Why hello there....

Hello to my favorite aisle at Target.

I love to look at each one and what it had to offer.... 

But who am I kidding, I have several favorite aisles at Target!

A Stripe Shirt....

 

In this heat, Jason likes to keep the house cool....cold.

So at times I need to throw on a long sleeve even though it's 90 degrees out! I threw this fun and comfy little hoodie on one day.

I wore it all afternoon and evening. No one said anything.

I tucked Jack into bed. "Good night...little man!"

I was walking out of his room and heard...

"Good Night, Waldo!"

What I am Reading...

I just finished a wonderful, fun, heart warming book The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion.

 

Meet Don Tillman, a brilliant yet socially inept professor of genetics, who’s decided it’s time he found a wife. In the orderly, evidence-based manner with which Don approaches all things, he designs the Wife Project to find his perfect partner: a sixteen-page, scientifically valid survey to filter out the drinkers, the smokers, the late arrivers. 

Rosie Jarman possesses all these qualities. Don easily disqualifies her as a candidate for The Wife Project (even if she is “quite intelligent for a barmaid”). But Don is intrigued by Rosie’s own quest to identify her biological father. When an unlikely relationship develops as they collaborate on The Father Project, Don is forced to confront the spontaneous whirlwind that is Rosie―and the realization that, despite your best scientific efforts, you don’t find love, it finds you.

The story is told from Don's point of view and at first I had a hard time understanding what he was thinking or what was taking place. Then I realized Don is exactly like Jim Parsons character, Sheldon, in the TV show The Big Bang Theory.  

 At times, he thinking is hilarious! He is extremely literal and  doesn't understand why others don't think they way he does...things are so obvious!  He knows everyone thinks he is weird because he looks at the world differently. But what I enjoyed, was that he believes everyone else is weird because they didn't view the world as he does. He is the normal one. 

Then he meets Rosie. She pulls him out of his routine. Rosie wants to find out who her biological father is and Don decides to help her out. In doing so, they travel, meet new people and he discovers that his weirdness isn't all that bad. 

I would highly recommend this book! It's a quick read, but an enjoyable one too!

So True...

It's official.

I am not alone in my thinking.

 It's a hell of a lot of work, period!

Jack's Football Game..

Jack is playing flag football this year for the Vikings. (What?) Yep, Jack's team is the Vikings! How happy was his coach, who happens to be his dad, who happens to be a HUGE Vikings fan? Pretty exciting!

Side note:

I asked Jack last Saturday if he was excited for his first football game."Yea, but why aren't we playing until Monday night?"  (heehee) I explained how the Vikings, his team, plays on Sunday afternoon. The Vikings, the NFL team, opens on Monday night. "OH!! I didn't understand why dad kept saying "we" play Monday Night Football."

So off to the game we went on SUNDAY!

Look how far I can stretch my mouth and still keep my mouth guard in it!

Sam was on the chain gang and made sure his shoes looked good! (wink wink)

It was a family affair! There's Jason...AKA "Coach." 

Jason puts play sheets into the arm bands for all the kids to wear. They love it!  Here they are checking out the next play.

 At one point, Jason's pay call was, "You are going to get the ball and run it in for a touchdown." the kiddo he told that to, looked at him and said, "OK." And...that kid got the ball and ran his heart out and scored!! Can you imagine him going home and telling his parents, "Coach told me to score. So I did"

Hey. dude. What time you got?

Hmmm...I think my watch is slow.  

Jack was all lined up for this play...notice he is on the goal line. 

These two had a beautiful hand off. Jack had to get around one player and he turned on his guns and scored a 90 yard+ touchdown!! I didn't get a picture. I was cheering. Yea....sometimes I turn into that mom. 

The Vikings (Jack's team) got a win under their belt this day. A great start off to this Vikings season!

Footbll Season is Here...

Football season is in FULL swing at our house. We have had Fantasy Football drafts, Jack started his football season yesterday and Sam has started school ball! I am glad to say that everything is going well (phew!)

The biggest change this year is that Sam has started school ball. As would be expected, Sam wasn't sure about the whole idea, but after starting, he loves it! It's a whole different ball game and change this year was good!

I was super excited to pull out my camera and take a few pictures (147) of Sam in his "new" uniform at his first game. 

Sam, if you didn't know this already, loves tennis shoes. He "researched" for his cleats this year and made the decision to  purchase a pair of maroon and gold stripe like cleats. I love them...because I can spot him, due to most other players having black cleats! This selection of shoes will also help you spot him in the following pictures!

 

 Sam got two sacks in the game, (YAY!) which I did not capture in a photo. I did get this almost sack though!!

 OH MY, SAM! What happened to your left arm? It's a little small!

 Sam is on kick off, too.

 Another attack at the QB.

Where's Sam?

Find the shoes!

 It was a great win for the first game!

 Sam actually got excited!! His doing a little fist bump!!

It's so fun to watching your kiddo have fun!

YAY, Sam!!

IDK

I don't know about you...

...but I am thinking we need to clean our gutters.

Shopping with Sam

I had to do some errands and I love it when one of the boys goes with me. That way we have some one-on-one time together for talking and catching up! Sam came with me on this evening. 

When we reached our destination, he wandered off and was soon back. " Hey mom, come here and check out these wooden letters!"

Hmmm...Those are cool. I like the font.

OH!

You are one cleaver boy Mr. Sam.

Do you see it?

Bleeding Ears...

Jack is in fourth grade *sniff* and I completely forgot that this is the year of the dreaded recorder. I know...I should be encouraging and supportive, but oh my...he plays it all the time! Which is good practice.  And he hasn't had his music lesson on how to play it...so it squeaks and squawks and he blows as hard as he possible can when he gets frustrated.

 

He plays while walking around the house.

 

He plays while in the car.

 

He plays while we wait to pick up Sam.

It's a lot of playing, but on a bight note, he has taught himself "Mary has a Little Lamb" and "Hot Cross Buns."  Yay, so now I can listen to those TWO songs for the next two months. Go, Jack.

Decisions Decisions...

I REALLY want to keep up on my scrapbooking and crafts. There is so much I want to do and there is just not enough time in the day for all my crafting, work and my naps! :)

So, of course, I made a list of the projects I want to do and the work projects I need to get done at this time too!

This should be a no brainier project! The pictures are printed out from the boys' track season. All I need to do is put them in the pockets and call it good! I even have most of the memorabilia gathered, too.  So what is stopping me? I have no idea!!

Oh wait, it might be the fact that I have 200+ photos!! 

Overwhelming!! I just need to put on some good reality TV or Netflix or Hulu (my new addiction) and start stuffing pockets!

This time of the year is BUSSyyy at the store with the holiday season quickly approaching! I love this time of the year! My head is full of ideas!

I've created a couple Halloween mini books. This one is made with the Graphic 45 collection: Rare Oddities. One of my favorite Halloween collections of the season. 

I also created a countdown to Halloween calendar. The idea is to place a die cut or image on each day (or for little ones, each night or sleep) until it's time for Trick or Treat!

 At this time, I have six other projects and classes that I need to create for the store.Which I really enjoy doing!!

So, before I get going, I think I should get in a quick nap to reboot! 

(wink wink)