Chuck and Chancy

Lucas LOVES to color.  He even says, COLOR!!!

I'm on the phone mom, leave me alone...

We think he might be a pirate...

How adorable are these kids?.  (If you look closely at the tie, you will notice skulls + crossbones.)

Today...

I sat in a salon chair for 6 1/2 hours while sweet Lauren did this...

It was so much fun!  We gabbed our lives away!  It will take some getting used to (for everyone)...but I love it.

Happy Friday!!!

It's Possible

A couple of weeks ago my mom said, MVHS (she works there) is putting on Cinderella, would you like me to get you some tickets?  And I said, yes!  I love Cinderella!  She has to be one of my favorite princesses.  She is so meek and elegant.  So, I took Payton to see it this last weekend.  We had a lovely time!  It was a really cute musical.  She liked the prince the best.  She told me she thought he was cute.  How awkward it is to be a teenager.  They all looked so young, and I don't think you realize it until you have been out of high school for 10+ years!

Rodger's and Hammerstein's Cinderella.  I didn't take my camera, so no real pic...sorry!

About a month ago my mother-in-law sent out and email to the daughters (in-law) and said, I want to do this little crafty for the holiday's.  So, last weekend she said to come on over for soup and crafts!  So we all went to her house, ate some soup, gossiped, talked about baby names for Hilary and Abby's upcoming arrivals, laughed until we cried, and I personally made this...

It makes me smile!

Shawn and I have decided that it's time to make some new crafts this year.  We haven't really done anything new with our Christmas decor for the last couple of years, so we thought, let's change it up a bit.  Get some new colors.  So I had an idea for a craft...frosted pine-cones and ornaments in a large vase!  As we getting those items, we stumbled across some frosted apples, holly berries, shrubbery and mossified pine-cones.  It was love at first sight!  We picked it up and thought, let's add this to the mix, and use another vase.  So this is what we did late last night...

These are marvelous!  I love the way they turned out!

I have been looking for some more/new throw pillows lately.  I feel like we need more/different ones.  I feel like there needs to be a change.  Even though this pillow will only last a month, I couldn't resist...

Peace on Earth.

I love the Holiday's!!!  For me, it's about family.  They are my life.  I love them all so much.  I wouldn't trade them for anything else in this world!

Time for the hustle and bustle to begin!  Good luck to everyone in all their Holiday endeavors! 

stagnant hair

For the last few years I have kind of done the same thing with my hair.  From Red to Brown to Black.  I think it's time for a change.  I had a bit of red ombre going on during the summer, but it was like red into orange.  Which actually worked!  I decided in September I wanted to do auburn.  Well, I have come to the unconventional conclusion that I am going blond!  I think it will be quite the process, and I am just doing it in pieces.  Example.  I was looking at pictures of Jessica Biel and I thought, I want that!  So, I kind of did it...

I'm not sure whether or not I like it, but it's there, and I am not going to get rid of it.  I am going to let my hair heal for a few weeks, and then I will put some more in.  My goal is to get to this...

I have been blond a couple of times before, and I don't totally hate it, but the last time I did it was like 6 years ago, and it was really short.  So cross your fingers and think what you want, but I have to do it!  Mostly to prove a point to my husband...

Sleepless Nights

Are blood shot eyes contagious?  I'm starting to think they are.  This morning as I was putting on my makeup I told my husband that his eyes were really red.  At the time, mine were just normal.  Well, I just looked in the mirror, and they are red now too!  Was it something I said?  Or could it be the fact that we think we need to party all weekend?  Oh wait, that's Lucas.  Lucas and Payton share a room.  Before Payton started first grade, and was at our house more, bedtime was a piece of (cheese) cake.  Well, for the last 2 months we have had MAJOR sleeping issues.  Lucas thinks he needs to talk, laugh and run around in his crib while Payton tries to sleep, which in turn has Payton telling us that she can't sleep because of Lucas.  So we get Lucas out and try to rock him, but it's just party time, still.  He just laughs and wants to play.  Payton falls asleep, so we put Lucas back in his crib, and he cries and cries, and then Payton comes and tells us, Lucas is crying, so once again, we get Lucas and try to calm him down.  By the time 11 rolls around, he is tuckered out.  Mind you, we put these kids to bed at 9.  What is happening!?  And then,  Payton will come into our room around 3 am and tell us she can't sleep.  Which in turn, we will tell her to go back to bed.  There have been times when I hear her come in, but not say anything.  There was one time when she went back and forth 7 times in like an hour without a word.  Shawn seems to think she's sleep walking.  I know this transition has been really hard for her.  I don't know what to do with either one of them, which makes me so irritable.  I am not a crazy mean person, but lack of sleep is a total mood killer!


We didn't do anything to incredible this last weekend.  Payton lost another tooth on Friday, the tooth fairy came again, so she wanted to get a Lalaloopsy.  She got another Candy Shop, Twist E Twirls.  She laid them all out in a row and Shawn was like, whoa sister!  Do you have enough?  And she was like, no, I am going to collect them all!


We went to a birthday party for Savannah, Sadie and Jack, because all of Abby's kids are born the end of October, beginning of November.  However, her new little (no name) girl will be born in March :)


And then we just made some more cut out cookies and decorated them.  So like I said, nothing amazing, but that's because I came to a hault in my activity planning!  However, I told Payton that we can go to Michael's and get some stuff to make a cornucopia next weekend, so that will be fun!

The Dutch Braid.  If you are used to The French, Dutching takes some coordination.

As we were walking into the chapel on Sunday, this was the cover of the program we were handed.  Payton was so proud that she is starting to write a chapter book about missionaries, and what a better way to write than to ask Grandma, the Author, to help?

And this is what I walked into Sunday night...Elton Luke!

The Waterfall Headband Pony, it sounds more complicated than it really is.

Lucas loves to squat when picking up objects from the floor.  Yesterday, he was grabbing handfuls of popcorn and shoving it into his mouth.

When asked which jammies he wants to wear, Lucas says, monSTER, with total intonation at the end!

 

Heads Will Roll

Dance 'til you're dead...that's pretty much what we did last night!  Lucas was old enough to go Trick or Treating, and so we went to Shawn's work and everyone was loaded with candy.  I went thinking only like 3 people would have candy, so i just got this little felt bag at Target for $1.  Needless to say, by the end, we were overflowing!  It was a lot of fun though.  Lucas loved it at first.  Putting the candy in the bag, eating the candy, saying the word, candy.

We then headed over to the in-laws for soup, rolls, cake, pumpkin pie and ice cream!  Party time!  We got to see all the cousins, all the trick or treaters that kept trying to ring the broken doorbell, and had some laughs.

Cruella De Vil and Dalmatian puppy.

Olivia, The Little Mermaid, so CUTE!!!

Cooper, Thing 1, and Lucas.  I love Cooper's blue hair!

Sadie..no one last night knew what the name of this CareBear is, do you?

This is my attempt to channel Cruella's evil eye.