Sunday, May 12, 2013
Break time!
I'm taking a blogging break today for mother's day! If you want, pop over to passingpinwheels! There's been a TON of stuff happening over there. Hope you had a great day.
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Sunday, April 21, 2013
"Normal" in quotation marks!
I am realllly hoping this embeds right because it's pretty fun.
Mike took those moving pictures/video clips with his new phone and I love it! It's been a tough week around here. If you don't read Passing Pinwheels, you might not know that the missing school teacher from Germantown is one of our friends. But, we tried to keep it normal for Autumn despite all the roughness--the photos in the slideshow are from Saturday when we met up with Josh and his parents and sister. Friday and Saturday we had the family garage sale. That was fun! Autumn wrote stickers and priced whole boxes of school supplies!
She also helped do the money...
And she babysat Ellie. Ellie is like, "what the heck, people."
The one thing she missed? THE BABY BUNNY. Lindsay and I were on our way to the car so I could show her the kid table I found. Lindsay happened to see this little dude in her path. He just kind of sat there, nose wiggling, and probably praying we'd move on! Pd nudged him and he shot off into the bushes. So cute!
Oh, and Autumn also missed one of my favorite things about the garage sale. Inevitably, Pd puts things into the garage sale and Lainey is all "!!!" This year it was the electronic basketball game. He put it out. She put not for sale on it. He wrote the "fine print." I am SO MAD because I missed her smacking him and him throwing at ball at her. I was getting Autumn from school. T_T They are so hilarious and cute.
Around the house, we were pretty normal. Or, "normal." Because, you know, my kid is a cat.
She even lays on the back of Kyle and Lindsay's sofa like a cat.
This is actually somewhat more normal without the quotes, haha. We got to walk home from school a couple of days this week. I love walking around with her.
Autumn and dandelions: two of my favorite things!
And Molly is Molly, in case you were wondering...
Mike took those moving pictures/video clips with his new phone and I love it! It's been a tough week around here. If you don't read Passing Pinwheels, you might not know that the missing school teacher from Germantown is one of our friends. But, we tried to keep it normal for Autumn despite all the roughness--the photos in the slideshow are from Saturday when we met up with Josh and his parents and sister. Friday and Saturday we had the family garage sale. That was fun! Autumn wrote stickers and priced whole boxes of school supplies!
She also helped do the money...
And she babysat Ellie. Ellie is like, "what the heck, people."
The one thing she missed? THE BABY BUNNY. Lindsay and I were on our way to the car so I could show her the kid table I found. Lindsay happened to see this little dude in her path. He just kind of sat there, nose wiggling, and probably praying we'd move on! Pd nudged him and he shot off into the bushes. So cute!
Oh, and Autumn also missed one of my favorite things about the garage sale. Inevitably, Pd puts things into the garage sale and Lainey is all "!!!" This year it was the electronic basketball game. He put it out. She put not for sale on it. He wrote the "fine print." I am SO MAD because I missed her smacking him and him throwing at ball at her. I was getting Autumn from school. T_T They are so hilarious and cute.
Around the house, we were pretty normal. Or, "normal." Because, you know, my kid is a cat.
She even lays on the back of Kyle and Lindsay's sofa like a cat.
This is actually somewhat more normal without the quotes, haha. We got to walk home from school a couple of days this week. I love walking around with her.
Autumn and dandelions: two of my favorite things!
And Molly is Molly, in case you were wondering...
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Yay Warm Weather, Yay Smiley Faces!
Oh, my gosh, you guys. Autumn has had THE BEST WEEK EVER. She got all smiley faces in conduct and came home awash in stickers every day. Friday, I read to her class and brought her a very special meal: mac and cheese from Panera! She loves cheese but can't have much so this was a big deal. I guess we hadn't ever given her mac and cheese from Panera before because she kept going, "this is so good. Why is this mac and cheese so good?"
And this weekend, we re-organized the playroom, planted flowers and had Kyle and Lindsay over for dinner. Autumn totally set the table with place mats, napkins, forks and knives--we didn't need the butter knives but she wanted two utensil so it'd be like a "real table." She made her own lunch and snack for tomorrow (with an assist from Papa) And then after? Went up, got in her pjs, and brushed her teeth. See what I mean? Crazy.
What's up with her being so big? Just a couple years ago, when we first moved into this house, that shirt she's wearing above was a dress!! And now she's setting tables and making her lunch. STOP TIME STOP!!!!
Sigh. Speaking of Kyle and Lindsay, Autumn is loving being a "big cousin" and is really, really impatient to be a big sister (again). She's been great with Ellie!
It's funny, though, Lindsay brought Ellie over to let Autumn feed her. Autumn had gone over there to visit but Ellie was asleep. Unfortunately, Autumn had just rediscovered one of her old toys that I had put away and, after feeding Ellie a bit, she said, "I would rather go play Einsteins." :P Mike finished feeding Miss Ellie.
I'm really glad Autumn had such a great week! She had a short run of chattering too much at school (I'm shocked, I CANNOT IMAGINE where she got that) and had some not-smiley-faces and it was getting her down. But I tell you what, she rocked this week!! Go, Autumn!
