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My Baby Had a Birthday!!!

I really don't like this whole growing older deal. My baby is supposed to stay a baby forever! He's growing up too fast and before I know it, he'll be a 1st grader and then it's all a whirlwind after that. I better make sure I kiss and hug on him a little more and hold him as much as I can. Here he is with his "Excavator Cake" that I found on Family Fun.

Pickin' Pumpkins

For Family Home Evening we went to Purdum's Pumpkin Patch and farm stand in New Plymouth, Idaho. It was such a fun activity! They had an area set up with straw bales, an old truck and pumpkins everywhere for picture taking. Then we rode on a trailer pulled by a really old tractor to the pumpkin patch.



It was full of pumpkins of every color, size and shape you could imagine. The kids were in heaven. I told them they could choose any pumpkin as long as they could carry it. Mia broke the rule and had a nice gentleman help her, but her HUGE pumpkin was atleast 100 lbs. and I wouldn't let her get it. She found another nice sized one and was just as happy. Van went right to the white pumpkins and found a great one and didn't let go.

Along with pumpkins we also got some amazing veggies. The peppers were almost as big as Van's head! We had such a great time that I think we'll have to make this a tradition. I love traditions! And Fall!

Pumpkin Problems

Please don't let your pumpkins drink this season. This is a serious situation. Just look at the results.....

White Party

Amy Atlas


Someone please give me a reason to have a party like this.

Chocolate-Marshmallow Spiders-YUM!

We had a great time eating spiders! These are super easy and we all loved them. Just take a large marshmallow, push in 8 pretzel stick legs and drizzle with melted chocolate. Try them and let me know what you think.





Spider Guts, ewww!!!!

Happy Halloween!

I love Halloween! I love the pumpkins, ghosts, costumes, black cats, candy, tricks, treats, smells, and everything fun about it. It takes you back to your childhood like no other holiday. Most people remember every costume they ever wore and all the adventures of trick-or-treating. I love taking my kids out now and seeing the excitement in their faces when they realize that all they have to do is knock on a door and people give out CANDY!!!

Here are some of the fun things I have found to try and make. Hope you can do some too!

My Deco File

Domino Magazine has a new feature that I am just gaa gaa over. I started my own file yesterday and it's very cool. I always find pictures that I want to save and I e-mail them to myself. The Deco File is a way to keep track of them and catagorize them anyway you like. Here is my file. Check it out and make your own and we can all share. Just click on the link below. It will be fun and we can bond!

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My Latest Project

I found this cute chair at a yard sale and it needed a good home and a little love. So I fixed it up and here is my finished product!


I love the little drawer under the seat. This is for all sorts of hidden treasures!

Time For A New Post

So I guess I'm not the best blogger in the blogosphere. I have a hard time keeping up to date and I'd like to apologize now. I will try to improve my blog-slacking ways.


Let's catch up, shall we? School is back in, yeah!!! Now we are running, running, and more running. Mia is playing 8th grade volleyball and has practice everyday until 7pm. I never had practice that late, not even in high school. Kids these days! We try to carpool with others on the team but I end up driving most days. I'm really tired of the route from home to Parma. Ana is bowling with a Special Olympics team every Wednesday in Homedale (that's a town about 15 min from Parma). She loves it and keeps everyone on track. I thought, "Hey, finally some people I can beat at bowling!" But no, they would kick my butt. I just need to face it, my dreams of becoming a pro-bowler will never come to fruition. Maybe if I bowled more than once a year:) Paron has Cub Scouts every week again and I need to get back into the groove of scouts. I am officially the worst "Scout Mother" in all history. I rarely remember when scouts is and so Paron never has his shirt, which is still the one from Utah, and it's about 2 sizes too small. And Van just gets shuffled in between everything and stays happy.

As for me, I go to work, come home and play with Van, help kids with homework, make dinner, clean up, watch a little bit of tv and go to bed. I'm so interesting, I know. I do get a lot of time to day dream at work, so in my mind I have a very full life and at times it's very fulfilling. I own my own little shop in a cute little rustic building in a downtown neighborhood, people come from far and wide to see what amazing finds I have in stock. I spend the day designing and dreaming up new items for my shop. I have a huge supply of vintage fabrics and ribbons that I sit and stare at to get inspiration. Ahhh, I love to dream:)


I love and miss all of you and hope you all have a great Autumn.

-Melissa