kandy kisses boutique

i just recently came across a great website, kandy kisses boutique! laurie, the lady behind kandy kisses boutique is a very talented seamstress! she makes the cutest little girl clothes! she uses all different types of fabrics in all different patterns, textures and colors that make each item she makes a truly one of a kind piece.

when i was there today checking out her site i noticed she is having a HUGE giveaway! starting november 28 th, black friday, she is doing a free giveaway an hour, every hour, starting at 7.00 am! go to her website http://kandykissesboutique.typepad.com/ and check out all of the amazing stuff she is giving away and you might just want to go ahead and start christmas shopping while you are there for one of the little ones on your christmas list!

follow me to a blog giveaway!

i found this wonderful blog called our front porch. http://thescottfamily5.blogspot.com/. she makes beautiful jewelry! when i was there today i found out that in honor of her 100th post she is giving away $100 in free hand stamped jewelry from her etsy shop.( www.ellinoelledesigns.etsy.com )
wow! i know! her stuff is beautiful. so i thought i would share it with all of my friends. go check out her blog and follow the directions and try to win and even if you don't win...... you could get a head start on your christmas lists!!!

fall festival

our church has a fall festival on halloween night so we decided we would take the kids up there. this is the 2nd year they have had one and we always have a good time.

maggie didn't dress up this year, which i am kinda happy about because none of the costumes i looked at were under $30. are you kidding me? for a costume? anyway, one day i went to wallmart, by myself thanks to my hubby. i was looking for a shirt for billy to wear because i knew he wouldn't keep any type of costume on. he won't even keep a baseball cap on and i love little boys in baseball caps. back to the story, so i found him a pumpkin shirt that would be perfect and i knew if i brought him home a halloween shirt and not one for maggie she would be upset so i looked around through all of the scary shirts ( i don't do scary halloween ) and i found this cute shirt with matching pants. for 4.88 each. you can't beat that. ( i don't think you can see what it says in the picture. it says, happy boo to you! ) perfect she would love it! so when i got home and i gave it to her, she was so excited and she tried it on right away and said "this is just too cute not to wear for halloween! mom, this is what i want to wear for the fall festival. can i?" $10 vs $30, you bet you can!

next year i am going to try, since billy will be older and more cooperative, making them one to wear. i will be able do do something that is so much better that the ones you buy in the store. so, you know what that means, nanny and bam-maw.......

here are a couple of pictures i took of the kids.

mag's and billy in their so called halloween "get-up"

the kids with their pumpkins and already eating candy.



and this is my sweet ole mag's. out of all the fun things she could choose to do at the fall festival, this is where she endedup, at the coloring table. she is my "squarly" one. i really think all the costumes bothered her. her was real clingy and didn't want to pay a single game. not even to get candy! so, she colored and hade fun doing it and i guess that is all that matters. oh, i did talk her into walking the cake walk with me, which she won! i am really happy about that because since she didn't play any games she didn't get any candy. so at least she didn't go home empty handed.

pumpkin patch

i have taken maggie and billy to 2 different pumpkin patches this year. nothing says fall like pumpkins! i took tons of pictures. here are some of my favorites. oh, my mom and i will be taking the kids to one more this saturday. so more pumpkins pictures to come....

i've been tagged

my friend amy tagged me and i have to post the 6th picture from the 6th file in my photos. so here it is....

this pictures is of maggie and we were at a blockhouse creek park in cedar park. we were trying to get pictures for something, i can't remember what for though. i am thinking she is about the age billy is now.

so i tag lauren and april. i can't wait to see y'alls pictures!

too close for comfort

you know when you hear sirens and you say a quick prayer thanking the Lord that you and your family is safe? normally the sirens fade in the distance and you go back to what you were doing. right? well, not this time. the sirens kept coming and coming and where getting louder and louder. we opened the front door, no we weren't being nosey, we were going out to eat chinese food for dinner ( joe was craving it and who am i to argue, no cooking? that's fine with me, chinese it is ) and we noticed that the sirens were a lot closer than we thought! then we noticed the smell in the air. something was burning! our house backs up to an elementary school and to the right of the school is a field that follows the length of our subdivision. our street is the last street in the subdivision and that field, it was on FIRE! the fire was about 8 houses away from ours! so of course i had to snap some pictures!

i am standing in my driveway looking at the firetruck spraying water from atop the ladder.

here is one a little closer. i don't know if you have noticed that you don't see any of the kids in these. maggie was so scared that she wouldn't even walk past the cars parked in the driveway. and billy? well we were having to hold him back from running down the street toward the fire and the firetrucks! he loved all the action and wanted to be apart of it. mag's, she could do without it!

the tin roof you see in the distance is the school which is right behind our house. like i said, a little too close for comfort! thank you Lord for your protection.

bikes, trikes and road kill

tonight we thought we would take mag's and billy out side to ride their bikes. this is the first time we have let billy ride his trike out in the front with maggie. well, his trike is actually maggie's old tricycle from when she was his age. he loves it, even though it is pick and purple. i guess we know what he will be getting from santa this year. anyway, mag's was doing her usual, she keeps to the rules of her riding. she is allowed to ride on the sidewalk only and she can go back and forth between the two neighbors on either side of us. she loves to go as fast as she can and then turn real fast around in their driveways. she was making her way in front of our house when all of a sudden one of her training wheels flew off and of course she flew off the bike along with it. no tears though. so her daddy and i talked her into taking the training wheels off her bike to she if she could try to ride without them.

we spent a good hour with her and she wasn't seeming to catch on.billy would just follow right along with her.

oh, he also loved wearing her princess helmet.

so on maggie's last of many falls she was sitting there on the ground with her bike wrapped around her legs, almost defeated, i saw joe's eyes get so big and he nodded his head toward maggie. as i looked down i saw what he was looking at. maggie was still sitting on the ground with her arms propping her up and under her right hand was a dead, smashed flat as a pancake, frog!! yes, you don't need to reread that, i said FROG!!! we both started laughing and mag's was just looking at us. not even moving. then joe told her to look under her hand. she did and then throw the bike off of her and started to scream, disgusting!! gross!! i have not seen that girl move that fast ever!! next thing we know, here comes billy on his trike to see what was going on. he walked up to the frog and bent over to get a closer look and i mean without hesitation, he picked up that frog and put it under his seat of his bike on rode off!! i don't think i have laughed so hard in a long time!

here's the proof!!

gotta love those boys!!!