Wheat and Wildflowers

Hey everyone! My sis has just started a new handstamped jewerly company and her stuff is awesome! Check her out by clicking on the picture.....she has a giveaway going on right now on her blog, so hurry and enter by clicking on the blog link on her website!

Trick or Treat

LILO AND STITCH

HALLOWEEN CARNIVAL AT THE CHURCH

Great To Be Eight

Checklist for birthday girl........

PRESENTS

HANNAH MONTANA CUPCAKES TO SHARE AT SCHOOL

DINNER AT CHILIS

.....AND CHOCOLATE BIRTHDAY CAKE FOR ALL TO SHARE! YUM!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ASHLYN!

I'm Batman

Thanks Ton for the mask and cape....Ethan loves them! Every time he puts them on he chases everyone and growls at them pretending to be the "bad guy". He is not quite old enough yet to understand the whole "hero-villain" concept. Anyone who wears a cape and mask is a bad guy to him. But how could this face really be the bad guy, right? :)

Glamour Shot

Chad has to submit a picture and a short bio to Sears in the next couple of days. They are making a flyer to advertise for the stores he works at. He wanted me to try to make his face less red in the picture. So, after a little photoshop :), here is Chad's "glamour shot". After Chad went to bed, I air-brushed his skin, whitened his teeth, fixed the chip in his tooth, removed shadows, brightened his eyes, and removed fine lines. :) He got more than he bargained for when he asked me to modify his picture. I thought I could add some long dark eyelashes, but I had to draw the line somewhere, right? Wouldn't this be nice if we could do this in real life, airbrush our skin in the morning before we go out and shave a few pounds off our face in a couple of minutes? :)

BEFORE

AFTER

Labor Day Fun

Today we started out with a trip to Gardner Village....always a fun trip. Ethan has been asking to ride a "yorshie" (horse) everyday when he sees the horses on the way to pick up Ashlyn from school. So we decided we would take them to go for a pony ride at Gardner Village. Ethan was so excited about it on the ride there and kept talking about how he was going to ride the "yorshie". We got there, he saw the ponies, and he started to cry when Chad just even took him through the gate to get to the ponies. That shouldn't surprise me, but for as excited as he was I really thought he would ride them! Silly boy.....

Ethan was happy just watching as a spectator with his sugar stick....

They had Lucinda the Witch out advertising for their upcoming "Witch Events" that they do every year in the village....the kids thought she was pretty funny.

The kids always love to feed the ducks and the fish when we are there....

Ethan was cheering for himself when he threw the bread in the water :)

This is Ethan's serious pose he decided to do for the picture :)

Then we took a ride out to the Larry H. Miller raceway to try out the go karts they have...on the way there Ethan was enjoying the ride. I want to cuddle with my blanket and eat treats and watch a movie when we travel places, oh...to be a kid again.

Ethan was waiting for Ashlyn and Chad to get their gear on for the go karts....gotta love his cheesy smiles....they make me laugh!

I thought Ashlyn would be tearing up the raceway because she is quite the dare-devil, but she went so slow! I think she was a little scared. Afterwards, she told us she was trying to push down both petals, yeah....pushing on the brake and gas could slow you down a bit! :)

We ended the day with the kids playing on the playground a little bit.....it was a fun day and I got to test my camera out a little more!

Testing 1-2-3

Here are a few test shots with my new camera....yeah! Chad bought me a new camera for my birthday and I am so excited to learn how to use it. I just got a memory card and thought I would snap a few on the auto settings. Ethan was more than happy to be my little model and he kept doing a big cheesy smile and telling me to "click" him. :) Hopefully I can go out this weekend and practice a little more with some outdoor shots....

First Day of School

Back to school time....already? I can't believe it's that time again. Ashlyn was so excited to start today. When I walked into her room to wake her up, she sat straight up and started getting dressed. I wish it were that easy to get her out of bed every school morning....I am sure that excitement of getting up will wear off soon. :) Her report after school: her new teacher is great, she got all new "pencil colors", highlighters, and a new "real-wood" desk (that's what she called it). She requested a turkey sandwich for lunch which she said was great....what more could you ask for on the first day of second grade? :)

Ethan saw that we were taking pictures of Ashlyn and wanted to be a part of that action....he sat and posed so we could take his picture....he wanted to get out of the car when we dropped Ashlyn off at school and play on the playground in his "crabby" PJs. Not for a few more years, buddy!