coming up...

i thought i would write just a little bit about what is coming up on the craft blog i share with my sister-in-law, melissa, fanciful shenanigans. i haven't the foggiest on what she has up her sleeve, but this is what i have up mine from tomorrow until christmas. it is seriously exciting!!
fall flavored cake pops, ghostly cupcakes, recipes for sunday dinners (melissa as well), how-to costumes that are cheap and easy, treats to give to your child's classmates/teachers for halloween, 2 whole weeks of posts dedicated to making scarves, dressing up hats, making skirts, and repurposing different types of clothes, easy, cheap decor for fall, place settings for thanksgiving that are easy, cute and casual, pillow cases, more fall flavored cake pops, a wide array of christmas treats, decor, and a multitude of diy christmas presents for adults and for kids (i only make presents, it might be lame to some, but i put love in every stitch!!) i absolutely love having a craft blog where i can share what i do with my time and how i incorporate my kids into the making of my hobbies. i really hope you stay tuned...it will be delightful, i promise.

the bearded is now the beard-less...and a craft blog

jonathan decided it was time to shave his beard. he has had it for 2 1/2 years. he always would complain about wanting to. shave it, but i would remind him that he would have to shave every day. that would deter him until the next time. this time he was serious. so he did it. the boys were so excited!! i definitely had to document it! carson even got to shave when jonathan was ready for the razor, but carson shaved with a spoon!!

before the shave

crazy mid-shave picture

gettin' ready for the actual razor shave...and carson's first lesson in shaving...with a spoon!!

the baby butt smooth face...

i miss his beard. now when people ask me which one my husband is, i can't say,"the bearded man". then they can't say,"oh is he the one with the really nice beard?!" "yes, that is him," can no longer be my reply. oh well, maybe another time, in the winter when it's cold and he misses the warmth of the sweater-face. on to something else...

my sister-in-law melissa, and i started a craft blog!! i'm really excited about it!! not only crafts, but decorating, cooking, baking, sewing, etc!! we started on monday!! my first post will be tomorrow (thursday). check it out here!!! or click on the "fanciful shenanigans" button at the top of the blog!!

WOW!! It's been a long time!!!!

Wow!! It's been since February that I've posted!! So much has happened! For example, we went to AZ this summer for 6 weeks, we went to Newport Beach, CA for a week, we went to Greer for 4 days, now we are back in Texas! We just celebrated Cody's 4Th birthday on the 12Th of this month and it was a blast!!! He hasn't had a birthday since his 1 year party that he doesn't even remember, so we had a birthday party!! We went to Chuck E. Cheese and it was a blast!! It was so fun to see him so excited!!
On another note, while we were at the beach, I had a little incident. It includes the water (equipped with rip tide), the jetty, me (minus my contacts so I was literally blind), 3 lifeguards, one bright yellow lifeguard boat, 1 lifeguard floaty thingy that straps around the body and clips, and more than several spectators (including my niece, Emily who was filming the whole deal). A very moot point in this story is my husband, Jonathan, who was supposed to take me in on the boogie board he took away from me, but instead, rode a wave to safety and left his legally blind wife to be dashed upon the rocks that make up the menacing jetty. Here is the story ( which at this point is pretty much self explanatory)
My sister-in-law, Laine and I were boogie boarding in the wonderful waves. Jonathan comes along and says "Hey, let me use your boogie board." So I let him use it. The days prior to this particular day there was a rip current and the lifeguards had put out markers along the beach that told the swimmers if they went past the markers, they would get sucked in the rip current. There were no such markers on this day, so I personally thought the rip current was gone. Anyway, next thing I know, I'm by myself. I get pretty panicky when I'm by myself in the waves maybe because I can't see or I don't know why, I just do. So, I'm by myself and notice I'm a heck of a lot closer to the jetty than I remember being before going under that wave. I tried to swim away from the jetty just to realize that I can't. I didn't really freak out then because there was still some distance between me and the jetty. Then I see a boogie boarder further out than I am and he most definitely has a beard. So I guess it's my husband and I guess right. I yelled to him to come get me on the next wave. So the next wave comes and goes and so does Jonathan. I looked around and I couldn't find him until I looked toward the beach and saw him standing there. He ditched me. Real nice right? (j/k...but seriously) Then to the left of him I see a lifeguard running into the water, Baywatch style (cue the music, we all know it!) So I tread water thinking to myself, "Great, I'm one of those, when I get back on the beach, I'm going to be made fun of by my family!!" So while I'm waiting for the lifeguard to swim to my rescue, I notice some familiar figures on the jetty. It was my brother-in-law Shaun, he was telling me to swim away from the rocks. My nieces and nephews that were with him were waving at me. They witnessed the rescue from very close. So anyway, Baywatch comes to my rescue and I say, "Hi." and laugh because yes, it is slightly embarrassing that I'm a 26 year old woman getting rescued by a younger handsome lifeguard. He straps me to his floaty deal and then appears the rescue boat. I clamber into the boat and once again say hello to the much younger, handsome lifeguards. They back the boat up closer to the shore and where the rip current wouldn't take me into the jetty again and we jump out, and he takes me to shore where my niece was waiting for me to give her an interview on camera. Awesome. I've been going to that same beach for 26 years and have never had to be rescued. Turns out, Laine rode a wave to shore, so that's where she went when I was all of a sudden by myself. Jonathan told me later that I was about 10-12 feet away from the rocks. That's really close, and that is what scared me the most afterward. Along with being legally blind, I also have really bad depth perception and it's even worse when I don't wear my contacts or glasses. Needless to say, I was a lot more careful while swimming in the waves for the rest of the trip!!!
Greer was very fun, there were no incidents with being rescued. It was very relaxing and awesome!!
I can't believe I forgot!! We also went to Disneyland while we were in Cali!! It was awesome!! It has been 9 years since I've been and Cody had never been!! We had a blast!! Phew! That was a long post! Thanks for keeping up!!
ok, so it's not letting me upload pictures, so i guess pictures to come!!

PTA

Cherisse has been quite busy lately and has not ventured to the internet matrix lately, so I thought I would get on this here blog and boast about the woman. She has become quite active in Carson's school. She has been volunteering and helping out a lot. She was recently nominated and elected as the vice president of the PTA of the elementary school. She will be great at this (as she is with everything). I am very excited and grateful that she is such a great Mother and so active in her childrens' education. I am especially thrilled about this because, in reading Freakonomics a few year back (good read btw), there is a strong correlation of children who are successful in school with parents who are involved in their child's school, most particularly in the parent teacher organizations. I guess this is a pre-mothers day celebration of a great one.