It's FALL!!

It has turned SO cold here!  This afternoon Brock had a soccer game and it was 45 degrees during the game!  Ava and I were FREEZING!  Luckily I had some jackets and blankets in my trunk because we were SO cold during the game. When we got home I made us a big dinner because we were all so hungry and tired. I made baked ham, mashed potatos, corn, and mac and cheese (lots of comfort food-ha!)

After dinner I got some of our hats and gloves out of storage.  I can't believe I am already getting that stuff out again, I feel like I just put it away.  I also got our doggie coats for Daisy, Cotton and Ellie.  Here is a picture of Daisy in her coat from last year.  They all love going on walks in our neighborhood but it is SO cold in the fall and winter that they have to wear coats when we go.  I LOVE this picture of Daisy

Tonight after Brock and Ava did their homework Ava and I made Apple Crisp.  She loves cutting up the apples.  We love making (and eating!) this in the fall.

Here is my Apple Crisp recipe, it is SO easy to make and it's really good!

4 cups cored and sliced apples (about 6 medium)

3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup flour

1/2 cup quick oats
3/4 tsp. cinnamon
6 tbl. butter

Place apples in a pie plate. Blend remaining ingredients until crumbly. Sprinkle over apples. Bake @ 350 degrees for 30-35 minutes until apples are browned and tender.

Now I am catching up on the shows that I missed last night, Biggest Loser and The Good Wife (love both of these!) and  I am looking for North Face fleeces online, I want to order one before it gets too cold here!

Happy Wednesday!!

garage sale finds!

Saturday morning Ava and I went to a few yard sales around town.   I got some pretty good things that I am excited about, my absolute favorite thing I got this weekend was this milk glass dish.  The lady that I bought it from was so sweet!  She said that she had it in her home for many, many years.  I am not sure what I want to do with it yet so right now I put a candle in it.

 

From the same sweet lady I bought this milk glass lamp for $1!  I LOVE it!!  We are going to put this in Ava's room, I think it will look so sweet in there!

I also got this white vase which I really like too, I think I will put some fall flowers in it. 

I also got this dish, I love the color and the size of it.  I put it on top of our fridge to hold our hot chocolate.

After the yard sales we went to Brock's little league game, I started feeling sick and left the game early.  I ended up being sick the rest of Saturday, all day Sunday and yesterday!  I had a bad cold and felt really awful.  I just laid on the couch and rested.  I did get caught up on all my DVR'd shows including Mad Men.  I have been wanting to watch that show and it was really good!   

Mother of the year

Just in case you thought you might win this award this year, you need to wait until next year, I'm the big winner this year-ha ha! 

Let's start with yesterday.  I left work early to get my haircut which I LOVE!  My hair stylist finally cut my hair exactly how I wanted it.    Anyway, I could have picked Ava up right after school but she wanted to go to the after school program because they were doing t-shirt tye dyeing.  I told her I would pick her up at 4:45 so she could be on time for her jazz dance class which starts at 5. 

So I go home take a shower and wash my hair. Since I got a new style I was playing around with it trying to get it to look right.  Why does it NEVER as good as it looks in the salon??    The next thing I know it's almost 5pm!  I yell and Brock and his friend Brandon to get in the car because we have to get Ava from school and get her to dance.  I get in the car and don't look to see if Brock has his door shut in the back seat.  He doesn't and his car door slammed into the center pole in our garage!  I am SO glad he wasn't hurt but  my back passenger door won't shut all the way now!  So I used Graig's truck to pick up Ava and she was 15 minutes late for her dance class.

While I was fixing my hair Graig came home from work EARLY, he never, ever comes home from work early.  He looked awful and had a temp.  He fell asleep on the couch and slept the whole night!!  We were suppose to go out to dinner with our friends and then go to the high school football game.  Since Graig was sick,  Brock, Ava, and I went we had a good time but we missed Graig :(  Brock kept telling people at the football game that his Dad had the swine flu, I had to tell him to STOP saying that because it wasn't true and  no one would want to sit around us or talk to us at the game!

This morning I went to a few yard sales and I got some cute things that I will show on my blog later!  I took Ava to cheerleading class and ballet and a playdate with her friend Jake.  Ava and Jake have been friends since they were born,  they were in daycare and pre-school together.  I work with Jake's mom and they were born 3 weeks apart.  They go to different elementary schools so they don't see each other that often.  Ava was so excited to get to spend some time with Jake this afternoon, until she got home.  She looked at a birthday invitiation that she got from her friend Mary.  I thought all along the party was tomorrow afternoon but was THIS afternoon, Ava missed the party!  She was so upset, she started crying and crying.  She REALLY wanted to be at Mary's party.  I called Mary's mom and aplogized and we plan to get the girls together to next week. 

Brock had a double header this afternoon in baseball, during the first game I started getting so sick.  I knew that I had to get home fast so I left before his second game started.  I took a long nap this afternoon and got caught up on my DVR'd shows.  I still feel awful and I think I will stay home all day tomorrow to try to get better. 

