fun photo friday

fun photo friday

This is the post where I will be sharing all

the pictures I took on my iphone during the week.

I have been taking more and more pictures on my

due to the fact it is a lot more portable

and quick to pull out and shoot.

Friday, October 19 to Thursday, October 25

Friday

Tired little man.
Finally woke him up after 4pm!

Fall goodies

Josh took the kiddos to the Lynden vs Ferndale football game.

Saturday

Cohen came to play on Saturday afternoon so 

Jana and Danny could go out for a senior dinner.

I want to play football with the boys.

Snuggle show with daddy.

Monday

Jordan loves surprising me with little I love you notes!

He then gave me supplies to write one back to him.

He is such a sweet little man.

We then worked on some school activities I put together to do with him.

We played some made up games with cards and poker chips.

Thursday

Cohen came to play again in the morning.

He tried out a clean version of finger painting. 

In the evening I took my other nephews

and Michelle's friend to the pool to swim.

TGIF!

Rain rain go away!

I do not want to play today.

Sorry but I despise the rain.

It does not make me want to grab cute rubber boots, 

wrap colorful scarves around my neck and 

go jump in puddles while holding a pumpkin spice latte.

Well, the coffee sounds nice.

Rain makes me want to stay in bed all day and do nothing.

That is not helpful when you have a day of errands planned {like last
Saturday}that require you to run from car to store in the pouring rain . 

Getting your hair, bottoms of your pants wet (huge pet peeve),

and my toes get soaked.

 I am still refusing to put on socks or shoes.

Or kids bouncing off the walls because they can't

go outside and get that energy out.

Luckily today I have no plans of going anywhere

unless Jordan and I venture out to the thrift store

to find some room makeover items.

Our plans for today consist of cleaning and organizing my room
and bathroom to get it ready for a mini makeover.

I am in the process of searching pinterest for low cost projects
and ideas to revamp the bed room.

Since we have moved in about 3 1/2 years ago
I haven't done a ton of things to make it our home.
Now I am ready to make it feel like us.
I have a stack of frames filled with pictures
for Josh to hang tomorrow {hopefully}

I want to get some stuff hung in our room and bathroom.

If I can ever get those things done I have a lot more
house I can work with to add little touches here and there.

Also on the agenda for today is to get in some
snuggle time with Jordan.
Jordan and I are two that love having "lazy days"
at home. Where we have no plans, wear our pjs all day,
and snuggle on the couch to watch shows.
We do take tv breaks to clean, play, and eat.

After a day of cleaning, gutting the closet, snuggling, and maybe a trip out

we will be having some crock pot stew for dinner.

I am also {planning} to make roasted pumpkin seeds, mini pumpkin muffins,

and make easy cinnamon and sugar donuts for us to enjoy while we 

watch DreamWorks Spooky Stories on Netflix!

ten on ten

once a month on the tenth 

taking a photo every hour for ten consecutive hours. 

Finding much life and beauty 

among the ordinary things of our day!

ten on ten 

Wednesday edition

7:30 am

I thought he was still sleeping while I 

was quietly enjoying my breakfast.

Come to find out he is playing DS.

8:30 am

Watching Phineas and Ferb while I jump in the shower real quick.

9:45am

Washing the dishes

10:30 am

Playing

11:30 am

Organizing pictures I want to get in frames

for my picture wall.

I ended skipping a few hours were we ate lunch 

and had quiet rest time.

2:30pm

Michelle came home from school!

Skipped another hour.

I finished putting pictures in my frames

and started an early dinner of dutch babies.

4:30pm

Early dinner before we left for pumpkin patch.

5:30pm

Arrive at Bellewoods!

for full blog post on trip check it out here.

6:30pm

Quick horse ride before we head home.

fun photo friday

{first}

a HUGE happy birthday to my amazing best friend, husband, love of my life Josh!

He is the big 29 today!

Even though he has to work today we plan 

on celebrating all day today!

{second}

day 4 photo

{what I read}

I didn't read anything yesterday well besides facebook

and blog catch up.

After school I had my nephews and part of 

their homework is to read for twenty minutes.

They love to read to Jordan.

Since Josiah didn't have a book with him

he grabbed a pile from our collection.

They cuddled up on the couch to read.

I loved hearing them laugh and 

watching them loving spending this time together.

While Josiah read to Jordan

Eli got to read to me.

I got to hear about tornados, froggy, the hungry caterpillar, 

10 little fish and a few others.

The agenda for today is a full busy day.

I am already a little behind because 

this is my second time writing this post. 

I lost the first one. 

fail.

Need to errands in Bellingham

birthday lunch with Josh

Decorate the house birthday style

put together Josh's gift

make dinner while cleaning

go to Canada to watch Josh play softball

then celebrate Josh with our neighbor friends

Busy busy day so I better get moving.

