Beckett 9 mo. and Eden is 5 on Oct. 30th

I took Beckett and Eden into Portrait Innovations on Tues. to get their pics. taken. They did really well. Beckett was pretty serious but didn't cry. He is a huge mamas boy and starts to cry if he sees me walking away from him. He now has three teeth (two on top and one on the bottom), he is crawling and pulling himself up all over the place and is even letting go when standing. I fear him being an early walker. He is eating some Cheerios (1/2 of one) now and the Gerber Puffs. I take him in Monday for a well visit so I will know what he weighs then. He is so stinkin' cute I can hardly stand it! He gets more and more enjoyable everyday. Eden is doing great. She is a diva and has gone from only wearing dresses to now only wanting to wear jeans-UGH!! She has gone from loving and wanting to be Sharpay (from H.S. Musical) to now wanting to be Gabriella. She is boy crazy and loves Nick from The Jonas Brothers. She is VERY funny and VERY lovey. I will write more about her when I post pics. from her b-day party.

School Open House/Grandparents Night

Make a Smilebox slideshow

This is my first try at this Smilebox thing-I just want to be like Tina-anywase, there were some vacation pics. that accidentally ended up at the end. Also, no music to go with the pics. but hopefully my next attempt at this will be better with our Florida pictures. Last week we had the kids' open house at their school. It is very fun to go into their classrooms and see their work, teachers and see new friends they have made.

By the way, I know you all want to try the celebrity look alike thing I put on here.

Farewell "Spooky Pooky"

Last week Sawyer came rushing into the house to report something "serious and important" (those were his exact words and his eyes were as big as saucers). He and Faith had been playing in our basement window well on the side of our house. It has a ladder and they were exploring. Anyways, they noticed a small brown, furry creature tucked into the space between the well area and the house. Faith told Sawyer to touch it with his shoe and when he did this creature hissed and showed its teeth. They immediately raced up the ladder and out of the window well (oh, how I wished I could have witnessed this-it makes me giggle just thinking about how they looked doing it). When they raced inside and reported what had happened, Faith thought it was a "hissing mouse". I was pretty sure that it was, as you have probably guessed .......... A BAT!!!!!!!!! YUCK, EWWWW!!!!!! I went down to the basement to look at it up close through the window and it looked small and furry (maybe 4-5 inches long) and was just wedged in the crack. For the last several days we have been checking on it and noticing that it is there during the day and gone at night. I have seen it just sitting in the middle of the window well on the rocks at night without its wings spread. Who knows how long it had been there??? Could have been weeks or even the last couple of months. Creeps me out just thinking about it. I thought it might go away on its own but enough was enough and I called animal control today and they came out and took it away. I don't wish it harm but I don't want it living at my house either. A couple of days ago the kids named it "Spooky Pooky". The guy from animal control was just arriving as I was leaving to take Sawyer out to get a haircut but my mom was here with the other kids and they watched him through the basement window force it out of the crack and into a coffee can-it was hissing and fighting and spread its wings, which my mom said were huge. It looked like a baby all huddled in there-but maybe not. I guess they will test it for rabies and then call me to let me know whether it has them or not. Fortunately, it didn't bite any of us but I guess that is just their procedure. Here is a picture I tried to take of it-YUCK!! Sawyer kept asking me the day he found it if this was "important news" and I assured him that it was.

Carrie Underwood

For my b-day in July, Kyle bought me 4 floor seats to see Carrie Underwood in concert. I went this week with Faith, my mom and mother-in-law. We had a great time and Carrie was amazing. I have both her C.D.'s so Faith and I knew every word to every song and we just sang away with her. Faith looked cute----me...not so much. We were about 25 ft. or so from the stage. Her opening act was "Little Big Town." I had never heard of them but they were great too. I am actually not a huge country music fan but instead a huge American Idol fan. Here are some pics. from our night out and a little clip of Carrie singing that I took with my digital camera. That would be my mom plugging her ears in the one picture because she said it was too loud. I was like "mom, Carrie Underwood can see you plugging your ears." We didn't get home until midnight on a school night so Faith was pretty tired the next morning but was off to school anyways in her concert t-shirt.