Pretty Girl

Pumpkin Patch

We put some fallish clothes on and went up to the pumpkin patch one night last week.  It's about the best we can do for fall colors this time of year.  Everything is still green in Florida!  I have more to share, but we'll start with the ones of the kids together.  I even managed to get my face in one!

Fruit of the Week

Last week Hunter came home from school with the Fruit of the Week award.  Each week the teacher chooses a child in class who has best demonstrated the fruit of the spirit for the week.  I was a little bit shocked to find out the fruit of the week was SELF CONTROL.  That is definitely a trait we are constantly working on.  I'm thrilled to know he's demonstrating it at school.  Good job, Hunter!

Wecoming Another to the Family

The women on Heath's side of the family had a bridal lunch for the newest addition to the family.  While she's been dating Heath's cousin for EIGHT years they're finally sealing the deal in about a month.  We're so excited for their wedding and to have her as a permanent part of the family!

We had lunch at the Gaylord Palms hotel.  It's always fun to go there.

I embroidered some of the dish towels she registered for.

Her soon-to-be mother-in-law wrote her a lovely note.  There may have been a few tears shed.

I had some cute cookies made as favors.  If you're local, they're from Cookie Cutter Creations. Besides being cute, they taste really good!

The Grasshopper

My uncle has quite the riding lawnmower to mow his 6 acres of land.  Hunter prefers this over his little truck.  This thing goes fast and he loves it.

Race?

Peyton was brave enough to try it, but it was very short lived.

She preferred to sit on it and mash buttons.

Phone Dump

Sometimes my phone is the only accessible camera when the kids are doing something cute.  I'm thankful for that.

Peyton got a new bike at a garage sale recently.  It's the cutest thing.  And was a total steal.

I don't even know what was going on here, but they were hanging out underneath my clothes while laying on dirty ones.

Hunter loves caterpillars and Peyton is so entertained by them.

Scored these boots at a sale.  Pretty sure we'll have to do a photo shoot with them.

And this.  She's always done this.  When she learned to crawl this is what she would do to get back to a sitting position.  I thought that flexibility would go away, but it hasn't.  She's got to be double jointed in her hips.  She'll be the perfect little gymnast :)

Two Going on Ten

We went to check out a location last week and I crossed my fingers that I could get some two year pictures of Peyton.  It was mid-day, hot, and full sun, but we managed and I love the variety of pictures we got during our walk.

I'm really enjoying Peyton being two.  She's very independent, but I like that she wants to help and do it herself so much.  Yes, there are meltdowns, but I'm so surprised that I can actually reason with her already.  If she melts down over something at home and continues with unnecessary crying I just tell her to go to her room if she's going to cry and she says ok and marches to her room and returns when she's done.  It kind of blows my mind.  She just understands so much already.  Hunter talked pretty late so we were no where near reasoning with him at this age.  It just makes me realize she's growing up really fast.  I'm so thankful that I've been able to spend these early years at home with my kids.  No one can ever take that away from me.

If you've seen the video then you know what this is about :)

I did a post on my photography website on this set of pictures.  You might see some others over there.

Crayon Art

I've seen this idea all over Pinterest.  If you're not on Pinterest you should be.  It's awesome!  Although, it's just the source of even more do it yourself ideas.  Like I need any more!

Here's what you need:

• a blank canvas
• crayons (number depends on the size of your canvas)
• exacto knife (Helps to take off the crayon wrappers.  Some people leave them on.)
• Your choice of glue
• Hair dryer or heat tool

For this project I used a 12x12 canvas and needed 3 boxes of 24 count crayons.

Pick out your crayons.  I went with the colors of the rainbow and threw out the whites, grays, and blacks.

Take all the wrappers off....if you want.  My 5 year old helped with that.

Glue the crayons onto the canvas.  Hot glue doesn't work well because it just melts the crayons.  Any other craft glue should work.

Then you just take your hair dryer and melt the crayons.  Put the canvas at a slight angle and let it run down.  You can maneuver where it goes a little.  I would let it dry and then do it again and that helped give it some dimension by building up the wax.

You can hang it however you want.  I kinda like it like this.