This Week

Please excuse me once again for this long, rambling blog of completely unrelated topics! My sister's wedding is next weekend, our bachelorette excursion to Lake Tahoe is tomorrow, my in-laws are coming to stay with us next week, and I haven't even started to think about composing my wedding speech yet! I have been completely inundated with wedding projects and back-to-school committments (Sawyer's school has had two parent education workshops and they've sent home THREE fundraisers in this first month of school!)...so please, pardon me if my photos and thoughts are a bit scattered. I promise that after next weekend I'll try to get my act together and start blogging on a more consistent and cohesive basis :)


In keeping with his obsessions with all things puppy and fireman related, Sawyer is going to be a dalmatian for Halloween. Now, let's just hope that it's not still 100 degrees next month, because this costume is fuzzy and H-O-T!


The boys had fun making this fall leaf craft that was posted on Frugal Family Fun Blog.


Since (as you can see in the background!) we don't really have any big trees in this new subdivision yet, I love that their suncatchers add a bit of much-needed fall color around here!

After several weeks of working hard to completely fill his star chart, Sawyer finally had enough "best behavior" stars to earn his Imaginext ambulance! He would barely hold still for me to get a picture of him playing with it!

Daddy used a bunch of cardboard sheets and packing tape to transform the boys into robots.

Oh yeah, all that cardboard came from this...

...our new kitchen dining set! This new set has a leaf and six chairs so that there's room for guests to eat dinner at the table with us instead of having to sit at the bar. Yippee! We'll typically keep it with four chairs and without the leaf (so that it's a circle instead of an oval), but since we're having visitors next week, we decided to leave it extended for now. It's SO nice not to have to clean fingerprints off of a glass table 56,234 times a day!

I finally finished Kari and Joe's wedding card box! It is also going to have wired pearl drops that cascade and fall like a firework explosion from the top when we do the final set up, but this is the basic idea :)

I printed out the alphabet in a dashed font, laminated it and gave one to each of the boys along with some dry erase markers. Sutton really likes tracing the letters, and Sawyer is starting to tell me "I for Igloo...G for Gift...Z for Zipper" as he copies over his letters.

Oh, and about those fundraisers...if anyone feels like donating to Sawyer's Trike-a-Thon to benefit the St. Jude Childrens Hospital, you know where to find me ;)