Crissie's Project 365

151/365 2011 I couldn’t help myself

2011-08-17T10:15:00.001-07:00

Elvis is just too sweet to not take pictures of him. He decided to lay his royal highness down on the desk I was moving around.

150/365 2011 UFO

2011-08-17T10:12:00.001-07:00

If you have ever visited yarn craft blogs, you will see the term “UFO”. It stands for UnFinished Object. Here’s my UFO… the baby blanket that I decided I’d rather not work on.

149/365 2011 Road trip

2011-08-17T10:07:00.001-07:00

Tomorrow is Memorial Day and so today Jason and I decided to escape the house for a long drive. We drove up to Sedona and around through Jerome. I want to go back to Jerome when it’s not a holiday weekend and explore the old western town.

148/365 2011 Granny square Do-over

2011-08-17T10:01:00.001-07:00

I ended up starting all over on my colorful granny square blanket. I wanted to use a smaller crochet hook than what I had started with. Elvis was kind enough to pose with my new squares.

147/365 2011 Guard Cat

2011-08-17T09:59:00.001-07:00

Elvis is making sure that the creatures in our neighborhood don’t enter our yard.

146/365 2011 Graduation night

2011-08-17T09:56:00.001-07:00

Jacob has made it through high school! Tonight he graduated from Desert Vista. This was a perfect opportunity to take pictures of my boys. They smiled and everything.

145/365 2011 Piggy bank

2011-08-17T09:52:00.002-07:00

I’ve had this little wicker piggy bank longer than I’ve had kids. Every time I go through my things to get rid of stuff, this guy looks at me with those little plastic eyes and I just can’t part with him.

144/365 2011 Sneak out FAIL!

2011-08-17T09:49:00.001-07:00

Tonight I had this feeling I should go check on Jacob before I went to bed. Glad I followed through…this is what I found. The old “pillows and clothing under the sheet” trick. He is SO busted.

143/365 2011 The look says it all

2011-08-17T09:46:00.001-07:00

This is why I have so many pictures of my cat. Jacob is waiting until he can leave for school. His first class isn’t until 4th period.

142/365 2011 Pot Rack

2011-08-17T09:42:00.001-07:00

This is my Ikea pot rack that we had to hang over our kitchen island. This house is truly lacking in the storage department. It’s been here for awhile but I forgot to take a picture of it.

141/365 2011 Organized mess

2011-08-17T09:37:00.001-07:00

This is a large collection of “stuff” that I have no idea where to store in this house. So it just sits in our computer room/den. At least getting to the vacuum is easy.

140/365 2011 Favorite Shoes

2011-08-17T09:33:00.001-07:00

Right now these are my favorite shoes. Super comfortable. I’ll put these on when I run errands after walking around barefoot and so they have my footprint embedded on them.

139/365 2011 Granny Squares

2011-08-17T09:28:00.001-07:00

I am finally going to start my colorful granny squares blanket. I worked up two squares to get a feel for what I like.

138/365 2011 Wutteva

2011-05-19T17:25:00.001-07:00

I had to run to Sally’s today and get some primer for work and saw this car in the parking lot. This license plate says exactly what I feel today.

137/365 2011 Vintage Stripe

2011-05-19T17:23:00.001-07:00

I hadn’t picked up my crochet hook for almost a month. So for the last few days I have been working on this blanket again. Here’s the progress so far. I think I will add at least one more foot of width onto this before I call it done.

136/365 2011 Taking my work home

2011-05-19T17:20:00.001-07:00

I really need to do my nails. I thought maybe bringing my supplies home would inspire me to do them. Maybe later.

135/365 2011 Scraps to burn

2011-05-19T17:11:00.001-07:00

Here a pile of wood scrap to burn. Too bad it’s gotten so hot we won’t use these any time soon.

134/365 2011 Bougainvillea

2011-05-19T17:08:00.001-07:00

I love the blooms on the bougainvillea. I do not love the blooms when they come off the bougainvillea and go into the pool.

133/365 2011 Friday the 13th

2011-05-19T17:00:00.001-07:00

This is pretty scary so it’s the perfect picture to represent a Friday the 13th.

132/365 2011 This makes Jason happy

2011-05-19T16:59:00.001-07:00

Nothing like a bag of computer screws to make my husband a happy man.

