The Christmas cards are coming!!

It has been brought to my attention that mailing out my cards close to the holiday as I have in the past might not be such a good thing. I like to mail my holiday cards close to the actual day. The same holds true for birthday cards. I don't like sending them out 2 weeks before you celebrate your birthday. So the point was made that the earlier I send out my cards the longer they get looked at. If I send them close to the holiday then they only stay out for a bit and once x-mas comes my card is tossed - well it should be lovingly stored so that you can admire it year after year. Hey I don't just put these things together in my sleep. So this year they are going out early - possibly by tomo. I am just putting the finishing touches on them.

Here's a sneak peek of 1 part of this year's masterpiece - oh so proud!

It has been an exciting weekend here in the Pepe house!

Now for this particular post I'm not going in order and when you get to the end you'll understand why. Saturday morning at some point it appears that Santa dropped off Elfy to the kids. Elfy is one of Santa's naughty elves. Santa can only handle so much of Elfy before he has to ship him off until all the presents are made because Elfy causes lots of trouble. So Santa drops him off with the kids to watch over him and to make sure he behaves. Elfy has been coming to us for the last 3 years now. Needless to say Elfy RARELY behaves which in turn makes the children happy. So this is how the kids found him. He was in the bathroom and made a huge mess of the toilet paper. As you can see on the faces of the kids these things brings them much joy!




Here is Samantha reading the letter Santa left with Elfy



The mess:


Now Saturday night was my Holiday Party. There is so much to say about this event I wouldn't even no where to begin. The unfortunate thing is I only have the one picture because I just was to busy mingling to remember to take anymore. I invited friends of mine (some new and old) who sell for different companies such as Lia Sophia, Pampered Chef and so on into my home to sell their products. I then invited all my friends and family to come and shop, HANG OUT FOR A WHILE, drink some wine and have a good time. There was no other intent behind this other than a fun night out. That's why it was called a HOLIDAY PARTY! I made no money off of the vendors nor did this night serve as anything other than a fun night out. So for those of you that came and had a good time I just wanted to say Thank you! It was nice to spend time with you especially those that I don't see often. For those of you that couldn't make it because you had a prior obligation and told me so you were missed! For those of you that just didn't feel like coming.....well Bah Humbug to you and (said in my best Soup Nazi (from Seinfeld) voice) No INVITE FOR YOU NEXT YEAR! That's all I have to say about that.....yah right but that's all I am saying here!

Oh and a shout out to my friend TriSHA - we do LOVE you and your BIG (almost as big as mine) mouth along with the accurate opinions that come from it and YES I have told Steve over and over and over that he DOES make the BEST Cosmo's. I promise to send your christmas card to the right address not like how those crazy sisters are always screwing it up. Oh and Lou soooo called to cut you off! :)

One more thing - in this picture is Gigi living it up! I don't even think she had made it into the living room yet where the Traveling Vineyard was set up with the liquor. Way to go with the Holiday Spirit - thatta girl - it must have been the cookies!



Now finally - this was the start of our weekend but as you will see it is not something I wanted to start this post off with. On Saturday morning Steve noticed what he thought was a cut to Lulu's eye. We rushed her to the vet and it turned out to be much worse than a cut. There is no easy way to say it so I will just say it. Her eyeball popped out of the socket. There I said it. Now when your finished rubbing your own eye and squirming in your seat finish reading......

So the Vet explains that it is common in the breed and blah blah blah. He takes her in the back to try and PUT IT BACK IN and when he comes back it is even freakier. Dude her eye was out of her head. NO I didn't take a picture that is just wrong.....plus I didn't have my camera. So leaving out all the technical stuff because if you've spoken to Steve already you have gotten all the gorey details. Sure he likes the dog now it's like his own little Frankenstein. So here in this picture you will see her eye lid has been sewed shut. It must stay like that for 2-4 weeks. Her eye is very swollen and this will go down over the next few days. It looks even worse because they needed to shave around the eye when they knocked her out. She has a 20% chance of regaining the sight or even keeping the eye at this point. They might need to remove it and if that happens really you won't even notice because she is so dark and her hair is crazy that you never see her eyes to begin with.

Picture not intended for small children or any adult that is squemish for that matter....











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here ya go....our little Humpty Dumpty...lol - get it Humpty Dumpty fell off a wall...

Gobble Gobble - Happy Turkey Day!!!

When I woke up this morning and I walked around the house I had random thoughts of thankfulness

The backyard is almost done....only 4 more weeks to go...lol


I am seating 20 in here! As you can tell there is no silverware yet on the table. The reason for that is the only silverware I have for 20 is the "good" stuff so I am talking myself into taking it out of it's safe velvet boxes to let the masses use it.....I can do it I can do it!

The man who woke up and let me sleep in is in the kitchen preparing the meal. I took this picture only cause I think it's funny how he loves to advertise for free for the locals....



Thankful for the turkey.....he felt no pain!



Do you know what these are...... I don't even drink this stuff but I love them!! They are so cute!


So I am thankful for the new no mess barely no set up/clean up -coffee,tea,hot cocco, maker for me!!!


Not so thankful for sweet potatoes.....yuck!


Thankful that at 8am the kitchen was still clean!



Oh sooooo grateful for the cute free slave labor!!


Thankful for the perfect bows!


Thankful that my lil turkey's for our dinner guests are almost done...he he he he


Have a Happy Thanksgiving all! Eat lots of turkey enjoy spending the day with family, drink lots of good vino and get to bed early so you can beat the crowds in the AM

Backyard update

So here we are at DAY 52.....well not really but it feels that long. Here is the pool almost emptied. The green slime would be from not having run the filter for the last 2 months waiting for this repair :



Here they have started to remove the liner but still working on draining the remainder of the water.



Here is the state of the pool for 2 days while they tried to stop water from coming up from under the ground. See the water at the bottom that is coming from the ground. All those tubes you see are trying to keep the water out.



Now here we are today. The liner has been successfully changed!!!! The pool is filled and awaiting it's cover. Now these nice men are freezing their butts off working tirelessly to get the patio in.


Look no more mud!!



Oh boy a step is coming!!



So they say this will all be done the day before Thanksgiving.....


I know I don't believe it either....lol

1 husband (who is NEVER home), 4 kids, 3 dogs (1 blind, 1 over 100lbs and 1 crazy).....

That would be what takes up most of my day and available time. So please keep that in mind when you come here and wonder why I haven't updated my blog! I'm working on it....jeesh some people have no patience!

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Samantha, Steven, Bella and Sophia the frog Oh my!

Here is Princess Lea, Obi One Kanobi, Frog Princess, and Ariel - and these 4 can't even stand still long enough for 1 picture....punks!



Here is Sophia at her Halloween party at her Gym class and not sitting on the slide


This was Bella's halloween party and Sophia had to join in!




Here's Sophia making sure everyone knows what they are doing:



Now she has to show them how it's done:



Halloween night getting ready to go score some treats!


This is Sophia's very first house trick or treating at. Luckily for her Alyssa came out to the street to save Sophia the trip to the door. Then it took a few minutes to convince her to take the candy.


Halloween Party at Grandma's




Finally here's Louis....this would be too easy so I will just leave this title to your imagination!