Making changes....

Please excuse my NON MATCHING blog at the moment, I am in the process of redoing it for fall , but ran out of time ! Hopefully I can get it and my Halloween houses done and posted here soon!

Unbelievable!

Ok so everyone fears something and anyone who knows me well knows I am terrified of Lizards! I can handle spiders, roaches, most other types of creepy crawlies but LIZARDS , GECKOS what ever the heck you call them I am running the other direction and my heart is beating out of my chest!

So living on this tropical island has turned into a bit of a challenge for me , I am constantly looking for them in my house , after having lived here for a year and maybe seeing one..now all of a sudden I have seen 3 in a month!They have been in our bathrooms , so I assume they are coming in the drains or vents , which is so not making me happy! They don't usually stand a chance against my BROOM! I know that sounds horrid ...BUT when you are THAT AFRAID you just want the suckers dead!!!

So onto my UNBELIEVABLE STORY

Katie a friend of mine and our babies are out shopping on base. We are in the baby section of course , because we all know our babies dont have enough clothes ..lol.
I am looking at a rack of new Carters Jammies they got in , nice snuggly fleece Jammies. When I let go of a pair on the rack I feel something hit me on my chest , It was as if someone across the room FLUNG some rubbery thing at me , I stopped a second because as far as I know it was just me and Katie back here... well I feel something move and look down and its a damn LIZARD a BIG LIZARD , Fat and brown and OH MY GAWD , I am soon screaming and yelling and jumping around with my arms in the air ..he falls off and runs somewhere I run the opposite direction, Towards the COACH purses OF COURSE! Leaving my poor little angel in his car seat , he was scared half to death by my screaming and was crying big crocodile tears , thankfully Katie rescued him since mommy was no wear to be found!

Needless to say I will be shopping online for a while!
Oh what day that was.....

Moving right along....

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I couldn't make this little booger smile for anything! He was too interested in what I was doing behind the camera. That is so his personality as of late ..he is a little BUSY BODY! He has been up on his knees rocking back and forth for the past week, I don't think it will be long before he takes off crawling! We have all ready rearranged the house ahead of this big event. I so forgot what it was like to have to BABY PROOF ..wow!

My 4th grader is all ready done with 2 weeks of school and is loving it so far. A lot different than what he is used to ... Mrs. Haynes keeps them super busy . He has monthly book reports and LIT circles that he will be having reports for too and reading his 6 chapter books a quarter ..wow
He loves coming home to his little brother everyday


I have been keeping busy trying to get a little crafting of some type in here and there. I have bought enough scrap supplies the past month to open my own store! I have actually been using a bit of it though so that's a plus!
Not sure if I shared these ones or not:






I have started 2 other pages and should be working on those while Preston is napping but instead I am on here!
So how many of you have pulled out all your HALLOWEEN decorations yet? I got the boys costumes in the mail last week and have been contemplating pulling it all out and getting started on it ! I love this time of year! Hoping to also alter some houses for Halloween I bought , will post pics when I get them done :)
Oh and thanks for all the help with choosing Pnuts costume, we went with the monkey and Oh My goodness I just want to eat his little cute self right up!

And last .. I had a dentist appt. this morning and found out my wisdom teeth will be coming out Oct 5th ... all 4 of those suckers . I am so NOT looking forward to this! I will be asleep so thats a PLUS :)

Well I think I will get off here and go organize some more of my craft stuff and MAYBE start some laundry .. notice I said MAYBE..lol

Hope everyone has a great week!

4th grade , another new school year has arrived

So its official I have a 4th grader! He was up and excited to start the new school year this morning! We found out on Friday he had gotten the COOL teacher he was hoping for Mrs. Haynes. And I think he was quite impressed with the new classroom too . They are a paperless class and have their own laptops , which made it feel like a college classroom instead of grade school . Cant wait until he comes home and I get to hear all about the 1st day. I have to admit he has only been gone a few short hours and I miss him! I know PRESTON does , he is such a great big brother and always so helpful with the little Pnut.





The back of his cool shirt he picked out

Off he goes.. we'll miss you !

Help me decide!

I have been looking at Halloween costumes for the boys Austin has decided he wants to be a NINJA, just not anything from GI JOE so we have been looking for the perfect one, but I cant decide what I want for Preston.....

