Love Leigh Things

Merry (late) Christmas and Happy New Year!

 

 

 

Love from all of us and Bentley too!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I was sitting here dreaming of this

 

 
 

and seeing upcoming temperatures of 24 degrees, in the south shocking!  I wondered what to do around the busy-ness of the holiday season approaching (a little too fast).

 

Then I got these in the mail!

 
 

My latest goodies from the WONDERFULLY talented Alicia Paulson!  I can't wait to get started.  She sure knows how to get me in the spirit of the holiday!

 

Then hubby gave me a great (keep her busy so she doesn't start on me about shopping) giftie!  An IPad!  I do believe I am an Apple lover after this.  We are thinking of converting all of our computers now!

 

Now for the big news and bragging on my part!  Hubby has retired after proudly serving our country for 30 years!  He reached the highest rank possibly for an enlisted person, Command Sergeant Major!

 

 
 

I will have to devote an entire post to him soon. 

 

We are excited about his new opportunity/career!  I know he will be a huge success at this endeavor, just as he was in the military! 

 

Finally, Bentley and I want to wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving!  We will be back weighing a few extra pounds next week.  Love you all!

Happy Halloween!

 

 

 

Happy Valentine's Day!

I hope everyone has a great day!

Thank you to my perfect Valentine, Jeff.  You are my world and happiness!

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

Wishing you all a Happy Thanksgiving with Lots of Love!

Disney, Birthday Giftie and Happy Halloween

 

The family and I had the best time at Disney World!  There is nothing like having your birthday there, even for us ladies of a certain age, teehee!

 

 

 

 

Okay, I was a big kid princess!  You just do not know how close I came to going to the Bibbity Bobbity Boutique and getting my princess makeover!

 

 

The boys had a great time at Legoland.  Can you believe all of these things are made of Lego's?

 

 

 

 

 

Bentley had the greatest time at Animal Kingdom

 

 

 

until....

 

 

he seen these....

 

Hubby threatened to feed him to the tigers for whining a bit to much.

 

He was not happy about riding this

 

 

nope, not happy at all!

 

Boy 1 and I especially adored Epcot!   I will share our adventure soon!  It was great to get to go to Japan, England, and other places!

 

Now on to more happiness.  I was so excited to get a birthday goodies from the creative and kind Kai!  (I am sorry for being so late with my thank you!)

 

 

I really appreciate it so much, Kai!  I just love him.....but....

 

 I did not get to keep him long!

 

I hope everyone has a HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

 

 

Don't let the ghosties scare you!

 

 

 

 

 

Merry Christmas Giveaway!

I am soooooo very behind this season!  I am skipping ahead of many things I want to blog about, because I want to get this giveaway posted before things get more hectic!  I wonder if that is really possible?  The giftie is a fav of mine!  A Denise Schmidt Quilt It Kit! 

 

 

Sorry, YaYa is not included in the giveaway!

 

All you have to do is leave a message on this post!  Preferably a nice one, haha!

 

I will be back on January 4, 2009 to let everyone know who the winner is!  Hopefully, I will be a regular blogger again then! 

 

I sincerely hope you all have a great Christmas, holiday season!

 

Love you all!

 

Leigh and Bentley xoxoxo

Halloween, Thanksgiving, a Giveaway Soon, and Hubby Bragging!

Wow, that title was a mouthful wasn't it? 

 

Poor Bentley, he is very sad, no one guessed what he was!  He was Bentley Potter, a wizard!

 

 

 

Here are a few pics from the big day!

 

 

 

Hubby has talent

 

 

 

 

Can you believe he cut these out?

 

 

Littlest man was a guppy, hehe!

 

Because no one guessed what the B Man was we are going to make ourselves feel better by having a Christmas giveaway! We will post about it after the Thanksgiving holiday!

 

Speaking of Bentley he has his very own primate.  Her name is "DorisDay"  not Doris, not Doris Day but DorisDay.  Bentley just loves her and her movies!

 

 

 

This was back when she arrived from monkee maker!  (Yes, I have cleaned the dirt off of the mailbox, haha!)

 

 

I am not sure of their relationship but I am sure he will let me know! 

 

Bentley let me have the cool bag!

 

She sure is a perky little thing!

