SuperMan

After looking at several different stores, I decided that Bubby is going to be Superman for Halloween.


But you know the real superman of the house doesn't have a costume in his size.

Tomorrow we celebrate our 6th anniversary. It is hard to believe that we have been married for 6 years already. Seems just like yesterday I was "taking the plunge". Now here we are 6 years later (actually 11 years if you count all the years we dated), 2 kids, house, jobs, and great little life. I am thankful everyday for him and all he does for our family.

"Fall"ing in Love with my Bady

I went outside with Buggers/Bady last weekend. I got some cute pics of her on the bench and in the grass amongst the leaves. She wore her new autumn dress. It was such a beautiful autumn day. Have I mentioned that I love this time of year!!!!

Lifestyles of the Not so Rich and Famous

Man have we been busy. But aren't most families. Life just doesn't slow down and take a break. Well life may not but our family did for once. This weekend we took off for our annual trip to the Winnie Rice Festival. We met up with some friends and dropped the kids off at Gammaw's and PeePaw's. We had a great time. We ate...ate...and ate. My favorite was the boudain balls and Hubs fav was the rice balls. The Hooders love love love pistolets. They were really good too. I don't think any of us ate anything we did not like. We stayed and watched a really good band then headed home. It was so hot out there. So excuse the pics we were all drenched in sweat.


We got new furniture courtesy of Phan Furniture Co. We love the new look in the living room. We feel so grown up now. The lovely blue sofa and and loveseat is now with another family. Most of you know that our house is the boneyard of my family's hand me down furnishings. I cannot and will not complain especially when we get really nice leather furniture.


The kids have been great. We are planning Bubby's 3rd birthday. It is so hard to believe that he is turning 3 in two weeks. He is going to have a Little Einsteins aka Rocket party. I ordered his invitations off Ebay. They are going to be so cute. We went down to a local Party warehouse today to get his partyware. But Little Einsteins has not come out with their party supplies yet. So we went generic with red plates and ballon napkins. I'm going to print some rocket images and use them to decorate. Plus I am going to have the lady who is doing the cake put a big rocket on it. Buggers is doing great. She is such a sweetheart. I got her costume today. She is going to be a Strawberry Fairy. I have made their costumes in Halloween's past. But I decided to be easy on myself and buy them. I saw a Buzz Lightyear today at Target that I may get for Bubby. I really want to let him pick his out. So I may take his this week and let him pick one out.




Hope everyone has a great week. Take in the outside this week. The leaves are changing and falling. The air is starting to smell crisp. And soon it will be sweater weather. My favorite!!!!!!

It Takes Two

It took a few trys



but finally a picture of both kids together.


PS The dress that Buggers is wearing was my sister's dress. It is about 34 years old. My sister wore it when she was 2 and so did her two daughters. My sister and two neices have had their picture taken wearing it at the same age. It was really special letting Buggers wear it today.

What do you think?

Should I update my do for the new season?????

Free "Fall"ing

I love love love the fall. It is my favorite season. It is full of color, surprising weather and wonderful memories. Hubs and I met and started dating in the fall 11 years ago. We got married in the fall 6 years ago. And Bubby was born in the fall almost 3 years ago. The fall reminds me of football games, school starting, family gatherings, halloween, volleyball season, and cool weather. I love decorating my house for fall too. Probably as much if not more than when I decorate for Christmas. I picked up some new decorations this year at some really great prices. I picked up most of it at Garden Ridge and Hobby Lobby but I did get one piece at the resale shop I like to go to on Sunday afternoons.












Happy Autumn Y'all!!!

Taking orders from Toddlers

The 3rd season of Grey's Anatomy came out on DVD this week. So hubs and I have been getting our GA fix. I worked about 60 hours this week. So it took a few days to watch a few episodes. Hubs has been working hard this week on selling stuff on Ebay. He has been doing great cleaning out our closets and bookcases. We have been working with Buggers on the parts of the body. So far she knows hair, nose, hands, and belly button. She is so cute when she does nose. We caught some pictures of her showing where Mommy's nose is.

She also loves giving kisses.

Even to herself in the mirror!!!

Buggers has also been whipping us all into shape. She has been little drill sergeant girl especially when she gets ahold of my whistle.




Bubby has been fighting a stomach bug for a few days. That's why there aren't any pics of him. He has not been up to photo shoots lately. Just got Buggers up from nap and now she feels very warm. It seems this week that the kiddos have determining our eating, sleeping and leisure schedules. But I won't complain...since I don't get to spend enough time with them.

"She Bangs...She Bangs"

Before...



After...

TILF

The most bizarre thing happened today at school. I was called to a parent conference that I had been dreading since last week. The parents were not happy that their daughter did not make the team last week. I was ready to get a butt chewing. However, I ended up getting something else....
The conference started very professional with the proper introductions and shaking of hands. After I sat in my respected spot at the table, both parents commented on me looking so nice. I blushed and said thank you. And made some comment about being the second outfit of the day since I had coached all morning. They both continued to comment on how nice I looked. Flattering as it may have been, it began to get a little weird. I proceeded to talk to them about their daughter. We talked for about 20 minutes about her skills and where she need to improve. And how we could get her into the Athletics program. All was going well until the very end of the conference. I got up to shake their hands and tell them how nice it was to meet them. They followed up by saying the same. Then the mom commented again at how nice I looked. But what happened next is what made the whole situation BIZARRE. After I shook the dad's hand he says and I quote "Red hair, freckles, and a black dress that's what I'm talkin about!" I didn't know what to say...I have never been "hit on" in a parent conference. And especially in close proximity to the wife. I quickly made an excuse about having to get to a meeting and made my exit. As I left, I was laughing in shock and amazement that a parent would do that.

