Insta Friday!

  Heres a look into our week via instagram! What a great week it was too. A few weeks ago things were getting rather difficult. The almost there deployment itch I think struck hard and I was being useless. Suddenly everything seems so much better and our week shows how beautiful things can be.

O looking at the ferrets


At a doctors appointment Hunter was helping entertain Owen.


home made sweet potato fries, nom nom


Miss Shirley Temple was in great need of a trim

I went to see Harry Potter with my brother, he just saw all the movies the week before and I promised if he finished i'd take him to the last one. This was on the stop sign in the parking lot!

I did a photo shoot at the beautiful City Park in downtown Denver


and visited with a Pirate at the Denver Science Museum


Drove home my friend Owl. He got lost delivering mail.


Hunter went to THIRD grade!

A picnic at the Garden of the Gods with the two littles.

Finally have a tomato on my tomato plant!

Ive been making Hunter fancy sandwiches for school, Perry the Platypus!

Goodnight Owen.

My beautiful little stella going on a hike with me.

I love this picture of Hailey from her first day of pre school.

Wearing her witch costume from her 2nd halloween!

More puppy love.

Last night was an 80's Zumba party, most fun ive had in years! It was great.

Linking up over at

I heart Faces- Beautiful Eyes

Its beautiful Eyes week over at I heart Faces! I knew I had to participate.

I may be a bit biased but I am pretty sure these are the most amazing little eyes I have ever seen.

What do you think?

Head over to I heart Faces for more beautiful eyes!

Ten on Ten

Ten on Ten: 10 pictures on the 10th day of the month!

(Document a snapshot of your life & find beauty among the ordinary things in your day!)

We had a boring day, and it was lovely!  One of us was recovering from the stomach flu, I am adjusting to 6am wake ups, and O is a bit fussy still since his shots. A boring day was just what we needed.

I wake up at 6am, hours before the kids do now to get some peace before the day begins. It has given me a lot more patience! I had coffee with this beautiful sunflower this morning in my backyard.

 Watching a movie at lunchtime with the recovering boy. Hes feeling much better today.

Smiles! Can you believe he starts THIRD grade tomorrow? I remember everything about third grade! 

Mr. O has been learning facial expressions lately, so very funny!

I especially love his duck face...or bitter beer face... I love having boys!

I was laying on the floor really tired when these walked into view, oh how I love baby feet.

And some more feet from my view on the ground.

Hailey was doing "zumba" and she struck a pose like this, ha!

My beautiful little Stella wondering when I am ever going to fill her bowl again. Such a good puppy!

Haileys hair after bath time. She has the most amazing curls! Lucky girl...although I am sure she will hate them at some point. 

So there ya have it, a very beautiful yet boring day.

Ten on Ten:

Insta-Friday

This is my first insta friday post,!I fell in love with Instagram a couple weeks ago when a friend showed it to me, thanks Sarah!

I had a bit of trouble figuring out how to get the photos from my phone to my blog but it appears I managed. Can anyone else say BLOGGER APP PLEASE!

Anyway heres our insta week :)

Owen Helping sister skate.

STUD!

Going on a trip to Denver.

Sunflower in the garden.

My two littles got the stomach flu.

Puppy feet love.

I like how the edit on this one with my sick little girl makes me look like I need a waxing...woah!

So sad :( The problem with ebooks.

The little Giggling about something awesome.

Denver got an Ikea! I went two days in a row and its an hour away.
Oh how I love thee Ikea.

Yum yums after shopping.

Lil chillun chopstick helpers.

When did this kid get this big?! he slept through my photo shoot :)

Ah to be a one year old, 5 shots in the legs.

Playing at Mr. Biggs in the beauty Salon.

Also just a note because I just realized, I started this blog on July 12, 2008 two years to the date before Little Owens birth. Crazy aye?

Owens One in a Flash

Owens first birthday party was a huge success. It was definitely the best party I ever put on! I've never done all the decor myself, You usually would find me scanning the dollar store for just a couple streamers and a matching tablecloth! However I ended up spending less money than I wouldve on a boring character party!

This year I saw over on The Macs blog she had the cutest party for her son and I knew I had to throw one for Owen.

Here are some shots from the party and the decoration!

The table all ready for guests, the colors as you can see were Orange, light blue, and white.

We had orange Reeses Pieces, orange Juicy Juice, and orange Kool aid.

Those white things in the corner? White fudge dipped Oreos, those were to die for!!!

The polk a dot box is the time capsule, with the invitation I sent everyone an orange index card with a note asking them to give an 18 year old Owen some advice they wished they had!

We got such great responses I loved reading through them all.

I made Owens invite using photoshop and some good old GIF art for the film strip.

Another view of the table. We gave out disguises as party favors and had popcorn as munchies.

My lovely husband modeling the party favors

 This is the reason I knew we had to do this, perfect for a photo holic! 

I made the banner out of card stock and ribbon also. The numbers say 1-12 corresponding with a picture from that month of Owens life. The beautiful prints came from my printing company, thanks WHCC!

 I made 30 lips and mustaches for party fun, and even made a custom binky for our special guy.

Orange and white balloons, always have to have balloons!

I made the banner for Owens high chair out of some card stock, ribbon and a hot glue gun. Super easy and cost me about 4$

I also picked up a couple frames from ARC and spray painted them to match.

I made the lips and mustaches out of hard felt and a craft stick, making all 30 only cost me 4$ also!

The whole gang!

 I really loved the frames! great 2$ spend 

Urkel!

My lovely parents

We had a blast and I really had fun making the decorations!!

Happy ONE Owen!

Im sad your parties over too.