Black and Blue

Brooklyn got a nice shiner. This is the best picture I have of it. It was worse than you can see in the picture. I was out one night, and Damon put the kids to bed. The next morning, I got the kids up to go to work with me, and Brooklyn had a puffy black eye. It has been interesting taking her around this week and having adults ask her, "what happened to your eye?" The story I got was Brooklyn and Devin were jumping on the bed and knocked heads. Ooh, ouch!

P.S. I found my bluetooth, so feel free to give me a call :)

We Painted!

We painted our bedroom, all in one weekend. I did the big stuff with the rollers, and Damon painted the detail. It gives the room a nice warm feeling. I'm proud of us because we are not painters. We've been in the house now for a year and a half, and we still have mostly white walls. I think the paint brings the room together nicely. But as you can see from the pictures, we still don't have drapes, and I don't quite know what would look good. Our bed cover is light blue with dark brown trim, and the walls are now an orangish brown. So if anyone has any suggestions, or links I should check out, I would love some advice!

Losers Anon

Hi, my name is Rachel, and I lose things. I've recently lost my blue tooth, and my cell phone. One is too expensive to replace, and I found the other. Thank goodness, I would have had to buy a new phone, no doubt about that. Other things I have lost: my wedding ring (my daughter found that after about 9 months of me walking around ringless). A diaper bag that had at least $150.00 worth of crap in it. I spent a good deal of time looking for that one. My wallet, we all know that pathetic story. Children's shoes. We leave, we come back with no shoes. How does that happen? We found them on the grocery store shelf. Blah, if you want something lost, I am your gal.

Brooklyn's 4th

We had Brooklyn's 4th birthday party on Saturday. Damon's mom was in town to enjoy the festivities. I made the barbie cake shown above, I don't think I'll ever do that again. As I started to frost her, I remembered I couldn't even frost a round cake well. Luckily, Damon's mom helped out and we got her done. It was totally a girly party. We made the awesome rings shown above (who needs party games when you can craft?). I got the idea from littlebirdiesecrets. Then we painted the girls fingernails and put little flower decals on them. Devin got his nails painted also, it's wearing off fast though. I think he is picking at them. Happy 4th Brooklyn. We love you, girl.

The floods came up

We have had major flooding here in the last week. We had those huge snow falls over Christmas, and then it got warm enough to rain and meltled all the snow, (they call it a rapid melt) then it got warm enough (45 degrees) to start melting the snow in the canyons. The numerous rivers around here have all flooded, and there are some big rivers in the area. There have been flooded houses, damaged and closed roads, mud slides and avalanches. All the canyon passes are closed again. Damon can take 4 possible routes to work, and 3 of them were closed due to the flooding. We have a gully next to our house that I have never seen water in. I guess water used to run down it all the time, but the city rerouted where the water flowed. I looked out my window this afternoon, and the gulley is totally full. We live next to a horse field that is also full of water. I can see water running toward the house, but I looked down the gulley, and the water was also running away from the house, faster than toward it. I don't think the water will rise to the house. The weather forcast didn't call for any more storms for the next week. I think the water in the gulley has been high for a few days and I just haven't noticed. I've included a link to a news article that has some photos of the flooding. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/387510_flood13.html

Dipping Chocolates

We went to my Sister Deborah's house to celebrate her husband, Marc's birthday, and while we were there we dipped chocolates. It was so much fun, as you can see from the pictures. I have a lopsided amount of pictures of Brooklyn. She enjoyed it so much, she was in little girl heaven. We were all covered in chocolate, and had to change clothes when we were done. Man, I wanted to start a food fight with that drippy, gooey stuff. Deborah made truffles, mints, and peanut butter fillings for us to dip. She made caramels also, but they didn't set up in time. Yum! It was Awesome Deb, thanks for inviting us.

Happy New Year

We got a ton of snow over the Christmas holiday. The schools here were closed for a week before the official school break started. We measured 17 inches of snow on my sister's back deck. And Wahingtonians are just not equipped to deal with the snow. They plow the freeways, but leave the rest of the roads alone, and all the snow left on the roads freezes every night. The roads become a big mess, and everyone stays home and complains about it. But I loved it. Christmas Eve we spent the night at my sister Deborah's house and played in the snow. We sledded down her long driveway, built a Brooklyn and Devin sized snow man, and helped build a huge snow fort. It was a ton of fun. I couldn't get the greatest picture of it, so I'll post a few different angles. We had a great christmas, and shopped some of the awesome after Christmas sales, and are looking forward to 2009! Happy New Year Everyone, May all your resolutions come true!