It's my Birthday and I am ONE!

Concert #2

Concert #1

So, if you look on the back row, all the way to your right... the last boy standing up there is my son, Spidey!!!

Check out his cool moves and watch as he opens his mouth nice and wide to enunciate the lyrics! He is doing his music teaching mother's heart proud!

Happy Birthday, Grandmom!

Saturday's Recital Location:

Giveaway

One of the blogs that I read to find all of my deals is offering an amazing giveaway this week. So in an effort to win, I am leaving this blog entry with a link to her awesome site!!!

www.moneysavingmom.com

Because I am a money-saving-mom!!!

Happy Birthday, Baby!

Are you one?!

Unbirthdays

Yesterday we celebrated our niece's 18th Birthday! Her birthday is actually Thursday, Dec 10th, but since her Dad has to go out of town, the party was early! We had a great time. She had a lot of her friends there and they enjoyed playing Guitar Hero. Spiderman even got in on the action. The best part about it was she really had no idea she was having a huge party, so it was fun to see her so surprised and enjoying it all! Earlier in the day she came and hung out with me, we went to a movie, etc...

Today is Baby's birthday party, even though his birthday isn't until Dec 22nd. We are having a few close friends and family members over to celebrate that he will be One Year Old very soon! I am hoping that he will cooperate and walk for everyone at the party.

Time to go to church and then come home and finish getting ready for the party! Pictures to follow, including one for my sister who wants to see a pic of me and my skinnier self. :)

Starting to Walk

This is kind of a "sad" video due to the fact that I couldn't get the shot to be far enough away from him... and his desire to always been touching me at all times... but at least at one point you can see that he is taking steps. Up to four or five at a time. And he's very adventurous, speedy when crawling, and interested in all kinds of things he shouldn't. Notice at the end he is playing with a package of cabinet locks that NEED to be installed! Ha!

Thanksgiving Feast

Here's our big boy at his Kindergarten class Thanksgiving Day Feast. It was on Tuesday morning, their last day of school, before dismissal. The baby and I were able to stop by and see what was on the menu, plus snap a few photos of the big brother eating (well, supposed to be, more on that later...) with his friends! The girls were dressed as pilgrims and the boys as Indians. They each were able to help make their costumes. They also made Turkey party favor cups (decorated like a turkey and filled with popcorn and candy), Turkey napkin rings, Maps of the Mayflower's journey for place-mats, and the food. They mixed the batter for pumpkin bars and helped to fix the cornbread. They also had chicken legs, cranberry sauce, fried bread (something the Pilgrims ate supposedly), and green bean casserole.

Just sitting there, not eating...

And showing me things...

He was just too social to eat his feast, so we ate it in the car on the way home!
I enjoyed the pumpkin bar... Yum! Does anyone notice the "Shaw Thumb?!?!?!" ;-) Haha.

Playing Together

Walking???

I have a feeling that our little Baby is going to be walking by the end of the week. He's cruising around the furniture and today he started taking the few steps between items, solo!!!

He's very proud of himself!

Thanksgiving Week

Tomorrow Spiderman's class will be celebrating the holiday with a Thanksgiving Feast. Baby and I plan to join him and see his class dressed up as Native American Indians, as they chow down on turkey legs and candy tee-pees and pumpkin bars, etc. Today I believe they are preparing all the food for tomorrow. ;-) I will of course be sure to bring the camera with me!

It's a quiet week in our household this time around... so thankful for that! We are trying to wrap up some of the house projects that have been going on, do some Christmas shopping, hang the Christmas lights (which Hubby is SUPER excited to do this year as he has enough lights, that he got from work, to do the whole roof-line, etc.!), and of course bake and eat! I will really have to watch my points the rest of the week because I don't plan on counting them on Thursday! Wise choices will still be made, however!

The baby is cutting teeth. He hasn't been a happy boy of late. Poor little guy. I am hoping they make their appearance soon so we can all enjoy a more pleasant time at home together this week.

What are your plans?

Rolling, rolling, rolling...

Life just keeps rolling on. Why do I feel like I am struggling to keep up?!

Things have just been too crazy to blog lately. That is why all you've gotten is pictures! We have been doing some more renovations on our home and I am actually writing this while sitting in the new studio. It's an amazing room. I can't wait to post pictures when it is done! Right now I am surrounded by a lot of stuff and a lot of boxes and tomorrow morning I will start in with the sorting and putting away. I have an amazing pantry with 12 huge shelves to put things on. There is room down below for more storage as well. I can't wait to stock it up with all my FREE stuff... and some other stuff too, that I just don't have room for!

Saturday I hosted my first Kindermusik Playdate (free demo of classes). I got a few registrations and some interested people... don't know what will come of it, but I am hoping that God blesses me with lots of students over the next few months. I want to share this beautiful new space!

This week will be busy with preparations for my CM Open House and all-day workshop. Can you believe it's time to start Christmas shopping again?! I am shocked! I feel like it was just a little while ago that I was doing this and at the same time preparing to give birth to my baby! Now I have a little boy who is almost walking and another one who is learning to write in cursive at school every day. Life changes and it changes QUICKLY.

I guess we can just be thankful that each speedy day brings us closer to heaven and everlasting peace.

Reformation Day Celebration

My Friend and Sister

Shooting Animals in the Forrest

Auntie, Baby and Mama

Crazy Cousin

Crazy Niece(s)

Baby and Mama

Daddy's Pumpkin is SCARY!

Carving Boy!

School is Awesome

Here he is! Reciting a chant that he learned at his school!
The second video is the Pledge of Allegiance.
We are so proud of our little Kindergartener!!!!

Our Home

Our Little Boo-Boo

He's growing so big!
Today he climbed out of his playpen for the first time...
guess I had better keep a closer eye on this little guy!

More of the Future Studio

Why I Coupon Shop!

Retail Value of Above: $27.40
My OOP (out of pocket): $5.30

I am awesome.

Improving the Garage

New doors on the side of the garage.

New back door.

New side doors from the inside. The one on the left will be the entrance of the shop and the one on the right will enter the "studio" room.

Before and During the Painting

Starting work on the front of the house.

Above garage and across the new addition.

Scraping and Prepping the side of the Garage.

Working on the side of the house.

Whered I Go?

I have been spending up all my blogging time here: Kindermusik with Natalie Shaw so I just haven't had time to blog on my own site. Sorry. Hopefully that will change soon... I have a funny video of Spiderman's review of school. Maybe I can get that loaded tonight...

Going to School

Spiderman started Kindergarten this week. He enjoyed his first day though he didn't say much about it except that the teacher made him sit at a table with girls. Today (second day) he rode the bus.... his sweet little face peeked out the window, waving and smiling the biggest smile. I love that boy!

Ready to go to school!

Mommy is sad to see him go... but he's ready!

Baby is ready to go, too!

Walking to the car after his first day! He looks happy!

Walking to the bus stop in the cool morning air!

"Cool Beans!"

Big Boys

New School Uniform

8 months old

The Harvest

Grilled Zucchini - one of my favs!

a few cans of Tomatoes

Green Beans and Sliced Tomatoes

Not so much a fan of the Zucchini...

(not pictured - peppers and homemade salsa!)

Vaca Pics #2

Here are both sets of Grandparents while we were visiting Warminster, PA! It makes me happy to have pictures of my boys with their beloved Gmas and Gpas!