131/365 2011 A Bath, a Cat, and a Nap

2011-05-19T16:13:00.001-07:00

Elvis likes to be around people and if he’s awake he will find someone and keep them company. This morning while I was getting ready for work, he climbed into the tub and took a nap.

130/365 2011 Little basket of scrapbooks

2011-05-19T16:10:00.001-07:00

Just some of the little scrapbooks I’ve made.

129/365 2011 Pots and more pots

2011-05-19T16:06:00.001-07:00

I’m running out of room for all the pots that Jacob has made in his ceramics class. This is just one spot where they are displayed.

128/365 2011 Mother’s Day

2011-05-19T16:04:00.001-07:00

Notice the title is missing the word Happy. No real photo. Not a day I to remember.

127/365 2011 Jacob’s Prom

2011-05-19T15:59:00.001-07:00

It’s Prom Night. Jacob’s first and last prom. His date is Karen who he went to school with back when we lived on the west side.

126/365 2011 Yummy

2011-05-19T15:56:00.001-07:00

Happiness is a bucket of cold chicken leftovers. And lets not forget coleslaw…

125/365 2011 Jason’s server

2011-05-19T15:54:00.001-07:00

Jason has his first server. Now he can get his knowledge base for running Cisco.

124/365 2011 Picking up the Tux

2011-05-19T15:51:00.001-07:00

The boys and I are at the mall getting Jacob’s tuxedo. I’m sorry Mr Formal, but I think you need to go back to grade school for some grammar lessons.

123/365 2011 Computer time

2011-05-19T15:47:00.001-07:00

Jason bought a computer off Craigslist. He’s trying to hook everything back up to the motherboard and is having a hard time reading where all the wires should be connected.

122/365 2011 Prom is Coming

2011-05-19T15:43:00.001-07:00

Jacob’s Prom is this Saturday. This is the ticket package they give the students.

121/365 2011 Lazy Sunday

2011-05-19T15:39:00.002-07:00

This is the perfect way to spend a Sunday afternoon.

120/365 2011 Fake Bus Driver

2011-05-19T15:34:00.001-07:00

Jason and I had to go to his work to check on a problem they were having. He showed me around the Mobility Center where I got to pretend to be driving a city bus.

119/365 2011 Tasty?

2011-05-19T15:28:00.001-07:00

As I was checking my Facebook, I heard a sound from behind my computer screen. I look, and it’s my cat licking the picture of Jacob. He does this often.

118/365 2011 Cleaning stuff

2011-05-19T15:21:00.001-07:00

Jacob is going to be cleaning the salon this weekend while he’s on the west side with his dad. Today I took a photo of the back room to show him what he will be using when he goes in.

117/365 2011 Furry son

2011-05-19T15:18:00.001-07:00

When I see pictures of Elvis, it makes me realize what a little kitty he is. Small head for a small brain.

116/365 2011 Afghans

2011-05-19T15:05:00.001-07:00

It’s warm now and we have no need to snuggle under these so they got piled on this chair.

115/365 2011 Not again!

2011-05-19T15:02:00.001-07:00

I have been slacking.

114/365 Happy Easter

2011-05-19T14:59:00.001-07:00

Today we have all of the kids over. And they are all dressed so nice. What a great opportunity to get some photos. Jason had the tripod all set up when I got home from church.

113/365 2011 Worth 2 in the bush?

2011-05-19T14:55:00.001-07:00

This bird flew into the house and couldn’t get out. Since he was up in a high window, we went to get a ladder and a net to help him outside, and when we got back, he was dead under a chair. For some reason, a Monty Python sketch is going through my head right now….HELLO POLLY!

112/365 2011 My Senior

2011-05-19T14:48:00.001-07:00

Jacob graduates from high school next month. We took some pictures of him so I could send out the announcements. How is it possible that my first born is going to be out of high school next month when it wasn’t long ago that I took him to his first day of kindergarten?

111/365 2011 Picture message

2011-05-19T14:43:00.001-07:00

Jason has some job interviews coming up and he needs some dress clothes. He sent me this picture of him that he took in the dressing room while I was at work. I’m sure Jacob will want to borrow his new tie.

110/365 2011 Hairball

2011-05-19T14:34:00.001-07:00

I combed Elvis just a few days ago, and after combing him today, I STILL managed to get this big ‘ol hairball. I’m still trying to figure out how a black and white cat produces a ball of GRAY hair.