I will leave with my fun photos from the past week off my iphone.

{ a drawing by Jordan of our house with both direct tv and dish! 

We only direct tv}

{ice cream date with my little man}

{walk/bike ride through the woods, following the city truck, and complete with corn chopper chopping}

{cute kiddos on Thursday}

TGIF!

This happened Today

Day 3 photo

this happened today

While Jordan and I were out on an adventurous walk 

he had to go pee. It couldn't wait he had to go right now.

He walked behind a tree to do his business.

I had to grab a picture so I pulled out my phone

and snapped this real quick.

Hopefully no one was watching out there window.

Yesterday was another beautiful fall day.

It was a bit windy but that didn't stop us from 

taking a morning walk.

  

We started out by going to the little park.

We stopped and played for a while until

Jordan wanted to go through the woods.

When we came out the other side and headed back home

we came upon the City of Lynden truck.

We stopped, watched it, and then Jordan 

really wanted to follow it from drain to drain all over the neighborhood.

As we were following the truck around he noticed that there was

a corn chopper in the field across the street.

We walked up to the edge of the road to check it out.

We waited for well over 10 minutes for them to work on it.

When it was finally up and running I told Jordan we would 

watch it go around the field one time.

He was ready to park himself in the grass and camp out

for the day to watch it.

I was not up for that.

I told him he could come back later with daddy

to see if they were still working.

Day 4 photo

What you read

I will share that tomorrow!

Hello October

Today for me felt like a real fall day.

The sun was out but there was still that crisp cool air all day.

It is definitely making getting out of bed at 5:30 am

to go walking more difficult.

I am determined to actually start and finish

a month of a photo a day!

I will be sharing those daily.

Day 1

{Where you stood}

I stood in my kitchen a lot yesterday cleaning and prepping for

bunco at my house that night.

Day 2

{Lunchtime}

Leftover potato soup that my sister so generously shared

with us Monday night!

Thank you Jana it was delicious!

Tomorrow is 

{this happened today}

I got to go volunteer in Jordan's class today.

I signed up to go in every Tuesday morning.

Should be a lot of fun.

I sat at a table and did a counting game

with the kids. They rotated around different group activities.

The first question they would ask me is who's mom was I.

When I replied Jordan's they got super excited and had stories to tell.

Apparently he is very funny such as acting like a lion at recess.

I think one little girl has a crush on him because she was bouncing all over 

the place with excitement to tell me about him.

It was the same little girl that said Hi to Jordan about

10 times when I dropped him off for school a few weeks back.

One boy knew he loves Angry birds so he kept asking me questions like

 how many stuffed angry birds does he have?

Does he have any games?

Does he have any toys?

How many shirts does he have?

Does he have angry bird pajamas?

Does he have angry bird underwear?

Lets just say at times it was hard to get them

refocused back on the activity we were doing.

Jordan actually behaved quite well with my being there.

I was worried his super silly look at me 

personality would come out.

But he followed directions well, sat with his hands folded,

and did what he needed to do.

It was fun to watch their morning routine 

and they even say the Pledge of Allegiance in class!

I though they didn't do that anymore in school.

I look forward to many more fun mornings in his class.

It is so funny to hear the things that the kids at that age say.

They were sharing at circle time and one girl

shared all about her mom got pulled over by the sheriff.

I wish I had a recorder to remember all the little things 

that come out of Jordan's mouth.

After we dropped all the kids at church tonight

he was a little chatter box.

We went to Edaleen Dairy for ice cream

and on the way there he was talking about if they would

have orange pumpkin ice cream, ice cream with black seeds, 

purple ice cream, or Halloween ice cream with candy in it.

I pointed out the giant marshmallows to him and he replied those are just filled

with hay for the cows mom not marshmallows.

Look mom those two sprinkles are having a water fight.

Love it!

Fun in the Fall

I came up with a fun list
of things to do this fall !
I tried not to go overboard
and keep it simple!

Josh's Birthday

visit an apple orchard 
Make applesauce from scratch
{see our trip and recipe here}

Make apple pie play dough

Make caramel apples

Make Apple Cinnamon Rolls
{post}

Mini Apple Muffins
{post}

Bite size apple pies

Visit a pumpkin patch

Carve pumpkins

trick or treating

Go on a hike

Family movie nights

Drink warm apple cider

Go to a Lynden Lions football game

Take a nature scavenger hunt

Make pumpkin pie play dough

date nights with the kids

Try a Pumpkin Spice Latte from Starbucks

Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls

Watch It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
{a fun scavenger hunt idea}

Make hand print turkeys

Thanksgiving with family

Fall mini photo shoot with the kids

Make Corn Prints and Apple Prints

Make easy cinnamon and sugar donuts

Yummy pretzels bites

watch a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

Visit the library and check out Fall themed books