Crazy Aunt Beth

Brendan and Hannah came over for a while today.  Don't tell their mom, but Aunt Beth let them eat chips in the living room right out of the bag!  Apparently they thought this was pretty cool!  :)  Who knew this was so exciting!!  (And no....I didn't let them eat a ton of chips.)

Entryway

Finally....I was able to organize our front entry way.  I saw something similar in the Pottery Barn catalog.  Just had to customize it to the size of my area and my pocketbook.  I found the shelf and cubbies at IKEA.  The inserts are from Thirty-One.  The white lamp is from Target.  The little bag on top for Joe and Joel's wallets and sunglasses is from Thirty-One.  The hooks that spell out H-O-M-E are from Hobby Lobby.  The patriotic board is from Uppercase Living and my beloved metal sculpture is a Carol Roeda original!  I now love our entryway!!

Castle de Monya

We went to visit John and Diane Moyer for a bit.  Gus calls them the "Monya's"  Not sure how you get that from "Moyer".  He also seems to think that their house is a castle.  Therefore we have now dubbed their house the Castle de Monya.  While there, Gus got out their toys to play with.  He found a Yoda figure and a little Yoda figure.  He renamed them Dadoh and Gus-Gus.  (Yes, his dadoh's heart melted a bit to see that Gus was already loving Star Wars!)

GO FORD!!

The cheerleaders shot a commercial for Crest Ford!

Team Stapleton

Due to technical difficulties, MR and MRS Stapleton were unable to show the 9/11 tribute documentary in their own classrooms so we had to combine in Mr. Stapleton's room.  The kids were SO good considering there were about 80 kids in one room!!

Rainy football game...no problem!

I can now handle all weather for football games with my giant "sportbrella".  It is perfect for those rainy games!!  (And yes...people made fun of us.  But we didn't care...we were dry!)

Note from Aunt Mirs house

Gus spent his first day at Aunt Miranda's house on our first day of school.  Aunt Mir was nice enough to send us this while we were at work.

Gus and Eme

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE watching these two kids play together!!  Gus and Eme only see each other two times a year but this time they remembered each other and gave big hugs and kisses!  (Could be because we actually saw them two months ago this time and we see pictures and talk about the Carlson family all of the time!)