Cool Deal from Shutterfly!

I was blog stalking the other day and came across this awesome deal from Shutterfly. I want to do Christmas cards this year, but they always get spendy by the time I order the cards and send them off. Well, Shutterfly is giving 50 photo cards away right now with this promotion they are doing. They do have some really cute cards, in addition to their Christmas collection, they have some cute birthday stuff and stationary too. Now that I found this deal, all I have to do is get a picture of everyone looking happy and at the camera. Sigh. I think I'm giving up scrapbooking, I'm SO far behind, and all my pics just sit on the computer. So I might do some photobooks- here's some cool ones, or regular albums. Anyway, I'm glad I found this deal, feel free to spread the news. Thanks Shutterfly! Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!

Cameron + Grass = No more Pants

Cameron has always been hard on clothes (well, pretty much anything that is with or on him for any amount of time). This year he has taken it to a new level. I've thrown away 2 pairs of pants since school has started, as you can see by the pictures there's at least one pair that are beyond repairing. So what you see is every single pair of pants he owns...except church ones. Which mysteriously come home with grass stains sometimes. EVERY day his knees are green and I can just see the life being worn out of the threads bit by bit. I'm at a loss, since I can't buy him new pants every week, and I figure why bother since those will just be gone in a couple months. This morning he put on a dirty, grass stained pair and I told him to go put some clean ones one. He couldn't understand why, since they'd just get grass stained too. I had to think about that for a minute too, why bother? I did make him change. I think I feel like a better mom if I at least see his clothes leave the house clean. So this is my dilema with Cameron. He says he just loves to play football at every recess. I could also do a similar post about backpacks. He goes through at least 2 a school year....Devon has had the same one since Kindergarten and it's still in great shape. I think his is better quality than the cheap ones I buy Cam, but it hurts to think of spending money on things that don't last-which is everything around Cameron. I took these pictures last week of each day he came home from school.

OK, is this picture better?

Travis' eyes were closed and Dad is taking his Superman role VERY seriously! We just aren't a photogenic bunch - what can I say?

Pumpkins!!

Here are the kids pumkins. Caitlin and Lizzie came up with their own ideas of what they wanted to carve, then they drew them on the pumpkins themselves and Rod helped them carve them out. They were very proud of their pumkins!

Happy Birthday Carrie!!

Happy Birthday Carrie!
Carrie is wonderful because she is hilarious, smart, beautiful and a great baker!
She always finds a reason to laugh and makes those around her happy.

I had to put a picture of her offspring on the blog.. just to show what cute babies she makes! :)

Why do you love Carrie?