Weekend

brrrr... it was cold this weekend!

we lit a fire Saturday and that was nice, our house is pretty poorly insulated so it is REALLY hot in the summer and REALLY cold in the winter. we had insulation blown in the attics last year but our walls still need it, John has the week off so he is working on my boys room because it is the coldest room in the house (there room was added on by the people who lived here before us and they did not do a great job)

the family enjoying the warm fire

Jake helping work on the room

and Ms.Lilly, she is 2 months today but i am waiting until after her doctors appointment Tuesday to do a post on her =)

anyway about the weekend..

Friday night i hosted a moms night out for our MOPS group here, we had a coupon class that was presented by Save at home mommy and i think the ladies are excited to start saving there families some money!!! We had a record number of ladies come! i think i had like 32 women in my living room that night! the class was over a little after 8 and about 14 women were here late into the evening i think the last left at 12:15, it was so fun...

Saturday Johnnie worked on the boys room and i just lounged around all day. i never got out of pj's... i did clean a little. John camped put in the Jake's room with all the boys since his room is connected to the room he is working on and is blocked off he didn't want them messing with the plywood blocking the wall.

Sunday (today) i slept in! then hung out until i took Liz to a birthday party for her friend Rachel, she had a fun time. While she was there i ran to Beverly's craft store and browsed around with Lilly, i bought a few things to put on our tree this year. i cant wait to decorate. pics will follow once i do it.. Johnathan is staying at grandmas for 2 days he left today, he was so excited he loves going there and staying with her and since there is no school this week he is ecstatic.

this week i will be getting ready to host Thanksgiving, and doing some stuff with the kids. i will post all about that stuff too

Boys room part 1

this was my boys room before this weekend. There room was very poorly insulated (like there is NONE!!) so John decided that since he was taking vacation for thanksgiving week he would work on this room. i hate the 3 windows, they are old, don't come clean, and are way too high! We decided to replace the 2 windows with bigger windows so the boys can see through them.

here is a pic once they got the Windows out.. aka the point of no return, now he has to finish the job no deciding he will do it later

this is the wall from the outside after the holes are cut to fit the new bigger windows (see David poking his head out)

here is one of the windows up. John has those 2 done and the 3rd John filled in so there will be no window in there.

Part 2 coming tomorrow i hope

Table Re-Do

i bought this table on craigslist for a great deal before we moved here

it has seen better days and was looking pretty shabby. so i wiped it down really good, fixed some loose legs and took it outside to get started.

i primer-ed it with primer spray paint

then i took a free can of red paint i got and started painting BUT it was not looking red it was looking hot pink

so i took a can of trusty black spray paint and got to work

  here is the final result, in my living room with my new couch and rug. this isn't the greatest picture it was getting dark so the lighting was odd.... anyway i love it!!!

Thanksgiving plans

I am so excited the holidays are here. this week is Thanksgiving and we are hosting it at our home, i love love love having people over for the holidays (and anytime) so this is right up my alley. i think including kids we are going to have about 30 people, so no setting a pretty table with china (not that i have china HA!) but will still be fun no doubt

This week Johnnie is on vacation so he is redoing my boys room ripping down walls, replacing the windows, insulating the walls, etc... i cant wait to show you all the pics of the after's, he got me bigger windows because the ones in there were so high the kids couldn't see out of them. now they will be able to and that is going to be cool.

My kids are also off school this week. i am hoping to bake cookies with them on Monday. Liz and Lilly and i are going on a date on Tuesday. and then cooking and cleaning on Wednesday.

For the meal on thanksgiving we are doing the turkey, ham, and i am making the yummiest sweet potatoes and everyone else is bringing everything else. oh and i will probably do some appetizer type things and a dessert too.

What are you doing for thanksgiving? what is your favorite part of the meal?

my favorites are sweet potatoes, ham and turkey and cranberry sauce...

Target Deals

today i scored some great deals at target, all of this cost me $62 and change

i rarely buy shredded cheese but the price was so good on these that i gave in. we go through a lot of cheese here!

i bought a coffee pot so i was so excited to get flavored creamers.

those guess who games are on sale for $20 and i had 2 $5 coupons for each one making the price $10!

those Mr.Potato head Santa were the best price at $1.99 after the dollar coupon, the boys will love these in there stockings!

 

find any good deals lately?

Weekend Update

We had a good weekend. our weekends are usually really low key. we are not usually to on the go John is tired we like to get things done around here and we get funny looks when we pile out of the car with our funny family =)

Friday we stayed home (no surprise lol). i cant even remember what we did or watched on TV it was that exciting..

Saturday John got up and got his oil changed in his car then he came and picked us all up and we headed to costco. Jake woke up hacking a lung so i took him to the store so he could cough all over the carts (JK he didn't cough while we were there...much) we had a lunch of samples there was a ton of yummy samples.

after costco we went to the furniture store and picked up my couch that was finally in! i have not had furniture in this room and we have lived here over a year and a half! here is a picture of the empty room

and here is my new couch

it is black (duh you can see that lol) and it is a little more modern than i normally would purchase but i LOVE it! and it is SOOOOO comfortable. i got a rug for this area which i can pick up Wednesday or Thursday and 2 chairs (that are animal print i cant wait!!) but the chairs wont be here until the first week in December. i am re-painting my coffee table and putting it in here too. i cant wait to show you the final product!

