Have you guys started listening to Christmas music yet? I have even though I’m sure I’ll be Christmas music’ed out by December 1st. Here are my favorite ones:
1. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Barenaked Ladies and Sarah McLachlan) - Eric makes fun of me because I listen to this song year round.
2. [...]
My friend Brook met us in downtown Overland Park yesterday to take some fall pictures of the boys. She takes amazing pictures so when she offered to do it (for free!), I immediately said yes. She got some amazing pictures and I got to learn some of her photography tricks. Thank you Brook!
Here’s a sneak peek of [...]
The Sprint Thanksgiving Day 5K is coming up. Who’s in? If we can get teams of 5 together, it’s only $18 per person if we enroll before the 12th. Go here for more info on the race.
You can leave me a note on here or on my FB page.
Runners so far -
Team #1 (team Saxton)
Me [...]
This Halloween was a lot of fun because #1, I didn’t have to carve our pumpkin and #2 Luke really got it. Luke had so much fun going up to the different houses and saying yelling “trick or treat”. He and I went with Eric and Kenny almost all the way around the block and then [...]
Kenny’s class had their Halloween party today. I’m one of the room moms so Luke and I helped out. We had an hour to dress the kids in their costumes, do a parade through all the different classrooms (since they’ll miss the actual parade this afternoon), do 2 projects and finally eat some yummy treats. [...]
Just out in time for Halloween…
Finding Nemo and the Ghost
By Kenny
“Where’s Nemo? ” said Marlin.
Dory said, “Look, that says Sydney.”
Marlin said, “But by the sign has a ghost.”
But the ghost was nice.
The ghost invited them to a party.
Inside were more ghosts.
Now they could find Nemo.
My dad took on the *fun* job of carving our pumpkin this year.
Here are the guys deciding on their course of action. Kenny wanted the pumpkin to have a nose, a toothy smile, 2 eyebrows and 3 eyes.
Luke wanted his hands washed as soon as he touched the pumpkin guts.
The three guys and the finished product.
Thanks Dad! [...]
My mom and I took the boys out to the Weston Red Barn Farm today to pick out some pumpkins. We loved this pumpkin patch. It didn’t have as many extras (trains, etc) as some of the other ones we’ve been to but the people who ran it were really nice and there was still a lot [...]
In the past few days, I’ve come up with a few gift ideas for the boys.
For Kenny:
- a magic kit. A friend suggested this. I’m going to have to look into these and see if I can find one that’s fairly simple but not so simple that he’d use it once and never look at again (aka a waste [...]
I know it’s early but I usually try to start thinking about Christmas gifts around this time of the year. I’ve usually got some good ideas but this year, I’ve got nothin’ in terms of the boys. Kenny loves Legos but I think he has enough to last him a few years and Luke has [...]
Luke helped us put out our Halloween decorations on Tuesday while Kenny was in school. His favorite thing is my black metal haunted house that is sitting next to our television. I have a feeling that it’s going to end up somewhere higher that’s out of his reach by the time the 31st gets here.
Luke [...]
Doesn’t today just feel like the last official day of summer?
I feel so bad – we tried to go to the PV pool tonight for one last final swim. As I opened my car door to get out, I heard an announcement saying that the pool would be closing in ten minutes. Kenny didn’t really care [...]
We started off our 4th by going to Village Fest. We watched Funky Mama play, made crafts, saw the animals, police cars and trains, and went through the giant Chinook helicopter. We love Village Fest.
We went to my parents that afternoon to spend the evening with Mike since he was leaving for New York the [...]
I saw this idea on J&K+8 last year. You just bake a yellow cake, top with frosting or Cool Whip (I used the fat free kind) and make the flag design with blueberries and strawberries.
Happy 4th of July!
We’re not going anywhere until September so I love reading about everyone else’s vacations. Here’s my list of places that I want to go to. There are a ton of other places on my wish list but these are do-able and domestic:
1. Minneapolis – they have a new Water Park of America near the Mall of America. [...]
After our Father’s Day dinner at my parents’, the boys went swimming in the new little pool they bought.
Happy Father’s Day to two great men in my life, my dad and husband. Love ya!
I’m trying to catch up on things today so this post will be short and sweet.
We had a fun Memorial Day weekend, even though I worked the majority of it.
On Friday night my MIL was nice enough to watch the boys so Eric and I could go on a date. We went to the Hereford [...]
