Some projects....

So here are two of my most recent crafts that I just love! I want/need them for myself, but sigh... I never end up doing my crafts for myself, always as gifts. This brown table runner for Thanksgiving was for my sis-in-law, and the monogrammed hand towels were for my mother-in-law. I love the Thanksgiving runner. It was too long to take a picture of the whole thing, so you see each end. I love hemstitched stuff. I have hemstitch tablecloths in every color, just love them. I didn't want to say "Happy Thanksgiving" cause that just seemed to0 obvious and maybe a little cheesy, so I came up with this, and I thought it sounded like Thanksgiving just perfectly! And yes, I did the fall leaves. I'm still figuring out my embroidery machine but I actually thought this turned out pretty good.

Ryan's First USC Game

We took the kids to the USC v. Washington game on Saturday. It poured rain right before we got there (we got there a little late due to the rain), and we had a great time! We got free tickets from a friend of Jason's sister (thanks again!) and it was a total blow-out (like we figured) so it was the perfect game to take the kids to. We had fun, cheered, ate popcorn, and enjoyed. Jayne has been to several games already in her short life, so she was an old pro. She's got the fight song and cheers down, and loves watching the horse come out after a touch down. She's also starting to learn players and positions. Ryan did great! He LOVED having so many things to look at and see. It was a great time!


My dad, uncle and 2 cousins were also at the game on Saturday and they had to sit through the rain since they got there on time. Here's my dad with Jayne!

Happy Halloween

We had a great Halloween. We originally had planned to have a party at my sis-in-law in OC but she got the flu on Thursday night so we had a change in plans. With that family out sick, we were out numbered in OC, so we drove up to Burbank after work (LONG drive!) and met up with cousins, grandparents, and aunt and uncle for the festivities. We spent the night and hit the SC game the next day with the kids. See next post. Ryan was a great sport trick or treating and did great wearing his Giraffe costume. Princess Belle had a wonderful time and got loads of candy! Jason and I are having fun sharing it with her.

Finally, Fall Leaves

With a backyard comes grass, and lucky for us, some fall leaves! Jayne has had so much fun collecting the leaves. She hasn't quite figured out that they will just keep falling until they're all off the tree. Here's some pictures of our backyard that we are so excited to have!

A Happy Birthday

I had a wonderful birthday week! Thanks to everyone for their birthday wishes, calls, presents, etc. We had a little party at my parents last weekend, then on my birthday my mom, grandma, sister Tiffany (and Ashton), and Nita drove up to take me out to lunch! We had so much fun! That night Jason made dinner, and grilled fish. He's such a great cook. He cleaned up, then we went out for ice cream. I had a great day! Then Friday, my parents drove up to babysit for us so we could go out on a date! We haven't done that in a while, so it was great. We went to dinner and a movie. I also finally got around to taking the kids swimming at the club on Friday and we went back on Saturday with Jason. We topped off the weekend with church Sunday, then a BBQ at my bro/sis-in-law's house. We had such a great weekend and I had such a great birthday! Thank you to everyone!! I think this was a great birthday cause I'm still in my 20's, just barely. I really think I'm going to cry next year turning 30! How can I really be that old! So I'm not going to think about it. :-)

Tag- 4x4

My Sister-In-Law Jenni tagged me for this cute post. You find the 4th picture in your 4th folder on your computer. Here it is!
This makes me want to go back! We are in Ocean Isle, North Carolina at our friends family beach house. We stayed there for a week with them 2 summers ago, I think. Jayne was around 18 months or so. We took this picture on the deck of the house. It was one of our best vacations! We loved it. And we love North Carolina now too cause we had such a great time. Hopefully we'll get back out there for another vacation some day. We did South Carolina this past summer and that was great too. Fun, fun!

Now I tag: Leanna, Melissa, Brittany, Danna

Does it feel like October to you?

I am so tired of being hot! It was 95 degrees today and we're only 5 miles from the beach. This is truly the endless summer! It has been hard getting into the Halloween/Fall spirit when it feels like the middle of August. I still haven't put our swim stuff away and I've already had to get Ryan the next size up suit! That's 3 sizes in 1 long summer!

So I took the kids to the pumpkin patch today to try and get us in the Halloween mood. We had a great time at this totally commercialized, overpriced pumpkin patch near the mall. It was clean, had tons of games, rides, food, decorations, anything Halloween you could ever want. Maybe we'll go back with Jason on Saturday to do the pony rides. Jayne got to pick 1 ride today and picked the swing. Ryan was a good sport as usual.

Here's wishing for jeans and sweatshirts weather......