Punkin Pie

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Although by the time most of you read this, it will be November and you won't care about Halloween except to wonder how many pounds you put on when you philfered trick or treating candy out of the bowl by the door. A few photos for your viewing pleasure of Peanut's first Halloween. Note: Peanut was originally a M&M but that onesie was shipped up to my parents house so his costume changed. Isn't he the cutest!?

Punkin Pie costume.

My punkin sitting next to our punkins.

Our jack'o'lanterns. Mikes is the spider, Mine is the happy face, and Peanut's is the little one with 2 little bottom teeth cuz that's what he has. Mike carved Peanut's for him. Good job by us both, eh?

We decided to forget going to the city park for the Halloween Spooktacular festival they had and went trick or treating with my friend, Venna, her husband, and 2 of their kids. It was really fun and Mike and my friend's husband, Charlie, got to meet each other. I think Mike is in love with Charlie. He's a golfer and invited Mike to play in his company's golf tournament in December. It's weird to think of golf in December, but down here, it's fricking awesome. Peanut even went to the door a couple times with Venna and got 4 pieces of candy for Mommy. I did want to give out candy and even went to Walmart this morning for it, but realized we're on the end of our development, no one really lives next or near us and the houses around us are about 1/2 empty. So, the candy will be Mike's treat while we're gone for the next 13 days.

I'm off to bed. I'm all packed up, ready for my 5:30 alarm to get ready for our first trip home. Boy, am I going to freeze my butt off. Wonder if I can get enough shivers going to loose a few pounds?? Huge bummer Mike isn't going with Peanut and I, but someone's gotta make some money around here.


TTFN ~ Crystal

Lions, Tigers and Bears Oh My!

Well, one big black widow spider anyway, found him hiding next to the garage door and decided to take a picture of him.














I was rather surprised to see him be so...aggresive. I taped him with my shoe to get him out of the corner and the little turd actually reared up on his hind legs and put his front legs in the air like he was ready to fight. Alas, a size 12 Nike was more than he could take on.















So that was our nature adventure. So far, thats the only nasty wildlife we have come across here at the house. Not to bad for being here for almost 2 months now.

Work is still going well, jobs arent coming in as fas as we would like them to be coming in, but still, they are coming. We are running very low on money now, so to help lighten the load alittle, I'm going to go and get a part time job working a couple nights a week, just until things steady out. Hopefully it wont take but a month or 2 for that to happen, then I can just focus on keeping the business going and getting jobs done.

I used Legalzoom to get my business forms done and filed w/ the state. They had a slight boo boo on their end and royally screwed things up. They got a letter back from the state of Arizona saying that they needed some additional letter to go along with my information, so did legalzoom bother to call or email or send me a letter indicating something was wrong? Of course not! So my account sat in limbo with no one working on it. It was getting close to the time for my paperwork to be coming in the mail so I got on their website and looked up my order to find it was "waiting for customer information"....called them up and found out no one was working on it. This was a service I paid 500 bucks for, and no one is working on it? Finally today I got someone on the phone that had a clue what was going on, and she refunded me back half my money. It's not free, but I'll take it. The only bad part is, the paperwork I'm waiting on from the state is the paperwork I need to be able to open a business account at the bank so I can cash the checks I have coming in....it sucks seeing money tacked up on the board that you cant use for things like....rent, bills, stuff like that. Hopefully it wont take that long and I can get my paperwork before the end of the month and get the money into the bank and get stuff paid. Our current bank says they dont take "3rd party checks", otherwise we could just sign them over to our personal account. Nightmare!

Anyway, Elliot has his first cold, poor guy has snot running out of his nose like a faucet was turned on in his head. Sounds like Crystal might be coming down with something too. I hope it goes away before their trip up north on the 1st. He is crawling around now so well, he can really get going when he see's something he wants across the room. It's fun to watch him play, he's such a good kid, he will just sit and play with his toys on his own for hours!

