To say that we were over summer this year would be the understatement of the year! Loving, loving & loving fall this year and appreciating it more than ever. The only sad part of fall is the realization that my beloved plants don't have much time left, I took some pictures to remember them!

An Ant Update

So our Aunt Lindsey sent Carter some Ants for his birthday - yep, our very own ant farm. I won't lie, I was freaked out but I ordered the ants in the mail anyway and today they are alive and well & the pet project of Sean! I'm pretty impressed by their progress (and the fact that I feel secure enough to allow them to live in my kitchen!)

I'm in love with these little feet! Linc has had the sleepy, snugglies lately and been hard to get out of bed - he tends to curl up like this or attempt to hide under the covers - both are rather cute and a welcome morning sight!

I hate to be a hater, but right now I am in HATE with Maytag! Our 2nd washer has gone out in 3 years (this one was only 20 months old! - seriously I have eye shadow that has performed better). It is all that I can do to not give them a negative SHOUT out! We are in love with our new glass top LG - who knew watching the washing could be such excitement - and most importantly it has a 5 year warranty!

Arts & Crafts!

I blame it on Pinterest.com - too much fun stuff to look at and get ideas! These are 3 recent projects - more in my head (and on my pinboard!). I'm loving the monogram over our bed (and hung all of it myself with only 4 nail holes to patch - that is good for me), need to work on my rosette making skills & am shocked that for a $1 piece of paper and a frame that was in a cupboard and I have a fun, new message board in the kitchen (and a dry erase marker stolen from Carter, if I'm being honest but he had 2 blacks anyway!).

Next up some t-shirts for the boys and an endeavour with my sewing machine - wish me luck, our last meeting was a little less than pleasant!

Our Terrific Kid!

Carter was given a Terrific Kid award this morning for demonstrating respect. We are so proud of him!

Other iPhone finds...

This was Linc in his new carseat - looks like he's holding on to the oh XXXX handles! Which is certainly not necessary when I drive!

This is Carter on stage at Antler Alert getting his birthday pencil & them singing the birthday song - Happy, happy, happy, happy birthday (there is a dance!)

This was the day that Carter had to stay home with Strep - yes very sick he was as he and Linc jacked up the truck to work on it - it looked a little trashy but entertained them for a few hours - notice Linc underneath doing some work (their lift was a chair & the picnic table)

Linc and I had an easy going trip to the Zoo a few weeks ago - he made me take his picture on each of the frogs!

Carter and I snuck in an ice cream date recently - that boy loves him some vanilla ice cream!

You just never know what you might find on my camera reel on my phone! They don't get taken off very often but here are a few recents pics.