I can't believe I just did that

So I'm going on 3 hours of sleep today.

Because I just HAD to do it.

You know what I'm talking about.


Breaking Dawn, baby.

Midnight movie showing.

6 girlfriends.

Pie.

Exhaustion.

The End.




And yes, it was totally worth it.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

My post today is sure to arouse some emotions in some of you.  Some of you who read this beat me to the punch already, and others probably think I should be shot for even considering putting up Christmas decor before Thanksgiving.  It's so funny how people have such strong opinions about this :)  But nonetheless, you can't see it from your house, and we love it.  There's something about Christmas, and the decorations and the music and the weather, it's just all a bit magical...and we want to have it around as long as we can.  So this weekend we put up our Christmas stuff!  To see the excitement in my kiddo's eyes...they just make everything so fun.  Kennedi was so enthralled with the tree and loved helping put the ornaments and candy canes on!  Kai was fun, remembering ornaments from last year and his tradition of putting on the star.  So around here....it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas :)

P.S.  Did you know Santa is a Broncos fan?  Totally is.

Family pics

So I took some family pictures for some friends of ours for their Christmas cards.  They turned out pretty fun!  I promised to show my mom a few, so here you go mom!  :)

This is the one they'll probably use for the card....cute!  They were all so great with smiling and having fun!

Then after we got the business of family pics taken care of, we had some fun!

 

Then we got a few of each of the kids....but this was my most favorite one.  He's so cute!

It was so fun!  Thanks D family for letting me take your pictures!

Happy Halloween!

We had a great Halloween. Earlier this year I saw a picture floating around on pinterest...

As soon as I saw it, I knew I had to do something like that for Kennedi!  So with a little help from Dena, and a little help from my hubby, and a lot of patience on my part, I came up with this!

Ok, that's a really bad washed out picture!!  I promise it's cute!!  My favorite part is the "hat" as Kennedi kept calling it...

I just used a bunch of scraps and fabrics and buttons I had laying around.  It was a super fun project, and as soon as I saw it on her, it made all the effort worth it!!

The first debut was at Kai's Kindergarten Parade/Party.  The whole school lines up and marches around the school to show off their costumes.  So funny.  So of course, Kennedi needed to dress up too, and all the kids loved her!  They had just learned about owls a few weeks before, so it was very fitting!

 

Here's Kai, marching around as Optimus Prime.  He went through about 12 costume ideas before he settled on a transformer.  This is the same costume as two years ago...thank goodness we bought it big so we didn't have to pay for the same costume twice!

A few more pics of the afternoon....

Then we came home for a dinner of too spicy chili :( and yummy cornbread and then headed to the church trunk or treat.  Kennedi was HILARIOUS.  We were setting up our trunk and the treat bowl was on the ground...she started taking the treats from the bowl and putting it in her bucket, it was hilarious!  So we started around to the other cars and she would hold up her bucket for the candy, check to make sure it got in there and then move on to the next car.  It was so funny.  So a few pictures of the trunk or treat....

Cameron and I like to dress in themes together....so since Kennedi was an owl, I was a bird watcher, and Cameron thought it would be hilarious to be a bird hunter.  I was less than amused.

 

After the trunk or treat we headed to our favorite neighborhood for some trick or treating, then over to Dena's for a post-trick or treating party!  She made the coolest dip ever, it's a spinach/artichoke dip...but just look at it!!

All in all it was a great night!  It was so fun to see Kennedi with her first real halloween experience, and of course, Kai loved it all, it's always fun to do stuff like that with him.  Well, I'm off to go raid the stash!!!

So, remember

when I told you about 5 years ago that I had more pictures of Kennedi?!  Yeah.  I am a slacker and just haven't bothered getting a USB to transfer the pics to my laptop to do a post.  Well, I still haven't done it, but I'm now on the desktop where the pictures are at, and I happen to find myself with an extra few minutes, and I'm bored.  And I think my daughter is cute.  So here's more pictures :)

But this is still my favorite :)

later to come this week....Halloween costumes!!  We're pretty excited around here :)

Finishing out the week

So for the rest of our anniversary week, it turned out pretty anti-climactic!  Unfortunately life just gets in the way, you know?  Wednesday was Movie Night, I got Beetlejuice...Cameron loves it and it's a fun Halloween movie.  But we got home late from helping his mom with hanging up light fixtures, so not so great.  Then Thursday was his and her massages, then Friday was family picture day!  Probably not so much exciting for Cameron but fun for me!  Saturday was the end of the end, because I thought I was going in for a wisdom teeth removal consultation....turns out more just yank them out.  So here I am, typing this while on Vicodin(sp?).  Fun stuff.  I'm swollen, can't feel my bottom lip down to my chin, and was told this morning that it could take up to 6 weeks to get feeling back.  Yay.  It's freaking me out.  Also to make the weekend as good as it could be, Kennedi woke up Saturday as sick as she has ever been.  Poor girl has croup pretty bad.  But on the plus side I just looked through our family pics and found a few keepers!!  Thanks to Dena for taking them for us!

 

Day Two and other things

So my friend gave me a great idea on what we should do for Day Two of our Anniversary week.  She read on a date your spouse blog that you can make/decorate boxes, and then inside of them put little slips of paper that tell little things your spouse can do for you that would be something nice.  So if I wanted to do something nice for Cameron and wanted to know what he'd like, I go to the box, pull out a slip of paper and read "Cook me steak woman".  I gave that as an example to him... apparently he liked the idea and actually put it in the box.  (Note to self, don't make a stupid joke as an example.)  Our boxes are fun, mine is a wooden box that looks like a book, and the spine is a pull out drawer.  Cameron's is a square that has really cool hardware on all the corners.  Maybe I'll get a picture of them tonight, and maybe not.  Oooh the suspense :)

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(this would be the "other things" part of the blog)  Last night I stayed up until almost midnight because just as I'd start to fall asleep Kennedi would start crying for her daddy.  Well since daddy was snoring next to me I figured I was the next best thing, so I'd go in, and she'd reach up for me, I'd hold her and snuggle her for a minute and she'd fall asleep on me.  She did this like 4 times.  What was hilarious though, is the first time I went in there she was crying "daddy, daddy.....bite.....bite".  I'm pretty sure she was dreaming about begging food off of dad.  Which is hilarious.  The girl is a bottomless pit, and her new thing is to come up to us, tap  us and say bite! bite!  So the fact that she was dreaming it totally cracked me up.

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In more other things news, school works!!  Last night Cameron, Kai, and I were watching Castle and Cameron and I were working on our boxes.  Well earlier in the day I had had a conversation with a couple friends about (shhhh, like I'm whispering it...sex), and I was telling Cameron that we had talked about it.  For some reason he thinks it weird/hilarious that we talk about things like that sometimes.  Well I didn't want to say the word in front of Kai, so I spelled it out and went on talking (not about our sex conversation, other things).  The next thing I know he goes SEX!  Does that spell SEX mom?!  Uh.....sure does kiddo.  Sure does.

haha.  No more spelling in front of Kai!!!  We just had to laugh and congratulate him on how good he was doing with sounding things out!!  It was too funny.

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Today I go to the dentist and get 3 cavities filled.  The best part?  They are on BOTH sides of my face.  Yes.  My entire face will be numb.  This will be hilarious for all but me.  But due to my intense and insane fear of the dentist, I felt it best that he get it all done at once, otherwise I wouldn't be sure that I would come back.  (Although I REALLY like our new dentist).    Thank you and goodnight.



That's all.  Bet you can't wait to find out what tonight's Day Three of Anniversary is!!!