It is always fun when the Putmans are here

My sister Jill and her kids were able to spend a few days with us this summer. Matt and I had so much fun having them around. Here are a few pictures:

Matt loved playing golf with Trevor

We also go to have a girl's night at my mom's house! We always have so much fun together! Here we are modeling our new purses that were made for us out of gorcery bags. Thanks Nita!

We miss you guys so much and can't wait until we get to see you again!

Help, Need Sleep!

Some people may be thinking.....Hummm Kimmy does not have a baby....Kimmy does not have a job with abnormal hours....why would she be complaining of sleep? Let me explain. My problem is my dog. (Not this dog)

But this one. Big Steve is stopping me from blissful nights of sleep. So maybe someone out there can help me out. Steve happily slept in our room each night until we moved into the new house. Now our bedroom is upstairs, and Steve is scared to death of the stairs. We've tried to carry him up the stairs (but him being over 100lbs we can't do it every night), we've bribed him, even Katie our other dog runs up and down the stairs almost like she's trying to teach him how to go up. So night after night Steve sits at the bottom of the stairs and cries....and cries....and cries. We've tried to let him just cry, but he never stops so Matt and I both don't sleep. We've resorted (I know, this sounds awful) but we've resorted to having one of us sleep on the couch downstairs with him each night just so that we can get some kind of sleep.

What is really strange though is that when we took the dogs down to the beach he ran up and down the stairs like it was nothing. So we thought that maybe he would be okay once we got home.

But this is what happened that day when we got home. Stairs are stairs...why is this such a big deal?
So, please, please, Please let me know if you have a trick for my dog Steve.

Lucky You & Promise to blog!

Okay, so I haven't been blogging for awhile. I know, maybe my blog was a little more exciting when my sister was doing it for me, it's just hard for me to write about myself. I thought that the "lucky you" that was on Jill's blog would be a good way to kick off my reentry into the blogging world. So, I'll make you a deal. If you sign up as one of my 5 people on Lucky you, then I'll continue to blog. If nobody signs up, I'll figure that everyone has given up on my blog. If I get my 5 comments, I promise to blog at LEAST twice a month. Sound fair? I don't care if you've signed up on someone else's lucky you.....you can sign up for mine as well. I already have really cool (and I mean really cool ) things in mind to make.

So, here's the rules to lucky you

Lucky you! The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you! This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
1- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
2- What I create will be just for you.
3- It'll be done this year. (might be a little while)
4- You have no clue what it's going to be. It may be a story. It may be poetry or an article on properly cleaning your face before a masque. I may draw or paint something. I may bake you something and mail it to you. Who knows?
5- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.
The catch? Oh, the catch is that you must repost this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on your blog. The first 5 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they did, win a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by me! Oh, and be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it!