Alternative Jack O' Lanterns

The tie dye shirts were so fun we decided to do another "family fun" project. This time is was MOD Podge faces on our pumpkins. They look pretty cute!

Finally, more than just a Loveseat!

When we moved we left our couch and chair (with ottoman) behind. So we have been living with just a loveseat. It wasn't too bad since the kids all had their own chairs, but I really missed my ottoman. So we finally went and picked out a new set. I just loved the big ottoman. I could imagine us all being able to kneel around it for family prayer. How Morman am I that my furniture choice depends on if it has a "prayer ottoman." Anyway. We love it!

To Friends NOT forgotten

Tonight I was at soccer watching Miles play and chatting with a friend. I was telling her about one of my best friends from Boise. I do this a lot. Conversations usually go something like this, "oh, my friend from boise..." or "You remind me of my friend..." I'm sure all of New England feels the competition with these unnamed friends.
It got me thinking though, I don't keep in contact with my old friends enough. You might all think I have forgotten about you. So this is a reminder that I have NOT forgotten about any of my friends I left behind in Boise. Not a day has gone by that I have not talked or thought about one of you since arriving in New Hampshire. (warning: cheezy part coming) So Thank you, for being so much apart of my life. I love and miss you all. Sorry I don't email more, but you are in my thoughts. I am a better friend because of all of you.

Collage pages

So many of you have asked me how I do my collage photos. I would love to tell you I take hours creating these great photos, but I don't. I make them in my free program from walmart.
The Wal-mart digital photo manager version 1.2.
I looked on the web to see if I could give you a link to download it onto your computer, but all I could find was the newest version. Sadly it didn't seem to have the "photo album" feature(the one I use to make the collage photos.) So if you can get your hands on the 1.2 version it's so easy, you just drag and click. Sorry, I don't know if this is helpful, but this is how I do the collage photos. And I could be wrong about the new version.

A visit from Grandma Frankie and Aunt Tracy!

We were so excited to have Grandma Frankie and Aunt Tracy here this weekend. Of course they both brought gifts for the kids, and then continued to spoil them through out the weekend. Griffin is still sleeping in his new stocking cap.



We first made them endure Soccer on Saturday. They got to see the "Soccer Mom" in action. It was picture day and Aunt Tracy took that literally taking over a hundred photos of the soccer action. I was so grateful to have some documentation of my short time coaching soccer. It's hard to take photos and coach at the same time!


The next day we hit the beach, York, ME and Kittery outlet mall. We learned the beach is fun in October, as long as you have a new winter coat!
These are some shots of York, ME (my favorite place in New England, so far). The lighthouse is a wonderful photo-op and the town is charming.
We were so glad to share some of our favorite places with our family. We love you Grandma Frankie and Aunt Tracy, we hope you come again soon!

A Thank you

So I have to give a quick thank you to my "smarty-farty" husband who set up my link list to all of the blogs I follow. I like it so I can see who has a new post. This way I don't have to go check them all, which tend to make me carsick with all the quick clicking and such. I hope no one minds having their link displayed, if you do, let me know and I will take it off. I know privacy is a big issue on the net and I don't want to be the jumping off point for some weirdo. Thanks Mickey!

APPLE DAY

We recently ventured over to the New Hampshire Farm Museum. It was "Apple Day" when we went. It was wonderful! The kids got to make homemade apple cider, have an apple pie eating contest (If it weren't for a teenager named Peter, Miles would have won), and enjoy all the other things a farm has to offer! I have to say my favorite thing were the two PIGS; "Dorcas" and "Clara bell." They are old English pigs, that would be used as orchard pigs when the farm was a working farm. It took a lot of persuading to get them out of the barn and when they finally came out we all were laughing so hard. They were so Cute! I had to do another collage, there were just too many photo's to share. How could I not snap a ton of photos with barrels of apples and an amazing old farmhouse as my backdrops.
Okay, she is the cutest thing eating an apple.

More Dincess

Here is Elliot saying Princess, I am showing her the box of Princess fruitsnacks. It's pretty cute!

Elliot is obsessed

Elliot is obsessed with Disney princesses. We love how excited she gets. This is her waiting for a video to start. She is getting all ready to shout out when she sees the princesses.

More shot's of the kid's creations

Shirts to "DYE" for.

While Aunt Tracy was here we put her to work tie-dying. She helped the kids get their rubber bands around the shirts.



The whole idea came from this months FamilyFun mag. My favorite Magazine for the kids. Caleigh loves to grab it as soon as it comes each month saying, "can we make this, oh, how about this." They really do have great ideas.















The final product. We made one for Uncle Jeff too (belated birthday present, "it's coming soon Jeff".) The kids had a great time and want to wear them to school. Uh....

Aunt Tracy

We had another good visit with my sister in Law, Tracy. She had a interview in Andover, MA (which is only an hour away from us). We hope she gets the job, so we would have family close by. The kids are always overly excited when she comes, and hopefully they don't scare her away. The hardest parts about her visits are when she leaves. It always reminds me just how far away we are from our wonderful family. So Peterson's and Head's we miss you all terrible and think about you often. Love you! We are so blessed to have close families.

Griffin Brings home a friend

Griffin's class passes around a book bag inside is "Baby Bear" and the book "brown bear, brown bear, what do you see?" There is also a journal for the kids to write what they did with baby bear while he was with them and their favorite part of the book. Griffin was so excited it was his turn.!

Soccer

So Soccer season is in full swing. I am enjoying coaching Griffin's team. There are about 8 on the team and they are all very enthusiastic players. Griffin scored his first goal last week and was so proud. Miles is loving seeing all his friends from school. Here are the few photo's I've taken so far. None of Griff yet, it's hard to take photo's and coach.

Please no photographs!!

So it's been about a week since I have posted and I have come to a conclusion. Blogging is no fun without a camera. I am still camera-less until Mon. or Tues. that is when my new camera is expected to arrive. I hate missing photo moments. Elliot has been being so cute (as always) and the boys started soccer, and Mike and I went to a cute little store for our last date night. I know everyone would have loved the photo's. Oh, well, next time. Anyway, we are all good. The leaves haven't changed colors too much yet (Don't worry those photos are definitely coming.) But we are still just in love with New England and enjoying everyday.