Long overdue....

Long overdue on a lot of posts so I'll be playing catch-up over the next few days.

Nic and Lauren were nice enough to watch our kids one Saturday when I had a church function to be at and David was out of town. They took the kiddos to a Pumpkin Patch and thoroughly spoiled them. Thanks Nic and Lauren... can't wait to re-pay all the favors with little Corbin one day(soon!) :)


Our church does a Trunk-or-Treat every year and David and I decided to get into the spirit of things this year. David sported the "fisherman" look while I opted for a more true-to-life costume of a "mom." I was wearing a robe and actually safety pinned dolls hanging on me... If your a mom, you get it!

Now, on to Halloween.
Aidan aka Spidey

Brinn aka Barbie

Owen aka Nemo

And what's Halloween without a family shot...

My Front Door...

Lauren(SIL) found a cute wreath on Pinterest and this tutorial here. Operation front door wreath was officially underway. We figured we could spice it up a little so we added some black wired ribbon and I LOVE how it turned out.



Nothing like getting your craft on.

Made with love...

A few weeks ago Brinn and I decided she NEEDED an apron when she was HELPING me in the kitchen. So I pulled out some of the cute fabric I bought a few years ago and her and I just WHIPPED THIS THING UP. (There may or may not be a few exaggerations included above.)

It's reversible so she can wear it on either side.


Not perfect, but definitely made with love.

Mr. Fix It!!!

A few weeks ago our van wouldn't start... Ggggrrrr. After David listened to it he figured it was the starter, and also figured he could fix it himself (I was hopeful, but sceptical.) Well, I'm happy to say I was wrong. After several hours he and my brother Nic were able to fix it. Yippy! He probably saved us a few hundred dollars.

They were so proud they ASKED me to take these pictures and blog about them... right Nic??? :)

Happy to have my van up and running again! Thanks boys!

Brinn grows up

Brinn just celebrated her 4th birthday the other day. For her birthday she wanted to get her ears pierced... so I said sure. I was totally shocked that she actually went through with it. But she did AWESOME! She was totally fine until they brought out the guns... then she got a little nervous. I held her hands and they did the count down.
Here she is before


One, Two, Three, click.
At first she looked shocked, but when I told her that it was over she got a huge smile on her face.
Right after


So proud of her!

Let the soccer season begin

This week at our house...

This Little Guy (who is not so little anymore) started 1st Grade...



This Little Miss finally let me talk her into sleeping with curlers in her hair...


Any given night at our house...

And the results of the curlers... a little "crazy" as Brinn said, but cute!


And after it had calmed down for a couple hours TOTALLY CUTE!

And the Littlest Mr. at our house took a tumble, which totally does not surprise me. He hit his eyebrow bone on the edge of a little table. Poor little Mr. :( (This was yesterday.)


And today it looks like this... Nice shinner buddy!

Gotta love...

... The Biorn's! We sure do! We went to Oklahoma to visit them last week and can I just say that for me, that was the first real vacation in a LONG TIME. (Real Vacation= Never having to wonder what my children were getting into, if anyone was watching them, and for that matter not hardly ever seeing my kids!) The Biorn's used to live by us and with 1 boy(who is so good with kids) and 4 girls(8 and older, also great with kids)... my kids were seriously watched/entertained by them the entire time. Thanks so much Mandy for your friendship and for everything (Worthy of a shout-out would be surviving the "tornado" and "seeing" Garth Brooks and his "house.")!!! We had a blast! And thanks Dallin, Bre, Madison, Maren, and Ella! We miss you guys already!

Bre lovin on Owen...

Maren and Aidan...

Bre, Madison, Maren, and Owen...

Madison, Me, and the little man...

Ella and Brinn...

Mandy and I...

PS- We didn't forget you Dallin...(just didn't have any good pics of you with the kids. Bummer!!! We will have to get some next summer:))