GULP!

I found this lovely Black Widow on my doorstep this morning, complete with cricket breakfast! Gulp!!! This is how she looked just before I SMASHED her with the nearest shoe I can find. I HATE SPIDERS! If anything made me want to exterminate my home inside and out it is this...

A Fallen Tree

We had a really windy storm last week. It was quite scary. If it had any rain with it I might've thought it was a hurricane, but in the end it was just wind. Later that night we discovered that we had some wreckage from the storm. The tall and bushy Mesquite tree in our front yard had literally been blown over onto its side! The poor thing had been "leaning" for awhile because I guess the roots are pretty shallow on it, so it didnt' have a prayer. We considered our alternatives: 1) We could trim it down and take the risk of trying to salvage it. or 2) We could just scrap it and get a new tree. As sad as I was to lose the shade, I just wasn't convinced the uprooted roots would survive and trying to get it up straight and tied seemed like more of a task than starting again. Therefore, we opted to scrap the tree.

Shiloh has been so busy lately that today I decided to try my hand at real hard labor. :) So I got my new hand saw and some pruners and went to work! It took me about 2 hours to get it to this stage (piles of branches and one huge trunk left). Shiloh can dig it up and haul it off. Whew!

To bangs or not to bangs...

Okay, so I decided to cut bangs. I know, I know I've had bangs for awhile, but this time I decided to cut blunt, straigh-across bangs. It's a huge style change for me and I'm not sure I like it. I can easily grow them out, clip them, whatever, but I was wondering if all of you who look at my blog could give me some feedback. To bangs, or not to bangs??? You'll have to take my "before" picture with a grain of salt, I don't actually take many pictures of just me so this was the best I could find after the chopping happened. :) And don't worry, you won't hurt my feelings if you don't like 'em. I'm not sure if I like them. My hair is naturally wavy so they don't lay exactly straight. I suppose I could flat-iron them. Any suggestions anyone?? Hair grows, right? Hee, hee...

Labor Day

***PAUSE THE PLAYLIST MUSIC AT THE VERY BOTTOM OF THIS BLOG BEFORE WATCHING THE VIDEO (It doesn't automatically stop when other music is played. Hee.)***
Grandma and PaPa Johnson came and swam in the pool with the kids on Labor Day. They had a blast! And Grandma taught Eliza how to blow bubbles out her nose in the water (we are trying to teach her to swim). Take a looksie at the swimming fun!

Look-a-Likes

You can't tell me that these two don't look just alike! I took these pictures separately and then looked at them and thought, WHOA! Ezra is totally his father's son!

At least it's just shoes....

So, we were having some fun dressing up Eliza in all her many princess dresses. It was like a photo shoot. (She has about a half dozen more that didn't get pictured!)

Anyhoo, Ezra decided he wanted to be part of the action and brought me some of Eliza's shoes to put on. Sigh. He was so cute I couldn't resist him much to Shiloh's chagrin. Oh well, at least it's just shoes, right? Ha!

Eyes bigger than his Mouth

My son has eyes bigger than his mouth. He has this really silly habit of trying to cram as much in his mouth as possible while eating--no matter what the food may be. I can't tell if it is just that he's really hungry and can't wait, or if he just wants to get on to better things quicker--like toys. In either case, here's my future eating contest winner with his latest invention: The Graham Cracker Stack!