Fall is here!!!

We went up to the eagle preserve yesterday... a bit overcast...but not pouring like it is today.. so not a bad day! =-)

I have been visualizing this shot for several years...waiting till the kids are big enough... and then Aubrey the pill wouldn't hold Carson's hand... Oh well. The colors are just starting so we'll have to go back up and maybe she'll cooperate next time. She was inseparable from her blankee yesterday too... the color doesn't go with everything else.

Oh yeah and this is about 18 miles up the highway. we got to about 15 mile when I remembered I had left my camera disk in this computer to move all the photos off, so I could have a clean disk. And since I had dressed them for this purpose and driven out for the purpose of photos...I did drive all the way back home to get it! Carson told me to get my brain and put it back in my head too! =-) Smarty pants...

AHHHHCHOOO... cold season is here... and Aubrey has one and Carson is getting one...FUN!

I guess this is why she didn't want to kiss him back...or let him give her another one!

Goofy kids..

Love the little curl in the back..

AHH, Highbush Cranberries...LOVE LOVE LOVE the smell.. Am I the only one?!? Everyone else thinks they smell like stinky feet...

A Carson shot... almost got me in the right spot..

rainy day

It's a cold rainy day today... Yesterday was nicer. We went up to the eagle preserve and took some fall photos... the colors are just starting to turn, so we'll have to go back when they are in full glory. I love fall..the colors, the smells, the picking and preserving. And I enjoy the first bit of winter... just wish it wouldn't last so long...guess I ought to quit complaining or move south! And I do like it here...most of the time!

I have made a ton of these panel skirts for me and others and finally got up the nerve to make one for Aubrey...without a pattern....just the idea.. It was super easy and I think I'll do more. It is hard to see in the photo...but there is a teal panel and a purple panel on either side of the butterflies.... they are all batiks...I love the batiks.

I have some holiday flannel for a skirt for me and I think there will be enough left to make a matching one for Aubrey.

Poor Carson...he asked " Can I have a skirt?!?" So I need to get a little boys shirt pattern and make him a shirt. I have some soft green plaid flannel just for that purpose. He does love green!

Carson has been asking to take my picture when I take his and I am getting brave enough to let him use my camera.. He is getting better about getting the subject in the frame!! =-)

Birthday Boy

These are all out of order...oh well...at least they are posted!!

Carson blowing out is #4 candle on top of his lemon cheesecake...

snuggling with 3 Huckles and Lowly worm and his doll quilt..

He wasn't impressed when he opened this...it is a dress for Aubrey...

Flannel Doll quilt...

Lowly Worm..

He requested Carrot cake...so I got one in Juneau.. This is at George's house... wearing his #4 t-shirt....

Tiger Carson and Jocelyn George...

Time goes by so fast.. and life certainly isn't boring any more! Carson is such a smart kiddo.... but what do I know since he is my first! I could be a bit biased! =-)

Aubrey isn't far behind...gotta keep up.. She is really starting to talk and express herself..

a few of her words...

"ceecee" Horsey

"shish" fish

"darsey" Carson

Can't think of anything else and Carson is bugging me to get off the computer so he can play his games! Where did my baby boy go?!?

Coming up....

September 16th.....

You can tell who was more important! =-)

Carson's birthday is coming up in a couple weeks and I wanted this background and know I will probably forget with the time comes..so it will be up before his birhtday. I think we are going to go to Juneau for a few days, which will include his birthday. Danny will be super busy and I need to hit CostCo...so we'll celebrate his birthday that weekend...

Finished!!

I finished the dresser and got the kids room back in order. I moved some things around and there is more room in there! I love it! Of course when we move Aubrey to a twin bed it will take away the extra room. Sigh, oh well!

Since it has been raining for a week and a half, and Carson has been asking for his moonsand, I rearranged the entry/nook and set up the sand boxes.. This is the greatest toy for bad weather. Carson loves it and it will occupy him for an hour several times a day. Aubrey usually will sit as long as he does and seems to enjoy it also.

