This quote makes me feel better!

" A perfectly kept house is the sign of a misspent life."

I often find myself dreading my homemaker duties. I love to have a

clean house but I dont always have the energy or time

to keep up. (I wonder what my excuse will be when I have more than one child!)

I found this book at anthropology last weekend and it made

me feel better! So today my life will not be misspent, sorry house. Im going to spend all day giving undivided attention to my son and Im

not going to feel guilty about my unkept home!

Halloween in Oregon

For Halloween this year Jared's brother Parker, who plays football for Dixie, had a game in Oregon and his aunt Mary just moved to Portland so we decided to make a trip out there for Halloween weekend.

We had such a good time with family and friends. Oregon is so pretty

this time of year, the colors of all the changing trees were so bright and beautiful.
Our friends Scott and Lindsay had just moved to Portland area also and

came and met us for Parkers game and dinner. It was so fun

to see them.

Since we were going to a football game on Halloween its only fitting that Soy was a football player like his uncle parker. Grandma Debbie found this
cute costume for him. He loved the helmet, he wore it everywhere
including the car! He looked so cute! Thanks Deb!



His black eye went so well with his costume! No make-up needed this year!!

The week before Halloween we went to a pumpkin patch with Jared's brothers. Sawyer loved it, his favorite was to push the wheelbarrow. Its so

fun to see him learn and explore new things, he has loved Halloween and all the witches and pumpkins. He asks almost everyday to walk and see the porch decorations in our neighborhood. He says "walk, scary witches", he loves it!

Sawyer loves his uncle Pete! No one else matters if Pete is in the room. I dont blame him though, he is a pretty fun uncle!

Just in time for Halloween!

So Sawyer likes to play this game where he puts a blanket over his head and tries to find me. Its a fun game we laugh really hard, but a couple days ago he decided to play it by himself! He was in his room playing when I heard a bang and ran in there to find him on the ground with his blanket over his head.

I thought I was so smart by hanging this shelf, with his books on it, at his level. Well this is my consequence. Poor kid!

This is right after it happened! Such a sad face! :(

and the next day he has a pretty huge shiner,

and mom is getting looks every where we go!



So today he climbed up onto the kitchen stool and of coarse feel off face first! He got this big welt in the same place on the oposite side of his face!!! This kid is going to give me a heart attack!

First Family Staycation!

This weekend Jared, Sawyer and I went on our first little family staycation

up to Park City for the weekend! We have been on lots of trips with

friends and family but never just our little

family.

We had so much fun together! We went to dinner on our way up to Park City, and

Soy fell asleep before we even started up the canyon!

We spent the night at the Park City Marriott. When we got there Sawyer was so excited and so hyper, probably from his car nap, I thought we would be up all night! We had fun though in our room playing on the bed in the pillows and his new favorite game alligators and tigers! He crawls on the ground and says "I alligator" and growls. Its pretty cute.

The next day I was so sad my camera ran out of battery, but we

went for a beautiful drive around park city and around deer creek area to see all the changing colors. Then did some shopping at the oulets, then back to

the hotel where Jare and Sawyer swam for almost 3 hours!

We had such a fun time together it just made me fall inlove with my little family all over again! I love being Sawyers mom, and Jareds wife. Im such a

Lucky girl!

Plush Studio is...

Whats for Breakfast?

Lately I've been having the hardest time getting Sawyer to eat! I know that sounds bad but he will only nibble on stuff and it takes me like 5 trys of different food before he will even try it. Breakfast is the hardest, there arent very

many things he wants to eat in the mornings...except for candy! This whole week

every morning I'll say "do you want to eat breakfast?" and his

response is either: candy, licorice(his fav), sucker, or popcicle!

The crazy thing is that its not like he has tons of that stuff, he is making me look bad! We struggle in the morning cause I tell him we cant have treats for breakfast, then there are tears and we try to find something else, and this has been going on all week.

So Jare let me sleep in today!(It was really nice!) And I bet you can

guess what I woke up to! If you look in the picture you can

see what Sawyer got for breakfast this morning.....a huge rice krispie treat!

WOW!! No wonder Dad is his favorite!!

Giveaway!!

As some of you know I have a new found hobby of sewing.

My friends talked me into starting a little pillow shop on etsy and it has been so much fun! My favorite thing about it is buying all the fabric, I have a secret love for amazing fabric! My shop has been open for one month now on etsy.

Today Im doing a giveaway on

click here

You should check it out!!!