This weekend was so great for my boys. We took a day trip to go visit our yellow lab, Dixie, who is at hunting school. She has been there almost 6 weeks now and we were really missing her and wanted to make sure she knew that we are still her family. While my husband doesn’t hunt very much, my father does and wanted to her to become trained to go with him when bird hunting. I was all for it so that she would become a well trained dog. I think she has a few more weeks before she will come home and rejoin our family. We are all missing her terribly, I think my husband wanted to dog-nap her to bring her home with us.

It was a beautiful area where the training school is located. We played with Dixie at the kennel and then took her on a long walk through the fields and the horses would all come up to the fences to have us pet them. It was so fun. But we were surprised at how emotional our boys were when it was time to leave. They both were very upset which was good to see because my boys are not the most emotional kids. I like when they open their hearts.

This week will be full of prep for the Thanksgiving Holiday. We go visit my parents at their beach house for the week. I can’t wait to see lots of aunts and cousins.

This weeks goals:

Family

1. Go eat lunch with my boys at school
2. Set up a date night. We haven’t been out just the two of us in a couple months and we need it.

House/Home

1. Order Britton’s Birthday Cake
2. Order Christmas Cards

Blog

1. Link up with 6 Blog Hops. I would like to get some readers, it will be more fun to write if I know that someone is reading. Hi there, if anyone is reading this. 🙂
2. Write a Thanksgiving post that links to my 5 favorite posts to have up during the week of Thanksgiving. I will take the week of Thanksgiving off.

I hope everyone has a great week!

I feel like we are in picture overload here in our house. We had professional portraits taken a week ago that turned out so great, I can’t wait to upload some pictures here. Then the very next day my boys had their school pictures so I decided not to order them since I was going to have the family ones. My boys are well known for not smiling at all so I thought they would be terrible. Well, they sent home the proofs to give us a final chance to order them and they are fantastic.

Here are pictures of the pictures so poor quality.

So now I have spent the money on the professional pictures and now an extra amount on the school pictures. Britton had hers this week as well but I haven’t seen the results of those so that could cost me a pretty penny as well.

Why do they charge so much for school pictures now? Well, of course, they want to make money, but with having 3 kids it is just crazy when the smallest package starts at $35. We went from not having any professional pictures for at least a year, to having a boatload of pictures all at once. I guess I won’t be to sad one day to have lots of pictures of the kids but I will be sad to look at our bank account at the end of the month. Ha!

Like I have said before, I am an over-scheduler when it comes to kids activities. I like them to keep active and learn as many skills as possible. Maybe this is because I dedicated myself to one sport very young and while I was very successful I wonder if I could have done other sports (especially team sports) too.

This past weekend my daughter who is 3 had a soccer game  and my boys had one soccer game. Next weekend my daughter has 1 game and my boys have….3 games!! That is maybe a little more than they can physically handle.

A few weeks ago they did a soccer tournament and had 4 games in 2 days and by the last game they looked like they couldn’t move. They were basically just kicking the ball out of bounds just so they could stop running. We will see how it goes this time.

Since this is our first season of playing more than just once a week I need to make sure I have the right sideline gear and some of the fields are far from the parking lot so I am considering purchasing a collapsible wagon to keep in our trunk to carry all our chairs, blanket, toys for Britton etc. Has anyone bought one of these and have a certain brand they like? Man…I just clicked over to Amazon to start looking at the wagons and I didn’t realize how expensive they were! Some are $150! I think this one is more in our price range. 🙂

I hope everyone had a great Halloween! It was definitely our best yet. Our neighborhood had a pre-trick or treat party and then everyone started together and the boys had a blast running from house to house with all their friends. Britton had fun and was ready to go home after about 45 mins which was plenty long enough for me too. We then had a bunch of neighbors hang out in our driveway and my neighbor brought a ton of food over, it was lots of fun.

Do you have your costumes all set for Halloween? I’m sure everyone else is scrambling around like me, right? We have been running to the door every time we hear a truck rumble by, hoping it is a delivery. My husband ordered a key piece of a costume weeks ago from China and it is coming down to the wire on whether it will be here in time. We know it is in the States but not sure where.

My daughter is going as Super Girl. As soon as she saw the costume she was all over it. We have had it for weeks and she has already worn it several times.

My boys will be NFL players. They have who they want to be all picked out so now we need to get all the pieces together.

We have pumpkins on our porch, both real and fake and are all ready for the candy fest! Our neighbors are all talking about dragging the fire pits to the driveways and  gathering after a little trick or treating to hang out. Sounds like a great way to keep the trick or treating from lasting for hours.

Which candy do you steal out of their bags after they go to sleep?? I love MnMs…gotta be plain though. 🙂

Fennell Seeds Family Photo

After almost 8 years of having a personal blog for just family and friends, I am ready to join the blogging world. A little about me, worked in the insurance industry for many years, married the love of my life, had identical twin boys and then a little girl. Wow…my life summed up in 5 seconds. Of course, there is a lot more to it and I’ll share the nitty gritty details as we go through this blogging adventure together.

One thing that I have always struggled with in my adult life is managing and keeping our home. I am not a slob or a complete disaster but it just doesn’t come naturally to me like it seems to for others. I am always the one at someone’s home saying “How did you know how to do that?” or “Did I miss the class on cleaning floors? I have no idea if I am cleaning them right?”. I am not OCD or type A, I need some accountability and a little help and motivation to get my act together. So come join me in learning tips and tricks from each other. I can’t wait!