What have I been up to since before Christmas......
We've been checking out Craigslist lately, and found several things (couple dresser's for the girls & a Great Dane 6 month old puppy), either really cheap or one was free.
This picture above is Apollo, he is 6 months old, Frank texted me before work one morning & said there was a "Free" Great Dane puppy, so we texted back & forth, then I contacted the # that they gave & since I was the 1st to contact them, we were the first one's to get him, if we weren't gonna pick him up that day then they would let the next in line get him. I went over as soon as I got off work & picked him up, he was under fed & very thin. We took him home & every time I filled the food bowl up he emptied it, he's just now a few months later starting to realize that there will be food, but he still is very Greedy when it comes to leftovers (Poor Claire, she has to fight for her some), he's a good dog, hasn't been trained so he needs lots of patience. We just recently bought another collar so that he can be contained to yard (little less the 3 achers) and we won't have to worry about him running off.
I'll have to get a current picture & put it at the bottom of this posting so you can see that his head is 2-3 times larger. He's going to be Ginormous!!
Here's another find on Craigslist, we found the light color dresser (two pics below)for Megan for $25, so me & my friend Peggy went & picked it up. Then I went looking that night on Craigslist & we found this one above & below for Isabella, I think I only paid $70 for both (we talked her down a bit, there was some rough area's), but they looked so unique. The door in the middle opens & there are 3 smaller drawers inside.
This piece is really Cool! The doors open & there are 3 drawers inside, so it holds many items.
This one's the one I only paid $25 for, it still in good shape, since Megan moved back in back in Oct/Nov we've rearranged the playroom into her room, we bought a really heavy duty long pole to hang up along part of the wall & make a large hanging area for her clothes, she now has the dresser & a little secretary from her other mom's house & a book shelf, if she would go get her queen bed @ her other mom's she wouldn't have to sleep on the Trundle (which is practically on the floor), but we'll let her get tired of sleeping on that. We've went as far (to get order & keep ALL the kids taking care of their own stuff they dirty up & use) as to mark plates, cups, silverware, counter area's & even chairs @ the breakfast table. I wouldn't have resorted to this had the kids just cleaned up after themselves, but they always said "That's not mine" or "I don't know who's that is". So now if it has their initial then "DUH". Five kids makes you a teensy weensy CRAZY!!
16 years ago I gave birth to my 1st child, Frank Allen Glover III, he was 8lbs 50z, he was Huge! In my opinion, but I was very young, I was only 20, and married almost a year & a half. He was a very cuddly baby, he loved to snuggle & be affectionate. He's turned out to be a really good kid, I can't complain, our only problems were that he could argue quite well & just refused to back down
This picture is funny, he lost his wallet with his permit in it & he can't remember where he might have lost it, so Memaw bought him a wallet with a chain on it in hopes that would help him keep up with it? We'll see.....
This is a lighter that belongs to his dad (from his birthday), I thought it'd be funny to let him light the candles on his cake with it.
Here's all the kids at his 16th Birthday party, I'll try to name them from left to right Sophia (sister), Zack, Devin (headshot) Hannah, Victoria (sister), BIRTHDAY BOY, Kyle, Michael, Chad & Jeffery. We had a blast, they played video games on 2 different tv's & then ping pong (until Megan's boyfriend Tim squashed the ball, he was trying to bounce it with his foot & smooshed it!)
Another shot of the group today. The whole family got to enjoy hanging with his friends & the kids had so much fun all but 3 in the picture are here right now having one of their newly planned "Game Nights", I told him he could possibly do this every month, but Im thinking every other is plenty.
