Too Fast

I am happy to report that Paco is doing well.  His tail has healed over with no infection and is already beginning to regrow!
And after all that, I am crazy enough to add two more members to our zoo.  Meet Delilah and Pebbles.  D is at the top and P on the bottom. Here they are in their favorite spot.  The drawer in the coffee table.  They crawl in from underneath when the drawer is closed and hide out for naps.  They are 2 of the 3 kittens that my mother-in-law's cat had.  After a fabulous school year for Haylee we decided she could finally have her own pet.  When we went to pick up her kitten, I fell for the other little girl and had to have my own. 
The girls last day of school was suppose to be this last Friday.  Unfortunately the state has not returned the scores for their state tests so unless the scores come in tonight and we get a phone call the entire school is participating in Flex days and going to school tomorrow morning...ugh!  But no matter what day ends up being the last day of school, I will have a high schooler and junior high schooler this next year!  AAAHHHHH!  They grew waaaaay too fast!

Heart Broken

I try not to put downer posts on here too often.  I like to keep this my fun space.  But I am so sad right now and just really need to share this.
Almost two years ago we got a pet iguana named Dizel.  We worked hard to care for him and enjoyed him.  Larry even built an awesome cage for him that I posted about here.  Unfortunately he got sick the beginning of this year.  We took him to the vet and found out despite all our good intentions we didn't know quite enough and he was smaller than he should be and hadn't gotten all the nutrients he needed.  We set up a schedule to start on weekly shots.  But just a couple days after that visit he passed away.  We had started making the changes the vet told us to, but think they were wrong on some so we lost our buddy.  You can figure that turned us off from the vet.
A month later we got a new iguana named Paco.  We have done better with his cage and made changes that were better suited than the vets.  We also did a much better job with his diet and he is growing like crazy.
We have had to up his feeding to twice a day.  He will come to the window and stare at you to feed him and if you don't pay attention to that he will climb his long and jump down over and over till you get annoyed with the noise and feed him.  He was doing this on Tuesday afternoon so I had fixed him some berries.  He was running to greet me and get his treat so I decided to try and pick him up.  Normally he will just run from me.  This time he jumped over my hand causing him to jump out the cage.  My cat hearing this ran over.  So I was trying to get a hold of Paco and trying to yell at my cat to get back.  I got a hold of him but he moved right when I went for his back and I got a hold of his tail.  So he let it go.  So now my fabulously growing iguana with the over foot long tail only has a 2 inch tail.  Holly got home shortly after all this and was able to help me catch him.  I had gotten all the other animals locked out of the house.
He is ok we just have to keep his cage clean and keep neosporin on him to keep him from getting an infection.  Being so young he will be able to grow back his tail but it will take a year.  And now his body will focus on growing that so he won't get real big.
I am so worried over him getting sick and feel horrible since I had just been admiring how big he was getting the day before.  His tail gave him balance so he is having to learn to climb again.
Many say he is just a lizard, but he is a pet and I am attached to my pets.  So please say a little prayer that his tail heals without getting an infection.  And please pray for me to help me to forgive myself.  I am really bad at beating myself up over things.  I know this was just an accident and I was only trying to do what I thought I should, but I keep doing the "if I only had...."
On the good side he is telling me right now that he is hungry so I will go now and fix him a plate of greens and berries.

Tag Rag Returns!

Here is my best friend Lori's son Lucas enjoying my tag rags I made him back in 2009.
















And here is little brother Austin enjoying them in 2011.










Definitely one of my best enjoyed gifts.  And one of the easiest.  Guess I better get some more made for a few more babies that are on the way, 

And the world keeps going!

There just is never enough time.  I am constantly trying to catch up here and there.  I just can't seem to get back into a grove of things since my test.  Of course right after the test was getting ready for Clint's wedding out in El Paso.  It went wonderfully and we had so much fun spending a couple days vacationing too.  I will get a good post with pictures soon.  Right now I am trying to not over do it.  I got real sick last Friday and just turned into a completely horrible and miserable person.  I was so bad work even noticed and I usually hold in my grouchiness there.  I woke up feeling so much better Tuesday that I wanted to tackle everything that needed to get done when I got off work.  I am proud to say I listened to my body though and rested when I felt it telling me no you are not fully well yet.  Poor Larry is now sick and is miserable.
So obviously I am behind on a lot right now.  One thing I am catching up on though is finally getting up to date on my yearly brain exams.  I am going in tomorrow for my MRI and then to see the doc next week to find out how all is continuing to heal.  I am only a year and a half late with this.  How about lets change it to being almost 4 months early for this year's exam. So I really should get my laundry out and myself in bed to get ready for 1 1/2 hour drive to the hospital and then an hour in the tube tomorrow.  Just got inspired by my besty's blog to get in and get an update put in.
Oh almost forgot!  I did finally get to spend time with my sewing machine again.  Just made super simple new beds for the dogs, but boy did it feel good to get some creating done.  So many babies on the way so I am looking forward to getting to work on baby gifts real soon.  Especially since I get to finally work with some pink along with all my blue!

Big Day!

So much to fill you in on such as passing my big test on the first try and kids getting older, but today is not the day to do it.  IT IS MY BIG BROTHER'S WEDDING DAY!  I will obviously have pictures coming soon.  Have a wonderful day all!

A Wonderful Gift!

Here we are having ANOTHER snow day in North Texas.  The girls have now been out for 5 of the last 7 school days! This is a record!  I have not seen this many snow days for North Texas kids since I started school!  I think at the most we had 3 and I don't remember that many even.
I tried to go last night to get some items from the store...BIG MISTAKE!  Worse than Christmas Eve!  I left and decided that with the Jeep I could handle the roads in the morning and get what I needed then.  The condition of the roads would decide how much I got.  Well they weren't bad at all (for me anyway) so I went ahead and did major grocery shopping.  They had pretty much everything I needed after restocking from last night, and I enjoyed almost no one there.
Got the girls and I lunch.  Just simple stuff to fix.  Holly ate what I had and Haylee made herself the pasta I picked up for her that she likes.  They were both enjoying being lazy so I had lunch long before them and went on to do my chores.  After I heard Haylee finish her cooking and eating I noticed the water running a lot in the kitchen.
When I went to put in another load of laundry I found this:

After finishing her lunch she put away her leftovers then hand washed and dried her dishes.  She left them out so they could do a little more air drying before they get put away since I am a stickler for the dishes being dry before they are put away.  What a wonderful treat!!!!!  That warmed me right up!  So proud of my maturing baby!
I also enjoy my shoe choices on these snowy days.

Stick with my house shoes in the house and my snow boots when heading outside.  The boots came from Academy back when we were getting ready to go to Colorado for Christmas in 2008.  They have been one of the best investments ever.  And surprisingly fairly comfortable.  And who doesn't love a day in their house shoes?

But you can't forget a little color and it doesn't hurt when they help with keeping you warm.  Can't believe I didn't think to wear my knee high socks under my skinny jeans till almost the end of the snow days last week.
Hope everyone else is getting wonderful surprises and finding your own enjoyable way to stay warm!

Scott Farkus

This is Rosco.

He has been on here before. Obviously he has grown.  I zoomed in a lot so you can't see he is actually a smaller cat.  Or maybe my other cat, Matty, is that huge, but no I really think he is just a smaller one.  Flash was closer to Matty's size. 
Anyway, my mom thinks we named him wrong.  She says he should be named Scott Farkus due to his YELLOW EYES!  Hehe!  That thought came to mind on this 3rd icy day.