Fall

After weeks of wanting to put up my fall decor I finally got to do it today. YAY!!! I love fall. It was fun going through my stuff and trying to remember where I had put it last year. This will be the first time in our marriage that we will spend the holidays in the same house as we did the year before. Every year until now we have moved too soon. Hopefully it will be our last winter in this house and I am even more hopeful that we will be in the next house for MANY MANY years. As I was decorating today Austin saw some of the costumes in the box and wanted to dress up. He wanted to be the "scary monster" first but that only lasted about 20 min. Then he wanted to be Elmo and ended up staying in it all day until Dad came home and made him take it off so he didn't end up spilling dinner on it. In the spirit of Fall for lunch I cut Austin's sandwich in the shape of a pumpkin which he absolutely loved. Then after naps we made pumpkin spice cookies. It turned out to be a fairly productive day, I -in no particular order- cleaned, decorated, made food, cleaned, cut and shipped vinyl, posted a few new designs, watched HOUSE, read to the kids, played and even got a shower in before dinner LOL. The weather is starting to cool off and it is even suppose to rain on Wednesday...which just reminded me that our Young Women activity is suppose to be outside hmmmmmm, maybe we should have a back up plan. Anyway, here are some pictures from today. Enjoy.

Yikes, what a week!

Wow,
Last week was a crazy week. It started out so good! I took the kids to the babysitting co-op I am a part of and cleaned my house. It was so nice. I went through all of their toys, cleaned out the back hall closet and made it the new toy closet, I put away all the baby stuff (swing, jumper, exersaucer)changed some beds, cleaned 2 bathrooms, swept, mopped, vacuumed up stairs and down.... I was so happy! I kept it clean, spotless, until Thursday when I ended up getting a 24hr bug and could hardly function. Yuck. I haven't felt that crappy in a LONG time. I was totally wasted and worthless. Friday I spent trying to play catch up and running errands. Devon worked all day Saturday until I had to leave for our RS service/dinner/conference. All in all it was a decent week and I hope that next week will be just as productive minus the worthless Thursday. As for news Kate is doing well with her therapy. After her session was over this week Amy, her therapist, asked me how her eating is going. I told her the problems she is having and then she enlightened me a little. She suggested that Kate is having problems with food for one of two reasons. 1) because she is highly sensitive to textures and just doesn't like them or 2)(and the one she feels is the real problems) that her muscle tone is low in her face and mouth, just like in the rest of her body, and that she actually gets tired of eating before she is actually full. To this she suggested that after she is done eating the solid food that I give her on her tray that I need to offer her baby food. Things she can eat without working to eat it ie: applesauce, baby food, oatmeal. As soon as she said this I was like....AH HA! It totally makes sense! So I have been trying it lately and sure enough, when she is done eating the food on her tray she is still hungry and eats what every "easy" food I offer her. So hopefully now she will gain a little more weight and maybe it will help with her therapy and muscle gaining. So that is the new news with Kate. Austin, well he is just happy Austin. So funny to talk to and likes to talk a mile a minute. He is getting to be a real smart brute and picks up on things a little too quickly LOL. He is fun to have around and is turning into nice company during the day. Devon is still as busy as ever and is only home enough to sleep. I sure can't wait till winter. It will be a nice break from this insane blessing of our first real season. As for me and my business, it is going well. It's pretty steady and I really enjoy it. I am learning more and more everyday of the tricks to selling things online and one of these days Laura and I are going to venture out and start selling vinyl on ebay. As for now I am just holding on and gearing up for a hopefully exciting holiday season! Anyway, hope you were able to keep up with this ever changing post. I will run through and see what pictures I can grab from this week!

Pictures? Did someone say pictures?

So I have been taking pictures everyday, I just haven't been posting them so 1/2 way doing what I wanted to. Here are some pictures.

Kate eating chocolate chip cookies....she LOVES chocolate. Life doesn't get much better.

