Breakfast with Santa

We had breakfast with Santa again this year- Sutton enjoyed playing ring around the rosy with her friends and cousins she also helped Santa's elf spin a plate on a stick!

Gobble till you wobble!

Gobble till you wobble- we did just that! This year we celebrated Thanksgiving with 23 people. We had a fun filled weekend, we have lots to be thankful for...

Baby cakes!

Lots of sweet baby's coming soon! Here is one of the five diaper cakes I have made the last few weeks!

Halloween festivities!

We as most of you, had a busy halloween weekend. A dear friend came in town for the weekend to spend some time at the motocross tracks near our house. While they had their fun at the tracks Sutton and I had a 5 hour retail therapy or torture more less "as most of you know, I don't like to shop". But while I was there I did snap a cute pic of Sutton in the pumpkin garden.

Sunday we made cookies for Sutton's sweet teachers. The recipe makes 3doz so we had plenty to go around. We sent some to my office and enough for Brian's office. Sunday evening we had a pumpkin carving contest! That was defiantly the highlight of the weekend!

Halloween night was a blast! Sutton ran to every house in her cowgirl gear! She was so polite saying...thank you & happy Halloween! She makes me so proud!

Hope you all had a safe & great Halloween!

2 & half years old.

Oh my, Miss Sutton! You are two and a half years old. I'm trying not to think about it too much or I'll cry. You're growing up so fast and before I know it you'll be 3! I told Brian the other night that I feel like fall is just starting to come into the air (after which we had a debate about when fall starts) and that I'm usually excited about it. I'm not excited about it this year because it makes me think that you and are just getting older. Can you imagine me in 3 years when you start kindergarten? I am trying to take time and reflection to experience and enjoy everything about you because I know time will go by fast.

So, at 2 1/2 you....

• Wear 3T & 4T clothes, size 8 shoes, and weigh around 30 pounds and is 39 inches tall.
• Have the cutest brown wavy and curly hair and pretty pouty lips
• Completely potty-trained during the day.
• A great eater and is always hungry, will eat just about anything, but of course mostly a few toddler-approved options like chicken patties and macaroni and cheese. You eat vegetables like broccoli, sweet potatoes, and peas. You eat 3 square meals and two snacks a day.
• Still loooooves: Shoes, bah bah (lamb chops), and your baby dolls. You always take them in the car. You love to put them in "time out" when they have been bad. And tell them you love them.
• (speaking of telling) You talk up a storm and have a great vocabulary. You remember words you've only heard once or twice and it surprises me; some of those surprise words are "coyote," "bandaid," and "triceratops"
• You love to read books; you have about 200 of them and your current favorites are Fancy Nancy and the Posh Puppy, Good Night mood…actually you can read the entire book to me!
• I could go on... and on...

I am uploading this video so I can remember your sweet 2 1/2 year old voice. This was taken last night after we came from Roy & Autumn's. They are so generous and gave us a ton of goodies for our freezer.

Wings Over Houston!

On Brian's flight to Las Vegas he sat next to the air traffic controller of "Wings Over Houston". Bruce was so kind to send us ticket to this years show. It was a beautiful day, and the show was amazing.

Halloween Crafting

Saturday was a blast! Sutton rode her bike...she is so fast! It is one of her favorite things to do! We also got to spend some time with our great neighbors and Sutton's good friend Madeline. Sunday was a rainy day so we stayed inside and crafted up lots goodies.

Sutton homework project was to decorate the pumpkin... I asked her, What do you like about Halloween?" her answer, candy, bubbles, & trick

or treat. So that is what she crafted her pumpkin with... candy wrappers, the pom pom was the closes thing I could find that resembled bubbles. She did a beautiful job!

While Sutton was busy doing her "homework project" I crafted the Boo wreath. The hardest part was remembering how to make a spiderweb.

Hope everyone had a great weekend.

OX,

Aimee

Playing in Madeline's Zoo!

VOOM VOOM!

Sunday we spent the afternoon at Mimi and Papa's... Sutton got to enjoy some fun time with her cousins.

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere....

I never thought I would have so much fun reading! My book club has truly introduced me to literature I would have never of picked up in the book store, let alone read. Septembers read "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society". Again I defiantly would not have pick this up in the book store... First of all - The entire book is composed of letters. Second - It is about World War II. But this was one of the loveliest books I have ever read. I have read a few books and seen many movies about World War II, but this one was the best. It was so real. I felt like I knew the characters and I wanted to run over to Guernsey to meet them in person. The stories about their experiences were so touching, not just because they were hard, but because the people were so brave. Horrible things happened to them, but I didn't feel traumatized reading about them. I felt uplifted at their endurance and hope, and love for each other. This book definitely joins the few books on my favorites shelf .Here are a few pictures of the our get together this month.

