and I sprayed the card base with a shimmer spray in Frost. You can't really see the shimmer spray in the picture, but it's so sparkly in real life.

Boys = Blood

If I have wiped blood from my son's face once this week, I've wiped it ten times. John Mason is just about 13 months old. He's taking 10 or so steps at a time, climbing on anything, and falling in the process. He's so active and fast. He thinks he can already run...He can walk, why not? So, we have the daily mouth busted from falling or some other mysterious bloody wound. Sunday morning, as I was getting ready for church, I notice that his eyelid was bleeding - right along the lash line. No other bumps or scrapes, just the weird eye lid scrape. I still don't know what happened. (Brett was looking after him while I was getting ready - hmmm.) John Mason is taking his nap while his body repairs his little scrapes in exponential time. Ahhh, the miracle of being fearfully and wonderfully made.

The Goings On

Things have been quite busy here as I'm sure it is with everyone! We have been working hard on school work to complete our goals for this school year. The girls will continue to work through the summer...not as rigorous, but enought to keep their minds challenged! John Mason is growing so fast. He's standing alone for longer periods of time and is even trying to take his first steps. It won't be long! Oh, goodness....what am I in for? He is ALWAYS moving...and now he'll be moving faster!

SO....our neighbors have giant Leyland Cypress along the property line (think 20 year old trees). The trees extend about 6 feet over the property line. We've never made a big deal about it because that property line has been pasture. The trees were planted in the power company right of way - under power lines. Well, now they are a hazard (and ugly). The power company contracts Asplundh (huge tree cutting company) to cut - or butcher - trees in power lines. Finally, after 20 years, Sawnee EMC insisted that the tress be cut. WELL...the power lines are on our side (view) of the trees. See photo...

The picture above is the finished job - the butchered trees - all for OUR enjoyment. :rolling eyes: The neighbors convinced the superviser at Asplundh to basically butcher the trees around the power lines. (Again, on our side of the property.) Let me just say...I would NEVER do that to anyone. Here are the trees from the neighbors view.
Oh, wow, look at that! What a beautiful, lush view....(please note my sarcasm). Now, don't get me wrong. Brett and I are not in any way trouble makers or bad neighbors. We actually don't interact much with our neighbors other than the occasional "Hello, how are you" when we see them - they smoke pot in their shop which is next to our barn. Let's just say we don't have much in common. Anway...this entire tree cutting issue is just plain inconsiderate and rude, considering they didn't even talk to us about it. We are going to have to come to a better solution about these trees.

On a more beautiful note, here are some pics of the kids.

February

May- look at all those teeth!!