Sweetness

Madison came up with the idea to have fondue.  We had bananas, strawberries and granny smith apples with white chocolate and milk chocolate as our dipping sauces.  I love the green apples in white chocolate, it's scrumptious!!

I did a little investigating one day and found that we have nice wood floors in our bedrooms.  When we're feeling industrious one of these days, we'll pull up the carpet.  I just wish we had wood floors in the living room as well, oh-well.

That's Gabby on the left, she lives across the street from us.  We watch her when her mom goes to work and school.  She's a sweet girl. :)

A pretty sunset one evening.  I need to get a better camera one of these days, then I could really have some fun!

Jeff barbecued for us on Father's Day.  We had a nice, summer dinner on the patio.  I was so glad he didn't have to work this Father's Day.  My parents came out to visit us the day before.  We hung out on the patio most of the time and had a really nice visit.  It was fun to hear stories from my dad, from when he was a kid.

Kind-of Boring

This post might be a wee bit boring, but oh-well, I'm posting it anyway.  Enjoy!  :D 
We have dump zones in our home.  They drive me crazy, but that's how it goes.  Here's a little pass through window we have between the kitchen and living room.  It's very handy, but is more often than not, a dump zone.  I'm constantly cleaning up this area.  Such is the life of a mom. ;)

When we got some snow recently, a new dump area emerged.  Wouldn't it be nice to have a mud room?  Carrie can dream...

The laundry chair.  Here lie the clothes waiting to be folded and put away.  In real time, this chair is currently covered with sheets and towels waiting to be folded.  I'll get to it right after I post this.

This dump zone stresses me out, probably more than any other.  All of those papers that come into the house end up here. 

I recently went through it all, now I just need to organize the filing cabinet so it can fit in there...

Kids

Madison and Bailee have been such good helpers for me lately.  Ashton is just beginning to get his molars in, so unfortunately he is waking up again at night.  He had just started sleeping through the night too.  Friday night, Ash got up twice and Bailee woke me up twice because she was scared.  The first time she came in our room, she said the covers on her bed were a mess and asked me to fix them, so I did.  I was just dozing off to sleep when she came in the second time and scared the heck out of me.  That time she told me matter-of-fact that there was a ghost in her room.  I asked if she wanted to sleep on Dad's side of the bed since he was away at work.  She did, and climbed right in.  Needless to say, when Saturday morning arrived, I was quite tired.  I had also been feeling very uncomfortable during the night and had a hard time sleeping due to a uti that was just beginning.  I get them very rarely, thank goodness.  So, when Ashton went down for his morning nap, I took a nap too.  When I woke up, Madison and Bailee had cleaned up the living room and play room, gotten themselves dressed and had combed their hair and put headbands in.  I thought that was so sweet and cute, my big girls almost made me cry. 

Here's Ashton playing on his most favorite toy in the house, the fireplace.  Good grief, an accident waiting to happen, I'm sure.  : (

As soon as he enters the playroom, he's headed straight for it, unless his sisters are in the room playing, then he heads straight for whatever they're occupied with, Polly Pockets, Barbies, etc.

Here's Ash peeking out of the kangaroo pouch. 

The pouch was actually a bag that our new printer came in.  It was kinda cool because the printer was in the bag and you just lift it out of the box with the handles, piece a cake!

Bailee loves to sit on the counter and help me cook.  She also likes to help me clean.  She enjoys dusting off the furniture and thoroughly enjoys spraying cleaners, such as Pledge and window cleaner, then wiping it off with her cleaning rag.  I'll train her well so hopefully one day she can take over the cleaning and cooking for me! ;)

Just following in the footsteps of her domestic diva mama! (Although, I don't sit on the counter to cook).  ;)