The little things...

Life/Motherhood can feel so hard sometimes. Do you ever have those days where you want to lock yourself in the bedroom with all the coffee and the ice cream and binge watch Netflix? It's the little things in life that keep me from doing that...or at least waiting until my husband gets home! Ha! So here's some bits of life lately that are small but remind me why I do this everyday.

She does her own hair these days. She's pretty proud of it.

Watching big sis play in the rain.

Your classic 'head in the cut out' photo. From our trip to the pumpkin patch last week.

She insisted she wasn't tired. Didn't need a nap. And then she fell asleep on me. I win.

This girl LOVES music! There's always booty shaking going on (please pay no mind to the floors that still have no trim!)

Coming in from the other room to find both of my girls (and a cat) in the play tent together. Its so fun to see these two starting to play together now that Rue is getting older. These are the moments I always imagined with the two of them.

Halloween! 2014

A Rue-nicorn and a Lunasaur

It seems like Halloween came out of nowhere. One day summer turned to fall and then instantly it was Halloween! Since I haven't figured out how to slow time down just yet, we accepted it and celebrated appropriately. Friday morning I decided to squeeze a couple drops of green food coloring into Luna's oatmeal and call it monster brains. You know, to make the morning a little more festive. She looked at it with a disgusted look on her face and informed me that oatmeal was brown not green and there was no way she would eat it. Well kid, I tried. A new batch of brown oatmeal and she was happy.  We went trick or treating that evening around our neighborhood with new friends and had tons of fun making memories and all that good stuff. I love these days. I took almost no pictures that night (and the ones I did take are blurry and grainy and just not very good, so please forgive that!)  which i was bummed about but I guess those are good days, right? When you forget about your phone?  Part of our Halloween tradition is to visit the girls' grandparents and Great grandparents in their costumes but Corey's schedule didn't really allow for that this year. To keep the tradition going we decided to get them back in their Halloween garb and do it on Saturday instead! Two days of trick or treating? No complaints. Halloween 2014, you were good to us. 

Trick or treat!

Luna wanted to be a dinosaur. But not just any dinosaur, A pink and orange dinosaur!

All the fall things

I LOVE fall, guys. I mean who doesn't? There is just something about that chill in the air, the soup making, cider drinking, pumpkin carving goodness. Even though its cold and wet here this time of year it makes me feel all warm and cozy inside! I'm definitely not one of those girls that hates to say goodbye to summer. We decided today was a pumpkin patch kind of day. Pumpkin patches are the best! Actually we didn't even leave with a pumpkin in tow.(it was awfully late in the season and the pumpkins weren't looking so hot) But we didn't care. Pumpkin patches are less about the actual pumpkin and more about the experience anyway, right? Or is that just me?

There's a big sister in there somewhere

If there's a hay bale dressed up as a pig, you take a picture on it.

Pumpkins. Shes a fan.

Let's go sis

Welcome!

I'm glad you're here! In this space you'll probably find some random ramblings and pieces of my family life. Something I can look back on when my littles aren't so little and remember these days. Bear with me while I find my footing!