Carving Pumpkins & A House Update

We carved our pumpkins on Saturday. This was the first time the kids have done it, and they both thought it was totally gross! R wouldn't touch the insides at all, and M would pull one seed out and then get a baby wipe to clean her hands each time.
They picked a Mickey Mouse stencil, so I did that on our big pumpkin and then R wanted Mickey on his little pumpkin too, so I did just the little Mickey head. M drew a face that I copied onto her little one.
Here's a layout I did of it last night... M took the picture of me, which would explain why my head is cut off. lol
(you can click to make it bigger)

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Our new house is off the same road that we live off of now, and we can see a little bit of it from the road right now (I don't think we'll be able to once he's done building there). Yesterday I was driving home from the grocery store and I noticed that it had been painted! It wasn't painted over the weekend, but it was yesterday morning. So the kids and I drove by it after they were done working for the day to get a better look. It's a little bit darker green than I was thinking it would be (but maybe it was still wet), but I think it will look nice once they get the trim painted white, and it will go well with the door I want to paint red this time.
Less than 3 weeks to go! They're getting all the trim painted inside this week, and I think the counter tops will go in later in the week. Then next week they're doing the floors and carpets, and then just landscaping and it'll be done!
And you know what's so cool? The house we've been renting is on the market. She was planning to take it off the market at the end of this month and just rent it out. Well, she got an offer on it yesterday! How awesome is that timing?!? It just reminds me of how well God has everything planned out. I'm so thankful we were able to be here the whole time we needed to, and now it will be sold just a couple weeks after we move out. We are very blessed!

Some family pictures

We went out today in attempt to get some updated family pictures (our last was taken at Sears when R was 6 months old). We pulled out the tripod and I used the timer on my camera. It was a lot harder than a normal session, but we got a few good ones. After we were done I looked through them on my camera and I was shocked at how little I actually shot, it felt like a lot more! lol

Anyway, here is my very favorite from the shoot... I'm thinking great big canvas with this, I just love it! :)

And some the family might like more...




I did take a few of just the kids, although not as many as I thought I would have. :)


For my family, if there's one (or more) that you like best leave a comment and let me know. :)

9 years ago today...

(see below for Scrapbook Friday)

9 years ago today Matthew and I started dating. We were best friends before we got together, and I'm happy to say he's still my very best friend. :)
We don't really celebrate this anniversary, it's just one we both remember, so I thought I'd do a little post about it. I'd post some pictures, but I think I already posted them on our wedding anniversary back in August. I don't have much on the computer from way back then (back in the days of FILM cameras LOL).

The Bright Side

Check out what Britt has out today! I think this may be one of my new favorites! I'm always drawn to the bright colored pages, so this is right up my ally! Check out The Bright Side, and if you get it this week you get the bonus alpha included in your download. How cute is this kit?!?


Here's a page I did with it...

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I cannot wait to play more with all the goodies in this one!!

Lots & Lots of Pictures

I know this is what most of you want to see anyway, right? :)

The kids playing with some of the Disney figures my mom brought back from my Aunt Junior's house last month.


This is them "playing beach and pretending that the waves were coming and they didn't want any of their stuff to sink" (as told by M)

My little NUT, he's wearing his teddy bear's sunglasses

We went to the pumpkin patch AGAIN last Sunday (yes, that would be the 3rd time this season) because I wanted to get a big pumpkin that we could carve, the rest of the pictures are from that...

On the tracker wagon ride

With our pumpkin (click to make it bigger). The last picture is when I told them to let me get "one cute one"


They played on the hay maze again for a while too


Hay Head!
I'll be back tomorrow with a scrapbook post. :)

A little update and a tag

I'm sorry, I've haven't been very good at updating the ol' blog this week! I'm working really hard to get things organized for a fund raiser I'm going to do for R's preschool. We're going to do a day of mini shoots at the school and I've been working on getting the flyers done so we can hand them out this week. I think I'm pretty much done with them now, I just need to make a few changes and then find a place that will print them for me (my printer is aweful!). I also did a Senior shoot for my hairdresser's son on Saturday, so I've been proofing too.

So, that's a little update, I'll get some pictures posted soon!

