A Riddle for Thursday...

What's Brown, and Cream with spots of RED?

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Stay tuned....I have an idea brewing in my HEAD!

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On another note...CAN you believe it's almost THANKSGIVING!??? ALREADY???

Me neither....

The leaves have changed color...The rain is here...The car is dinging "caution possible icy roads".

Crazy!!! I think we were a bit spoiled by the awesome SUMMER weather we had.

Craft Warehouse open house with the girls this Saturday...EB Feastival Lunch next Friday with the guys and their gals....Holiday Home Tour on Dec 2 with the girls.

Shopping...Baking...Feasting...I feel the pounds sneaking on now.

but....SOON it will be CHRISTMAS break too and Kyle and his girlfriend, Yosi will be home on leave for a much needed visit...and maybe an improptu baby shower!!!

Three more weeks until we find out if it's a PINK or BLUE!!! Gotta love technology....

As much as I would love to spoil a little PINK baby....I know ALL about the BLUE babies!!!

I'm VERY excited....!

Imagine My Surprise...

Last weekend I received a copy of the new HandCrafted magazine with the cover sheet that reads, "You've been published!"

Huh? I didn't submit anything...except a couple pieces of jewelry, and those were supposedly already spoken for...

Well, much to my surprise, HandCrafted is primarily a re-cap of selected, previously published artwork.

Page 102....my Wish. Dream. Create. mail caddy....from Somerset Home Summer 2010.

And making this issue even more special, the cover art is Kristen's. Cool!

Speaking of cool, the current Haute Handbags cover is Kelly's!!!

xoxo

October 20, 2012

Yes. I know today is November 1, 2012.

But, I've been bursting with news to share on my blog and want to be sure to note the date,
October 20, 2012 ... the date I first heard THE NEWS!!!

I'm gonna be a grandma! Yep!!! A Grandma...

Glammy? Grandma? Grandmother? Non? Nana? Grammy? Gramma Tina?

That was fast! An empty nest at the first of October, then a grandparent-to-be less than 3 weeks later!!!

Our middle son, Kyle, and his girlfriend, Yosi, who lives in NYC are expecting
May 14, 2013.

Kyle is in the Army and will most likely face deployment in January 2013, but we are hopeful that things work out in their favor....He just recently returned from a one-year deployment to S. Korea, and that felt like forever!

There are still a lot of variables and details yet to work themselves out, but if his dad and I are any watermark of beating the odds and nay-sayers of a young relationship, they will be fine!

They are over-the-moon with excitement. Her family is full of excitement. I'm chock full of emotion. I am full of many adjectives actually, but "full of emotion" seems to cover them all!!!

They are hoping to come home in December for the holidays so we can officially meet Yosi and see the "belly"!

A baby... A BABY!!! A little Schiefer grandson or granddaughter...WOW!!!

Happy Halloween!!!!!





Phillip's Jester-Clown Mask...

Let's just say, it creeped ME out!!! That's saying ALOT!

Sadly, there are NO trick-or-treaters up at our house....so the adults partied a bit last Saturday night at our house.

Me and Kelly

My friend, Kelly, flew up from California to join in the fun and help decorate and keep us all fed! Thanks, Kelly!

Ginger, Me, Kelly

 

Kelly and Kristen

 

Jeff and Kris

 

 

A.J. and Kyra

The "officially un-official" costume contest winners!

 

item of note: A.J.'s comment when he saw this picture, "Man! She really did stuff her bra!"









Jeff, Erik, Me, Jeff, Janice, 1/2 of Dan

Fortune-Telling Moment

 

Jania, Ty, Phillip

A Duck-Lips Moment

 

Darrin

A Migrating Costume Moment...

Somehow, AJ's wig and hat ended up

on Peter Parker aka: Spiderman...

hmmmm...I wonder if Jack Daniels had anything to do with it???

 

Jania and Ty

A Rock Star and his Groupie

 

 Jeff and Kristin

Love in the DEAD ZONE

 

Kyra and A.J.

Love in the HILLBILLY Zone

 

and now for a little sick and twisted decor tour...

 

Kelly and I just FED off of each other like decoration zombies...

 

The infamous rusty vasectomy scissors...

open to the page of cute little kittens with the poem about MOTHERHOOD...how fitting....

 

The Requisite Skull in the Bird Cage

 

Sometimes Time JUST stops!

 

 



Where'd all the food go?

 

Strange...The Baby was MISSING too!

 





 

Happy Halloween!!!