:: fall goal number two ::

I am happy to say that I already finished my second goal!  Yeah, me!  It was degut my yard and prep for Fall!  I did this last Sunday while the kids were playing in the house.  I love doing deguting plants!  Larry isn't a fan and doesn't understand why I have to chop it all to the ground but I just do!  I love knowing that when it gets really cold and snows that my plants and bushes aren't dying anymore and their leaves are not looking yucky.  I love the look of that is is Fall and I have prepped my yard for it!  I got my pumpkins I grew in my garden on our porch and all the outside toys are put away so they don't get ruined for next year.  All the junk under my little carport is gone and all that is left is recycling and the garbage can.  Larry helped me a couple weeks ago gut the garden as much as we could and just knowing it looks better and things are not dying and rotting makes me smile.  My other goal is to get so many other projects done this weekend that I have just kept putting off for the last month.  Will see if it gets accomplished.  Another part of goal number two is to post pictures from each month last year and present and see how big my whomps are growing!  Here is the first picture it was when family went to the railroad farm in Canby :)

 

 

And when I get the pics of each of my kiddos on their school pumpkin patches I will post them for you!

Fall goal number 3 is read more, watch more movies at home, and save money for my first pair of cowboy boots!


:: lucy and hunter ::

Lucy is 11 years old and in the last year or so she has starting to be a more lovely dovey cat.  She has never, ever been a lap cat.  She will give you head butts and let you pet her and she has the softest fur ever and has seen I got her when she was a kitten.  Besides me her fav is now Hunter.  Hunter loves her even more now that she is all about him.  Kramer used to be his fav but not anymore.  Lucy and Hunter are buds.  This is her new thing in the above picture.  She waits for him in his bed.  :)  Remember she is 11 years old and the last year or so she found a safe haven in Hunter's bed away from Kramer and she loves being up high.  Dude has the top bunk.  So she climbs and claws her way up to his bed up his ladder everyday during the day and every night.  Sometimes she will sleep in there with him it depends if the kids are too loud when they go to bed.  When I start getting the kids going to go to bed if she isn't in his bed already she is on her way and will go in after he does.  I put a gate up in front of their door cause I don't want Kramer to sleep with them cause he wakes them up but when I move it in the morning Lucy will sometimes go in there to wake him up in his bed.  Or she will knock down the gate to get in his room.  It is so crazy.  So, I thought I would give you a little info about my oldest animal and my oldest kiddo and the love they have for each other.  Super sweet!

:: fall goal number one ::

My first goal for this Fall season is to use up all my old Party Lite candles and Yankee candles (the top ones) and get more Scentsy candles (the bottom ones)!  So I started this goal last year and this is what I am left with from last Fall!  I am so close to getting my old candles out for some new ones!  But I will let you know that my ultimate fav candles are the flamless ones from Costco that have timers in them!  I ask for more each Christmas!  They don't smell and they light up when you want them to and I just love, love, love them. 

 

So there you have it!  I hope to get more Scentsy warmers cause at the moment I only have one but I can't use it until I have reached my goal and then I will go to town with them! I love candles in Fall but I have had alot of these in the picture for a few years and these puppies have to go and be burned up in my house ASAP! Burn with the old to get ready for some new!

:: my girl and her papa

Someone took this picture this weekend at a reception we went to and I just love how Grace's eyes sparkle and how happy she is and her Papa can make her this way all the time :)

:: fall ::

I love Fall.  It is my fav season of the year.  Here is why...

candles

sunflowers

pumpkin pictures with my family

the crisp cold air

rainboots

tea and warm beverages

watching movies

boots

leggings

baking cookies

 

I can't believe October is here! My kids are in full swing with school and they both love it now! It took Grace a week and half and now she loves it. I think she had to get used to her weeks being different and now she has friends at school and share days have started and she was excited when her brother did share days now she does. My kids had there school photos last week and we got Grace's back and she looks like such a big girl in them. I can't wait to get Hunter's! I also used a Groupon at Picture People to get a family picture of the 4 of us when Larry was home and it was so fun and I am so glad I did it! Now we will have updated school pictures on the wall and a family picture of us all. Here they are!

 



 This is the one I used with our Groupon!  We haven't taken a family picture like this for a couple of years :)

 This is so my kids.  Silly.  Always silly

 They were pretty much done posing by this picture.

 Love.  This so shows my kids to a T.  My girl loves her brother and he is just him.

 A little to much saying cheese on this one.

 Jump.  Grace did this the best.

 Grace showing some of her attitude.

 My big boy.

 He makes me smile.

 My big girl.

 She makes me laugh.  She looks scared here.

 My baby.



I am so glad I used this Groupon!  It was fun and even though my kids had no clue what they were doing we did it as a family and when we were done went to there favorite resturant...Spaghetti factory for a very late dinner.  Alot has gone on and I have taken tons of pictures but with my phone but my camera is on my desk!  Larry has changed jobs and we are Canada bond again.  But this comes with alot more money and hopefully all our debt Larry's and mine will be paid and we will be able to sell our house debt free and be Canby bond where both kids go to school.  That would be a great dream will see how the winter goes and next March we should see the benefits of continuing this path of Larry being gone and me and the whomps doing what we have done for years.  Sigh.  I wish it wasn't this way but maybe it was meant to be. 

Happy October everyone!