I just can't get enough of these guys!

Every time I look at this girl she makes me smile! Her high pitched voice and how she repeats herself so much when she's excited and just the fact that she is beautiful and smart and amazingly I get to be her mom!

and this little guy-

I think Heavenly Father laughs to himself every time he sees Payton out logic-ing me. He is the smarty pants in our family and such a little lover and cuddler- I hate having him leave to go to school each day because he is just so much fun to be around and such a huge helper.

 He makes me laugh, think, reason, and makes my life so much fun.

I seriously can't get enough of my kids- I can't even begin to imagine how miserable my life would be without them and we get to be blessed again with another one-- Life is great!

On another note I hope everyone had a amazing Thanksgiving-- ours was pretty good except for the me getting sick that night part.
 We had so much food and tons of fun having friends over to help us celebrate- The flowers Dave gave me even survived long enough to make an appearance at thanksgiving :)   It was fun and the turkey was good, well delicious- especially since Dave cooked it :) - but I am glad it's over now and am so ready for CHRISTMAS!!!!
Bring on the Christmas music!




*The Bastains took our family photos's-thank you thank you thank you-- I know we are an impossible family to photograph- so I really appreciate it!

Sometimes I do very stupid things.

Like making faces like these when I'm getting my picture taken- What?!

But I'm not talking about that stupid thing that I do-- :)

I'm talking about the fact that I jumped the gun on changing my blog Html and didn't open my widgets when I saved the old blog code so I have lost all of my links-- yes all of them!

Thanks to my embarrassing history ( I think I get bored a lot and just click through most the links just for fun--that's my excuse) and a lot of blog hopping I've got a lot of them but I know I'm still missing some and I would so love it it you'd leave a comment so I can find your blog and link to you again-- Really I would-

I like keeping up on stalking people :)

PS. just so you know I'm not done changing the blog yet so that's why it looks a little silly and some links don't work :)

Workin

So most days lately I've been looking similar to this-- I found a ring and it ended up being a horcrux :)

No actually I've just finally gotten some energy back and have been tackling house projects again. I've been trying to figure out some sort of small mudroom catch all center forever-- this house really doesn't have much options for that so this is what we finally came up with and built a couple of weekends ago, and I have loved it! (please ignore the hideous door our house is so still a work in progress)
I also started tackling the banister-- It use to be a hideous orange colored wood- but it's still a work in progress so I haven't removed the tape yet.
Along with the banister I decided to start tackling the doors on the main level and painting them white-- (they were also the horrible orange-- would love to just get new ones but the cost and the hassle of putting in all new doors- ugh so were gonna see if white will work)
While waiting for the paint on the doors to dry I've been stripping one of the dressers that I bought-- I love stripper-- the way it bubbles-- so fun!

And because I didn't have to much to do I decided I'd try and paint our doorknobs and see if I liked them-- they use to be the ugly brass/gold. We sanded them, got primer on them, brown paint a little black and two coats of clear top coat-- hopefully that works---
And poor Dave has been sick the last few days. Brynley decided she wanted to take her nap with dad today since he was home-- I loved watching my two sweeties sleep in my break time waiting for paint to dry

I love working on projects but man sometimes it's discouraging to have so many-- this last weekend we put up some trim around some doors and on our bar so I need to work on sanding, calking and painting those too this week-- and I have a major dilema that prolly tommorrow I'll be asking for some help with but it's to late to take pictures tonite.

Loving the journey but sometimes I can't wait for it to be done!

Halloween

I can't believe Halloween was only 2 days ago for some reason it seems like ages now to me. Anyways Brynley got to go to a Halloween Party at her Joyschool she was so excited to wear her costume and put glitter on. Payton didn't have school and was very jealous that Bryn was getting to go to school let alone a party-- I laughed about it cuz' he's always teasing Brynley that his school is bigger than a house.On Halloween we went to the wards trunk or treat carnival and they didn't allow masks which Payton was very bummed about cuz' he loved his optimus prime mask but Daddy made him feel better about it by helping paint his face like his mask.

Brynley wanted to be a fairy princess this year and the dress my mom bought for her when she was like 2 on a halloween clearance finally kinda fits this year it's still a little long but Brynley doesn't mind. She also wore the pretty wings Grandma bought her while tending her while me and dave went to hunting camp this year. Me and Bryn had lots of fun getting ready-- curling her hair and using lots of glitter-- I love having a girly girl! After the trunk or treat we came home and watched the new tinkerbell and relaxed. The kids had tons of candy so we didn't go out around the block with them. Tiki was very confused by the Holiday-- he gets so excited and barks when ever the doorbell rings and with it ringing every few min and such crazy visitors coming he didn't know quite what to think- eventually we just shut off our light cuz' his barking was driving us crazy especially when we were trying to watch the movie. Overall it was a fun night, it's fun to watch your kids get excited over getting dressed up and candy--