What's Happening In Our Neck Of The Woods

So the funniest/grossest thing happened today. I was sitting on the couch reading my book and out of the corner of my eye I saw the dog go to get a drink out of her dish. Soon to follow was Sawyer. I thought maybe he was just going to play in the water (like he so often does), so I just kept reading. I was waiting for the splashing of the dog water, but much to my surprise....I heard a loud SLURP...SLURP and as he was going to do another slurp I was already off of the couch saying SAWYER...NO.... ICKY, but he went in again so I could enjoy the whole thing (hahaha) !! He was sitting down with his legs wrapped around the dog dish and his face in the bowl slurping out of the dog dish!! Drinking like the dog! It was even more disgusting to me when I saw the dog slobber left over from the dog drinking when I pulled him away!! He looked at me and laughed! I think he knew how I felt and it made him laugh! Oh the joys and funny memories we have of our kids!!!

SO my friend is closing her Scrapbook store and I just came home with around $400 dollars worth of scrappin' stuff but it was 75% off so it came to around $100 BUT the best part is that she wants to get her hair colored and her family's hair cut so I pay NOTHING!! WAHOOO!!!!I love good deals and I love that I have been blessed with this talent!!

So now that my 70 jars of applesauce are DONE!!! It's time to play catch up on the house work!! Yay for me....I have the vacuuming done but my kids have a great desire to be out of the house, and so do I, and so we're going to the park today....THEN I will finish some more cleaning!! It will probably be a good 3 or 4 days to get up to where I would like to be :) We'll see!! I can't believe it's still in the 80's this far into September!! I wonder what winter will be like! Indian Summers usually yield hard, cold winters, but then again the weather is so weird anymore it's hard to tell, BUT we will enjoy it as much as possible!!

Our friend Rachel helped us (Shauna and I) get around 1600 lbs of apples this last weekend. (Thanks Rach,....your awesome!) So...It is the start of my Applesauce week!! So that means a yummy, delicious smell of warm applesauce filling my house. With that comes warm and happy memories of my Mom when we'd come home from school with that yummy smell throughout the house. I don't know...kind of makes me sad, but still it will be nice. Most importantly for all those who wish to enter my home this week....BEWARE!!! It WILL look like a tornado went through!! Everything else goes to the wayside during applesauce week!! So there is your warning!!! :) Enjoy!!

Keeley and Sawyer and I went to his work and brought him a yummy lunch and decorated his door with homemade balloons :) He loved it!!

Jarrin so loving added this to Sawyer :) Happy Birthday Daddy :)

Keeley helped me write this for him on the apron.
Took him to Cafe' Chulos for dinner. It's a super yummy Mexican place
Blew all of his candles out (I only put 4 as I didn't want to set off the fire alarm ;) )
Yes...I did make his blackberry pie. It was Yummy!!
So Happy Birthday for my love :)

Well Jarrin and Keeley are LOVING school so far and I am again filling a box up a with at least 4+ paper a day from Kindergarten. I love hearing about their days and all the new friends they are making and about all the things they are learning! It has been good!
Tonight we get to celebrate Brad's 40th Birthday! He will be gone all day tomorrow for work and young mens so we are going to go enjoy a family time with him tonight!
I also am starting my Christmas sewing. I really want to try and be all ready and done this year before Christmas Eve.
I am also trying to get back on my workout routine! I am really trying so hard to get back to mini me that I was the summer before I got pregnant. We'll see how that goes.
Sawyer is trying to say everything we say now! I love this age when they start to copy!
So that's our life right now :)

Today was a great day!! I was so excited to send my kids off to school! Keeley and Jarrin were so excited too! We took many pictures and they got to choose a yummy breakfast and Jarrin also helped choose the poses for the pictures! He was so cute! The first ones are cute, Jarrin was so sweet and nice to Keeley today(hasn't been that way for a while) and I also tried to do some fun enhancements. Who knows....it was fun :)
This was a Jarrin request :) He wanted a picture of them running off to school. You can see his goofy run. He never ceases to make us all laugh!
My big and bigger kids all ready to go!

Jarrin really wanted a picture of the backpacks going to school :) Silly boy! Brad said he's going to be an abstract artist!
My Keeley. This is the skirt that I sewed for her. It's kind of big on her but HEY It's got to last ya know! ;)


My Jarrin :)

Her first locker. She was so excited! Jarrin explained exactly how it worked too :)

