So happy together! :)

Camera conundrum--resolved!!!

My camera is found! Here are many pictures that were on it when lost. Some at our house, and some from our trip to Iowa in November. :)

Whew!

Sorry such sporadic blogging...technical difficulties on the camera front--again--it has been the year of camera disaster, much to my sadness! The last few days have been rough--you know the kind...the when it rains it pours kind of days. Ben left for a business trip and the same day, we all developed fevers to go with our colds. And Maltby puked on the floor 3 times! That is because he is so emotionally gifted--he wouldn't eat the first two days Ben was gone, so when he did eat he was over hungry and he gorged really fast. Well his stomach wasn't ready, and he took it out on the carpet. Nothing like cleaning that up while you're sick and on your own! I thought I'd try to get out yesterday to shake some of the cobwebs out, and my fun outing to the local coffee shop yielded a closed shop. Apparently it closed yesterday and won't reopen again until January under new ownership. Uugh! So, like I said, it's just been several pity party days in a row!

Seems to me that I need to start looking for the happy--good things. Currently I am experiencing concurrent naps...SCORE! Ben is going to be home soonish and I have a funny Nehemiah story...

On Saturday we went to my in-laws for dinner and my mother-in-law had out her Christmas "pyramid," one of those wooden, candle powered spinning things. Nehemiah loves it! The next day at home, he asked me to light a candle. I looked back over my shoulder, and he was holding his plastic Batman helicopter over the top of it to see if the rotors would spin! I told him to be careful because it could get hot, and then distracted him with me in the kitchen. A few minutes later, the phone rang, so I was distracted, and Nehemiah decided to try again. He melted the bottom of his little helicopter and learned a valuable lesson. :) It amazes me how well his mental wheels turn! <3

New Jammies

Nothin' like 'em:

Dress-up

When we found out that the Halloween party we were planning on going to was canceled due to the flu, we decided to put the kids in their outfits for Small Group last night. Here are the obligatory cute shots:

Everything's Amazing; nobody's happy

Oh my gosh! This is SO true and is totally crackin' me up today! How 'bout y'all?

Working away is not always work!

In preparation for a silent auction benefit thingy I am helping out with a bit, I was putting together some lots to bid on. One being a scrapbooking lot. It includes lots of little embellishments, and it would be overwhelming to lay them all out, so I typed up a list of the items and then made these cute little origami boxes out of scrapbook paper to contain and pretty them up! :) This is a major accomplishment for me, because my 3rd grade students were consistently better at origami then me--it's just not my thing. Ahem, wasn't my thing, until tonight. Check 'em out! I used the tutorial for origami gift bags over at one of my new haunts, infarrantly creative. And I decided handles would make everything even more cluttered--um, did I mention I couldn't lay my hands on my hole-punch? But seriously, I think simple is better! ;)


The kids were pretty much having none of it, so I bribed Nehemiah with a toy we had put back until he was old enough for it...his IKEA train set. He adored it! The timing was great, having just been to the train museum last week.


And Adelynne? Well bless her poor, over-tired, no-napping soul, she tried!

Baking is fun in the fall!

Making Pumpkin Pie Cake (we made it with no nuts--of course!--and got the recipe from a friend, but I found it for y'all online anyway!) with Nehemiah for our small group tonight:

Here's another!

We are having a benefit dinner and silent auction for a friend at church with breast cancer. My small group outfitted me with supplies to make a diaper cake for the auction, and here it is, my first gender-either cake! :) Adelynne looked at the lion with pleading eyes the WHOLE time I was crafting. ;) She got the extra pink teething ring from the pack though, so no complaining was actually heard!

We found the neatest Model Train museum today! And of course, these things are best shared with friends--especially if they are free! :) So we went with the Wicklunds, Susan and Adelaide, and the Normans. Enjoy the fun with us!

And the Mamas with their daughters:

Susan and Adelaide

Sarah and Callie

Aleeta and Hannah

Me and Adelynne

Hunter at the helm! Some of the nice engineers let Hunter drive.

Look at the speed of that Diesel train!

I didn't know Tate and Adelynne were holding hands until I saw this picture...Awww!

Check out the airstrip! You could push a button to make the plane fly around...it was all such a blast!

Awesome Autumn!

"Two-finger Sue" is what her Grammy calls her.

Fall wagon ridin'

Too cool for school--not the best of days attitudinally, but you take what you can get!

"Eww, Maltby!

Well hello there!

Goofiest guy!

*sings* "Oh, oh, the sweetest thing!"

It's ba-aaack!!!

That's right ladies and gents, October 10th and we have SNOW--eek!

7 months

Tomorrow Adelynne will be 7 months old--hokey Pete! That's something my college roommate, turned sister-in-law used to say! ;) Here are a few pictures of my favorite girl in one of my favorite outfits at the moment.