Election night funnies...

So this is something i've been meaning to write down just for my sake. So after the election had been declared, we were watching the news with the big celebration in Grant Park for Barack Obama and his speech. (no matter your political views it was definitely a big moment in history, and we were watching very intently!) so anyway, with everyone cheering and jumping up and down and yelling it apparently reminded Porter of another recent event... So we are Phillie Fans, and since they had just won the World Series it was fresh on Port's mind! So all of a sudden out of nowhere Porter yells at the top of his lungs.. "Yeah Phillies, yippee!!! Go Phillies and threw his arms in the air and started jumping around. We just started laughing. It was so cute. What a silly boy! he was only slightly off in his events.

Quirky

I got tagged by Kayla, so here it is! This tag is to list 6 of your quirks... so here goes,
I probably have way more than 6 but I'll spare you:)

#1 I REALLY, REALLY,REALLY love cute fabric!!
I didn't always have this obsession, it came on slowly through college, and then since I have gotten married. But wow, It is like scrapbooking with fabric for me, and there are soooooo many darling fabrics. I just have to get a little of everything that is so cute and make something out of it! Luckily, i can make a lot of gifts from it for Birthdays, Baby Showers, Weddings, Christmas, Etc, so it evens out with the money I would spend on those! So pretty much everyone gets home made things from me lately. But that's ok. Hopefully they all love it, because I love making it! I just makes me happy to make something super cute.

#2 I am obsessed with having to shred all things remotely able to give any personal information. (Ask Noah) This was a quirk kind of before, but even worse after I worked at a Credit Union. So anyway, it stresses me out to just throw something away, even if most people would. Like basic reciepts that only have the last four digits of your card. But I shred all of these too. The only problem is that I hate to shred things. So they sit in a giant pile until I have a massive undertaking to get it all done! And my wallet gets full of tons of receipts until I transfer them into the shred pile. Those mostly are the ones I should probably just toss, yet I can't. We'll see. I just need to shred at the end of every day for 1 minute and then I would be golden. One day....

#3 I go through phases of being really really confident, to not confident at all. Not sure why. Been that way my whole life. Who knows how long these phases last, but I definitely notice them.

#4 When buying my children's pictures from the studio, I am a very large sucker. All of my other friends can get in and out with just the right number of photos! I don't have that ability. I always get tons. I can't resist!!

#5 Although I like strawberries, blueberries,cinammon, etc. all the things that come in a variety of bagel flavors, both the bagel and the cream cheese, when it comes to actually eating the bagel itself I only really enjoy a PLAIN Bagel with PLAIN cream cheese. Not sure why my like of all these other items won't translate into my bagel enjoyment. I've tried, but to no avail.

#6 I ABSOLUTELY love my grandmother's recipe for homemade caramels. I don't make them very often because you have to stir them forever, but they are perhaps my favorite thing in the entire world. They obviously aren't that healthy for you, and everytime I make them I eat so many that I usually make myself a little bit sick. I have learned to stagger them a little bit longer, then I don't get quite so sick:) but either way, I JUST CAN NOT STOP EATING THEM until the pan is gone! it is absolutely ridiculous.

I tag Shelly, Megan, Jen C. Chels, Kim, Karin

Halloween!!!

So here are the REAL Halloween pics! We had a great time, Art and Steph had a great party, and their neighborhood is awesome for Trick or Treating! Thanks again guys:) The kiddos looked sooooooooo cute if I do say so myself, although I don't know how many years I will continue to make their costumes. These ones turned out to be just a little more work than I was expecting. But so worth it! Incase you can't tell Porter is an elephant and Ronan is a Frog Prince:) Porter rocked it at the trick-or-treating, even being the star of the show at one house that made the kids sing for candy. He was the only brave one to go to the microphone! anyway, they had lots of treats from the party, and fun running around. Ronan was tuckered out! Porter was bouncing off the walls:)

Fall Fun!

So pre-Halloween we had some fun things going on. We had yummy pumpkin chocolate chip cookies- (my favorite in the fall), Porter had a great time painting his "pumpkin patch", (he can't get it through his head that just one pumpkin is not a whole "patch") and then we had our church Halloween party, took the kids to "Boo at the Zoo", and then to the farm for a hayride, trick-or-treating, and fun horses and wierd animals to see! We had a blast, and loved that there were pretty much two Halloween weekends this year! Porter and Ronan love the fall I think as much as I do:)

Phinally Phillies!!!!!!

So if you missed it, the Philadelphia Phillies won the World Series!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are sooo excited here in our house tonight! It was a little bit sticky with the rain and all, but they did it, at home in PA!! So Noah has had a FANTASTIC year! It was just meant to be big I guess! He turned 30 this year, so a big year in general but ALL OF HIS TEAMS WON THIS YEAR!! It was amazing! 1. the redwings won (although this one I'm not as partial too-i prefer the avalanche:) 2. KANSAS won the NCAA finally!! 3. the Celtics won the NBA and now the Phillies! He is in Heaven! Congrats Phillies!

this last week...

So this week was full of fun for our little family. I just wanted to do a quick share. First off, Noah had his 30th Birthday!!! We had a great day, (I being lucky enough to get to do all of his birthday activities too:) and even though he has now turned twenty ten he is still as young and hot as ever! He got a Phillies hat for his birthday, which Ronan is particularly fond of!! He absolutely LOVES hats, but this one is his favorite!! If you say "come get the hat" Ronan will come crawling instantly from anywhere in the room! But when you show him two or three hats, he always picks this one. I guess another Phillies fan is born!! And then last but not least, my boys have FINALLY kind of started to learn to play nicely with each other. Most of the time it is Porter taking things from Ronan, repeated over and over. This day however, they sat and played together nicely for a good 20 minutes!! It was so cute I needed a picture for sure:)

Chocolate or Poop?

So this is my very first true "Chocolate or Poop?" experience as a mother, I have had some definite experiences with both, but was quite sure each time which one it was. The other day however I came upon this by complete surprise!! After thinking about it carefully I deduced that Porter had not had any experiences that day for sure where there had been poop on his hands ( nor has there really been for quite some time thankfully) but he had eaten an ice cream sandwich earlier in the day. Therefore I have decided that it was chocolate!! Thankfully!!! Just wanted to let you all share some of the excitement!