Family Photo Shoot - sneak peek

Love my friend, Andrea Hughes.

Had a professional family photo shoot for the first time EVER. Here's a sneek peak. Can't wait to see all the rest.

Fall is in the air

The leaves have started falling off the trees in our yard. It looks like there is alot on the ground BUT there is MORE in the trees. Aye!

I'm still pretty busy (at home and work) but there is light at the end of the tunnel. My 30 plus meetings regarding insurance re-enrollment end tomorrow. We move, at work, next week. Thanksgiving - and a few days off - don't seem so far away.

Yeah...I think I'll make it through this busy time and enjoy the fall that is in the air soon enough.

:-)

Silly

Ok - this is silly. Absolutely ridiculous.

But I just HAD to...

I wore this skirt from Coldwater Creek that had the above pattern I took a picture of and realized that I matched my blog today. :-)

Silly, I know. But made me want to post SOMETHING! {{giggle}}

Neglected

My poor, poor blog.

I am a very busy bee right now and am neglecting my poor, poor blog.

Since I work in payroll/human resources at my job/church this is a very busy time for insurance re-enrollment and our finance department in general.

AND we are moving facilities in about 2 weeks!

AND the boys are keeping me busy with everyday "STUFF" when I am home.

Awww...my poor, poor blog. I'll come visit again soon! Promise. :)

U2 ... & me too...

So...Ron and Dylan are at the U2 concert tonight.

He emailed me this picture of the view from their seats.

Cool! My lucky 14 year old son! All the other concerts he attends will probably NEVER live up to his first one!

I'm a little worried about him...he's going to be TIRED!!! He has to be up at 6 to be at school by 7 a.m. for band practice. Aye....ugh... Sure hope he'll be able to sleep...Oh I'm worried about Ron too...he has to be up early for his 40 minute drive to work. I get up shortly after him to start my day. (what am I still doing up by the way???)

And...what were Riley and I doing tonight? We just had some dinner. Riley played and I worked...on our computers...at home.

Here's some silly pictures we took while waiting for his boneless wings at KFC.
(big step for me...don't like posting unflattering pics of myself...but hey...keeping it real...if I'm going to post silly pictures of Riley I should post silly pictures of myself too!) I think I'm better at silly faces - what do you think?





AND...random...here's Riley's homemade cookie cake for his birthday. Dad made it! He's so GREAT!!! It was yummy!!!

Happy 11th Birthday Riley!

How is our little man 11 already? Wow!

He is smart, silly, loving. He makes us proud!

Praying that he has an awesome year filled with many blessings!

Oh no!

I have a Starbucks gift card and I'm not afraid to use it!

I have NEVER drank coffee. Never have liked it. Oh...I have loved the smell of it and the idea of it but have never like the taste and aftertaste of it. BUT...

One of my co-workers/friends, Carrie, turned me on to Pumpkin Spice Lattes and I'm hooked.

After getting hooked I found a gift card I had gotten some time ago in my purse. I seriously thought it was like $5 or $10. But - lo and behold...a HUGE blessing...$20!!! Yippeee!!!

So after calling my coffee loving sister to tell her that "heck" may have frozen over...I was drinking coffee...she proceeded to tell me what I should try next: A tall, nonfat,decaf latte with 1 pump of vanilla - please sweeten with Splenda. {{giggle}} I'm going to try it - probably - soon...if I can get myself to take a break from the Pumpkin Spice. :)

Black and white all over

This isn't the greatest photo but I took it with my iphone to post on facebook. Ron spent a couple of days last week painting our bedroom a beautiful slate blue color. We have black and white bedding (yep...in love with black and white...just like on my blog - hence: black and white all over). We also have burgandy accents like the pillow, some candles and a couple of other lamps that you cannot see that are burgandy too.

Just had to post because I am IN LOVE with my "new" bedroom. I got the drapes hung and everything straightened up. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE my room. I'll try to take some other pictures soon.

BTW - WOO!HOO! Ron finally got an interview last Friday morning AND - GOT THE JOB!

God is good! We feel so blessed. Although it is not "ideal" it's good. Ideal would be working from home or 5 minutes from like me. :) It's about 30 to 45 minutes from home but he can work early hours and still be home by 5 - so not that bad. It was a long but short 5 months out of work and I really think he's ready to be back in the groove. He truly didn't enjoy being a "employee of the state". Not his style AT ALL.

So...that's just a little of what's up in our world. (Feeling like we can finally handle some home improvement stuff around the house so stay tuned for more pics of updates. ;))