Hey everyone, it's Lexx. So my mom is going to be M.I.A. for a few days. She hopes you are all doing well, and she will post more when she gets back. Love you all!

We Made It

To another weekend, that is...and extended at that.

Woot, woot!

Whitehaven Beach, Australia

I have some pretty awesome plans that may include my little neice from Arizona.

I'll update you on the deets next week.

Unitl then.

Do you have any cool Memorial Day weekend plans?

Scrapboxes

I was doing some blog surfing and ran across some pictures of some scrapboxes by Darcy Miller. 

 I thought to myself what a perfect gift for a new mom, 

a birthday or special occasions (like a wedding).

  You could probably go overboard with too many mementos in the frames,

 but I thought the examples I ran across were done beautifully.

Wouldn't this be a great gift for a new parent.

You could take a baby picture and add the child's favorite toy

I love this one, mostly because this is one that I would have done

 for my kids if I would have thought about it

(It would have either been hair accessories or sunglasses).

How about a box for a special performance?

I love this idea.  A favorite book with mom/dad/grandma/grandpa/whoever reading it to a child.

If you are interested in seeing more go here.

What A Mess

If you were to visit our house, this is what you'd be experiencing.

It is a total disaster!

We moved Austin to his "new" room, so we were then able to tear the carpet out of his old room.

That meant removing everything from the old room.

Somehow....not everything made it to Austin's new room.

We have tubs, games, blankets, you name it, sitting in the hallway, kitchen and living room.

It is quite the disaster.

I'm hoping that we might be able to get some of this mess cleaned up this extended weekend.

We shall see.

Just a little bit of the mess in the hallway.

Austin's old room, minus the carpet.

I can't decide what color I want to paint the room.

I'm thinking maybe a grey/slate color.

Eclipse

Did you check out the eclipse on Sunday?

Todd and I accidentally ended up watching it.

How do you "accidentally" watch an eclipse you ask?

Easy, you forget that there is one happening, then you look outside while cooking dinner and make the comment to your hubby, "That's weird, it looks overcast or smoky or something."

You then go outside and realize...

Doooohhhh!  

Eclipse.

Shot taken with my camera with no filter light.

Not so impressive.

Todd then took his lens out of his welding face shield and put it in front of the camera.

The eclipse as time went on...

and one last shot.

I like this picture because it shows you how dark it was while the eclipse was occurring.

It's not underdeveloped, just what the actual lighting looked like (see blue sky in background?).

(I guess technically it would be considered underexposed...just on purpose).

So did you get any cool pictures?

Did you even watch the eclipse?

We're Up And Running Again

We got the Internet working again.

Whewww!

Todd and I had a wonderful weekend. 

We started off going to Coffee Depot, Salvation Army,
 The Auburn Home and Garden Show, Mr. Pickles and finally to the movies to watch The Avengers.
And that was just Saturday.

Sunday we ate breakfast, made phone calls to family,
weeded and did yard work,
relaxed and then watched the eclipse. 

Weeds,

weeds,

and more weeds. 

Look at this ginormous moth...at least I think it's a moth.

That's Todd's hand holding the thing.

A little bit of progress.

It was awesome!
I just wish weekends lasted a day or two longer.

Technical Difficulties

I am currently unable to blog from my house, so it might be a couple days before I can post again.

Apparently, unlimited internet is not truly unlimited.

We went over our specified amount.

We should have the problem resolved by Monday.

Until then.