109/365 2011 Fan is fixed

2011-05-19T14:31:00.001-07:00

Our fan has a remote control to operate it. Bad news, the remote died and we couldn’t run our fan and it’s been pretty warm upstairs. Thank goodness I have such a handy husband. He rewired it so now it’s working again.

108/365 2011 Homework time

2011-05-19T14:28:00.001-07:00

Jacob should be going to bed since it’s 11:30 at night. But at least that writing assignment is getting done.

107/365 2011 No clothesline, No problem

2011-05-19T14:25:00.001-07:00

When your legs are long and you don’t want the length of your jeans to shrink in the dryer, you need to hang them to dry. Jacob solved the problem of not having a clothesline…just hang ‘em on the banister.

106/365 2011 Happy Birthday Jason

2011-05-19T14:20:00.001-07:00

Back on this day in 1963, the man of my life was making his appearance in the world. Glad you did, honey.

105/365 2011 Scalped

2011-05-19T14:14:00.001-07:00

This is all that’s left of our bush after I got done pruning it. I wish I’d taken a photo of it before. It was so overgrown that you almost couldn’t get past it to go to our side yard and it was at least neck high.

104/365 2011 Caught Unawares

2011-05-19T14:07:00.001-07:00

As I was coming downstairs to get some water before bed, I see this. It’s late, and it’s a school night, but Jacob is still on the computer checking out his Facebook. Just like always.

103/365 2011 Looks like a raspberry

2011-05-19T14:03:00.001-07:00

If you look closely, you can see Elvis sticking his tongue out. I think he’s giving us the raspberry.

102/365 2011 Just one month late

2011-05-19T13:58:00.002-07:00

Jared’s birthday was last month, but it took him a while to figure out what he wanted us to get him for his birthday. Well, today his belated gift arrived. It’s a 250 GB hard drive for his X-Box.

101/365 2011 Jared

2011-04-12T12:18:00.002-07:00

Jared doing what he does. Xbox live is more important than a clean room. It’s a good thing we like you, kid.

100/365 2011 Last Minute

2011-04-12T12:15:00.001-07:00

Today I got a text from the gal that teaches our primary class every other week. Turns out that she won’t be able to make it to church. I’ve got 1 hour to prepare the lesson while I also get ready.

99/365 2011 Jacob

2011-04-12T12:12:00.001-07:00

I just shake my head when I try to figure out where the years have gone. Jacob graduates high school this year and turns 18.

98/365 2011 Toll House is da bomb!

2011-04-12T12:08:00.001-07:00

Sometimes you just gotta make cookies. This was one of those times.

97/365 2011 Run Oli, Run

2011-04-12T12:06:00.001-07:00

Olivia is on the middle school track team. That’s her in the third lane from the left. Her dad says she does pretty good over those hurdles.

96/365 2011 Snooooze

2011-04-12T12:03:00.001-07:00

Oh to be a cat and sleep whenever and wherever.

95/365 2011 Tuesday Night

2011-04-11T22:21:00.001-07:00

It’s Tuesday night, and that means that Jacob and I are at the church seminary building for our ARP meeting. (cheating alert…this is an older photo but it’s still from a Tuesday)

94/365 2011 Happiness Is….

2011-04-11T22:17:00.001-07:00

Happiness is a Ball jar filled with Kefir in my refrigerator. Yummy!

93/365 General Conference

2011-04-11T22:00:00.001-07:00

Today was General Conference. I loved every talk. I look forward to reading them when the Ensign magazine comes out.

92/365 2011 Nap Time

2011-04-11T21:58:00.001-07:00

Spending 10 plus hours at the VA Hospital yesterday totally wore me out. I spent much of today napping on the couch. Elvis is worn out, too. As usual.

91/365 2011 Happy Anniversary

2011-04-11T21:54:00.001-07:00

Jason got to have hernia surgery for our 5th wedding anniversary. I really love the orange left on his skin. You can still see where the surgeon put his initials on Jason to make sure they got the correct side.

90/365 2011 Sleep Tight

2011-04-11T21:50:00.001-07:00

How is a girl supposed to get her crochet done when her furry little Elvis needs the yarn for a pillow?

89/365 2011 Off With His Door!

2011-04-11T21:48:00.001-07:00

The Meanest Mom award goes to ME! I took Jacob’s door off. He earned this….trust me.

