Happy Halloween!

I actually don’t like Halloween a whole lot and can’t wait until it’s over. LOL The girls and I are headed off to my parents house for the weekend so the girls can trick or treat with my 3 nephews tonight. They are SO excited!

Oh! Check out the cute matching pj’s I got for the girls for Christmas Eve! They came with a matching hair band (Kaylee is wearing it) a matching stocking and a gift box. all for $14.97 each at Zellers and the pj’s feel SO comfortable!

I have put them in matching pj’s since Kaylee’s 1st Christmas, so this is the 4th time. Check out the layouts I’ve made about them below!I thought this year would be hard because Kaylee is size 2 (sometimes 3) and Kristen is size 6, but the range on these was 2-6x so I grabbed them right up!

That’s it for me! Have a great weekend! Remember to set your clocks back an hour Saturday night! Won’t that be fun…losing an hour sleep when your kids already wake up at 5:30 each morning. LOL

Christmas card

So the girls went to get their portraits done on Friday and Barry picked the prints up yesterday when he took the girls to the park. They weren’t the “perfect” poses, but they were okay. So that night I “scanned” them (took a picture of each of the pictures LOL) and made my Christmas card. I used my Pampers points to get 25 free Shutterfly photo cards and all I had to pay was $6.99 for shipping! I’ll be scrapping these photos very soon for sure.

Why won't they listen??

Man oh man…I am so frustrated right now. The girls have 2 main rules when they play outside. Kaylee (3) has to stay in our yard and Kristen (6) can only go up or down the street to such & such a point. Well, the girls wanted to go outside and play today and for once Kristen wasn’t grounded to just our yard so I said okay, you can take your bike, but stay around here. They were in and out all morning, Kaylee doesn’t keep her jacket or shoes on, Kristen trades sneakers with her 8 year old friend and borrows her 5 year old friend’s (a boy) sneakers, their friends leave their junk all over our yard (juice packs, pencils, sunglasses, helmets, socks, etc.), and by the time nap time comes for Kaylee I can’t find either of them…I go walking down the road past the point Kristen is allowed to be, and what do I see? Kristen on her friends bike, her 8 year old friend is on Kristen’s bike (she isn’t allowed to let other kids on her bike), Kaylee is on Kristen’s scooter with NO helmet on & no shoes or jacket on! WTF? Holy crap they are both grounded!! Kristen is grounded for a week because she knows the rules and she should’ve known to make Kaylee go home. Kaylee is grounded for the weekend because I asked her at least 5 times to put her shoes and jacket on and stay in the yard (I do that more than 5 times every day). While I was putting Kristen’s bike back in the shed she came out back and said “now I really want to live with Jessica!” She has mentioned a few times that she wants to live at her house because they pretty much have no rules at all and the kids can do whatever the heck they want. I just told her to get in the house and if she doesn’t, I’ll add another week So now Kaylee is taking her nap and Kristen is taking one too, just because she tired herself out from all the crying. Ugh…at some point I’m just going to have to keep them inside forever. LOL

Here are a few layouts I did since yesterday.

Today Barry had to work so I didn’t get to sleep in…well tomorrow I am gonna because I am darn tired of waking up too early! Kaylee wakes up at 5:40am on average, every stinkin’ day! I do lay in bed until 7 most mornings, but I don’t go back to sleep once I wake up because the girls are noisy and keep coming into my room. Last week Barry got to sleep in 2 mornings because it was a long weekend, so I think I deserve to sleep in tomorrow instead of him, no? Anyway, I doubt I’ll be blogging tomorrow, so I’ll see y’all next week!

Thanksgiving

We had a great time at my parents house this weekend! It really helped that it was pretty nice weather. On Sunday DH & I took Kaylee to Victoria Park (a really huge beautiful park with swimming pools, large playground, waterfalls and walking trails). Kristen didn’t want to go because my oldest nephew was at my parents and she didn’t want to go without him. LOL Here are just a few of the pics we took while we were there (click to get a larger version)

We had a wonderful turkey dinner with 2 kinds of stuffing and 2 kinds of pie (lemon meringue & butterscotch - the pumpkin pie was eaten the night before LOL). The girls even ate a good share of the food which was awesome! They are normally picky and don’t eat a lot. That night DH and I went to visit my brother and SIL and just hung out for a few hours. I can’t wait to do it more often!

SO excited!

We are thinking of moving to my hometown! I haven’t lived there for over 12 years and the death of my grandfather made me realize just how much I need to be home. My whole family lives there and I only get to see my immediate family once a month, sometimes 2 months. DH has his parents here and his brother/SIL/niece, so we’ll miss the frequent visits from them, but DH talked to my FIL about it and he thinks it’s a good idea. My hometown is a nice little town that has everything you’d need and I think it would be a great place for the kids to grow up. They could even be going to school with my nephews which Kristen is really excited about. Yes, I told her even if it isn’t official and she loves the idea! We just have to visit the bank to see what kind of mortgage we can get and if it’s enough to get a house there. If we continue to live here, we’ll be spending a LONG time in this duplex as we can’t afford anything more. In my hometown, houses are cheaper because they aren’t close to the city. DH says a lot of the time he isn’t working in the city anyway, so it doesn’t really matter if we live here or there. I am so excited! I don’t want to take Kristen out of school though, so we won’t move till school is out next year. Our realtor (a family friend) came over to check out the house yesterday and she said we won’t have a problem selling this house at all and will make a really good profit off of it, which in turn will be our down payment for the next house.

Yesterday I took Kaylee to Superstore to get the girls their outfits for their portrait session at the end of the month. I’ll be using the pics for our Christmas card this year. Here are the outfits. Aren’t they so cute? Little preppy girls. LOL

I had to exchange Kaylee’s dress today because it was a bit small and hard to pull over her head. So I went up 2 sizes and got the 4T. The 3T would’ve been best but now it’ll get worn for longer.