Moving to the basement!

Carter has been asking and asking if I could PLEASE move his bedroom downstairs. REALLY??? But your just 3 years old? You really want to go downstairs? I couldn't believe it! Everytime I would pick him up from pre-school, he would ask what I did while he was at school. "Why didn't you move my bedroom yet?" So, then I told him I had to wait for Nana to come help me. I thought maybe that would buy me some time. But then he would get his pretend phone and call nana and then go in the front yard and wait for her to come. I asked him what I would do with all the toys that were in the playroom if I made that room into his bedroom? "You can just throw them away mom!" OK!! :) Carter is one determined little boy! He really wanted his room to be downstairs with Hailey and Joshus. We started taking out all the toys and moved them to the "unfinished" family room, to be sorted out later, and got busy painting.

Of course, he HAD to help.

Good thing Nana was there!

She was having more patience with him than I was.

Carters new room!!

Thank goodness for my Moms brilliant ideas!!
We decided to change his room from blue & red
to brown & red. This is a picture of his curtains and shutters
when they were blue. I wanted to keep his curtains,
because GG made them, and I also didn't want to spend
more $. So, mom dyed the curtains in the
washing machine!!! (We didn't tell Mike until after it
was already done.) I didn't want to tell him I was trying
to save $ by doing this, and then have to tell him
we had to buy a new washing machine because it didn't work! :))




TA-DA!! It actually worked! and my washing
machine came clean too! Thank goodness!

I painted the shutters red and then brown. Then

I distressed the edges so you could see the red through it.

Probably hard to see in the picture, but it turned out good!

I love walking downstairs and not seeing a JUNKY playroom!!

Thanks mom for all your help!!

Fish Soap?

I went to a boutique on Friday and look what caught Carters eye.......

A bar of soap with a fish in it, that smells like pineapples!

You just never know what kids are going to like. He wanted to take a bath when we got home, but I told him it was to late and he could take a bath in the morning. That was ok as long as he could SLEEP with his fish soap. The next morning bright and early at 7:30 he wanted to take a bath. He stayed in the tub for almost an hour and came out like a prune. :) He wanted to stay in until his fish came out of the soap.

Sunday as we were walking out of church, he asked again if he could take a bath when he got home. I got a chuckle and a laugh from a lady as we were walking out.

So, again on Monday, another bath! He thought maybe his fish would come out this time, but not yet.
If you ever have trouble getting your kids to bathe, buy a bar of fish soap!! :)

Cars also keep Carter very busy in the tub!

Camping trip!!

How do you go from snow, back to gorgeous fall weather in the blink of an eye?

Well, we took advantage of it and went to the Sand Dunes. We went with Cal and Lori and Adam and Stephanie.

This is Carter ready to go on a ride w/his dad!

Mike and Hailey
Hailey rippin around the bowl!

Joshua and Jaxson

Carter and Carson.......

It's the only time Carter gets away with

not getting his hair done, plus you add

helmet hair to that and this is what you get!

Kind of CrAzY!

Hailey and MaKenna
Steph passing out taffy.

We were saying how we finally get to sit and

relax- now that the kids are growing up! :)

Joshua tearing it up around the bowl!

and doing doughnuts!

We had a great time and love playing together as a family!!!

WhAt a WeeKeNd!!

This past weekend, Joshua started playing indoor soccer. Now for Halloween he would like to be an Olympic Gold Medalist Soccer Player! That works! I already have the costume.

After the soccer game, we went shopping for a Halloween costume for Hailey. She wants to be a witch, so we went shopping at Gardners Village! If you haven't been there yet, you need to go! All the WITCHES are out! Look what we caught this witch doing.......
Then, Sunday we woke up to SNOW!! Carter came in our room so excited that there was snow and wanted to put his snow clothes on! Thank goodness it was melted by the time we got home from church!

Where did FALL go?

I LOVE FALL!

WOW!! I didn't have to travel far this year to go to the pumpkin patch! We grew pumpkins in our own backyard! 19 to be exact ! Hailey, Josh and Carter each got 6 and one left for Ty. :)
The kids were just amazed at watching them grow. All summer long I kept hearing, "Look mom, theres another one!"


Finding the perfect pumpkins......


I love fall! From the decorations, to the great pumpkin spice smells and the beautiful trees changing color!