Happy Halloween!
1. What are your Top 3 Pet Peeves?
2. Do you lose your temper easily?
3. What is the biggest cooking disaster that has happened to you?
I love entering giveaways and to have a big one like this on my little old blog well I am beyond thrilled! A $200 gift card to Toys R Us would allow you to check a lot of things off your list (and mine too). That is big right?
Catch up city! Here is my Humor shot from last week. I didn't like the original shot that I took and, well, it took me a week to get a replacement *blushing*. Please, don't whisper it just shout it out loud because I know I am a complete slacker.
Hard to believe that it is another Friday already. No school here today for our Piper so girls and I are headed to the mall. To find me a dress. Or maybe pick out some boots. We'll see what strikes my fancy when we get there. I might even hop in the shower for the occasion so I smell all purdy for the sales clerk I will give my money to. I am super cheap when it comes to clothes or the like so this is a big deal for me. Anyway on to our week!
Sunday we ate at a fabulous Mexican restaurant that have the best margaritas. If I go there I want one. Did it matter that it was before 1pm?
As I sit here and type this post about Christmas cards it is 80 degrees outside. The thing is though for any of us who want to get out and take a picture specifically for a Christmas card we have to start thinking now. What to wear? Where should we have the "photoshoot"? Finally the most important decision. What card design do I want this year?
They are sisters. While they do enjoy the same games and many of the same playtime activities they couldn't be more different. Halloween this year is an example of just how different our girls are.
I would have made Piper a different costume but she embraced her "gothic bride". The eyeliner underneath her eyes bugs her and the white face paint itches a little but she loves this costume. Never in a million years would I have guessed that our Piperoni would choose this. Never. I am entering this haunting shot of P in our lovely WW hostesses "Something Spooky" contest. Seriously I can't believe this is my kid!
I was talking to someone about my kids yesterday and she asked me what has been my favorite age so far. That is hard to answer because I love my girls and while some ages are more trying than others they have all been cool for one reason or another. Some ages things just click and life is easy. Other ages you get to see miracles like walking, talking, understanding. My favorite though? Newborn. Give me a little tiny baby. I will take those all night nursing sessions. Cuddling that baby in a wrap and feeling new baby squishiness all day long next to you - bliss. I miss it. So much.
This is my favorite shot that I took of our little Rubarb when she was brand spankin new. It's on my wall and I look at it everyday and it makes my heart swell. Oh to have just that day back would be heaven to me.
Soooo one of the first things I did after getting my new iPhone (oh thank you Sprint for finally getting it in our network and a big THANK YOU to hubs for buying it for me ♥) was download Instagram. Still getting used to it but I love that I have a handy little pocket camera that takes really nice pics (don't judge from mine because I am new to smartphones in general). So here we go and I am linking up with Jeannette for my very first Insta-Friday.
Only in NC would our Ruby wear a tank top one day and then have to wear hat, coat, and be covered in a blanket 2 days later. Crazy week of weather here! This was obviously the tank top day.
She asks for "Boom Boom Boom" (Boom Boom Pow - Black Eyed Peas) every time we get in the van to go anywhere. Her current obsession is strapping any baby or stuffed animal into a carseat before we get out of the van which takes forevah and really tries my patience. But then she runs up to me and says "Love you" and gives me a kiss (brown noser) and makes me smile again.
We dance at our house. A lot. When it is just her and I most of the time we are ballerinas. We dance until she is tired. Then we watch Elmo and have crackers. It is a beautiful life we have.
Where has October gone? Half way through already! I have got to get going on my Halloween decorations :) Here are the questions for this weeks mingle!
1. What is your favorite food?
2. What food do you hate?
3. What other blog hops or weekly memes do you do?
I had ideas but it is hard to accomplish them when you don't actually get your camera out. Here are a few of the 6 pumpkins we have this year. I had to buy one more because it was HUGE and Ruby wants both Elmo and Cookie Monster. She's my weakness.
My cousin from California was a sort of Goth girl in high school. She wore dark makeup and had a mohawk. If you aren't into the Goth scene it isn't probably a stage you dream your child will go through. Did you see the Raising Hope episode when Jimmy would only answer to Drakkar Noir? OMG that was hilarious (as is almost every episode but...)!
Here we go...
1. Are you in the Fall/Autumn cooking mood yet?
2. Do you like Pinterest?
3. What do you think of the Facebook changes?
She is sitting next to me while I write this post and I will probably lean over and kiss her a dozen times. She is eating a very cold pancake because she didn't eat it when it was hot this morning after I made it. It was the breakfast that she asked for. Sort of.
I thought it would be fun if the girls and I went apple picking this past weekend. Thought. I had visions of us walking up to trees and picking beautiful apples and getting gorgeous pictures all the while munching on a few red delicious along the way. It didn't really work out that way.
Saturday's weather was cool and sunny. Just a beautiful fall day. We slept in until 7:30 am which is quite late for us but we had a busy Friday with play dates and a late bed time. Ruby insisted on wearing a short sleeved shirt. Like threw a temper tantrum when I tried to coax her to wear something else. I knew she was going to be cold wearing that but finally just gave up. The orchard is about an hour away so I wanted to get going but had to keep telling myself "It's ok. There is no timeline that you have to follow today. Take your time. Don't stress." Before we finally got out of the house at 10:15 I had told myself that about 4 times.
We arrived at the orchard and it was windy. And cold. Oh dear, I thought, how long will it take our Ruby to get cold? The nice gentleman who ran the place told us where there were apples left. This particular orchard mainly has earlier apples. I always thought we picked in the fall back home but at this orchard the best picking was August and early September. He assured me that we would still find some apples though and to have a great time. As we were walking away he stopped me to give us our apple picker. It was like 12 feet long. So off we went. Mama who was holding her camera bag & 12' apple picker, Piper who was in charge of the bucket, and Violet who was in charge of Ruby. What a site we must have been. City folk coming up to pick apples. I can just hear them "Did you see the mama? She was wearing flip flops." *insert hearty laugh here*
It wasn't nearly as windy in the orchard, thankfully the trees sort of shielded us. We started walking and saw what the man was talking about, the apples were spent. There were tons of old apples on the ground and the ones on the trees didn't look very good. We walked around and around finally finding a decent section of trees to pick from. That would be when Ruby slipped on apple mush. It was over. Over. She cried and I tried my best to clean it up but I didn't have my wipes with me and it was difficult. Then she wanted to be held. Why did I think this was a good idea again? Our big bucket was filled with apples (I have absolutely NO idea what kind they are but they are good) and we started back. Now I am carrying my camera bag, the apple bucket (very heavy 5 gal bucket of apples), and Ruby. Piper and Violet are in charge of that apple picker that we didn't even use! That was comical to watch because one had the front and one had the back but it forced them to work together and they did a great job and only fell once :) As far as the gorgeous pictures go well there are none. The apple mush incident sort of squashed that idea. Red eyes and all. But I cheered everyone up at the very end after we paid and put the apples in the car. With a promise of a granola bar I got them to at least look at me and give me their best "Cheese" pose.
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