Boomer Sooner!!!

I LOVE this time of year... Every Saturday (when there is a game) you will find all of us sporting our OU shirts. This year the kids got homemade ones because I just couldn't find the right ones that were affordable for all 3 of the kids!

Grocery sack problem

Any one else have a problem with too many grocery sacks?

Here are 50 grocery sacks... look at the nice pile... how do you organize them so that they aren't floating around the pantry floor, or under the kitchen sink?

My first solution was to use one of the bags to contain all of the other bags, but it still took up a LOT of space and really wasn't the best at getting them out...

Then I was on pinterest.com (a new LOVE website) and found this:

Take an empty baby wipes container and tie one bag to another and so forth as you cram in as many sacks as possible into the wipes container. When you pull out one handle set, another one will "pop" out because you tied the bottom of the bag to the next set of handles...

This wipes box now contains those 50 grocery sacks! Now I have a use for those wipes containers that I keep getting... Now for those extra sacks I don't need (who needs almost 200 sacks?)... those are going to the recycling center instead of the pantry! 50 is plenty for our needs!

OU shirts for 2011 football season!

This year I looked and looked for the perfect OU shirts/outfits for my kids. Any of them that I liked didn't have their sizes or if they did have their sizes it would cost me nearly $100 to buy them all. So my crafty little self started thinking, what can I do to get cheaper shirts for my kids?

I decided that I would just buy red material and make an OU on the shirt... then I looked in my fabric scraps (thinking there might be some red in there) and found a nice little ziploc bag of the left over material from making the twins bumper pads. Imagine my excitement when all I needed to do was cut out a square that had the LOGO on it and all I would need to do was to sew the square on a white t-shirt for the kids! Of course I had NO t-shirts in their sizes that I could sew on so off I went to K-Mart (it's the closest store to me) and found a package of 5 onesies and a package of white undershirts. I brought them home, attached with some Heat & Bond, Iron on adhesive, then sewed around the edges. I really wanted it to be a zig-zag stitch, but my machine was acting up and I had NO idea how to fix it (guess it needs to make a trip to Oak City to have my mom play around with it)!

I am pretty impressed with the way they turned out and now ALL OF my children will be wearing an outfit that fits them for this season and the BEST news of all is that I paid around $10 for all 3 of them!!!

My CUTE kids!

I can NOT believe that my babies are this big!

Kaylin LOVED wearing her new skirt that I bought at Oak City Days this past year... Ashlyn was sporting a hand me down dress from Kaylin, and Evan's was a hand me down shirt and sweater from Jennie's boys.

It's crazy for me to think that Kaylin is only about 4 months away from being 4 year old and that Evan and Ashlyn will be 15 months tomorrow!

Kinder Garden Preschool...

Last Thursday, September 1st, Kaylin started her Preschool. There are 5 girls in the group and each of the Mom's takes a week to teach the girls.

The Mom's decided that we needed a name for our "school" so we named it Kinder Garden Preschool. The girls have so much fun learning about a letter, they each have their own backpacks and supplies inside their bags.

Kaylin on the first day of School.

Daddy had the day off so he was able to walk her to school on that first day too!

And even more fun for Kaylin was that her Nana and Papa (Ryan's parents) were here visiting so they got to walk her there too!

When I asked her about her time at school, her favorite part was Snack time and play time!

September Goals...

It's been a crazy week of fun with family (and those posts will come soon) but first I need to get my goals posted. I've found that if they are written down for others to see I at least try a little harder to accomplish them.

For September my goals are:

• Continue losing the weight... it is coming off, but not as quickly as Ryan's weight has come off!!
• Finish reading Jane Eyre (it's taking a LOT longer than I thought it would.
• Continue going through things and organizing everything so I can have a CLEAN house!
• Laundry put away ON laundry day (this is a HUGE thing for me... I procrastinate this every time and the piles are getting bigger and bigger in my bedroom)!

I know these are small things for some, but for me... it's tough for me to accomplish! Now that Kaylin has "School" on Thursday's from 9:30-11:15 and the twins usually nap during that time I have NO excuse to get things finished!