Tim's Home

Well having Tim home has been fun! These are some pictures from when we picked him up from the airport!

The Garage

So this all started when we thought we might have mice in the garage. We were pretty positive we had mice when one jumped off some water jugs in front of me one afternoon. So while I was in NC Mom, Dad, and Joe decided to clean out the garage. Well to say it was a mouse problem would be putting it mildly. They began finding evidence of mice everywhere. The most prominent spot a box Pat had brought home that we thought contained only pots and pans. This was not the case. Under the pots and pans was food. You know the stuff mice love, rice, pasta, crackers and well you get the idea. So when we noticed several sleeping bags that were chewed we figured they had found a pretty good space, we were feeding them and they had shelter, we were great hosts!

Well to make a long story short, they took EVERYTHING out of the garage, cleaned and checked it all before putting it back and had a bunch of garbage. Well along the way Joe had mice that jumped out of the box at him, Dad dumped a box out and chased a mouse down to the sewer drain, and Mom had one hop out and decided that there was no way it was coming back into the house so she grabbed a pole and whacked it! That’s right, she killed it. Tyler now thinks his Grandma is “The Man.”

After all this, we placed every kind of trap we could think of in the garage, traditional traps, bags of poison, some new kind of trap, peanut butter in a bucket and glue traps. Well, over the next few weeks every time we went in the garage we would check the traps. We caught more than a few mice! Well, after we hadn’t seen any in a few days we were thinking things were going pretty well. Until Mom came running in one Saturday as we were getting ready to go grocery shopping telling me I had to come look at one of the glue traps. We had thought mice were as bad as it could get, until I saw the snake!

Beautiful Bundles

A lot of people have been asking me how they can contact me and get some of the things I make. My web address is www.beautifulbundles.com. I do not have very many things posted right now, but should have some things up soon. But if you know what you want you can contact me through the website custom order option and I can just make whatever you want then post it for you to buy, or you can email me and we can work out picking it up. In addition to the things you see on the previous blog I also make all weather car seat covers, really nice nursing covers and baby wraps (like the Moby Wraps). I also so do custom drapes and bedding sets. Oh and my email is jessica@ehat.org.

Sew, Sew, Sew

While I was in NC I my mom told me about a new baby boutique in town. So we went by and told them about my nursing covers and car seat covers. The lady loved them and so I got my first client! She was so excited to find someone that could sew for her and started asking me if there were other things I could make for her so now i have a huge selection of homemade baby products. The lady said what she liked the most was that I was from Franklin. She said she has a lot of tourists that come through looking for something made by someone from the mountains!

Got to be Pretty!

So one night I went over to the Anderson's to watch "So you think you can Dance," I took Austin with me but left Lauren in the care of my family. Or I should say her Aunt Brooke! My parents were down the hill burning some brush when Brooke yells down to my mom, "Mom, Lauren has something red all over her!" My mom had Brooke put her in the bathtub and decided she better come up and check it out. As soon as she walked in she new what was all over her, the house reeked of fingernail polish! So needless to say my mom spent the next little while using fingernail polish remover trying to get it all off of her. The pictures were taken after she had already spent a considerable amount of time removing the polish. As my mom was cleaning her up she realized this was a detailed job Lauren had done, she had at least five layers of polish on, staring on her toes and continuing up her legs and down her arms. She had started with clear, you have to have a base coat, then put on several others including a glitter polish before topping it off with RED.

Let's Save Gas

While I was in NC visiting my family we found a great way to save on gas! Just kidding! This is my mom's new scooter. When my dad suggested she get a scooter she was thinking a little smaller, well he wasn't! The first day they had it home my dad put 120miles on it, we think he likes it but we are not sure yet! But my mom has been practicing and soon she will be zooming up and down the road, watch out!

Underware vs. Diaper

I am so sorry that I haven't posted for a little bit. This should explain why. I decided it was time to try and potty train Lauren. Saying that she is smarter than me is an understatement. We tried the potty training in a day book. All started off well, we trained the doll then it was Laurens turn. "OK Lauren it is your turn to go potty," "NO!" Needless to say that was the beginning of a frustrating day that has now turned into almost a week. She really loves underwear, so I can usually get her to go potty so she can put on her pretty princess underwear. But then the cooperation stops. And just yesterday she had another 'breakthrough', we got home after walk and Lauren sneaks a pair of underwear and disappears into the living room. She resurfaces wearing them not the diaper (previously she would have them on over the diaper). So I watch her and every now and then we talk about going potty. So then about a hour latter she disappears again, this time she comes back with her diaper on, that's right a diaper not a pull-up a diaper. She wears it for about 10 minutes then changes back into the underwear. Yes, that's right, you guessed it, she didn't want to mess her underwear so she put her diaper on to go pee pee then changed back. Well, I suppose this is progress. Any tips on finishing this potty training thing bring them on!