Happy Halloween!!!

We're Rocking the 80's!!!

Hope Everyone is having a fabulous Day!!!

When is Enough Really Enough?

When is enough enough?  When can you say you did everything you could, but it truly wasn't enough?  My heart hurts for those that I can't quite understand, for the relationships that I can't mend, and for the ones that are far to broken to ever fix so you just try to use some superglue to hold it together.

To say the last year of my life has been a never ending roller coaster is an understatement!  For the past year I've been a sick girl and every time I thought I had reached a valley on this coaster there was another hill to climb.  In August of this year I was clicking to the very highest peak with both my sanity and my body.  I saw what was over that hill and really thought the ride was over.  However, the ride is easier, but certainly not over.  While on this wild ride I had plenty of time to think....think of all the wrongs I had done or had been done to me.  Think of all the things that were broken that I want to fix so badly, but then I thought what if it is not for me to fix.  What if enough was enough?  Maybe I needed to focus on me and my little family and not give so much of myself to things that don't deserve it.  

Eric says I give to much of myself to people or situations that are not worthy.  I say I never see anything as a lost cause.  However, I think sometimes that gets me into trouble and I should just let some things pass.  I'm working on letting go, but my heart hurts....everyday.  I sit in times of joy and there is a little part of my heart that hurts for the broken!

To those of you that I have wronged I am sorry!  For the broken things that can't seem to be fixed right now...I'm sorry!  My heart hurts a little for you everyday and loves you everyday!

EeeeK! It's a Monday!

The weekend flew by way to fast!  I'm not ready for Monday!  Mondays are such a chaotic day for me filled with stress and panic!  Nothing seems to go right...it's like everything forgot how to function over the weekend!  I'm included in this bunch!

Speaking of the weekend...nice and pleasant sums it up!  We hung out at home and had no plans in particular.  Just the way I like it.  Saturday we fixed up the auction desk that we bought a couple weeks ago and moved it into place...Love it!  I should have taken a picture....picture to come!

Sunday was grocery shopping and football!  We love football in our house (MIZZOU and KC CHIEFS).  Neither of our teams are doing anything spectacular this season, but true fans hold out hope.  I did a little cleaning, but mostly we tried to relax.

My little reader!  She is very into Junie B Jones books right now or chapter books (as she calls them)!

We did nothing to exciting, but it was beautiful fall weather so we just tried to enjoy it.  I did try to make the Pioneer Woman's sparkle cake...recipe here.  I think I failed, but we will see after dinner tonight when we have it for dessert!

Looking forward throughout the week and it looks busy!  I don't know how moms with multiples feel, but my one makes me feel very busy!

Tonight-I've got to get my Halloween costume together...HELP, Help, Help!  80's theme

Tuesday-I have a feeling I'll still be working on my costume and I have tons of laundry to put away

Wednesday- HALLOWEEN- Bible walk and trick or treating

Thursday- Parent teacher conference...I'm sure that laundry will still be there

Friday-Oh who knows

I know this doesn't probably sound like much, but add in my work schedule and it feels like a ton!

I hope everyone had a fabulous weekend like I did!!

Halloween Costumes

Today I'm doing a Show us your life: Halloween costumes!  I talked about my love/hate relationship with Halloween yesterday, but this is truly the part I love.  I'm linking up with Kelly's Korner for Show us your life......head over and check out all the other great costumes!

My sweet nephews Z and Q.  My sister M actually made the Wolly Mammoth costume!  Awesome!!!

My sweet K as a cheerleader, cat princess, and candy corn witch!!  Love her!!  This year it is Raggedy Ann...can't wait!!

Exclamation Points!!!!!

It seems that I have a slight obsession with exclamation points.  I noticed this in emails, texts, facebook posts....you name it, I'm excited about it.  I think my overuse of them makes it seem as if I'm shouting everything.  I'm very sorry if you have noticed this or are offended by it!  I'm a sucker for a good ol' exclamation point!

  Hope everyone is having a fabulous day!!!

Halloween...our love hate relationship!

My love of the Fall season is ridiculous.  It should probably be outlawed.  I was born in the fall and it just fits my personality so well. I love the colors, smells, fall activities, and I'm even ok with Halloween to an extent.  Ohh Halloween we have a love hate relationship.  I love little kids in costume.  However, adults in costume...no thank you!  Halloween stores...no thank you!  Scary movies...no thank you!  Haunted houses....no thank you!  The Wal-Mart Halloween aisle....no thank you!  Did I mention that I hate scary things....cause I do!!!

These are things from Halloween that I can't get enough of!  My K and my nephew Z when he was a froggy for Halloween!

Today I got another sweet gift that I love and it is Halloween themed.  Today was a great day for a sweet surprise since my mood was a little on the sour side.  It's funny how that works...sometimes your friends pick you up even when they didn't know you were down! 

This picture doesn't do this Halloween tree justice...It is just fabulous!  Thanks so much to my friend H for this sweet sweet surprise!

I can't wait to post pictures of K as Raggedy Ann this year!  I will be doing an 80's theme with my office!  Wish me luck!

