Autumn Blessings

backyard pictures

2009-08-01T15:08:00.000-07:00

we have the white building that I am thinking of using as a consession area we can unboard the window and the kids can order what they want. Where the playhouse is, is where I am thinking of settng up the spiderweb toss, and the spider ring toss game, where the pool is, I dont know what will go maybe a inflatable if we rent one we have more space for games.

Fall Alterted bottles.

2009-07-30T17:55:00.001-07:00

This was a easy craft to do. I used coffee bottles from aldies.I drink their iced coffee. First I cut strips of yellow paper and used elmers glue and glued them around the bottles. Then I went outside with my DD and we gathered leaves, used the glue and glued them on the paper. and your done! Thats it.

four years ago today

2008-11-01T06:35:00.000-07:00

I had dropped my daughter off at my grandparents after a night of trick or treating- and went and had dinner with my husband. we had chinese food. We went and spent the night at my friend stina's house who lived by the hospital. She had people over watching movies I just remember being tired and going right to bed. I woke up to use the bathroom at about 4 am and my water broke all over her bathroom floor. My c-section was schedualed for 10 am. My husband and I got things ready and headed to the hospital no progress was made they went ahead and did the c-section- at 10:15 am I gave birth to a 9 1b 10 ounce baby boy with black hair and blue eyes and i fell in love with him for life.
He had my heart the first time I looked at him and it has been an adventure ever since. Now my little boy is four years old and thinks Halloween is one big party for him... we wouldnt have it any other way.

Spectacular Saturday and Sunday

2008-10-05T06:18:00.000-07:00

We had a great fall day yesterday. We went to my moms in Paola kansas and then we met with my friend Stina in louisburg at the louisburg Cider Mill, and we did the corn maze, and road the hayride, played in the corn pits, and rode ponys. My kids had a blast!!!Were not doing much today other than going to church but we will play outside.

Freaky Fridays(more kansas ghost stories)

2008-10-03T05:07:00.000-07:00

Local hauntings in the topeka/lawrence area

(1) The capital building:it is said a woman killed herself by jumping off the stairway leading up to the dome.sometimes you can hear footsteps and her crying.

(2)Dorthy Thomas school of dance: the studio has been in the basement of a home since the 1940's. Dorthy died in the 1980's.You can hear what sounds like 100 people tap dancing at 3 am, the stereo goes on and off a broken down piano plays Sweet Georgia brown and Tea for two all by its self, you hear footsteps in the attic.

Stull, Kansas(urband legend, or truth. you guess.

2008-10-01T19:08:00.001-07:00

I don't live very far from the little town called Stull Kansas. I have driven through it a lot I refuse to drive down that road at night by myself. It's a town with a big hill that has a cemetery on it and a lot of urban legend surrounding it. I get a weird feeling every time I drive threw and just feel so relived to be out of it. Legends say that these urban legends have been linked to stull for more than a hundred years.Noithing made it to print until the 1970s. In the KU newspaper,it was asserted that the cementery in stull was one of the two places on earth where the devil makes his appearence twice a year.It is reported that there was a pine tree in the cememtery and witches were hung there during the spring equinox and that a town man was reported missing only to be found hanging from the tree! They chopped the tree down but it grew twice the size.It is also said that the church in the cemetary is one of the seven gateways to hell and that is why the pope refuses to fly over kansas. Time is said to stop if you enter into the remains of the church. You can throw anything in the church and it won't hit the floor. Rain will not fall in the church(This was before it was torn down)You can never reach the bottom of the stairs going to the basement. etc. Is it fact or fiction?If your ever in Topeka or Lawrence Kansas take a little side trip and find out! But I more than likely, won't be going with you!

Applebutter

2008-09-30T05:52:00.000-07:00

Sat, the day I wasn't able to make it they spent the day coring and peeling the apples getting them ready to be cooked. Sunday we got there about 11 am. We spent the day cooking the applebutter and making apple cider..MM was the apple cider good. A few brave souls showed up around 700 am to get the fire lit and to put the apples in the kettle pot. We use a big paddle type stick to stir the apples as they melt to make the applebutter. Thuis process takes about 7-8 hours. You just spend the whole day stiring. Towards the end my grandpa adds the sugar and cinnamon and some other spices. We also had some type of machine that chopped the apples and turned it into apple cider. The kids mainily did this all day. It was a fun day filled with food, family togetherness and music.