Kate's cute boots...although they kind of look like fake legs LOL

This was a barbecue this weekend to honor Star's Firefighters

Paige and Austin and the BBQ waving the flags they stole from the decor

Paige...blissfully enjoying the beaters, Claire....trying to steal dough from the bowl, Austin....yes, playing with the princess. Cookie dough? What cookie dough? Apparently he's in love.

The Fire Engine (we can't say fire truck because with our little guy it comes out as a swear word)

This was just one of those "today's picture" I loved how the light from the window was illuminating the food just waiting to be eaten.

Kate, rockin' her cowgirl attire

The gummy candies I made.

Practicing taking pictures in filtered light. I wanted to see if I could notice the "good" light.

Yummm, we went out for breakfast and I had the best meal ever.

These were the vinyl samples I sent to the Spotted Box

On this one I was trying to use my manual focus. I see the benefits of having manual focus but I think I will need to get my eyes checked before I am able to use it. Phahah, sad but true.

Hi Ho Hi Ho off to the Doctor we ....went?!

Today Kate turned 15 months - wait, did I say that right? FIFTEEN MONTHS?! Really? Wow, maybe she doesn't seem that old because she can't stand, crawl or walk...but that could just be me LOL. It also could be because she is in the bottom 5% for her weight, 10-25% for her height and 10% for her head. Since her last check up in June she has only gained one pound. That kind of surprised me because her legs are so much more chubby now.LOL We are pushing it if we get her into 12 month pants. For some reason she just has no waist/butt. Everything just falls off her. She is still easily in 6 month skirts, shorts, and capris....anything where length doesn't matter. For her tops she can wear anything from 9-12 months and it fits fine. Dresses are my favorite because she can wear anything from like 6-18 months. It's just so weird for me because Austin was always so big. He was into a size before or right when he was suppose to be in it. His clothes always fit in the waist but were too long LOL. It really is funny how different kids are. The doctor overall said that Kate looked good although he stressed that I really need to start feeding her a multivitamin. He knows that we're doing therapy and asked how we liked it. He commented on how happy she was...then left us for the nurse to stick her with SIX shots. OUCH!!! She cried and it was sad because it took a while for the nurse to give them all to her. 3 in one leg, 2 in the other and one in the arm...poor baby. At least I remembered to give her IB-profin (sp?) before we left. She calmed down quickly once I held her and fed her Recces Pieces. All in all it went well and we don't have to go back until next June so yay baby Kate!

Too Tired

So today has been one of those days. Where some moments I think I have things under control and the next I am wondering what in the world is going on?! To summarize I think I'll just make a list.

Why I felt I had things under control

worked out/ went to my first PiYo class (pilates and yoga) LOVED IT
made Gummy Candies from this cool tutorial (that you'll have to check back later for the link for)
Made 60 samples for the Spotted Box
Cut packaged and wrapped 2 orders
took the kids on a walk to see the swan
made breakfast, lunch and dinner
emptied the dishwasher
bathed the kids
1 load of laundry
swept and moped kitchen floor
went to the post office
made and posted one new design for my store
posted a tutorial on my other blog

Why I felt like crap today....I mean why I felt like things were out of control

Haven't folded 4 loads of clean laundry....still
wanted to ship out the samples today but needed 15 more min. that I didn't have so they will have to go out in the morning
Lost my patience and had to give Austin a little spank before bed.

*note for me by the time it's bedtime...it's bed time and lately he has been playing this bedtime "game" of pretty much not going to bed unless we sit with him until he falls asleep. Which sadly doesn't fly with me. So after many attempts to get him to go to bed I told him if he got out of bed one more time he was getting a bum spank. Not 30 seconds later he was out of bed. So he got a bum spank but lucky for him dad came home to snuggle with him....now back to the list

Ran out of Laundry Soap
Ran out of mop spray for the wet jet
never put on make up...which I don't really care about but my husband doesn't really like it if I don't "get ready" for the day. It doesn't have to be all out, but at least a little
Didn't visit my neighbor
didn't do 2 vinyl design previews for people who want vinyl
Didn't start the book I wanted....which is probably a good thing
Didn't talk to my sister on MSN today
Didn't post pictures on this blog LOL, and I'm not going upstairs tonight to do it LOL

So there is a brief outline of why sometimes I feel I've got it all taken care of and sometimes I just feel so frustrated. Hopefully tomorrow will be good and Devon will be home from work before 8:45 so that I can go to YW.

