Make your own Pizza Night!

We haven't had a "make your own" pizza night in a while, so Jeremy ran to Walmart to get the needed ingredients. The boys really enjoy getting to make whatever kind of pizza they like. :)

Argh!

We had a busy day with both flag football and soccer. Andrew and Matthew played in 3 football games this morning and then Matthew had 2 soccer games out of town (in Symrna), Fred and Janet came to the soccer games because we were pretty close to their house. After the game, Fred treated us to dinner at A&W/Long John Silvers. The boys combined the 2 and drank root beer in frosted mugs while wearing pirate hats. Matt Jones was with us because he is staying the weekend with us because his mom is out of town. Worked out great because he is on both the football and soccer teams. :)

Birthday Party Campout

Andrew and Matthew went to Hayden Winn's birthday party tonight, so I asked Chad to take a picture for me. They were camping out in the backyard. :)

Big Boy Haircut

Jeremy was taking Caleb to get a haircut today, so I asked him to take Ethan as well. (His hair was getting out of control!!) I told him that I was ready for him to have a big boy haircut. He came home looking like he aged a year or 2!! He has gotten to where he doesn't like for me to take his picture, so I asked him to show me his tongue and it worked!! Don't be surprised if I try this trick again, I bet you will be seeing a lot of Ethan's tongue. :)

Sweet Matthew

Jeremy found a folded up piece of notebook paper on my pillow when he went to bed tonight. It was taped shut and said, "to: Mom from: Matthew." I opened it up and found this drawing that he did of me and him with a heart in between. He is such a sweetie!

Good Deed

A few weeks ago, I was in Hancocks and started chatting with a lady that was in line with me. She asked me what I was working on and I told her I was getting supplies for appliques. She asked me how big of a design my machine could do (her's only does much smaller). Then asked if I could take her fabric home with me to applique a big tiger on it. I thought it was great that she trusted a perfect stranger. She paid for the fabric, then gave it to me along with her name, email, and phone number. She wanted a real looking tiger, so I had to have a tiger design made, then I stitched it out and mailed it to her. She asked what she owed me and I said to just pay it forward, that I was happy to help out a fellow embroiderer. She obviously took note of the return address on the package I sent and mailed me this sweet note and a check for much more than I would have charged her. It literally pays off to be nice. :)

Micheal's deer

Jeremy and his friend, Michael Blackwell, went hunting today for the first time this season. Michael killed this enormous deer (16 points). Jeremy came home to get the boys so they could see it and both him and Caleb posed with it for pictures and BOTH posted it on facebook. Everyone thought that one of them killed it. I teased Jeremy and told him he was obsessed with Michael's deer because he replaced his profile picture of the 4 boys with this one!

He's done it again!!!

While Jeremy was teaching our Sunday school class this morning, he referenced our couch during his lesson. He said, I don't think Kelley noticed, but Yoshi chewed a big hole in the couch this morning before we got up!! I had no idea!!! I checked it out when we got home and found that he chewed the corner of the ottoman too!!! Ugh!!!! He strikes AGAIN!!

Opry Mills

Nicole's birthday is tomorrow so we decided we wanted our men to take us shopping for our birthdays. Here we are at Macaroni Grill during our shopping trip. Jeremy H. told the waitress that we were on a rare outing without our kids. She said she understood because she had a 2 year old. When he told her we both had 4, she realized that she didn't quite understand like she thought she did. :)

Pumpkin Shirts

Aren't these the cutest little shirts?!?!?! They are some of my favorite things I have ever made! Perfect for going to the Pumpkin Patch. :)

Poor Yoshi

While Yoshi's chewing drives me absolutely crazy, I can say that he is a great dog with Ethan. No matter what Ethan does to him, he always just sits there and takes it. In this picture, he is holding his back legs so he can't go anywhere.

Ethan's Homework

Ethan has obviously picked up on the big kids having to do homework. Anytime he sits at his table to work, he says he is doing his homework. :)

Bathtub Paint

Every now and then, I'll whip up some bathtub paint for Ethan, it's just shaving cream with food coloring in a muffin pan. Anytime the big kids see me make it, they beg to take a bath with Ethan. It took me forever to get this picture (with the big boys boy parts hidden), I didn't realize Matthew was covering up until after I snapped this one. That kid cracks me up! It looks like Ethan was trying to copy him too! lol

35th Birthday

I CANNOT believe I am 35!!!! Where have the years gone!! Jeremy bought this cake and took it to the Harwell's on his way home from work, we went over after dinner to celebrate me getting old with cake and games. :)

Yoshi's bed

I know that I have mentioned how much Yoshi likes to chew on stuff (I'm beyond ready to kick him to the curb). This is how I found his bed today... at least it was something that belongs to HIM!

