weekend at home

Saturday morning, Ty, his brother-in-law and nephew went fishing. Ty has been wanting to do this for a long, long time. Unfortunately, he doesn't have a lot of time or energy to do it where we live and we are normally too busy when we visit our hometown. It worked out this weekend and they had a good time!

You can barely see Lucas in this picture behind Ty's shoulder.

I designed Mason's invite for his party. 

 My mom told me there was a jungle gym for the kids to play on at Nations of Fun, the place my sister rented for the party. I was expecting something small. It was anything but small! I made the mistake of wearing a dress and couldn't play on it with Jack. The thing was huge and the kids had a blast!

I loved these dinosaurs with tiny party hats on their heads!

Halloween Printable

I love this free printable from How Does She?  I printed mine and hung it last night.

Source: howdoesshe.com via Lindsey on Pinterest

I love the idea of adding pictures from each Halloween. How Does She? has circles with the year on it for several years to come and for past years. 

I attempted to get a good picture of Jack in his Halloween costume. This is what he thought about that idea!

I just had to include this picture on my blog. The two blonde boys are Ty's brother's boys, Nathan & Wade. Mason is my sister's little boy.

They have play dates all the time. I love that they like each other so much! This almost makes me want to move home, so Jack can join in on the fun.

catching up on random thoughts

I returned from a work trip in DC this afternoon and I'm definitely feeling the effects of being pregnant and traveling. It was a stressful week here at our house. Ty dropped his phone in the water and after trying to get it fixed he has resorted to using my old iPhone. Unfortunately, his computer crashed a couple of months ago taking all of his backed up iPhone data with it and we didn't realize that the phone data hadn't been recovered until this happened. Poor guy. An iPhone becomes a resident's life line and he has been a little lost. Ty's grandma passed away this week and her funeral was Saturday. I was in DC on business and unable to attend with him. We know she is in a better place, but it doesn't make things any less sad. Ty was supposed to work at the hospital all weekend, but luckily was able to get things moved around so he could be with his family.

After triple checking to make sure my phone was backed up I realized I had several pictures I had never blogged about.

• I'm in love with my new orange wallet!

• Before we found out what we were having my mom texted these two pictures of my nephews and they just made my heart melt. It made me want a little boy!
  

Waiting on the trash truck to drive by

• I must be hormonal if dirt and trash trucks warm my heart!

• A month ago I attended a baby shower to celebrate Whitney and her baby boy, Ezra. We had high tea and it was delicious! (I stole a couple of these pics from Whitney's blog.)

I loved the blue china!


My love language is gifts. I love to purchase something special for those I love, I love to see all the gifts being opened at showers, and I love to see what people purchase as gifts on blogs. I bought Ezra these paper suitcases from Paper Source. The top one contained a personalized burp cloth and bib, and the bottom one held a book for Ezra and big brother book for Levi.

• I found a great seller on etsy that makes high quality burp cloths. They are thick and everything is sewn really well. I've used her a lot lately for gifts.

• I feel like Spring has come and gone here, since we are experiencing 90 degree temps. We did enjoy seeing our tree bloom! I wish it could stay like that for months.
  

• I may have a slight obsession with stripes for my boy!
  

I found these socks at Target the other day and couldn't resist!

• This dog is living the life!
  

fun, fun, fun

Ty was on call this weekend. When he first told me he would have call weekends, I thought that meant he would wear a pager all weekend, but still be with me for the most part. NOTSOMUCH. He worked all week, all day Friday (obvs) and all night Friday night getting home on Saturday after 12:30. That one long shift! He had the rest of the day Saturday to recover and then worked all day today. Poor guy is tired! I heard two great compliments about Ty on Friday from two different students, saying that they had heard how great of a resident he was and how nice he was. Made me swell with pride. :)

With Ty on call this weekend, I made lots of plans. I hosted a Scentsy party through Megan and had several girls over--Jane, Lynn, Ashley, Katie, and Chesley. We had SO much fun! I promised I would share a couple of recipes that I made for the party:
Chili's Chicken Enchilada Soup and Fruit Salsa. (I didn't make the cinnamon chips. You can buy cinnamon pita chips at Target.)

My mom, sister and Mason also came up this weekend. I meant to have my mom take a picture of all of us girls at the Scentsy party, but alas I forgot. Don't worry there are plenty of pictures of Mason!

Testing out the sink in my laundry room:


I love little ones in their jammies.


Such a good little shopper

We rented the stroller from the mall and the steering wheel kept him somewhat entertained.

He wasn't so sure about the carousel at first, but then he loved it!


I'm so glad they got to come up this weekend!

family

This past weekend Ty and I went home to see our families. Ty took Step 3 boards on Thursday and had Friday off, so I took off from work and we headed home for a long weekend. We had so much fun with our families and all the little ones kept us entertained.

Mason "helping" me bake cupcakes.


My mom watches my nephew and one of Ty's nephews on Fridays so we got to spend time with both of them. I gave Wade a little dollop of icing and he decided to dip his puffs in it. haha.


Things are so fun at grandma's house!



Saturday morning 4-wheeler ride
Ty and Nathan



We trimmed Nuts' nails and cut a little too far on one of them and had to take him up the clinic to get something to help stop the bleeding. Thank goodness there are 3 veterinarians in the family!



We spent Saturday afternoon at Ty's sister and brother-in-law's house to watch the OSU game. We love going over there and Brent made the best ribs. yummy.

A little football during half-time
Ty and Lucas


Lillian looks so cute with that big bow!



Lillian and I had a dance party during the game. I'm kinda embarrassed to admit this, but my calves were a little sore next day. haha.


It was so nice to go home for a few days. Now it's time for everyone to come visit us! :)

Happy Birthday Mason!

Today is my nephew, Mason's, first birthday. My sister and brother-in-law threw him a great party yesterday. Ty had to work this weekend, so I went home by myself. My sister asked me to help with his party several months ago and I was so excited. I love party planning! I made the invitations and all the paper products.

The theme was based on this toy dachshund I bought Mason for Christmas.








mason jar filled with "bones" candy






Mason loves to pat Wade on the head. It is so sweet.

Wade is Ty's brother and sister-in-law's little boy and they are about 6 weeks apart.

sweet family




Ready for cake!


I think it's safe to say he liked it!



All the kiddos

All those boys are our nephews, except for the little one in the stripes. (We also have another nephew and a niece not pictured.)



Re-energized after his nap!


party favors: coloring sheets and bone crayons