 

Saturday night we went to visit our good friends Josh and Liz and there kids (we took Jake to my moms so he wouldn't cough on there kids) Liz had her twins boys 3 days before i had Lilly and we still have not got together because sickness has been crazy around here. we almost thought we weren't going to get to hang out this weekend but i was so thankful for my mom!!! we got to have dinner and visit which i have missed so much! oh and i finally got to hold the babies oh my gosh they are SO sweet, Lilly wasn't quite sure how to take it all in

i took the picture Liz got to wrangle the kiddos lol, doesn't she look FAB for just having had 2 babies! Ian is the one in her arms and Zachary is sitting right by Lilly (i think HAHA!!!!)

this one cracks me up trying to get 3 babies to pose, and Lilly looking like what is going on

anyhow it was a GREAT night! and Liz and i are going to try to keep our kids healthy so that we can get together with the kids during the week...

 

Sunday (Sorry long post) John took the two older kids to church and i stayed home with the 3 little ones because Johnathan woke up sick.. lovely. i was home all morning then went to my friend Dani's shower i got to help plan it and it was a lot of fun. only 2 weeks until we know what she is having on her baby's birthday! (i am guessing a girl btw)

so that's it in a nutshell

Today

i started Christmas shopping! I LOVE Christmas time everything about it, but i don't like to be rushing around on the week before Christmas looking for something that i cant find anywhere... SO i am going to do a little shopping every week until i am done.

We are cutting back this year on the kids (my hubby is laughing because i say that every year) but we REALLY are this year. Today i got Johnathan one thing he wanted so just a few more things for him and one kid is done yay!

What about you? are you ready for the holidays? started shopping yet?

Train them young

every time we go to the school office Jake finds the broom and he loves to sweep the area. So the other day when we went to Lowe's i saw one and got it for him. as you can tell he couldn't be happier

he has been using it ALL weekend!

a fall day

I love fall it is beautiful and somewhat calm before the winter holiday's. one day last week i went to the cemetery to visit Matthew's grave.

when Matthew passed away John and I went to the cemetery to find a place to bury him (something a parent should never have to do) we immediately loved this location by the pond (which is really low at the moment) i liked it because it was right by a palm tree and off on its own space

see all alone no one trampling it

the 23rd of October marked the 6 year anniversary of Matthew's death and it was still pretty hard for me.

here is his headstone that we picked out. i Love that it has his picture on it. puts a face to the grave which is something i always wonder when i look at the other headstones....

it is a beautiful view from the cemetery and to many people they are so sad but i love the quiet calm of a cemetery especially on a cool fall day....

This could be a problem

just some of Lilly's bows. i need help....

Target Trip

this little lady, Jake and I made our favorite trip to target on Tuesday. Lilly was still in her jammies and she rode in the baby Bjorn which is her favorite way to ride.

We got some GREAT deals buy combining manufacture and store coupons.

I am really trying to get back into coupon shopping and saving my family some money because we all need to cut corners right?

I got all this loot for so cheap:

12 boxes of Kellogg's cereal

4 bottles of ocean spray cranberry juice

2 boxes of granola bars

and 2 jars of Skippy peanut butter

grand total

$12.85

HOLLA!!!

What my life looks like

Last weekend after church we went to breakfast/ lunch (i don't like to say brunch it sounds so not us) anyway i had recently asked John what he thought people thought of us we walked up with our 5 kids.

Jake was having a GREAT time singing VERY loudly at the top of his lungs

he didn't care who heard him or what people thought. singing carelessly and just having a fun time.

that meal included a dropped glass of water, my boys talking VERY loudly about what they wanted for Christmas etc. at one point during the singing John and i looked at one another and just laughed. our lives are so different than what i ever thought it would be but it is the best thing i can imagine... and who cares who is looking and watching

well i am sure she may care in a year or two! i sure hope not

Halloween Weekend

the kids were so excited about Halloween i mean what is not to love dressing up, and getting candy is COOL! Friday night we went to a carnival at the school it was a lot of fun and the kids got a ton of candy... so much we didn't have to buy any to hand out on Halloween night...

Lilly bean was so cute of course in her bows that Tara and a new lady i found who makes them since my friend Tara isn't going to be making them anymore waaaa...........

Jake was the CUTEST dinosaur i have ever seen, he would growl and it was so funny

David was frankin-vampire and Johnathan LOVED this spider man costume. so hopefully all the candy is gone in a few days so that it is not tempting me anymore

Finally

So i am finally starting to work on some project i have been wanting to get to. between these projects, the holidays, and my kids i should be covered with blogging material for the rest of the year.....

this post is all over the chart so just ignore my jumping around

Two years ago we bought our boys new beds, well we offered Liz a new bed if she wanted but she would have to go from a full size bed to a twin. Well of course she wanted a new one. That new bed was great she loved it, but since we moved and her room is bigger she hasn't been wanting her big bed back. Luckily we saved it and so i pulled it out of our pile of stuff we saved.
Obviously it needed a face lift because this color was not going to work.





So i bought some spray paint at Lowe's that would somewhat match her desk and did the first 2 coats and then i realized it was glossy not satin...

Our pool has turned green. GROSS! good thing we weren't swimming anytime soon

Looks like we are ready for Halloween with our swamp.

I went back to the store and got some more spray paint this time in a satin finish and got to work

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After a few days of hard work for the pool guy the pool looked looked like this:

here is Ms. Lilly today she was awake for a few hours finally.
and here is Jake being silly. Poor boy i have got to take him for a haircut soon!

I will show a picture of the room makeover in about a week. I ordered a new bedding set and it should be here Monday or Tuesday then we can do the fun work!