the makings

Love Christmas!

This year in addition to our yearly gingerbread house...

we decided to add the tradition of making suckers.  The kids lost interest after the first batch, but Jeff and I kept it going.  They turned out great, and are surprisingly easy!

baby it's cold outside!

Only 10 degrees out, but they still know how to have fun...

to paint or not to paint

Left alone for all of five minutes and they manage to get more paint on themselves than the paper.  "it's just more fun mom" Zac says...

fun wagon ride

pics of my kiddos

I've had some people wondering who took the pictures of my kids.  Her name is Julie Teig-Stainbrook.  She lives here in Midway and did an awesome job! Here is a link to her website:
click HERE
and also some more pics she took

She did a really great job.  And you get all rights to the pictures when she gives you the CD of them.

Zac turns 5 today

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUDDY!

I can't believe your already 5!

Some of his favorite things:

• anything camo/army
• legos
• riding his bike
• school
• candy
• the colors green and blue
• chocolate milk

Happy Birthday Reagan

Happy Birthday to my baby. I can't believe how fast the last two years have just flown by. 

Some of her favorite things:

1. Cinderella - we have to watch it atleast twice a day

2. Zac - need I say more

3. Chocolate milk and mac and cheese

4. her fingers and toes painted

5. going for walks

6. her purse

7. shoes

Fun things she says:

1. I'm good (when she falls or gets hurt)

2. Broken (when she's sitting on the potty and can't pee)

3. just joking

4. I back in 2 minutes, don't move (when we're playing and she needs a different toy)

5. Zac go to school all day long

6. she'll start laughing and then sigh and say "ah funny"

caramel apples

the bag says 5

we got 3

Wordless Wednsday

I am trying a new thing I found on another blog entitled "Wordless Wednsday" You simply post a picture about that day and nothing else...

11th Heaven's Homemaking Haven is giving away THIS apron!...





Click HERE to find out how to win!

bows

I got this website from my cousin's blog.  This girls sells bows for no more than $3 and they are amaizing! So cute!  As for me, i'm done making them, i'm just going to buy from this girl.

Snow in September!?!

no...seriously snow in SEPTEMBER!

triplets

If you haven't voted yet, please go HERE and vote for my cousin Shana and her triplets (2 girls 1 boy)....she could win a dream nursery. It only takes a second, and voting ends on the 30th...so please go and vote.

just a fun fact

So.........for the last 7 years Jeff has been doing this

and maybe an insignificant amount of any this:

And...you know what....Jeff passed the Bar. We are very excited, and I am SO proud of him! He has worked hard for the last 3 years and deserved nothing less. It makes it all worth it.

Labor Day

We went up to Guardsman's Pass this Labor Day and had a little picnic up there. The kids seemed to have fun until the end when they got tired. We walked all the way around a little lake up there and even found some wild raspberries.

Brian is 2 for 3 with his kids and I'm 0 for 2. Why can't Zack just smile for the camera once! Just once! He is so busy doing other things, I guess, to do anything else. Zack, Brianna and Mason were thick as thieves up there.