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I have been thinking a lot about making gifts this year. I am currently working on the Lehnhausen Family Cookbook, for my mom and sisters, but thats not enough. I really wish I could sew or crochet, BUT dont really want to learn. Isnt that horrible? Cant I just..KNOW?? Anyways..I have been looking for some ideas for my cookbook cover. These are one of the options I've found... I want something more modern and fun.
I had my family draw names for Chritmas presents (as is custom in my house, at least since us older girls have gotten married) and I got Heidi, my older sister. Yayy! I totally wanted her! She will be easy and fun to make or do something for.
Today was conference, we don't get the BYU channel so we had to listen to it on the internet. One of the speakers talked about my favorite nutrition rule: The 80/20 rule. The idea is that if you eat healthy 80% of the time, you can eat virtually whatever you want the other 20%. (Needless to say he tied this in to the gospel) However, I'm currently living the 10/90 rule. I've thought about giving up sugar for the month of October, but I just dont know if I can tear myself away. We have become pretty attached.
Jeremy and I FINALLY sat down and worked on our website today, www.customclosetworks.com. Our AMAZING web designer and friend (incredible rates too!!;)) is working on it for us and has been bugging us to type up some blurbs about our company, ourselves, and our product. Anyways, I'm excited to see what he comes up with! I hope he can make us look like..oh, I don't know..a REAL company. We still feel like we're pretending.

Fall Madness

One of my favorite movies is Youve Got Mail. I love the music. I love the whole idea of New York in the fall. Wearing sweaters and scarves but not freezing yourself to death. There is a line in that movie about Fall making you want to buy a bunch of sharpened pencils. I feel that way every year at this time. A time for learning and cleaning and organizing. I dont know it is about Fall but to me it always signifies a new year... Not the traditional January 1st. I guess I am still on "school time". I love looking at Fall decorations and prepping for Christmas. I dont know why I am a freak like this. I am married to a scrooge, so I guess he is what keeps me somewhat grounded.
We are taking family pictures on Friday with Jeremy's family. Girls are wearing blue and boys are wearing black. Wait, other way around. Anyways, I need to go get Jack a blue shirt. I think while we're there I will have them take a picture of "our" family, for Christmas cards. Maybe. I am not a big Sears fan, or JCPenney or any of those other cheap places (I know..I'm a total SNOB!!) ..but I just dont know when we'll have time to do it unless we do it Friday.
I found a site, www.heatherhalesdesigns.com, that does really cute Christmas cards so I think I'll go that route. I didn't do anything last year, what a loser!
Plus, I'm so dissapointed in the LAME announcements I did for Jack! What was I thinking?? I wasn't. Never have a kid right before Christmas and then go back to work after only 2 weeks off!! (Although I was going a little crazy at home too, can't win!)
I got a ModBod order today, yaay! I got some long sleeved shirts which I'm excited about AND I just found out that they have 3 new fall items with long sleeves! And ones a hoodie!
Jeremy sold his snowmachine after much nagging from me (poor guy!) in order to pay off his 4 wheeler. SOO thats one less payment going out every month! Now if we could just pay off his student loans and the pathfinder and Jacks medical bills, etc. etc. Oh the joys of being poor young married folk!

By The Way..

Am I the ONLY person who has trouble with this darn blogger over the last couple of weeks? EVERYTIME I tried to post something, it would tell me "cannot connect to blogger" UGH!! Glad its working now!

Frustrated!!!!!!!!

I have tried to post the events of our Labor Day weekend but it wouldnt let me for some reason so I have been boycotting my own blog in protest. A lot of good that does, I know, as if there was some sort of imaginary person that lives in this blog who's feelings I've hurt. I showed you!! Anyways, we have been busy, like always! We have a BIG closet job that hopefully can WRAP UP in the next week or so. I am getting excited for that, because we will make enough money to pay off our Business credit card and buy a computer for the Company.
There are a lot of exciting things going on in the family, particurily Jeremy's side- but Im not at liberty to say now. (OK maybe you can guess-but since I dont know anyone from Alaska who has this link yet, I think Im safe)
Jack is getting SO BIG and he is crawling like a mad man.. He LOVES to pull himself up onto anything and everything. He doesnt know what to do once he is "up" but he loves to be there. He can also crawl up about 3 stairs (OK maybe more but this is usually how far he gets before we stop him considering the only way down he currently knows is the free-fall-break-open-your-head tumble. Not good.

Welcome to the 80s

So, Jeremy decided that our house was missing something. Something bright. Something flourescent. Something that gets gross and stinky and poopy (no, not another baby) A fish tank! I have been fighting him on this for a few weeks now, but after taking Jack to the Pet Store recently and his description of how enchanted Jack was with the fish (read: lights in the tanks) he finally talked me into it.
$85 dollars later, we have a fish tank. Yes, it does look like something from the 80s but it does add a nice glow to the usually dark living room. We are leaving in a minute to get pick out some fishies, which I expect to have all of 3-4 days given the average lifespan of a fish. Ugh.

Motivated by Envy

In an effort to keep up with the Joneses (and by Joneses, I mean all those mothers out there who I envy because they find the time to post about their families), I am starting a blog!! YAYYY! I also need practice in the stream-of-consciousness kind of writing (I have NEVER been good at this) so maybe I can teach myself to loosen up as I get better! We'll See!
Jeremy has been going through a fruit-drying stage. (Yes, you read that right..Who does That?? My husband.) We have tried Apples (DE-liscious), Nectarines (also VERY good), Bananas (Ours turned out gross but apparently we cut them too thick and waited until they were too ripe. Apparently, I dont like them even if they're done right because I bought some at the store and they tasted like the banana flavored Runts which I abhor), and Kiwis (MUCH better fresh). We dried a whole dryer full of apples last night. They are such a better snack than the chips I am usually snacking on so this can only be a good thing!
Jack has been a little sick but can't blame him as he's had a mom coughing all over him (not intentional of course!!) for over a week. Poor Kid. He doesnt really want to eat or even sleep for that matter, but he certainly has the energy to fuss and cry. I don't know if he has more teeth cutting or what.
We got our pictures back from the photographer yesterday (like 5 months after we had them taken--so frustrating between our two schedules!) They only set us back $540 (UGH!!!! There was sarcasism there if you didn't catch that) BUT we did get a really cute black album that has already been scrapbooked for me, PLUS grandmas chipped in about $240 of that so it ended up not being too bad. I made an appt. for his one-year pics on Nov. 21. She told me to bring a cake for him to ravish! He will be so cute covered in cake and with his appetite--He will be one HAPPY boy!