Catching up

I've been so busy lately that I haven't had much time to blog. Here's one of the things I was doing...


I made 2 doz. of these cupcake ice cream cones for Claire to take to gymnastics on her birthday.
Here is a close up shot. They turned out really cute!


Wednesday was her birthday. Nathan woke up sick that day, but did school anyway (his choice!). Claire didn't have much school to do. She got ahead earlier in the week so she wouldn't have to do much on her birthday. Then, I took her to gymnastics and we all went out to dinner for her birthday. Came home to cupcakes and presents!

I started painting the guest bathroom on Tuesday. I painted over wall paper so I primed it Tuesday and painted it Thursday. Had some "issues" with the textured paint so I didn't finish until after 9:00 Thursday night. I'll post before and after pictures as soon as I add the final touches.

On Friday my parents came into town and we watched our Texas Rangers crush the Yankees to become the American League Champions!!!! That's right...we're going to the world series for the first time ever! We could not be more excited. I plan to do an individual post on that in a few days. :)

These pictures are from the last regular season game. I was not lucky enough to have tickets to the post season games. We had to watch from home. Tried to buy world series tickets, but they were already sold out. :(

Saturday was Claire's birthday party. She wanted a space party. I had lots of outdoor games planned, but it rained all afternoon! There were actually tornado sirens going off 5 minutes before the party was suppose to start! (The tornado threat was north of us though.) Needless to say, we moved the games indoors.

Notice her planet shirt in the picture. She had to have a planet shirt with Pluto on it when we visited the Lowell Observatory. I could not talk her into the pink girly shirt because "it didn't have pluto on it". Luckily we found one that did have Pluto on it. It was the perfect shirt for her party!

Now this week I have Claire's friends coming over, book club, our homeschool group's All Saint's Party (that I'm coordinating), halloween and watching every minute of the World Series!!

So, that's what I've been up to. What have you been up to?