Siblings...

I have two, one of each--obviously =) We had a family wedding last night and Kurt took this picture of the 3 of us--you can kind of tell he has a little photography in his blood!!

Show us your Life--Home Tour, Living Room edition

Last year one of my very favorite bloggers did a series of Friday posts all about home tours and due to popular demand she is bringing it back. Her blog is Kelly's Korner, her link is in my sidebar---if you like checking out homes and how others decorate as much as I do, click on over there!!!
These pictures are from when I posted our living room earlier--I had big plans to take all new ones, but Paxton had an elaborate train track set up, so I didn't want to take it all down on him yet. The only real changes are that I flipped the 2 chairs around so they are on different sides of the couch, and I'm not sure I'm loving it, so it may not even stay that way!!
Next week is Master Bedrooms----makes for a great reason to clean, HA!

Wordless Wednesday

Nursing books everywhere I look....

Get out and Vote!!!

Nothing like reminding you all at the END of election day--HA!!! I did my part although I HATE the way you have to vote in Wisconsin. In the primaries you HAVE to vote straight party. So if I want to vote for a Democratic Govnenor but a Republican Sheriff, I can't do it! DUMB DUMB DUMB =(

Menu Planning Monday

Monday again!!! We did pretty well last week, the little boys talked Kurt into "spaghetti and ice cream" on Wed, so the ham steaks got pushed to Sunday--per Arielle's request =)
I'll be linking up with I'm an Organizing Junkie again, head over there for lots of ideas--the crock pot recipes are starting to pop up with the change of the weather!!
For us:

Monday: Kurt has fire so hot dogs and mac and cheese for us
Tuesday: Chicken Breasts, potato salad
Wednesday: BBQ's (the boys would eat these 9 days a week), fries, baked beans
Thursday: I have class--mooch night for 3 boys!
Friday: Pulled pork sammies, chips
Saturday: Kurt and I have a family wedding
Sunday: Classic fried chicken, mashed taters, corn, biscuits

Dairy Days 2010

This Momma is piling up the "Good Momma" awards lately! Historically, the weekend after Labor Day is our city's Dairy Days celebration. I won't go into whole background of the 3 day event, but suffice to say it involves a parade (which we skipped--I love the bands and there aren't many anymore!), a historical encampment (which the kids get to as part of school projects) and a park full of rides, concessions and cheesy game stands. Of course it comes complete with smoking ride operators, questionable parenting and enough heebie-jeebie inducing sights to make me shudder as I type.
That said, Arielle was sweet enough to take the little boys up on Saturday night for a couple of hours and Kurt and I took them back up today for a few hours. The BIG part of this is that Kurt had to head home to get ready for work and I stayed up there until the boys were ready to come home! They, of course, enjoyed themselves as the pictures well prove =)

Family Portrait

A few weeks ago I posted some "candid" type shots from when we had a family photo series done. Since FIL is a REAL photographer, his pictures are always nicer than mine, but once in a while I get brave enough to post them here amongst the ones that I actually take =)
Beckett wasn't as cooperative as he could have been, but there has to be one in every crowd, right?