Secret 40 day Challenge

I recently had a patient's mother ask me advice on machine quilting a quilt she was working on. I remembered a long long time ago I had a blog that had pics of all my quilts. As I pulled up my blog and saw how different my life was back in the day and how little my kids were and how much fun stuff we did I began to wish to be back in those days. Days filled with school, field trips, babies, and friends. I totally freaked out Mike by telling him I wanted another baby. I thought about that for oh about a day before my BFF slapped me back to reality. But balance is missing, and balance is so hard to obtain. My life is different and my kids are older and I have new and different things to freak out about. I enjoyed the creative outlet and I am secretly going to try and see if I can do 40 days on the down low. I've tricked my friends in the past so I won't share until I see if I can make a go of it. Heres to Day 1!!

Random Pics

 Lynds pulled off a fantastic 4th Birthday party for Jake

 Maddy FINALLY finished Drivers Ed and is a licensed driver to be

 Liv & Boots doing some reading

 PJ day at summer camp

 Snowball came for the weekend

 Maddy married the bunnies from Easter so there would be no sinning

 And just in time! We found these one morning

 Little Mermaid

 Back to School

 Litter #1

 Quienceiera - sorry I cant spell

 More Bunnies

 Dolly's

 First Day of Co-op

 Bye Bye Kevin

 Litter #2

 Hunting Season is coming....

 Mom pleeez let me dye my hair red!!!!!!

 Red- it faded in one week

 Fire Dept field trip

 Co-op fun

 Dye job #2 from a box this time

 Duck Dynasty Night at Chick fil A

Alternative TV

Several years ago we cancelled traditional TV/Cable in our home and opted for alternative broadcasting such as Netflix. In the last year we bought  a Roku that allows us to get ala carte programming such as The Blaze, Amazon Prime, The Weather Channel and Netflix. Television consumption in the Netflix/Amazon Prime generation consists of finding a TV show, and then watching a whole season on demand.  I don't even think I could follow a weekly series now that I'm accustomed to seeing 85 episodes in one sitting.  Any way I really have enjoyed the BBC.  It started with Sherlock Holmes, which is very disappointing in that there are only a few episodes in a season and then you must wait until the new season ends to get access. Then I found Call the Midwife, which sounds dumb, but it is WONDERFUL!! And my current obsession is Lark Rise to Candleford, which also is missing a catchy title, but is FABULOUS! I think the BBC might rethink the creative team that comes up with their program titles. I tried Downton Abbey but it was not near as good as the shows  I mentioned above and too much soap opera stuff.   I must say I am a huge fan of the BBC period programming and would highly recommend these titles. Other favorites on Netflix were Eureka and yay that had like 20 seasons to go through!! There is nothing more upsetting than getting hooked on a show that has one season... Dr Quinn Medicine Woman is an all time fave in this house. Its the equivalent to Little House on the Prairie that I can actually tolerate. Yes, I'm not a Little House fan..shhh.. I think that might be akin to blasphemy in the homeschool crowd. My husband was recently watching Parking Wars, now that is a job NO ONE wants! Being a meter maid is tough. It was interesting for about 5 minutes and then over and over were people bleeping out the meter maid. My husbands taste in TV is not as refined as mine :)

Oh and the number one best thing about this TV alternative is you can unplug the tiny Roku, or Wii, and lock it up in the safe or take it with you in the car. So if over consumption becomes an issue, quick fix!! I cannot tell you how many times I've snatched the Roku off the mantle (its the size of a bulky cell phone) and threatened to smash it in a zillion pieces. That usually returns the focus back to chores and school work pretty rapidly.

So what's your favorite TV shows?

Blogging from iPhone?

How do you get pics to load if your blogging from your iPhone?

Facebook and I are NEVER, EVER, EVER getting BACK TOGETHER

Ok, so we are in the process of getting a divorce.  We are negotiating on who gets the kids, and will I get alimony.  Until then I may still creep on face book but I am definitely coming back to my ex-blog boyfriend.  So who is still out in blog land?

South Pole Elves

Christmas week I decided Mike and I would make some doll beds for Liv's American Girl dolls. The cheap plastic-y ones at target were 45.00 dollars and I knew with my husbands mad carpentry skills we could whip one out for way less. Little did I know that a divorce costs way more than the target beds.... but I digress.. In usual Leisa fashion I find a cute plan on ana-white.com, decide we will make 6. You know 4 for us and 2 for friends, I mean how long can it take, right?

Notice the box of cheap beer under the table... I think that was a step in the process.. Just kidding Mike's dad helped get us started. He is a master carpenter.
Yes, they are adorable, yes, it takes two people to assemble, and yes, I called my husband a bastard in our back yard when our missionary neighbors were out back on their porch. And yes, I covered by loudly proclaiming, " I'm sorry honey, it's just so hard to get all these finished for the poor orphans...."
These still had to have about 5 billion more coats of paint. You can see the finished product with home made quilts in our Christmas day pics.

And I am sure our neighbors thought Santa was bringing us a divorce for Christmas, but hey that's just how we ROLL ;)

Bugsy Malone Jr.

Maddy played Lena in the show. Her character was hideously, hilariously awful!! She sang "Show Business" in this horrible nasally voice and then tripped, forgot lines, and stood on poor Walker! It was so funny!! What a fun part....

Ballet Recital

Liv also started Ballet this year and we had the pleasure of watching her Christmas performance. Her class were deer that found the half dead little girl after the forest fire....Enough said...