Last night wasnt so fun as far as sleep goes, he couldnt sleep good cause of his nose, so we didnt sleep well either. Crystal just went down for a nap, I think I'm going to go and join her. Soon as my head hits the pillow, I'm sure Elliot will wake up :)

Pictures and Stuff

Well, last post I made said something about being better at posting regularly. Well, I'm not. I've been sewing like mad getting some purse orders started, some blocks put together for the retreat I'm going to in 18 days, and chasing Peanut.

Excellent update on Peanut - he can now crawl! It's entertaining to watch because he only uses one leg to push himself forward and he's mastered getting to almost where he wants to go and then stretching forward on his stomach to reach the toy, the cat, the remote that fell on the floor, anything his little fingers can grab onto.

And now onto the photos ~

Peanut and I at Oktober fest.
Uber nice day, high 80s and very relaxing.

Going on an early morning walk and it was a chilly 65 and windy.

Damn paparazzi!

Harvest moon from earlier this week as the sun was setting.
My first dust storm. Thankfully we were all safely inside.
Oopsie! Left the flash on and took this through our front window.
Another of the dust storm after the solid wall of brown dust passed our house.
And finally, if you've seen Larry the Cable Guy's movie Health Inspector, you'd know why we think this is the most hilarious thing we've seen on the road!

Mike's out of the shower, Peanut is full of Mama milk, and we're off to the Pumpkin Patch.

TTFN ~Crys

Long time no blog...

It's been awhile since I've done an update, so figured now would be a good time.

I've spent the last month driving back and forth to Pheonix to work with my dad every day and continue training in my new craft...well, old craft really of wood working, only now I'm learing to do it and make money doing it. I think my love of the work is whats making it so fun for me right now. I like it so much, it doesnt really feel like work, the 3 hour drive, 1.5 each direction is what makes me not like the days so much.

Last week however, Kent Weathersby, the man that owns the National company and gives out the franchises, came out to certify me. It was a long day with him, and I was nervous that I was going to screw something up, but at the end of the day, I was "cut", and had his blessing to go out on my own. 2 days later, Dad and I left for Las Vegas for a conference. That was Saturday, as luck would have it, the day after Crystals Mom and Dad came down for a visit. So, needless to say, I only got to spend part of a day with them before I had to leave, it sucked not getting to spend sometime with them and really bummed me out. Hopefully we will still be able to go back up there for Christmas, then I can really annoy them for a few days :) I know they are looking forward to that part of the trip.

Monday, Micah, Kent's daughter sent out the email notification that Weathersby Guild Tucson was open for business and ready to recieve moving claims from adjusters...today is Wednesday, and the fax machine has gone nuts already. 6 total jobs have come in during the last 2 days, not a huge amount of work, but a pretty darn good start so far. I have them all scheduled to be done this week, 3 jobs Friday, 2 on Monday, up in Phx to help dad Tuesday, finishing up some previous jobs here in Tucson w/ Dad, then another big job by myself for Thursday...already shaping up to be a busy week, but thats what gets the bills paid :) Assuming the fax machine keeps going off on a regular basis, we will be happy campers for sure.

Elliot is growing so fast, he's already wearing 12 month old sizes of clothing, and tomorrow he is 8 months old. His bottom 2 front teeth that came in are really starting to get big, he looks so cute when he smiles...not that he didnt before, but you know what I mean. I missed him terrible while I was in Vegas, made me very very home sick. He is very proficient at sitting himself up on his own now, very fun to watch him become more aware of what he can and cant do with his body. He likes to prop himself up on his hands and knees now, it should only be a few more days before he figures out how to walk, then we are in big big trouble.

It feels good to be open for business on our own now, things can only get better from here on out. I love working with my dad, but I'm ready to be done with the drive up and down to Phx on a daily basis. Lots to do tomorrow so I'm off to bed, I'll try to be better about updating this thing more often than I have been lately.

As we say down here by the border, adios!