Hunting down at papa's

Not a lot of time to post a message but I did want to share some pictures of a couple of weeks back... (Note: if you don't see 4 pictures in this post you may need to refresh and I appologize as they seemed to be large uploads...that's what I get w/ my new camera...great shots but HUGE files!)



Of course Matthew did NOT go hunting. This was taken a few days later at our neighborhood play group at a local park. It's actually his first time in a swing...yes, he LOVED it!

Conner's Field Trip

Wow...the past couple of weeks have been crazy crazy crazy! Just put it like this, I have been busy. The boys have been spending a couple of days with their grandparents so we could have some R&R. We have definitely enjoyed sleeping in but haven't done much relaxing! Yesterday was spent painting our kitchen. This has needed to be done since we moved in as the builders would only use "flat" paint. You know what that means with children!!! Yuck is all I can say. We painted it "sprout" which is a Sherman Williams paint color if you want to take a peek! I absolutely LOVE it and now ready to paint another room! But Not NOW.

Back on the 12th I helped chaperone Conner's field trip. It was to a fire station and they had a 'surprise' stop to a pumpkin patch on the way back to school. The kids had a ball and behaved rather nicely I might add. Here is a picture of my boy with his buddy Timmy.

Matthew did rather well too. He was such a great baby, especially since he missed his morning nap. My how I miss him and his brothers looking at these pictures! Well, I'm off to watch a movie with my hubby...have a great weekend!

long overdue

Greetings!!! I know this is long overdue. No excuses except we have been busy busy busy with school, T-ball, helping set up/baking for upcoming carnival, field trips, neighborhood meetings, birthday parties...oh, and a game of Bunco last Tuesday! I cannot believe October is almost halfway over. Oh how I wish we were on our way to Disney as we were preparing for a year ago. But on to life as we know it!


This is the first picture I tried to take yesterday in front of our fall decorations out front. We actually set this out from the house about 2 weeks ago and I decided a week later we should move it closer to the house. I really didn't think it looked as great as it did last year since we decided to use pine straw instead of wheat straw. Hubby wasn't very excited...indecisive woman!


My baby decided early on that the orange pumpkin was more appeasing to look at than crazy mama with a camera.

Here he is getting very fussy....almost wanting to cry. I think he was thinking "mommy please let me look at that pumpkin" as this picture was still snapped in the first 3-4 pictures!

Oh...and my oldest here couldn't be still. He kept changing positions. He's like his dad in the way that he can't be still.

Yet another position for my oldest. Here he is counting the # of pictures. I told him let me take 10 more and then they could have 15 M&M's. Isn't it really sad that I have to BRIBE my children with candy to "Please let me take a FEW more so I can get a GOOD one!"????? By the way he is saying it is #7 after we/he had starting the countdown. I probably ended up snapping about 30+ photos altogether.

Matthew is looking down so I said, "Hey...why don't ya'll all look down like Matthew?" Did it work???


My sweet boys....they are truly Mama's boys....and I LOVE that!


I know all the pictures are starting to look alike at this point! This is the last one I snapped. By this point, my neighbors were laughing because I had resorted to holding up a piece of the straw from the scarecrow to try to get them to all look in the same direction at the same time. She came over to help and I am very thankful for that.


And last...My FAVORITE. Which one is your favorite and why??? Happy Fall and thankful for the cooler weather! Maybe next time I try to take pictures of all 3 of them together I will wait until 'daddy' is home.