Carving pumpkins!! Here they are lit up!!

Here is all the pumpkins we did, Maddison did the Jack-o-Landtern all by herself and Jack did the lite brite one on the end. I did the other two with a little help from everyone.

We carved pumpkins last night, here is some of our handy work.

My son Benjamin

Jack having some fun on the swing!

The best picture I've ever taken of me!!

Fall

leaf
Originally uploaded by llear.

I love fall, can it be this way all year long. Give me a few really good snows in the winter so my kids can play, but after that I would like fall all year. I love the smells, the sounds, really it's just a great time of year isn't it?

Ben did not think it was cool that the baby was getting all the attention. I tried to let him hold her and he pushed her away. 

Ella had so much fun playing on her tummy, I think she even smiled for me. 

I got to watch my best friends baby girl today, it was so much fun, like having a little girl of my own. 

Welcom to my pumpkin patch!! 

We had fun this weekend at the Tiger game!! Of course the best part was the tailgate. 

Remodeling!!

So I painted my basement last week and it turned out so well that my need for sprucing things up a bit carried over to my blog. I like the new look, hope everyone else does too. It was a lot more difficult than I thought possible, but I'm not a computer savvy person. Now that I have a new look, maybe it will motivate me to write more. I doubt it though, I really like just putting up pictures of my life rather than going on and on about it. Anyway this is the new look....Enjoy!!

Allergy Free....well sort of

I thought I would let everyone know that my son gets to have a normal diet for the first time in 13 months. We had his testing done again and he most of his food allergies have gotten better and the doctor said he thinks it's going to be more of an outdoor or inhalants type allergies. Anyway it's such a relief to be able to give him some of the things most kids his age have been eating for months. Yeah Me!!

PaPa gets attacked by the grandkids. 

Are you bored with these yet? I couldn't help taking pictures, my children are so pretty. 

PaPa and Ben are enjoying the day! 

Shouldn't she be a model someday! Beautiful!! 

Of course the only good one of my kids all together none of them are looking at the camera. 

Ben is investigating some rocks. 

Some pictures from our fun day! 

Since I'm adding pictures, I thought I'd put one of my daughter on here. It's not that I don't take pictures of her, it's that she's always in school so there is less opportunity. Here she's hanging out with a friend. 

Here's another shot with the new camera, not to many pictures of me on here so I thought I'd throw this one in.  

My sister-n-law got a new camera and she took some great pictures of my son!

There's nothing more fun than playing in dirt is there? 

Isn't our puppy cute? Or her nose anyway. 

I'm king of the forest, hear me roar!! 

ER bound!

My youngest son is 17 months old going on invincible. He climbs up things, out of things, onto things. All of these things are tall, narrow or typically off limits for toddlers of his age, but nothing stops him. I don't know if it's having older siblings or if it's just his nature, but this one's bound to make a trip to the ER for broken bones at some point in his life, probably sooner than later. He fell on his brothers train table two days ago. His latest bruise narrowly missed his eyeball and is leaving him with one heck of a shiner and yet he goes back for more. Just today he's standing on his tippy toes on the bar of a chair with his chin on top of the table, just barely holding on so that he can reach a toy in the middle of the table. They say boys will be boys, let's just hope this boy makes it to his 10th birthday!

"Charlotte's Web"

"Charlotte's Web"
Originally uploaded by llear.

We found this on our patio this morning.

Out for a ride!

Harley Riding
Originally uploaded by llear.

We had a great time this weekend out on a Poker Run.

My son enjoying a day at the park! 

New Recipe for the Month

Since I have made this a few times this past month I am thinking it's a winner, so here goes.

Black Bean Salad with Citrus Dressing

2 15oz. Black beans rinsed and drained
1 6oz. can mandarin oranges drained
1/2 small red onion sliced
1 large green pepper chopped
1 C. frozen whole kernel corn thawed
1 small tomatoe chopped
1 Tbsp. chopped pickled jalapeno chopped
1 5oz. can sliced black olives

Dressing
1/4 C. vegatable oil
1/4 C. red wine vinegar
1/2 C. orange juice
1/4 tsp. salt

Cutie Pie!

Cutie Pie!
Originally uploaded by llear.

You know this picture has been popping up on my screen saver from time to time and I just had to put it on here. Doesn't it just make you want to squeeze his cheeks?