Halloween Shirts

I made the boys some shirts for Halloween and they kinda LOVE them! They go around everywhere quoting what is on their shirt: "Bad to the Bone" and "Beware, I bite" in case you can't see it. :)  They were being so cute and goofy for the camera. More and more lately they have really become best friends and I love it when they love each other! The other day I asked them if they were twins and they said yes. I asked them what twins were and Owen said, "Brothers!" and Jacob said, "Owen & Jacob!" Such funny boys.  Even though it's been almost 4 years, I still can't believe I really had twins. But I just can't imagine life without these two goofballs!!!

I love his "Mr. Cool" wanna be pose. 

 

And how Jacob doesn't even come close to pulling it off. :P

I could just eat them up!

50s Day

The kids celebrated the 50th day of school and got to dress up in 50s style. They were so excited! Cailyn used a poodle skirt that Mom had and Landon was pretty easy. I love the curl in his hair! But when I picked him up from school the first thing he said to me was, "The curl totally didn't work for me today Mom. So I just had to brush it to the side." Silly kid!

I love how Landon is "Mr. Cool" and Cailyn is "Miss Priss." :)

 

Hair Cut

Totally freaked out after I left the salon because my hair felt so freaking short!!! And after coming home and looking at it I discovered it was so freaking short...compared to what it used to be! I like it but it definitely was not what I expected.

Pretty sure she cut off more like 7 or 8 inches rather than the 4 to 5 I asked for.

Being Crafty While Off Track

School Fun...Yeah I'm a Pretty Cool Teacher

So we had this random dumb day where we went off track on a Tuesday. I felt like it was going to be a waste of a day with very few students. So I decided to bribe them to come to school for an "awesome activity". All but 1 showed up. The day started off with me explaining that my friends "Mr. and Mrs. Valentine", who I told the students the day before would be helping with our fun activity, had something bad happen last night. I told them that the police came and sectioned of an area in the classroom until they could determine what happened and that they could look but not cross the caution tape. This is what they saw when they came in....

They had fun being detectives and answering questions to help them determine what happened, "of course no violence" ;) Then they wrote a creative story about what they think happened last night.

Then we had some fun  with some fingerprinting 

activities. First we  took our own fingerprints and

determined what type of fingerprint we had. Then

we shared some of our fingerprints with our friends 

so they could determine our fingerprint type. 

Then they were able to brush cocoa powder on plastic covers to find the fingerprints that were already on them. And to top it off we watched The Great Mouse Detective. I'd say it was a success! 

Fun Married Activities

We bought this cool Disney picnic basket at a garage sell. It was fun to use it to picnic and read some books in the summer sun!

Then it was Fall pumpkin patch fun! Unfortunately the only picture of both of us turned out terrible...not sure what the dude was doing!

Ducks, Gardening, & Blinds

I've been meaning to post these for a few months now.  This semester was HORRIBLE.  So MUCH to do, in a short amount of time.  Oh well, here they are now!

This was Connor's first trip to the lake to feed the ducks!

He didn't really get the concept of feeding the ducks.  So, he just fed himself.

 

Our little Gardener!

Dirt must be a tasty treat... He ate it while we weren't looking.  

We know better than to turn our backs on him now!

Our first harvest!  

**this was taken a month ago, everything is about

twice as large now, if not larger

Enjoying our spoils!

 

What a silly little monster!

 

 

This is my little chalkboard project!  Love the way it turned out! 

I can't wait to start crossing some of those things off!

Home Decorating

I've been doing what I can while off track to get my house in order. I love having some more decorations in my house, its feeling more like a home.

Finally got some curtain rods to hold up our bedroom curtains rather than push pins. Now if I could just find something nice to tie them back or at least hold them back.

Looking for a cute shelf to put underneath
and hold our whiteboard markers. Its our little
before you go out the door love note picture
frame. Cheesy but we love it!

Finally got some of our beautiful wedding pictures hung in the hallway. I love the way it looks! 

Frame of family pictures for mom and dads room. 

Our desk area is finally getting organized and functional. Got some drawer organizers that work and look great. Waiting to find a few things to hang on the side walls but haven't found what I'm looking for yet. I did find this chair at DI and am trying to decide what color to paint it. I'm hoping for something fun so if you have any suggestions I'm up for any :) 

We bought some giant buttons and put magnets on them :) I
love the look and color they add.

Trying to get us actually eating meals and hoping
this will help.

The waiting game...

So here I am 6 days away from my due date and feeling ridiculously huge. Although I don't expect I will go into labor before my due date, I can't help but be hyper aware every time I get a little contraction and think, could this be the beginning? Haha. But I'm trying to keep myself busy and I really wanted to finish my carseat cover before Lyla got here, and I did just that yesterday! I love the cute printed fabrics and now I have officially gotten everything done I wanted to before she got here. That means she needs to come soon haha (but not before mom gets here I guess :)).