Picking Apples

2008-09-29T05:58:00.000-07:00

Picking Apples

We went to lawrence friday eve and picked apples with my family. My children loved picking apples and eating them! The orchard was overgrown with weeds and posin ivy but the apples in the trees were plenty. My kids had fun with their grandma donna helping her pick apples

Picking apples
picking apples
one by one
one by one
Put them in a basket
Put them in a basket
Oh what fun!
Oh what fun

fall decorations

2008-09-22T08:08:00.000-07:00

I am starting to get my fall decorations ready to be put out. I worked on this pumpkin topiary this weekend. I had seen the basic orange ones and really didn't like those so decieded to do kinda of a halloweenish one. I am going to hot glue this onto a witches cauldron and carve Boo or something into the pumpkins. I am going with a scarcrow and witches theme. I have a little garden that I am going to put my pumpkin topiary in, and have witches standing around it. We have a tree that hangs over the garden and I am trying to come up with a idea to do something with that. I am also putting rubber snakes, rats, etc around the witches and cauldrens and am getting bottles and hanging them from a tree branch with spell lotion names on them.

Fall Fridays

2008-09-12T06:52:00.000-07:00

What a perfect title for a fall day. I was supposed to work today but we had a shutdown- and are off. it is pouring down rain like you wouldn't believe and is freaking cold today. My daughter told me yesterday that her favorite season is fall!She said she likes the changes of the leaves, the wind, pumpkins, and candy.She is only five.LOL. Not sure what I am doing this weekend. My friend Stina and I are making plans to ride a murder mystery- halloween terror train and go to a corn maze and a pumpkin patch sometime in the next couple weeks. Yay for friends, and yay for fall!

Which season woman are you?

2008-09-05T04:15:00.001-07:00

You Are Fall!

Thoughtful

Expressive

Creative

Poetic

Smart

What Season Woman Are You?

Which part of fall are you?

2008-09-05T04:10:00.001-07:00

You Are Changing Leaves

Pretty, but soon dead.

What Part of Fall Are You?

Thankfull Thursdays

2008-09-04T14:21:00.000-07:00

Every thursday I am going to try to post what I am thankfull for.

1. I started my new job today.
2. The kids are doing good in school
3. Forrest is helping me clean more
4. The house is getting organized
5. Forrest and I are getting along
6. I am getting a new car(hopefully)

perfect sweater weather outside!

2008-09-03T09:30:00.000-07:00

I would say fall has arrived in kansas. it is chilly outside today and perefect weather for wearing a sweater and drinking hot cocco. So here are some things I look forward to this fall.

1. Taking the kids to apple days at deanna rose.
2. Apple Butter with my family. (we make apple butter all weekend at my grandparents. its a big deal)
3. Renniance Festival.
4. Corn mazez
5. carving pumkins
6. trick or treating
7. watching scary movies
8.Boo at the Zoo
and last but not least
PARKER's birthday!

Fall

2008-08-31T07:43:00.000-07:00

It's 69 degress outside. Not bad for the morning before labor day. Kansas summers are hot and humid and drag on forever. I love fall and everything about it. The chiller nights, the cooler mornings, night coming quicker, the leaves falling, the fall smells, and the fall holidays. This time of year always makes me look back to high school. I had a steady boyfriend all through high school and we started dating around homecoming. So when the weather gets cooler, and the leaves began to change,it makes me think of him, high school football games, high school letterman jackets, hot cocco, halloween, and homecoming and the Kansas City Renniance Festival where I had one of my first jobs working at one of the booths. Fall is a wonderfull time of year, now as a mom I get to enjoy pumkin patches, classroom parties, corn mazes, and trick or treating. My son Parker was born the day after Halloween, I wanted my c-section to be done on Halloween but my dr wouldn't do it.. I was so dissapointed. my daughter was born on a friday the 13th so i thought it would be spooky.....