Our Halloween

Buzz Lightyear and Woody. The boys were totally in character, man they know their parts don't they! Those closest to me will gasp when they hear this but for the first time since Mr. Golden Curls was born the boys wore store bought costumes. Up until this year they were the creations of either my mom or I, and pretty darn good if I say so myself. This year I was out of time and energy so online shopping I did go!

The Sheet Family from left to right: my mom "Fulla", my husband "Holy", me "No", my dad "Hot". Get it?

This year we celebrated Halloween in Weaverville, North Carolina. It was an interesting Halloween party, it was also my best friend's wedding rehearsal!

Haunted House Cake made for the bride and groom-to-be by one of their friends.

The bride and groom-to-be dressed as a grave and a grave digger. This is so stinkin' funny because the groom's last name is Graves. "I dig Graves" brilliant!

The parents of the bride and my second parents. They put up with about as much of my shenanigans as my folks did during my early teen years.

The bride's sister dressed as a black widow. The boys loved screaming and running from her and Lil' Spitfire was loving the panty hose spider legs.

I'm enjoying the timer on my camera these days and got this shot of all the party goers using it.

All in all a fantastic Halloween with some of my favorite people in the world and some pretty darn good BBQ to boot! Coming soon: more pics of our NC trip! I know you're excited, try to contain yourselves!

Experiencing History

I'm not typically a political person. At the age of 31 this is only the second election I've participated in. I've never before felt that there was a candidate who would make a difference and had no interest in choosing the lesser of two evils. This time around was different. I was filled with excitement and hope, I made sure I was registered and we voted early on our way out of town, kids in tow. I was glued to the tv last night and was not disappointed by the results. I saw history in the making, I saw a change taking place and hope in people's faces. I feel like last night was the beginning of something that has such potential to be wonderful. I have hope that this country, the world, will now start to become something that will be better for my boys, something I can be proud of. Last night this country elected hope. Please, come through for us!


Four year old on politics
Pappa: Something very important happened last night, do you know what it was?
Mr. Golden Curls: Yea!
Pappa: What was it?
Mr. Golden Curls: Soccer ball became Neenee ball.
Mamma: That does sound very important.
Mr. Golden Curls: It is very serious, there aren't even any toys. (lack of toys has recently become his symbol of how serious, aka boring, something is!)

Happy Halloween!

Some super scary pictures to celebrate this most wonderfully fun holiday!

Do you see it yet?

How about now? This icky thing was in our old house and caused me to scream, run, and drop a glass of soda that broke all over the floor. But it also made the Bohemian scream like a girl while he tried to annihilate it so it's all good!

Kids, sometimes while you're napping, Mamma gets goofy and uses your toys!

My father-in-law getting beautified by my niece, yep, pretty scary!

Us last Halloween. This year we are in N.C for my friend's wedding and are going to her rehearsal dinner on Halloween. Kind of strange but we're going in costume. What can we say, we LOVE Halloween! Coming soon: pictures of Woody and Buzz Lightyear.

On Holiday

Yep, again! Only a few short weeks ago we were off to Florida and back, now we're heading up north for a wedding in North Carolina. I'm so excited, this is a really good friend of mine, a sister really, and I think it'll just be gorgeous. Not to mention just a relaxing and wonderful time. This time the Bohemian gets to join us, yea! Say a few prayers that the boys do the beautiful job on this trip that they did on the last one, they're becoming quiet the professional road trippers and I love having them along!

Just A Perfectly Simple Day

These are some of my favorite days. Boring days not filled with too much running around and crazy to-do lists. Ok, there are still those things but I ignore them and am actually ok with that. That's not a common occurrence for me!

The boys being dramatically eaten by the giant snake sculpture at the park. Well, I guess Lil' Spitfire isn't being eaten since he's on top of its head, maybe his is a war cry.

The boys doing the coolest see saw. It just bounces on a spring and never hits the ground so no one can be thrown from it and they can even use it if the other brother gets distracted by, oh I don't know, a little kitten that keeps searching us for food. That's what they both have their eyes on in this picture.

