Is there a resemblance

Maybe!  Let's ask my kids - ok that was a bad joke - but when I saw this pic of me up on my blog - it made he think of....Here' Johnny.......  Random?  Totally - but that's just me.  :)

These are my people.....

.....while editing Megan's graduation photos I discovered something - we've got MAD photogenic skills!  Awesome!  Man we're good...I love these people!

 

 (this is the - she will rip your skin right off your body face)

 (note to family members who didn't make this page - please don't be sad - you are far to normal - be happy)

Funny funny funny!

Ok I don't have me a swagger wagon - but if I did I would be singing this song really loudly all the time - so hilarious!!!



I love their commercials - that dad CRACKS me up!

Enjoy this little laugh of the day!

Woohoo!!!

I am ok with the fact that these movies might be made for teenage girls!  I still LOVE them all the same!  Oh those lines!  Cannot wait!!!

Enjoy!

A litle somethin somethin for you....

So loving this right now!  Love Train!  Enjoy my friends!!!

A Little Music For You to Enjoy

Macey shared this song with me today - it very beautiful!

Enjoy!

Falls Here

Sandal weather may be coming to an end - WOOHOO!!! Not that I don't love my sandals - but I LOVE FALL!!!!!!!!!!! I really really do. I love the cold nights and mornings - I sleep like a baby. I love the cool sunny afternoons. The colors of the leaves make me swoon - and giddy! Even the smell is so comforting. This is my season - I just can't help but be happy!

I am not sure if I told you all or not but I have a new job - I have been at it since the end of August. And here is a little secret - I love this job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As far as outside the home jobs - this job is truly the best job ever!!! I am an assistant preschool teacher - I know - I am so lucky!!! This was one of those things I thought might be too good to be true when I interviewed for it. The ladies I interviewed with were beyond wonderful. When I got the call offering me the job I was beyond thrilled. So there ya have I work outside the home now with two bunches of absolutely adorable kiddoes, and alongside some really fantastic teachers. I only work mornings so I still get to create like a mad woman in the afternoons - which also makes me giddy!!!

Life is good!

So I was reading on Scrap Happy her list of things she would like to accomplish in the next few months - and I thought it was brilliant - I have a growing list of things I want to do - so what better than to post them here - maybe some of the items will inspire you to do something different - or maybe not.

Make hot pepper pizza.

Make tomato pizza.

Go to wildlife safari for the Halloween festivities.

Go to Fontenelle Forest for their Halloween festivities.

Make a pumpkin roll.

Make new jewelry - lots and lots of it.

And hoping I sell lots and lots of said jewelry!!!

Do a layout a day in the month of October.

Go make more pottery.

Make squash soup.

Bake a pumpkin for the first time ever.

Learn to crochet - and secretly hoping I am as good as my mom!

Make Christmas gifts for my sisters, my mom, my grandma and my mother in law.

I have ALWAYS (or at least for as long as I have known Martha Stewart (yes we are bff's))wanted to have a beautiful Harvest party outside in the beautiful cool fall weather - with a perfectly decorated table in the yard dressed like it should be inside. Complete with soup in a pumpkin - maybe this year I will get around to it. A girl can dream.....

Umm yeah a date with my hubby would be nice - it's been a while.

VALA's here we come - I love Vala's pumpkin patch - we will be going at least twice possibly three times this year.

Make new friends!!!

Get together with the wonderful friends I have.

Send care packages to my 3 nieces and 2 nephews.

Send a letter - via snail mail - it has been sooooooo long since I have done this!

Read lots and lots of books - like My Sister's Keeper and all the rest of Jodi Picoult's books and The End of the Alphabet.

Watch The Family Stone over and over again and Goonies - cause I LOVE them.

Family Movie night - we are overdue - thinking it will be Where the Wild Things Are.

Go to Halloween 2 with my hubby - cause we like scarry movies.

Rent Trick R Treat - reason see above.

Decorate our house super spooky and ghoulish for Halloween - cause we love Halloween. And we sort of love spooky! Steve had a great idea to put a full sized Michael Myers behind our gate in our backyard - the street light shines right on that area - it would be freaky - might a scare a few little ones but it would be cool - the having it there not scaring the little ones!!!

Make homemade egg rolls.

Run with Connor.

Commit to walk or run at least 3 times per week - ideally 4 or 5.

Read Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs with my Xanderman.

Complete an altered canvas (like Jayne)

Go to New Moon with Xander!!!! DUH!! We both can't wait! The rest of the family are welcomes to come - the other two boys are just not that in to it and the girl - yeah we are just not cool enough - she will not doubt see it with her friends.

Etch some silver.

Etch some brass.

Make more super cool leather cuffs - I wear mine pretty much daily - love the smell of leather and it looks SOOOOO cool!

Laugh a lot.

Maybe even dance a little.

And love much!!!!!

If you have a list made or will be making please do share with me!!! I love to read these fantastic lists - it inspires me to try new things!!!

I hope you ALL have a beautiful fall.

We Made Pottery

A few weeks ago we went in to the one of the coolest places in Omaha - The Art Mill and got busy making pottery! All three kids and me. Such fun. We rolled out the clay and used slump molds to get the basic shape we wanted and then decorated as we saw fit. Then about a week later we went back in and glazed. And yesterday (about another week later) I picked up these beauties. I think they are all GORGEOUS. The kids did a great job - and they enjoyed themselves.

Here is mine:


Here is Maceys:


Here is Xanders:


And here is Connors:


If you live in Omaha - you really should go visit Jane at The Art Mill she has an assortment of classes offered or open studio for your different needs - you just pay as you go. I think it would be great fun to get a few women together for a pottery night - so if you are interested let me know - I could get us on the books.

I still have three pounds of clay left - I am going to be stingy and save it ALL for me - I have got some ideas brewing that I am really looking forward to.

Some of our favorite places in Sheridan

We were lucky enough to visit some of our favorite places while in Sheridan:

Sibley Lake:





and Emerson Park - which we lovingly call the Crawdad Park - lots of picnic lunches here when we lived in Sheridan.








I really could move back to Sheridan - really I could.

Friends

I love going back to Sheridan because my bestest friends live there! They are truly the best. We just pick up where we left off. I miss them terribly!

Kim and Eric had all of us over for a bbq after the run on Saturday night - they have a beautiful home and the bbq was such fun - thank you guys SOOOOO much for inviting us all over. We all had such a great time.









Love this picture - he is just so handsome! :)





Kim and Eric had a couple of house guest from Australia and they really did keep us entertained - it was great to meet them! They are lucky enough to be traveling around the US for the next few months - just seeing the sites. Be safe and have fun Scott and Ben.

Vacation was wonderful

It was so good to be back in Miles City and Sheridan. Now we are back in Nebraska and I am missing my family and friends already.
Really we just relaxed, visited and enjoyed the getaway.

Enjoy some random pics from Miles City - up next Sheridan.