The things kids say...

As I am sitting here getting ready to put Elijah down for a nap, myself included, we are having small talk. I told him he had to take a nap in 1 minute, he then looks at me and says, holding up his pointer finger, "mommy, in 2 -1 minutes I will go to bed." I love it! Bryan tried explaining to him yesterday that he can say, 2 minutes. But I think he prefers his way of saying it.

I really need to just keep a list of all the sweet-cute things he says. He really makes my day.

Okay, back to getting him ready for his nap...in 2-1 minutes.

Christmas wreath

We won't be decorating a ton this year as we are days away from our little Eva arriving. But I am hoping to get a few things up for Christmas. I think Christmas decorations are great and so much fun! I just love the smell of the tree in the house and the warm fires we have been running at night.

Here is the Christmas wreath I just finished for our front door... total cost $2.00 (I already had the wreath and pine cones and bought the ribbon and ornaments at the Dollar Tree). I still don't know what I am doing but I am having fun being thrifty.

Easy gift idea

Here is an easy yet fun gift idea. You can use these as recipe holders of even to hold a favorite picture of yours.

I just took old tiles and hot glued a clothes pin to the back...so simple yet fun. The one with the buttons was a white tile I got from home depot...you could really paint these or glue what ever you want to them to make them unique and fun!

Fall has come and gone, 4 weeks till Christmas

I can not believe fall has come and gone and now we are 4 weeks away from Christmas. I have not even started Christmas shopping yet. I am still working on projects around the house and yet to have all my pictures ready for before and afters but promise to get there. With that, we are still waiting patiently for little Evangeline to get here. We are hoping any time now in the next week but of course not wanting to rush God's timing. After our last appointment she was nice and snug and it didn't look like she was coming anytime soon...at least not until her due date or maybe even later.

This fall has been great. The weather has been so nice, especially when you are pregnant, and Elijah has loved playing outside. Here are a few pictures of Elijah over the past two months.

We took him to the airshow in October over at Dobbins. He really liked it. I thought it would be too loud for him but he was having so much fun. I did take him home before the Blue Angels because he needed a nap so I guess he missed the loudest parts. He is just like his daddy when it comes to planes.

And then I got some fun pictures of him playing in leaves. He thought it was so fun to make the piles then run and jump. I remember those days...oh to be young and carefree again with no worries in the world.

Goodbye "nunnie"

So today is the day...I took Elijah to the store to by a toy with his "nunnie" aka... PACIFIER!

I had no clue how this was going to go but it was time. He is 2 1/2 years old, my niece is loosing hers this weekend to the passy fairy and well his had a huge hole in it and it was on its last leg anyways. So I have been prepping him for two days about this BIG purchase and how he is a big boy. We get to the store and he picked out a package of 3 cars...pixar Disney CARS, of course. Then he also found an orange motorcycle. I thought to myself, $8.00... I can stand that for the loss of a pacifier. He was so excited about his purchase that we got to the car and he said so proudly, "I bought these with my nunnie." I thought, okay this is easier than I thought (besides the fact of getting to the register and the $8.00 purchase was $13.00, ugh! Too late, he was already buying them).

We made it all the way to the subdivision without him asking for it AND he was past his nap. UNTIL 1 mile from the house... "mommy, can we go to the store for my nunnie?" Great!

I was able to change the subject enough to get him inside to play. Then came nap time, he fussed for less than 5 minutes, asked for his nunnie...then fell asleep.

We will see how bedtime goes tonight.... the story continues!

Happy Fall

Today has been a chilly day but so nice at the same time. I really enjoy the fall weather. Time for fires, coffee, soups, cuddling and blankets...

Please bear with me if I am in rambling mood and I just got up from a much enjoyed/needed nap. I wish I could sleep the whole 2 hours my son sleeps. I seem to wake up after an hour. Sad! I decided I needed to update some... I should have some more finalized pictures of the kids rooms soon. Eva's is getting "organized" while Elijah's looks like a used car lot with all his toy cars. Speaking of cars, Elijah LOVES the 'Cars' movie. And by LOVE I mean we watch it every day and he mocks it...can anyone say, "Cars 2 PLEASE PLEASE come out soon!" He is definitely all boy. (except for when I paint his toe nails, LOL...but he is 2, who cares, right? HA!)

Bryan and I are almost finished organizing and cleaning out our closet... I should have taken a before picture, you would be shocked. Now on to discovering and coming up with more projects. :)

This past month our sweet friends Ben and Kandice got married October 23rd at my parents house in Jasper. It was a beautiful fall wedding! Ben has lived with us for the past year and a half. Now we are being blessed with both of them moving in with us and they will be returning from their honeymoon this week. We are so excited to have them with us.

As for Halloween. Elijah was a race car, or at least his costume was. We could not get him to wear it. The one time he tried it on was my chance for a picture. Maybe I can try to get it on him again. Oh well. He stayed home with his Nana and Papa so Bryan and I could go out on a date. THANK YOU Nana and Papa!

Enough rambling for now, on to hang out with Elijah, who just got up from his nap.