Fall & Hot Chocolate

I am so looking forward to the fall season. I love when it cools down and and pumpkin patches open up and hot chocolate becomes more prominate. I have been wanting hot chocolate lately. I feel like a dork drinking it in the summer, but it is one of my favorite drinks in the cooler seasons. I need to invest in a coco latte machine. I had one and then one of my precious kiddos ruined it by dumping syrup into the motor. I might just have to go make me some now.

Motivation...Or Lack of

I have been telling myself every day for the past couple of months that I need to get up and going in the exercise area of my life. Then I eat something not so healthy and I tell myself "oh you messed up today what is the point in exercising, try again tomorrow". Don't get me wrong, I know full well that that is all the more reason to exercise but my brain is tricky. So this morning I told myself that today is the day i'm going to get on that treadmill. Well I knew I would be having pizza for lunch (my department won a contest and the prize was a pizza party)..that doesn't help the waist line. I decided salad was going to be my dinner. As I was driving home I was thinking about that treadmill and remembered that my headphones for my ipod is broken so I splurged and spent a whopping $5 on headphones so I can run to my music. I keep telling myself that even if I just run for 20 min (if I can last that long) I will feel so much better about myself and it will motivate me to keep getting on that treadmill every day. Well here it is 8:30pm and my brain is being all tricky again and telling me that I ate pizza what is the point in getting on the treadmill. So here I am documenting the fact that today is the day that I over power that tricky part of my brain. As soon as this post is completed the knee braces are going on, the tennies are getting tied, and the hair is getting pulled back as best I can and I am going to conquer that stupid voice in my head. Wish me luck!

Let's Try this AGAIN!!

My darling husband informed me a couple of weeks ago that I haven't been blogging and need to do better. So here I am AGAIN to say i will try to do better. I decided that I would wait until Allie's 6th birthday to do my come back post. Can you believe it?  6 years old!  So here we go....Allie turned 6 yesterday. We had a birthday party for her on saturday. She let me know that she wanted a smurf party and she wanted to be smurfette. Being the most fabulous mother that I am I set out to accomplish her smurf desire. I got online and looked up all the info I could on smurf parties and prizes and decorations and games and the list goes on. I found a wonderful lady on ebay who made these darling invitations. I then went on amazon and found a smurf movie (old school), smurf reading books, smurf stickers, smurf rings, and smurf coloring books (prizes covered). Then there were the Smurf hats I wanted to make for each child at the party. They turned out cute. I went to the copy center and this wonderful lady helped me create the decorations and the details for the gift bags. In the gift bags went a blue jump rope, blue balloon, blue push pop, blue airheads, blue mike and ikes, a sheet of smurf stickers, and a box of crayons which as you know contains a blue crayon. I made Allie a white tutu for a different spin on smurfette's dress and a white t-shirt went over a long sleeve blue shirt and a pair of blue leggings under the tutu. I cut out brainy smurf glasses for a trivia game. We had a smurf bingo game, and played pass the present, which we did to the smurf theme song. then it was time for smurf cupcakes with the rings on top that I got from amazon and a blue squeeze it juice. I think that it was quite a success. That night when Allie was a sleep I blew up 25 balloons and trapped them between her door and garbage bags so that in the morning when she opened her door the balloons would fall at her feet. It didn't work out as perfectly as I had planned but she still was suprised and loved every minute of it.
Also this week, allie started first grade.




Allie opening gifts

Gift bags



Decorations

My brainy smurfs

Cupcakes

Having refreshments

 

1st day of first grade

Milestones

The Kids in our family are starting to reach milestones and I am sad that they are growing up so fast. The week of Christmas Gracelyn started to crawl and get to the sitting postion on her own. I think those go hand in hand. Now she is pulling herself up and walking around the furniture. I took her in for her 9 month check up (9 Months...where does the time go?) she weighs in at 15 lbs 7 oz  3%tile  and is 29" tall  90%tile. WOW!!

Grace standing

Crawing

Allie just lost her 1st tooth today. She told me she kept wiggling it and it just falled out. Now she is happy not only cause the tooth fairy will be coming tonight but because she can eat food now without her tooth moving and hurting her. We have been working very hard today to get her tooth fairy pillow sewn together so the tooth fairy won't have to fish around under her pillow and risk waking Allie up and blowing her cover.  

Cute smile

Tooth fairy pillow

Trevor has been trying his hardest to go potty in his big boy potty. He is doing a great job. Every once in a while there will be an accident but for the most part he is making it. He gets rewarded with chocolate milk and cheetos.

Big boy

He loves to vaccuum