Scarecrow Cookie Pops

Will and I made these scarecrow cookies for kids club last week. The idea came from this blog.

To save on time, we just used refrigerated cookie dough and canned frosting.

We used wafer cookies for the hat, mini chocolate chips for the eyes and mouth, pecans for the hair (because i thought it would taste better than that ick bran cereal :)) and candy corn for the nose.

They were SO easy to decorate.
I usually stay away from anything to do with cake decorating ever since the lady teaching our home-ec cake decorating class in high school informed me she "could tell I was left handed." Yikes! :)

Next time we make them we may use chocolate frosting. Will thought they looked kind of like snowmen since their faces were white.

Target Deals

Jason took Will to an Islander's basketball game tonight, so I took the little boys with me to get out of the house and check out some deals going on at Target. These glade candles were .50 cents after a gift card promotion. The cream of mushroom soup was .25 cents a can, and the renuzit air fresheners were free. I also used the new $10 off 3 sleepwear purchase coupon on some clearance pajamas to get 3 items for less than $5, but I'm not going to show my PJ's on the world wide web. :P You can find more deals and the links to the printable coupons I used here.

I also picked up these adorable insulated coffee cups. I've always loved anything snow or snowman (especially now that we live in South Texas!) so I couldn't pass them up. Aren't they cute!?

Connor really missed Will while he was gone. He kept turning around in the car, looking for him in the back seat. When we got home he brought me a book off of my night stand with a picture of who he thought was "wuu" (will).

Toy Story Party

We had the cousins over for a "sleepover" (without sleeping over) to watch the new Toy Story movie.

We had rocket ship pizza, salad and LOTS of snacks. :)

Tammy brought these adorable popcorn holders with a mini bag of popcorn attached.

Grandma and Grandpa let us borrow their projector so we could watch it on the wall.

Fun Memories!

2 Months Old

I can hardly believe it has already been 2 months since Jackson joined our family. We love you Jack and don't remember what life was like before you!

Our Little Man

Jackson at Eight Weeks

Connor's Crazy Hair

Just had to document Connor's crazy mo-hawk. :)
It fits his personality perfectly.

LightbulbTurkeys

We FINALLY finished our turkeys that we started 3 weeks ago when grandma was here. The idea came from here, but you can buy all the supplies at Hobby Lobby.

You need one lightbulb per turkey.
They had these cute mini light bulbs too, so we made "baby turkeys" for the kids. My mom made a template for the feathers while she was here, and cut them out from orange and brown felt. We also used the felt for the rest of the pieces. Everything was attached with tacky craft glue, but you could probably use a glue gun too. Will's job was to unscrew all the light bulb lids and fill them with candy corn.
I just drew the eyes on with a sharpie.
We are going to use them as place card holders for thanksgiving.

My little turkey. :)

Scratch Mittens

These little mittens have been a life saver for us! I got the pattern for them on this blog, and they were super quick to make. They stay on really well too.

This is Jack at about a week old with his mittens on. I promise to update with more recent pictures soon. He is growing and changing so much every day!!

Jackson Brian

Jackson Brian Atwood joined our family 3 weeks early on September 8th. He was our biggest baby at 6 pounds, 4 ounces and 18 1/2 inches long! :)


Big brothers LOVE him, and have been adjusting well. It is still hard to believe that we are now a family of five, and that I am a mom of 3 boys! I am hoping to keep everyone updated with pictures here on my blog, but we will see how that goes. ;)
We have been busy this year with a kitchen update and STILL trying to sell our house. The boys turned 4 and 1 in March, and we had lots of fun with a pirate birthday party and a visit from Grandpa, Grandma and Ashlee, and Alisa and Drew. The church has been keeping Jason super busy, and we are getting ready to build a new auditorium.
Will started K4 Abeka video school, and we LOVE it! It keeps him occupied during Connor's nap time, and gives me a couple of hours in the afternoon to get things done. Yay!!
Well, those are the main things that are new with us. I know my 3 readers were getting tired of seeing my "Connor Crawling" blog post.
By the way, Connor has mastered crawling, walking, and now just runs wherever he goes. It's faster. ;)