Monthly Archives: April 2012

Beatrice Bee

  By Amber | April 28, 2012 - 4:11 pm | Uncategorized
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I made this lil’ cutie the other day…
She’s going to a little friend of ours who’s sick.
I made it to go with a pillow my sister Heather made for this cute girl.
I also made the pattern for it, if any one would like to try it.
Actually, I need someone to try the pattern and see if it needs any alterations…
(Hint, hint, Heather! :) )

Easter 2012

  By Amber | April 12, 2012 - 4:17 pm | Uncategorized
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(Yes it’s a belated post, and, yes, I’m trying to catch up on things!)
So,  Happy Easter!  :)
Hope yours was great!
We had a fun day!
I got to sleep in! :)
This is what the Easter Bunny brought:
I thought it would be fun for the kids to make their own Easter Baskets.
I was going to post the making of them, but, the baskets didn’t turn out too good.
They were crushed in no time.  :(
But, he brought the kids sun glasses, and gave Mallie a set of baby keys.
Aren’t they cute?
Then we had an Easter Egg hunt…
to find all the eggs that the Bunny “stoled”.
Poor Christopher.  He didn’t want the Bunny to come this year…
because he “stoleded” the eggs last year, and the kids had to go find them.
So sad!  :)

Mallie found the hardest one, hidden in the lil’ bar-b-quer.
She was SO impressed!  :)
For dinner, we went to my sister Heather’s house…
to celebrate Easter and my nephew Kaden’s birthday.  (He’s 7 now!)
Dinner was so yummy!
And, Heather made my Hannah some super yummy Gluten-free cupcakes!
THANK YOU!  That made her so happy!
:)

Robby’s Head

  By Amber | April 12, 2012 - 4:00 pm | Uncategorized
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Anyone who knows Robby,
knows that his head always has a bruise or some other mishap.
April 4th was no different.
It was quite funny how it happened!
He was swinging on the swing set, and said,
“Watch me, Mom!”
He decided it would be a good idea to try to swing upside-down.
Problem being, the swing is too low for you to do that without
your head scraping on the ground.
And that’s what happened.
He really didn’t expect that!  And, he wasn’t too happy.
His poor “fored-head”!
(He did think it was fun to get a picture of it, though.)

So….

  By Amber | April 12, 2012 - 3:43 pm | Uncategorized
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We have this dead tree.
It was messy when it was alive,
and is messier now that it’s dead.
(And, I won’t mention how it died… We don’t speak of such things…)
Anyway, we’ve tried and tried to get someone to come take it down.
Problems being, it’s surrounded by high voltage power lines, phone lines, cable lines, etc.
And, it’s dead.
Nobody wants to tackle a dead tree, because it’s more dangerous.
The bark sluffs off, so no one can climb it to remove branches.
(It sure would have been handy if it would have thought of that before it died… :) )
Well, we could have gotten someone to take it down,
but they wanted $1200 to do it.
I guess you can say that we don’t have that much pocket change.
Go figure.
So, about a month ago, I was looking out our kitchen window,
which faces the side of the yard that this tree is on.
I noticed a CITY truck pull up, with “Trees, Inc.” written on the side,
and the driver looking at our beautiful eyesore.
(I was thinking, “Ahhh!”)
He got out of his truck and took a closer look.
(I was then thinking, “AHHH!”)
THEN HE STARTED TOWARD THE FRONT DOOR!
(By this time, I was calmly panicking.  I was SO worried that they’d make us take it down.)
So, I answered the door, against my better judgement.
What he said surprised me.
“So, you have a dead tree in your yard.”
(uh huh)
“It probably wasn’t you guys that killed it…”
(I didn’t respond to that.)
“It’s now become a hazard.”
(It’s been a hazard for 4 years now, but I kept that to myself.)
“When we come to trim the Maple trees, we need to cut this one down.”
(*GASP*)
 I told him that we’ve tried getting people to take it down, but no one wanted the job.
He said that they need the ground to either freeze, or completely dry out.
I told him, “Good luck with that. :)”
But, anyway, the city will be taking our tree down!  YAY!
Well, at least the top part of the tree.
They will chop it down to just below the power lines, which is the hardest part!
We can take the rest of it down, no problem.
We are SO excited.
They came two weeks ago to start on it.
Then it started to get really windy, which doesn’t work too well with a cherry picker.
So, they left. Leaving a huge pile of sticks.
And haven’t been back yet.
Still waiting for the ground to dry or freeze.
But, they have to finish before they can say that this block’s trees have been trimmed.
I will post a picture of when it is done.
Can’t wait!
:)