Runaway October

So it’s been roughly 6 months since I’ve posted here. That’s prob­a­bly the longest break I’ve taken. I’ve just been busy, I guess.

Here’s a cou­ple excuses rea­sons why:

• Went back to school at the last minute. (Not rec­om­mended. Sum­mer semes­ter with sci­ence and math is not rec­om­mended either.)
• Declan started Kindergarten.
• Hal­loween party planning.
• … Uhm, Pin­ter­est?

Wow, that’s not nearly the list of impres­sive rea­sons I kept pic­tur­ing in my mind. The good news is that I’m sure most of my fol­low­ers know me some­what in per­son and have been in touch on FaceBook.If you don’t know me per­son­ally… well, come say ‘Hi’. The worst thing that will hap­pen is I end up with some crazy stalker and they leave dead ani­mals on my porch. I already have a cat that does that, so you’ll have to try harder than that crazy, future, poten­tial stalker.

Declan did sur­pris­ingly well with his first day. He seems gen­uinely excited to go.

 Just a few days after start­ing school, he lost his first tooth!

I’ve been work­ing on a whole lot of Hal­loween stuff. Here’s a quick Save The Date I made for the party so far.

I only edited this to fit dif­fer­ent word­ing. When I find the orig­i­nal source again, I will give credit where credit is due.

And if I was any kind of GOOD blog­ger I’d promise pic­tures of my Hal­loween stuff and what­not. But we all know I’m not a very GOOD blog­ger so maybe, just maybe, I might post again soon.

Has­sel­back Potatoes

Blue Del­phini­ums

African Daisies

Ridin’ like a pro now

So proud of him­self

String Eggs. These would make an amaz­ing set of lanterns for the porch.

Polka Dots

Easter Wreath

Peek­ing Bunnies

Home­made Mossy Easter Baskets

Funny Bunny Hat

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I received some amaz­ing news yesterday!

Unfor­tu­nately I can’t really say yet, but I can say that it means I’ll have more rea­sons to blog soon. Not that I don’t now.

It’s been so beau­ti­ful in lit­tle Queen Creek lately. Just warm enough to stay out­side, but cool enough to debate a jacket. For Pete’s Sake, I even cleaned my exte­rior porch and garage lights today because I wanted to stay out­side so bad. AND! We cleaned the garage yes­ter­day. Go me! (And thanks bunches Dad. He’s a great packer.)

The boys have redis­cov­ered side­walk chalk. I would have taken a pic­ture of my chalk cov­ered kids and dog, but D’s in the potty. He told me he’d be out in 3 hours. I’m not wait­ing on that, because, well, he’s prob­a­bly right.

Stay tuned for the great news, which is about 3 weeks off. But you can pre­tend that it could be any minute and keep check­ing back obses­sively. Or you can guess what it is in the com­ments. No fair giv­ing it away if you already know though.

And no, there’s no need to start cro­chet­ing, as my Grandma asked. I’m not preg­nant. As far as I know. And I should know. Hopefully.