I love family days

***the pictures on this post are totally sized weird.. I apologize!!***

Last weekend we took the time to just spend the days as a family (with the exception of church of course). Too often we get caught up in being busy and running here and there that we don't just spend as much time together as we would like.

So Saturday morning we just hung around lazily until Rielly had ballet class and we all took her to it. Jon and Reese went to get sodas while I waited for the class to end (that's our Saturday tradition.. ballet and QT!).

Then when she got done, off to the pumpkin patch we went. I wasn't impressed with the pumpkin selection but the kids had fun and we got to take a hayride and feed the animals and just hang out for a bit. We didn't buy a pumpkin there.. we went to WalMart and picked out 2 (3.50/each!). Then Jon and Reese carved one while I worked on Riellys class Halloween treats.

Me and my honey!Here is Jon with his finished pumpkin!

This is Riellys preschool class treat.

I would post more but Reese just sprayed 5 squirts of my Sangria Scentsy spray and if you know anything about that- it's stinkin STRONG and it's filling up the whole house. I HAVE A HEADACHE!

More pics and stuff to come when the air clears!

PS- from earlier blog

I am a McCain/Palin voter in case you were wondering. I just posted that video cuz I thought it was pretty darn funny!!!

Unseen Footage

She will be in our prayers... (don't forget to turn off the music at the bottom)

I've been infested....

So another holiday is upon us and if you know me, you know it means I have to send SOMETHING to the kids classes. So here's what I made for Reese's classmates...

Sorry the picture is kinda dark but that's 23 yummy york spiders waiting to be torn apart by 5yr old fingers!!

I think with Riellys class, I may do something with playdoh. Stay tuned.....

Goodnight, Good Morning, Riellykins

So it's Thursday night... no actually Friday morning and I've been up since 3:30am! I can't sleep!! I'm having a major allergy attack only on the left side of my face. Weird huh? My left eye is swollen, my left nostrel is plugged and the left side of my throat hurts! So the left side of me won't let the rest of me sleep. Not cool!!!

So since I had some time to myself and I've already showered and swept the kitchen floor (heaven knows I should be doing more!), and watched an episode of Girls Next Door, I thought I'd take a moment and blog (sorry Misti- I know you hate that word but it's now a part of everyday household vocabulary).

Test results came back on me and everything is honkeydory. YAY! We decided to wait a few months to start fertility. We have to have one more test done that insurance doesn't cover and it's just a bad time of yr to be doing that so we'll wait and see. And surprisingly I'm really okay with that!

Prayers go out to my Grandpa Les at this time who is not doing so well. He decided it was time to just let nature run it's course and sadly nature always does. He stopped dialysis and now it's a matter of time before he returns to our Father in Heaven. He's had a good life and I will miss him so. I regret I can't be there to see him one last time. I know he will return to good hands and soon he'll be able to see my dad again and for that, I'm rather envious. But I pray that he won't be in a lot of pain and that they (grandpa and grandma and everyone else) and myself will feel comfort at this time. I also pray he has a little more time...that we all have a little more time.

Rielly had her little photo shoot at the dance studio last week. She just got to play and they took pictures. She had a ball! You can check out her 2 pics on the website (I thought theyshould've picked better ones but what to I know!) at http://www.woodstockdance.com/ under the mommy and me section. Someday I'll be listed under the faculty/staff section but I have yet to give a bio.

Anyways here's some of her shots!

A little Sunday drive

While dinner was cooling off, the kids and I decided to go for a drive through the "countryside". So we hopped in the van and drove to Red Top Mtn. How have I not been going there ALL THE TIME!!!??? With the leaves changing, it is just so beautiful! Sometimes I get so busy in life that I forget to just take time to marvel at all the beauty around us here. I realized just how much I have been missing out on because I don't look. There is good everywhere- we just need to look and find it.
I wish I had my camera with me but my camera phone had to do. I think next week we're going to go on a picnic up there after church so I'll get better pictures then. But we went at the perfect time to be able to watch the sun start going down. Wow!

These poor guys were out fishing in a boat pretty close to the shore and I'm sure my kids scared their fish away with the rock throwing. But they just couldn't resist.

I have to admit I've had a rough couple of days.. just being a downer and stuck in a rut and this was what I needed. Just to enjoy some peaceful time with my kids. A perfect ending to the weekend. It would have been even better if Jon was with us but that's okay. Fall has just begun!

My budding musician!

As you all know, I play and teach piano. So of course any sign of a musical talent in my family just thrills me. So today after church, Reese decided he wanted to write a play and he even wrote the musical score. He never finished the play because he got distracted by a computer game but I wanted to share with you what he wrote for my part of the play. This is a kid who has never had a piano lesson (YET).

The lines means I need to hold the notes down:) Pretty clever huh? He even tried to make a treble clef!