Parade!

Today was a great day! We went visiting teaching early this morning and then we went to the mall to let the kids play. We finished our morning at Sams for lunch and some shopping. After dropping off my companion and her kids we went home for naps. After dinner (yummy butternut squash over pasta) we went down to the High School's homecoming parade. Ella LOVED collecting candy (who doesn't?) and had a great time. She ended up with a ton of candy too. I think Wes liked it as well. We get to go to another parade on Saturday for the Madison Street festival. FUn!

Park

Today after visiting teaching my VT companion and I took the kids to a local park. It is one I have never been to before, but it was quite nice. The kids had a grand time sliding, swinging and climbing. Wes was able to do the slide on his own for the first time. He really liked that! We spent the rest of the morning and afternoon at mom's house sewing. Mom worked on my dress for Kate's wedding and I cut out Jon and My Ninja costumes. They are gonna look awesome! This evening we had Hannah babysit while Jon and I went out to dinner. We went out for Mexican and then ice cream. I had a great time with my Honey!

Fall?

2 days ago the temperature dropped 30 degrees overnight. It went from 90's to 60's and has stayed under 80 since then. This is perhaps the overdue end to our very long heat wave. We took advantage of the fab weather to go on a long walk with Nana for our exercise today. We walked around Nana's neighborhood before Gymnastics. Wes rode, because he insisted but the rest of us had a nice walk.

Sewing and FHE

Today was the first day of fall, we woke up to a rainy and a (relitivly) cool day. It only got to the low 60's today, and since it has been in the 90's for the last several months that is a big change! The kids got to break out some of their warmer clothes and Ella loved getting to wear some of her new winter stuff. Today we spent the morning at our friend Megan's house sewing. I cut out pattern pieces for Megan while she put on an aplicay on a quilt I am makeing. The kids played really nicely together for the most part! After we got back home I put the kids to bed and worked some more on my quilt. It is FINISHED!!! THen I spent the rest of the afternoon getting ready for our guests. We had one of our neighbors and the missionaries over for dinner and FHE tonight. It went really well and we all had a lot of fun. The Elders did the lesson, and we played Pictionary for the game.

THE AMAZING RACE!

Tonight the amazing race started up! It is my FAVORITE show evah, and I am so excited that it is starting up again. I stayed late at Mom and Dad's to watch it with them and Jon came home and put the kids to bed. It was a great episode!

Super-awesome fun day

Today Ella had a fabuloso day. She started out by going to the "pancake restaurant" with her daddy. When they got back Jon crawled into her bed with her and they watched "Beauty and the Beast". At 11 Ella and I headed over to her friend Eva's house for a birthday party. Ella had a BLAST and I got some great pictures of Ella covered in blue frosting and playing with her friends. Unfortunately, even though I specifically told Ella she was not to delete my pictures she did anyway and I only have 3 left from the party. After the party, Ella and Daddy went to the Free museum day while I stayed home with a napping Wes. They visited the Space and Rocket center this year. Ella told me that she had the best day ever! After dinner we are going to Mom and Dads house to watch a movie.

colors

Two weeks ago today Ella got in *big* trouble for "forgetting" she wasn't supposed to color on the couch and drawing on it with RED PEN!! As punishment she had to help me clean it off (it came off thank goodness) and she was not allowed to have any coloring for 2 weeks. Well today her punishment was over and the first thing she said to me when she woke up is, "today is the day I get my crayons back!" it was indeed except I didn't know where Daddy had hidden them. So I let her have a pen and some paper and let her color (supervised by me). She colored a picture of her family, and with my help labeled them. It turned out so cute I wanted to share.

Finally done with the beach.

Today I realized that I never finished adding pictures to my posts from our beach vacation. I figured there was no time like the present so I put up the last of the pictures. For your viewing convenience I am placing links to all the days so if you didn't look when I posted the links on Facebook, and you WANT to see the beach pictures you can do it easily. If you are only gonna look at one post, I would suggest looking at the Sunday post, as it has my fabulous family pictures on there.

Saturday

http://photohoney.blogspot.com/2010/08/beach.html

Sunday (including family pictures)

http://photohoney.blogspot.com/2010/08/sunday-at-beach.html

Monday

http://photohoney.blogspot.com/2010/08/day-2-at-beach.html

Tuesday

http://photohoney.blogspot.com/2010/08/another-fabulous-day-on-beach.html

Wednesday

http://photohoney.blogspot.com/2010/08/wednesday-at-beach.html

Thursday

http://photohoney.blogspot.com/2010/08/thursday-at-beach.html

Friday

http://photohoney.blogspot.com/2010/08/last-day.html

Saturday

http://photohoney.blogspot.com/2010/08/home-again-home-again-jiggity-jog.html

Sir's Fabric

Today Mom and I went to Sirs Fabrics up in Fayetteville TN with my friend Megan and her kids. We all needed different types of sewing things so we thought we ought to all go together. The kids were surprisingly well behaved and did a great job while we browsed the fabrics and notions. I got the fabric I needed to finish off a quilt I am making, and some beautiful blue fabric for a dress. Mom got some stuff for some gifts and new clothes for herself and Megan got the fabric she needed for her business. After we were all done checking out we stopped at a tiny little chocolate shop around the corner that sells cyan pepper chocolates among other things. We all got some chocolates and finished our day getting lunch out at Taco bell. At home Mom and I got online and got one of Ella's Christmas presents. Tickets to see "Disney on Ice, Princess Classics" I think she is going to L-O-V-E it! It is on Dec 2, so it will be an early Christmas gift but I think she will be ok with it. This evening I got a chance to play my new time-waster game. Bejewled blitz has lost some of its shine, although it is still my game of choice when I only have a min or two. My sister introduced me to "Carcassonne" while on Vacation and I found a place that lets you play it on line. It is tons of fun and I enjoy talking to the different people around the world that I play with.

