BOO!

It's Halloween.............ALREADY? Oy man !! Seems that with all the excitement of moving Halloween just snuck up on me and well I was finishing up costumes at the last minute.

I guess it's a good thing I have boys and their demands are not complicated.

Robert wanted to be a storm trooper (and we bought his, shame on me!!!) but Patrick wanted to be Indiana Jones (I thought the ones they sold (nylon tops and all) were UGLY so we put together his outfit............

Here is what my kitchen looked like at 10:00pm. Sewing machine in the background, since I had to re size Patrick's clothes (bought the shirt, pants and belt at Goodwill , all too big ) Trusty glue gun for the belt and satchel bag).

See, after about 1 hr it was all cut down to size 5 (from a 10) and adult belt cut down to tiny waist. See the whip (it's a "real one", we bought it at Party city).


Robert's costume was easy (this was one of his choices) and he was excited to wear it (and that's all that counts)
Here's we are getting ready to go Trick or treating (in the "Old" neighborhood" ) not enough neighbors at the new house yet. Yeah, I am wearing CAT ears again................

We had Pirates for hosts. This is Paul, our neighbor from the "old"house. He grew the beard just for Halloween, haha! He spent the night talking like a pirate and the boys thought that was hilarious.

Jen went all out this year and decorated almost the whole house (the walls are reddish and the lights were orange,it looked really creepy (in a good way)

Here is Mini Indy. He absolutely loved his costume and I do too.

Here's my little storm trooper. He loved his costume too!

Our little Halloween gang, ready to go trick or treating!

The first house we went to was (do you recognize it?) Our "old" house. Kinda strange, but they were very nice and we talked to them for awhile too


Off to the rest of the neighborhood. The kids RAN almost the whole way . In the process I"lost" my keys and had to go hunt them down after we were done, thank goodness I found them

We had awesome time, got to see our friends and came home with lots of candy.

Here's our loot (I apologize but I cannot get Patrick's picture to post correctly,maybe I will fix tommorow,ifnot just turn your head to the side....................)

Rob only got 1 trick or treater while we were gone. Maybe next year.......................

Moving, Unpacking, Moving ,Unpacking

My last post was right after we signed our papers, well between then and now as my title says we have been moving, unpacking and moving and unpacking....

We have had quite a busy week or so.....

First we started unpacking the pods right away (we is really Rob), he managed to unpack one of the smaller PODS the night we signed the papers (then we went to dinner, THANKS dad!)

All this is from the smallest pod (we want to try andhavethe movers take these upstairs)

The movers were due to come on friday so we both took the day off (of "office" work) because we DID work unpacking the some of the boxes we brought from the apartment, some of the ones from the pod. The boys were in school so it was a little easier without them underfoot.

At some point during the day while waiting for the movers Rob managed to "escape" and when he retured he brought home a 52"fla screen tv (OH YEAH!!)

No there are no stripes on the wall (it's just the picture angle and no blinds)

Well eventually the movers came and the house started to fill up with boxes (everywhere) see for yourself...
The kitchen is behind this wall of boxes and chairs

The boxes from downstairs (they're up in the loft now)

My craft room (wall to wall boxes and bins)

The best part (our bed is ready !!!!!)
That is pretty much all I have for the moving part and we did this all weekend (moving boxes around), unpacking some,moving furniture too!
Don't have pictures of all but I will soon

Come back I'll have something SPOOKY for you !

WE DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok I am lazy and this just a copy of the post I made on my other blog: http://suttonshomebase.blogspot.com/

WE CLOSED ON THE HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We (Rob and I ) met up at the lawyers office (downtown Raleigh)I don't like driving in downtown Raleigh, almost got myself lost (good thing I had plenty of time). The office was located in a old house (historical,I bet).
We were early so we had to wait, but finally the layer called us in asked us for identification etc, Leah (our loan officer) arrived shortly thereafter and we proceeded to sign our name over and over and over (and never been so happy to do so).
There was a little bit of confusion (I guess they had thought I needed a visa,haha) but it was all cleared up and after about 1 hr we were handed a beautiful set of keys)
We are now the proud owners of a beautiful house and tomorrow we will be moving (by the time I post this..... the pods have already been delivered and Rob has already unpacked the smallest (all by himself almost, I was on the phone arranging to have it picked up) , we have the movers coming at some point and well the circus begins.......................
I have no pictures for this post I just wanted share our good news!
Check back and you can see what we are up to............. here or there

STATE FAIR FUN!!!

Like I mentioned in my last post we went to the State Fair this past weekend and we had blast, they say a picture is worth a thousand words and here they are.......

Here we are taking pictures right before we go in, I am a tad obsessive about this (I like to take pictures before we go into crowded places just in case) . If anyone (under 5feet gets lost we can remember what they where wearing and well they just look cute, don't you think?