I wanted him to be a monkey all along because I call him Monkey toes a lot ..lol




But then ,when searching I found a cute SQUIRT costume (turtle from Finding Nemo :)



And of course now I cant decide!
Which one do you like?

Under the weather

So we have all been hit with the sick bug in this house , even my sweet baby boy. I finally caved in and went to the Doctor after a week of non stop coughing , he says its just a viral thing going around island... I say it needs to move out of my house ASAP! Preston hasn't done too terrible I just feel bad when he is coughing , last night I let him sleep with me and made daddy move on out of the bed , so he could sleep propped up a bit and I could keep an eye on him. Between that and the sound of pounding side ways rain and howling wind I GOT ZERO sleep! We have a TYPHOON lurking out in the waters , thankfully I think we will just have some nasty winds and rains for the next few days and the brunt of the storm will be felt by someone else!

I have been tracking it HERE


We did venture out with some friends to the Kokusai Festival , other than the terrible HEAT , it was a great day :)


(Our friends Sue, Rob and baby Roberto)

We ventured into all the funky cool shops and even took some pics, my fave are the pottery places and all the SHISHAS , here are just a few of the thousands we saw.





(My faves)

The streets were filled with thousands of Eisa dancers and Taiko drummers
This little girl was so good ,I snapped a ton of pics of her!


Of course we had to stop into a few of our favorite spots like this one :

Always fun to look but never shop , they pay double and sometimes 3 times more than what we pay for ours! Craziness ....


Here are just few random shots from the day

(Dragon fruit ,very popular here and so yummy in a smoothie!)








(Tapioca drinks ..not as yummy as they look !)

These last pics are funny because no matter where we go off base Preston is like a tourist attraction! We can not walk 5 feet without getting stopped and someone having to touch him and smile and ask how old he is , they say its the BLUE EYES.. but this girl was almost in tears over him .











School starts here on the 31st ,its been so nice having Austin home , he is such a good big brother and always willing to help out with Preston. But it will also be nice to have a schedule again ! I am sure he doesn't think so , but he is looking forward too taking taiko drumming at school this year!

And before I sign off I want to introduce Miss CAMDEN FAITH

I am so Happy for my Bestie Kristin and her family they finally have there Princess she arrived on the 21st of July . I only wished we lived closer with our little ones!

Hope everyone having a great week!

Summertime ,scrapping and saying goodbye

It is definitely summer on my side of the world! The humidity is here in full force! All though the evenings we have been having some nice breezes and able to actually sit out back with the neighbors. Last night was a sad one , our great neighbors Brandie & Jerrod and their 2 girls were with us for the last time. AS I type they are on a jet plane headed back to the USA after having lived on island for the past 5 years. I know they were ready to get back home and start a new but we sure are going to miss them! Here's Brandie putting Pnut to sleep last night ..awee
Just looking at it I get teary eyed. WE meet so many wonderful people moving around but always have to leave them behind ..



We have spent a lot of time with them over the past few weeks before they headed out , but we have also been hitting the beaches! Preston got his toes in the water for the 1st time and seemed to love it . Austin has become quite the snorkeler and wants to learn to scuba dive , so he started swim lessons this past week to get more confidence, he is loving it so far.



Preston also went swimming for the 1st time , here he is in his cute little swim trunks


One of my Besties back home is due with her 2nd baby in a few short days..a girl Camden Faith . I am so excited for The Baxters and cant wait to see this precious little angel. I only WISH we lived closer now that we both will have little ones again because neither one of us ever dreamed of having more!

I did finish a layout today , surprisingly because this week I have done nothing short of laundry and hold a baby all day , yea he is going through THAT STAGE ... hope it doesn't last long! Oh I did get out and get my toes done with the girls. Don't love them because she put my palm trees upside down ...lol


Heres my page I did for a celebration over on LABEL TULIP



and a close up of the details




Well we have some friends coming over in a bit to drop off there kiddos so they can go out for a bit so I suppose I need to wrap this up for now. Hopefully I will be back to scrapping in the morning , feeling creative!

Here's is one more of my cute little man
4 months old




Hope everyone is enjoying there weekend :)