OH. And if you've had a bad day or week, watch this video. I had forgotten about it and how awesome it is but I'm listening to Pandora right now (Neon Trees station!!) and the song came on...so, yeah, I had to share it!!
And this weekend, we re-organized the playroom, planted flowers and had Kyle and Lindsay over for dinner. Autumn totally set the table with place mats, napkins, forks and knives--we didn't need the butter knives but she wanted two utensil so it'd be like a "real table." She made her own lunch and snack for tomorrow (with an assist from Papa) And then after? Went up, got in her pjs, and brushed her teeth. See what I mean? Crazy.
What's up with her being so big? Just a couple years ago, when we first moved into this house, that shirt she's wearing above was a dress!! And now she's setting tables and making her lunch. STOP TIME STOP!!!!
Sigh. Speaking of Kyle and Lindsay, Autumn is loving being a "big cousin" and is really, really impatient to be a big sister (again). She's been great with Ellie!
It's funny, though, Lindsay brought Ellie over to let Autumn feed her. Autumn had gone over there to visit but Ellie was asleep. Unfortunately, Autumn had just rediscovered one of her old toys that I had put away and, after feeding Ellie a bit, she said, "I would rather go play Einsteins." :P Mike finished feeding Miss Ellie.
I'm really glad Autumn had such a great week! She had a short run of chattering too much at school (I'm shocked, I CANNOT IMAGINE where she got that) and had some not-smiley-faces and it was getting her down. But I tell you what, she rocked this week!! Go, Autumn!
OH. And if you've had a bad day or week, watch this video. I had forgotten about it and how awesome it is but I'm listening to Pandora right now (Neon Trees station!!) and the song came on...so, yeah, I had to share it!!
Sunday, March 31, 2013
EASTER BUNKEY
IN THE BEGINNING...
THERE WERE CURLS.
And that completely didn't last. T_T She got too hot and the weather was too rainy to sustain them. Sigh. Incidentally, SHE IS SO GROWN UP. Check this out, first Easter:
SO. We did Easter Grilling at Lainey and P'd's house. I knew exactly where I wanted to have our Easter photos if it rained (and it did). I saw it yesterday. THE EASTER WONDERLAND.
Autumn made crazy faces the whole time so this is the best one.
This is my favorite, though. I didn't realize it until I uploaded the pictures...look at that dramatic arm!
Everyone needed the Easter wonderland picture! First up! Nanny and Boppa!
Aunt Lauren...Autumn had so much fun hanging out with Lauren this weekend! Brad is in New Zealand, the various Sellers were in Tuscaloosa, so she got undivided attention, lucky ducky!
This isn't the more austere of her Lainey and P'd photos but aren't they so fun?
Autumn was super happy to get her Easter bunny basket gift! In it, there was a sock monkey with bunny ears--you can see it in the bottom right of the picture. Later in the afternoon, she ran in the kitchen and was all IT'S THE EASTER BUNKEY! I thought she made it up but it was actually Mike which is still pretty darn cute!
After pictures, we changed, ate our traditional (not really) Easter dinner of steak and mexican corn. We had an indoor easter egg hunt and we had one casualty egg but fortunately it was a plastic one!
BUT, we forgot to hide the eggs we dyed! Still, we had fun doing it. And Mike gets egg salad with unhidden eggs! (Blech)
Happy girl! Lots of dye.
It's kind of funny, my fingers were dyed pink but Mike couldn't tell! I probably shouldn't be so tickled by his color blindness but it can be rather entertaining.
OOOH! We made our own Cadbury eggs! They are, um, not egg shaped. At all. Maybe vaguely. But they taste pretty good! I mostly used this recipe if you wanted to check it out!
AND. An Easter can't go by without me posting the Best Bunny Ever.
Happy Easter!
(and, again, I forgot to turn off the watermark thing! arg!)
THERE WERE CURLS.
And that completely didn't last. T_T She got too hot and the weather was too rainy to sustain them. Sigh. Incidentally, SHE IS SO GROWN UP. Check this out, first Easter:
SO. We did Easter Grilling at Lainey and P'd's house. I knew exactly where I wanted to have our Easter photos if it rained (and it did). I saw it yesterday. THE EASTER WONDERLAND.
Autumn made crazy faces the whole time so this is the best one.
This is my favorite, though. I didn't realize it until I uploaded the pictures...look at that dramatic arm!
Everyone needed the Easter wonderland picture! First up! Nanny and Boppa!
Aunt Lauren...Autumn had so much fun hanging out with Lauren this weekend! Brad is in New Zealand, the various Sellers were in Tuscaloosa, so she got undivided attention, lucky ducky!
This isn't the more austere of her Lainey and P'd photos but aren't they so fun?
Autumn was super happy to get her Easter bunny basket gift! In it, there was a sock monkey with bunny ears--you can see it in the bottom right of the picture. Later in the afternoon, she ran in the kitchen and was all IT'S THE EASTER BUNKEY! I thought she made it up but it was actually Mike which is still pretty darn cute!
