My Latest Find

Its no secret that Im a garbage picker.

No you don't have to worry about me going through your garbage bags, but if I do see something in your pile of trash that I fancy, I wont hesitate to pick it up.

Meet my latest side of the road find.

While driving home from my in-laws a couple of weeks ago, I spotted this beauty on the side of the road in our subdivision. Andrew had just picked up the Timbren van, and we got home at the same time. He hadn't even gotten out of the van yet when I yelled "Hey there is a chair I want right by the park." A few minutes later, it was sitting in our house.

Now its not perfect. Thankfully it wasn't dirty at all, or smelly (eesh), however it did have some rips in it and is missing a back leg. It was to good of a chair to give up, and I knew I could sew the rips, and find a replacement leg at Home Depot. After a bit of sewing, a little bit of fabric glue, and lots of disinfecting (I said it wasn't dirty but that doesn't mean I wasn't going to clean it), it is ready to be used once again.

You can still see the places where I had to sew, but I don't mind. I love the chair. I love the fabric, and the shape. I love that it tells a story. I love that I saved it from going to the dump. And I love that it was free.

Happy Early Birthday to me!

Hi all!

Well, all the Hodgsons made it home safely yesterday. Coral was sad to say goodbye to nana and papa, but was very happy to see daddy and all her favorite toys at home. When I pulled off the hwy Coral screamed "were hoooome" and started kicking her legs with excitement. It's so nice that we are able to spend time with our family while the hubby is away. We had a lot of fun despite my being sick the whole time.

In other news, does the layout of my blog look different to any of you? Or at least the way I'm typing it? That is because I am writing it from my new iPad! Say what? It's true y'all. There are two things you need to know about my hubby. One is that he loves technology, two is that he can't keep a surprise and is easily persuaded to give presents early. Hence the early iPad birthday gift.

My bithday isn't for another week, but when Andrew kept asking me if I have been snooping every time he left the room, I knew he had gotten my present already. I made hints about him giving it to me early, and when I came home from getting groceries, there is was, in all it's glory. She's a beauty. Now I'm not really into technology. I don't feel like I need to have all the latest gadgets, but our computer situation at home was driving me nuts. Andrew either needed the computer for work, or would be doing his photo editing on it...both left me computerless, and one left the computer running so slow I could hardly check my Facebook. So, not much into technology, but I admit I was estatic about my own little computer.

Andrew knew the iPad could do everything I needed it to do. Plus he thought it would be handy to be able to take photos and load them right away from the iPad to my blog (notice the lack of photos on my blog..my camera and I are not on speaking terms right now).

So now I fiddle. I have to get used to typing on a touch screen, and get used to the different lay out of facebook on it. And I have much to learn about blogging from my iPad. We still have to find an app that allows me to upload photos from the iPad.

Here I go...time to post this and see how it turns out. Hopefully by Tomorrow I will be able to share some photos with you!

Trick or Treat!

This year was totally different trick or treating with Coral. First of all, Andrew wasn't with us. He is at a trade show in Vegas all week long, so no candy for him. Secondly, Coral actually understood what was going on this year (after the first couple of houses) and LOVED it. Sorry ya'll, I don't have any pictures of Coral trick or treating since I left my camera at home. However Andrew took some of her in her costume a few weeks ago so i'll try to get them up on the blog soonish.

Since Andrew wasn't going to be around for Halloween, I decided I would make the treck down to my parents house. Both of my parents were thrilled that they got to take one of their little grand-babies out to get some candy. Coral woke up yesterday morning and the first thing she did was grab her costume and ask to put it on. What did she dress up as you ask? She was a monkey again! I thought before going out and buying her a new costume, I would bust out her costume from last year to see if it fit. Sure enough it fit her better this year then it did last year. Awesome.

We got Coral ready at about 5:00pm and headed out to get some candy. As most of you know, my parents recently moved, so the first place we went was our old house. The people that bought their house really wanted to meet Coral, so dad promised we would bring her by. Well, when we got there, they had gotten Coral a bucket FULL of candy. You should have seen her eyes. Of course she wanted to eat it right away so I told her to pick one thing. She looked in the bucket and picked a crunchie bar. Not the typical bite size chocoate bar that you usually get when you go trick or treating. Oh no, this was a full adult size crunchie bar. 

Now that she was full of chocolate (who needs face paint? The brown chocolate matched perfectly with her costume) we decided to hit up some houses of people that we know/are related to. Coral is usually shy around new people, but she had no problem going right in to peoples houses for some candy. And when I say go right in, I mean go right in. There was no waiting outside the door. As soon as the door opened she ran into the house and looked for the candy. Now since the first house we went to gave her a whole bucket full of candy, she assumed that at EVERY house she would get the entire bowl full of candy. So instead of taking one piece of candy, she would grab the whole bowl and try to walk away.

We tried to get her to say thank-you at every house, but while we were there she was so quiet, focusing only on the candy. However as soon as we left, she had some comment to make...after each house. Sometimes she would say "BYE OMA" (Oma is what she calls my grandma, but she usually just assumes that every old lady is a Oma), or would say "scary" if they had spooky decorations.

Once it started to rain we headed to my grandparents house to hang out with the rest of the family and help hand out candy. Coral had to see who was at the door every time someone was there, and checked out all the different costumes.

We really missed Andrew and was sad he couldn't be there wish us. It was such a fun night and I can only imagine how much more fun it will be next year when Coral is a little older (although maybe not as fun for me...I get to eat most of Corals candy this year...next year she might not be so generous). And yes, it took the little monkey a looong time to fall asleep last night after all that sugar.

Enjoy your candy everyone!