pony rides and dirty lungs

SEISTER is in town and night one we went to schnepfs farm. a now annual trip to pick out pumpkins and walk the corn maze. first of all it is a two hour drive from my house but i love going. it puts me in the fall state-of-mind. kettle corn, fresh squeezed lemonaid, spooky train rides, pony rides and of coarse people watching. london things it is all very excititing and got to ride her first pony! she has been asking to ride a horse for months and finally got her chance.

she thought this was so cool! oh to see the world through a three year olds eyes. i swear half the reason to go to these is just an excuse for pictures.

and there you have it

it has been ages since we have had a full on date. you know the kind when you get dressed-up(well kind of) do your hair, pick up the babysitter, go to dinner, sit on the patio kind of date. these are our cute friends Kari and Dan. last weekend we did just that. we went to the waterfront where i had never been! it is pretty cool- the stadium is huge and there are several restaurants and many soon to be shops, water features(which were down for the night :( and great photo op-spots. i love any opportunity to take a good picture or two. and my cute silly friends were up for the silliness. we had the best dinner at yard house and even saw a movie! those are the kind of dates that help me forget all the everyday make-me-crazy-want-to-run-away-from-home-moments! i feel recharged and happy. a date like that every weekend would be great- but then i guess they would not make me feel so good if they became ordinary- right?

october 1st- fall is here!

this pic was from last year but seeing it today made me excited for the month. i love fall! i think it is my favorite! bails of hay, schnepfs farm, the fair, pumpkin carving, trick or treating, Halloween parties, corn mazes, haunted houses, sugar cookies, soup and the start of all the baking i will do through the holidays! it is the kickoff to the busiest time of the year and i LOVE IT! whatever i can squeeze into this time of year. the decorations will come out tomorrow :p

sexy

don'tcha wish your girlfriend was hot like me? this is my darling friend jaiden-(yep it's a wig). last night we went over to her family's for homemade melt in your mouth doughnuts and good visits. i took her family Christmas pictures and some portraits for the walls. it was so much fun. i just love the whole photography thing! wish i had more time for it and the equipment i want to make it even better. her mother is the BEST cook and gave me lots of great recipes which might sound lame to some but if you like to cook you know how great it is to have tried and true- to-die-for recipes. thanks Kari! can't wait to start making those yummy treats!!

you know you are a mom when

you only sleep for 3-4 hours because you wanted some time to yourself or because your dear child is not sleeping---thus keeping you up :).
you actually hold your hands out for your child to puke in.(experienced that on Saturday night- sigh).
you miss your kids when you go away for the weekend to get a break from them. only to miss them terribly and want to come home early.
when you can sing all the primary songs, little Einstein songs and yes even the barney songs(yuck and double ewwww).
so i guess it is official. I'm a mommy---and most of the time I'm proud of it. what does not kill you makes you stronger, right?...

wow 5 years already!??

i can hardly believe it. time goes by so quick! saturday will be our... yep five year anniversary. so much has happened and yet there are still so many memories to create. look how dark my hair was and i am much skinnier in this pic -but hey-at least im not wearing an 80's dress with puffy sleeves and a huge veil right????

labor day wake

so this weekend was wonderful! first let me start by saying this last week was unbelievably slow- so Saturday i took the day off of work ( and really should have been visiting my sister, meg in Colorado but did not know work would be slow until too late to buy tickets. SORRY MEG!) Brandon and i went to breakfast (which is one of our favorite things to do) worked out, did chores and still had half the day left. we had the yummiest burgers at cheesecake factory and walked in the rain. saw rush hour three-very funny! and ate some more. moving onto Monday.... we went to the lake. now i have been to the lake multiple times since all of my surgeries but today was THE DAY. i have been so sad thinking i would never wake board or ski again. the docs warn about doing anything too risky and lets face it....I'm a big scaredy cat and a klutz. but today it was too hot and too calm at the lake not to try it again. for the first time in about two years i wake boarded around Bartlett lake. WWWWWWWWAAAAAHHHHOOOOOOO! man was i excited. terrified, but excited. my heart was racing and the adrenaline was flowing but i went for a while and even crossed the wake. no lung collapse, no falling on my face and no fear about doing it next time. this was a big bridge for me and although we forgot the camera I'm sure you all can picture that ear to ear grin i get and the fam said i was defiantly wearing it yesterday. so all in all it was one killer weekend. what can i say... I'm easy to please :)