Painting Pumpkins!

A few days ago, Jeff brought these cute little pumpkins home. A lady he works with, brought them in to decorate the office & she sent three home with Jeff for the kids to paint!

The kids were so excited about this. They love to paint!

Lily painted hers pink & then put a face on it:

Riley made his a blue bird from the game Angry Birds:

Zach's was the black bomb bird from Angry Birds:

They had so much fun painting their pumpkins!!

Fun Weekend!

We had a great weekend! We started out at the Farmer's Market on Saturday morning.

We caught the Balloon Clown right before we left. Yeah!

I was trying to take a picture of the boys sword fighting, and Lily literally jumped into the picture. She's such a ham! :0)

After the Farmer's Market, we headed to the zoo!

The rest of our Saturday was pretty low key. Riley had a Birthday party to go to & then my sister Kathleen came over to watch the kids while Jeff & I went out on a date. :0) (Thanks Kathleen!)

On Sunday, Jeff decided he wanted to smoke some ribs & a pork shoulder.

YUM!!!!

Lily brought her princess chair outside to keep Jeff company.

Riley & Zach played outside too. It was a beautiful day!!



I don't have a picture of Zach because he was pouting after he had gotten in trouble......I didn't want a picture of that.... ;0)

Then, I went inside & took a nap, while Jeff & the kids stayed outside & played & got ice cream from the ice cream man! It was a wonderful nap. :0) (Thanks Jeff!)

It was a fun, relaxing weekend for all of us!

More Emma Pictures

Here are more pictures of me torturing Emma. Luckily her Momma doesn't mind me doing this to her and Emma doesn't seem to mind too much either! =)
Here she is sleeping on the moon:

And here she is floating away with some balloons!

Amy wanted some with her awake, so I thought this one would be cute to do that with. She was cracking me up with all of her facial expressions and she held onto those balloons the whole time!

This one really cracks me up!

I get all of my inspiration from Adele Enersen who took pictures like these of her little baby.

Bulletin Board Project

One of the things I had been dreading with the new school year, was the backpacks, jackets, & coats piled up on my closet doorknob & dining room table chairs. I also dreaded having all of those newsletters and calenders all over my fridge overlapping one another. This year I would have three backpacks crowded on the doorknob:

And 3 sets of notes and calenders.....

I decided I wanted a bulletin board big enough for all of the newsletters plus the monthly school & lunch calendar. I also wanted a way to hang the kids backpacks and jackets/coats so they were all together. (and off my chairs!) So, Jeff got to work making the frame: 

Zach helped out Jeff with this part. This is how he dressed to help Jeff:

Apparently Lily thought this was how she needed to dress to help out:

Here is the frame, finished & stained. Notice the pegs on the bottom. =) 

After he attached the cork board, he hung it up on the wall for me.

I added the calendars & newsletters & the kids hung up their backpacks when they got home today!

I even made little name tags for their spots, so there are no fights on who's stuff goes where. :0)

So now we have a nice organized place where we can find everything! Thanks Jeff!!

Emma the Book Worm

So, this is what I've been doing to my niece while my sister is at work:

I saw this cute picture idea on Pinterest (of course), and thought that it would be perfect to do with Emma since her Momma is a librarian. Emma was very cooperative. :0)
I will probably continue to torture her in this manner since my own kids no longer let me do this to them. ;0)