Cool giveaways

For anyone who is interested there is an website http://www.betterhomeinteriors.com/ that is having giveaways. (This is the place that I ordered the witch letters from for our activity at church and has really cute other projects on her website). This months giveaway is one of those totally cute plexi frames. All you have to do is leave a comment on her blog about it to be entered!! Too easy!

Too Much on the Brain

Does anyone know how to turn your brain off at night?
Here's my recent situation... We are all in the bed watching TV. Daniel falls asleep, Cody falls asleep. I put Cody in his bed and then ahhh... finally quiet. But wait why is my heart beating faster? Okay I'll just lay here for awhile and I am sure I will calm down and fall asleep...an hour later...what the heck I have been thinking about everything under the sun including thinking of calming down so I can go to sleep!!! Should I go take a sleep aid pill...well I am sure if I lay here a bit longer and concentrate on going to sleep it will happen. 1/2 hour later...ugh...what is my problem, why won't my mind turn off. Now if I take a sleeping aid it will be hard to wake up in the morning and I need to have enough time to get up and either shower before I take Cody to school or decide if I am going to go to the gym and fight the other mean Nazi women for a spin bike. Oh, and don't forget to make him a lunch and remember his homework...oh, do I want to go to the gym...I don't know. I guess I will just wait and see how I feel in the morning. Is there anything I need to do tomorrow while Cody is in school? Oh wait, I am suppose to be focusing on trying to get to sleep!! Okay so I was told to think of somewhere that was relaxing when I was a child...okay...why is the only thing that comes to mind is laying on the crazy pink shag carpet in my room when I was 6??? Weird. Okay, bag this idea. I guess I will just go take a sleep aid pill. After taking the sleep aid I now lay in bed thinking more for about another 45 min. until I finally feel tired and fall asleep!! PLEASE, does anyone have any suggestions?? I am getting desperate!

Going Country!

Daniel surprised me yesterday by bringing home tickets to see Carrie Underwood. I am a big fan of hers since American Idol and love her voice. We had pretty good seats and needless to say she put on a great show and sounded awesome. She's got a crazy good range. She actually sang an old Guns and Roses song too! It was tons of fun. We took the metro line downtown to the Nokia Theatre, a new experience...but turned out well. I guess I am turning into a true country girl. The more I listen to it, the more I love it. Good old fun, patriotic, clean(for the most part) music.

Happy Halloween

This year after going back and forth between Buzz Light-year (he was last year) and Handy Manny I finally made Cody wear Handy Manny since we invested in the costume and he had already worn it around the house one day. We carved pumpkins a few nights before Halloween but because of the crazy warm, moist air they were nice and moldy for Halloween night. Cody's pretty much was a mush pile and he was pretty bummed. We made the rounds on our block and right as we came home Autumn, Ryan and the boys had arrived to play a bit. All of the boys had fun running around and eating candy. By 8:30-9:00pm Cody was telling me that he was ready to come inside. I couldn't complain. We were out of candy by then anyways.

Cody drew the face on his pumpkin this year

Cody as Handy Manny

Cody and Mommy's pumpkins


Daniel's pumpkin

Tyler, Cody and Porter...a bunch of cheezers


Porter-Indian Jones and Phearson-skeleton/Pirate
Little Tav

Pumpkin patch with Grandma and Grandpa Bell

We took a trip to Pa's Pumpkin patch while Grandma and Grandpa Bell were in town. The boys loved having them here. We also had our Aunt Rendi here on business and Colby and his girlfriend Emily came to visit all at the same time. Needless to say the out of state family wanted to go out and have some fun while here. We had our ward harvest festival which all went to. Cody wasn't feeling too good but we thought we'd try to take him anyways...big mistake. Cody threw up all over me so we headed home. The rest of the crowd (besides grandma and grandpa) went out to Knott's Scary Farm. We hear that was quite an interesting time...long lines and a weird pole dancing haunted house. I think we were glad we had to stay home after all. Grandma Bell ended up returning back to Cali the following week to help Autumn take care of the boys while Ryan worked out of town so the boys got their fill!! Cody isn't asking everyday to see grandma! As cute as that was...it was getting old. We are planing a trip to Utah in a few weeks and Cody is excited to play in the snow. This is my favorite time of the year and as soon as our fall weather returns, I will be happy!! Although I may gain about 5 lbs from all of the candy corn pumpkins I eat!! We hope everyone has a fun, safe Halloween.

The boys with their grandma and grandpa Bell

The boys watching the rides

Colby and Daniel

Aunt Rendi bought Carmel corn and all of the kids took it over

Grandpa Bell giving Phearson Carmel corn...lots of it that night!

playing on the pumpkins

Cody excited to drive the train and ring the bell

Porter and Phearson riding the train

Colby brought his girlfriend Emily to meet his crazy family in Cali

Colby and Emily

KUNG-FOO CODY

Cody is now a pre Ninja! Watch out! Hopefully this will run his energy and agression out.

Honey do list

Our lives aren't too crazy like those with two or more children. We are usually up to the same old stuff. Which is me asking Daniel to continuously work on the house doing random updates. I, myself love working on our home, but I don't know how to do the hard stuff. I tend to start projects and then Daniel has to finish them. Painting is a love for me so I always want to paint everything. And I am known to change my mind quite frequently...which drives my poor husband crazy! One day I love blue and then after watching HGTV I see a room yellow and fall in love with that! It's the artist in me that loves to keep creating. Here are a few of our updates. Not too exciting, I know, but it's our lives right now.

covering up this crazy shutter thing which just collects dust and is completely out of place.
Painting the bathroom cabinet white...walls still need to be painted but haven't settled on a color yet!
Me painting our wood table black to match other furniture in the house.
Nothing like painting when it's 95 degrees outside!
Daniel finally putting up the crown molding in the kitchen
Still have some touching up to do.
Last but not least painting the mantle white in hopes that we can build a better frame around the brick part of the fireplace. Another project for another day...