6 Word Saturday

Happy Halloween!!

Spiderman and Racecar Driver wants Candy!

That is a spooky as I can get!

Carving of the Pumpkin

We hadn't carved a pumpkin before with Cody and Chase. The Halloween's in the past they have just wouldn't have been interested, but this year we did it.

I, of course, wanted the perfect pumpkin to be the first pumpkin that they carved. When we went to the pumpkin patch on Saturday I found it. It was perfect and very heavy!

Ready to help, after Steve and I cut the top open.

Cody was the first to put his hand in the gooo of the pumpkin...

This was his reaction, after that I don't think he did much more of scooping out the goo.

It took a few minutes before I encouraged Chase to put his hand into the pumpkin and tough the gooo. He didn't like it either but did help me a little more than Cody did...but not much!

After we got the pumpkin insides cleaned. Chase wanted triangle eyes. Cody wanted a circle nose. Chase wanted to have a smiley face and Cody wanted 5 teeth.
Here was the result.

Sitting by the pumpkin after we went outside with it!

It didn't turn out half bad and the boys love there pumpkin!

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Another Trip to the Pumpkin Patch

Last week we went to the pumpkin patch with Chase and Cody's school. They had so much fun. We went to Oma's Pumpkin Patch.

It is a great pumpkin patch and great place to play!


Cody, Chase and their best friend Jacob.


Their teacher and classmates


Waiting for a turn on the hay ride.

The coolest thing about this pumpkin patch is that it is a working dairy farm. This stuff that the boys are sliding down in is Cotton Seed. They grow the cotton seed on site and feed it to the cows along with grain and hay.

This Cotton Seed was the place to be with the plastic disks to slide down. They had a good time!

New Hair Cut

I just got back from getting my hair cut. I haven't had my hair cut in about 18 months. I was trying to let it grow out and I also just got lazy and was wearing my hair in a pony tail a lot.

Lindsi did a wonderful job in cutting it. I really like it.

Next I will probably get it highlighted, but thought I didn't want to do too much at once!

Way Back Wednesday

Playing along again with Cheryl with my Way back pictures. More Halloween pictures!

PIRATES - OCTOBER, 2008

Chase and Cody- 2 years Old. With their pumpkin candy holders!

Chase and Cody. Loved the face painted beards!

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Two for Tuesday

I love to make bake and more important Chase and Cody love to be in the kitchen with me! I actually wish that I had more time to bake with them. I find so many good receipes from blogs and websites that I visit that I just want to make them all.

Last week the boys and I made Chocolate Zucchini Bread. Amy makes some wonderful looking cakes and has some great receipes!


They really liked tasting the batter everytime we cook. The Chocolate Zucchini Bread turned out wonderful!

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Muffin Tin Monday

Last week I did do a Muffin Tin Meal for dinner. This week theme was

Fall: Harvest/Halloween

No, I wasn't that creative. But it was still fun and love playing along with this meal idea.

The picture is not very good either.

We had for dinner: Macaroni and Cheese with Chicken, Zucchini Squash, Green Beans, and apples with Carmel dip. I also had a Butternut Squash for them to try.

They both ate the Macaroni and Cheese with the Chicken, the green beans and the apples. Chase also ate the Zucchini Squash. Neither one liked the Butternut squash. (It was pretty good though.)

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Makes My Monday

We spent great quality time this weekend with my Steve's family. Steve brother's family, Daniel, Shannon and Tatum came for the weekend and stayed at Steve's parents house. The guys mainly worked on Daniel and Shannon's new Rhino that they are putting together for the desert.
Grandma with Chase, Tatum and Cody

That just means that us girls and the kids had a lot of fun. On Saturday morning, we tried to attend our first Pumpkin Hunt, but the place was crowded. More people showed up then they had pumpkins. So we left and went to the pumpkin patch. The kids really had a good time!


Shannon with Chase, Tatum and Cody.

At the pumpkin patch we rode the little choo choo train, did the obstacle course, and the giant slide.
Chase and Cody checking out the sheep in the petting zoo.

My boys love the giant slide. So much that I actually looked up on the Internet thinking maybe that is good Christmas present for them. They can be bought and really not that expensive, but don't think I want this huge slide in my backyard!


Of course, we had to get huge pumpkins and the wagon ride out to the car. This wagon was so heave to push and pull, we were thinking we must have been weak or something, and the weather was only 90 degrees on blacktop. But Cody kept saying it was tickling his butt and laughing, well he was stilling on the tire in the back so the wagon wouldn't go. So funny we started laughing!

It seemed like there was always food around also. We did a little bit of shopping but for the most part we hung out with family. Chase, Cody and Tatum played together so well. Cody started to cry on Saturday night when he had to leave Tatum but was sleep not a mile down the road.

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Shabby Apple Dare to Design Limoncello Frock GIVEAWAY!!!!

Shabby Apple Dare to Design Limoncello Frock GIVEAWAY!!!!

Baby Picture Sunday

This Sunday's Baby Picture Sunday theme is

Bald is Beautiful

I like looking through my pictures and playing along with a theme on Sunday's!

