Things I hope I Never Forget...

Ice Cream cones with my boys.

And this is the New Year

So far this year I am insanely scurrying through my house listing everything that I am ready to fix, paint, change, throw away, or am just plain ol' sick of (which let me tell you is a hole bunch)!

4 years in our house, we are now busting at the seams and things are looking shabby.

Rather than try and hold myself to a resolution I am undoubtedly never going to live up to (for example, loosing 25 pounds or growing out my hair - because we all know that's never gonna happen).

I now have....

My ever growing honey do list:

1) Paint bedroom. Brown maybe?

2) Paint dressers black.

3) Make curtains for bedroom & living room.

4) New rug for living room

5) Organize my closet

6) Organize under my bed...it it's scary under there.

7) Clean out the backroom/junkroom/sewing room...

8) Sell all my unwanteds on craigslist

9) Continue my hunt for a new 6 seat vintage dining room table with beautiful legs

10) Kitchen - new floor.

11) Bathroom - new floor.

12) Back room new floor perhaps? If we are lucky.

So that's it?...says my poor, dear, sweet husband.

Meet Squid

This boy is a mamas boy to the max.

• He has to be by my side at all times.
• He crawls in bed to burrow by my side in the middle of the night.
• Remember how much he loves my bras?
• And when I wake up in the morning if I take a bath he's right there with me laying on my stomach or if I shower...he's on the floor desperately awaiting my return.

He nickname is, "Squid."

There is no unglueing this boy!

For right now anyway.

Part 2

My husband & I for a very

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time now have been trying to decide if we want to add to our family.

At first we said no.
"House is too small."
"Car is too small."
"Do we have enough money?"
All important in those own rights, but...

Then we said, "YES!"
It was a very exciting time, but sadly it didn't last very long.
(Mr. Fisher got cold feet)

Now here I am, longing for another baby.
I want to see another face that we created... with the one I love most in this world.

I can manage the house being too small. I can get crafty and move some stuff around.
We do have a bigger car now.
And we'll just trust that God will provide for our needs.

So the other night during a serious battle of Guitar Hero, I blurted out, "Let's have another baby for real!"

And he said, "Okay."

I'll take that.

Inspiration

This new year I'm determined to get organized.

I found this idea on one of the blogs I frequent and thought it was such a great idea.

It's a Inspiration Journal and here is why it's amazing:

# 1 - It's rids my life of the millions of magazines I have collected around me, collecting dust.

#2 - It's a place to store all the stuff that inspires me and future crafts I want to attempt.

It's so easy. All you do it cut and paste the things that inspire you from your magazines or from the Internet; to save to look at later or when you are ready to embark on that task.

I have it sectioned by things that I am interested in: organization, recipes, decor, gardening & wish list (things I love but can't necessarily afford.)

That's it.

One step closer to organization!

Project Saturday...a disaster.

Sometimes my vision of what I want my craft to become, doesn't exactly turn out that way.

Example: My headboard.

I had dreams of a beautiful, plush, romantic headboard, but instead I have a skinny, flat, falling off my wall headboard!

It's U-G-L-Y!

Problem # 1: I ordered the wrong fabric. It doesn't compliment my walls or my bedspread.
The lack of planning on my part can be my worst enemy.

Problem # 2: I thought I could secure it with cardboard?!!? What was I thinking!

Problem # 3: I thought I could nail the cardboard to the wall! Someone please slap me for thinking I could nail cardboard to plaster walls!

Now I have a headboard that is slowly sliding down my wall which is exposing the dozens of holes...exposing all my secrets to my husband who I'm sure doesn't appreciate what he is going to have to fix.

Dang it!

Another resolution added to my list:
I REALLY need to learn how to be patient and take my time.

We made it.

With all odds stacked against us, we made it successfully to Yosemite.


An hour and a half into our trip, happy kids & happy parents....dead stop traffic. Not just traffic, I use that would loosely....I'd call it a parking lot.


Toxic chemical spill in the grapevine, caused a 27 car pile up. And we were just 14 miles from our exit.
A trip that should have taken us 4 hours, took 8.


Thanks to my husbands amazing skills (backing up on the freeway cutting through 5 lanes of cars with very angry drivers), he was our hero and our Garmin... We wanted to marry our GPS after our trip, what would we have done without her? She rocks!

When it was all said and done Yosemite exceeded our every expectations.

It was breathtaking.

And in the valley was an untouched winter wonderland.


Here is some of the stuff that we saw, enjoy:

A family of dears passed us on the road.

The sun shined on the snow so perfectly it shined like diamonds.

We decided that every new year we are traveling to a new location.

I think next year, the grand canyon!?

A resolution we can keep.