Halloween House

Back sometime this summer I found this "Halloween house" at Dirt Cheap ( aka "Burt Cheek") for like $4. Best $4.00 ever. Bishop was SO, SO excited to put the house together. He is so into spiders, ghosts, bats, and pumpkins. Finally after seeing it in the closet for months, it was time to put it together. It was so fun! All we did was mix up the icing and put on the candies. Everything was included and the house was already put together. I usually try and make things on my own...but for a 2 year old and for $4,  this option was obviously the best choice.

Everyday

So, my life isn't actually all parties, traveling, and cookies (although it is A LOT of what we do). What..really?! We actually stay home a good bit.  It's probably my favorite thing to do. I like to pretend on my days off that I'm a stay at home mom. In my head, I am a stay at home mom.  I just happen to be gone 3-4 days a week doing that whole pharmacy thing. Minor details.

This is sort of a "photo dump" post. I take a million photos with my phone and most never make it anywhere, so I thought I'd mention little of what we do in our everyday life.

We cook animal soup...which requires tweezers and gardening gloves.

We walk around in underwear wearing momma's shoes.

We make paper birthday hats while we wait on our pancakes.

We paint dinosaurs.

We play with Abby.

We LOVE to eat on our back porch. And, we especially love donuts. 

We watch a whole lot of Disney channel. Possibly too much. 

Sometimes we eat cereal on the counter in clothes that are too small and don't match. 

We play at the park. 

Sometimes we have lunch dates with momma at the park while she is working. 

We play with stickers.

We paint in our underwear. 

And play with bubbles..aslo in our underwear.

We drink out of water hose

And read books to our best friend. 

We help make pizza (and eat pizza sauce out of the jar and cheese out of the bag)

And play with play dough

And watch lots of movies with momma.

We dig out baby toys that haven't been played with in over a year. 

We go to high school football games.

We wear our maroon to church after a bulldog win. 

We play bean bags in our elmo slippers on the porch.

We make dinosaur puppets

And huge messes. 

We eat ice-cream sandwiches with our friend Claire. 

We dress like daddy. 

Sometimes we get sick. 

And a lot of nights, we fall asleep reading books in bed. 

We practice our pirate face for the big party. 

And, visit the library. 

Even though I do work more than I'd like (I'm sure you might have heard me mention that a time or two), I never let it stop me from spending time with my favorite little boy. He is a precious child and I love every minute of him. Our everyday life might not seem that fabulous and obviously we spend a lot of time in PJ's, but I wouldn't trade it for the world. 

Hazel Jackson

After getting Bishop over his sickness, we were finally able to make it to see baby Hazel. When we got there, JJ had the baby under a blanket and Bishop asked "JJ, what's in there??" She showed him her foot and said "It's a baby..." to which he replied "It's baby MOSES!!" Apparently he has been learning about Moses in Sunday school. He pretty much called her baby Moses all weekend. It was precious. I forget how tiny little babies are! And, how they rely on you for everything! Although I definitely would like more, I was reminded that it sure is nice to have one old enough to take himself to the potty and entertain himself! He was really good with Hazel which actually surprised me a little. He and Harvey had a good time...although they seem to argue more than usual but I'm thinking it may have been because it was just me and JJ and no dads around to help. Plus, it was cold and rainy and they couldn't play outside as much as they wanted.

I had intentions of taking a few pictures of Hazel before I left, but she had different plans. She wanted to stay awake the whole time so I couldn't get the pics I wanted but I did get a couple. Little stinker!

She was the most alert little one week old I've ever seen. 

And, I had to include one of the sweetest, cutest two little boys I know of. 

Daddy's "Party"

Bishop and I had Leon a "surprise party" for his 32nd birthday. I hope Leon wasn't actually expecting a PARTY since Bishop told him "we were making him a party" when he came home for lunch. Thanks, B, way to spill the beans. :) He actually refers to anything birthday related as a "party"...present, cake, etc. It was obviously nothing extravagant,  did make his party special. We made him a cake, a card, and dinner. My parent and Josh came and ate with us too.  Best of all we had balloons. No, actually, best of all we had sprinkles in the cake and on the cake. Anyway, Bishop may be a party planner like me :) Probably not, but I am enjoying it for now.

I had seen this cake on Pinterest and decided that we could do it for Leon. Seriously, Bishop could not have been happier both making it and eating it. He was SO excited about it. The rest of us liked it pretty well too. It wasn't terribly hard...but it takes a lot of sprinkles. Like, a whole bottle. It was worth that extra $1 for sure.

Tasting the cake...and the FLOUR. He always eats the flour. Gross.

He helped me blow up balloons that we already had (with leftover helium from B's party in April) and helped me cut string to tie on each balloon. 

Bishop picked this hat out for Leon at the dollar tree. 

Happy Birthday to the best daddy ever!