{Labor Day Fun}

It has been a lovely Labor Day!  Actually, I haven't felt very great this weekend, but today still turned out pretty good. 

This morning, I painted a chair pink.  I am SO excited to use it to do some darling photos of some sweet little girls!

The kids played in the pool for a while.  I am so excited for fall, but sad to see summer go away.

This is Lily Ps 'this water is freakin' cold' face.  :)  She doesn't care though.  Seriously, sometimes her lips are blue because the water is so cold and she doesn't mind one little bit.  Such a little fishie!

Adrian made shishkabobs for dinner and they were DELICIOUS!  I love anything with peppers and onions!

For dessert, I made the yummiest cupcakes EVER!  I wanted to eat them all!

Here is the recipie for these tasty little treats:

Pumpkin Cupcakes with Cinnamon-Cream Cheese Frosting

1 pkg. spice cake mix

1 cup sour cream

1 can (15 oz.) pumpkin

1/4 cup oil

3 eggs

1 pkg. (8 oz) cream cheese

1/4 cup butter, softened

1 tsp. vanilla

1 pkg. (16 oz) powdered sugar

1 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Heat oven to 350*

Beat first 5 ingredients with mixer until well blended; spoon into 24 paper lined muffin cups

Bake 20-22 min. or until toothpick comes out clean.  Cool.

Beat cream cheese, butter and vanilla in large bowl with mixer until well blended.

Gradually beat in sugar.  Blead in cinnamon.  Spread over cupcakes.

{Preschoolers-Derek & Jett}

My two littlest boys are starting preschool on Tuesday.  Derek will be in 4 year old preschool and Jett will be in 3 year old preschool.

Time has flown by.  I swear I was just holding Jett in my arms as a precious newborn and my sweet Derek as a cuddly, hair holding & thumbsucking toddler.

I am so excited for them to start.  They need to have some time apart.  They are so close, but they fight SO much too. :)

Derek - 4.5 years

Jett-3 years

So happy I snapped these darling photos before their preschool open house last week.

I sure adore these two crazy boys!!!

{Sale at my Pearlie Girl Shop!!!}

Hi friends!

I am having a Labor Day Weekend sale over at My Pearlie Girl shop! 

20% off anything!!!

Use the code LD333

{Sweet Lu & Durban}

"I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive". ~Gilda Radner

 

 

{Our New Little Friend}

Meet our newest family member...  His name is Pedro and he is a garter snake.  Ethan caught him at Bear Lake and brought snuck him home.  We love all of Gods little animals at our house, so we were fine with Ethan keeping him.

He has a big tank in E's room and is VERY well taken care of.  :)

We are happy to have you as part of our family Pedro!

{Gateway -part 2 The Pool}

We LOVED playing at the pool in Gateway!  The view was beautiful and the pool was huge.  There was a large area in the pool that was shallow enough for my little ones to swim in and that was great!

Mands and I had the best time chatting on our lounges with our icey drinks while Adrian played in the pool with the little ones.  :) 

Playing in the big pool.

Little Miss Punk P with her baby (of course).

My handsome Blake.

Derek loves the water and had such a fun time!

My Ky Ky posing by the pool.  Love that girl!

Mands and Blake playing catch with the football.

My hot husband and the best dad ever playing with Lily P.

Jett having a blast in his monkey tube.

My super sweet and good looking Ethan.

This is what Ky did most of the time.  She was freaking me out with all her crazy jumps.

{Beautiful}

I can't get enough of these beautiful brown eyes.  I am so blessed to be able to kiss and cuddle this beautiful little baby girl all the time.