a sweet surprise

After meeting Daddy for lunch, the girls and I decided to walk around Tempe a little bit. We stumbled upon a free Wed. scone and tea day! yeah what a find! We were invited in and given a tour. We learned the history of the building and they showed us how to make scones. The girls were delighted putting lemon curd and sweet cream on their pecan cranberry scones. They even gave S a baby sized scone. D decided she didn't like hers ( she said it tasted like throw-up, sweet thing) and instead worked on becoming a fairy. 

fall break

To kick off fall break, we decided to go somewhere where there are actually signs of fall. We went camping!! We headed out to Knocknasheega where the kids always have a grand time. They love to follow G.L and G.M around and ask about all the chores. Filling the water, clearing paths and the big decision of where to go potty this time... lots of choices in the woods. We said we were going to eat healthy this time, but I still managed to have at least 4 s'mores a day. It just feels wrong to not roast marshmallows by a huge fire. Right? We had a wonderful time eating, laughing, drinking, hiking and then all over again. After a couple of days with the fam, we headed over to Greer to stay with my beautiful and talented friend. She has a cabin (resort!!) that her sweet family spends as much time as they can in the amazing pines. It doesn't even feel like Az there! L and D competed for her son's attention the whole time and S and R liked being the big sisters and spent most of the time watching movies and giggling. P even offered to play with the kids while M, L and I went looking for antiques. He strapped the car seat to the polaris and took all 5 kids down for a hike and hot chocolate. What a guy!  He was in heaven with the weather and the toys combined! Thanks for having us and spoiling us rotten M!!! We'll come back for more anytime!!!!

copy cat

creek fairies

P, the little cherubs and I went for a little Sunday drive today. We headed up to Payson to look for antiques ( looking for a cool tub and matching vanities) and to let the chillen run and play. We had a magical time making flower wreaths and looking for creatures in the creek. We found cool walking sticks and I found more perfect pumpkin toppers!! S and L were happy jumping from rock to rock and I can't believe no one ended up all wet. D and S threw flowers and pebbles into the stream. The pebbles then graduated into stones and then to heavy rocks and then we moved due to safety issues. The girls also found some glittery river rocks and decided to take them in for show and tell. Now they are all tucked in nicely to beddy bye ( thank goodness because the ride home was LOADS of fun)

cutie patootie

why do they have to grow so fast? 

good news

My love said he wants to take me on a date to ride the  new light rail. This is really great news.

the do info

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I love my digikit.

I could play with this all day! I think I'll design my own Christmas cards this year. I want more digikits!

what's a girl to do?

What am I supposed to do? My husband leaves for Vegas, leaving me all alone with the girls. What should we do??? Hair do's!!!!! 3 hours worth to be exact. I found a website with hair do ideas, I know my life is so exciting, and we just had to try them out. D didn't mind getting the rag curlers, but then she didn't want to sleep with them so all that time was for nothing. So the next morning the girls wanted the "princess" do's. Guess what... day 3 and they are still in! Gross!!!!! They have bathed, just not washed their hair. I now accept this Mother of the Year award, self appointed again.....

Remember our parent of the year awards Chris???? At the jimmay boufay concert????????

love days like this...

What a lovely day we had yesterday. We went for a drive (we love to do that, waste gas, drive around aimlessly)( well, I love to do that, P was only doing it because he is going to Vegas and he was trying to make me happy) he was telling the kids about the lost dutchman story and the superstition mountains. Y0u could hear a pin drop in the car, they were so into it! I liked his description of being scalped ( getting all your hair cut off) We finally decided to stop and run around @ a coffee shop. I had to take a picture of D, she was holding a box she found that she had made last Christmas and decided to carry it ALL day. She never put it down. She even slept with it in the car. While I was trying to get a pic of D, I could see the strip show S was putting on through the viewfinder. As I was fumbling to put the camera away, S was having a great time making a scene while taking her diaper off. She had all the tables looking at her and laughing so she was loving it. I was dying, I didn't think this was appropriate for an eating establishment. She finally kicked it off and was laughing and saying "Na na na na na!" It didn't help that her sisters thought she was hilarious. We then went outside and played in the grass for a long time. The girls were enthralled with the butterflies and beetles flying around. I told the girls to stand still like a statue and the butterfly might land on them. D's pose was more like Hile Hitler and she was sad that a butterfly never chose her for landing.

our silhouettes

I got this idea from the nienie dialogues ( love her!) She submitted an article to cookie magazine and explained how to do it, so I gave it a try. Fun!!!

yikes! I knew it was gonna be huge!

Today we unveiled the beehive and it was gigantic! We had the bee master out again because the first round did not take care of all the bees. So he did another treatment and we decided it was good enough. There are still bees buzzing around though. Not good. So Pdubs went ahead and removed the hive. It was even bigger than we thought! We had to throw away the wood because it was so plastered with beeswax. We learned a ton about hives, it is actually quite fascinating! We could see the different layers of larvae and pollen and honey, worker bees and drone bees. We didn't find the queen bee though. The girls have little pieces of it all bagged up and ready to take to school on Monday.