Sunday

Pictures of our Sunday. After dinner Dev and I were sitting on the couches while the kids entertained us. It is so fun to watch them play together.

My crazy husband!

Just me.

So notice the not matching hair thing? Well don't mind that it's not matching...it's not what she wore today to church but do notice how cute it is...I made it all by myself. It's a fabric button then I hooked it on to a bobby pin. So cute!

Austin was being such a good big brother and pushing Kate around.

After a while she even liked it!

I think this is the first time I told her to smile and she did it. Yeah for communication!

Seriously, he probably pushed her around for a half and hour then SHE got tired and wanted off. He loves her and loves to play with her and LOVES that she's getting big enough to play with him.

Fonts and Things

okay, so I am trying a new font and a blog signature. Hope it works. I would love for you to leave me a comment and let me know if the font comes up or if it goes all crazy on your computer. Thanks!

Yesterday's Cupcakes YUM!

I tried to post about this yesterday but I couldn't get the pictures to do what I wanted them to do but I figured it out so here they are!

Austin was really excited to help make cupcakes. I made them on Monday and then we frosted them on Wednesday. Note: I just cut my and colored my hair and I LOVE it. This is the first picture I've taken so enjoy what you can see of it.

He thought it was really fun that we were putting cocoa in the frosting. He kept saying "No put cocoa in frosting! You drink it!"

LIFE DOES NOT GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS!!!



The cupcakes we decorated for us.



These were the one's we brought over to the neighbor. I got these cute cupcake wrappers from someone on etsy but I don't remember who...sorry.


And I had to throw a picture of Kate up. This is how Kate gets from sitting to her tummy...right down the middle. It looks so painful to me every time she does it but she doesn't seem to mind it. Sometimes I swear she is breaking her legs. OUCH!

Orange

So I was at CraftWarehouse yesterday after my child development meeting about Kate and I picked up this cute fabric for 50% off. I love a good sale. I love it even more because I am going to be making Halloween appliques with it. I hope it turns out as good as this one.


And I am also super excited because I finally figured out how to get my pictures big...and not blurry! YAY to me and yay to Megan for stearing me in the right direction.

Pictures of Summer Part 2 and day 1 of my photo journal

Austin loves to take baths with crayola bath dropz he loves to watch them disolve and he thinks it's really fun that mixing two colors can create a new color.
Kate loves her binky....but loves her bear even more. In the morning she won't part with either until she gets food. She loves this bear so much I actually went to the store and bought 3 more as back up just in case this one doesn't make it. We learned the hard way with Austin that one bear is not enough.

This is how we find Austin in the mornings...undies, flip flops and of course sad Mr. Bear

Kate loves to pick her nose...this is how we most often find her. I don't think it's possible for her to stick it up any further.LOL Click on this picture and it will bring it up even bigger for you to see exactly what I mean.

At the Fair watching the baby chickens hatch.

Our friend Paige as corn.

Farmer Devon

Farmer Austin

Paige is two years older than Austin. They really like to play with each other and it's fun to watch. While at the Fair she kept wanting to hold his hand. His dad called her a Cougar LOL Devon and I almost died.

The Bryants

This is how Kate sat in her stroller almost the whole time....lounging with her feet up.

All these next ones are Austin feeding animals. He loved it because it tickled!

Paige, dreaming about going on all the fun rides.

Kate's ready for the night. She was so good all night. Sat in her stroller for like 3 hours and didn't make a single peep.

These are my new shoes....fun huh LOL