Today we celebrated Thanksgiving with my brother and his wife. Here is Jeff in front of all of his fixings. Yum! Nathan wins breaking the wish bone After dinner, Nathan desperately needed some batteries for his firetruck. However, we all thought it needed 9V batteries because it showed a picture of them on the backside…. >> View Post
Archives for November 2011
Christmas Tree
I got my Christmas tree up yesterday, but FIRST I did some Black Friday shopping (of course!). I probably won’t be able to put any gifts under it until the day of Christmas, since Autumn cannot be trusted! Just some more of my Christmas decorations
What I am thankful for…
This won’t be as pretty as some of the other blog posts with all of the pictures… but, I wanted to list some things I am thankful for this Thanksgiving. I am thankful for Nathan and Autumn. They have added so much love, laughter and little adventures to my life that I cannot imagine it… >> View Post
Gardenland Express on Thanksgiving
Before lunch, I decided to take Nathan to the Gardenland Express at the Missouri Botanical Gardens since it was open at 9am on Thanksgiving. Nathan looks forward to this every year, because he loves electric trains! We even got a really good family portrait! This was unusual because both kids are smiling at once! How… >> View Post
Eye Sore
Do you have an eye sore in your house? This is mine. Nathan’s wagon piled high with every kind of car, train or plane imaginable. I have this on my list of items to somehow organize in the home. Not sure how. But, its not very functional right now, because if you pull one car… >> View Post
Autumn’s 3!
Last night my little baby went to sleep for the last time as a two year old. She had her precious little binky in her mouth, the last part of her being a baby still. Binky goes away after Thanksgiving, and as much as I hate the binky, it still makes me sad that its… >> View Post
Autumn’s 3rd Birthday Party
Yesterday I had a party for Auttie’s third birthday. She isn’t ‘really’ turning three until tomorrow. It is so hard to believe how fast these first few years of her life have gone by. It makes me sad that they have gone by so fast, yet happy to see how she is growing up to… >> View Post
Kindergarten Feast Day
Tonight was Nathan’s Thanksgiving Feast at school, and he had a nice little Indian hat to show off for it. The back of Nathan’s hat. On the headband part of his hat he drew what he was thankful for, he said one of the little people on it was his Sissy. Awwhh! The dinner had… >> View Post
Autumn’s Felt Cookies and Tea Bags from Etsy
If you know me, you know this is the week leading up to Autumn’s birthday party. I am doing a tea party theme, and thought how adorable it would be to order some felt cookies to put on a raised plate on her tea table at the party. I ordered the felt cookies from an… >> View Post
Tea Party Fondant Cake Trial Run
Last weekend and this entire week is get ready for Autumn’s tea party week. So much to do for this little girl’s special day. I decided to use a marshmallow fondant recipe from Allrecipes.com for her cake, which is supposed to taste a lot better than regular fondant. Fondant is SO fun to make, I… >> View Post
Last Soccer Game
Nathan had to sit out his last soccer game, due to his asthma attack earlier last week. He was still really excited to be there and to get his medal from his coach. LOVE this picture. He really just so excited over that medal. He has all his soccer, t-ball and Momma’s running medals hung… >> View Post
Nathan’s 2nd Scary Asthma Attack
I was at work today, and my Mom called me and said that she had just gotten Nathan home from school at he was breathing with a lot of effort, and felt nauseous. I told her to give him 2 puffs of his Albuterol inhaler, and I just thought he would be fine so I… >> View Post