Elle, last year in the corn maze.
Friday, October 31, 2008
Happy Halloween!!
I hope everyone has a safe and happy halloween!! I'm very excited to be runing around all day like my head's cut off- hmm, maybe THAT should have been my costume, next year.
Elle, last year in the corn maze.
Elle, last year in the corn maze.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Shade Open House this Saturday!!!
What up ladies~ I'm having a Shade open house on November 1st from 9am-12pm. It's going to be at the Camas Commons Community Room. The new fall clothes are 25% off, and the clearance is an additional 25% off!!! I have a lot of the new fall clothes and some of them are waaay cuter than I thought they would be. Come try stuff on and have fun, let me know if you need directions. Oh yes, and invite your friends from your wards that would be interested, I'm going to mutual tonight to see if the YW want to come withe their moms.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Beaver Believer
Loving it.
Getting over it.
She ran away from me taking pictures of her, Jeremy was in the dining room cleaning so she was running back and forth between him and the kitchen trying to avoid me. Honestly I thought it was really funny.
The final result was burying her face in daddy's legs. I wasn't her favorite person after this little photo shoot.
Over it.
Friday, October 24, 2008
Yesterdays Field Trips
The girls both had their pumpkin patch field trips yesterday. Unfortunately for Elle she went to bed late and had to get up early for her field trip so she wasn't really in the best mood.
Well, she as at first and then a series of very bad events happened. First she loved the hay ride, then maybe halfway through she decided that she didn't like it because she couldn't walk around.
This above photo is right before the first meltdown...which was a full body fit until the hay ride stopped. Then as soon as the ride did stop we were at the pumpkin patch, I of course was getting my bag ready and grabbing some tissue and I looked to grab Elle and she was already off the ride and in the pumpkin patch, so much for the "helpful" parents I was surrounded by!
(This is right after the first fall and right before the second fall)
This is as we were waiting for everyone else to be done, I decided it would just be easier if we stayed on the wagon, after Elle calmed down she started petting her pumpkin, it was sweet. This didn't last long though, she totally threw a fit after this and then once people were on the stupid ride again and it started she threw another fit the entire ride back. Yikes.
Eva was adorable and especially proud of her new rain boots we got just the day before.
If I haven't mentioned this before Eva goes to the Corvallis High School preschool, it's where I went to high school and it's a range of ages 3-5, the teachers are the high school students and it's a great atmosphere. The students plan the lessons and what they will be doing. Eva loves it, she has her own cubby, and loves the play kitchen area...we may have a budding chef on our hands. SO here she is getting ready to leave, p.s. there are about 40 pics of this but I'm condensing it.
Eva had a great time, her trip was much more of a success than poor little Ellie's. We're going again as a family tomorrow, I think Elle will have a much better time being well rested and I don't think we're going to try the hay ride again. There's so much more stuff she missed out on so I'll get plenty of pics of that, wish us luck!! ;)
Well, she as at first and then a series of very bad events happened. First she loved the hay ride, then maybe halfway through she decided that she didn't like it because she couldn't walk around. This above photo is right before the first meltdown...which was a full body fit until the hay ride stopped. Then as soon as the ride did stop we were at the pumpkin patch, I of course was getting my bag ready and grabbing some tissue and I looked to grab Elle and she was already off the ride and in the pumpkin patch, so much for the "helpful" parents I was surrounded by! This was the first pumpkin she saw and she was done. Seriously, she picked it up and wanted to go back on the tractor and leave. But when you're with a group of people you don't really get to do what you want, you're on group time, which is unexplainable to a 17 month old baby.
Then another series of events happened, she wanted to walk around with her pumpkin, which was adorable and sweet, but the ground is covered in thick mud and thick pumpkin vines, not so easy for a little toddler to get around in. She tripped and smacked her face against her pumpkin. She started to moan and I told her that it was ok and that she'd be fine, luckily that worked, THE FIRST TIME, she then turned around, tripped again and this time her pumpkin scrapped the side of her face, which also caused her teeth to cut the inside of her mouth, which led to a giant silent scream, and in cold weather that leads to a runny nose, Elle's face was a mess of blood, dirt, tears and snot. Not a happy time.
(This is right before the first fall)
(This is right before the first fall)
(This is right after the first fall and right before the second fall)This is as we were waiting for everyone else to be done, I decided it would just be easier if we stayed on the wagon, after Elle calmed down she started petting her pumpkin, it was sweet. This didn't last long though, she totally threw a fit after this and then once people were on the stupid ride again and it started she threw another fit the entire ride back. Yikes.
Onto Eva. She was at my moms hanging out while Elle and I were on the field trip of torture. So I picked Eva up from my moms and left Elle there to play while I took pics of Eva at school. This was her first field trip, ever. She went on a big school bus, she was buddied up with a teacher, actually two teachers and went to the pumpkin patch all by herself. I had to stop myself from crying at the school bus. I took about a thousand pics of her on the bus, it was actually a school bus I use to ride back in the day, crazy huh?
Eva was adorable and especially proud of her new rain boots we got just the day before.If I haven't mentioned this before Eva goes to the Corvallis High School preschool, it's where I went to high school and it's a range of ages 3-5, the teachers are the high school students and it's a great atmosphere. The students plan the lessons and what they will be doing. Eva loves it, she has her own cubby, and loves the play kitchen area...we may have a budding chef on our hands. SO here she is getting ready to leave, p.s. there are about 40 pics of this but I'm condensing it.