88/365 20011 Low Carb Pizza

2011-04-11T21:46:00.001-07:00

Here’s the low carb pizza I made for dinner. The crust is made from eggs and 3 different cheeses . It wasn’t bad. If I couldn’t eat bread ever again it would satisfy, but I’m glad I can eat the real deal.

87/365 2011 Late Night at Work

2011-04-11T21:43:00.001-07:00

Tonight I had to work later than usual to accommodate one of my afternoon clients who worked her day off at the power plant due to the scheduled Outage.

86/365 2011 Reverence Jar

2011-04-11T21:40:00.001-07:00

This is the reverence jar I take to church to encourage my class of 8 and 9 year olds to be reverent during my lesson. They get to take a Tootsie Roll or two if they are.

85/365 2011 Toe Grows A Nail

2011-04-11T21:38:00.001-07:00

Don’t be alarmed….my toenail looks SO much better than it did a few months back. It is just over half grown out. Back in January I began soaking it in peroxide and it has come back in with healthy nail.

84/365 2011 Lazy Kitty

2011-04-11T21:34:00.001-07:00

I know it’s hard to believe this guy is a killer. I mean, just look at how laid back he is…

83/365 2011 Hummingbird

2011-04-11T21:32:00.001-07:00

Yes. I know it’s sad. My cat is a cat and this means he doesn’t discriminate against what kind of birds he chooses to hunt. Poor little hummingbird.

82/365 2011 Project Life ‘09

2011-04-11T21:29:00.001-07:00

I’m still working on my Project Life from 2009. I’ve got all buy 10 or so photos left to have printed, but I’ve only got the journaling caught up to March. Thank heavens for this blog or I wouldn’t know what these were all about!

81/365 2011 It’s ALIVE! ALIVE!

2011-03-23T13:05:00.001-07:00

After months without a pool cleaner, we are finally back on track to a clean pool. The guy that worked on it was a total Grumpy Old Man! But he sure knows his stuff.

80/365 2011 WINDY!!

2011-03-23T13:03:00.001-07:00

I tried to capture the trees blowing in the wind today before I left for work. After a week of warmer days, this cold windy day is a welcome event because I’m not ready for the hot weather just yet. They are predicting rain along with the wind.

79/365 2011 Sunday Stuff

2011-03-23T12:59:00.001-07:00

Just my stuff that I’ll be needing for church today. My scriptures, shoes and purse.

78/365 2011 Hats

2011-03-23T12:57:00.001-07:00

Today’s photo captures just one of the daily sights here at our house. Jason’s baseball caps (and one of mine) hanging where they are easily accessible.

77/365 2011 Hot Days, Cooler Nights

2011-03-23T12:54:00.001-07:00

It has been pretty warm outside these last few days and it gets very warm in the house during the day. Thankfully the nights cool off and we’ve been taking advantage of that by opening the windows to cool it down inside.

76/365 2011 Slow Day

2011-03-23T12:51:00.001-07:00

I’m glad I took my blanket to work with me today since I had a LOT of time to work on it during the gaps in my schedule.

75/365 2011 Latest Crochet

2011-03-23T12:49:00.001-07:00

Here is my latest crochet blanket in the works. It’s a vintage vertical stripe. So far I’ve just made throws for the living room. Now we will have a blanket for the couch that’s actually long enough to cover from head to toe.

74/365 2011 Zumiez

2011-03-23T12:46:00.001-07:00

Jared and I went to the mall today to buy him some jeans at Zumiez. Most of his jeans right now are getting too short on him.

73/365 Happy Birthday to Jared

2011-03-15T10:58:00.001-07:00

Jared is 15 today! Happy Birthday baby…. I can’t believe how fast this time has gone.

72/365 WHAT!

2011-03-15T10:56:00.001-07:00

I’m getting my things together to go to church and he keeps looking at me like he wonders, “Where do you think you are going?”

71/365 Darn Cleaner

2011-03-15T10:53:00.001-07:00

This pool is becoming more trouble than it’s worth (I can say that right now since it’s too cold to go swimming). I can NOT get that dumb cleaner to do its job. Spent a couple hours out here and still nothing!

70/365 Spinach Chips

2011-03-15T10:49:00.001-07:00

I’m making spinach chips today because I’d really like something salty and crispy. I’ve never tried this before, but it gets good reviews.

69/365 2011 Here Comes the Heat

2011-03-10T22:06:00.001-07:00

It is 9:15 pm and our outdoor thermometer gives you a good idea of how hot is was today. The weather reports say it got up to 87 degrees.

