Weekly Challenge #1

It's time for the next challenge in my organizing. I attempted the 21 day cleaning challenge and was doing awesome but then we moved so everything at the moment has a home and is pretty organized so I'm moving on to the next challenge of organizing my life :) I'm super excited about these weekly challenges and hope I can keep up because I love being organized and used to be pretty good at it before I had two kids and a family to take care of! A mothers job it never done so here we go...... I hope you'll try too!

I do better with deadlines so these challenges really help motivate me! 

if you'd like to follow along, join in and link up her you go:

Weekly Challenge #1 is a Home Management Binder

I will get started on this soon and share later in the week :) The Bowl Full of Lemons blog has some great resources for printable (some free) so check it out even if you can't join in each week! 

WIP - Child's Flower Sweater

Work In Progress -(Finished - 01/29/11)

Red Heart.com has come up with some really great new patterns that I've been itching to try! The first one is the adorable Child's Flower Sweater. You can find the free pattern here. I just love bright colors so I'm trying to add my own flare to this darling sweater for my Calleigh.

I've usually only made items that are one piece so this is my first attempt at piecing together a garment.

This first picture is of the back which is all I have done right now. It'll lay a little better when it's put together.  I have 2 sleaves, the front pieces and a super cute collar to add to it. I thought it might be fun to follow the progress of this sweater. I'm using I Love this yarn acrylic but I think it would be a great summer sweater in cotton yarn in a solid color like white or cream.

1/29 - 12:31 pm - I just finished the 1st sleeve and then I realized I did double crochet and not triples on the sleeve. It makes a big difference in the length and the look of the sleeve. so starting back over on next step....LOL (hate I when I do that)

1/29/11 - it is finished

Front View

Back View

It's not perfect and there are a few mistakes but over all I like the way it turned out and it fits Calleigh great! I'll try to get a picture of her wearing it soon!  :) 

What do you think? 

I really think I want to make her an white or off white cotton on for the spring. 

I also found this sweater today : Child's Friendship knot sweater - the texture is great and I love the knot detail if I can do it. I bet you could even make it longer in length for a cute dress and even use cotton yarn with shorter sleaves for a lighter spring dress.

Meet our newest addition - Tank!

Many of you from facebook noticed I was looking into getting a puppy for my now 3 year old Ayden! We couldn't have one in the old house but we can in our new home so we began to look. We really like labradors and huskies so we looked on Craisglist and checked to local shelters to see what they had. I didn't really want a new puppy because I don't have the time to train him even though itty bitty puppies are ad-or-ab-le! My hubby found a really sweet puppy in the Moore, OK Shelter. We went to take a look at him and he was just perfect and I really liked that he was a year old and already trained very well. He'd only been there about a week was already neutered so he was only $5.00. Can't really beat that.

He took right to my husband and our family. He needs no training and is super great with kids.

His name is Tank and he is an American Staffordshire Terrier also known as an Amstaff.

I have to admit I've never heard of these and we did do alot of research on them before we bought him.

They are great family dogs and do really well with children and are very tolerant of there pestering. They love to be part of the family! They are very playful and need lots of exercise so good thing we have a nice size back yard he can play in. They are very protective but super friendly too, loyal, intelligent and strong. He is a medium sized dog and won't get any bigger than he already is.

The history of this breed is quite interesting. If you'd like to read more you can on this offical web site for Amstaffs.

We love our new puppy and he couldn't be a more perfect pet for our family!