The Burg's Nest

Thursday, October 04, 2007

I'm Quite the Handy Ma'm

Since Joe was gone hunting, I spent several evenings being quite handy (IMHO).

I went to IKEA with Kyra and Marya and

bought this bathroom cabinet. It came in

a flat box (as all IKEA stuff does) with a 20

page instruction manual! Let's just say that

this one took me more than one evening!!!

Looks good now, though! :)

I copied Juan and Cari and bought some
lights for our bookshelves... They have to
be screwed into place too! I didn't know that
when I bought them... I might have thought
a little longer about buying them if I had known!
I love them now that they're up, though! :)

We don't have blinds on our sliding glass door, so I bought
some curtains so that at least I can't see the boogie man
in our backyard!!! Weird as it sounds I felt so much better
with these up and closed when Joe was gone!!! :)

Sagey and Chloe having fun!

I thought Chloe looked particularly cute last Sunday in her Sailor outfit, so I wanted to get a picture of her. She had other ideas, and so did Sage! For some time now Chloe and Sage have started to "play" with each other. Chloe will run up to Sage, and then kind of stomp her feet around and if that doesn't do the trick she will get down on the ground and try to get his attention that way! This was what ensued as I was trying to get her picture! I thought it was hard to get a picture of just Chloe, but trying to get her and a dog that is tearing around the house is even harder!

One for the camera!

Sage is right behind Chloe in this picture!

Chloe is getting ready to make her move!

Now she's down at his level!

This ought to do the trick!

Okay, fine! I'm gonna go lean on you, then!!!

Here she is coming to get Sage!!

Backpack baby

My Mom gave Chloe a little backpack (which is still too big for her) and she loves to wear it around! She cracks me up when she runs around with it on!! Sometimes she doesn't even want me to take it off of her... Go figure! Maybe she'll love hiking up hills with her Dad and Grandpa Zee with a big pack on her back!

Giving Loves!

Since we were in the area we couldn't help but stop and see the newest little baby in our extended family! Jill and Justin's baby Cora was just the sweetest, brightest eyed little cutie pie! She was only 17 days old!

Here is Chloe trying to give Cora loves!!

And again!! I love this picture because it shows just how
much they grow in one short year! Look at Cora's sweet little
hand!

Fall Cabin Trip

While Joe went hunting, I decided that Chloe and I would fly to Boise for an extended weekend. Chloe has flown before, but I was a little nervous about doing it all by myself. Luckily it was smooth sailing both ways and Chloe did wonderfully! My cousin Bryan picked us up from the airport, but I missed seeing Lana since she was away visiting her ailing Grammy in Canada. Brynna just moved into Bryan and Lana's (following in my footsteps!) and had school all day. Bryan let me and Chloe take a much needed nap (since we had been up at 4 A.M. in order to catch our plane) and then we went over to my Aunt Mari's for a little bit. After all of of this, (it was hardly past 1 P.M.) I got to hang out with Becky for the rest of the day! She took me to this neat little restaurant and gave me a tour of her condo, before we had to meet up with Brynna. Then we all (Brynna had a few friends with her too) headed up to the cabin.

Chloe and Grammy on the porch!

Chloe thought it was funny to feed Auntie Brynna!

Grammy and Chloe playing with Grizzly

Hi Neighbor!

Bryan and Kobi joined us on Friday. Here they are investigating the island!

Walking on water!!!

The water is SO low!!! Grammy tiring Chloe out on the long trek!

Mom, Brynna, and Nicole

Rachel hanging out

Chloe liked to play on this "step" and with the stools!

Reading her book!

Some of the girls eating lunch

My sweet cousin Bryan was nice enough to put up with all us girls! :)

Me and Becky enjoying a fall day up at the cabin!

Kobi giving me a funny face!

Jammin' with Joe!

The apricot tree in our backyard produced a ton of fruit this year, which we froze so that when we had time we could do something with all of it. Well, I wasn't getting to it fast enough so my enterprising husband decided that he would make his own beloved apricot jam! He decided to do it outside on our camping cook-stove so that it wouldn't heat up the house! What a guy! :) Here are some pictures of him hard at work!