Birthday!

Hey, It's dad's b-day! the Big 44. We went out to see the new James Bond movie. It was great. At first he didn't want to go out at all because of the snow we got yesterday....but he said it was worth it. On our way to the movie, i saw VW Bugs and slugged everyone. I got slugged back during the movie because of the bug in the movie. hahahaha. Going home, we passed an ice fishing hole. we saw about 3 trucks. Got closer and looked over the ice and saw like 30 people!!!! and more trucks on the side of the road. We were laughing so hard.

God Bless!

Hey!

Looks like we got our blog back... it's kinda past my bed time so i'll write about what has been going on later.
love!

5/26/2008

Great Starting for the Summer

via The happenings . . . . by *elmo_luvs_me* on 5/26/08

It is all bright a green up here in Northen Indiana. I absolutely love it!I can get out and relax around. Grandma Smiley, Joe, Johnathon, and Daniel are coming up for Justine's grad party. We are traveling together. I am missing driving to go there. i can make it up. We only have like two days of being in class for driver's ed, but we already started driving. Haley and I get out of school on June 2nd. And i am of to CIY for a week after. SO it's going to be CRAZY! We are having lights installed by the one and only TOM! I am excited now for so many things.... life is starting to sprout out.oh yeah, i finished knitting my skirt. i put elastic in it and i need to sew up the insides and it could be worn! so exicted. Oh, did i tell you guys that i have glasses now?!?!?! well, here is a pic for you guys! talk to you guys later!

4/2/2008 - birthday news

Birthday News

via The happenings . . . . by *elmo_luvs_me* on 4/2/08

Okay, my birthday was a success!On sunday we kept getting phones calls from the same people, but all of them got there (donnie was late). We watched I Am Legend. They kept trying to make me jump. We also had Gabrielle over,too. We had fun playing apples to apples. Just it was a blast having all of them over.Me being fifteen does not feel any different so....what to do?i started a Media Arts class needing a 35 mm camera. I went out w/ a couple girls today w/ our cameras and took pics at the school farm. i think we all got great shots. I hope evreyday is like that when it does not rain =].love you all!-tara lea

Back to the 80s!

Prairie Heights High School is presenting Back to the 80s!
I(tara) am in it.
and during my time......this is really shocking!


!!!!!!I AM KNITTING!!!!!!!
i am doing a skirt.
it is hip in hemp.
the pattern is on knitty.com
i got the yarn and needles at Knittingtoday.com

almost last ice

via The happenings . . . . by The Mom on 3/15/08

So, no one is fishing because it is thin and black on Pretty Lake . . . but here's the catch on Lake James . . . yep, almost a 5 gallon bucket of crappy. How long do you think it'll take to clean them? Start time is 8:30pm.

Haley's new projects . . . beaded stitch markers

Haley loves beads! She spends a ton of money on beads! She saw a website with how to make your own stitch markers the day after Tara and I were complaining about not having enough markers here at home for all the projects we have going ;-) -- here's Haley . . . . and here's what she's making.

pictures

i wrote this... and i want comments on what you think?
many people talk about pictures.
and how they are worth a thousand words.
do pictures really catch who we are?
and every emotion?
some do; some don't.
it is just hard to catch every moment,
but sometimes you don't want to catch it like a fish.
we have one life.
we should cherish it.
we should catch every moment,
no matter what is on that camera.
we want to remember all the bad times;
we want to remember all the great times.
so...
reel in everything you can possibly catch
making your life.
GO FISHING!

- tlm

!UpDaTe! --SUPERBOWL SUNDAY SALE!

SUPERBOWL SUNDAY SALE!
this sunday only!
the BIGGEST sale at Knitting Today! (and i get to go to lazer x)
very HUGE part of the year!
mom and dad will be working while us kids kick some butt at lazer x!
last time i played three games.
i came in 4th, then 2nd, and 2nd!
there were boys and they got kicked by a girl! hahahaha!
i might watch the superbowl? i only like the commercials.
not a huge football fan.
life is going great. nothing wrong up here. we had a winter storm but it was okay. nothing major really to my eyes.
school (i think)is going great for haley and me.
i missed three days of school and i am behind in English still.
Shakespeare report. it makes no sense kinda for me on writing it. my birthday is coming quick (march 30). i am not sure what i am doing...it's on a sunday but i have a lot on that day. no time to celebrate and have friends over. i hope the XBOX gets fixed so i can play games if i do have my friends over(hopefully dad will let me have my guy friends over cuz really it is only guys and they ROCK!)and i am dieing to play our games! i might have a movie marathon... i have seen so many movies last year that i love! pretty much everyone has been sick. i haven't paid much attention because i have lot of homework with two honors classes and being behind really puts a hole in everything. which reminds me... i have to do my english so i can get caught up. and my grammar and everything is horrible in this piece (lol).
well, love you alls! thanks for reading!
-tlm

Semi-formal!

It was a great night! Lots of laughs, dancing, and fun! Trent came though. Well, Trent did bring me to the dance. He picked up Kirsten (the girl that is a friend that asked him). Then, we went to pick up Nathan because he was on the way there. if you saw the blog before that is how i looked. Trent was mostly gone all night. i couldn't find him. I was dancing with Nathan all night. Nathan did straighten his hair that night. It does look good instead of the curls sometimes. He was with me all night and sometimes with our friends. He and me danced to "our song" Far Away by Nickelback. When i recognized it, i just started tearing up. I didn't expect that to be played. He (Nathan) was singing it in my ear most of the time. It was really great! After the end of the night, a couple of girls took the balloons and sucked the helium and sounded like chipmunks! it was funny. I took pictures with my friend Brittany and a picture of Nathan and i. Nick's (another friend) mom took pictures of his date and me and Nathan. It was fun. I was head banging which made me hair kinda fall out. My hair did get done professionally by Shari. She did a great job. I got compliments all night! i did borrow the dress from a friend. I could go on and on about this subject but no thanks! i said enough!

Happy New Year - 2008!!

The new year dawns with several inches of new fallen snow. It is bright and white outside, a beautiful start to a new year. Happy 2008 everyone! I'm off to light a fire, make some breakfast and coffee, and enjoy some time with the family . . . .

and, here's what Tom looks forward to working all those long hours at UPS:

a beautiful girl in a beautiful dress . . .

And, after all those moaning and groaning, here she is . . . she borrowed a dress from a friend in PBnJ and we knit the shrug {yarn from http://www.knittingtoday.com/, of course} to cover her bare shoulders. Hair was done by Shari from the Magic Wand in Orland, Indiana.




P.S. Do you notice the wonderful oak mantel in the background??? Isn't that an improvement over the gaping hole?
ETA: 1/8/07 - temperatures of around 60 degrees and massive amounts of rain have resulted in flooding in our basement [again!].