Dentist

Today Ella had a dentist appointment. She was VERY excited about this. She LOVES going to the dentist. Ella has loved it from the very first appointment. Today was her third appointment and she did awesome. They said she was keeping her teeth nice and clean, her bite is perfect and spacing good. They were very happy with her dental care, Go Me!!!

rope

A few weeks ago Jon took Wes on a walk and they found a cotton field. They picked some of the cotton and brought it home to show me and Ella. Then Jon discovered that he could make string out of it, and out of that string, he could make a rope. He spent several nights weaving his cotton rope until he had a very short, but very strong piece of homemade rope. It was C-O-O-L. He was out of cotton, so he did a little online research and found a way to make rope out of regular paper. So for the last little while he has been working on that. It looks really cool and it is hard to believe that it is made from nothing but printer paper. If we ever get stuck up high somewhere with a TON of paper and a LOT of time, we will eventually be able to escape down a rope, if we don't starve first!

Another day

Today was busy, but uneventful. We started off at Moms to do a fitting for the dress she is making for me, then Gym for Ella. Then lunch and naps, back to Mom's to exercise and home to make dinner. We brought over dinner to a neighbor of ours who had surgery on her shoulder today. The missionaries have spoken to her and they are going to visit her with Jon in a week to talk about the gospel. The missionaries stopped by to say hi to her and then came over to talk to Jon. Then bedtime and now Blogging. Tomorrow Ella is going to visit with Nana while Wes and I help out a friend.

Fun day and FHE

Today we met my friend Amy at the mall for playtime. The kids had a ton of fun and really wore themselves out. They were very well behaved and it was nice to catch up with my friend. After the kids had played for a while we went over to Sam's and had lunch and did some shopping. This evening our neighbor Brooke joined us for Dinner and FHE. We learned about the Good Samaritan, played Yahtzee Jr. and went to Sonic for $1 ice creams. It was a super fun evening.

sunday

I bought Wes a tie at the local consignment sale. I was so excited to see my little man all dressed up and so handsome for church. Wes was... less than thrilled with this new addition to his Sunday wardrobe and refused to wear it. I let him go to church without, but I forced him to have a picture first!

pots and pans and apostles

This morning I finally got around to a project that has been swimming around my head for a while. My dad installed a rod over the sink for my mom to hang her pots and pans on. Freeing up precious cabinet space. I really liked this idea and figured out the perfect spot for one of my own. In my "laundry room" which is really part of my kitchen there is a space between two overhead cabinets where the breaker box lives. I thought that since we only need to rarely get to the breaker box this would be the perfect place to hang my pots. We can still move them to get to the fuses so I went to lowes this morning and bought the stuff. Jon helped my install it and it looks great! I was able to actually put food in one of my cupboards for the first time! It really freed up a lot of space.


This afternoon/evening we had a chance to listen to an Apostle of the Lord at Stake conference. Jon attended a special priesthood leadership question and answer session which he said was WONDERFUL. and later we both attended the adults only session. His talk was great and very inspiring. He spoke about how to bring all the aspects of living the gospel into just 2 things. Living worthy to enter the temple, and inviting the Holy Ghost into our lives. He said that our "checklists" i.e. read the scriptures, say prayers, FHE, visiting teaching, all boils down to these two things. It was a wonderful talk and I can't wait to hear him speak again at the general session of conference tomorrow.

Turn your back for a second...

Today I gave the kids a bath and got Wes out first. I got him diapered dressed and ready to go out. Then I got distracted by a phone call untill I heard. "MOOOOOOOOM! Wesley jumped in to the bathtub!!" I rushed into the bathroom to discover that he had indeed jumped in to the bath. fully clothed. So of course my first reaction was to grab the camera! We were 15 min late getting out of the house today because I had to dress Wes twice. Good thing he is cute!




Nana made a princess dress for Brenna for Halloween. It came out too large so she gave it to Ella and is going to make a smaller one for B. Ella loved her new dress!

Story time

Today was a rushed busy day. I didn't have time for pictures until story time with daddy. Today we started out at MOPS, then straight to moms house for Wes to nap and then Mom watched the kids while I went to the fabric store to get the stuff to make our costumes. Then back home, cutting out the pattern and making dinner. Then straight over to a Memorial service for our dear neighbor. Now home for kids bedtime. I am TIRED! Another busy day tomorrow.

New Windows!

Today our new double hung, energy efficient windows were installed. It took most of the day but I think they look great. I hope we see the promised reduction in heating/cooling bills! Jon is very excited about these windows.
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