Sleeping Bags.

A couple of months ago Daniel brought home a (free) doll house for Riley. She loves it. Lately however, she has been stealing my small decorative pillows to use for her Barbie's bed. Which I kept found annoying every time I had to go into her room and fetch them! So I decided to make some little pillows for her Barbies, which turned into blankets, which turned into sleeping bags, which turned into a trip Walmart to buy more supplies to make a blanket/sleeping bag so that every single one of her barbies could have one!

Before she left for school (and my trip to Walmart), I had the pillows done, one of the blankets and a sleeping bag, which I gave to her.  By the time she got home from school I surprised her with everything else I had done - which included 4 more and 3 more blanket. It made her day and I loved taking the time to so something special for her. As soon as Daniel got home she pulled him into her room to show him.

I love doing little things like this for my kids. Most of the time it is something little that does not cost a lot of money. But, it always brings a smile to their face and makes them feel like a million buck!

Pumpkin Carvings

Were were pretty late carving our pumpkins this year. I meant to do it for an activity after our family home evening the week before Halloween and that DID NOT happen. We finally got around to craving them yesterday -two days before Halloween. Better late then never!! The kids drew what they wanted their pumpkins to look like and with the help of Daniel and I,  they cut them out. We saved all the seeds and I roasted them. I did two batches salted, and cinnamon and sugar. The cinnamon and sugar seeds were a big hit! 

How can you not love these faces!

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Halloween Program

*I have 3 videos but they were taken on my iphone and for some reason they will not load on here.

The other Day was Derrick's 2nd Grade program - they second graders do a Halloween program! 

For the last month and a half we have listened to him sing nothing but Halloween songs. Riley and Owen even started signing along with him. He was so excited to go to his second grade program since last year he missed the 1st grade Christmas program because we were up in Idaho. 

About an two before we were suppose to leave we received a call from Daniel telling us that he was still working and that he would be an hour of two late getting home. Derrick was heart broken. So I packed up the kids in the car and went to the school myself - we came about 45 minutes early and their was already a line of second graders and their family waiting to get in! As we were standing in line waiting my phone rang and it was Daniel saying he was off work and to save him a spot and he would just meet us there. Derrick mood brightened up and we were ushered in and Derrick took his spot on the stage and I found us a set in the audience. Daniel showed up about 5 minutes before they started in his construction cloths - which sometimes are rather dirty. Riley took one look at him then whispered to me "Mom can Dad be here looking like that." Hahaha, I told her he could!

The program was so CUTE. Derrick saw me video taping and hammed it up for the camera. He knew every song and sang his little heart out. I am glad that we were able to go this year!

As I Lay Me Down to Sleep

There a lot of nights I let all 3 of my kids sleep in the same bed - Riley has a Queen so they all fit and sleep comfortably. The other night they just would not quiet down and go to sleep. I finally went in Rie's bedroom and kicked the boys out and told them to go and sleep in their own beds. The whining that followed could make anyone want to pull their hair out. After about 10 minutes of whining and crying that they all were scared - I finally raised my voice and said, "YOU CAN NOT SLEEP IN THE SAME BED." It seemed to quite them down. Daniel was playing a video game on the living room TV, so I left him in charge and went and jumped in the shower. When I got out of the shower I went and checked on the kids, I found then ALL on the floor of the boy's room all scrunched up in the door way...

I called Daniel over to have a look and we both laughed...We just left them there and they slept that way all night long! I guess I should be grateful that they listened to me about not sleeping in the same bed!

Two Peas in a Pod

Last night when I got home from much needed "Girl's Night Out", I walked into my room and saw these two. Aren't they precious?

I showed Daniel the picture this morning and he just laughed. 

They were watching a show called "The Turtle Man' - or something like that. 

I love that they are buddies, I hope they always are. 

Almost a Year

 Three words. Baby. Sitting. Swap.  Us and two other couples who we are friends with have decided to swap baby sitting so that we can all go out on dates - LOVE IT! For the past two weeks we have babysat the other couples children so they could go out on their dates - we split the kids up between the two couples staying home - Finally this week it was our turn!!! 

I really wanted to go to kneaders for dinner since I have never been there. We walked in the door, Daniel looked at the menu and asked if we could go somewhere else. Fancy sandwiches and salads are just not his thing. I smiled and said sure and we got back in our car and headed to Five Guy Burgers - Dan's pick. 

We then went to target and walked around and then headed home - It a school night and we did not want to get home to late!

The last date we went was almost a year ago when we went and saw Les Miserables in the theaters. 

It was so nice to get away for a couple of hours and be able to talk without anyone interrupting us. 

I hope we can be able to go on many more dates together!!

Say, Cheese

Owen loves cheese. He would eat the entire block of cheese if we let him. Sometimes I will get the cheese out of the fridge and there will be bites taken out of it... At least it is not butter- he used to take bites out of butter - I am glad he grew out of that. 

This cheese in this picture was a from a huge bag of shredded cheese. I am grafeful he got a bowl...