REST IN PEACE FUZZBALL

~Sigh~ Our sweet little gerbil had a short and traumatic life... she is now in a better (and SAFER) place. Under the big trees in the front yard. We had a nice graveside ceremony. Even the Mac Daddy came and showed his support (and didn't roll his eyes too much at us silly girls). Sadly, the little blonde snuggler did not know her own strength. Poor, poor Fuzzball.

OH YEAH!

Have I told my husband lately that I love him?

Sadly, this beauty isn't ours...but I did get to drive it home...if only money were no object. (Mine would be in my signature color of black though, of course.) I'd settle for this one. :)
How ridiculous, I couldn't stop sighing and smiling on the way home...hmmm, perhaps I'm a lot more superficial than I thought! Bummer!


On a more normal day note, our beloved gerbil that is the almost newest addition to the family, (only next to Bob the ginormous black cat that we've adopted) was almost eaten today by that very cat.
Sigh, I think little Fuzzball will make it, but not without MUCH trauma and therapy. Well, my breathing has finally calmed after such an exhillerating day of rodent rescue and divine driving...

W O W this has been a busy month!!! Okay, I'm talking about October, but apparently I'm a bit behind...

Hadley's birthday, baptism, a Colorado trip, my birthday, Megan's birthday, an enrichment activity at my house, and of course, Halloween! If only I could buy storebought costumes, that would be a huge help, but it's one of my obsessive/compulsive things that I must make them, and birthday outfits. Time to relax and start thinking about Thanksgiving! What a relief!

Here's a couple pics of my beauties and the random stuff we did this last month!
My middle child has been asking since last year's birthday for a gerbil or hamster, well finally it happened. We have a sweet little girl gerbil named "fuzzball". She's only gotten out a few times, and thankfully been caught each time by a human and not the cat.


Our Ouray, Co trip was so fun and active! We took a huge hike the last day - OY! So fun, but sOOO happy when it was over! :)


Haddie's baptism was next on the list, of course, I had to make that dress too. I'm a glutton for punishment! My parents came and we went out to lunch afterward for my birthday/her big day's lunch at the Cheesecake Factory. I had to keep taking pics of her, she had a beautiful glow to her, or maybe it was just my imagination...

Magpie's 6th birthday was her first "real" birthday party (quite an event!) She had some friends from school and her fav. cousins over and had as much fun as possible! We had sugar, sugar, and more sugar, cupcakes, sugar cookies, my awesome homemade frosting (with the homemade cookies, of course) and was there something else? hmmm.... probably more sugar!


We capped off the month nicely with a Ward Halloween party/BBQ at the park (a tradition) and went trick-or-treating in a few different neighborhoods. Fun! Our little divas this year were "Hanna Montana", "the Corpse Bride", and Hannah's friend "Lilly/Lola".

The Magpie only changed her mind 40 or 50 times before Halloween arrived, so thankfully she settled on one with enough time to spare! Uncle Scott & cousin Shanna went t-o-ting with us and even Ernesto, who works for my Hunka Hunka burning love brought his gang to join us! We saw friends, met neighbors, and all while wearing short sleeves...ahhh Arizona...


Until next time, be happy!

Finally!!!

Okay my sister in law, here is my post. It seems I still don't have much to say, but I do miss talking to family, so I better get movin' on my posts so I wont get emails that yell at me.

Hmmm, first things first. I'm a stay at home mom, hence the title of the blog- somedays more bored and lonely than others... somedays just a housewife. That's me, Lisa.

I used to be a creative person who loved to do anything crafty or creative, but I've been in a slump lately (including thinking of anything interesting at all to write about). So this isn't much of a post, but it's a start, maybe it'll get better and maybe everything else will start flowing too!

Here's the background on the family, I have three cute, non-evil (most of the time), daughters. Karma is sooooo paying me back for my teenage years...threefold!
My oldest, is 10 1/2 and acts like 14 most of the time, my second who is my "Mini Me" according to many, is about to turn 8 and lastly, my littlest Ms Independent is almost 6. No, I don't know where the blonde hair came from either...

All three of my beauties are in school all day *YES* and I'm trying to figure out where to put my extra time everyday, you'd think my house would be much cleaner for having so many non-children mess making hours, but I haven't gotten that down too well yet.

Anyhoo, I guess I'll get on with my life now that I've overcome my writer's block and my Sis will speak to me again ~ Yay Jennie~! Let's go to lunch! Oh, that was for Jennie, but you can come too! :)