Triplet Boys!

My dear friend Bonnie had triplet boys on Labor Day, and recently had some photos taken of them. I just had to share them. You'll have to go to this site to check them out. As of today, I believe that 2 will be able to come home tonight! Yay!!! I'm just so excited for her and the boys!!

Well, it's done

I did it! I actually had my eyes lasered!

Well I guess it's lasik, but same way. I opted for a addition to the surgery... I now have xray vision. And can see thru walls. Now Maggie has no chance to get away with anything.

Recovery is good. The nap after the surgery was great. It's a weird feeling to open you eyes and actually see something. And yes, things are still a bit blurry, but the doctor says it will get better every day.

So to celebrate, I've started a list of things I am excited to do without glasses:
- taking a shower and actually seeing the bottles
- reading a book while laying down
- riding roller coasters and not worrying if they will fly off
- going swimming, or to any sort of water park
- putting on makeup without getting super close to the mirror
- washing my glasses EVERY DAY
- super glueing my glasses when the frame breaks
- getting a haircut and actually SEEing what they are doing while it's getting done.

There are many more reasons... but I am just super excited to be without them! I'll post a picture in a week or so. There are some broken blood vessels in my eyes that make me look a little possessed, and I need to work on my tan around my eyes. And I can wear eye makeup in 5 days.... So... keep posted!

Nerves??

Yep, my nerves are a little on end. WHY? Maybe because in two days I'll be lasered in my eyeballs!! I'm soo excited, but am a roller coaster with nerves. Some days I'm super freaked, and some days I try to stay calm and remind myself millions of people have done this procedure so I have no need to worry.

So, unless I see you before Thursday, you will never see me in glasses again. Unless it's sunglasses! I've never had sunglasses before (prescription ones are SO expensive) so I might go crazy with them. Anyone got some good suggestions on places to get sunglasses or a certain style I should get? I'm open!

More fun times

Trick or treat!

Halloween was a blast this year! Considering last year we had closed on our house and were packing and moving... So this was super fun to be out with Maggie. She was Nemo and had the outfit to go with it.

That morning I had found a pair of pumpkin pj's and knew Maggie would die if she didn't have them. I'm hoping her pumpkin obsession will turn into something else... if not, how will I explain where all the pumpkins went in another month or so! These are the pumpkins she toted around the house all... day... long...
















We had a couple friends come over with their kiddos to hit up the neighborhood. We had Nemo, a piggy, a plane and a football player. Picture to come later. I kinda had the idea that Maggie would only last for like 5 houses or something, but NOPE, she kept going and going. She LOVED knocking on the doors and getting free candy! One festive house had a Mickey Mouse outside their house. She couldn't believe that Mickey lived in the same neighborhood as her.























Here's one for the books! We were actually all looking at the camera. That's a first!






















And here's the loot to prove we actually went. See the big pile? Yep, that's me and Dave's. See the small itty bitty pile with raisins and a pencil? That's Maggies. Poor thing. That's the kind of treats you get when you're allergic to milk. BOOO!!!


















Now off to the next holiday- THANKSGIVING!! Weeeeeeeeeeee!!!

Butternut & Acorn Squash soup

So today I decided to be a little chef in the kitchen. I merged two recipes to create one yummy concoction. The Southern Living August magazine had a pumpkin acorn squash soup recipe and I found a Martha Stewart Pumpkin Apple with Wild Rice soup recipe... that's where it started.

The SL recipe is basically the one I did, but added a couple twists. It can be found here. The recipe calls for pumpkins, but I had a butternut squash I've been wanting to use so I switched the pumpkin for the butternut squash. From that point the recipe is followed just like it says, but then I top it with a scoop of wild rice pilaf. That was the inspiration from the Martha Stewart recipe.

Wish I would have take a picture when I ate it for lunch- sorry! But trust me, it's delish!!

Punkins

In our quest to find crafty fun things to do, Maggie and I made Pumpkins this week. I drew the circles, and she colored and put faces on them. Then we taped them to the wall... that was the most popular part of this craft. Taping something to the wall.

And in her words "Puh Puh!" (pumpkin!)

Halloween Teaser

Nemo wanted to say "HI" to all those other fishies out there.














Look for some trick or treating pictures in the near future!

Seriously?

Who wouldn't love this little girl?!

A journey into the world of Art

As much as I love to be artistic and creative, I'm hoping to inspire Maggie to do the same.

Step 1: Buy washable watercolors, set up paper outside, show her how to paint



















Step 2: Continue painting on paper














Step 3: Discover your nails need a touch up



















Step 4: Feet also need touch up

Step 5: Get washed off, forgot about painting, resume with painting on paper

Step 6: Who cares about painting on paper, when you can paint on yourself!!!

Hopefully she won't come home when she's 18 with full body tatoos....