It's Fall!!!

Author: Miranda /




Yes that's right, It's October 2nd and I believe it is officially fall, at a whopping 40 degrees when we woke up and a forecast of 71 degrees at the warmest today. I love this time of year, cooler weather, sweatshirts, cute sweaters, jeans and light jackets. I have so many more cute fall/winter clothes than i do for summer. Also the colors are just an inspiration for crafting, browns, oranges, deep purples, red's and maroon's, gold, etc. The colors of Harvest are so fun to work with I don't know where to start. I am currently working on a pink and white fun fur scarf in honor of breast cancer awareness month. I have included a picture of my progress so far, now my camera doesn't capture the color that well, but you can get the idea.


Also with fall there are falling leaves and in our back yard falling chesnuts. We have two chestnut trees that haven't produced since we moved in 3 yrs ago and this year we have an over abundance of chestnuts. now if you know chestnuts you know the outer casing for them are spiney and prickley, my boys call them porcipines....well as we were outside yesterday i saw that once again the ground around their swingset was covered, but as they had tennis shoes on they didn't seem to be bothered by it....till JJ fell down, I didn't see exactly where but he came to me saying his knee really really really hurt, so we pulled the leg of his pants up and sure enough he had landed on one of those casings and had little prickers stuck in his knee...6 total...poor thing, I pulled them out, set him on a chair and proceeded to go rake up as much of them as i could....lol I have also included a picture of his knee this am, he wanted to document it for yaya. :)


Also we recently purchased a Wii and a Wii Fit board and game...I had talkd to a friend who got it and said she loved it, didnt' even feel like working out. Well the main system also came with sports games, tennis, baseball, golf, bowling, and boxing. Ryan and I decided to try out bowlin the first night we had it and had a blast, we also tried tennis...which i am not so good at and then golf which was pretty fun. Well within a game Connor was imitating what we were doing with bowling so he wanted to try, i made a deal with him that if he had a good day at school the next day i would let him play for 30 min, needless to say he had a good day at school, so after putting JJ down for a nap we fired up the Wii and played...and let me say he is good! almost beat me at bowling, we tried golf..which he didn't care for and baseball which he thought was fun...i believe that for his stocking this year we will be getting him his own Wii controller...lol I also did the Wii fit the night we got it and yesterday...it is great fun and a good workout, it has yoga, aerobics, balance, strength training. So far i have done yoga, aerobics and balance....I am not so good at balance, but need to practice, but i LOVE the yoga and aerobics, I can def see staying with it.


I am down 25 lbs so far since i started attempting to lose weight about 3 months ago and would love to take off another 25 so wish me luck!




Till next time.....get out and enjoy this weather and the wonderful colors.


M

Report card

Author: Miranda /

Yesterday was report card day and Connor's was good, he has mastered all the areas they have been workin on but needs improvement on following directions, doing work without disturbing others, listening attentively, and following conversational rules. Imagine that...lol Other than that he had a great report and that equals like an A/B honor roll which at karate means he earns a red star for his uniform and keeps him on track for his next belt. I like that his karate teacher ties in school with progress in class as well. He needs one more stripe on his current belt before he can test for his next jr belt. I feel that will happen soon, he had a great night last night and was in a good mood when i dropped him off today. He knows that as a reward for a good report card he gets to add one song to his Fp3 player and if he has 5 good days at school he gets to add another one on friday. Thursday is grandparents day at school, but since my mom and dad are on the road Connor has decided to invite one of our neighbors to go have lunch with him, he decided he wants to as Miss Hallie Mae from next door to go with him, so we will walk over after school today so he can do so. I think she will be very happy to have him invite her. She is a very sweet older lady and just loves the boys. I still have a terrible cough from my sinus issues from last week so I have decided it may be best if I don't help in Connor's class today, but plan on going in on Thursday while JJ is in preschool.
Connor has started his christmas list to Santa, it is fun to see what he wants and he loves to look at the list as we add things, and of course it is a long list...lol
As far as crafting I am currently workin on some fun fur scarves, a pink and white one and a red and black one, they go so fast. Just something to keep my hands busy. :)
ryan made it home late last friday night and the boys were so happy to have him back, we had a great weekend and are now back to a somewhat normal schedule. but it's great to have him back home!

Well it's time to take the little rugrat to school, wishing everyone a great day!
Miranda

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