discovery gateway

yeah! a new post!

i suck at blogging. i know.

anywho, my friend heather had passes to the 'discovery gateway' and was kind enough to give us some.

we'd never been before and my kids had tons o' fun running around like crazy.




{miss opening the ball sucker vacuum thingy}











thanks, again heather!

couple new additions to the home!

there's been lots of thrift shopping going on around here!

i scored this pair of awesome cobalt blue chairs awhile back; as well as the tiered table in between them (it was originally black).

i'm starting to really love how my living room is coming together!



notice anything different in here?



let's take a closer look, shall we?



ah, yes, the pantry door is now yellow!

i love that you can't really even see it unless you're in the actual kitchen area!

while i painted the pantry door, i put the kids to work "painting" the door to the garage (paint brushes and water).

i just thought they looked so cute standing next to each other, painting away...



hope you all had a fun weekend!

zoo deja vu

we went to the zoo for labor day; and despite the massive crowd we managed to have some fun!



do you see the cute little baby elephant under the mom?



every time i look at this it cracks me up! elli was in a 'mood' about something but once the train started going she was back to her happy self.





while i was going through all the pictures, i started getting deja vu, so i went back and looked at an old zoo post from 2008 and realized i'd taken some pictures totally similar to the ones i took now. i obviously need to get more creative with my shots!





hope you all had a great long weekend!

{ 10 months }

this little pumpkin pie is 10 months old!

oh my goodness, i can't stand how much i love him!!!

preschool, { again! }

another year of preschool is here for elli!

she's come a long way since last year and we have high hopes for this year, too!

here she is waiting for the bus!





fun fact: the bus driver called earlier in the month and told me pick-up time would be 8:24 (i wrote it down as she was talking to me); when in fact it was actually 8:50. so we hung out on the porch like a bunch of chumps for over a half an hour waiting for the bus... good times!