He's ready!

Ethan decided he wanted to wear some flags during the twins flag football game. The little guy seems to think he can do whatever his big brothers are doing. :)

Big kids on Little Toy

We went to the Harwells to hang out tonight and these 3 couldn't get enough of Aniston and Amelia's seesaw. Nicole bought it for them when we went to a consignment sale last week, we had no idea it would be such a hit with ALL the kids!

Picasso

Ethan found the kids markers in the office cabinet this morning, so I gave him a piece of paper and let him color with them most of the afternoon. He had it all over him!! The little turkey snuck 2 out of my sewing room and decided to do a little decorating!! Thank goodness they aren't sharpies (he has ruined a few things with sharpies). These markers are washable, so it should come off pretty easily.

A break from Tshirts!!

I needed to get this order out so I took a little break from the Tshirts. I have done 52 so far with lots more to go! It was nice to do something different. :)

Laundry Helper

Ethan really is a big help around the house. He tries to help me with every little chore. Today, while I was unloading the dryer, he decided to unload the washer (into the basket). Once I had everything out of the dryer, I had him put it all in the dryer. He was so proud! :)

Cconsignment Shopping

Nicole, Melanie, and I decided to go shop the consignment sale together. We had no idea we would get so much stuff! Melanie's van was packed!! I tried to get a picture of them with the stuff, but they refused to have their picture taken. :(

Smurf Sighting!

On our way home from church today, Caleb and I noticed a lot of mushrooms growing around the neighborhood, so we decided to go home and grab a smurf so we could take a picture. I later got a text from a neighbor friend, she said she saw us in someone's yard with their mushrooms and was wondering what we were doing (she thought we were going to eat them!!). I responded with this picture, she got a kick out of it! LOL

New Games

I bought a couple of new games tonight,  Telestrations and Hedbandz. I sent my friend, Tiffani, a picture of the new games and she said, "I want to play!!" So I asked what they were doing tonight and she said they were having a date night. They decided to go pick up their kids and come over to play instead!! When they got there, Tiffani said Telestrations is more fun with more people, so we asked Ray and Summer to come over to play with us. Both games were a lot of fun. I'm glad we added them to our collection. :)

GA Tshirt Night

I am teaching GAs at church on Wednesday nights again this year. Tonight, we had a "Tshirt Night" so the girls could decorate some GA shirts. It was a mess, but they had a lot of fun.

Drowning in shirts!!

I eat, sleep, and breathe Tshirts!! I'm not sure how many I have done so far, but it's A LOT!! These shirts all go to the same teacher (she also ordered 4 others not in the picture!) She decided to change things up a bit and today she told me that she plans on giving me more to do for Christmas presents for her grandkids!

Ethan's Bible

Jeremy sent this picture to me while I was away from home, the caption said "Ethan reading Yoshi a Bible story." Later when I got home, his toddler Bible was sitting on the ottoman and he asked me to hand him his "Bible" I had no idea he knew it was a Bible!!! When Jeremy came in the room, I told him to ask Ethan what it was and he told Jeremy "Bible" too, then Jeremy pointed to the cover and he asked again, this time he said "Jesus" (Jesus is on the cover). It's amazing how much information this little guy soaks in, we had never taught him that it was a Bible or that it was Jesus on the cover... The book has been in his book rack in his room until today!

First Poo in the Potty!!

Ethan has peed in the potty quite a bit the last couple months, but he has never pooped in there. Today, while I was taking care of a dirty diaper, Ethan came to get me to show me his potty chair. Low and Behold, he POOPED!! I guess he wasn't done when I changed him. Yay for Ethan!!

Jackson's Birthday and Labor Day

We spent the day at Fred and Janets to celebrate Jackson's 10th birthday and Labor Day. The kids LOVE playing with their cousins and we love playing games with the adults. However, we didn't even finish the one game we played because we were too busy planning our upcoming DISNEY WORLD TRIP!! Woot Woot!!

Braided Headbands

The Harwell's came over for dinner and games tonight, while the men were getting dinner ready, Nicole, Addi, and I made these headbands!! I saw the idea on Pinterest and they were super easy to make. I'm going to have to make some more with different colors!

Pretzel Night!

The Sutton's came over to hang out tonight and they brought their delicious pretzel batter with them. The kids love making them and they taste so good! Karen left us the recipe, we will have to make them ourselves so we can eat them more often.