Fun is about to be happening.

This weekend marks my little mans second birthday. Oh how time flies! Waylon is such a funny little boy. He makes me laugh multiple times everyday, I really hope he keeps his witt throughout his entire life. It makes everyday mundane things enjoyable. For instance every time he gets dressed, EVERY TIME, I pull a shirt over his head he smiles largely and says "BOO"!!! Everytime we see a horse Waylon says, "Mommy, cow, MOOOO." Jackson and I are always quick to point out no Way, its a horse, neeeeyyyy....Waylon says, "cow, MOOOO." He loves buzz lightyear and Woody...We watch Toy Story and Waylon says, "BUZZZZZ" for the first 5 minutes until he gets used to seeing him. He can melt your heart and crack you up at the same time...

So in honor of this little dude turning two. Two set of Grandparents are making the journey over to celebrate with him! We cannot wait for them to get here! We are all excited to have company and Jackson cant wait to sleep in Gramma and Papa's motorhome! Also Grandma Judy is going to stay with us until November 1st!!! How lucky are we????

Take that Martha Stewart.

So I started off fall with making some super tart (not sure that its really edible without adding sugar) rhubarb cranberry jam. And yes, I put in twice as much sugar as I thought I should in the first place...But, oh well things do get better. Then I made some chocolate zucchini muffins, delish! Thirdly it was zucchini-banana bread made with applesauce! YUM! It was gone quickly. And lastly Halloween sugar cookies...This is why on any given day you stop by my house and its a mess...Im always doing things that I don't need to do so I dont have to do the things I need to do.

 My helpers cleaning the frosting bowl!

 These by the way, are Hooterrific!

The cookies that survived long enough to actually make it to the frosting stage!

Craftiness

I've been wanting to use some of that spray/paint on chalkboard paint for a few years now. Never really had anywhere or a reason to use it. I thought once maybe I would paint the fridge with it so the kids could draw on it, but I didn't really want a black fridge. Last weekend I was digging around in the cellar and I found a cupboard door we had removed from the mud/laundry room to make the current woodbox..And I thought, Heeeyyyy, theres my chalkboard!!!



So we took a trip to Michaels and thanks to www.hip2save.com we scored a 50% of coupon. One can of chalkboard paint and a box of white chalk, five dollars and thirty three cents. As soon as Mark got home from work I went to work on creating my chalkboard.

Like my workspace??? Mark says to me, "You're not going to spray paint it in here are you??" To which I responded, "No dear, but thank you for being concerned. Because, if I was, you would need to tell me that was a bad idea."

Moving on to the garage and the actual painting. Between the spray paint smell and the garbage stank it was not pleasant. And of course I am very impatient so I got the hair dryer out and dried it inbetween the three coats. Then they say to let it dry for 24 hours...I gave it about 14 hours...close enough.

I think I might need to paint the border so it pops a little more...We will see after I live with it for a while.

...Its also a little large...I think I would like it better vertical but I dont have a space for it vertical. I leave you with a half naked cowboy who has rejected his sisters pink cowgirl hat (Thanks Ang, he actually loves wearing it).

A few random happenings.

So I am a Bzz agent. Which means a company sends me stuff to sample and I review it and share some samples with my friends. Right now I am sampling Burts Bees Sensitive line. I really like it so far!

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Anyways...If your interested in purchasing some of this stuff let me know and I will hook you up with some 1 dollar off coupons!

In other news I shared these  photos on FB but for those of you who don't social network, I finally got a picture of all three of the kiddos together!

Second take, Anna was about to not have it anymore!! She always gets her lower lip puckered out before she brings on the noise!

And lastly Waylon has been practicing his phone talking skills...I caught him just before bedtime doing this the other day! Too funny!

Im getting brave

I've been trying to figure out how the heck I want to decorate the boys room. If I hang anything on the wall they pull it down (why wouldn't they???). I wanted to hang some shelves but I imagine monkeys swinging from vines...So I decided to get brave and paint one of the walls. I dont really have a finished vision in my mind, Im just letting the paint brush do the talking...Here's my progress so far...Any creative ideas would be warmly welcomed!!!

 This is the begining....Stars on a blue sheet...Hey, its cool in the dark.

Phase I, trees....complete. 

 3 months old!

This kid knows how cute he is....Its already damaging my attempt at disipline. He got a 1, 2, 3, count today and with each progressing number his head cocked a little bit more to the side and his smile got larger....I was laughing by the time I got to three...Cheeseball.



Gary and the John Deere

Let me first say Gary loves our boys...He has been trying to get Jackson to ride with him in a tractor or back hoe or whatever it may be he's driving in for a while now. Well he finally was able to convince Jackson to at least sit with him. Waylon cried everytime he got near it. Waylon, mind you will cry when Gary pulls up on his four wheeler. They like tractors and machinery--- from a distance and NOT running!! Jackson was cool sitting with him until he fired it up and told Jackson they were going around the block...then he wanted out.