Day 307: Boyds Soccer Game

This is how I spend my Wednesdays evenings. Watching Boyd play soccer. Tonight they played their championship game against the other OCPM team and won! Yay! Boyd scored 3 goals tonight.

Day 306: 11-1-11

Happy first day of November. 

Today was a crazy day. I started my new job as a teacher's assistant at the Parma Helth Education Center teaching 18-25 month old children. It was a LONG day. Tomorrow is going to be even longer (10 hours). Wish me luck! This is the first time I have ever worked a full time job. I now have a great respect for people who work full time. Yikes! Anyway, to make myself feel better I edited some of my family pictures. Here is what I did. 

I'm sad blogger does not do this photo justice. I love it so much! Thanks again Jenny!

To see more go to Jenny's Site

Day 305: Happy Halloween

 Happy Halloween! 

Every year I am so amazed at Boyd's carving skills. He always scares me and just stabs the poor pumpkin to death and carves it like a mad man. Somehow his pumpkin always turns out to be so cool.

Yesterday we carved pumpkins with some of our good friends. Boyd's pumpkin is on the left, Jack had a Pickachu pumpkin (also impressive, it really does look like Pikachu), Sally wanted a princess crown pumpkin (with birthday candles?), and my is the pumpkin with the face.

My funny face pumpkin. Didn't really feel the creative juices flowing when I was carving, so I went traditional. 

Boyd's super awesome ghost pumpkin. Correction: he didn't actually have a pumpkin. It was a gourd. A very stinky gourd to be exact. It still looks cool, but it sure was stinky!

Today we went down to Boyd's parents. We decided to paint pumpkins. Who knew that puffy paint would paint pumpkins so well! 

I was feeling a bit more creative today.

Day 304: The Buck Stops Here

We got out of car tonight and saw this guy strutting in front of us. I went running after him from a safe distance to capture a picture. Of all the deer we see everyday, this is the first time a buck has shown up in our complex. I was excited and Allison screamed.

He payed me no attention even though he new I was following him. He looked right at me several times( I followed him for a good 50 ft), but not once did he change from his moseying pace. He was a much more majestic sight than the does and fawns we usually see. He even took the time to stop and play with our neighbors wind chimes for a good 30 seconds.

Day 303: Cute Chicken?

Call me crazy but I think this is so cute! Tonight Boyd and I went to our favorite wing place, Quaker Steak & Lube. We ordered some boneless wings to go and they brought it to our table in this!

Seriously, I think this is such a cute idea! Inside were our little wings all nestled in their little spots. Sometimes I call things cute and then Boyd asks "Is is cute because it is little or is is cute because it is cute?" I think this is cute because it is cute. Although, the box is little (the size of a small carton box) it is still cute and not just because it is little.

Day 302: Mr. & Mrs. Potato Head

Happy Halloween! This year Boyd wanted to be Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head. It was a long 4 days of working in my little Chinese sweat shop, aka our family room. Boyd came up with the idea and design and I turned it into costumes. Boyd's dad drew the scaled pattern for the face pieces and from there I took over. Boyd wanted it to be realistic, so I made pillow like pieces for the face parts and put cardboard behind it so the puff would go the correct direction. Then I quilted right through the cardboard. The face parts had Velcro behind them so we can mix n' match pieces. My favorite part was the bum pocket in the back. Just like the real potato head we had the bum pocket to put our parts into. We sure do love Halloween!

Day 301: Yellow Fall

I feel like this fall has been very yellow. Yellow as in all the trees are yellow and there is this yellow glow that occurs when the sun shines through the trees, if the sun is shining. Anyway, it is very pretty and I think I absolutely love Ohio in the fall. I quickly took this picture while we were up in Kirtland as we were walking around. So pretty and the yellow really does look like this. 

Day 300: Baby Claire's Baby Blessing

On Sunday we got to join Shaun and Nicolette for the blessing of their beautiful, baby girl Claire. She is so adorable. I am so grateful for such wonderful friends. Aren't they just the cutest little family?

Day 299: Kirtland

 On  Saturday Jon, me, Boyd, baby Claire, Nicolette, Shaun, Jess, baby Eli, Mel, and Caden all went to Kirtland. This was the first time I had actually been inside the buildings. I have gone to Kirtland numerous time this year but haven't officially taken the tour. It was really neat to actually hear the stories that go along with these great historical sights.

Yup, this door is the original door.

 

 

 

 At the saw mill

Boyd and I were very impressed with Caden's ability to work a camera. He could turn it on, turn it off, and even put it back in the bag where it belonged.

Boyd was trying to keep baby Claire warm and Caden entertained. 

I think we all felt like this by the end of the day. 

Jump!

Day 298: Kirtland Temple

While we were visiting the Kirtland temple I decided to snap this quick picture. Kinda fun. More Kirtland to come soon!