Under Contract

We've made it back home, yay! We had a very nice visit with family and friends in Plattsburgh, NY. We even had an early Thanksgiving dinner. Lucky me!

No pictures with this post. I don't know when I'm going to have time to deal with pictures again. Our house is under a contract! We finally came to an agreement with the potential buyers that we both could live with. So now we need to find another home...soon! I'm so excited!!!

Checking In

I don't think I've ever gone this long without blogging! Oh, I've been so so so busy. First it was getting ready for our "vacation" (visiting with family for 12 whole days!), then being on vacation (which I'm still on. We leave Mon.). Every spare minute of computer time that I've had, I've spent working on my digital scrapbook pages. I'm relieved to say that I'm almost done with that.

Some good news...Someone put a bid on our house!!! When Kenny told me, I got tears in my eyes I was so excited. They asked for less than what we wanted so we gave a counter offer. Now we're waiting to see if they're going to accept it.

Here are some pics I took this afternoon with my cell phone. We had lunch at a play place McDonald's. As we were leaving, we took a quick walk on the beach that's right next to the McD's. The weather has been very mild here for this time of year, but even so, the wind was very chilly so we didn't stay long.

Have a great weekend!

Kaleb's Turn

I had a lazy day. I spent most of it with either Gracie or Kaleb laying on me sick with fevers. Gracie's wasn't too bad, I think she was mostly jealous of the attention Kaleb was getting, so whenever Kaleb wasn't in my arms, she was.

But my poor Kaleb, he just wasn't himself today. He spent most of the day napping or just laying in my arms watching his sisters play. His little body was so hot and just before bed his sinuses got all stuffed up. I rubbed some stuff on his chest to help him breath easier and gave him some Tylenol to keep his fever down.

I just know I'm going to come down with this plague after today. How could I not with sick babies hanging all over me all day long? I'm probably overdosing on herbs and vitamins in the vain attempt at not getting sick. Maybe it won't be so bad though when I do catch it...Here's to wishful thinking!

I made this super yummy whole wheat bread yesterday, and it turned out so pretty I had to take a picture of it! Oh, how I LOVE the smell of baking bread. And then cutting into it fresh out of the oven and watching the butter melt into all those steaming little cracks. Then there's that first bite of pure wholesomeness, yum!


This picture could have been taken today he was so sleepy, but it wasn't. I took it about a week ago. He had missed his morning nap and fell asleep eating his lunch.

I can hear Kathryn's laughter just by looking at this picture. I love how Gracie's peeking around her arm. I'm not even sure what they were doing, but whatever it was, it was funny!

I cherish these fleeting moments of watching my girls do things together like this. Their sweetness takes my breath away.

Kathryn has fallen in love with books and she's shared that love with Gracie by reading to her everyday. Now Gracie can't wait to learn how to read just like her big sister.

Another Scrapbook Page

Kathryn's feeling much better today. I wish I had her immune system. If I get a temperature just one degree too high, I'm on the couch for the whole day!

I got to go shopping on my own this morning. While driving to the store, I snapped this picture with my phone. The person behind me must have thought I was crazy. And they would have been right!

Do you see what I see?

A heart in the clouds! I promise I didn't photoshop this picture, except to get rid of a few little reflections from the windshield.

Amy, over at Daily Pleasures, got me hooked on spotting hearts in nature. It's a wonderful reminder of God's love when you least expect it.

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I've been in a creative streak lately. It's a good thing too, since my dead line for getting these pages done is less than a month away!

Kathryn's Sick

Kathryn started with a fever yesterday morning and it continued all through today. It got up to 101.9 at one point. We tried to give her medicine to bring it down, but she threw it up. Even as an infant, she's NEVER been able to keep medicine down. Oh, we've tried all the tricks through out the years. We've told her its candy, we've gotten the kind disguised as a popsicle, I've tried to hide it in her food, and every time it comes right back up. Anyone know anybody else like that or is she just...unique?

Thankfully, the fever didn't seem to bother her too much. She started to look really wilted by bed time tonight though. I hope she'll be better in the morning. She's always bounced back from illnesses so fast.

Now comes the waiting and watching period to see who else will come down with this plague!
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What I worked on tonight!

Can you believe that it's Nov already?!

Fall Pics

I finally got around to editing the rest of our leaf pile pics from Mon. We've had such a busy week. I was glad to stay home all day today. We had our missions conference Sun-Wed. That meant late nights for the kids, much later than they're used to.
I'm looking forward to getting back into our normal routine.

Even though this picture was taken only a few days ago, most of the leaves have already fallen off of it. Now I get to stare at dead looking twigs for the next 6 months or so.

This is Kaleb's scared face. He's so afraid of loud noises. The recycling truck had just pulled up in front of our house and it freaked him out. Poor baby! I hope he grows out of that.

Weeee!

Tomorrow is going to be another busy day for us. As long as we all wake up healthy that is. It seems like everyone around us is terribly sick with colds. I'm just waiting for our turn. Last night Gracie woke up in the middle of the night crying. I just knew she was sick, but thankfully she had just lost her pillow.

The kids and I are going to a friends house in the morning, then Kenny's taking me out to a very fancy restaurant for dinner. He won't tell me where, it's supposed to be a surprise. He got a gift card from work to this place or else we wouldn't be going. Very fancy stuff just isn't our style.

Oh, I hope we are all still healthy in the morning! I'm really looking forward to tomorrow.

Have a good weekend everyone!

Fall Fun

The girls have been begging for a huge leaf pile to play in, so finally today they got their wish.

Kenny playing ball with his son. Aw!

Not sure what's going thru either of their minds at this moment, but it looks important.

Click on the pic to see it bigger.

I've got some cute pics of the girls jumping into their leaf pile, but I got distracted by my latest creation and haven't gotten to editing them yet.