The spoils of my battle......

Okay....so I promised you I would let you know about all of the goodies I scored at the JBF pre-sale last night. It was a little crazy - there was soo much stuff and it was packed so tightly on the racks! I overdid it on clothes for Addison. It is always so easy to find cute little girl clothes and so much harder to find cute older boy clothes.

I spotted these cute pictures of the little boy and little girl praying on my way out. I got both of them for five dollars! I thought they were too sweet to pass on - now I just need to see how I can fit them in the kid's room.

My best find was a darling Hannah Anderson snow suit for Addison - it came with little booties and mittens too. It is big enough for her to wear this winter and the next. She really does like it - I promise!
I only found two things for Peyton but I told Nicole I would post them so she could get a sneak peek!
These are just a few of the cute things I found for Addison....don't you love the red velvet blazer?

Does anyone else clean for the Furnace Man?

Sigh.....I worked my little hiney off cleaning for the guy coming to look at my furnace this morning. Am I strange to care what the furnace guy thinks? I even cleaned my toilet just in case he needed to use it. I am too considerate. It doesn't matter that it all needed to be done for my lovely children and husband's sake. I am a woman motivated to clean by the threat of other people seeing my messiness. The joke's on me though....he never showed.

I have a busy few days...for me that is. If I have one outing planned I consider it a busy day. I am such a homebody. So I had my furnace appointment that never happened this morning and this afternoon I have to take my dear little boy to the doctor for an ailment my husband advised me not to disclose to anyone else! Later tonight I get to go to a pre-sale for a Just Between Friends event. It is a big used children's stuff event - I like a bargain! I'll let you know about the goodies I find!

I have yet another reason to love Craigslist. I finally scored a great dining table off of it. We have had a rinky dink IKEA table for the last six years. My husband refers to it as the "kids" table. The lady I bought it from only lived a few blocks from us and was so nice - she even helped me get it home in her van. Here is a picture of it. It has two leaves which would make it more of an oval shape. My red chairs go splendidly with it!
I also wanted to include a before picture of our new front door. This has been a work in progress for awhile now and I am so excited to see it done! We still need to stain it, trim it out and put on the dentil shelf. Do you like the door handle? It was called "Addison" so I knew it was fate! We are planning to work on it this weekend so maybe next week I will have a finished shot for you.Tomorrow Eli is scheduled for his first ever dental appointment. That will be interesting. This is a boy that quite often reacts to getting his teeth brushed like we are stabbing him instead of promoting oral health. I will try to take pictures so you can view the horror yourselves.

I better go get ready for his doctor appointment. Should be interesting.....

The torture begins.....

I just had to include these pictures....... Eli decided to play doctor with Addison. Before I realized what was going on he stuck one huge bandaid on her head!

Moments later....There are two....like little earmuffs!

The crazed Dr. Eli!

My little project that I still haven't figured out!

Welcome to my new blog! I will try to get this posted fast because my little Eli is asking me "What you want to play, what you want to play?" I have limited time.....

I have finally decided to jump on the blogging bandwagon. So many people I know are doing it and it seems like a fun way to stay in touch with people and share photos. I am learning how all of this works and am trying to get my layout just the way I want it. It is harder than I thought it would be though!

My pics are of little Addison on her big brother's bike. Amazingly she stayed on by herself...until she fell sideways and bonked her face on the handlebar and faceplanted in the dirt! Eli was lucky enough to get a big boy haircut from Grandma Sharon this weekend. It's kind of a goofy picture but it is hard to get a good one of a 3 1/2 year old! The final picture is of some mums on my front porch. I finally decided it was fall and I better plant some fall flowers before it was too late.