Not Missing Apartment Life - Collin Chatter

While driving home from the YMCA, which is going to be my new favorite place, we passed a beautiful southern home. It was huge and looked exactly like a white, two story, southern home from the movies. I love houses with character so I pointed it out to the boys to check out.

Me: Look at that beautiful home over there.
Collin: Yeah, it has a balcony upstairs.
Then I had to describe to Brody what a balcony was.
Collin chimed in, "Yeah, you go up there to smoke."

Brody the Helper

Now that Collin is in full day kindergarten he has been taking a lunch to school. This means lots of snacks and ziplocs around the house. Brody is always trying to be a big helper. This is what I found in a drawer this morning:

And this is what he packed for "daddy's lunch" yesterday:

Back in the Habit

I am just trying to get motivated to get back in the coupon habit. It's tough! I promise some pics of my good deals soon. I am trying to get my sis in law, Amber, to use coupons too. Sorry Amber!

More House Pics

I know, I know, this is all I can talk about lately, BUT it is so exciting for us! As requested I am posting a few more pictures. Still waiting on furniture though. Our house has 4 bedrooms, master downstairs, and 2 1/2 baths. The best feature of the house is the huge upstairs family room. We are loving all the space!!

Here is the kitchen. Love the tile backsplash. Large laundry is the door on the left and the garage is straight through.

Here is the master bathroom, large garden tub, two sinks (yay!) and a huge walk in closet just through here.

Here is our frontroom. Still waiting on some furniture to be delivered so it's still pretty bare.

The stairs to the second floor.

HUGE upstairs living room. Obviously no furniture yet.

Play room just off the family room upstairs.

Cutest frog stuff! The toothbrush holder is like 3 frog bobble heads.

The boys bathroom upstairs.

My craft room!! I just finished putting together this furniture. Believe it or not, but this was easier to assemble than the kids toys boxes.

Brody's room. We are going to decorate it with trains, probably even get a train table in his room.

Collin's room, the biggest one upstairs. Going to be decorated with outer space and aliens.

Hard Hats Required

I put together the most awesome toy storage set from IKEA! I have wanted this set forever, and I am so excited. It's super cute and it hold a lot more than you would think. It took me about 3 hours to put together. It was really simple to put together, but it was time consuming, especially when my right hand man is only 2 years old. He accidentally hit himself in the forehead with a piece of wood and now has a huge goose egg. Oops. Who knew operating an allen wrench required safety gear?

New House!

I will take more pics of the inside when we get the furniture delivered. Pretty vacant right now. We are so excited to be in our new place! The kids have tons of room to be wild monkeys!

You thought I was kidding?

Did you think my last post was a joke? We rocked it hillbilly style all the way to Texas!!

Mostly packed...

...and SO ready to move!

Who?

I have submitted for a lot of rebates the last few months. The Kraft rebate was a great one, buy $25 dollars of Kraft products get $5 back instantly and $20 back by rebate. So basically if you invest the money you would get it all back! I recieved my $20 check today. Check out who it is made out to. LOL!

Frightmares

Lagoon has special Halloween events set up for the month of October. Collin LOVES Halloween so Darrell and I took him on a special date, no Brody's allowed. They have a kids walk through called Spook-A-Boo where kids went on a mini trick-or-treat and met lots of Halloween characters. Throughout the park there are lots of decorations and fun photo-ops. Also they have haunted houses. We took Collin through one of the haunted houses. He was so excited! It was a clown one so there was no blood and guts. Just lots of being scared. When we were done I asked Collin if he liked that. He said no. :) No more haunted houses for us. We just went on a couple rides that Collin liked including The Bat, which is the only rollercoaster Collin is tall enough to ride, and a haunted house ride that we had been on a million times before so we knew Collin wouldn't be scared. Lots of fun! It's fun to take the kids one at a time. Collin was walking in between us holding both our hands. It was very sweet. We also got to meet up with my friend Lynne and her family. They were too chicken for the haunted house though.

Darrell proving how manly he is. ;)