Now here's my tag info:

A-Z Tag

A-Attached Or Single: Attached
B- Best Friend: Matthew
C- Cake Or Pie: Depends on what kind... If it's Kalua Creem from Marie Callenders then pie all the way, if not I'd probably take the cake
D- Day Of Choice: Sunday
E- Essential Item: My computer
F- Favorite Color: Aqua blue
H- Hometown: Northern Cali
I- Indulgences: Chocolate, sweets, carbs... lol
J- January Or July: July
K- Kids: Two, M is 5 & 1/2 and R is 3 & 1/2 (that half is SO important! lol)
L- Life is Incomplete without: Family and love
M- Marriage Date: August 6th, 2000
N- Number of Siblings: 1 step sister and 1 step brother, Tawny & Travis (and lots of Sister-In-Laws :))
O- Oranges or Apples: Apples I guess, I like berries more
P- Phobias or Fears: I can freak out about just about anything if you give me a reason to worry. lol
Q- Quotes: I love you not only for who you are, but also for who I am when I am with you. I don't know who it's by, I read it in a book in photography class in high school and I liked it so much we used it in our wedding vows.
R- Reason to Smile: My family and friends
S- Season: I have such a hard time picking just one, but I'll say winter because I love Christmas and snow skiing
T- Tag five friends: Dani, Christie, Misty, Darby, and Rachael
U- Unknown Fact about Me: Umm... well, let's see... I've been on an online mommy board with some of the same woman for over 6 years now (some of you of course know that, but maybe not all of you)
V- Very favorite store: Just one? I love to shop, although the only LOCAL stores that I love now are Target and Ross. If I'm shopping online I love Gymboree for my kids, and if I'm going out of town I love Macy's for me and Old Navy for the kids.
W- Worst Habit: Eating at the computer (my keyboard is full of crumbs)
X- X-ray or Ultra sound: Ultrasounds are much more fun (at least when a baby is in my tummy)
Y- Your Favorite Food: Pizza!
Z- Your Zodiac sign: Pisces

Some LOs

I've been scrapping a lot these last few days, all pictures taken over the weekend. :)
I did these two pages from the pumpkin patch pictures...

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And this was for a template challenge at SM. R is such a silly guy I had to capture some of those faces.

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Anyway... I still have some random snap shots that I'll try to get posted later this week.

Pumpkin Patch Pictures

We went to the pumpkin patch with some friends over the weekend. Here are a few pictures...

My kids playing in the hay maze and pit


R, M, and their friend E out in the pumpkin patch

All the kids (and yes, this was the best shot that I got, did anyone else get anything better? lol)

Scrapbook Friday

I use to always look forward to Fridays because that's when Britt has new products out, now I look forward to them so I can show you all what I've been doing with all the new stuff. :)
Only one LO this week, I can't wait to play with this stuff some more, it's so much fun! Today she has a new paper pack called Glam-O-Ram that is all glitter papers. I love it and can see myself using it over and over for all kinds of pages. She also put the element pack Bunches of Flowers in the store today (it was a speed scrap prize, a speed scrap that I was planning to do until my internet went down 15 minutes before it started, so I was thrilled to be getting it now!).
Anyway... here's what I did with her new stuff, as well as some other fun Britt-ish Designs stuff...

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I do actually have one more LO to post, it's from a speed scrap I did earlier this week...

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I totally didn't realize until just now that these are both Halloween costume LOs, how funny! You can tell how much we love Disney around here, hu?

Anyway, that's about it for today. Hope everyone has a nice weekend!

A little funny

No time to pull all the millions of pictures I took yesterday off the camera today (and sorry for such a long post yesterday! I didn't realize it was so long when I was posting it).
Here's a little funny from the other day though... We were at the video store the other night with the kids and M saw a movie with Patrick Dempsey on the front. She looked confused and asked if that was Giselle's husband. I told her it was, and then she wanted to know why he was with another girl.
She really doesn't grasp the whole character thing very well yet.

A Day In The Life (almost 2 years ago)

Britt has a challenge going on at SM right now to scrap a typical day in your life, so I decided today I would take pictures for my page. I've done these kind of things a few times before on my baby board, so I went to search for the last one we did. I found it, and it's from October 11th, 2006, almost exactly 2 years ago, how weird is that? So, today I'm going to post it here, and then maybe I'll scrap that one for my 06 book someday. Tomorrow (or later in the week) I'll get today's DITL posted, and hopefully scrapped by the end of the month (when it's due).

