Firewood!!!

Well I have been looking on Craigs List to find free firewood. Most of it is gone or I don't get a response back. Well this post had been up for 3 days but kept getting relisted so I called. The guy said we could go anytime and we planned for Saturday am. The guy said alot of people were coming so we told him we would be there about 4:30am. After some thought and the terrible thought of not being able to SLEEP IN! I said hey lets go tonight so we finished dinner, late. Ok we were now ready to leave at 9pm. Desert Hot Springs was our destination 45 minutes away but he said he had alot and it was free. Of course I forgot to take my camera with us. he was right he had cut down 3 huge trees and it was in his backyard and the neighbors(who i think were gone..evicted). Mostly the pieces were huge and would of taken 2 guys to even lift. So we took all that was small and they are not really that small. But its a great start to our wood pile. We are also going to build a fire pit in the backyard for evenings outside in the winter. So I'm not really sure what kind of wood this is but the tree stump was huge! So very old tree. I am sure there were alot more small pieces the 1st few days of the post and I can bet he won't even get rid of it all today unless someone is there cutting it up smaller. I am happy though I figure this is probably a couple hundred dollars worth.

Party Sat Aug 22nd

The pool was a big success to the kids! You know those adults they feel they are to big to put bathing suits on. I don't care I love the pool!

Guest Bedroom

Yes the guest bed has gifts on it until I put them away. This of course can be cleared on a minutes notice for you house crashers. lol

This has a bit of a Angel theme to the room.

These are 3 birth announcements of my sister. Somehow I do not have the 4th sisters birth announcement. Unfortunately she died at a very early age so I'm not sure if things were put away as not to remind everyone of her. I think these look very cute on the wall. Maybe I can even add announcements of the children of my sisters. I will have to see if they still have copies of them.

Our 2 girls.

Love the Angels.

I have been picking up pictures to complete the room.

This is over the bed. When I was growing up and stayed at my Grandma Pauline's we had pictures like this and the Lord's Prayer, so I wanted something similar and look what I found! The Lord's Prayer and a girl and boy praying. I was to perfect.

Sat 9/5 Pool Day

What a life! I love my 2 days in Paradise. I work for the weekend and the chance to relax and enjoy.

Willits giving me kisses!

We coaxed them on the raft for a little float.

Sadie wants to be just far enough away that you can't reach her and put her into the water.

We spent the afternoon in the pool. I got burnt and Lloyd got a bit also but he also washed all 3 cars to start his day. Willits loves the water and now will go onto the first step all by himself and with help will go on the 2nd step and then walk around the spa usually to get to Lloyd.

Office or should I say Sports Room!

Well Lloyd loves anything ANGELS and all football. With Brett Favre being a #1 and Green Bay a team he loves also. Over the last couple of years I have found many things for birthdays and Christmas and now he has a place to display it! We also have 2 desks in here, his and hers. I spend more time at my desk but then again I spend more time on my computer than him.

This is the football side.

This is on the door coming into the office.

Wouldn't be complete without Nolan Ryan!

Angel Wall of fame. 77 is for Reggie Willits which is our favorite player. Even our dog is named after him. We just call him "Willits" for short.

Hallway Linen area

What to decorate the hallway linen area with?? Well our wedding bears made a great center piece and some lovely topiary trees and of course some candles.

Our Bathroom

Well we decided to go with a Maroon color for our bathroom. The accessories were a lovely house warming gift and they match perfect to our rugs. I haven't found maroon towels that i love yet but I'm sure I will soon! I'm looking for decorations for the walls also. Man do I need to go to some more garage sales!!!!!

The hallway

Well my sister calls it the hall of shame. I love old family pictures and new ones. They really tell a story. I didn't even put up some juicy ones i had. I have one of my sister answering the phone in her bra and panties. Wouldn't she be mortified to see it on the wall. LOL Ok no Missie I didn't put it up but I really thought about it. He He He. Yes I'm bad and I know it. I still am putting together a collage of my sisters for the wall. It will be a never ending wall. The youngest picture I have of myself is 3 years old. I wish I had some older ones but that is as far back as I have. I made one of me growing up from 3 years old to teens. Some crazy pictures were added so if you click on the picture it gets bigger and you might be able to see some real funny shots! If you look at me and Donald Duck, my girlfriend took a picture right as Donald Duck was pinching my ass. I have pictures of the whole family and more to come. Stay tuned!

Fire's all over CA

Ok the scariest thing was on our way to work on a Thursday morning at 4:30am. As we were driving to the freeway on the ridge North of us was a BIG fire. I watched the news off and on all day. luckily it went further North. The bad part is it burnt parts of Oak Glenn which is known for their apple orchards. The weekend before we were out looking at garage sales and I mentioned we should go to Oak Glenn and the next week it was burning. Yes all those white clouds have been caused from the smoke. The smoke in these pictures were from the 2nd Yucaipa fire. I didn't have my camera the morning we saw the flames or you would have some real eerie pictures. It's all out now but the damage has been done. I don't know why people need to be so stupid and set these fires.

Kitchen

Well we couldn't decide how we wanted to decorate the kitchen but I think its coming together. Lloyd found a couple of porcelain roosters that are on the counter. We then found this picture at another garage sale. So it looks like a country theme with red and roosters. Slowly but surely we will add more. I hope to fins some great pictures for the dining room and I know with time and a few more garage sales we will have it done also!

New pictures for the Livingroom

These are 2 great pictures that we picked up at a garage sale. The guy wanted a 100.00 but he settled for 62.00 that was all that was left in our pockets! Notice the speakers to the right and left of the pictures. That's part of the great surround sound Derell hooked us up with.

The New Bar

Ok for us its new but you have to love Craig's List. It is my new best friend. Everything here was purchased off of Craig's List at different times! I got the bar stools back when we lived in Whittier at the one bedroom apt. They stayed in the garage. The bar we picked up for 300.00 and they ranged from 1500 to 3500 new. The wonderful mirror was 45.00 and the shelf we got at a garage sale for 5.00. The kegerator was 200.00 so we did everything for about 650.00. That isn't bad for a bargain hunter. You know me I can't pay regular price for anything unless I can't find it and its a to die for! The ship picture above the kegerator was painted for us as a housewarming gift from a guy at Lloyd's work. Bill is 76 and still working strong and painting in his free time. This is part of our living room and works well since we don't have kids in the house. Coor's Light on tap! Come on Over!