What the kid's are saying

Ella: Mom, Miss. Crook doesn't have a husband.

Mom: Yes I know.

Ella: Some girls don't get married.

Mom: That's true.

Ella: I want to have a husband.

Mom: Why is that?

Ella: For he can take care of me and be sweet to me!

(How cute and sweet is that!!!)

Top 10 reasons I loved Enchanted:

10. It's a feel good Movie

9. McDreamy is in it

8. I wasn't the only one in the theater laughing (i.e. it's hilarious)

7. Amy Adams portrayed a perfect cartoon like princess

6. It's clean

5. The songs were fun

4. Ella and I giggled through the whole movie

3. Josh, Ian and Gordon giggled too

2. It took place in the Big Apple and I love the Big Apple!

1. It made me feel like a little girl

I got my hair did!!!

Recently my hair has been getting on my nerves! I haven't liked the length and it's been such a long time since I have had highlights it's become quite noticeable that my hair color is no longer Blond. So tonight I went to see my new favorite hair colorist, she matched the bottom hair color to the top hair color, gave me very subtle golden highlights to match; it's all quite natural looking.

But the best part is that it cost 40 smackers!!!! I am used to paying a lot more for crappy highlights that I have to go back and get touched up ever 6 weeks.

So really what I am saying is: I have a great inexpensive place to get my hair done and I am happy with the way I look!

This is a crappy picture, our camera ran out of batteries and all I had was my camera phone, and just so you know my hair's not quite that dark.

WHAT!?!?

I am going to preface this post by saying that Josh has been sick with a fever and rash, his actions may have something to do with that.

This morning Josh came to me and said "Mom, look how many eyelashes I've pulled out!" I looked down at his hand and was surprised to see 50 or more little brown eyelash hairs covering his palm. In complete shock I said "Son, didn't that hurt?"

"A little" he replied. I then looked at his eye and saw that my son (bless his heart) pulled out almost half of his eyelashes on the upper lid and half his eyelashes on the lower lid.

I didn't know whether I should get angry or cry, what was he thinking?

I composed myself and said "Joshua why did you do that?"

He was quick to answer, "because Mom, blowing eyelashes is good luck"

He's so pretty!!!!!!

It's that time again.........

Gordon and I were laughing about this skit tonight, and I had to share it with all my 5 readers.

Enjoy!!!

HALLOWEEN

The Ducks

Again, no time to type-

Went to a local park and fed some ducks-

Kid's were crazy, grateful and had a blast-

(it's always the free stuff they're the most grateful for...why is that?)

Have a Happy Halloween!!!!!!

I posted this pic because of Ian; that boy is crazy!!!

I think she stands in front of mirrors and practices posing

Trunk-or-Treat

I was thrilled this year to find out that my kid's wanted to be a "pretty" witch

and a vampire. The last 4 years or so it's been many verities of a princess' and super hero's.

Ian was a cute lion (costume provided by Farrah) and Oscar was a little chicken (I didn't take pic's of him but I will on wed.)
We now already have way to much candy and of course they are asking all day long for a piece.

It might have to magically disappear.

The pumpkin patch

No time to write.

It's a pumpkin patch.

We went with friends.

The kid's were crazy and ungrateful.

But we made memories!

The year of the Pecans.

Six and a half years ago when we first moved into this house I was very irritated by the neighbor's pecan trees. Every fall they would drop massive amounts of pecans on our yard, and terrible gobs of gunk would drop out of them onto our cars and stain them horribly. I still hate the way they stain the cars, but I must admit that I have come to love those trees.

I first started to love them three years ago when I first realized that I could pick up the pecans from off the yard and put them into my mouth (after shelling them first of course). They were the most delicious pecans ever, and I LOVE pecans! That year I gathered lot's of pecans and made pecan pie, pecan bars, pecan cookies, and added pecans to nearly everything else I ate. It was wonderful.

Unfortunately the last couple of years have been too dry for the poor trees and no pecans have dropped. This hasn't stopped the nasty car-staining stuff from dropping though. The good news is that with all the rain that we've had this summer the trees are back to their old selves again and there is a pecan explosion underway in my yard!

I am in full squirrel mode now, and I've got my family on nut-patrol as well. We snatch-up every pecan that dares fall on our side of the fence and we've even gone out hunting for more trees we can harvest from. One thing is for certain:

MORE PECANS = MORE HAPPINESS

This Morning I had to switch to our huge bowl, and it's already overflowing.

Have I ever told you that I love The State Fair of Texas...

The most wonderful place to be in October is at the Texas State Fair!

I don't have much to say about it right now because I am tired; I wanted to wait until I could better describe this day but Diana and Kristy keep haggling me about a new post... so here you go!

Did you know my Husband is wonderful?

Not only does he work hard to support our growing family he also helps around the house with the cleaning, cooking yard work, bathing the kid's, making lunches, you name it he helps do it!

Anyway, tonight after conference my sweet, sweet hubby came home with 2 things I love... Well 3 things: Himself, chocolate & yogurt dipped peanuts and The new Micheal Bublé c.d.

I sat eating my special and listening to some Bublé with my very best friend.

So enjoy some eye-candy & some great toons!

Ian Mark

I don't know if this will be cute or funny to anyone else but I thought it equally funny and cute so I am sharing it any way...

This morning while I was drying Ian off from his bath he said “don’t look down, look up." I asked "Why?" To which he replied "cause I don't want you to see my peanuts!" (for those of you that don't know Ian he speaks very quickly and his head bobs from side to side while he's talking)

Now my questions are: 1.Why is it when he says peanuts it seriously makes me laugh?
2. What is it about Ian Mark that makes me do almost anything he wants or when he does something wrong it's hard for me to hold back the laughter?

This child has got me!

My baby

I have the sweetest little boy ever!

He sleeps through the nights,

he doesn't cry unless he's hungry or tired,

and even then it's not for very long and it's not that loud.

All of these things are wonderful and make me want to eat that boy up,

but the best thing about my little Oscar is that I am his favorite!

I know that he's not even 3 months old and I am his whole world

but for these few months I am going to hold onto that

because someday real soon he's going to love his Daddy as much or even more,

he will ditch me to go off and play

and then -this is the heart clincher;

he will fall in love with some girl and forget all about me (as it should be)

but until then I am his favorite and proudly so!

It's that time!

I only have time right now to post one pic (my boss is calling for me)

but this is our pumpkin that I had to vinyl-ize!