My New Obsession is.......

Food blogs! I came upon them when I was trying to find the new Pumpkin Spice Hershey Kisses and I found a blog that rated these candies and that blog just took me from there. Oh my gosh I just can't get enough of them. I love to cook and am always wanting new recipes to try and when I stumbled upon these last week I just haven't been able to get enough. Each food blog has a list of more food blogs and I am just crazy trying to look at them all and see who has yummy recipes for me to try. If I sound a little food crazy it is because I am. I have a huge binder called the Big Ass Cookbook or B.A.C for short, full of recipes I have been collecting for years that I have gotten from websites like Kraft Foods.com and Food Network but I was kind of getting bored of these websites so I am all excited about these new blogs. I have a feeling I will be needing a new B.A.C. soon!

By the way-if anyone sees these Pumpkin Spice Hershey kisses you have to let me know. I love everything pumpkin and I hear they are really tasty. They are only sold at Target (that I know of and I have checked every other store in town and they have none) and Target has been sold out of them every since. By the looks of the package they are only here to stay for Halloween but I am hopeful that they will be back in November!

CLOSING DAY!

Well, we were told a couple weeks ago that we would be closing on Friday October 3oth. I didn't post anything then because I couldn't believe that they would be finished by that date. I still don't believe it as there is still so much that needs to be done. But people keep telling me that once they get going things can go rather quickly. So the plan is to close this Friday and I am really really excited but at the same I am scared to death that it won't get done and we won't be able to close and then we can't start moving in. So I am crossing my fingers that everything will go smoothly and it will all get done on time!

Pics of house

Here are a couple more pics of the house.











Right now they have finished the mudd and tape and they just did the texturing. The doors have been hung and the trim has been started. They have also just finished the hard coat for the stucco which needs to dry for 6-7 days. They should be pooring the concrete for the driveway tomorrow and then I think they will start to paint the inside of the house soon but I am not sure when.

Look What I Can Do!

So a few weeks ago we took the training wheels off Rylee's bicycle. We figured this would be the best time as she has just about grown out of this bike and it would be easier on this bike because she can touch the ground then try to teach her on a bigger bike. We have only been able to practice a couple of times and she was getting a little better-she could go down the driveway with no help. But last night as my mom and I were coming home from our evening walk we saw something in the road coming toward us. As I looked closer it was my DH walking besides Rylee on her bike with no help. She is just riding along (just a little skiwoppidly-don't even know how to spell a made up word) but she is riding all by herself. I was so excited. And as we got closer it was so cute to see she had this big huge grin on her face that she was doing it on her own. What a warm fuzzy to see how excited she was and how excited I was for her! I love everything about being a mom but I love moments like that the best!

She had a Bike a thon at school later that week and she did really well. They rode twice-once in the morning and once in the afternoon. My mom went in the morning and said Rylee fell once but in the afternoon she didn't fall at all and she rode the whole 1/2 hour. It was so cute to see all these little kindergartners w/ their melon heads (because of the helmets of course!) riding on the little bikes. How fun!!

Yellowstone

So I finally talked Justin into taking Rylee and I to Yellowstone. I haven't been for about 7 years and I always liked it and I thought maybe Rylee would like it too. We went Saturday the 29th and the weather happened to be just right. Wasn't too hot it was just comfortable so that was nice.

I kept telling Rylee to look out her window for animals. We didn't see too many but we did see some elk and a few buffalo. The 1st buffalo we saw was rolling around on the ground making quite the dust storm. I tried to get video of him but being the camera pro that I am I didn't push the video button until it was too late and he was just laying there.

The 2nd buffalo we saw was really cool because it was at one of the hot pools and we just happened to be leaving and here is this buffalo in the parking lot walking down to the water. It was so funny too because here is this older couple totally oblivious to this huge buffalo coming there way and I think the park says to stay at least 15 ft away (not totally sure on that) and when they finally saw it they are within just a few feet from it and they couldn't figure out which way to go and I am just thinking that buffalo is going to charge them (how very exciting but scary at the same time!) but he just left them alone and continued to the water for a drink.

3rd buffalo we saw was walking on the side of the road -same side that we were driving on. He was close enough to touch and being that he was on passenger side and I was passenger it was up to me to get an awesome close up of this buffalo. Here is that awesome picture.

Told ya I was a camera pro! All my pictures are boring because I am too slow or too camera dumb to catch any excitement.

Anyway, we didn't go thru the whole park just a little bit but we got to see Old Faithful and didn't even have to wait very long. Rylee had fun too! She loved all the hot pools that had such pretty colors but she didn't like the smell. It was a good day!

1st Day of School

Here's Rylee before going to her 1st day of kindergarten at Calvary

And here is Rylee after her 1st day of kindergarten at Calvary

She had a great day!

House Update

Here are some pictures of the house. Don't know if you can tell what's going on here because I have a hard enough time but here is the picture of the plant shelf that is by the kitchen table (for all my crap Justin says). It has a nice little arch above it so hope I like it when it is done. I have a really hard time telling how things are going to look when it is just framing.

Here is a picture of the fireplace or actually where the fireplace will be in the living room upstairs.

Here is a picture of the front with the windows.

I think all the plumbing is done and the heating guy is doing his stuff and then Justin has a walk thru with the electrical guy Wednesday morning about stuff I don't really care about. I'm glad he deals with all the boring stuff! More later.