One of those days!

You know the days when you feel like everything is going great. The house is clean and you can enjoy seeing the top of your kitchen island. The laundry is done or at least almost and the kids are being pretty good. And you've been able to work out and feel good about life.  Lets just say that was LAST WEEK. This week is a different story Holy Cow! My kiddies were sick over the weekend (and some still are) and my Hubby had to work and it was just a crazy busy weekend. I feel like life is piling up around my ears. I have so much I need to get done and instead I am spending my time holding my little ones and breaking up their fights.....While the world around me becomes a mess. But oh how I love them.
Already today I had to tell Libby that she can't hit Finn with a hammer, I've had to clean up the puddle they were spashing in on the floor and break up the countless fights over CHAPSTICK... have I mentioned their LoVe of chapstick...They go crazy over it.

MY WEEKEND PROJECTS COMPLETED!

MY WEEKEND PROJECTS!
I had a lot of fun creating these it all started during Christmas when Finn pulled a dollar store ornament from the tree and pulled the gold sequins off.  I was about to throw the Styrofoam ball away but then I thought I could come up with some way to use it. So I used the fabric left over from my curtain project to wrap the balls and then I realized I needed other sizes so after Christmas I picked up some plastic ornaments for next to nothing.
They blue finial was the color of the tiles behind it sorry no before pic. I needed it to give a punch of color. Lets just say I didn't realize I bought metalic paint so I rubbed it with black stain to help tone it down.

                                                                                 

GRADITUDE JOURNALS!  Ok so I got this Idea from my cousins super talented wife Amy. After some misshaps with the first books I had bought I settled on some beautiful metalic blue stary books. Lets just say I like them alot more coved in the cute paper. And thanks Geneil and Cheryl for all your help.

Some Of My Projects!

MY CURTAINS!

I made these curtains in november. I saw a pillow in a magazine that gave me this idea. I love them. The sun was getting pretty bad so I needed something. I do need to hem them...Maybe someday when I get some time...Oh and I made the snow flakes for Christmas.

TREE TREATS!  My sister Tera gave me this idea...LOVED IT! So my Mom and Tricia made them for our kids to give their teachers.

What a GREAT WEEKEND!!!!!!

So this has been a great weekend. I had a crazy week with the kids, most of the crazy came from the twins but hey we expect that right. There was one night Dano asked if it was wrong if he wished they were turning 4 this year instead of two. My reply was a lot of ....we need to enjoy the JOURNEY and love the stage they are at....they heard me I know they did and then the next day I apologized profusely to my husband for the crap I tried to pass off the day before because I too wanted the two years to disappear especially after the day I had with them. BUT  this weekend came and I am again happy with all of my beautiful children. Piper was star of the week this past week and then was picked to bring home the class mascots buzz the bee and buzz Jr.. Slade had his first day at basketball and Dano is his assistant coach. Reese was able to have fun sleeping at Mya's and then Piper got to the next night and oh how they were spoiled by their Aunt....Thanks Tasha.  We have had a Family filled weekend of finishing projects and watching funny movies and I have enjoyed every minute of it....

JODY IS FINISHING PROJECTS!

We've only lived in our house since June, but our kitchen is slowly accumulating the leftovers of crafty projects, finished and unfinished.  Jody is madly trying to finish as many projects as she can tonight.  Tommorrow is the day Dano is threatening to clean unfinished projects out of the kitchen!
If you don't see any pictures of said projects, leave a comment to remind Jody that part of the project is documenting the results.

COVER SONGS

Sometimes people get in the way of their own talents... that is, the way they act or portray themselves obscures a work of genius.  Don't get me wrong, at the height of their popularity the Cure and Wham were both respected music acts, but only later as other bands cover these songs can I appreciate how awesome they are.
Cover of The Cure's Lovesong by Death Cab for Cutie

Cover of Wham's Careless Whisper by Seether

The Rural Alberta Advantage

One of my new favorite bands! Names of songs of their album Hometowns: Edmonton, Frank AB, and my favorite: Deathbridge in Lethbridge

Dano's Music

The Morning Benders

During the Christmas season we were able to host some very fun parties and for that reason we had some late nights as a family. The twins have been up way to late for too long.  So last night I told Dano we were going to make a major effort to put them to bed at 9:30.  So we both went to lay down with them and I thought we were doing great but when 10:30 rolled around they both sat up and said SANTA HO Ho HO! I was so mad but all I could do was laugh. That ruined everything from that point the jumped out of bed and ran around the room in the dark acting like wild animals until about 11:30.  Then Libby thought it would be so funny to bite Finn on the back of the neck(my babies are pale but I'm pretty sure they are not vampires.) That is when I said enough is enough and I chucked them back in bed and lets just say they fell asleep at midnight I think they taught me a lesson....

2010 will be a great year for the Stirling Gurney Seven!

We have decided to create a blog to document memorable events in our family, as well as create a place for us to post, share, and discuss art, music, news, and social happenings that matter to us.
And what better time to start than 2010!