Mr. Suzy Homemaker

"Whatcha doing babe?" I ask my hubby.

From the kitchen, where he is reading a book, hubs says, "You know I'm not really into that candle book, but this soap making book is really cool."

I look at him with a puzzled look.

"OMG that sounded so homo!!!" said hubs realizing what he just said.

Hysterical laughter from me....

Full Circle

This is an old tricycle that I used to have as a kid. For some reason I remember getting it at a flea market/craft show. That may be a figment of my imagination since I went to so many as a kids with my parents. I got it down the other day to see if Bubby could ride it. He did really well on it and looked so darn cute.

Survior-Woman

I have survived the first week of school. Things went surprisingly well. Tryouts went good and we didn't make too many girls cry. I do have a fall out parent conference this week that will be interesting.

Our kids had their first week back at Daddy Daycare. Things seemed to go pretty smooth here too. Hopefully all of this isn't the calm before the storm.

We took the kids to the pond near our house on Saturday. We met a really nice couple who just moved here last fall. They have a little girl Bugger's age. Bubby had a good time chasing the ducks. I got scared a few times because he gets so close to the edge. I was standing there chatting with some other moms and both kids were standing there with me. I turned my head briefly to look at something in the tree. As I turned back I see Buggers loose her balance and start tumbling into the pond. I scream and reach down for her. I luckily caught her before she went under. She did get wet all the way to her chest. She was not happy and neither was Daddy. He scooped her out of my hands and took off towards the wagon and tricycle.

Photo Sequence of our Afternoon at the Pond.....






My favorite pic of Bubby



Wet Buggers!!!

Ladies and Gentlemen...

We have an official ponytail. Buggers' hair is finally long enough to pull all the way back to a ponytail. It is so adorable. She liked having the hair off her neck. She kept rubbing the back of her neck. I even made two piggytails the next night.

Crawling out of my hole...

I have been in "going back to school, inservice attending, meeting holding, room redecorating, and lesson planning" hell the past week. I do not like the first week before we go back to school. We are held hostage in meetings and inservices for 3 days and promised time to work in our rooms on the 4th day. But so inconveniently there are even meetings on that 4th day. Today was my "official" workday and I attended 4 meetings. We have our "unofficial" workday tomorrow (Saturday). We are welcome to come up on our own time, time that we will spend away from our family, to finish our rooms. I hope I am ready for kids on Monday.

Don't get me wrong...I love the first day of school. I love seeing all the new school supplies, the new clothes, the new faces, the "scared to death because I am now in junior high" faces, and the smiles of former students when they see you for the first time in 3 months. It is so cute...they act like they haven't seen you in ages. I also love the first day of school because I get to start doing what I love the most...teaching and being around kids.

So forget the meeting, forget the inservices, forget the lesson planning...bring on all those little varments that are hungry for a plethora of knowledge and cannot wait to learn it.

Wait those kids probably aren't the ones I will see on Monday. I will probably see the sleepy, hormone crazed, cranky, video game induced insomiacs that they call junior highers. But you know what...bring 'em on!!!!

And the Oscar goes to...

We have been diligently learning some keys acting tips in Toddler Theater 101. What started as a simply gathering of toddlers with Daddy's Playstation turned into a perfect display of overdramatization. Bubby has really mastered crying on demand. He will also be receiving an Oscar for the perfect stunt "throw down" to the floor. Buggers will win an Oscar for "Best Female Villian". Check out her smirk/smile towards the end. It is true genius. Daddy even gets an award--A Razzie for an Assie in the camera shot.

Side Saddle

Buggers is stylin' with her side piggytail.

Number of the Day

Twelve...Twelve...Twelve. I can't stop saying it. It is so mesmerizing and mindblowing what a little two digit number can do to a person. We are constantly surrounded by numbers all day. Grocery store, tv channels, passwords, speed dial on your phone, temperature outside, etc. But it is not until you see that number on the tag of a pair of pants that you realize just how important numbers are. Yes folks that tag had a number 12 on it. Not a 14, not a 16, and definitely not an 18 like times before. I'm not quite sure how it happened. But I managed to shed a few extra pounds to get me to a pre-pre-pregnancy size. I am now even more motivated to keep going. Good things school is starting back up. Lots of exercise and no time to eat. Perfect Diet!!!!!

Partners in Crime

Hubs actually went scavenging today with me. It was fun to have someone with me. He picked up a Bush CD for $0.25 at our first sale. He used to have that CD a long time ago. It was cute to see his face light up with he popped it in the CD player and the first song started playing. It brought back some memories from when we were dating. We hit a few more garage sales in my fav neighborhood. We picked up a cozy coupe and Tonka truck. The coupe is faded from the sun but otherwise in great condition. Snagged it for only $2. Now the kids don't have to fight over the one I picked up a year ago for $5. The Tonka is a nice metal dump truck and quite the steal for a buck!!

After our adventure in GS we headed to Shipley's to celebrate with some donut holes.

S is for Smiles and (S)wimming

We took the kids to the pool again today. It is so much fun for the kids and for us too!! Hoping to go a lot next week before I go back to school. When Nana and Papa come down in 2 weeks, Bubby wants Papa to get in the water with him and get soaked by the big bucket!! ***Hint Hint***


Bikini Babe!!!