Halloween 2009

We started off Halloween with Dylan loosing yet another tooth! That would be all 4 front teeth gone!

We made Carmel apples and pumpkin sugar cookies.

Caitlin was the only one sold on the apples. Of course it was difficult for Dylan to bite into one, he might have liked it if he didn't have to work so hard at eating it. :)

I made a stuffed Pumpkin for dinner....I love these, you really can't mess one up.......unless your me, and leave the house with it in the oven and burn it! :) It should be nice and golden color. The insides are what counts.....and they were fine!

I left, to take the kids up the street to a trunk er treat. We decided to go at the last minute. There was no doubt that Caitlin would be Cinderella, Dylan had an old star wars costume to wear but Dawson had nothing. We looked around the house and he ended up going as a basket of dirty laundry. :)

A good day for everyone. I'm glad to be home in my pajamas right now. We are getting ready to play some board games to top off the night. Happy Halloween :)

Have you been wondering where I've been? HAHA


Sometimes I'm on the ball and sometimes, not so much!





It's been late nights of sewing around here. I'm enjoying it! I'm hoping to get something in my etsy store next month....fingers crossed!





I've got some DIY projects that I'm working on too......


Troy found some shutters on craigslist ( for free) and I'm going to make Caitlin a headboard for her bed out of them.


I've also been taking her old crib sheets and making pillow shams out of them. I kinda like that shabby chic look for her room. ( love having a girl! )

This pic was my inspiration for the pillow shams.....


I'll take pictures of mine when they are all done... :) I finished one and I love it. I have at least 4 sheets so it should fill up her bed nicely.

Well I'm off to work...... :)

The Pumpkin Patch

Today was a beautiful day to go to the Pumpkin Patch! Cool, crisp air and sunshine! We've been waiting all week to go.

I was hoping to have a pumpkin or two in the garden by now but I pulled out the plant a few weeks ago because it just wasn't blooming. It was turning brown and dying. :(

Having fun with these pumpkins :)

The big deal!

Troy loves going to the thrift store. He will go and take pictures of things and send them to me on his phone. I usually say no way, we don't need it, don't bring it home with you!

He went the other day and sent me a picture of this armoire. The problem was I didn't get the message until later. Way Later! He told me that it was for sale for $18.00 and that it was from PotteryBarn! It was 5 o'clock and I sent him back to the store to get it, praying nobody snatched it through the day.

I was so excited to hear it was still there and we have it in the playroom now. It just tickles me, I've wanted one for so long! Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you your hearts desire!

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My DIY

I've been looking at some great Do it Yourself blogs out there that take old furniture and turn it into something totally cool. Well I thought I'd try it in a small scale. Here is my first try......don't laugh :)

This canvas and candle holder I bought at the thrift store for a whole dollar. If you look up 12 x 12 canvas, they run around $25.00 so at .50 it was a bargain.

First thing I did was paint the canvas white.

Then I had a boutique kinda painting idea come to mind......This is what I came up with.

It now has a home in Caitlin's room.

Halloween Pasts

Sorry about the delay in posting this week, minor scanning problems...

I am going out of order again....

As I was looking at pictures this week end I came across some Halloween ones of the boys.

Dawson wore the pumpkin costume when it was his first Halloween, I pulled it out of storage and put it on Dylan for his first Halloween.

Dawson loved dinosaurs. We found this alligator costume at Costco one year but they didn't have his size. We bought one that was 2 sizes too big for him. He wore that thing out! He thought he was a T-Rex!

This was our last Halloween that we went Trick or Treating. When we lived in our apartment, we always went to a friends neighborhood to go out. When we bought our home I thought how nice it would be to just go around our own block and be done with it. I remember trying to get the boys dressed up, and kids were all ready coming to the door, I didn't have my candy ready to pass out, it was chaos for a while so I told my mom to take Dawson and start without me, I was just putting Dylan in his stroller and I would catch up. Dawson went to our neighbors house and then started walking to the next house. I come out see where they were and started heading that way. I just caught up with them when he rang the doorbell. The kid that lived there opened the door and screamed at Dawson with one of those ghost masks that they wear in those scary movies. Dawson started to cry and cry! The mom came to the door and tried her best to make him feel better. Dawson said that was it.....and we went home. Never went out again.

At least we didn't have to walk far. :)

out of order

I finally got some old pictures off a floppy disk that I wanted to share first. I wanted to go in order. But.....this computer doesn't have a floppy disk drive and I had to copy everything on a cd from my old computer. That wasn't easy for me :)

This was truly how the story began!

After Troy and I met, he had to move to Ft. Lauderdale for work. We only saw each other on the week ends. Nobody really knew we were "dating", especially his parents. They went down to visit him and asked if he was meeting anyone. He said, "I met the girl I'm going to marry."

*Troy tells me his mom about fell to her knees:)*

My whole life, I always said the man who marries me, will know instantly when we meet that I'm the one. People thought I was crazy, and told me that it just doesn't happen that way. Well........it did happen that way........I just had to wait 27 years for it.

These pictures are my favorite! When I look at these I remember the feeling I had of "We got each other and I don't need anything else!" The excitement of getting married and wondering what life had in store for us, I wish we could have bottled that energy!

We were laughing at these tonight. (Troy is definitely convinced he is loosing his hair! )We had no idea what was ahead of us. I'm so glad we have them to look back on and get to reminisce of a time when it was just us. We don't have many pictures of "just us" anymore. We do have great ones of "all of us" though :)