Back to School!

Our first week of school is officially under our belts...everyone was excited to get started Monday morning! We studied cells this week in science and the kids made an edible jello cell with candy mitochondria, golgi bodies, ribosomes, lysosomes, and a nucleus!

7 months

Our sweet buy turned 7 months old this week!!! Can't believe how fast his first year his flying by!! Isn't he the cutest thing?? Don't ya' love his orange crocs??

Bye Bye Carpet!!

One last project on my summer to-do list before we go head back to school...I have been begging Dave for months to let me rip the carpet off our steps...it was old, dirty and worn out. 10 minute later they looked like this...

Then after an hour of pulling out staples and carpet tacks they looked like this...

and here they are after sanding, staining, painting, and caulking!!

I love how they tuned out!!

"Brothers"

11 years apart and they still let me dress them alike...love it!!

Filling the Freezer...

We start back to school in exactly one week...so I decided to spend last week getting everything ready and filling the freezer for a busy fall and winter. I made 10 loaves of rosemary bread... batches of muffins and cookie dough...

10 turkey meals...and a slew of other stuff I forgot to take pictures of!

While I was cranking on the kitchen, hubby made us this for the deck...our last set toppled over in a windstorm and 2 legs broke off. This baby is solid wood and isn't going anywhere!!

Now that the work is done this week is reserved for FUN!! Movies, swimming, bowling, and staying up late are all on the agenda!!