After pictures, we changed, ate our traditional (not really) Easter dinner of steak and mexican corn. We had an indoor easter egg hunt and we had one casualty egg but fortunately it was a plastic one!
BUT, we forgot to hide the eggs we dyed! Still, we had fun doing it. And Mike gets egg salad with unhidden eggs! (Blech)
Happy girl! Lots of dye.
It's kind of funny, my fingers were dyed pink but Mike couldn't tell! I probably shouldn't be so tickled by his color blindness but it can be rather entertaining.
OOOH! We made our own Cadbury eggs! They are, um, not egg shaped. At all. Maybe vaguely. But they taste pretty good! I mostly used this recipe if you wanted to check it out!
AND. An Easter can't go by without me posting the Best Bunny Ever.
Happy Easter!
(and, again, I forgot to turn off the watermark thing! arg!)
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Spriiiing Breaaaaak!
Over Spring Break we got to go to the beach!
And it was seriously chilly! I think it was warmer in Memphis than it was in our part of Florida!
Autumn eventually got over the REALLY COLD WIND.
She even paddled in the water a bit. Mike and I just kind of stared at her in disbelief because, omg, that water was cooooooold.
I'm sure no one is shocked that I never quite got over the cold. I only took off the fleece I was wearing because Mike and I were running around kicking a ball against the wind. As soon as I stopped running, I got cold again, haha. On the plus side, that was enough of a workout that my legs hurt the next day!
Autumn stayed warm by digging for treasure. She was very specific, too, gold treasure that looks like circles. She comforted herself with a couple shells instead. :P She had a pretty good hole going!
Because there weren't very many days warm enough to go to the beach, we swam a lot in the pool and played with Miss Ellie who did a great job on her first trip!
We also went to this little amusement park in Orange Beach. Autumn had so much fun on the go karts. She went on the kid train, the small ferris wheel, and the carousel but this was definitely the highlight. I tried to talk Mike into the two of us doing this bungee swinging thing but he wouldn't. :(
Really, she LOVED the go karts. And this is truly the worst photo anyone has taken of me in a very long time. Welcome to the Hairline that Requires Bangs. Man. But Autumn's face is fabulous. The had these great double carts with an extra steering wheel so she felt like she was really working.
We raced Mike and we were the only ones on the track so we had a blast. We got a bit of a head start on him and I tried to slow down to let him catch up but Autumn was having none of that! She would yell, "DON'T SLOW DOWN WE HAVE TO WIN!" So I took the corners wide and when Mike caught up to us we had so much fun.
Another afternoon, we went geo-caching. There was one in the parking lot right next to our building so we got that first. Then, P'd took us down the street to another one. The coordinates were not quite right so we had a bit of a hunt. Thank goodness P'd came! He's the one who spotted it and gave Autumn hints to find it.
And, too quickly, our vacation was over. Of course, on the morning we left? 75 degrees.
(ps, the pictures say passingpinwheels because I forgot to turn off the watermarks on my uploader. But do stop by! Lots of new posts, including my new $5 wall art!)
And it was seriously chilly! I think it was warmer in Memphis than it was in our part of Florida!
Autumn eventually got over the REALLY COLD WIND.
She even paddled in the water a bit. Mike and I just kind of stared at her in disbelief because, omg, that water was cooooooold.
I'm sure no one is shocked that I never quite got over the cold. I only took off the fleece I was wearing because Mike and I were running around kicking a ball against the wind. As soon as I stopped running, I got cold again, haha. On the plus side, that was enough of a workout that my legs hurt the next day!
Autumn stayed warm by digging for treasure. She was very specific, too, gold treasure that looks like circles. She comforted herself with a couple shells instead. :P She had a pretty good hole going!
Because there weren't very many days warm enough to go to the beach, we swam a lot in the pool and played with Miss Ellie who did a great job on her first trip!
We also went to this little amusement park in Orange Beach. Autumn had so much fun on the go karts. She went on the kid train, the small ferris wheel, and the carousel but this was definitely the highlight. I tried to talk Mike into the two of us doing this bungee swinging thing but he wouldn't. :(
Really, she LOVED the go karts. And this is truly the worst photo anyone has taken of me in a very long time. Welcome to the Hairline that Requires Bangs. Man. But Autumn's face is fabulous. The had these great double carts with an extra steering wheel so she felt like she was really working.
We raced Mike and we were the only ones on the track so we had a blast. We got a bit of a head start on him and I tried to slow down to let him catch up but Autumn was having none of that! She would yell, "DON'T SLOW DOWN WE HAVE TO WIN!" So I took the corners wide and when Mike caught up to us we had so much fun.
Another afternoon, we went geo-caching. There was one in the parking lot right next to our building so we got that first. Then, P'd took us down the street to another one. The coordinates were not quite right so we had a bit of a hunt. Thank goodness P'd came! He's the one who spotted it and gave Autumn hints to find it.
And, too quickly, our vacation was over. Of course, on the morning we left? 75 degrees.
(ps, the pictures say passingpinwheels because I forgot to turn off the watermarks on my uploader. But do stop by! Lots of new posts, including my new $5 wall art!)
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