 

 

Now to brag (a little more) on my man!  He supports my habits!

 

 

and brings me flowers!

 

 

 

 

(my artsy photo, teehee!)

 

 

Did you see that book?  Up there with the movies?!?!?!?  It is the Alicia Paulson's new book and it is WONDERFUL!!!!  Just the best crafty book, ever!

 

I also got all of her patterns, in the NieNie Auction!

 

 

OH YUMMMMMMMM!!!!!!  I am a lucky girl!

 

I am off for the holiday!  I will be back in blogland soon!  Until then, I hope you all have a great and Happy Thanksgiving! I want you to know that I am thankful for each of you!  My mother promised "NO" scary cakes this year! Haha!  But, I am sure something will happen that is blogworthy, teehee!  Oh, I cannot wait to share my great mail with you! 

 

Sincerely - Happy Thanksgiving and Lots of Love!!!!

 

Leigh

 

PS Tonya, I will post your tag and Brit, I will post your award very soon!  I love you both!

 

 

 

 

WooHoo, sorta back!

I have been overwhelmed to say the least!  I will try to make this a quick catch up post, and then try to get back into the swing of blogworld in a few days!  I have missed it and you all sooooooo much!

Well, I knew I had been away too long when Bentley asked if I was on a writers strike, ummmm no dear monkee just crazy busy!

I want to say (a very late) Happy Mother's Day and a (late) well wish for Memorial Day!  You can blame my Mother's Day for part of the reason that I have not answered all of my emails!  More on that in a second!

I have almost got the whole house cleaned out.  One bathroom to go and the basement!  I took everything out of every room then cleaned and sorted it all!  I even did this with my kitchen, which had me running a little scared.

This was the least scary photo, most of the items are now gone!  It was a good timing because the postman had a food drive in middle of this cleaning and he racked up!

All of the carpets are nice and clean now!

I have to give hubby most of the credit.  He did the carpets and he is staining the decks!  One down and one to go!

This is just some of the piles that went to GoodWill!

I really was a lucky lady on Mother's Day! 

 

Meet Audrey, we have a love hate thing going on right now!  I can answer my phone now, score one for me!  Most of my time is spent trying to get take her battery out, where I have jammed her up.  My fault not hers.  Now for the great part!  I can check my email with her.  But, I managed to delete almost all of my emails, I thought I was saving them.  Not to mention that I did not know how to page forward so I only got a few lines, before they went to cyber heaven.   So, if you are owed an email please forgive me!  If you asked me anything that needs answering, could you resend it????  I do know that one email was from Laura, to answer the one question that I remember, I am 5'6". 

We did accomplish other things as well!  Boo finished confirmation class, yeah!  My boys informed me that they wanted a tougher curriculum for the upcoming year, so a quick trip to a homeschool fair was in order!  We have a great curriculum on order for fall!  Yes, it has kick mama's butt  great SAT scores written all over it, haha!

Of course, I would not be me without saying, I have more doctor appointments this week, on both Wednesday and Friday.   I will be visiting more soon!  I just needed to get my house in order, nesting to the umpteenth degree, haha!  I love you all!

Just Trying To Get Caught Up And The Easter Monkee

You would think when I leave my house for a few days, that I have been gone for a year.  I have been trying to get myself back on track, plus I have started to spring clean.  It does not help that my allergies are back for the first time in years!  I look like I have been drinking for a month.  Not to mention, the couch keeps beckoning me!  I am such a wimp when I feel bad.

First off, I want to thank Barb for the monkee love!  She made my new banner, yippee!  That did perk me up!  Don't you just love it?  I just love having a banner fairy!

I spent Easter and a few days after at my mama's house.  It was nice for a ton of reasons and she cooks a lot! 

She did not make these cakes but they sure were good!

Aren't they cute?  Can you believe hubby posed Bentley and took the photo.  It is funny, he will say, "where is the monkey?"

After we returned home, I was surprised to see the Easter Monkee in my media room.

I wonder who that masked monkee is?

Okay, enough of my silliness, I need to blog roam, spring clearn or at least think about it and hit the couch for a few days, haha!  I missed you all!  It was sweet that some of you emailed to check on me!  I am here, just a bit whiny!