March 2013 Recap

Just a quick recap of our month:

It was my birthday and my family came over to our house so we could celebrate.  I set the dining room table with a runner that was wrapping paper from the $1 aisle at Target.  The green and white napkins were also purchased at Target on clearance.

 I requested lasagna and my sister obliged.  Mmm...see those squares of provolone?

 And an awesome salad.  She is our salad queen!

 Every year I request my mom's famous Italian Cream Cake.  This year she made it into cupcakes.

 Here's me on my birthday!  You know you're getting old when you have to hold things up to the light just to read them.  LOL

I got to do an impromptu photo shoot for this little guy, my nephew.

We celebrated Easter at my parent's house.  We went to the sunrise service at church but didn't see much sun when the storm rolled in.  Here, Hunter is getting ready to find easter eggs.

My mom enjoying the Easter egg hunt with Hunter.

I don't remember what rolled under the bed but I caught Hunter trying to fish something out.

And out of order...but this was the delicious ham my parents had for Easter lunch.  Yum!

Cuteness

I had a work even last week where I and my family were invited to go bowling.  After fixing Hunter's hair I just had to capture his cuteness!   And just ignore the bump on his forehead.

Pirates and Chores

On the days that Korey and Hunter are together all day they try to make something fun.  On this day in particular they made pirate hats.

One afternoon I was in the grocery store with Hunter and we happened upon the toy aisle although I didn't realize it.  Hunter started yelling out for a yellow toy and when I finally saw what he wanted it was a $6 toy.  Now this is not that much money but it wasn't on my "list", I was in a different store so everything was backwards, and the store was crowded.  I was ready to go and did not feel like spending the money on this toy.  So I tried to compromise with Hunter by letting him get a $1 Hot Wheels car.  Well he was still complaining about the yellow toy after we walked away so I made the hard decision not to let him have any toy "just because."  I told him we would go home and talk to his daddy about it because it was time the boy started earning his toys.

So Korey drew up a chore chart for Hunter.  Sorry it's sideways but the chores are laundry (I hand him the wet clothes and he puts them in the dryer), coffee (he gets it out of the freezer), trash, behavior in general, and dinner time (not asking to get down before we are done).  These are all things that we already had him helping with around the house so we told him that he could get stickers whenever we saw him doing these chores and then he could get his yellow toy.  He was excited! He understands that when you go the store and get something you have to "pay for it." So we told him that when he got enough stickers he could use them to pay for his yellow toy.

And...Hunter earned enough stickers to go and get the yellow toy!  Although we didn't have a set numb he had to get but we waited until Daddy got back from Africa so we could all go together.

Smart kid that he is picked out the multipack of Hot Wheels so he could have many cars to play with.

We laughed at how he picked out the pack with the camper van and the truck carrying the boat.

He lined them up on the windowsill so he could play.

We've started a new chore chart.  Don't know what his prize will be for this second round but we like this method.  The other night we finished dinner without commotion and Hunter wanted a sticker but I told him no because he had been rude to me before dinner.  Well, he immediately apologized when he realized he wasn't getting the sticker (which we still didn't give him).  This boy has attitude some days so we have to keep that in check!

Mommy's Makeup

Ooops!  I must have gotten in a hurry one day when I came home and failed to put my purse in the closet.  I was working in the kitchen and turned around to find this little boy digging through my makeup case.

Thankfully he didn't try to put any on!

Christmas 2012

Well, I have a corrupt camera card so some of the pictures I took from Christmas I can't show.  That's ok because we spent all of our Christmas vacation sick from the flu.  Yep, that's right we had the gift that keeps on giving.

Here is one picture I did take off of a different camera card.  Hunter is playing with a remote control toy that he got.  This is a few days post-flu for me and Korey.  We're just thankful that Hunter didn't get it.

Our 4th Anniversary

Just over a month late in posting this!

In November Korey and I celebrated four years together.  We spent a weekend in Dallas doing a food tour.  There was a whole bunch of restaurants that we wanted to try, ok well me, really.  

Here's a quick list of all the places we went:

Cane Rosso

East Hampton Sandwich Company

The Grape

Crossroads Diner

I had also purchased a groupon to go and see the Dead Sea Scrolls in Ft. Worth.  Those were really neat to see and it was fun to be back on campus where I used to attend (only got ten hours credit though).

Happy Anniversary to my husband!  I love you!

Driveway Time

The Wednesday before Thanksgiving I got to come home early from work so I got started on my pie baking.  I made 5 pies plus a batch of lasagna soup!

It was so nice to have the afternoon free that Hunter and I took advantage of the daylight and went outside in the driveway to play.

Be still my heart!

So cute!

He wanted to ride his scooter so he pulled it out and rode around for a few minutes.

When did he get to be so big?