Wednesday 10.11.06
I wake up when Matthew comes in to tell me it's a little bit after 7. M climbs on me and tells me "Wake up babe, it's 7, 2 o'clock."
I lay there wishing I could go back to sleep.
10 minutes later Matthew comes back in to say he's leaving and talk for a minute about how M's been acting.
I get up and get showered and dressed.
Somewhere around 8 I walk out to the living room and find M watching Sesame Street...

Then I head in to get R who's been chatting in his crib for a while. Just be glad you can't smell through the camera, his room is stinky!! He acts like he's still tired...

Diapered and dressed and now it's breakfast time. Cheerios, banana, and milk for the kids...
And a bowl of cereal for me. I eat it while checking my email and pnic. (I ate the same thing at the same spot this morning)

M gets dressed and then it's off to school at 9

R and I run some errands...

I found these cups for 62 cents, R wouldn't let go of them for anything!

It's such a nice day I decide to take the car home and then walk to the bank. No pictures of that.
We get back from the bank at around 10:30 and I give R some snack... raisins and dino crackers

Then we play for a while...
I put on his Veggie Tails cd and he dances

But then he starts to get fussy so I put him in his room for some quiet time, he does so well when he's in there by himself! I check pnic and ebay and then go in to get him. This is what I find...

We go back out the living room and I ask him if he wants to go outside, he ignores me and finds a book.

I read to him and then we go outside for a little bit but all he wants to do is run off so I water the flowers and then come back inside.
12pm lunch time!!
Leftover stuffed pizza for me, and pizza and apple slices for R

We hang out for a little bit after lunch and listen to our new Disney cd that came in the mail today!
Then R decides he needs to comb his hair before we go get Sissy at school.

1pm and here we are at M's school (R is at the same school right now)

1:15 and we're home and down for naps

1:30 before I get M in bed

I play around online, read my bible, play some more online, Matthew stops home to grab some papers he's supposed to copy, I make a CD, try to think if there's any cleaning I should be doing, read the paper, check online, wish I had a magazine... then I get bored because the kids are taking really long naps today!
3:30 or so... and they're up!
M wakes up happy and comes in to R's room where I'm just getting him up

She asks to do her homework right away

And R wants to color too

Once she's done w/ her homework around 4:15 I get her changed (she gets SO dirty at preschool!)

And we're off to Target before church.
I get R a booster seat (which after opening I don't like), stock up on basic tights for M (but decide to wait on the cute striped ones until she's not with me so I can put them in her stocking), and some candy. We see one of her teachers in the candy section and M thinks that's really cool!
5:30 and we're off to church for dinner and class. They're having ham, cheesy potatoes, candied carrots, and bread for dinner, and lemon squares for dessert, yum!!
R throws his plate on the floor.
During dinner I talk to one of my pregnant friends who's due in March. She had a surprise ultrasound today and her doctor is pretty sure she's having another girl. I don't tell her, but I'm a little sad, nobody has a boy except me.
We talk to some other friends too, and M listens to some people talk about putting a truck in the trucker's parade that goes on at Christmas. She gets very excited about that.
6:15 and I drop M off at her class. R screams when I leave him with good friends in the nursery, he's just started with that this month and it's driving me crazy. I know he'll be fine though.
6:30 and I head upstairs to my class. It's REALLY boring and I wonder why I signed up for it. Oh well, at least they have candy there.
7:30 and we've gone over the whole worksheet in class, I'm hoping we might get out early. Nope, the teacher keeps asking if there's more comments or questions. I'm stuffed up and I want to go home!
7:55, she lets us out 5 minutes early. I head to get the kids and drive home. On the way home M talks about the trucker's parade and R screams.
8:30, we're home and I'm getting them in bed.
8:50 Just after I get them both down Matthew comes home. I'm a little mad, he does that a lot, he must do it on purpose. He says he thought I'd be glad that he's home in time to watch Lost with me, I am, a little bit.
I pop online for 2 minutes before Lost starts.
10pm Lost is over and I check on the kids before heading to bed...


I love sleeping babies.