She was just as excited as I was for her to be on her first bus ride. She looked so big and at the same time she looked so tiny in those seats with no seat belts. I was very proud of her and I wanted her to go alone without me. The parents had the option to go with but I asked her and she didn't want me to come, and it actually made me happy, I think this is a good amount of independence, it puts my parenting to the test.
Off they go! :(
Eva had a great time, her trip was much more of a success than poor little Ellie's. We're going again as a family tomorrow, I think Elle will have a much better time being well rested and I don't think we're going to try the hay ride again. There's so much more stuff she missed out on so I'll get plenty of pics of that, wish us luck!! ;)
Sunday, October 19, 2008
This past week has been a busy one.
First, thanks for all the birthday wishes everyone. I had a great day. I've been procrastinating posting because I haven't taken pictures of all things I want to talk about it...and I still haven't so I thought I should just keep everyone up to date regardless.
So my friends surprised me with a b-day breakfast! Scrambled eggs, sausage, OJ and french toast, but not just any french toast, in between two pieces of french toast was a thin layer of cream cheese and on top of that was caramelized pecans and sliced bananas topped with BUTTER syrup! Yeah, it was as good as it sounds. They also all pitched in and got me the cutest pair of sporty flats (like I said, pics to come) Thanks friends, it was fun and SO good and very thoughtful, I'm very grateful for my wonderful friends.
Then I went to check on my mom (for those of you who don't know she had this crazy throat surgery on Oct. 8th and it's supposed to be the most painful recovery) and she and my dad got me this amazing cocktail ring, a huge (7 carat) blue topaz with blue sapphires. I can't wait for a special occasion to wear it to!
Jeremy promised me a purse, shoes and whatever else my heart desires...I'm pretty sure he'll regret that later. ;)
What else? Jeremy was gone on a fishing trip from Thursday to Saturday evening. I missed him so much, it didn't really set in till Friday night when my friend Heather and I threw a sweet party at our community room. I just missed having him in the house all together...Elle was the most effected by his absence. Both nights around 6ish she knocked on the door and said, "Daddy?!" she didn't understand why he wasn't coming home. So sweet. She would not let him go when he did come home, she grabbed onto him and kept looking at his face to make sure it was him and then she'd hug him even tighter, she was attached to his hip last night. Very cute.
Anyway, I'm still trying to figure out going to school again, I've pretty much sucked at doing homework, so hopefully I can do better this week...we'll see. Eva's loving preschool, she has her first ever field trip (all alone no parents!) to the pumpkin patch this week, and Elle has a pumpkin patch field trip in her class too (same day).
Oh yes, we've all been having the sniffles. Mostly Elle was pretty sick the, I didn't feel well last Monday and then Jeremy was sick right before he left on his trip and Eva now has a stuffy nose...the family that shares germs together stays together.
First, thanks for all the birthday wishes everyone. I had a great day. I've been procrastinating posting because I haven't taken pictures of all things I want to talk about it...and I still haven't so I thought I should just keep everyone up to date regardless.
So my friends surprised me with a b-day breakfast! Scrambled eggs, sausage, OJ and french toast, but not just any french toast, in between two pieces of french toast was a thin layer of cream cheese and on top of that was caramelized pecans and sliced bananas topped with BUTTER syrup! Yeah, it was as good as it sounds. They also all pitched in and got me the cutest pair of sporty flats (like I said, pics to come) Thanks friends, it was fun and SO good and very thoughtful, I'm very grateful for my wonderful friends.
Then I went to check on my mom (for those of you who don't know she had this crazy throat surgery on Oct. 8th and it's supposed to be the most painful recovery) and she and my dad got me this amazing cocktail ring, a huge (7 carat) blue topaz with blue sapphires. I can't wait for a special occasion to wear it to!
Jeremy promised me a purse, shoes and whatever else my heart desires...I'm pretty sure he'll regret that later. ;)
What else? Jeremy was gone on a fishing trip from Thursday to Saturday evening. I missed him so much, it didn't really set in till Friday night when my friend Heather and I threw a sweet party at our community room. I just missed having him in the house all together...Elle was the most effected by his absence. Both nights around 6ish she knocked on the door and said, "Daddy?!" she didn't understand why he wasn't coming home. So sweet. She would not let him go when he did come home, she grabbed onto him and kept looking at his face to make sure it was him and then she'd hug him even tighter, she was attached to his hip last night. Very cute.
Anyway, I'm still trying to figure out going to school again, I've pretty much sucked at doing homework, so hopefully I can do better this week...we'll see. Eva's loving preschool, she has her first ever field trip (all alone no parents!) to the pumpkin patch this week, and Elle has a pumpkin patch field trip in her class too (same day).
Oh yes, we've all been having the sniffles. Mostly Elle was pretty sick the, I didn't feel well last Monday and then Jeremy was sick right before he left on his trip and Eva now has a stuffy nose...the family that shares germs together stays together.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Friday, October 10, 2008
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Round One
Jackson and Eva found Jeremy's boxing gloves, they were punching each other with one glove on each and no headgear until Jeremy got home and told me he had two sets of gloves and headgear. So we went the safer route and I taped it. It was hilarious...as you will see. Enjoy round one and two.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
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