The trouble with high ceilings...

Is that when the smoke detector starts chirping at 2pm on a weekday I have to listen to it for a LONG time before Matthew gets home with a latter.

The kids and I were relaxing in the living room of this very nice house we're renting with super high ceilings this afternoon when the smoke detector chirped. Then it did it again about 10 minutes later. At that point I was thinking that I could just wait until Matthew got home, every 10 minutes was not that annoying... Then it started doing it every couple minutes, then every 30 seconds or so.
So I called Matthew to see if he was anywhere near home and if he could swing buy to fix it for me, nope. Then I looked outside to see if our neighbor's son who has a window tinting business and often has a latter on top of his car was over, nope.
By that point it was chirping like crazy and making R jump every time it went off. So, I got the new Webster that Matthew bought yesterday (that I didn't think he really needed to buy) and climbed up on the bookshelf. I started hitting the thing until it finally flew off the wall and down the hallway (all the way to M's room for those who know what the layout of this house is like). Then I sat back down to relax again feeling very proud of myself for fixing it all on my own. Chirp...
Yeah, it was still doing it. So, I pull the battery out, and it still kept doing it. Then I spent the next 10 minutes walking from room to room trying to figure out if I wacked the wrong one off the wall. lol As far as I could tell it was still coming from the living room...
It seems to have stopped now, but how weird that it would keep going even after it was off the wall with the battery out.

Brings back memories of my Senior year when my parents were out of town and the smoke detector on a high ceiling started chirping. Matthew fixed it that time, of course we were dating then, not married. lol


Anyway... that's my excitement for the day. R, my mom, and I tagged along on M's field trip to the pumpkin patch this morning. I may have a picture or two to post later, I still need to pull them off the camera and I'm feeling lazy.


Oh, I was going to post last night, Matthew and I went and saw Fireproof and I thought it was great! You could tell that there was only one real actor in the movie, but the message was good, it had some funny parts, and I thought it was just a good movie. I'm glad we were able to find a theater still playing it around here!

Scrapbook Friday

It's Friday again, and that means new stuff from Britt!
This week she has a bunch of fun Halloween stuff out, and once again, if you buy the kit this week you get a bonus alpha. Go check it out!

We don't really do the spooky scary stuff for Halloween around here, but this kit is so jam packed that there's still tons of stuff to make cute pages if scary isn't your thing.
Here are my pages I made with it, and the new mini kit Wichy Woman that's also out today...

Well, that's it for today, I hope everyone has a good weekend!

No More Baseball

Sniff, sniff.
Baseball season is officially over for the Giants. I'm going to miss watching games, despite them being way under 500 for the season, they were sure fun to watch this year. Today's game was one of the best, Tim is such a fun pitcher to watch!
Anyway, I was feeling a little sentimental about my Giants today, so I scrapped another LO from one of the games we went to over the summer.

credits here

Well, I just read on Britt's blog that she watched Amazing Race tonight, I didn't even know it had started yet (shows how much non-baseball TV I've been watching lately), I'm so glad she posted that!! I'm off to watch it now. Thanks again Britt!

We still love JT!

The Giants brought JT Snow back tonight for one "start" so that he could retire as a Gaint. He is my all time favorite player, and when M was a toddler I passed that love on to her as well. She use to blow kisses at the TV whenever they said his name. So, when I told her he was going to be on tonight she was super excited. I didn't think she'd remember who he was (and I'm not really sure she does), but she thought it was great that he was on TV again. I had to take some snaps of her pointing him out to R.

If you look closely at the top of our entertainment center in this one you can see my JT Snow bobble head, ball signed by him, and the very bottom of the foul ball Matthew caught a couple years ago. We're good fans here. :)

(don't mind M's messy hair, she had just gotten out of the shower)

It was fun to see him out there warming up, I only wish they would have let him play the first half inning. Oh well. What a cool thing they did for him anyway!

Her's another snap for you. My picky eater (yes, I know, she's payback for me) LOVES baby spinich -at least when it's covered in "ranch". I've been buying this Mediterranean blend of Fresh Express salad and she really does love it.

But then again, the crazy girl does not like red sauce on anything, but can't get enough katchup and loves the roasted red peper and tomato soup we get at Costco. I don't think I'll ever get it...

Happy Birthday ScrapMatters!

ScrapMatters is turning one this weekend, and they're celebrating in style! There's lots of fun stuff going on all weekend, a blog train, chat, sale, grab bags, and an AWESOME mega colab kit free with a $10 purchase.

Britt has a grab bag out today for the party, it's packed with super fun stuff and a great deal!! Here are 2 layouts I did using stuff from the GB as well as other BD products. I also doubled up and did the Tuesday Template Challenge with the first and the Saturday Special for the second, it's been so long sense I've done those challanges!

Full Credits

Full Credits

House Stuff

I got to go pick everything out for the house this morning. It was fun, but a little bit overwhelming to do by myself. I took some pictures, but they really don't look anything like what I picked, so I'm not going to bother posting them. I went with the same counter top in the kitchen that we had last time. We both really liked it in our old house, and it matched well with the cabinets and floor. Everything has a warm tone to it, either red-ish or golden. The carpet I picked is berber, it's called glazed walnut and it's kind of a tan-ish gold color. They said that it will look lighter when it's in the house, and I totally remember being shocked at how light our carpet was last time, so I went with a slightly darker color this time. The laminet in the entry and kitchen/dining is pretty simaler to last time too, maybe a little bit redder, I'm not really sure. The bathroom floors will be red toned tile looking vinal. When I say red, I don't really mean red like a strawberry or something, more like how blond hair can have a red tone. Let's see... bathroom counters are a lighter color that goes well with the floor, I'm not 100% sure how I did on those, guess we'll wait and see!
My relater sent me to the subdivition the builder is just finishing to look at house colors there. I knew I wanted to try for green again, but last time when we picked out of the little color book we ended up with a mint chip ice cream color (no joke). So I looked at a few green houses and picked one that I liked. It's much easier to see that stuff big than the little samples.
Oh, I also got to pick the rubber baseboards for the bathroom, that was new. I picked two that I liked and let the lady who worked there decide for me, too many choices at once! lol
I think that's everything. I can't wait until it's done so I can see how it looks!!

A Photoshoot In Neverland

I bribed the kidlets today to let me take some "real" pictures of them in their costumes. They're getting so much better at cooperating with pictures!

I just ordered this first one BIG!! I love it!

(R said that Tinkerbell is supposed to be little)

I caught this one as we were going in, I saw the light on her wings and had to take a few more pictures.

I'm glad we did this now, that way on Halloween we can all just enjoy it and I won't be worrying about trying to get a great shot of them together.