I bet they know something we don't!

I love kids. Look at these boys. I love how they study this snowglobe. This globe really is fascinating. It has little flecks of glitter and black bats that whirl around in the liquid. It made Ridge so happy he couldn't contain himself and had to jump on the couch...at least that's what I'm telling myself! Maybe I should try it next time I'm really happy. I bet they know something we don't!

Handmade Halloween...

Just a few cheap Halloween ideas. (Sorry if you're sick of the salt dough projects.) We decorated with some of our ghosts we made from the last two years. I was curious how they would last in storage and so far so good. They still look great. Last year, we made these cute candy corn pieces. I was going to make a wire garland with them, but never got around to it. But they look cute on our leaf garland.

Those cute wood blocks above the mirror were made by my talented friend Diana. My kids love to change the words, but Carly usually wins out because she's the tallest. Thanks Diana!

Bought the frame at a garage sale last week for $1! Added our own chalkboard.

Some vintage Halloween postcards we printed out and clipped to this wreath. Simple, cute and cheap!

Tomorrow is the kids Fall Harvest Festival at school. They are excited for it. I am too. I love this time of year! Hope you're enjoying it. ~Lisa

Autumn is here!

The weather has cooled down and we couldn't resist a walk tonight. It was so beautiful! I love sweater weather!

I love my little goofballs too!

Life is beautiful...so much to be thankful for!

Camping

This weekend we had a fun adventure going camping with some of our friends. The kids had so much fun together. It was awesome watching the little boys play. I think it was a never ending sword fight!

Sean had a slight misadventure when the suburban caught fire while trying to find firewood! Scarry! It melted some wires, but he was able to fix it. Man, I'm so grateful for a handy husband! (And I'm also thankful to Jason for bringing the brickettes so we could cook dinner...minus the firewood!)

The kids saw HUGE tarantula spiders! They were walking across the road and we stopped to study one. They are so beautiful and graceful...once you get past the arachnaphobia! Scott actually caught one and brought it back to camp in a plastic container so we could look at it up close. I have to admit, I got spooked by it a couple of times! It was on the picnic table and I would forget it was there and my hand would brush by it making the spider move and it would make my heart skip a beat!

The weather wasn't as cool as we thought it was going to be, but it was so WINDY! It made it interesting sleeping in the tents!

Saturday we were able to go fishing for a little while, but Carly wasn't feeling well and the fish weren't biting, so we called it a day. But what a beautiful day it was!

Thanks for the fun camping trip P's and R's. It was fun getting to know you guys better and we look forward to doing it again sometime...Hopefully you do too! :)

I like this last picture of Scott and Emilie. It fits them! Laid back, taking in the moment and enjoying life!

Hope you all had a great weekend too!

Haunted Houses

This is our new favorite project. We made these haunted houses from CapriSun and Ritz Cracker boxes. Notice the little mailboxes Carly added in front of each house!

The pumpkins and ghosts are made from salt dough. The tree is just some branches in a candle holder topped with moss and bats. The letter and sillhouettes are from http://www.designfreebies.blogspot.com/. We had a lot of fun with this one! (And best of all...it was free, made from what we had!)

My kids were on Fall break this week, so we celebrated with a few days at Grandma and Grandpa's house with some of the cousins. We had a little fall celebration and made some haunted houses and jumped on the trampoline, played in the rocks and played soccer. We had a blast. Here are the kids with their own creations!

Elves in October...

Ty had some PJ's that were ripped at the knee so I cut them off. I was going to throw the scraps in the garbage when Ty got this great idea..."Let's wear them as hats! We can be elves!" So he and Ridge wore them all morning and Ty wore his throughout the week. He thought it was really cool.

This last picture is funny. I was done taking their picture and they posed like this and asked me to take one more. For some reason, Ridge is talking on the phone (a clothes tag) and Ty is concentrating really hard on something else. Hmmm... ;)

Scratched DVD Cure.

Hey,
I found a great tip today to save scratched DVD's. Use children's Crest toothpaste. Check out this tutorial here:
http://thehandmadedress.blogspot.com/2008/09/do-you-suffer-from-scrached-dvds_27.html

It's worth a try. I'll let you know if it works for me!
Have a great day.
Lisa

I'd love to be in his head...

Last night I was making Sean's lunch and Ty was helping me.

This was our conversation:

Ty: Mom, is this turkey (made of) chicken or ham?

Me: It's just turkey.

Ty: Did dad shoot this turkey and take the turkey out if it?

(I've had the first part of this conversation with Carly and Ridge before, the second part took me a little by surprise and I couldn't help giggle.)

We got dizzy and laughed...

Do you remember being little?

If you were lucky enough to have a childhood like mine, it was awesome.

I got to be a kid.

I have great parents who were involved in my life and made it wonderful.

I have the best brothers and sisters and we actually love each other.

We weren't/aren't perfect...But we love each other.

I think my childhood was so wonderful because I felt loved.

It's easy to get lost when you're one of seven kids.
But I wasn't lost.
My dad came home tired from work and played basketball in the driveway with me.
I got to go to work with him.
We would sing songs in the truck and stop and get a soda and I got to help him on the job.
I know I wasn't that much help.
My mom taught me to sew scrunchees and let me play volleyball in our entryway! (Yep, inside the house! I set that ball off the walls so much I don't know how they didn't fall down.)

My dad could do flips on the trampoline.
My mom wet her pants while jumping (Sorry mom!)

But she jumped! She jumps with my kids now...once in a while!
Today I went out and jumped with my kids. Twice.
It was fun.
I flipped.I flipped them.
They thought it was cool!

Ty said he loves me.
He always tells me he loves me...but jumping with him sure did help!
He couldn't keep it in.
I did ten cartwheels in a row at Ridge's request.
He did five.

We got dizzy and laughed.

I taught the boys some tricks on the trampoline.

They couldn't get enough.

We had so much fun.

What a great day!

Curtain call...for Keri

I needed curtains for my playroom and decided that I wanted to make some that were loose and fun. Wasn't real sure what I was doing, but I experimeted and this is what I came up with. They're linen, which I love, and they don't actually close but I like them!