We're Positive for Strep! Yuck!

Jamesy was sick all weekend so I took the boys straight to Dr. Wil on Monday morning. They both have strep! He's been home from school all week so I've had all my boys home! It has made for an interesting week. Thank goodness it's a short week and I'm not hosting Thanksgiving dinner. The boys will be healthy (well, at least not contagious) for the holiday and I am thankful for that.

I'll leave you with a few pictures I took of Grant a couple of weeks ago at Joe's Farm Grill. We went to lunch with an old high school friend that moved to Gilbert. It has been great chatting and hanging out with her. Hugs Des!

P x P x P = Jaiden's 7th Birthday!

What did you do today? We went to Jaiden's birthday party at Peter Piper Pizza! I have to admit I was full of anxiety as we drove down the highway. I was not looking forward to 10,000 square feet of screaming kids. To my surprise...it was dead! I don't know why and I'm not going to tempt the gods by asking. It was great. Jaiden enjoyed herself. In fact, we all did. Her mom did a great job on the cake and cupcakes. Unfortunately, Grant wasn't feeling himself so we had to leave a bit early.

So, I've been really interested in working on my photography. I really want to create memories for my kids. I've been taking pictures but didn't delve into Photoshop until today...here's what I came up with.

Jamesy Day

Yesterday was Jamesy's birthday. I call it Jamesy Day. We had a blast. It's really crazy to think that I've had this incredible boy in my life for six years now. What would I ever have done without him?

James got an mp3 player for his birthday loaded with Johnny Cash, Taylor Swift, and James Taylor. He is walking around the house with his headphones on singing every other word...it's priceless.

James in his classroom with Mrs. Hinderland

Sweet Baby James being GOOFY!

Hi pretty girls!

Grant is getting his play on at the play
ground

Mom's Boys

The Homeboys

Sprial Notebooks at the Ruffled Feathers Craft Night

We had another late night meeting of the minds and boy did we rock it, puppet! This was a great project for beginners. The best thing about these books is that they are not time consuming at all. You can make them as simple or as detailed as you like. They are great as gifts journals, you name it.

Here are a few shots of the amazing spiral notebooks the girls created. How spunky would you feel journaling in these fun journals?

Holy Schnepf!

We go to Schnepf Farms every year in October and love it. What a fun place to let the kids get dirty and be kids. This year we decided to go on Halloweena (in normal land that would be a typo but here it is perfectly acceptable). What better way to celebrate, right?

It was AWESOME! The Farm had candy at all of the vendors so the kids got to trick-or-treat. Here are all of the super spooky things we got to do:

• walk around the farm and enjoy the agriculture...big beautiful sunflowers, pumpkins, peach trees. It felt so good.


• ride roller coasters, swings, slides and tricycle races


• roast yummy marshmallows and make s'mores- my kids' favorite thing to do


• eat dinner at the d-lish Farm Restaurant


• take home scrumptious Caramel Apple Pie!!!

Needless to say, Peter, John, and Tink had a blast and the parents did too!