Happy Birthday Avery!!

Today is Avery's birthday, and I now have an eleven year old! I can't believe it! We've been celebrating for a week now, and we'll finish it off tonight with dinner and a Preds game. He doesn't even know about the hockey game yet. I just wanted to put a few pictures of Avery from the past few years. He's changed so much! He's getting so big, and I know we're going to be looking eye to eye pretty soon. He's an awesome kid, and I'm so proud of him!
I think we're all adjusted here finally, and he's having a good year at school. He has good friends at school and church, and he even looks forward to going to school. I'm so thankful that he's happy this year.

Happy Birthday Avery! I hope you have a great day!! I love you!

This is what I've been doing.

I've been neglecting my blog lately, all because of Facebook. I'm really quite annoyed with myself, but I just can't stop! I need help.

I should have known she was too quiet!!

Chloe proudly showed me her pink toenails, while they were still wet! Notice the little spot on the carpet also. That's awesome.
Earlier today, Chloe asked me to paint her nails, so I did. I told her we weren't doing toes today. She asked if she could paint mine, and then asked if she could paint her own. I thought we were in agreement on the answer, but apparently not. The second picture is after I took her nail polish out of her room. She got it in a makeup set, and it has never occurred to me that it shouldn't stay in her room. I never thought she would attempt painting her nails on her own. I had to smile about the whole thing, but where she couldn't see me. It was really cute, but at the same time, I had to make sure she understood that she can't do it again. Parenting is such a balance.

Fall colors

This is how Chloe hiked the whole time!









We spent the day at Renee and Chuck's yesterday. The drive was beautiful! We have some pretty trees around here, but nothing like they have there. I couldn't stop taking pictures! Believe or not, I didn't put them all on here. We enjoyed getting to spend some time with them, and we even went on a hike. It was a much needed break from school.

Halloween

I've been tagged

My friend Kelli tagged me to come up with six random things about myself. Random should really be my middle name!

Here are the rules:
1. Link to the person or persons who tagged you. 2. Post the rules on your blog. 3. Write six random things about yourself. 4. Tag six people at the end of your post and link to them. 5. Let each person know they’ve been tagged and leave a comment on their blog 6. Let the tagger know when your entry is up.

Six Random Things about me in no particular order:

1. I'm entirely too dependent on the computer (internet, email, blogging, facebook, etc.). I should really find a hobby.
2. I'm not sure what I'm going to do once Chloe goes to school, but I don't think I can go back to working and not being my own boss. I know the next few years will go by quickly, so I'm already trying to figure it out!
3. I can punt a football. I was outside playing with the boys, and discovered it was really fun to try.
4. I'm equally terrified of stomach bugs and flying.
5. I'm addicted to seeing how much money I can save at the grocery store. It is very difficult for me to buy something not on sale or without a coupon.
   
6. I played fantasy football for three years. I won our league the first year, came in second the next, and then lost miserably last year. I'm done playing because it's not fun anymore.

Now I'm tagging Renee, Carrie B., Carrie Mc., Jennifer, Julie Beth and Wendy.

I hate coming up with titles, so I'm not going to.

The boys have been really enjoying their bikes lately. They discovered skidding the other day, and that occupied them for a while. (it also drove the dogs in the neighborhood crazy!) Then Keith showed them how to jump on the curb. He even took a turn himself, and on Avery's bike! I don't think he'll be doing that again, if the huge bruise on his calf hurts half as bad as it looks!! You have to look closely in the picture to see that Avery's off the ground. That's about all the air they caught, and that's just fine with me. I didn't get a good picture of Brady but I'm sure they'll be back out there soon enough.