Jarrin's first day in 1st grade :)
The fun began right away!!
Both kids loved their first day! Keeley cried when I came to pick her because they were going to send her off with some other kids to "school plus" and after school daycare! I asked what they were doing and they told me that she was signed up. I couldn't figure out who signed her up!Wasn't Brad or I. I told them no, she's not going and the lady told me that she was signed up and almost wasn't going to let me take her! So after I got done explaining that I am a stay at home mom and that I would be picking her up everyday until the regular buses start up in 2 weeks. She let me take her. Keeley started bawling...I mean bawling! She was so darn sad and upset that she couldn't ride the bus! I felt bad and tried to explain it to her and once she understood, she was kind of ok. Other than that Jarrin LOVED that he had 3 recesses and he got to find his buddy Isaac, and he got to eat lunch at school! It was a great day !!! I already can't wait till both are in school all day together! Then I'll save some back and forth and back and forth time dropping off and picking up kids. It kills Sawyer's nap time and gas :) Oh well.... still will be a fun year! :) Now to get back into my beading and scrappin'!!!Oh and I really do want to try to get some Christmas sewing down early thing year! We'll see :) (oh...and working out too...I really need that one :) )

So I am behind on some posting but that's okay! We took the kids to the fair the other week and we had a BLAST!! It's the longest time we've spent at the fair with kids.Whew! It was way better than I thought it would be!! We got to pet mules and donkeys first....
Sawyer wanted to touch the eyes... glad he didn't!
Saw a gazillion pigs :) peew! I sure wouldn't want to be that pig! It just hurt watching these 12 piglets attack the momma nips..OUCH.. The kids probably could have sat here all day and watched. They thought it was so cute :)
Sawyer kept wanting to pet the piggies. He laughed at all the squealing and oinking going on.
Keeley loves horses! She was thrilled to find enough hay to feed them. She also got to see some cowgirls with colorful flags, outfits and dazzling horses ride around performing routines and she is dying to be a cowgirl when she gets big enough! Brad and I already know that 4H is in her future!
Jarrin wanted this picture :) He wouldn't touch them until this year. They scared him. Glad to see he got over that one :)
Sawyer thought the reptiles were cool, especially the snakes.....as long as he doesn't think he can get one when he's older...... that we'll be just fine :)
We then went to enjoy some food before the rides. Yummy. That's when we walked by some clowns making balloon animals and toys. Jarrin got a sword and Keeley a flower. Jarrin, while eating, examined his balloon sword and said " I didn't know that clowns could be so clever" We laughed so hard! We weren't expecting to hear "clever" out of his mouth anytime soon :)

Oh and the rides!! The jeeps......
the carousels....
the motorcycles...................
and the kiddie roller coaster!! I love the look she gives me! She will be Brad's partner for the big and wild ones when she's tall enough!!
Jarrin even liked this one!

How funny is this? It is a toilet seat hookup for trailer hitches!! How funny!
and yes...Sawyer fell on his face and scrapped and bruised it up again!! That boy!!
It was so much fun! We also got to see some kids go Mutton Bustin'. That is so funny!! You have to look it up! The kids get all padded up and they grab on to the sheep and they open the gate and the kids hold on for as long as possible. Oh good times!! Needless to say, the kids crashed HARD and slept really really well that night!!

So Brad and I had the opportunity to escape everyday life for a day to have a double date day with our Great Friends Jake and Holly. We got to go to our high mountain lake again and 4 wheel all the way up to the top and enjoy a day of fishing, huckleberry picking and 4 wheelin' ! We hit the most monstrous patch of berries, I kid you not the were the size of blueberries! It was a great find. It was just a good thing it was towards the end of our picking because after that find I think we were turning into huckleberry snobs ;) only looking for the "big" ones :) !!
This is a view from on top of a hill we 4 wheeled up to. It is such a peaceful and quiet place to be at! Such a welcomed noise......nothing :)
The group photo. I really hate pictures of me :p
We watched a chipmunk as he tried to snag food off of our table. We ended up throwing some nuts on the ground so we could watch him pick them up...sniff them to make sure they were high quality...and then go to store them. He was cute :)
We got to 4 wheel on some road off the main one and after talking Jake into going through this big mud hole we had the biggest laugh of the day!! We watched as he was about to escape a turn over until we all saw his chest and arm go up and disappear with an "Aaaaaaaa" to go with it!! He fell into the mud and he ended up looking like he had brown chaps ! Needless to say I had to help pull him out :)
Here's the full chaps picture! I just wish we'd had the video rolling for the whole thing!! Darn!
So because their 4 wheeler was covered in mud and so was Jake, Holly got to ride with me the rest of the way! She's so tiny that every bump we went over we'd go up and I'd end up on her lap! (not all the way) We laughed all the way down the mountain, caught some air on a few bumps and Holly got the see over the edge of a cliff because of a corner we didn't expect on another road :) (It wasn't really that bad at all) It's just a little more scary when your riding on the back holding on to just some small belt loops on my pants!! hahaha, good times!!
We advised Jake to rinse off in a stream to at least take off 2 inches of the mud that was glopped on his pants.
We had so much fun and I seriously can't wait to go back up!! There will be huckleberries until October up there so we are going back for another 2 gallons!!! Yahoo!!!!!