A sweet new baby boy - no, not mine!

My sister had her sweet boy (baby # 3) on Thursday morning. He is tiny, so tiny and so sweet. I got to visit with them for FOUR whole hours on Saturday (thanks B!) and got to hold him for a long time. He just curled up on his Auntie Kiki and stayed cozy for a bit, sweet baby. He is home now with his big sis and big bro and mommy & daddy. He just fits right it over at their house.

CONGRATS L& J!!!

He is an adorable baby!

My Little Super Heros

These are just some fun pictures of our weekend at Big J's preschool Fun Fair, the annual fundraiser. Lots of fun for the boys, they do almost everything together - little buddies. They got to go on pony rides, train rides, bounce houses and of course the fire truck!

Big J got to sit in the drivers seat! So cool.


Lil J was not so sure about actually being inside a firetruck.

I worked on the silent auction committe and brought home a class basket that I won at the silent auction for the boys as a surprise...the Super Heros Basket. They loved it and are into superheros - they basket had costumes for Buzz Lightyear, Spiderman and Batman. Big J is Buzz Lightyear (costume is a little bit small but hey who cares!)

And lil J is loving the Spiderman costume.

So of course no superhero is complete without a special cape!

Here they are made with love from mommy.

Ornament Swap - so cute!

I am participating in the Benner Daily ornament swap.

This is such a cute idea, I cannot wait to see what will come my way. Just have to figure out what to make or buy for my ornament. Hmmmm.

Click on the picture to participate!

Daddy's Home on his Birthday!

Daddy is home, and it is his birthday.

The boys and I are so glad he is home.

For his 35th year on this planet his babies painted him some treasures for his office,

something to brighten up the place.

Lil J and his piggies.

Big J in concentration mode


Sweet Lil J painting away

This is Big J's creation
and Lil J's creation
Happy Birthday to you...

Happy Birthday to You...

Happy Birthday Dear Daddy...

Happy Birthday to You.

An actual blog award!

A blog award, an actual award. This is so exciting!

My sweet blog friend Dani at The Craft Rookie nominated me for this sweet award tonight. She is awesome, she is the one who made my cute little button, see the green polka dot button up there on the left...yeah, she made it just because she is nice - she's awesome!

These are some of my favorites! I hope you check them out.

Sue Bees
This my Auntie Sue and she has been blogging for awhile now. She is really into thrifting and good finds! She guided me through my butterfly garden this summer which has sadly been eaten by a 5 month old yellow lab pup.
Check her out.



Amy Smith Photopgraphy Blog
Check out these pictures Amy takes. Seriously, she is amazing. I wish I had one millionth of one percent of the photography talent she had. Oh and she is taking our family pictures in December - can't wait. She does beautiful stuff.

NieNie Dialogues
Ok, who hasn't heard of NieNie? She has been on Oprah recently, that must make her a superstar! Seriously, take some time to read all of her old posts as well as the post accident ones. It is unbelieveable what she has been through.



Simplify
Camille's blog is so pretty. I am into quilting so I just love to look through her wonderful photos of her quilts, her home, her fun posts. Go check her out!

TDC Before & After Party - Again!

The Thrifty Decor Chick is having another before and after party -

click below to go to the party!

So we have done some major renovations in our sweet little house. Every inch of this place has been redone in some way, but I wanted to share our 2 biggest before & afters.

They are quite exciting!

First is our kitchen, please put on your sunglasses for the first picture - the counter top is straight from 1974, the year the house was built.

It is just fabulous!

This picture was taken the day we saw it with our realtor. The house was great, new paint, new carpet, not a bad price and then we walked around the corner and found this little beauty. WHOA!

You see we were married about 3 weeks prior to seeing our house for the first time and all of our money was going to the down payment, this kitchen was a shocker but we managed to do a sweet little kitchen on a tight budget.

Originally we painted it a dark green and we do not have the table anymore -

this was pre-kiddos, see only 2 chairs.

And this is our kitchen today, literally today. I just took this picture :D

Getting the itch to paint it again. Not sure what color but tan is getting on my nerves,

too much tan in our house!

And now for our biggest before and after, the outside of the house.

Here it is on June 10, 2003 - for sale sign in the yard and all.

Not sure if you can see the house numbers (1197) but they were so incredibly ugly that they were ripped off the house the day we closed on it.

And here it is after some clean-up work...

And then in March 2004 we painted the whole house in one day. We used to accomplish so much when we didn't have the boys. I cannot imagine painting a front door in one day with the kids now. Plus we had help from our friends.

And here it is today, again I took this picture today. The landscaping has changed, and grown quite a bit. And the mailbox that the husband bought in 2005 was installed within the last year. It is also fun to see our parade of different cars throughout the years.

And there you go, our kitchen and our sweet home. Hope you enjoyed it!

Our Halloween

We had a fun Halloween with this little bunch of Gobblins thanks to a surprise invitation from my sweet friend from this post.

We were so happy that we could all get together with so many sweet kiddos.

So off we went to the trick-or-treating...

Who wouldn't want to firemen showing up at their house?

So excited that they actually got some candy!

Me and the husband. I am dress as a stay-at-home witch and the husband is dressed up as himself - he went all out!

There was some of this, crazy candy face.


And some of this,

snuggles with mommy & daddy.

We love Halloween. Can't wait for next year!