Brock and Ava start Sunday school tomorrow and thankfully my friend Chris has volunteered to take Ava to Sunday school so Graig and I can rest up and get better!

I hope everyone is having a better weekend we are having!

Sick Day and Open House

Today Brock woke up and he was sick with a sinus infection.  He gets them about two or three times a year.   Poor thing after we got home from the doctor's office he went up to his room and slept ALL day!  He didn't wake up until after 6pm. 

Tonight I went to Brock's school's open house.   I got to walk through his day, I went to all of his classes and met all of his teachers.  I was nervous because I didn't know what to expect and I even got lost once but it was nice meeting all of his teachers.  They all seem really organized and dedicated. I think he is going to have a good year.   Brock needs to stay on top of all of his work and assignments.  Graig and I are working with him a little bit each night.  

While I was home today I put out this halloween bowl that I got this past weekend.  I got candy that I don't like so I won't be tempted to eat it!  I think it's really cute, I love the polka dots.     

Sunday, Sunday

Today, Brock, Ava, Grandma Jan and I went to the Fly Creek Cider Mill for a day of fall fun!  It was really HOT and it seemed like EVERYONE in our area thought the Cider Mill would be a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon so it was really crowded!  I am so glad we went I love going there at least once during the fall. 

Ava loves getting her picture taken in these cutout things no matter where we go.  Can you tell from the picture that she's hot and tired?

This weekend they were having their annual apple festival so they had all of these carnival games that Ava loved playing. 

Look at Brock in the background, doesn't he look THRILLED to be watching his sister playing the games?  Ha Ha!

We ate lunch there and Brock and Ava got these hats in their kids meals. 

Ava and Grandma Jan at lunch. 

Do you like the new background?  I was getting tired of my old one so I thought I would try something new.  We have a busy week this week!  At work I am coordinating our national hazing prevention week, and we have Open House at Brock's school.  Graig gets home on Tuesday (thank goodness!) and on Friday I am getting my hair cut and we are going to the high school football game. It should be a fun week!

Friday, Friday!!

Our family is finally getting back into the swing of having Brock and Ava back in school.  I feel much better and more organized than I did last week at this time.  Which is good because Graig started travel for his job yesterday.  He works for our College admissions office and mid September-the end of October he travels a lot.  He goes for a few days, then comes home for a few days and then he is gone again. 

 Yesterday at work we had a little birthday party for 2 of my interns.  They had birthdays recently and we had to celebrate!!  I am SO lucky this semester to have WONDERFUL interns, they work SO hard! I am so glad we were able to celebrate a little yesterday!  And YES their office is ALWAYS that messy-ha ha! 

Today is Brock's first middle school soccer game!!  He is going to play goalie.  We molded his mouthpiece last night-yuck!  I wish Graig was home to do that.  His uniform is so cute!  He wouldn't let me take a picture of him in it this morning before he left for school.  So here is a picture of him playing basketball last winter.  I looked through all my pictures and I don't have any recent ones of him playing soccer.  I really need to take some pictures of him this season :)

Ava's cheerleading class starts tomorrow at the YMCA!  She LOVES doing cheerleading especially the stunts!  Her class starts at 9am so we will have to be up early.  Here is a picture of her from a cheer clinic she went to in the spring. 

I have still been decorating our house a little bit for the fall.  I love this candle holder with the candy corn.  We CANNOT have candy corn in our house because I LOVE it and could eat the whole bag!

I have been very busy the last few weeks working on a blog for our town.  We give awards for various properties, landcaping, businesseses, etc.  They are called Property of Merit awards.  I am on the nominating committee and I volunteered to put the pictures on-line.  We have never put the pictures online before but I think it will make it so much easier for people who want see all the properties before they fill out the ballot that is in the newspaper. 

Here is a link if you want to see all the properties

http://www.fofpropertiesofmerit.blogspot.com/

Have a great weekend!!

DIY Day!

I am joining Kimba's DIY Day party!! I cannot wait to go through all of the DIY projects tonight when I get home from work!! It is so fun to see what other people do, I get SO many ideas from going through all the projects. 



I got this cabinet for $30 and it has been sitting in our garage forever! I finally painted it last weekend. I used Caromal Coulors after Kimba about it a few weeks ago. It was SO easy to use, I have used this paint on so many projects around our house. To make it more distressed I let Brock use the hammer and bang on the top and scratch it up a little bit, he is not usually a fan of my craft projects but he LOVED banging the hammer and scratching the top of this cabinet!  I love the character that he added :)

I still need to get new knobs for it and I LOVE the way it turned out, it was a fun project to work on and I painted so many other things with this same paint.  I will show those projects in the upcoming weeks.

I just want to give a shout out to one of my best friends from high school, Janna!!  We found each other on facebook and she just started her own blog, she loves to decorate and turn trash into treasure!  I wish we lived closer to each other we would have SO MUCH fun doing crafts and decorating together :)