68/365 2011 This Tool is Great

2011-03-10T21:59:00.001-07:00

Today I spent about 45 minutes pulling weeds in the front yard. I am so happy to have inherited this handy dandy tool from Margaret because it helped me to get 2 full bags of weed in that time.

67/365 2011 Baby Stuff

2011-03-10T21:57:00.001-07:00

One of the gals at the salon is having a baby next month. I started a granny blanket to give to her.

66/365 2011 Free Parking

2011-03-10T21:55:00.001-07:00

That blue SUV belongs to a friend of Samantha. They stopped here before school to find out if she could park in the driveway since she didn’t have a pass to park in the school lot.

65/365 2011 Big Trash Pick Up Pile

2011-03-10T21:53:00.001-07:00

Tomorrow is the scheduled big trash pick up for our neighborhood. Thank goodness we remembered today so Jason & Jacob were able to get our pile of dead tree limbs out to the curb.

64/365 2011 Mystery Day

2011-03-10T21:49:00.002-07:00

Well, it was bound to happen…. a day where I didn’t take a photo and have no idea how to fake it. Today Jason went with a friend to help him buy his new computer parts, then after assembling said computer, he took his oldest daughter Samantha out for lunch. I hung out and crocheted.

63/365 2011 Good Company

2011-03-08T22:50:00.001-07:00

I’ve got company as I read some blogs this morning. He really is such a needy cat.

62/365 2011 Commuting Really Sucks

2011-03-08T22:48:00.001-07:00

I’m at 40th Street over I-10 waiting to turn onto the freeway to get into that LONG line of cars you can see there on the left. I had gotten on at Chandler and the only lane moving was the on/off lane so I exited and took surface streets to here. I really hate days like these.

61/365 2011 Jacob and his Tongue

2011-03-08T22:42:00.001-07:00

This morning Jacob had his long awaited appointment with the Oral Surgeon to have the growth under his tongue removed. They’ve got him holding a wet teabag on the site to constrict the blood vessels. Apparently the tannic acid in tea does this very well. Wonder what it does to the inside of a bodies when people drink it?

60/365 2011 Finally Finished!

2011-03-08T22:38:00.001-07:00

It only took me 2 months. I thought I’d better finish this hat since I have at least 4 other crochet projects going around here. Feels great to have another work in progress be a usable object.

59/365 2011 Time To Diet

2011-03-08T22:33:00.001-07:00

It’s been over a year since I did the hcg diet, and had managed to keep the weight off pretty well. Unfortunately, after Halloween I began to be a very bad girl by eating all kinds of junk food. So it’s back on the diet for me. Here’s what’s for lunch (pre cooked).

58/365 2011 Crochet Japanese Flowers

2011-03-08T22:28:00.001-07:00

Came across this great flower pattern on Attic24 blog and just had to try it out. I’d like to make a bed throw out of this pattern.

57/365 2011 Cats See Things

2011-03-08T22:23:00.001-07:00

It’s late at night. I’m the last one awake. And I’m watching a show called My Ghost Story. I was feeling creeped out so scooted closer to Elvis to pet him. This woke him up and something grabbed his attention. He wouldn’t take his eyes off the area over the front door (by the chandelier). I had no luck distracting him & since he was freaking me out, I figured I’d see if my camera could see what had his attention so completely.

56/365 2011 Spots on Socks

2011-03-04T11:45:00.001-07:00

I don’t have hiking shoes, so I have been wearing my running shoes when I hike (as I have noticed many others doing as well). My shoes have this cool venting in the soles so the dirt from the trail now decorates my socks.

55/365 2011 Should I Add It to My List?

2011-03-04T11:40:00.001-07:00

I had a break at work so I walked over to Michael's Craft Store. While I was there I found a pattern for this sweet little crochet bag. I just might have to add it to my growing list of projects I want to make.

54/365 2011 It’s the Little Things

2011-03-04T11:36:00.001-07:00

A freshly scoured sink makes me very happy.

53/365 2011 My Other Kids Won’t Pose

2011-03-04T11:33:00.001-07:00

If you were to have to guess from just the photos on my blog, you might think I don’t have any hairless children. No so. They just aren’t as cooperative at posing for pictures as Elvis.

52/365 2011 Elvis Makes Me Laugh

2011-03-04T11:30:00.001-07:00

The look on his face had me laughing at this photo.