Chase and Cody

5 months old

They had peach fuzz haid until about 10 months old. Then their real hair started to come in but not fast. Now it seems like they need a hiar cut every 6 weeks!

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6 Word Saturday

Our 1st Ever Pumpkin Hunt Today

A local park has hide a bunch of pumpkin's throughout the park and it's a hunt to find them. Should be fun!

Christmas Agenda

Okay back to getting organized for Christmas. Anne's assignment for this last week was:

1. Establish a budget for the Christmas purchases. Complete!

2. Check the decorations that you have and if they are in good conditions (remember to write it in the corresponding section of your agenda). Do the list of what you need to buy. Complete!

3. We will begin the cleaning and organization: first will be the master bedroom and closet.

Okay I knew that my closet really needed to be organized.

Before:

There were a lot of clothes laying on the bottom of the closet floor behind the door that needed to be taken to a donation place. I donated 3 black trash bags full of clothing.

After:

Okay the picture's don't really show how much space is there now, but a lot of space and organization took place in that closet. It looks beautiful now!

Way Back Wednesday

Playing along again with Way Back Wednesday with pictures from Halloween, 2007!

Cookie Monster and a Cookie!

Chase was the monster and Cody the Cookie.
16 months old!

The cookie costume got to be too much for Cody to wear while we were trick or treating. It was uncomfortable to him, limited him and he didn't like that. My two friends, Leslie and Lisa, made the cookie costume for me. It was very cute!

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Random Tuesday Thoughts

I have random thoughts in my head so I would talk about them here.

1. Why did my photographer cancel on me for our family Christmas pictures. Now I have to rearrange the schedule to fit that into a already busy holiday calendar. And we can't have the whole family in it!

2. I am upset at Wal-Mart for taking away the sewing and craft sections of my local Wal-Mart. A few months ago rearranged the store and took away all the material. That was a good section in my opinion.

3. Have already started my Christmas shopping. I am very excited about this.

4. I am still addicted to Farmtown on Facebook. When will I get over this addiction? Oh but it is so much fun!

5. I wish that apple trees grew around here so we could go apple tree picking and go to an orchard. The only thing that grows around us is Avocado's and Oranges and neither open up there farms and have us pick-your-own!

Two for Tuesday

This picture was taken on Saturday at the pumpkin patch.

A trip to the pumpkin patch for my boys also include Ice Cream!



They both did very well with the ice cream cones. Normally they are melting faster then they can get it ate, but even though the temperature was 100 degrees the ice cream stayed where it was suppose to for them to eat it all! I did help a little! But they were so happy to get to the cone part! Cody had strawberry ice cream and Chase had vanilla ice cream.

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Makes My Monday

The highlight of our weekend was spending time with friends and going to the pumpkin patch at Bates Nut Farm. We went with 3 other families and had a great time.

Ate good food and had ice cream!


The group of us. The place was huge and a lot to do and see. They had animals to see and pet. Chase's favorite animal that day was the miniature horses. The trip to the pumpkin patch wouldn't be complete if we didn't ride on the hay ride!

The kids all went on the giant slide and non of them wanted to come off. They loved that!

Of course, the hunt for the greatest pumpkin was on also. Chase liked this one. We didn't buy here at this pumpkin patch. We have 3 other trips planned and not in need of a whole herd of pumpkins!

Cody's greatest pumpkin that he thought we should get!

Good shot of Steve, Chase and Cody waiting for the food and ice cream.

Afterwards we went to Jeff and Shani's house and the kids all played and we had a pizza party! We differently had a great time. Really like spending time with friends!

It made our weekend and that Makes My Monday!

Magic Marker Monday

This week I wanted to show off Chase and Cody's D's that were made for D Week and school!

This week they bingo stamped the letter D! This the Chase's D and I don't have picture of Cody's becuase it is being featured in the classroom!! So it must look beautiful!

For sharing Chase brought dirt (in a plastic bag) and Cody brought donuts!

Cody's A Big Boy & Friday Foto Finish

We might of had a break through!!

Cody finally went poop in the toilet!!

Yes, that is bold and in big letters. I showed him how happy I was for doing such a good deed, and not in his pants! This picture was right after he went poop and got his new toy that he had been wanting for months!

I am hoping that now that he knows that it is not scary that he will do it again and again.

The details (don't read if you don't want the nitty gritty of little boys going potty!)

I thought he might have to go and I think he started to go in his underwear, I sent him to the bathroom, like I have done many times before, but it's like he wanted to sit on the toilet. He started to get up like normal and I grabbed a book and we started talking about the color pants the character in the book was wearing. I could see he relaxed more as we were talking and then he went. He got all excited when it happened and hugged me with a huge smile on his face! The other thing was that Chase wasn't in the bathroom at the time. Chase was checking out a mess that I have on the floor in the office, so there was no pressure of big brother (that is potty trained) hounding him that it was his turn on the potty.

This totally Finishes off my week and especially my Friday! Play along here: