My captain America

Alex when he saw me at his school for his parade today. He didn't know I was going to be there. It was super fun to surprise him!

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Duckies and time capsules

Just recently I was digging through a few totes in the basement for some fall decorations and I found a lost treasure instead. I found a bunch of disposable cameras we had for our wedding and honeymoon we never developed! I was so excited until I checked the "develop by" date was in 2010, oops! So just for fun, I took one in to be developed and it actually worked. We only got about 10 photos back but it was like opening a time capsule! It was so much fun and now that we know they develop, we're going to take the rest in. So who knows what kind of gems are hidden in these old cameras! Here are a few found on this one:

And to close out this post, here's a new gem:

Evan and his ducky umbrella going out to get the trash cans with me this morning.

He absolutely loves this thing. Cracks. Me. Up.

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Fun with our little pumpkins

With halloween just around the corner we wanted to make sure we got our pumpkin carved before the big day. So yesterday we had ourselves a little halloween party at home with a little halloween music and treats. The boys carved the pumpkin and Alex and Evan thought the insides were GROSS, but seeing the end product was really cool. I'll post that picture soon! 

I'm happy to be returning to the blog world thanks to Lisa Lu! You've inspired me Lisa! I'll try to post every day. 

Well, I'm going to have to call this one a night, but to close this blog post, here is a snap shot of my little hulk playing games at day care today and my Captain America last Saturday morning watching cartoons and waiting to go to a harvest party. He was so excited he got himself dressed hours before it even began. Happy Halloween week!

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Groomed and ready

We got our haircut Santa. We're now officially ready for you! The countdown is on.

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Biggest little helper

To keep our minds off of my Jeep's unfortunate transmission trouble, Alex and I decided to make some bread. This is my second attempt at homemade bread.

We won't go into how the first attempt turned out.

With my second attempt though, I had a little helper with me the whole way. His favorite part was kneading the dough... stirring was fun too, but we quickly discovered stirring with a two year-old and trying to keep most ingredients in the bowl is an interesting process.

I was pretty impressed how this attempt turned out. It was actually edible this time! I think it was the help I had in the kitchen this time around.

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Frosty, is that you?

Alex and I transformed our fridge tonight into a snowman. Alex thought it was hilarious! I started to cut out the shapes as he wandered into the kitchen and our conversation went a little like this:

"Mommy, what are you doing in here?"

'I'm building a snowman, Alex."

"REALLY?? YAYYY!"

What's fun about this is I put it all on magnets so we can move all the pieces around. Alex liked to move the snowman's buttons to the top and add to the smile, which turned out to look like he had blue boogies.

For the sake of Frosty's dignity, I fixed the blue boogies for the photo.

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Cameras, lights...

Alex and I were playing with lighting and aperture tonight with our camera. I don't normally let my child play with objects that could potentially harm him, but I wanted to try out a few different effects with lighting.

Unfortunately this is the only photo he allowed me to take of him before he announced he was done. That's ok, it was fun while it lasted.

What I really would like to try is this little lighting technique. But that's for a different day.

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