What a view, eh? Tons of fair goers, tons o food, games and of course the ferris wheel...............

Way up there do yo see them................. I am to much of a wimp but they all came down together and were laughing the whole way down...........

Patrick cheering daddy ! He came flying down and almost knocked us over like bowling pins.

FUN HOUSE fun................this was a kids only fun house and the boys went in together. I was nervous but they loved it, including running into a wall............

Enjoying YUMMY candy apples (of course we had to start them , especially for Robert, since he is missing so many teeth.................)

Bumper cars, oh yeah we were having fun! We stood in line for quite a while but fortunately the ride attendant wasn't paying much attention and our turn was longer than usual...........

Getting tired towards the end of the day, good thing for daddy's shoulders.................
We had a very good time, yes it was FULL and yes it was EXPENSIVE, but the boys enjoyed it and we enjoyed it with them......

BYE,BYE State Fair, till next time (whenever we are brave enough to do this again...) It was fun!

Later,

Halloween is comming...........

and we are getting ready. We still have a few days (lets say about a week or so) and last weekend we went to a friends house to make Halloween T-shirts (Patrick is already asking when are we going back............to make Christmas T-shirts, hahaha).


Took a few pictures (it ended up being more a project for us adults) but it was fun and we had a chance to chat and the kids had a chance to play and at the end we ended up with really cute T-shirts.

So here you go:

Here we are getting ready to start, you can see the magazine we got the idea from , right there at the bottom left hand corner.

First step, rubber band the t-shirts (to make either the small pumpkin faces or one single BIG pumpkin face)

Here's our dye bath (looks like orange koolaid), We dyed over 10 pieces and still had leftover dye (that got tossed of course)

Ok this pile of T-shirts are waiting for us to take all the rubber bands off ....

T-shirts waiting to be dried (so we can draw the faces on)

We don't have pictures of all the kids together in their t-shirts because it took a lot longer than we thought (we only realized it was late because the kids started to ask for dinner (oops!) so we left kinda in a hurry..............

But I did manage to get the boys to kinda pose for me............no fabulous pictures (Patrick insisted in trying to make every face we had drawn on his t-shirt and Robert , well he was just acting goofy (excuse the apartments in the background, not exactly where I wanted to take the shots but ............)

Silly but cute anyway.

We just want to say thanks to our friends, we had a awesome time (and next time it at our house, ok?)

That's all I have for now check back soon we are going to NC State Fair (click on that link to check it out) next weekend.............

Before I forget............

We have some plans later today but I just had to snap some pictures and post them.

I asked the boys (who we extremely quiet, we all know what that means), what they were doing and they said nothing................

So I peaked in and they were playing nicely (see for yourself)

IN A SEA OF PILLOWS (that by the way I told them not to take off all the beds)


But who could get mad when they are playing so nicely.


Later...............

Weekend FUN!

Since living in out TINY apartment an not having much else to so (no cleaning really, no packing, decorating, I don't even have my craft stuff) we have found ourselves going out a lot (mostly driving around getting to know our "new" area.

This weekend we did just that, we went to find our local Home depot,went to check out Flat screen TV's and we also we went to check out some Halloween costumes (the boys still don't know what to wear) , we had some ice cream (at a New to us place, YUMMY!)and went to the Park to blow off some steam and some of the sugar.......




He kept giggling here!


Patrick really loves to swing, he kept yelling higher daddy, higher!!!!


Patrick cannot resist playing in the sand.


Caught daddy swinging.....with his boy!

and of course I just had to document this.......


Hope you had a wonderful weekend , we did !
and we only have a few more and we will be moving again.............FUN FUN!
Wanna come help???

GOOD NEWS!!!!!!

Ok I mentioned a few times the SALE of the old house starting about 1 month ago (remamber?), then I stopped mentioning it?

Well there were a few "gliches" during the sale (legal paperwork stuff on behalf of the seller) and them being in Californis it would take forever to get in touch and back......
Needless to say I stopped mentioning it because thought I would jinx us is I went into detail...........

Well finally I have GOOD NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Today we went to the lawyers office and signed the final papers (we had to resign everything becase they ended up having to pay a penalty (basically for taking so long) ................the sale got recorded at the courthouse and a few hours later I was picking up a check

HURRAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's done ! Finally!!!!!!!!

That night I made a special dinner (well not that special "Breakfast for dinner", unfortunatly Rob had problems at work and got home late but I made it special for the boys.






Funny how when you need to you make due with what you have (I made bacon, pancakes and eggs) with only 1 pan, haha
We had a good dinner and we saved some for daddy as well..........

Now we just have to jump over our second hurdle (signing the papers for the new house) and of course waiting for it to be done (if all goes as planned we should be celebrating Halloween in the new house (keep your fingers crossed and if yu believe say a little prayer for us too!)