After the park we headed to the Post Office where, before we entered, I thoroughly threatened both of their lives if they were to be rude and pitch a big 'ole fit because the nice lady behind the counter took time out of her day and delayed the rest of the line to stamp their hands but somehow it turned out to be the wrong stamp even though it's EXACTLY the same stamp as last time. And my threats worked! Mark one up for mothering by fear tactics! After the P.O. we picked up the Bohemian and headed off to yon local Chinese Buffet where we ate the greasiest Chinese food ever and loved every bite and complained at the end of the meal that fortune cookies no longer have fortunes in them but words of wisdom and how "back in my day" they had actual fortunes inside like 'you may want to just stay in bed tomorrow'.

Our "fortunes":

• Mine: "A smile is your personal welcome mat." Maybe they meant doormat
• Bohemian: "A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works." Um, Ok Big Brother, kind of a creepy one there!
• Mr. Golden Curls: "A man's dreams are an index to his greatness." Sounds pretty important to me, not a fortune.
• Lil' Spitfire: "Enjoy yourself while you can." That sounds like a fortune to me! A pretty creepy one for a 2 year old! I finally had to read it with "...because soon it's nap time." tacked to the end to feel ok with it.

Mamma vs. Crafter

Sometimes it can be pretty tough to get much of anything accomplished around here, as most of you can imagine! Many of you don't have to imagine because you live it too. The other day I got asked if I was going to list more of my Jesus Saves cards. I was tremendously flattered and of course set about to oblige. Yesterday and today I worked way harder on finishing such a meager number of cards than is healthy for the maintenance of sanity. Good grief, I thought I wouldn't get them finished until the boys moved off to college!

I felt a little guilty being frustrated with my precious angels with a dozen or so smiling Jesus faces staring at me. Soccer goalie or not, He's the baddest cat on this block!


Part of my frustration stemmed from the fact that I was working at the kitchen table, just like the olden days. Why was I doing this when I have a fantastic new craft room at my disposal? I think the next picture might answer that quite nicely!

The whole room looks like this! It's like a paper bomb went off and ever since creating my lovely light box I've been lacking a work table. Ok, I know, if I would take a moment to reorganize and tidy up a bit it would be functional. That's the first thing on my to-do list for tomorrow! Sometimes it's hard to do that part when all you want to do is make stuff!


Some of the interruptions while creating cards today:

• Lil' Spitfire getting up from nap 4 times
• Dog needs let out as soon as my bum finally hits the chair
• Delivery guy brings a delivery, as they're prone to doing (the boys' Halloween costumes, yea!)
• Mr. Golden Curls tries on his costume
• The dog "needs" out again
• Too late for napping now, I let Spitfire get up
• Spitfire sees his costume so he has to try it on
• I pin the arms and legs on his costume while he's wearing it. Sort of along the lines of trying to put a sweater on a crazed Chihuahua I imagine.
• Help Spitfire on/off the potty
• I rue the decision to let Spitfire get up as he throws a massive tantrum about anything and everything while I frantically try to glue card parts together between (or during) outbursts and timeouts so they'll be finished by the time we leave for church where, for some unknown reason, I've taken on co-teaching the Jr. High Girls Bible Study.
• I have to referee several fights between two boys, neither of whom took a nap or really even rested and therefore are grumpy and impossible to reason with.

Four hours later I've managed to complete four measly sets of Jesus Saves cards! I know, woe is me! But sometimes it really does feel like woe is me! The amazing thing is that even with all the woe is me-ing I do, being a mamma and getting to stay home with my boys and craft on the side is the most rockin' awesome job I could ever have dreamed of having!

Election Fun

Thank you to my sister-in-law for forwarding this link to me, it will bring me many laughs at Palin's expense between now and election time! If you'd like to have a chuckle and get a glimpse of life if Palin was president, visit PalinAsPresident.com!