The kid's room. The saying at the top middle says " Love makes little things grow" and the plaque says " Mothers of little boys work from son up till son down"
If you can't quite give up those tiny clothes...here is an idea.. a clothes line. I just changed out the tiny summer clothes to the tiny winter clothes... It would look better with the closet doors on, but then I loose about half the closet because it isn't easily accessable...

Close up of the dresser.....

Catch up!

I am way behind on blogging...sorry. Don't know if anyone besides Nana looks here anyway! =-)

So, Nana...here are some picts!

We have kept busy painting, picking berries and playing in the sun. I got most of the trim finished but there are a couple windows that Danny is going to replace, so I am waiting to do those later. He is also replacing one door, so will paint the doors later.. with all the rain we are having that may wait till next spring. I also jumped in and painted the kids dresser. Just finished yesterday... have to wait till Aubrey is down for a nap and Carson is in his quiet time. I tried to let them paint it, but... WHAT A JOKE! Once Aubrey was done painting she still wanted to walk around with a loaded paint brush. She made it well known that she didn't like me taking her paint brush away...so into the tub she went, a fussin all the while! And while I was getting her settled, Carson decided to refill the little container I had given him to paint from. He climbed up on the top and spilled paint everywhere...so decided to paint with is hands and feet....and legs and bum... SOOOO into the tub with him. Then to quickly spread the paint around so it wasn't gloppy and then to wash the kids and rewash the kids, cuz the water was green after the first round.. then to wash the tub.....SOOOO. no paintin for them unless strictly supervised! =-)

I did get their hand and foot prints on the drawer fronts. Once I get the drawer pulls put back on and the dresser back in their room, I'll take a finished picture. It is quite bright...almost glows. But will be nice in the winter when we need some color!!! =-)

We spent one day picking blueberries. Drove about 20 miles up the highway and then another 15 or so on a dirt road to the end of the road way up the mountain. Was absolutly beautiful! Got about a gallon of berries. Hope to get more, but with the rain I haven't been getting out as much. I am catching up on housework! I was lucky to have a good friend volunteer to take Carson for the day on Friday so I was able to finish his birthday presents. I made him a doll quilt as he is playing dolls a bit with Aubrey. I also made him a Lowly worm. Those of you who read Richard Scarry books will know who that is. It is Huckle's best friend and Carson has a cat Huckle that he loves. So I figured he also needed a Lowly. I'll get picts of those on his birthday. I also sewed a "4" on a shirt as his birthday shirt.

I guess that about wraps it up...and here are the picts....

I often see them setting together in the chairs reading, or playing...or fighting...

Aubrey sitting pretty in her pillowcase dress...
Everyone working on their computers...

OOPS, sorry turn your head for the next one...
Painting the dresser...at least he didn't ruin any clothes! =-)

Aubrey painting in her rain suit....

Cool girl, or alien?!?

Checking the crab pots on a horribly smokey day, Thankfully this was the only day like this...

At the fair... Carson and Danny rode the farris wheel. I wasn't going to get on that thing, especially with a wiggly Aubrey!!!

Carson and Aubrey and Bethany on the Merry-GO-Round...

Riding the train with Bethany...

I sewed a dress from one of my grandmother's pillowcases... It is a bit tight at the top and a bit long... I do have another matching one, so could remake another one.

Aubrey dressed herself...at least pulled on the "skirt". You'll notice the sleeves hanging out the sides.... and her bed head do!

Aubrey wipping Carson's kisses off..... A game the both love.. I don't mind either because that means I can keep kissing them!

Being sweet...

Aubrey's hair is getting longer... She is growing up so fast!

Fishing boat out on that really smokey day. That is the sun in the sky.. and there should be mountains back there somewhere! just hidden...

The state is putting up an new tower on a close mountain. They used this Vertol to pick up the generator building to put up on the mountain. We watched from below where they hooked onto the bulding. then headed out to the airport when they were done. Carson and our neighbor and friend Owen got to check it out inside and out...

Serious Carson in the pilot's seat...

Picking up the building...

Carson and Owen taking pictures of the heli... Owen had his dad's camera...Carson had one of my old ones that doesn't work. Some day I'll get him a camera...would be fun to see his perspective!