Happy Holidays!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

I hope everyone is enjoying the day with family,

friends, and loved ones.

From our family to yours, Merry Christmas!

Love,

The Verbecks

LynLee Trying to Crawl

Since it's been so long since I have last posted, I thought that I would let all know that LynLee has been trying to try to crawl. Here is a pic of her on her little legs, but at this point she can't get the other leg out from under her and when she does she just ends up on her tummy again.

Also, I was in a dog fight. My dog and my mother-in-law's dog do not like each other. They got into it and in our haste to seperate the dogs I was in the middle. (my mother-in-law fared worse than I with three bites in various places.)

This has been my brief look at what has been happening in my life. Other than trying to get that blessed house completed we have not accomplished much.

Smile,

Autum

House Completed!!!

Woo Hoo!!! The house is completed. I know that it has been forever and a day since I blogged, but the house that I last added into my blog is now completed. Here are the pics of the house now that we remodeled it and staged it for the open house.
Let me know what you think about the work that was done in the home.
Smile ;)
Autum

1.Family Room-dwn 2.New Window 3.Bathroom-dwn 4.Kitchen-Dwn

1.Upstairs Hall 2.Hall other direction 3.Bathroom-up 4.Bthrm Mirror-up

1.Bathroom-up 2.Great Room 3.Kitchen-up

Kitchen-up

New Job!!

My husband, Ricky, has gotten a new job. He was working at Celestial Seasonings, but called another guy about a roofing postion. That guy, Mike, hired him but quickly proved he was not a very worthy boss as he was always out of money and we soon saw that we would be better off licking our elbows than expecting to get paid. However, this led my husband to his current job of remodeling homes.

He started out doing small jobs, such as: fix trim on a bedroom door; paint a door; put in a heating vent; replace the weather stripping on the front door. And various tedious jobs like these. Since he started with this company he is now completing a whole house on his own. Wether he knows how to do some of the stuff or not that is a different subject.

I know that a huge list of items is a bit more daunting than a small list so in order to assist my husband I go to the house and paint here and there and generally organize the next step in the process. So far it has made quite a difference and I have taken pics to show the progress. So here are the starting pics.

I have made the upstairs bathroom my own little pet project!

Keep watching for new and updated photos! I am excited, I hope that you are too!

Smile :)

Autum

Holidays!!!

It's that time of year again. When fun is put into the family word: dysfunction!!! We all want to be around our families because that is what we are used to. The way we remember each holiday is to filter out the crap and then remember the good times. Ah, but here we are agian.

The family is all together, the fire is roaring in the fireplace, the snacks are out and around the table, drinks are abundant, and the bickering starts. It can be as insignificant as: "I told you to take out the trash" or as prominant as "The last time I told you about your money you said...." These could both start fights. But do we stay away from taboo topics. Not in this family. Or rather not in my new family with the In-laws.

I don't know. But I really miss my mother, God rest her soul. We had Thanksgiving each year at her house. Everyone dressed up in our nice clothes. We cooked and visited and had a genuinely good time. We didn't fight nor bicker really. It was nice, and homey, and felt real. I miss those times.

I hope that no matter how you celebrate this day that you all have a good day with your family and its filled with love and happiness.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone,

Autum :)

Pics from the Zoo

Free!!!

I moved to Denver in July, well Denverish area. But I have noticed that several times since we have been here that there are several different attractions that offer free days. It was Denvers 150th Birthday and the zoo offered a free day on Saturday. It was really nice. It was a nice day and the price was right within my budget. There were a ton of people, but the place is so big that it did not matter.

The reason I write about this is that in Utah, which is where we are from, they would NEVER offer a free day. That would take money out of some fat cat, rich, families pockets and they would not be able to buy the 8th four wheeler for the guests of their guests. I was really surprised and pleasantly so that there are actually places in the world who don't think of money. Really they did not fare all that horribly any way since I am sure that most people ended up buying some kind of food, drink, or visited the gift shop.

If the world were made up of the people I believe are behind the NO Free days in Utah, then the whole world would be far worse off. Especially since the teachings for the people who are behind the money grubbing is that you should love thy neighbor. But really it is more to the point of being "love thy money and all of it you can get."

We don't usually have that much money and for the most part we are an extremely happy family. I don't think that money buys happiness, I believe that the free things in life are what makes someone really happy.

Just some thoughts of mine, think about what makes you happy!

Smile :)
Autum

Some things I would like to have......

A Clean closet of my own

Rachael Ray Cook Ware

A New Digital Camera

A Cute Castle of My Own

A Camcorder for my Hubby