(Ninja) Turtles

I had a really (or so I thought) cute idea for my boys to be a football player (B) and a football (C) for Halloween... well it was really cute until Brycen shot me down and said, "NO way!" . I don't know why he didn't want to b/c he loves football and football players... probably just to spite me and all... I think my mom would probably say I'm getting paid back :) haha!

Anyway, I decided I would just re-use B's first Halloween costume for Corbin instead of spending money on something he won't even remember... and I thought my little turtle was so cute when B dressed up in it... fit perfect too!

My friend/co-worker Whitney then told me she could make Brycen a ninja turtle costume! This made me excited, b/c he loves ninja turtles PLUS they would still kind of/sort of match... and well all know how I feel about them being matchy matchy ;)

Yesterday they had trick-or-treat and a bunch of other stuff at Prides Creek so I took my (ninja) turtles and went.

~Corbin Fisher~

~ Brycen Hunter~

his shell

so cute!!



Everyone loved B's costume and no one could tell what C was b/c his shell was up against the stroller lol, but I knew and thought they were both adorable :)
Brycen got too much candy (which Ryan and I helped him eat!) and had a lot of fun.
We hardly go anywhere (just my parents and a few family friends) on Halloween so this made the getting dressed up a little more worth it for him!

Arts Fest Field Trip

Friday I took off to go on Brycen's field trip to the Arts Fest. It was stressful. I've only been on pre-school field trips before and they were not stressful in the least bit-they were fun! The kids all had fun on this trip, but I think each adult was about to pull their hair out! It was at the park in Petersburg. The Arts Fest was going on and they had inflatables... It's a huge wide open space to try to keep track of all these kiddos... It was K-5th with Petersburg, Otwell, and Winslow elem. schools all being there... that's a lot of kids!

Xavier, Joey, Brycen, and Braden

(The 4 boys I had in my group)

Brycen got to grind up some corn :)
They also got to get face paint (as you can see from this picture...) thankfully it came off very easily as soon as we got home.

All the boys in my group wanted snakes- eww! :) I love having boys, but some of their favorite things (snakes, bugs, etc) are not all that exciting (and even sort of creepy) to me!

I was thankful for gorgeous weather (a breeze to keep us cool). It only started to sprinkle as we were boarding the buses to leave. Brycen was WORN out from running around all day!

Big Splash

Last Friday we went to Big Splash at French Lick to stay the night. We met up with our friends Shannon & Chadd and their little girl Kianna and also Ricky & Brittany and their kiddos, Kaden and Kenzlie. We got there that evening and ate supper and just all hung out in Shannon and Chadd's room talking and having fun. Brycen was excited to have Kaden there who is just a few years older than him. Saturday morning we got up and ate breakfast and went to the water park for the day. Both of our boys loved it and had a blast. Ryan and I had fun too :)

Such a sweetheart! (this was in the room Fri. night)
Corbin in the baby pool- he just sat and chilled :) such a good boy!

Shannon and Ki, Brittany and Kenzlie, Corbin and I

Corbin Fisher

Brycen Hunter

love this face.

blurry- but he had such a good time!

his lips were literally blue when we left!

love this boy.

I'm thankful we're squeezing in these last few weekends of fun (we're camping this wk/end at Prides Creek) before we have to start working on the house in all our spare time. Although, thankfully the kids enjoy that too! It was fun to spend some time just chatting w/ good friends who are great people. I love them all :)

House Update

My front door (that I really really love).... not a good picture b/c of the sun, but you get the idea
this door goes out from the laundry/mud room and will go out on a back porch that will go across the back length of the house (right now it's a huge drop b/c the basement is open on this side)... makes me sick to look out that door right now lol

main part of the house standing in the dining area looking into the living room area

our house!

This week nothing exciting is going on out there... We had to go mark every where we wanted electrical outlets and our light switches and all that so that my dad can get our electrical stuff and get started on that... and Ryan has been dealing w/ the water company (they have to boar under the road to get our water back there) and they are supposed to be starting on that ASAP... so neccessary stuff, but nothing that is exciting to me! lol. (it was sort of fun picking out where to put the electrical outlets b/c i was picturing where i was going to put certain stuff).

Family Pictures & Casondra

We got our family pictures taken last night by Mandi and Andre! They did a great job! I LOVE the pictures and we had a lot of fun with them- no stress (and pictures really stress me out). Seriously, B was cheesing it up and loving it (as usual)... Corbin decided to not smile at all (except for like 2 pictures)... he wasn't unhappy, he was just VERY.SERIOUS. lol. as soon as we left he was all laughs and smiles again. Such a booger! I really wanted fall family pictures and we had missed getting C's 6 month pictures done so we did it all in one. Go check them out :)
Tell me your favorites, b/c I know I'm going to have a hard time choosing (I love 76 for a family picture).


