he gives me nothing but pure JOY!

here are a few pics of our adventure…

let's go!

likes the farm better than the pumpkin patch part!

don't know who is more orange, the child or the pumpkin?

I like this one!

daddy and his mini me at the duck pond by our house

I will catch you, mister duck!

climbing through tunnels is so much fun!

I finally did it! I was brave enough to take my sweet baby boy to get his gorgeous red hair cut. This was very hard for me. It is another milestone which means he is growing up and time is flying by. Thanks to my sweet friend’s suggestion I was at much better ease with this place. They gave me a certificate with snip its of his hair in a little plastic bag! Wonderful idea!

here are a few pics…

loving the bubbles

would have guessed this much curl?

first snip

starting to look like a little boy (sniff sniff)

check me out!

nothing goes better with a haircut than a lollipop

My friend did a post of her decorative things in her home. If you read it all the way through you were considered tagged so here I am….

So, today after my run at Myer Park I decided we would play at our little neighborhood park. Honestly, we have never use it. I know I am so ashamed because it is a nice one! Anyway, they have several slides, a plastic rock climbing wall, teeter toter, cars, merry go round, a volleyball court and tennis courts. You have to have a key to get into our playground area. Which is fine and makes me feel somewhat safe. However, the tennis courts usually are just open and are never locked. Little man wanted to discover the open space of the tennis courts. I let him and myself into the area to play chase mommie! He loves that game. After about 15 minutes, we needed a potty break or should I say I needed a potty break. I walked over to the gate to open it and discovered very quickly we are locked in. OH NO! “Don’t panic”, I say to myself. I had left our bag with the keys on the bench in the playground area. YIKES! Plus, the gate has only a key entry in and out so you can’t reach around with your hand and turn the lock to open it. I laughed! I began to think okay I am a resourceful woman. There has to be a way. I know! There are 24 hour surrveillance video cameras on so maybe if I wave my hands around like a crazy person they would look and see a toddler and his momma locked in. Right? Quickly, I prayed my 9-1-1 prayer! “I need wisdom now or a police officer would work too Lord!”  I looked at the gate to see that some of the metal had been twisted off to where there was a little opening but not much. I decided to twist off the rest on the sides to create a bigger whole so we both could get out. Sure enough it worked. My little man must have understood because he was right behind me or thought we were going to wrestle since I was so low to the ground. We were free and leaving very quickly since my bladder was in “relieve me” mode.

SO HOW WAS YOUR DAY???? lol

p.s. the above thought process took all of about 90 seconds….=0)

tennis courts

this is where we crawled through to get out

tennis gate

tennis gate

….helpless when my child is sick. It is the worst feeling in the world! I am so grateful that Hubby is back. He does make our world complete!

another photo from first day of preschool

they come in different sizes! whether your feet are size 15 or 5 =0)!

here they are….

at the house before leaving

someone took my paci from me!

wanna go for a ride?

I love you mommie! and Elmo too!

let's go!

they do look alike!

playing my harmonica on the way to school.

Well, we decided to redo the laundry room. New paint, new shelves, and new flooring. We picked travertine for the flooring. It is easier(in my opinion) to lay down travertine than tile. You have to deal with spacers and start from the center of the room. Travertine it is like a puzzle piece that you put together and can cut as you go along to make things fit. No I did not use a wet saw but I did use mortar and help hubby finish off the flooring by doing the border around the flooring. I even did the grout. The travertine is all different patterns but in the same family so it looks more like stone when your done. I am very proud of myself! This is something that I thought I couldn’t do but in the end found out I could and I loved it! My friend Mrs. TD is the most handy woman I have ever met. I think she would be proud of me!

Here are before and a few after…I have more after but have not downloaded them yet…

linoleum on top of linoleum was how the previous owner "fix it"

This picture is not the complete after shot. I will post that later!

Now, you can’t tell but once you seal the flooring, it gets darker and the colors of each travertine piece come together. I promise it looks good! We had so much fun! Okay, maybe there were a few problems but we worked them out. Homeownership is an interesting journey!