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Redneck Thanksgiving

We had our Naber's Family Thanksgiving at Possum Kingdom Lake this year. It was the weekend before Thanksgiving and the weather was so nice. We ate outside by the lake.
You'll notice the naked baby by the lake wearing her Mardi Gras beads. All rednecks let their babies be naked by the lake. I wanted to fit in. She also had a bath in the cabin sink amongst clutter on either side of her.
That night we fit 15 adults 6 kids and 5 dogs in the tiny cabin living room for some good 'ole guitar playin' and country music singing. Mckenzee loved it. She danced and went from guitar to guitar watching them.
The paddle boating was also quite fun...well paddle boating always looks fun until you get in and remember how hard it is. Sara and I took it out for a little while. At first it was so kick butt I didn't think I could make it 20 yds, but then it got better and we ended up going all over the lake.
Water is not so much my thing. It kind of freaks me out. I am not a great swimmer and murky lake water makes me think of murky lake water movies where the lochness monster comes out and swallows the people in the paddle boat. I tried to push such things from my mind and had fun until a big motor boat (I don't know my boats) came by in front of us and the waves it put off sent our little paddle boat a flying. My swimming suddenly improved as Sara and I tried to make our way back over to the paddle boat to hold on to it. We took life jackets, but weren't wearing them.






Okay...that didn't really happen, but I thought it would make for a good story. The part where I started lying was when the paddle boat went flying. The motor boat did send off waves that scared us, but we remained in the boat and the boat remained upright.
He he he.

Random

...and totally fabulous

We received a package from Fed Ex today.

It was addressed to Chris Roberts.

I called him to come see it because I didn't want to tear into an unannounced package so close to Christmas.

He said he didn't know what it was.

We opened it and there was a beautiful red box inside from the R J Corman Railroad Group.

We checked the address again...Chris Roberts 5737 Cutler Lane. That's us.

We opened the beautiful box and this is what we found inside:

All our Christmas wrapping needs:

• 14 small metallic rolls of wrapping paper
• 24 stick on bows
• 5 rolls of wired fabric ribbon
• 2 rolls of curling ribbon
• 6 mini rolls of curling ribbon
• 28 metallic gift tags
• 12 large pull bows
• 4 gift bags
• red and silver tissue paper
• scotch tape

I checked the address again. Chris Roberts 5737 Cutler Lane. I guess I get to keep it. I don't know. There was a Merry Christmas Thank You for Your Business note inside signed by people we don't know. I know it isn't for us, but I don't know who it's for.

I really love it. It makes me want to wrap something.

Should I return to sender? I don't think I should pay to ship something back because they made a mistake and it is clearly addressed to my husband.

They are a big company.

I think I will keep it.

I'm keeping it.

Mastering the Staple Gun

Before

Chris was out of town on business this week and so I wanted to come up with a project to surprise him. We have been wanting to re-upholster our dining room chairs for a while now and we had already agreed on a fabric together. Had we not, I would never have attempted this because Chris is pickier than any woman I know.

Kenzee and I were walking around Hobby Lobby on Monday and I decided to go look at the fabric again and it was on sale, so that was my cue to purchase it.




I took all the chair cushions off myself using a drill and piled them in my car to go to my parents.



Kenzee and I spent the night there on Monday, because I'm a fraidy cat, and so my sister and I could do this project together after she went to bed.

She normally goes to bed at 8:00...no big deal...we read her a book and put her in bed and she goes to sleep.

Not at Grandma's. After much screaming, more playing, rocking, more milk, more snack...she went to bed some time after 11:00.

So we got started on this project a little late.

We were on the front porch getting all set up for our project and the dog came out to watch and threw up right in the middle of our work area.

Clean it up and get started.



The staple gun is a little bit loud and a lot a bit HARD! We are not getting any of the staples to go in all the way. I say we and I mean Sara...I am not brave enough to use the staple gun at this point. Anyway, Sara shoots in a staple and then I hammer it the rest of the way in, which really just flattens it.

The hammering is loud.



Moved to the back porch. It is still the same loudness, but now no one knows where it is coming from... he he.




Get started there.



Get hungry.



Ask mom for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.



She says we can have one, but we have to make it ourselves.



Sara asks her if Chris wanted one, would she make it for him?



She smiles and then flat out admits she would. (Chris is the favorite child. Most the time I am okay with this, but sometimes I get jealous. It's obvious...she babies him way more than us)

So we make our own peanut butter and jellies and get back to work.




By 2:30 am we have covered one cushion. I have used the gun a few times. Sara has mastered it and her staples go all the way in now.



We are too tired to do any more.


2ND NIGHT

We have got this down now and can complete two maybe even three cushions in the time it took us to do one the night before. We even took apart our first one and redid it making it tighter.
I have mastered the staple gun too, but I'm still afraid of it.



Our work was good and Chris loved it! This project was only $35 for 6 dining chairs.

After

Arbonne

I have started a blog about my Arbonne business http://anjoleesarbonnebusiness.blogspot.com/
It is kind of more for me and a little boring, but if you notice me slacking feel free to send me a little 'kick in the pants' note. I am working on consistency and shooting for Region in 2008!

I Love Whole Foods!

Thank you Connie for taking me there!

I love it more and more and more every time I go. It is so easy to shop organic there. They have organic everything from pears to potato chips. I love the beautiful lettuce. I love the grass fed beef. I love knowing that the cow I am eating had a good life. I love jelly without high fructose corn syrup. I love knowing our meals our safe and free of crap. I love cooking organic food. I love organic produce.

Kenzee loves tasting all the cheese samples. She has her little cheese cube and then signs more, more, more and I have to get her another one. Garlic dill cheddar...yum!

Organic Sugar is so beautiful! I will post a picture of it soon. It looks like glitter to me and makes me want to do a craft project. My sister came over the other night and was making tea and she opened the canister and stared inside and said, "What is this, is this sugar?" "Oh yes," I replied, "Isn't it beautiful?"

Right now you are probably thinking, "She's crazy." Yes, you are right, but you haven't seen my beautiful glitter sugar yet.

I love the fact that the store is small and not overwhelming. I love the aisle where you can make your own fruit & nut trail mix/granola although I have not attempted this yet. I love the beef guys who try and get the poundage just right by feeling it before they put it on the scale. They are really funny.

It sucks to drive to Arlington for groceries, but it is worth it. We have gotten better at planning and double checking our list because we don't make two trips to Arlington. We go once every two weeks and it is working out great.

Note for Levi...we have been taking our own bags. I like that too. I feel like I am doing a good thing. Here is a link from Levi to an awful story about mostly plastic forming a large conglomeration of crap in the Pacific ocean. It was an eye opener for me. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/19/SS6JS8RH0.DTL&hw=pacific+patch&sn=001&sc=1000

Check out http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/ I hope we will get one closer to us soon. Until then we will go to Arlington for groceries and I will be happy about it.

Halloween Night