"Pumpkins not punkins, Mom"

These are our pumkins!! We always pick pumpkins that match our family. Tall one for Scott, Medium for Braeden,... this year mine had to be FAT. :) and B picked a tiny one for baby. He is suddenly attached to Bubbin again(the stuffed rabbit) and this pick shows where Bubbin fits in our family. "He's older than Liesl".

"Mom, I can make this face too."

Braeden did all the carving by himself this year, all I did was scoop out the guts because I just can't sit for any length of time on the floor. But he did an awesome job!!

We are looking forward to Trick or Treating in our new neighborhood this year.

preparing for baby

Baby's room!!!! I just fell in love with this bedding, mostly because of the quilt (even though I know you can't even use it). So I thought it was pretty clever to hang it on the wall.

We've been getting ready for the baby to come for a long time now. I finally got her room finished. Doing so also meant re-doing Braedens room since he was using the baby furniture. Above is the little flower border I painted, it matches her bedding.

Her bassinet, it has lamby sheets that I just love and the blankey was mine.
I have always loved this furniture even when it was Braeden's.

This is the project I made out of the old cards I found. They were the cards my mom recieved when she had me. I thought they were so pretty and dainty. The little booties hanging on it were mine too.

Her crib set. The little bear was a gift to Scott's little cousin Keith from Scott's Mom. Keith was very generous to give it up for her.

This is what Braeden's room looks like now. We drove 120 miles to IKEA to get him this bed and desk. It took days to put together and then parts of it didn't fit. My dad had to come over and cut 5 inces off the bottom and 4 inches off the end of the desktop.

Then he had to remove the exisiting ceiling fan and install a new light fixture so Braeden could get in and out of bed.

He loves having a bunk bed, I miss being able to lay in bed with him to read at night, and
when I check in on him at night
I just have to listen for breathing because I can't see his sleeping face. :(

Baby Shower 9/27

My wonderful family gave me a baby shower on September 27th. It


was at Demetrios in Parma. The place is an old family favorite around here and serves German and Hungarian comfort foods.

Lots of friends and family came and I felt truly blessed. Baby showers are way more fun than Christmas!! I've waited a LONG time to get to play in all the pink girlie stuff and I loved every minute of it!!

The baby got just about everything she could possibly need.

catching up

We have have had a busy fun fall. We had to make sure we squeezed in an Indians game. Braeden just loves them. We went on blanket giveaway day and Braeden even got a game ball.

Spent some time at Papa's new house and Braeden got yet another lesson in tractor/lawn maintenance. He really can't wait till he can do it by himself.

Scott got some of his Dad's Browns season tickets this year. I will only go to the games while its warm, so this will probably be my one and only game this year. The Browns lost of course but it was still nice to spend some time with my hubby. We're trying to squeeze in as much as we can before baby comes.

We've also hit the movies, a few great restaurants and a Cavs game.

our housewarming and Scott's Birthday.

We had our housewarming and birthday for Scott this weekend. I spent 3 days cleaning and decorating!! my house looked great!! The best part of having company is getting the house cleaned. The worst part is cleaning it again after they all leave... :)

There was more food than we could eat, and we had absolutely a perfect day weather wise.

I insisted that photos be taken of me pregnant since there are like none... and I just love these. This is me and Scott's cousin Karen.

Scott had homemade chocolate cupcakes on his actual birthday, and this cake for the party.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SCOTTY!!

The boys always play cards. Matt was the big winner this time!

Ladies chattin it up and drinkin wine. Of course Jacqui always workin on that Blackberry.

Braeden had the full attention of all of Scott's friends all day. They played basketball, baseball, and cornhole. At the end of the night he talked them into UNO.

We had Dennis' fresh popped movie popcorn by the fire. YUM!!!

I could barely move by the end of the night and had to spend most of Monday on the couch. I really couldn't even get up. We ate left overs all day. (Grandma's cucumber salad, blueberry jello salad, pasta salad and icecream. This poor baby ;) )Mmmm.

Braeden's First week of school in North Royalton

Braeden couldn't have been more excited about his first day of school. We ordered him a cool new backpack months ago, and it took until the day before school started to arrive. We were really sweatin it. It came and he loved it. It has his monogram on the front.

We had to go outside to wait for the bus at 7:45 even though the bus was not scheduled to pick him up until 8:10. Of course it was late and didn't come until almost 8:30!!! I thought I was going to have to drive him. Riding the bus was the best part of the whole day for him, back in Cuyahoga Falls he had to walk to school and he has never ridden on a school bus.

Braeden had already made a friend on the block who he got to sit with for the ride to school. I am still lucky enough to get hugs and kisses before boarding.

By the end of the week we had figured out what time we needed to wake up everyday and still have time for breakfast and make the bus. Braeden seems to have made some friends in his class, and is still excited about all the cool things in his new school. It has a rock wall in the Cafeteria/Gymnasium. He likes his new teacher, Miss Green, she is young and pretty. He already got some tickets for good behavior and says next week the teacher will start making everyone flip their cards. (red = bad, yellow = warning, green = good) :)

This week we are going to have to tackle commuting from Daddy's house. I did my best to plan for him, but its in his hands now...

Fun at the Pig Roast

Beer Pong, Candy scatter, and giant inflatable waterslide, what more could you ask for at a

pig roast?! It rained all day but cleared up just in time for our arrival, and even after waiting all day for the rain to stop, Braeden couldn't wait to go on the slide. Ten minutes after I made him get dry clothes on for the night he decided to get involved in the water balloon fight and got completely soaked. Despite my best planning and packing efforts, he spent most of the night wet and shirtless. I was an innocent victim of the water balloons too, I took a stray balloon to the back. Not fun. The food was amazing as always, we could have eaten all night, which was not a problem for me!! All in all it was great fun. By the time we got home Braeden was delirious from exhaustion (and probably sugar overload) and cried himself to sleep. :)