Yeah, I keep him around for a reason!

Funny, because at the last CreativeXpress crop we were just talking about how wonderful my husband is at giving gifts.

Yesterday, David brought home the soundtrack for the new Hairspray movie (YES! I've been wanting it since I saw the movie. Such good house-cleaning music) AND a new top that is soooooo dang cute, in purples with a touch of yellow and it fits me perfectly. He saw it as he was passing by on a mannequin and had to get it for me.

I would so rather get a shirt than flowers! He has such good taste!

And, he cleaned up the kitchen, including mopping and the living room while I was scrapbooking. I just LOVE this man!

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Just sharing some photos (with the inevitable commentary)

Griffin, why does he have that binki in his mouth? He supposed to only use one while sleeping. I started this hose-fight. It was hot!Xander, spraying the hose. Notice how he's not even looking at the water. :)
Griffin and Max splashing in the puddle on the sidewalk that always forms just right there. Usually, we try to avoid it.
Griffin looking quite pleased with being wet. Also notice Xander running away in the background.
She's waving hi in this one. Also, there are spit bubbles. She's getting drooly and likes to lick thinks, like shirt shoulders and forearms. If I hold her facing outward, I get copious amounts of drool down my arm. But isn't she sweet? We're thinking she'll probably have blue eyes, but more like the gray-blue of Maxton's.
Maxton, looking quite pleased with himself. My SIL said that in this photo, he looks like the Henry side and I agree. Such a handsome dude!
Aww, she is just so cute! She's getting cubby. I love this blanket my MIL made for her. She really thinks the camera is bizarre. Everytime I get it out, she looks at it like it's some alien object, which I'm sure it is to her.
Here are Griffin and Maxton. After a spell of hating to have his picture taken, he has lapsed into wanting his picture taken all the time, usually with Griffin or Aubriana.

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I am SO proud of myself!

Admittedly, I'm a junk food addict. I have been for a long time, even got worse being married to a fellow junk-foody! I rarely ate fruit or veggies or anything healthy for that matter. After having Aubriana, I was a little worried because my weight just wasn't going down. In fact, I would loose a little and it would go back up! ACK! Not a good thing and that has never happened to me before after having a baby. With Xander, I lost all the 45 lbs I'd gained with him plus an extra 10 in just two months. After two months with Aubrey, I'd only lost 6 lbs since coming home from the hospital. It was time to do something drastic.

Well, my mom has lost weight she'd been trying to lose for years, so I decided to do what she did. I had three goals: 1) jump start my weight loss, 2) change my taste buds, 3) learn to eat smaller portions. Well, it's been a week since I started and I can't believe the difference! I'm back to eating "normally," but I still lost almost two pounds yesterday, and I'm within 13 lbs of my goal weight. I've decided to have fruit for breakfast, veggies for lunch and then a more normal dinner. I've limited my snacks to once a day. I've started really listening to my body and mostly I'm just bored or upset when I think I'm hungry. I actually like veggies and fruit now. To put things in perspective, I've eaten more veggies in the last week than I did in the whole previous year. I'm also happy because this method of eating is much cheaper. :) David has also joined me and lost tons of weight too.

We have just become a more healthy household. GO US!

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My child has been taken over by aliens bent on the destruction of my house.

I am at the end of my rope.

I don't know what's gotten into Griffin, but suddenly, he's a tornado of destruction. So far today:

Climbed the gate into my room, where he got out Daddy's tools and sprayed his sister with throat spray. Also used laundry as a "slide."

Bathroom, where he opened the child-protective door knob with ease. He used the liquid soap and unwound a whole thing of dental floss.

In the kitchen, he dumped on the floor a nearly new package of baby carrots that Maxton had been snacking on.

The living room, where he destroyed two scrapbook pages. Moving the scrapbooks was LITERALLY ON MY TO DO LIST. Luckily, they weren't great pages, but my goodness!

The child locks on the under-sink cupboard, where he got my Costco-sized, nearly new Cascade and dumped the entire thing out in the living room, which he proceeded to get in his eyes--he was ok after a good rinsing. He also dumped the basket of shoes out and took down all the hanging shirts in his closet (I have no idea how he gets that high, I think he's standing on the diaper pail) and broke 4-5 plastic hangers.

Yesterday, he broke three bowls by pushing his high chair over to the upper cabinets in the pantry where we keep the dishes.

He's napping now. I'm sure this day will be really funny in a few years, but right now, I just want to lock him in his room! I don't know what to do, because he's not old enough for punishment, he'll be two in October, and he breezes through the child proofing and it's not like I'm somewhere with the door closed or not checking on them every few minutes. I was organizing my scrap room while most of this happened and I can usually hear whatever they are getting into, but I guess he's learned to be silent.


AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

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For those of you still wondering. . .

It's powdered sugar. :)

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Mini golf and a layout

So, tonight David and I took the kids miniature golfing. It was kind of cool when we left, there was a breeze blowing and the sun was behind the clouds, but as soon as we started golfing, the sun came out and it got hot FAST. After 18 holes, we were all very ready to get into some AC and have some dinner. Still, it was good to get the kids out of the house and spend some time with them, but I still haven't recovered! I didn't take the camera, because, well, I haven't scrapbooked most of the photos I took last time we went (although below is a layout of the ones I did get done.)Anyway, just a short post today. Here's a layout that I did yesterday. I'm way excited because I'm finally caught up on all my layouts that were due and this one was just for fun! YAY! I'm going to try to do more of those this month; it's so fun.

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