Ready for Next Christmas

Every year my crazy family in Indiana gets the "underwear head shot". It's tradition that my Mom buys all of us underwear. Not sure how this started, but we all decided to put the new underwear on our head and get the annual picture.

Here was last years.

This is Lily practicing the underwear shot. Yes, these are my chonies (our slang for underwear). I promise I did not show her how to do this. I was folding laundry and Lily decided to "help" me by taking the laundry out of the basket. She found a pair of my chonies and promptly placed it on her head. Yes, this is my daughter.

Going Paperless

The responsibility at my very PT job is to help the company go paperless. I'm scanning in documents and then shredding them. We found a company that claims to recycle the shredded paper - I sure hope they do as they do have quite a bit of paper!

Along the lines of going paperless, my husband and I are trying to have a "paperless" house, as much as one can. Here are a few websites to help along in the process

www.donotmail.com - petition to allow us to get on a "do not mail list", such as the "do not call" list

http://www.paperlesspetition.org/ - Found this on one of my favorite blogs: MomGoGreen. You can sign a petition to opt out of the phone books!

http://www.41pounds.org/ - this website assists in stopping your junk mail! It's $41, but would be worth your while! David and I plan to do this soon!

http://www.catalogchoice.org/ - you can opt out of the catalogs you receive here!

I'm sure there are more websites out there.
Other ways we are going paperless.

-Requesting bills be sent via email or available online
-Paying bills online
-We don't get a newspaper
-Cancel or don't reorder magazines we don't really read

It feels much lighter in our house when we aren't cluttered with extra paper, junk mail, magazines!

Girlfriends' Dinner and The Apple and Fun with Paper

me, Raz, Christine, Liz, Dian, Regina

Saturday night I went out with "the girlfriends". This is a group of women I've known for a long long time. These ladies are some of my oldest friends here in Colorado. We started meeting once a month and I'm looking forward to next month! We went to Jack Quinns in downtown Colorado Springs, which I always seem to call The Irish Lion, as that was the main Irish pub in Bloomington, Indiana where I went to college. My husband doesn't even correct me anymore when I make this mistake. He just knows what I mean.

Lily saw me eating an apple the other day and wanted a bite for herself. I let her mangle up the apple (with supervision of course). She loved it!

The aftermath

Last Thursday night, I went to "Stamp a Stack" with my stamping lady, Kimberly. We made 15 cards within 3 hours. I had a great time. I surprised myself as normally I am very chatty and loud when I'm with a bunch of women. I found stamping so relaxing and meditative that I was quiet almost all night long. I've purchased a few stamping tools and now I can stamp at home!

Just thought this was cute

Lily is preferring the walking to the crawling.

Extreme Napping, Bike Repair and Rocking Horse

This weekend was full of napping.

This is how I found Lily this weekend. Yes, she is folded in half.

This is how David found me.

David needed to work on his bike and Lily helped!

This is the rocking horse my Dad made for Lily. She loves it! She rocks back and forth so hard, I am afraid she is going to fall off!