chocolate crinkle cookies..

MAN..these were AMAZING...
according to luke.. "these are the best cookies we have made.. EVER!"

I found the recipe via Bakarella which she got from Martha.. I tweaked mine though...
I  used milk chocolate chips instead of bittersweet chocolate and I didnt have milk in the house but I had chocolate milk..why not.. they are chocolate cookies..right?
I will NOT tell you how many I have eaten..

love

I just noticed there is a lot of love in this house...lol

and the funny thing was that I was looking at another love sign the other day but ended up putting it back thinking to myself I didn't need it...

finally...

my baby lost his first tooth.....
"finally mommy, at seven and a half"

In honor of my baby sis having her first baby..

She called last night and told Luke and Hailie that their new baby cousin was going to be a boy!
So they gave her some advice on what she would need to buy for him..
Hailiegirl being the little mama she is told Auntie Melissa she needs to get some pajamas.. a shirt.. some jeans..a stroller... and a diaper.. of course..
Luke said that she needs to get the baby some goldfish.. so it wont cry...
hilarious..
Big sis says she will need plenty of these:

Serena and Lily sure know how to do hoodie towels and swaddling blankets right...
LOVE THESE...

Christmas.....man it went by fast....

leftover felt garland from last year...

makes a nice place to hang cards this year...

seriously 12 days before christmas??

hanging drywall and painting roof trim.....

it feels good to give back...
habitat for humanity is an amazing experience.....

so sweet...

I spotted the sweetest christmas gift for a little girl ever by lily and thistle......

A paper doll customized to look like your baby girl...

You can even order a CD so you can print the doll out as many times as she wants....

Adorable...

BUY ONE HERE!!!

Baking Day

Our little baker Hailiegirl....

 LOVES her Grandman Mary Jo....

 And is sugar and spice and everything nice....

(I need to work on my inside shooting with no flash.. they are so blurry.. any suggestions?? you think my professional photgrapher sis would help me out!)

AND before her big brother!

spruced up for Thanksgiving...

Our front entry was looking a little sad this weekend...

Our pumpkins were still out.. (Thanks for the cool bling pumpkin kits Aunt Bonnie!) and all my plants died this summer..

 so I de-blinged the pumpkins and got this metallic spray paint...

and now it looks ready for Thanksgiving....

finally getting chilly in az

so I have been in the mood for baking..the kids have loved it..

some funfetti cookies....

fudge..

and then I saw this recipe at MADE for these chocloate chip pumpkin cookies...man they were good...

diy shelf...

$6 shelf from Micheals..just painted it white...

put hooks in the wall underneath that were only a couple bucks each... 

super easy...and love the way it looks...

I liked the BOO letters I made for Halloween on it..but not sure that I like the THANK letters for Thanksgiving...

hope you had a Happy Halloween...

first year mommy did not have a say in their costumes (sniff)

from buzz lightyear and alice in wonderland to cobra ninja and barbie rockstar..

sigh..  

I am feeling lazy this year in regards to carving pumpkins with the kids..

spotted this idea over at Apartment Therapy

hmmm.....

BOO

I saw these BOO letters in the Pottery Barn catalog..

Some 99 cent paper letters from Michaels..warm white paint..and a little sand paper...

Now I have my own BOO letters....

twine pumpkins..

dollar store pumpkins+twine+gluegun= cheap cute fall decorations...

MIM

Man it has been busy..
Two kids in school is much different then one..
A new musuem opened though and my uncle and aunt took us...
the musical instrument musuem..
I just had the camera on my phone though but it was so much fun!
The kids really got into it..