My geekiness revealed

here's my sellout for a flip phone for the company!

For the BabySteals Fans...

....that click over here tonight, it totally is "That Baby!"

PS. for everyone else, the BabySteals Facebook fan page has some really awesome moms in there. I sit here working and sometimes have a hard time focusing because I want to go in and see what they're saying! It's work, but not work! Anyway, a few days back someone (Cami?) found my personal blog (I don't talk a whole lot about work on here!) and linked it on there. Of which some super smart moms figured out that BabyLegs will be a future steal (which I totally may or may not be confirming!) based on the pictures below. Busted! So, someone posted my blog tonight, in the midst of them asking for a hint about what tomorrow's steal is. So some moms will click, and hey, why not give them the surprise! :)

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PS. If you do, leave a comment and tell me you've been here!

She's like butter...

So my mom (her website here) has come by twice this week to do product shots for upcoming BabySteals and KidSteals features. Jane has been mostly great, but a bit testy at times (not quite like when she was filming for a part in Baby Signing Time). Some of the shots turned out amazing. Here are just a few of the super darling ones! I can't believe she's growing up so fast right before my eyes! Enjoy, family!

My cousin Kristyn brought by her darling son Brennan and he was our guinea pig for even more shots!

Halloween!

Yes, I realize these photos are dark, and grainy. My Canon Rebel xti is totally messed up and won't go out of manual mode! I'm trying to get it fixed, but in the meantime, here's pictures of my cuties on Halloween I traveled over 8 hours on an airplane to take! (Aruba pics coming soon)

Jane was a witch (not just ANY witch but a darling witch) and Brandon was Ben 10. We landed at 4pm with just enough time to get home, show my parents all of our photos and get the front porch decorated for Halloween. I played a scary soundtrack through the window, and put the crabapples from the tree in a silver bucket, added food coloring and dry ice and voila - a bucket of boiling eyeballs! Gross! (bad picture on the bottom right)

The highlight of trick or treating however, was most definitely Jane's curiosity. She spent SO much time on each front porch inspecting every little decoration on their porches. The last house we visited across the street, (above) Jane was totally curious before knocking because they had a lighted skeleton in the ground. She stood there for 5 minutes pointing to it and saying 'scary' but wouldn't go to the door. Finally she did, then suddenly decides to GO RUNNING INSIDE THEIR HOUSE after seeing kids toys across the room! Keep in mind we've never been inside their house, nor do we know them. I have half of it on film until I was so embarrassed calling her to come back I turned it off. She would NOT come back! She climbed inside a giant toy car and wouldn't get out. I had to go inside and pry her screaming from the car. Of course they were gracious as I apologized, (and they were cracking up) but seriously Jane why did you run in their house uninvited! I'll definitely remember that for a long time. I might have to post the video if I can get over the embarrassment of my voice!

...and thanks to her big brothers and their super sneakiness, almost all the candy is already gone!

caramel apples

to soak in a bit more halloween before our Aruba trip, we made caramel apples with some of the amazing apples from our yard!

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we also finished brandon's halloween costume - he decided to be Ben 10 this year. jane is going to be a witch- and it is the cutest witch ever! I can't wait to trick or treat with her!

Easton's first concert at Murray High

doesn't he look handsome in a tuxedo? ps. he will destroy me if he sees this. typical high schooler

He started out on the keyboard - it was awesome!

Then moved to do clarinet for the rest of the concert. It's awesome to see his musical talents shine!

he's the one with the clarinet ^ in his hand... :)

random photos from my yard...

It's the simple things that make me happy.

the tiny pumpkin 'sugar pie' in front is from our yard! instead of having crab apples all over the yard, they're gracing the silver bucket this year.

we have so many wonderful carrots from our garden!

and we've been lucky enough to have a wonderful harvest of apples!

seriously? castor beans and cannas in full bloom at the end of october? not for much longer...it's going to possibly snow this week? aaaa just in time for 90 Aruba weather!