Market Street!

Over the weekend, we decided to make ourselves get out of the house. So we took a stroll around Market Street, enjoyed some pizza, a little splash in the fountains, some window shopping, and watched a little football.

AAAA....CHOO!

Considering the whole house is filled with sneezing, coughing and runny nose, we had a quite productive weekend. Sutton helped me recover the dinning room chairs, this time we used a fabric more durable and kid friendly! After the chair project, I got the urge to make a pretty fall dress for Sutton, I found the perfect argyle print. Sutton is such a great little helper.

We did manage to squeeze in some fun for Sutton too! Our neighbor got a new puppy, they brought it over for Sutton to play with. Oh boy, did they have fun together... the pictures show it all! We made some yummy blueberry muffins, and visited the park. Sutton fed the turtles, then for the first time she went on the BIG slide!

Labor day: Celebrating the right to rest!

My cousin, Travis Beck married over the weekend. He and his new wife Deepa had a beautiful wedding ceremony. We are so glad we could be apart of there special day. Thanks to Mimi minding Sutton over night, Brian and I got to enjoy some much needed "adult time"!

The rest of the weekend we celebrated the "right to rest" and of course did a lot of eating with friends and family!

We Made it!!! The first week at Interfaith!

Well, we made it, thought the first week of school with very little tears!! Sutton’s first week (at interfaith) went well. She cried when dropped off the first 4 days. By Friday she didn’t turn back! Sutton has had great daily reviews from her teacher’s. She is really enjoying learning some new songs and play with Ella (a friend in her class.) I have attached some pictures to share of some of Sutton's art from her first week. We have already put them in frames.

Some of my favorite pieces of art!

I just love this one! I had a good laugh when I Notice the... "mine" at the top of the picture. I think I have a good idea of how this was played out. The teacher, "Sutton what a pretty picture you are coloring, what is it?" Sutton.... "MINE!"

I just love these little hands!

Good times

Well this is not as much fun as being at the beach, but it will have to do. We returned Saturday from a 9 day trip in Cape Canaveral. I wasn't the only one missing the beach... Sutton woke up the next morning and said let go to the beach! How about we draw and color a beach!

Ah-la-ahhhh!

With the new paint...I feel like our home sings, Ah-laahhhh when we walk through the door!

After days of looking at the color wheel and paint samples on the wall, we have finally picked the perfect color for the interior of the house.

Choices...

The color is SW - Relaxed Khaki! We could not have picked a better color. Now off to hanging pictures... but first let me do a "Charlie Angles pose"!

Holding little hands!

Sutton and Madeline holding hands, while they are in their dress-up shoes!

"Grand old" fourth of July!

Teaching Flag Etiquette

I found that this was a good opportunity to teach Sutton that our flag is special, and we treat it with respect. I started off with some simple rules for honoring our flag.

Raise a flag in a lively manner; lower it slowly. Don't let any part of the flag touch the ground.

She understood “raise a flag in a lively manner” and “don't let the flag touch the ground”. We are still working on lowering it slowly.

They don’t teach flag etiquette in school any more, and I don’t know why.

The hostess gift - Sutton made Madeline a pair of firecracker shoes.

One of Sutton's best friends Sweet Madeline!

Where was I when all this accessorizing was going on?!?!

Sutton defiantly has some of her Mimi’s genes when it comes to accessorizing. Look at how well that bracelet goes with the shoes!!

Out in the town!

Upside down sunglasses and the legs crossed! I love turning around and seeing all that!

I hope you all had a "grand old" Fourth of July! I would share the 4th of July food pics, but I'm afraid I might gain a few more LB's just by looking at them. If you are dieing to see them, there are plenty on my FaceBook page.

July Fourth Crafts and Food

July Fourth Crafts and Food

America is a great nation, with abundant blessings, privileges and opportunities. July 4th is a day to get together with family and friends, to let go a little of worry and strife, and celebrate the blessings of living in the U.S. of A.

Here are some fun craft and foods that helped enhance our July 4th celebrations.

Firecracker shoes!!

Flip Flops

Ribbon

cut the ribbon in about 6 inch strips and double tie around the top of flip flop. I tie six or more on each side of the flip flop. You can add some Frey check on the end of the ribbon to help prevent fraying.

Patriotic Strawberry's

Strawberries

White chocolate

blue sugar

Dip the tips of the strawberries in the melted white chocolate, then dip into blue sugar. Let cool and serve. Yummy!!

The smile on Sutton's face speaks for itself. She just loved waking to this Fun Flag Toast!

Toast

cream cheese

strawberry jelly

1/2 banana (sliced and cut in to half)

Fresh blueberries (from our memorial day picking)

And TA DA! It will be eaten as fast as it took to make! !