Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...
It’s back again – school picture time. Once again, not our best! ha! Let’s remember where we’ve been…
2011
2012
2013
and this year…
A hairbrush would have gone a long way! He’s still cute though.
Unfortunately, Spencer was NOT feeling the pictures according to his teacher and wouldn’t even let her sit him down to even attempt a picture. So, no lovely school pictures for Spencey. Oh well. Here’s his from last year…
Maybe next year will be our year…or maybe not! 🙂
Is it Friday yet? Oh wait, happy Monday! Yep, our weekend was busy busy busy. I think the next few weeks are going to be busy busy busy too! We’re in full swing on all of the new house renovations and it’s not slowing down until we move in. Here’s how our weekend went down…
GJ was here at the end of last week because she and I met with a decorator for a few hours and it was great. We walked away with some really good ideas and PAINT COLORS! hooray! I had a good idea of what I wanted – and had the samples to check out – but the decorator helped us hone in on what will look really good. I can’t wait to see it all transformed.
On Saturday, we picked up some breakfast and headed over to the new house to check things out. We were pleased to see the painters over there! Gotta meet that deadline!
The painters were pleased to see all the AL hats on my boys’ heads! Roll Tide!
Later that morning, we headed out to Lowe’s to check out fridges. The boys had no problems entertaining themselves there!
The day wasn’t all work though, we managed to find time for a little play…
and to cheer Alabama on to a (very stressful!) victory over LSU!
Sunday it was breakfast…
and back to the house. I’m so glad to have such good helpers…
and it doesn’t hurt that they’re pretty cute too! 🙂
The boys then took their dimples to Sunday school…
and we all managed to enjoy the BEAUTIFUL fall weather we’re having. So thankful for that!
It was a busy but great weekend. Now I’ve got to get back to picking hardware, researching door knobs, finding wallpaper….it’s fun!
We’ve had a busy week around here!
Post Halloween dress up has continued…
The boys have been loving their “construction boots”…
They enjoyed a little iPad time while Robert had football on the tv…
We got dressed up in church clothes and went to church…
My cuties rocked their boots to school (Maxwell’s request!)…
We played tiger, jaguar, cheetah over and over and over and over…
Hmmm…what else did we do this week? Oh yea, we CLOSED ON OUR NEW HOUSE!
Woohoo! We’re all pretty excited to call this place “home” in a few short weeks.
For now, the contractors are working away and I’ve got my little helpers choosing some paint colors!
It’s going to be a busy 5 weeks to get everything done before we move in but we can do it! It was a fun week for sure!
See you next week!
As much fun as the costumes, parade and trick-or-treating were, the most fun of Halloween was hanging out at home afterward eating chili, checking out the candy, and laughing with my boys!
That’s my kind of after party! I sure do love them!
After the parade we hooked up with some friends and decided to just start walking toward the houses to trick-or-treat. It was still early but there were already some sprinkles coming down and it was getting really cold and windy! We decided to start early to we could try to get home early!
Maxwell knew exactly what was going on and couldn’t wait to hit up the first house! Spencer was pretty clueless so I helped him along a bit…
He figured out the game pretty quickly and perfected his own version of “titateat!”
Maxwell was a good big brother and had no problem taking Spencer up to houses by themselves…
But, if there was a dog outside the house, Maxwell would quickly say “we’ll just skip that one!” 🙂
Some of the friends we were with had built this Thomas the Train over their wagon and all the kids (and parents!) thought it was the neatest thing ever!
Spencer just about burst when he actually got to ride in it for a bit!
Maxwell was continuing on his “serious” streak and couldn’t really be bothered for pictures…
or to keep up with the group! 🙂
In his defense, it was a big, slow-moving group all with kids younger than him except for one. It’s tough to be the oldest sometimes! 🙂 He did fine though and loved getting lots of candy and seeing all the cool decorations.
Spencer was doing so good putting all of his candy in his basket. He kept bringing me a Blow Pop to open and I would tell him that we weren’t going to eat the candy now and he needed to put it in his basket. After about the 4th time he asked, I finally gave in to my cute little Mickey and let him have the Blow Pop. He was so happy he even sat in the stroller for a little while!
By this point, it was starting to get really cold and windy. Just as we were turning down the last street to make the loop back to home, Spencer was walking on the curb and totally bit it scraping his little hand and biting his tongue. We unfortunately had our first (and thankfully only!) tears of the night. So pitiful.
After some hugs from Dad, a new sucker and his Mickey sweatshirt to warm up, he was back in business.
On the home stretch, we ran into 2 of Maxwell’s buds – Ben and James. That made my little construction worker pretty happy!
It was honestly freezing and really windy by that point so we were more than happy to get home by 6:00, warm up and inspect all of our candy! Which, let me just say, all that candy and not one single Butterfinger. Humph. Oh well, it was still a really fun night, Butterfinger or not! 🙂
Happy Halloween!