Tomorrow I'm going with B's class to a field trip at the park. It's K-5th grade and county wide (the three pike county elem. schools). Should be interesting! I hope it's fun for them... They are having the arts fest and 20 inflatables and grilling out- so I'm sure the kids will have fun... Also music I think. Brycen is so excited! Corbin's 3rd tooth is getting ready to pop through... crazy! This week has been stressful and tiring so I'm glad tomorrow is Friday.


My friend Casondra (who started the community blog I'm doing) had her breast cancer surgery today (double masectomy). It's been an emotional day... She asked me to keep her facebook and blog updated through out the day and I said I would (I wanted to help in any way that I could). It was emotional waiting for updates... I prayed so hard for her today (and the past months). Everything went well, but it's going to be a long road ahead for her- so could you guys keep her in your prayers? And her family... she has four young kiddos and a husband and she's a doer... she's the one that takes care of everyone... and it's going to be hard for her to ask for help and let people help, but she has to take care of herself (and she knows that). She is an inspiration to so many and her love for the Lord really has been shining through during this time. Maybe you could go drop her a line of encouragement (and I'm sure you'll be encouraged by her blog if you visit)! She has a way with words and moves me with every post! I'm blessed to call her my friend. I love ya girl!

The Rest..

I told you about Friday already... so here's the rest of our weekend... nothing too exciting! Saturday morning my alarm didn't go off. Thankfully, Corbin pooped and woke himself up (I know ya'll wanted to hear that right? haha) so we did get out the door on time for soccer pictures that were before the game, but it was close on time! My boys like to sleep in so they are no hope in being alarm clocks! ha! We made it to pictures and then had B's game. We're now 5-0!

After the game we came home and I worked on laundry and house stuff... Brycen went to ride with my parents in the car parade thingy in Washington and go to the cruise in while Ryan, C, and I went to Jasper to Home Depot. We had our showers/tubs picked out for a long time now and when we went to pick them up yesterday they had upped the price by 200 dollars! INSANE! So we decided against buying them b/c Ryan thought we could find better prices (even though we had already price checked things, 200 dollars was probably going to break that deal!). We didn't leave empty handed though b/c we had to pick up our door that we had picked out! (I am in LOVE with my front door that I picked out) :) We came home and watched another movie. B didn't get home until 9pm and then he and I went to bed early!

Today my alarm didn't go off again... seriously, are you kidding?! I don't know what's wrong with it, but obviously it's broken! ha! We had to buy a new one today. We hung out this morning and then had my cousins' birthday party today at one. B loves to play w/ Kylee and Ashlyn so that was fun for him. Just small and very close family so nothing stressful. We left there and headed to Evansville. We went to Menards for a good two hours (so thankful for good boys- they were both so patient). We had so many more price checks to do (so thankful for a husband who is very strict to a house building budget and on top of things, but geez!). He looks a lot online, BUT I have to see things in person... Anyway, we were able to get our tubs/showers for the original prices we had thought so that was def. good! We also hit up Lowe's for more price checks. I am worn out and my brain hurts from all the looking, discussing, looking again etc... lol. It is fun, but man, I didn't realize how many little decisions there are AND one decision leads to another decision etc... It's not stressful to me really, but it does wear me out!

We just got home a little bit ago and I now I'm headed for bed... not looking forward to getting up at 5in the a.m., but I am hoping my alarm works! haha!

House and Movie Night

Friday after work I had to go get a new cell phone, because mine bit the dust. It always takes forever in the Verizon store in town at the hardware store, but I love those people. The homecoming parade was going on out on main street so B got to watch the parade and get candy while we waited :) He was dying to go out to the house so we came home for me to change out of my work clothes and we went straight out there to meet Ryan.

And this is what we saw when we got there :) We have a subfloor!
This is standing in the master bath.

It was hard to get good pictures of a flat surface. They all looked the same.
We planned on only being out there a little bit, but we were there for almost 2 hours.
Ryan took 2x4's and layed out all the rooms for me so I could see everything a little better.


We told Brycen he wasn't going to get dirty that night...
hahahaha, that was a joke!
I told Ryan I don't think we can take him out there and expect him not to get dirty.
We were there almost 2 hours and he still wasn't ready to leave.

And here's a picture of C, just b/c he's cute :) haha
His arms are double jointed (like his momma's)...
It kind of freaks people out sometimes, ha!


After we finally left out there we went and rented movies for family movie night and picked us up some fish sandwiches at Fish Hut. We came home and took baths and showers and proceeded to cuddle on the couch and watch movies. It was the PERFECT Friday night!