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Fall Photoshoot

We've had an unseasonably warm fall here on the northern plains, which has meant flowers bloomed longer than normal this year.  In fact, I still have some blooming in a pot by my front door...I'm wishing this weather could last until about May and then spring could come...guessing I may not get my wish.  A few weeks ago we walked up to the Court House in our small town where the flowers were gorgeous to get a few pictures of T-Boy. 

On the way there, he grabbed an apple off our neighbors tree.

 
Since I had to use bribery to even get him to agree to the photo shoot, I wasn't surprised that he wasn't 100% cooperative!

 

Here's a few more pics--mostly for those Grandma's and Aunties out there!

 
 
 
 
The bribery I mentioned above?  He is definitely his fathers son...Before he would agree to being my model guinea pig, I had agreed to making not one, but two pies of his choosing!  Sad that at such a young age he has mastered the art of bribery.

Loving Fall

Kris

This Weekend

Yesterday we journeyed to the big city in search of new jeans for T-Boy.  Seems most of his jeans either have a hole in the knee...probably due to the amount of stain remover I have to rub into said jeans weekly...or they are way.too.short.  The boy's been growing.  I remember when I was younger how much fun my Mom had taking us shopping, especially if she had the pleasure of taking both Michael and I along.  It is probably why she has an aversion to shopping still.  I would like to take a moment to say...I totally understand now why she loved those trips so much.   Shopping with a boy, at least the boys in my family is not much fun (I'm sure I was a pleasure to shop with).  That may possibly be an understatement.  The day was not a total loss though...we did find the necessary articles of clothing so I don't have to wash jeans mid-week.  Because honestly, I don't remember to wash jeans mid-week...so lately, Friday morning about 15 minutes before he needs to be walking out the door, T-Boy will yell from his room "Mom, I don't have any jeans to wear."  I still haven't figured out how I'm supposed to rectify that problem in that amount of time, but most of the time my answer has been, "Then you'll have to wear your cleanest dirtiest pair."  Clearly I'm right near the top in the running for mother-of-the-year.  Hopefully there are other mothers out there who understand "cleanest dirtiest pair". 

Perhaps the best part of yesterday was this place

 
We ate dinner here while we were in the Big City...we had never tried it before.  The pasta was fantastic, but we ordered dessert (which we don't normally do) becuase on the menu was Tiramusu.  It was worth every.last.calorie.

Today was filled with our normal Sunday morning activities, a dinner of Roast Beef, Mashed Potatoes, Gravy, and Creamed Peas, a few loads of laundry, a mid-afternoon nap (me), a bit of friend time (t-boy),  a lot of homework (mike), and homemade chicken alfrado for supper.

 
We finished off this beautiful fall weekend with a musical performance! 

Wishing the weekend could last a bit longer...

Kris

Hello......Is anyone still out there?

 

My goodness it's been awhile since I've posted here...the past two months have been super crazy I guess.  I'll give a quick recap of what's been happening round these parts.

August 

*  We traveled west for a funeral and some family time

* T-Boy started 4th Grade (which is really hard to believe)

* I moved back into the office instead of working from home

September

*Mike and I painted our kitchen cupboards white in 7 short (or really long) days

*Mike stained, varnished and installed a new closet door (Living Room) and Trim (Living Room and Dining Room)

* Grandpa and Grandma G visited over Labor Day

* I went on my annual Scrapbooking retreat

* Mike entertained Marc, Lisa, Megan and Aaron while I was away :-(

* Football (NFL) began...which doesn't excite me at all, but thrills two of the strange people I live with

* Mike started classes again...Econ this time

October (so far)

* T-Boy and I headed west the first weekend for convention

* I gave 10 presentations for my job in 3 weeks...this is a story for another post

* We enjoyed a much needed full weekend at home last weekend

So there's a recap of what's been going on here the last 2.5 months.  I'm sure I missed a few highlights...I seem to get more forgetful each day!  What the bullet doesn't capture is how crazy work has been for both Mike and I.  Hopefully the bulk of the craziness has passed for now, and we can enjoy what's left of fall.

 

A few pics...

Thursday February 19, 2009

 

A few pics from last fall...mabye some day soon I'll pull more recent ones off my camera!

Trey posing under the Christmas Tree for a Holiday Card

that never got made :) Maybe next year.

What a handsome boy



I made the poor boy stand outside in the freezing cold
without a coat on because the Tree was so pretty
that morning...




Need I say more?





The three of us...very rarely are we all in the same picture.

Terrible

Wednesday October 22, 2008

Ok, so I am obviously not so good at this bloggin thing! Life has been a little crazy here for the last month or so. All three of us are back in school. I am in my second to last semester of college. Mike is in his second semester of college, and Trey is in second grade! Needless to say, we are a bit busy. I have also been out of town quite a bit for training in the past month. Hopefully life will slow down a bit in the next month. Fall is in the air here. In fact tonight the clouds looked like *sigh* snow clouds. Have I ever mentioned that I HATE snow? H.A.T.E it period. The only good thing about snow is that there are fewer grass stains to extract from little peoples jeans. Other than that, not much to love. Oh well. Not much I can do about the snow, short of moving to New Mexico of course.