A Chance to Help

Today I read about an awesome chance to give back while shopping for some cute and stylish pieces.  You can read about it here.

Here is a sample of a few of my favorites!

They have beautiful pieces and with Christmas coming what a great opportunity to help!

Hope everyone is enjoying their Wednesday!!!

Get Out and Vote!!!

The Word of The Day: EXHAUSTED!!!

We had quite the weekend!  Busy from beginning to end!    This time of the year in NWA is the best.  Every year at this time, for about 4 days it is a crafters heaven.  Even if you don't craft yourself, but you enjoy finding unique things or seeing others creations...this is the place to be.  Saturday it was just K and I.  The Captain (aka Eric, aka the husband, aka K's dad) had to work for most of the morning.  Don't ask why I call him captain...I just do! Haha!  It started sometime ago and just stuck.  Anyways, back to the story!  

We started Saturday morning at the craft fairs.  We had one clear objective for the craft fairs, bows and candles!  K needed new bows since most of hers were old and small.  I on the other hand needed candles. There is a specific candle booth that I love and visit year after year.  This year however, I was very disappointed to come upon said candle booth and find very slim pickins!  These candles really are the best and last forever, but this year there were very few scents to pick from, so I just settled for nothing.  You'll be glad to know we did find great bows, so all was not lost! haha!

We moved on to the Rhea Lana's sale later that morning.  My previous blog was about all the things I put into the sale, but let me tell you the shopping is awesome.  I volunteered to bring a meal, so that I could shop early.  I got to go to the pre-sale for  workers and let me tell you I found tons and tons of stuff.  K was with me, so I think I actually spent more than I normally would, but hey you can't beat the deals.  I'll share more on all my finds later!

K and I moved from our morning together to spending time with the Captain.  We had lunch and then did more fishing...we caught nothing, but had good family time.  Then came rest,  I was so so tired, but Sunday was right around the corner.

Sunday started early at one of our favorite breakfast spots and then we did a little shopping.  I was already tired by the end of shopping, but we had plans to go to the pumpkin patch.  I'm sure glad we did.  It was a fabulous time and the weather was beautiful!  Here are a few pictures from our time!

I can't believe she wasn't totally wiped out from the pumpkin patch,but these last two are from when we got home and decided to clean up the leaves that were everywhere!

So needless to say we all crashed very early last night, but had a very fabulous weekend!  Hope you all did too!  What kind of fun things did you do?

Rhea Lana's Sale

This weekend is the start of the Rhea Lana's children's consignment sale for NWA.  This will be the third sale that I have participated in.  For those of you that aren't familiar with them you can visit their website here.  

This is a picture while waiting in line to check in.  More stuff waiting in the car.

These last two are the mountains of stuff that others had already dropped off.  They were getting more racks in the evening, but for now they had to just stack on top of them.  I can't wait to shop tomorrow.  I ALWAYS ALWAYS find great deals!!!  Most of the clothes seem brand new and some actually are!  Big shout out to all the Rhea Lana's moms. This is an awesome event and you should definitely check it out!

Kadence is out of school today for teacher work day, so she is hanging out with her Dad.  I leave you with a picture of their adventures from the day!

Hope ya'll have a fabulous fall weekend!

The Weekend

So this weekend didn't start off that great, but did take a turn for the better.  Friday was a rough day, but by 3:30 I was a happy girl because I was home with my love and going to eat one of my favorite things.

  

The JJ's Philly is one of my favorites!  We don't eat here often since we have a 7 year old and it is mainly a bar, but on the rare Friday that I get to go I love it!

After JJ's we picked Miss K up at school and headed home for some pumpkin painting.  She had been  begging to paint her pumpkin she got on her class field trip to the pumpkin patch on Wednesday.  She wanted it to be spooky.  I think she did an awesome job!

Saturday we got up early to go to some garage sales.  Our subdivision had their fall sale, but we didn't find a darn thing.  However, there was an auction later that morning.  Ohhhh I ADORE AUCTIONS!!!  You never know what treasures you will find.  I don't have any pictures of my treasures, but I did find a few.  I'll post more about those later.

Here is one of my most favorite moments from Saturday!!!

This horse was on the property that we were at for the auction.  Eric and Kadence decided to wander around and try to befriend it.  It wasn't a hard task!  Kadence was feeding it grass.  As we were leaving I remembered I had an apple in my purse.  I bet that horse would've really loved us if I had remembered sooner!

Hope ya'll had a great weekend too!!!

XoXo ~ Stephanie

A New Adeventure

I'm welcoming myself to the blogging world....I'm gonna spew my life all over you and you just get to sit there and take it. Not really, but you know! I'm so excited to be able to share all my worldly experience with everyone and just really have a place to vent.

I was reading the blog of one of my Facebook friends and realized this is exactly what I need to do! I was so inspired by what she had to say and her life that I had to vent about my own. Not that mine stinks or anything, but sometimes you just have so much on your plate with being a Mom, Wife, and all the other things that women are in life that I just needed somewhere to put it all down.

For those of you who know me personally you know that there isn't much that gets held back...for those of you that are just doing some pleasure reading...WELCOME and ENJOY THE RIDE!!!!