Accomplishments

Two years after we started fixing up our house (turns out it is never ending, like UDOT and the roads) I finally stained the front and back doors. I also repainted the living room, down the stairs and the hallway. First it was grandma pantyhose brown and now it is lovely, the living room is lovely.

The doors still need the trim painted but they look so much better. It is pretty hard to take a good picture of a very dark door in the dark of the night.

I also finished framing my magnet board. Mike hung the hooks and now the kids hang their jackets and backpacks on our organization station:) I love that they always know where their stuff is each morning. Crazy that it is right in the kitchen, but that is where we do homework, sign permission slips and clean out folders. We have 2 monthly calendars in the Family section. Each of the kids have a section where I put their important papers and then a "show & tell" area where they can hang the things they are proud of. Obviously Gretchen is very proud of her new found turkey talent:)

She draws me a "book" of turkeys at least once a day. Here are 3 from yesterday. She made them while she was home from school, sick.

This other picture is from Jake. He drew it for Gretchen when he was supposed to be getting ready for school. Incase you can't tell, it is a picture of Gretchen throwing-up into her silver "throw-up bowl". Sometimes when she is sick she wears her throw-up bowl on her head so she always has it with her. That makes me happy. I know it is sick, but it is not like she isn't already contaminated and this way, I don't have to clean up a mess.

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Speaking of accomplishments, I am always bookmarking blogs that have cute things I want to try with (or without) my kids. I finally tried a few.

During the last session of conference the kids and I went crazy making these pom-pom spiders. I used to make pom-pom poodles with my mom so it was nostalgic for me. We hung spiders from the light in the kitchen and in the doorway. Gracie made a spider and hung it from the light in her room too. She named her spider Marie. Our spiders remain unnamed.

(In the background, you can kinda see one of the doors I stained)

Lindsey and I mod podged these pumpkins. We actually made about 7 mod podge pumpkins. We gave away the cutest ones.

We painted the polka dot one white before we mod podged it. We did another damask pumpkin that was painted white and I liked it better, but we wanted to see what it would look like with the orange showing through.

Anyway, I have not used mod podge for a long time, but I will be doing it again soon.

I tried making a bracelet out of candy pumpkins, dental floss & ribbon. It turned into a garland and was not as easy as I had hoped. I made some Reeses Peanut Buttercup cookies too. Looked super yummy, but not as delicious as I had hoped. I am going to try out some pumpkin pancakes and spiderweb syrup because I love Halloween and Halloween crafts.