Christmas lights and Pumpkin sights

Yesterday we were out with the Grandparents. Tuesday night Grandma Helen spent the night since her train came in late. Wednesday morning Grandpa Lee arrived and we ventured out Curtis Orchard for some donut and pie goodness. After that we made a swing by the FCC to show it off and Makenna played for a bit. The company had to leave to get back to leave again, so we put Makenna down for her nap, and after a while I took one too, haha.

Brent had taken the day off so he dinked on the net til everyone woke. After that we started the chicken that I was going to roast for dinner. While that was cooking we played outside in the crispy leaves, Brent did some raking, I cut back some of the roses in the front. After that we decided that since it was still rather warm out that we would put the Christmas lights up now so we aren't out there freezing in a couple of weeks (now the next week is suppose to be in the 70s, WHAT!). I'm sure people passing by thought we were totally crazy. So the lights are hung on the house now! We still have some little lit trees to put out but I'll wait til after Thanksgiving to do that. Merry Christmas!


After putting up the Christmas lights we decided we should probably carve the pumpkin since tomorrow is Halloween, haha. Originally we were going to do a cookie monster design but it was kinda late, and more trouble than I thought. So I just decided to draw a face, and was having problems cutting so Brent went down to the basement and fetched the jigsaw, oh yeah. It worked really well, 2 minutes later the pumpkin was done!

A few new photos are up.

For The Love Of .....

Music.

One of my new most favorite artists these days is Adele. It is kinda a jazzy, a throw back to what use to be while still mingling with what is being. I regret now not buying the whole album from itunes, as I only bought two songs Hometown Glory, and Chasing pavement. Although Brent says she is kinda homely looking, I don't care, these days I would rather someone sound good when I am listening to them, then look good when I'm suppose to be listening to them. Does that makes sense?











The beginning on Hometown Glory sounds much like another one of my favorite songs by Sia called Breathe Me. Honest I love the song and can't seem to get through it without crying my eyes out. If you watched Six Feet Under you understand, that was one of the best finales to a show I've EVER seen. They use Breathe Me in the end to go on and show you how every character goes on to live their life and ultimately how they die. Whole lives played out in a matter of minutes before life is all over. Reminding you just as an afternoon may pass quickly, someday you'll look back to realize that you too may be passing too quickly. Here is to slowing down, loving life, enjoying every minute and breathing it all in.....

Bouncing Babies

This past weekend was a great one. Saturday we went to Danville for Keely's birthday partay, the big 03! There were tons of kids, lots of food and cake, and plenty of adult conversations! Ryan and Heather rented one of those air filled bounce houses. Most of the kids really liked it, Makenna didn't really like the unsteadiness of it. The photo above is from the party..see we were using markers to decorate little pumpkins at the beginning of the party...so that explains the blue marker on Makenna's face. Pictures are up.

We had a ton of stuff to get done before we went to Danville so we didn't make it to the Farmers Market this weekend. And I am totally craving the KETTLE CORN, it is so fresh and crunchy and salty and sweet, all at the same time....uhhhhh...I'm counting down the days til Saturday.

Ninja Cat

Brent found this on youtube and it is reallllly funny, watch it.

Making messes and playing with torches

So last night Brent and I are sitting on the couch and Makenna wants to watch....Teletubbies...again...for the 114th time that day. Brent decides since we've already seen the dvd to check out the "special clips". We have two options, Brent reads making messes or playing with torches, what the...I remind him the teletubbies are British. "Torches are flashlights over there, remember?" Brent: "Oh yeah, ok that makes more sense."

That reminds me of a time Brent and I are watching tv, some program on milking cows and the treatment they receive. Brent out of the blue-"You know a more humane way of milking cows would be to just tickle them until milk shoots out of their noses."

A few nights ago when Makenna wasn't feeling well, she slept with us in our bed. While in bed with us she may whimper and she snuggles up to you but she doesn't full out cry like she would in her own bed. Around 8 in the morning I feel a tap on my shoulder and hear "Mommy, mommy." I turn over to see Makenna laying there and then she asks "How did you sleep?". I can't help but laugh.

We have some dentist appointments today to get the chompers clean. We also need to pick up a birthday present for a birthday party this weekend. And tonight I'm going out with a girlfriend to a restaurant I've not been to yet...I'll let you know how it goes, but I'm excited!

