D-D-D-D-D-Dora

This past weekend we were in Cinci celebrating my super cute niece's 2nd birthday! We started her birthday by singing to her at breakfast. I think she was thinking that it was too early in the morning :)

AP and the birthday girl were all ready for the party.
She was telling me how old she was :)


Her party was all about Dora, or Dora Explora as she called her. This was her Dora cupcake cake.

C ready in his Dora party hat. What a good sport!

This lady was "Dora's special friend". She came to the party and played Dora games, applied Dora tattoos, made animal balloons, and played Dora music. AP kept her busy with the tattoos. I think she ended up with 4.

Then it was time for DORA! She came and danced with the kiddos.

C had enough of Dora and went to roast marshmallows with Daddy :)

Mmmmm. Smores.

Nanna with AP, C, and Dora

The birthday girl was afraid of Dora. The only way to get a picture of her with Dora was for Dora to sneak up behind her! S had no idea that Dora was standing there.

C loves a good balloon hat.

S blowing out her second candles of the day.

My sister's b-day is Wednesday so she got a few presents, too. I painted the center of this platter with chalkboard paint. I thought it would be cute on a plate stand on her kitchen counter. I'm thinking about making one for myself, too ;)

There were a sea of presents. S got some new makeup and was trying it out on Hubs.

The cutest little cousins in their matching Dora pj's from Aunt K.

Happy 2nd B-day, S! We love you!

Thankful

C's project for the night was to write on this feather what he is thankful for. These were his unprompted answers. It doesn't get much sweeter than that.

School Pics and Projects

There have been lots of moments that I have meant to blog about over the last week, but I've been too busy enjoying the moments to even take pictures! We had C's last baseball game of the fall ball season, went on a great date night with 5 other couples to a piano bar that played my odd requests :), enjoyed the beautiful weather, spent more time with friends, successfully avoided the flu bug so far, and saved $154 dollars by tripling my coupons!

There are a few things that I managed to take pictures of. Like AP catching a ride with some friends in their Mustang.

Then C had his second "family" project for school. He had to cut out a turkey, then disguise it as another animal so that the turkey would not be eaten for Thanksgiving! C chose to dress his turkey up as tiger.
And last, but not least, AP's first school pictures came back. Couldn't you just eat her up???

Our Little Project

Last week I alluded to the little project that Hubs and I jumped into. I must admit I stole the idea from friends. Our best friends recently moved into a new home and while we were there helping them move we were admiring the faux wainscoting they had going on. Of course, when I see things like that I think to myself "I can do that." So the very next day we were off to the Home Depot to get our supplies! We thought it was more of a weekend project, but it turned into more of a 2 week project. We also used tools that we had never experienced before, like an air nail gun. I don't even know if that's what it is called, but it is hooked up to an air compressor and nails just fly right out the end of it and you think to yourself that it just might explode or nail your face to the wall. But we survived, and I think our marriage got stronger because there were a couple of times that we just had to walk away from each other! But we walked back and did a good job too! So, here are the pics of our finished product....

Oh, and there was nothing on the walls before. They were solid brown.

It Was Bound To Happen Sooner or Later

The Evidence:

This is not a dirty bathroom floor. This is my daughter's HAIR in the bathroom floor!

The Questioning:
"Yes, I cut my hair because I wanted it to be shorter!"

The Sentencing:

No Halloween candy today :(