Day 16 - Holy Cheese Ball !

Tomorrow Todd and I are having a small get together at our new house. I'm calling it a Housewarming Party. We have invited all (10) of our friends here in Little Rock. This afternoon I started getting some of the food ready for it. I made chocolate peanut butter chip cookies, oatmeal cinnamon cookies, and a cheese ball. This is my first ever cheese ball and let me just tell you its alot easier than I thought it would be. Todd and I have both tried it .... to make sure that it was edible .... and it was delicious! I got the recipe from Cooks.com. (Click on the word recipe if you want it.)

Day 14 - Welcome Home

We ended up moving on Tuesday ... into the newly renovated house on base. Its not the best looking house, but its certainly not the worst looking house. Either way it doesn't really matter since we are only going to be here until March. The only thing that sucks about it is we have been there almost 3 days and we still don't have internet or cable yet. As a side effect of no internet and cable I have finished 1 book, started a second & finished it, and tonight started a third book.

Here's a picture of the front ... more to come later. (Once our internet is up and running.)

Day 13 - Caught red handed

We didn't really catch her red handed seeing how we put the cup on the ground for her, but I liked the title ...

Even Bottcher likes to get into the holiday spirit with a little Eggnog

Day ????

It is clear now that I might have been a little over confident with me being able to do the photo calendar. Today is the 12th and I haven't posted a picture since the 8th. Whoops. I don't even think I took any pictures during those days. I did think about it (multiple times), but I didn't like any of the ideas I had. At least point I will not be going back and trying to fill in the days with pictures. I instead will just be adding pictures that I seem to take whatever day I take them. I think I'm going to blame Arkansas for my lack of picture taking. I think if we were still living in Cheyenne I would have plenty of good pictures to take .... or maybe its my biased love of Cheyoming.

On a side note - my new project quilt is coming right along. I'd say I'm over half way done!!

Day 8 - New Project

The fabrics for my newest quilting project. The line is called Lollipop.

Day 7 - Chocolate treats

Its become our Christmas tradition to do the Advent Chocolate Christmas Calendars.

Day 6 - Holiday Cheer

Nothing says Christmas like Egg Nog (or maybe Boiled Custard)

Day 5 - Hodge Podge

My first hodge podge quilt attempt. My mom had gave me the pieces pre-cut so I haven't done this completely by myself. I'm not done yet, this is just the front side. I still have to do the back, batting, and re-do the bottom row (its really off in matching up with the rows above it.

Day 4 - Kick'em in the butt Big Blue!

Auburn is the new SEC Champions & is headed to the National Championship!

(Sorry for the flash glare on the tv)

Day 3 - Dinner Date

Dinner date with Todd. Delicious!

Day 2 - Happy Birthday to Me

My birthday present from Todd - a brand spanking new Janome DC2010

Christmas Photo Countdown Calendar - Day 1

Note: I'm totally copying this idea, but the blogger suggested it so it must be ok. I got the idea from the blog Mila's Daydreams. If you haven't seen it you really should check it out. The pictures she creates with her daughter are just so dang cute. She makes me wish I had at least a single ounce of creativity, but unfortunately I don't so which is why I'm copying her.

I'm not normally one who is excited about Christmas. Yes, I like it, but its not my favorite holiday. I think it comes from all the years while I was growing up that everybody put Christmas decorations up before Thanksgiving. It gave me the impression that no one really cared about Thanksgiving. For most people its not really a big deal, but considering I was born on (the actual day of) Thanksgiving it really urked me. Although my birthday was a little different this year (I made it into a birthday week celebration even though Todd didn't agree with my decision) there were still many people that had decorations up. To try to enhance my holiday mood which might be hard pretty hard I'm going to try to do a photo countdown calendar to Christmas.

I have a couple of disclaimers I should make you aware of:

1. It might be unusually harder to get me in the Christmas spirit considering we are temporarily living in Little Rock, Arkansas. We have a very slim to none chance of getting any snow during the winter. For those of you who know me snow is one of my favorite things!

2. I may not get the post up on a daily basis, but my goal is to at least take one picture per day leading up to Christmas. Depending how it goes maybe I'll extend it to New Years .... but no promises.

3. Even though the intent of this is to put me in the holiday spirit some of my pictures may not have anything to do with Christmas (See Below).

Day 1: My two sweet boys taking a nap. Todd had a long day at work and Cowboy in general has a "hard" life.