entry #153

today i am thankful for....

1. my husband sleeping on the couch so we both
could get a good nights sleep. and for him trying to
put liam back to sleep after he woke up screaming.

2. my midwife coming to my house yesterday for
my check-up.

3. the beautiful weather we're having. now i just
need to find the energy to take the kids out to play.

4. my morning snuggles with my son while he eats
his marshmallow cereal and watches tv

5. my kids peacefully playing 'beach' together
at the moment. i hope i don't jinx myself.

entry #151 - #152

1. getting all of our to-do list done before baby arrives.
the list will grow again once i've recovered. we still
have to go out and get a few things from the store but
that's the fun stuff!

2. my husband getting the front hedges trimmed. he did
a lovely job.

3. all of the wonderful family and friends we have that
showed up to celebrate our son's birthday. it was
heartwarming. plus i'm pretty sentimental these
days.

4. my mom and little sister coming and cleaning our whole
house while i baked all the goodies for the party. it was
so wonderful to not worry about doing it all.

5. food. i really like food right now.

6. the fact that november is upon us and
we're 24 days away from one of my favorite
holidays and 52 days till christmas!

7. the sun shining through our windows this morning.
it makes it so much easier to wake up.

8. our heating bills staying low so far with all the
times we had to turn it on this past month

9. having our first trick-or-treaters as married people.
silly i know. but i just feel so adult now.

10. christmas commercials and movies

our 'wild' halloween...

this year we celebrated our son's 2nd birthday on halloween.
it worked out wonderfully since we never do much on
halloween anyways. as most of our family and friends
cause we had a full house!
we took our kids trick-or-treating
before things got underway. they had lots of fun. liam
didn't quite understand and wanted to give people candy at
their doors.

the theme was 'where the wild things are'.
i posted earlier about his costume. it turned out perfectly!

liam didn't understand the gift opening thing and
had his sissy help him. it was cute. he keeps asking us
if all these new toys are his. it's keeping him very occupied
so thank you everyone!

here are my pictures from the evening!

the invite my hubby created and we printed off ourselves

our wild thing

our belle

all the goodies i made

these cupcakes were time consuming
so there were only 7 of ea. with actual faces.
hubby stepped in and made the pictures for the
toothpick sticks.


i made the banner just out of paper and yarn



and that is all i snapped. we did get more on video
once the party started and i'm sure my mom got
some great pictures. i'll have to get them from her
and post them here.



i should mention that i got the idea for the party theme from
party perfect and the cupcake idea from craft magazine blog.

entry #149 - #150

today i am looking for the joy in my life after
a difficult week physically

1. when my son wakes up and just sits in his crib talking and
playing (this is a huge difference from his yelling for us)

2. the quiet moment that the 4 (5) of us shared after
nap time yesterday. kid's were still sleeping when my
hubby got home so we woke them up together. it was such
a moment that brought tears to my eyes. my anxieties
of the day of soon being a mother of 3 melted away

3. getting a huge portion of my to-do list done. feels good to
mark things off!

4. heat. hot bathes, heating pad, rice sock....

5. snuggling with my hubby and staying up and talking

6. getting a long walk in with my hubby this week thanks to
my grandma hanging out at the house

7. my husband's awesome job that allowed him to work
from home while i was having signs of early labor
earlier this week.

8. all the new words my son is saying daily and his
funny personality

9. crafting with my daughter

10. how quickly olivia has adopted my cleaning routine.
(quicker and better then her father) it's really quite
impressive for a child that use to hate cleaning up
anything. i'm so proud! and she's cleaned up the
living room before she goes to bed without me asking
a couple of times now. she's making having 3 children
soon, not so scary

entry #148

today i am grateful for....

1. my husband tackling bath time and bedtime so i
could run some errands last night

2. getting a lot more of my to-do's done

3. list making. helps me stay organized and less crazy

4. today being friday and that much closer to the weekend

5. my daughter cleaning up the living room two nights in
a row for no reason. she has the sweetest spirit. and both
nights she wasn't feeling well. i just wanna scoop her up
and never let her go.

entry #147

today I am reminded of the blessings in my life
through the little things...

1. snuggling in-between my kids on the couch right now
while they watch cartoons

2. how they both pick all the marshmallows out of their
lucky charms cereal and then sometimes eat the actual
cereal part.

3. liam grabbing my belly spontaneously and saying
'baby girl'... melts my heart.

4. getting out of having to super clean my whole house today
because my daughter has a fever and i get to just snuggle and
take care of her.

5. taking a walk last night and the kids stopping
to jump in piles of leaves.

the wonders of felt...

you have to check out this project a
fantastic mom made for her son's 1st birthday