confetti of color

making a leaf angel : november 20, 2013

1. kaylee and our neighbor friend played in our leaves after school last week.

2. our yard was the only one with leaves on it [still is] but i don't mind. its a confetti of color.

3. the weekend was strangely long and boring. i think its the cold, rainy temps. [high in the 40's]

4. saturday was a fun day. mike suggested at 10:15am we go and watch catching fire at 10:45am.

5. glad i had just finished showering and was dressed.  the movie was awesome btw.

6. afterwards, we grabbed lunch to take home so mike could watch the aggies get beat by lsu.

7. i went to the grocery store so i could make a home cooked meal before he went back to his apartment. 

8. i also made 2 small devil's food bundt cake's. so yummy!  i made the ganache and frosted the cakes then sprinkled powered sugar over it per ham's wise suggestion.

9. ham decided to take back the mac pro and get the mac air because its lighter. just glad he was able to get the one he wanted.

10. kaylee has the whole week off from school. love how the school plans this break. think we might bust out the christmas decorations[because its cold and rainy and we will be bored]  since thanksgiving will be spent over at another neighbor friend's house.

wsww + naps are good

 what she wore last week

her ode to foxing awesome

1. she loves her converse shoes because they're kinda like ham's.

2. and i've bought her some funky socks to wear, which she loves even if they don't match her outfits.

3. if you can't tell, texas weather is crazy. it starts out cool, then either stays cold or gets super hot.

4. its feeling more like fall this year compared to our 2 previous years.

5. yesterday, i went to clean and organize kaylee's room but made the mistake of laying down for 5 minutes on her bed with her cozy blanket.

6. it ended up being a 30-45 minute nap instead. it was nice.

7. i had a few errands to run up in the woodlands. man is that area busy! it felt like everyone was off for the holidays already.

8. i think i might be done with kaylee's christmas shopping. just need to get her birthday present but waiting for some sort of a sale. 

9. feeling a little overwhelmed with my to-do list: lots of painting, lots of cleaning, getting meals planned for the month and mike wants to throw a garage sale this weekend. of course i'm not ready.

10. man, a nap is sounding really good right now.

everyday life and mike let me out of the house

 doing homework while eating a breadstick

 mike putting in ham's car battery

blurry photo playing life

1. i wanted to post some pics of everyday life around here.

2. went to target yesterday to pick a few christmas gifts that were on sale. i had a coupon for this game. 

3. i remember playing it non-stop with my sister.

4. kaylee needs a close-to-her -age sibling so they can play non-stop too.

5. mike finally let me out of the house saturday night.

6. long story short: guy friend's wife said she would go if i would go but she ended up not going. butthead.

7. so it was mike and i with guy friend and his son. we went to buffalo wild wings to watch the mma fight.

8. guys beating each other up + boneless chicken wings + side salad + 2 red bull w/ GRAPE vodka's = FUN! 

9. my drinks were so yummy that i went and bought some grape vodka and red bulls. they're hidden from mike. not ham but mike. because he will drink anything and everything.

10. anyway, it was just what i needed to feel almost human again.

brain dumping friday

zendaya concert @ the children's festival in the woodlands

1. little nuggets not feeling very well. at lunch she was fine but after school, she looked miserable and sneezed like a million times. no fever though a little warm.

2. i was hoping we could go to lake houston and find a cheap place to eat dinner.

3. its one of those nice nights where i just wanted to live a little and see life at night.

4. instead we rented the internship. it was an okay movie.

5. ham's been having car problems. hopefully it was just a car battery. 

6. after a million text messages and him "researching" on-line, he went and got one.

7. i have to keep reminding myself that i should be happy that my kids need me but every once in awhile it would be nice if they made a decision on their own and shared that with me instead.  [kaylee will ask me if she can go upstairs and play in her room. really?!]

8. i'm still painting, cleaning and organizing the house. i have a real mess right now.

9. took a table from my craft to put in kaylee's room so she can use it as a desk. took the dresser out of her room to use in the guest room #1. took a dresser out of the guest room #1 to sell in our some day garage sale. took a headboard out guest/storage room and put it in guest room#1. now we're going to trade ham's bed for the guest room #1 bed because its a queen and it fits the head board.

10. did you get all that? 

wsww and her first concert

 week 11

week 10

1. i'm not sure where i've been. i've been here just not on the blog.

2. week 10 on what she wore wednesday, it rained for a few days if you can't tell.

3. week 11, on tuesday, it was dress in 50's for their 50th day in school.

4. ham finally sold his desktop computer. the one he built himself.

5. so saturday we went to the apple store and got him a laptop for his early birthday present. [he payed for half though the money was probably from his allowance we give him to buy food]

6. kaylee was super upset-like tears in her eyes because he got his birthday present [january] before she got hers. [december]

7. and she called him the golden child of the family. [kids sure are funny!]

8. but i think we got back in her good gracious when we took her to  the children's festival in the woodlands. 

9.  zendaya was going to be there and tickets were only $12.00. can't beat a $12 concert. 

10. we got her a zendaya t-shirt and a photo just in case she got a chance to meet her. [found out they handed out meet and greet wristbands at noon. we didn't get there till around 1pm.]  

halloween + a fun video

 halloween 2013 with our "nerdy" neighbor

halloween from 2008- 2012

1. kaylee ended up being a candy thief this year. which was a great hit. i love it when no else is wearing the same thing.

2. i made her mask out of felt and sewed stretchy band around it and her bag is a pillow case that i painted. love that she can wear the clothes again.

3. the night ended up being perfect. the rain stopped and it wasn't too hot or too chilly.

4. mike was suppose to take her around but i went instead since merribelle + ashley mom's were going. 

5. mike was in rare form anyway so i didn't want him going around being all loud and obnoxious. ashley's dad ended up hanging out with mike once they caught up to us.

6. sad, we didn't get to end our tradition with birthday cake for anderson. [he was at tennis and then had to go to the library]

7. i painted the trim in ham's bathroom yesterday. i think it looks awesome but i'm sure ham will find something to complain about.

8. after a few errands this morning, i'm going to start painting his room.

9. one wall will be the same color as the bathroom trim and the others will be white. [photos soon]

10. and some fun entertainemnt: i've been watching this over and over. it makes me happy.

fall decor and debates with myself

 front entry

family room 

1. after seeing the johnson's house all decorated in their gory halloween decor, i decided to go and get some fall decorations. still needing some mums and pumpkins for the front porch then thats it for the year unless its something on sale.

2. happy that i was able to score some halloween decor for 50% off. one thing i learned, if you like something buy it cuz' it won't be there when you come back.

3. mike left saturday for his dallas get away with the guys. [cory and bruce]

4. he got mad at me saturday night. my feelings are still hurt.

5. i made dinners while he was gone and 2 different types of energy/protein bars for ham.

6. friday we went out for pizza only to find my pizza place in the woodlands is gone. not sure where they went either. 

7. so we ended up eating at pf changs. [ham even came with us] 

8. and got the cheesecake factory for dessert to- go.

9. while waiting for our seats, i went over to anthropologie and debated, again, on getting a mug. they're so pretty but do i need another mug is the debate. 

10. so i decided i'm going to get one the next time i'm there.