I mention previously that we were going to the paca party, we went, it was fun. They had lots of good food, indian, garcias pizza, veggie and meat tray and chevys tex mex, as well as a keg, wine and desserts from radio maria. Not to mention Darrell's wife makes WONDERFUL things called pumpkin bar, oh my word. We met lots of nice people, Brent spoke to the Indian restaurant owner, learned Darrell use to be a flight instructor, and met the president of paca. Not to mention the guys that said they liked to the see the younger generation taking an interest in old homes.

MeeMee

Makenna's started trying to talk in phrases now, and anytime we are going anywhere a conversation such as this starts:

Me: Do you want to go and take a shower?

Makenna runs across the room, grabbing (insert noun here), but today it was a blanket

Makenna: Me bankie?

Me: No, you can't take your blankie in the shower, it'll get wet

Makenna's thrown down the blanket and now is holding....her sippie cup of milk

Makenn: Me mulk?

Me: No, I don't think it would be a good idea to take the milk in the shower, Here take the frisbee

Luckily that was good enough for her.

After her shower we go upstairs to get dressed, she's in her room being a little too quiet for my comfort, so I peek in on her. She putting on her diaper, albeit backwards but it is mostly on now but she can't pull it up so she is walking like a little penguin towards me.

Anyway in the last post I was talking about how Makenna wasn't feeling well, she is almost all over it now, she developed a body rash from the viral infection a couple of days ago, from her forehead to her legs. She is still a tiny bit itchy still on her arms but the rash is almost totally gone, yay!

I've got nothing else.

Hi ho...Hi ho

Friday night while out to dinner we recieved a call from a PACA (old house store) saying they had a couple of houses that were going to be torn down and one of them had the right size flooring that we were looking for! Whoot! The elusive 2 inch wide 3/8 inch thick oak tongue and groove we needed to patch the holes in our floor before we could refinish the rest of the downstairs....glory! So we got in touch with our man Darrell and met up with him yesterday to see the house and get started on the floor removal! They gave us a serious deal and we are so thankful that they remembered our name on the want list! After we finished we did a little bit of old house lover talking with Darrell and his wife, we were invited to paca's party that is this afternoon and then went to meet up with Mom as she was watching Makenna for us. THANK YOU! After all that hammer usage and crowbar wiggling, my hands are a little sore....

Last night Makenna woke up crying, which means she isn't feeling well. I went to console her and she was burning up! So I layed her in our bed and gave her some tylenol, she seemed to feel better after that and slept in this morning til 11! She must be getting a cold or something, she didn't eat much yesterday and went to bed early the day before.

Yesterday we also ventured to Curtis Orchard, holy crap was it busy, I don't think we've ever seen it busier. They had the pony rides going so we decided since Makenna is on a pony kick (haha, no pun intended), we would buy her a ride. She LOVED it, as soon as they stopped the ponies she wanted to ride more. Brent says "So I didn't really budget for riding lessons in the future, maybe we should."

Peace out...new pics up

Hola people. Friday we went to the homecoming parade, as we've never been, Makenna enjoyed it. We spread out a blanket in the grass and ate some jimmy johns before it started, afterwards we headed over to the quad for the pep rally before walking home.

Saturday we packed the car with our camping stuff and Makenna's stay at Grandma house stuff. After dropping her off we headed over to Jon and Aubrey's to set up camp. We had a great time catching up with everyone and Jon did a great job of cooking for all of us. We will definitely mark it on our calendars for next year, as it is annual thing.

Pictures are up!

Censorship...

Another day, another adventure as our staycation moves on...yesterday we ripped up the carpet in the dining room, finally put up the door stop for the screen door and kicked out/patched a squirrel hole. We also ran to Meijer the other day and found that the pony rides were taken out! What?! Anyway, I found an artisan kitchenaid mixer on sale for $179, normally $299, and it was red...so we bought it...finally I have my kitchenaid mixer, and at checkout the computer spit out three $10 off a purchase of meijer gas coupons....OOooooOo.

Tonight we went to the Urbana Aquatic center pool. I managed to get three photos off before I was reprimanded for taking pictures in the center....of my own child..wtf....now I could understand if they are trying to get kids from being taken advantage of but maybe they should have thought that through before they installed GIANT WINDOWS ACROSS THE FRONT OF THE BUILDING SO EVERYONE IN THE PARKING LOT CAN SEE YOU WHILE SITTING IN A CAR OR WALKING BY. Anyway it just pissed me off and ruined the trip.

Here are my controversial photos.... Notice the huge windows in the first picture...