Friday, October 17, 2008

it's been a while

since i last wrote here. lots of things have happened. good, bad, ugly, and lovely, too.
i had a concert series with phoenix symphony chorus,
dealt with an unfortunate neighbor feud,
waited to hear about our new home loan (which, after the above, seems even more urgent),
painted and picked up a big pumpkin at as you wish,
went to see a fertility doctor (!)
cleaned out and donated some clothes from all our closets,
had to add more paperwork to the bank for our loan,
went to our family vacation home in prescott for four days (!-thanks matt and jo, for letting me "ditch" sunday),
talked matthew into keeping the beard he started on our trip,
waited to hear about our loan,
went shopping and out to eat too much,
went to a pumpkin festival,
made a new friend,
waited to hear about our loan............

are you noticing a theme to the month of october so far?
apparently, banks are a little wary of handing out money right now. and people have to jump through about 1000 hoops to buy a home. and since we own 3 businesses, they have deemed us lucky enough to jump through 2000 hoops! lucky us! pray we hear soon, i'm getting itchy to move and get settled before all the holiday stuff starts sneaking up on me.

i may post pictures of some of the above mentioned events. probably not, but maybe. the pumpkin is awfully cute, if i say so myself. and so is toby at the cabin, and matthew's new facial hair foray. i'll try to take some soon and post them eventually.

Friday, October 3, 2008

preschool classics

in the last week, toby and i did a couple fun activities that are pretty standard, preschool-y types of things. first, we did shaving cream painting. i put down some press-n-seal wrap on the counter, to make clean up easier, squirted out some good old white shaving cream, then added a couple drops of food coloring for him to mix in. and mix it he did......

notice the green belly- i'm glad i made him take off his shirt to do this.
then, early this week, we had our neighbor, jaelyn, over to play. we decided to make playdough. in keeping with the time of year, we made it orange, and i added in pumpkin pie spice and extra cinnamon to make it yummy smelling!


they played with the playdough for a long time that day, and almost everyday since!