29 More Days

Until Christmas!

I mainly just wanted to let everyone know I'm still here.  It's just been a very busy few weeks!  I'm going to try to get back into the blogging swing of things this weekend :)

It's a Circus up in here!

Even though Benjamin turned 3 almost a full month ago, we didn't have his party until last weekend. I wanted to do a circus theme full of games and it was important to me that all the kids in the family were available to join in on the fun.  These are the types of memories I want Benjamin to have - playing around with his gang of cousins! As always, I intend to take way more pictures than I actually do.  I didn't get a great picture of the signs I made, the banner or the food spread :( We had the typical circus type food - hot dogs, nachos, cotton candy, cracker jacks and popcorn.  And to end the night we had giant cupcakes and an ice cream buffet. 

We had a pretty good variety of games

• Sack Race
• Peanut Pick Up - I stole this idea from Field Day back in grade school! They had 3min. to pick up as many peanuts as possible with just a spoon. 
• Duck Pond
• Pinata 
• Can Toss

I was so excited to try out the face painting kit but only a few were brave enough to let me experiment on their face.  Thanks Dylan P, Zoe, Maddie and Owen :) Every time I asked Benjamin to sit down so I could paint his face he argued with me about wanting to paint my face instead so I finally gave up trying. 

I'm definitely bummed I didn't get more pictures, but here are a few of my favorite action shots of the day...

Fall Kick Off

This weather is amazing! Sunny and in the mid 70's - yes please!
David and I have been going apple picking for as long as I can remember so we jumped at the chance to go last weekend.  Such a perfect way to be outside and soak in the fall temps and celebrate David's Birthday. 

Let Me Count The Ways...Vol. 2

• You spent hours looking for the perfect condo rental for our mini lake trip
• You're practically a professional at packing the car for vacation
• High Fiving with Benjamin after the Rams won their first game of the season
• Spending the entire summer making sure our little pool was always clean and ready at a moments notice
• "Reverse swoop neck"

Ally takes on Sweet Potatoes

Oh my gosh...the next series of pictures is too much for me - Ally's facial expressions are hilarious!

Here she is laughing at David trying to ignore me and the spoon

And then she finally decides to look over at me like - Uh I don't know what you're trying to pull but I'm not game

Wait for it...

LOL!!!

Seriously, I'm sure Ally was calling me all sorts of names in her head

 And when I finally gave up and put the spoon down all was good again

I might have a problem

I can't help it - what am I supposed to do when Target is basically shoving all of this pumpkin stuff in my face?  Dang you Target! All I went in for was a Jack Johnson CD for David and I came out with a basket full of pumpkin eats - what the heck!?!

Gourmet Grilled Cheese

I'm pretty sure I could eat grilled cheese every day.  It's SOOOO good! I have tried all sorts of variations.  A couple of weeks ago I tried out a combination I saw online and was not disappointed.

Sourdough bread with goat cheese, cucumbers and tomatoes. Never would have thought to add cucumbers b/c I'm normally not a fan but I figured what the heck - I'll try anything once (a concept I'm still trying to get David to understand)

Not enough restaurants offer adult grilled cheese sandwiches. Maybe that's a million dollar idea right there - the possible flavor combinations are endless!