Aunt "Bye-dee"

"Oh Bridie...you came and you gave me some sleepy....on your vacation awayyyyy, from worky!! ".....AMAZINGNESS...Having two babes in showing some of its not so pretty colors in the whole no sleep zone, but Bride made it all better when she was here. This momma got to sleep in TWICE!! That's huge in my regaining sanity area of mommaness! Thanks Bridie for helping me be a better Mommy!!! We miss you!

We have been so blessed to have so many people come out to visit us over the past three years. This is Bridie's 2nd time to Vail! I've been trying to write about her visit, but the pictures keep loading funny. I'll keep working on it!!

But, here's what we did!
Desert Museum
El Charros for some yummy Mexican food
Hot Rods Restaurant
Agua Linden Farm
Halloween Festival @ St. Rita's
Fall crafts

October Crafts

Pumpkin Suncatcher

"Ou Lil' Bumkin Patch"

We have been so busy this month making so many different crafts that I wanted to have them all in one place. This way I can remeber what we made!! 

Making our "Bumkin patch"..yep, stamping little bums in orange paint...Evan loved it! Lawrence...not so much!

Fall Wreath

'Barefoot Baby Bat"

"Scossor Skills" Bat

"Trick- or Treat...Smell My Feet"

"B is for BOO!"

Black Cat

Mommy School art from Ms. Gina's..."Happy Cat" & "Popsicle Stick Pumpkins"

shakers & Bats

"Mummy"

We're going to make these next week for our "Mommy School" Halloween party! For the web, I'm going  to have orange paper in a pan and they will dip bouncy balls (marbles too small around these noodle bugs) in white paint and roll the balls back and forth across the paper...Ill share how they turn out! 

They turned out so cute ;) 

We made these spider hats too!

 The boys helped me carve. Poor Daddy's been working 60 plus hours, but we're excited he'll be home in time to "TRICK-OR-TREAT" Evan loves every minute. He was exploring every part of this pumpkin. Lawrence wasn't so into it. He almost seemed a little concerned for the pumpkin. Such a sweet soul!

The boys and I carved our pumpkin together. Lawrence said he wanted him to be sad. 

Toddler Tuesdays!

We made shakers and bats!

They helped make their own mini-pizzas

Another successful day of "Mommy School!" I just love it so much. So do the babes! Today we finally got to have school with our good friend Gianna! We just had the two of them so it was more of a relaxed morning, but still full of fun. We started the day by playing some letter matching games and the barn. We also played "Ring Around the Pumpkin" Art was bats and sensory/science was shakers! I am so so terrible at remembering to take pictures. But, I did get a couple "after-shots."

When you shake it, the veg oil makes really cool bubble blobs!

The "shakers" helped to reinforce yellow and red make orange. They are filled with water,food coloring, veg oil, and Halloween glitter. The littles chose what shapes for eyes, and nose and then told me if they wanted a scary pumpkin or a happy one. This one is scary! The BATS were to help introduce scissor skills. Then, G & L cut squares from paper strips and glued them on the bats. Then, as you can see.. they added googly eyes!

the original

 Evan loves to do art too!!! He has made two Halloween projects already!!

Here's some pics from last weeks "Mommy School" We made orange play-doh and Pumpkin Sun Catchers

Lawrence s is the one with some extra glitter love!

some snack with my buds

My boys' art in our front window :)

Fall Park Fun

Our little football player and his football

The weather is finally starting to feel like Fall. Well, Tucson Fall! Saturday I woke up and it was a little crisp. No air conditioning and no windows open! Great excuse for a day to wear boots! :) When the weather hints of anything less than 95 degrees, my first thought is to head to the park!! We have a fantastic neighborhood park and tried a new one this week too. You really learn to love love parks when your own back yard is full of rocks! Lawrence asks to go to the park everyday. They both have so much fun!!  Here a some shots of the boys playing at the park this  past week...

fun at our neighborhood fall festival!

drop and give me 20!

hugs for his buddy Sean!

The Myers' sent us FALL!!! Aunt Erin is the BESTEST!! She always knows exactly what me and the babes need! Doesn't matter how long I've been here, I crave changing leaves, acorns and pine cones when September and October come around. When this gem of Fall showed up in a package, we were so excited!! and naturally we made some art with it (after some  hilarious exploration of each thing, of course!)

exploring Fall!

"Isa yeaf Mom!"

the final product...a "Fall Wreath"

He's so serious with glue!

My Handsome Park Dates:) 

He's getting so good on his scooter!!