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From top left:

1.  The project I am currently working on...redoing this coffee table.  I should be done this weekend  (need another coat or two of poly)!!

2.  My hubby has agreed to more selfies with me lately...LOL!

3.  Tatum is still loving her dance class...it's amazing how much better she has gotten with "mommy separation"!

4.  We took the girls to our friends kid Halloween party last Friday...Tatum was the most cooperative mummy!!

5.  The bird WOULD NOT stay on my shoulder...I finally had to get rid of him!

6.  Yup...that my friends is one of the intense games of Twister that was played at our party!

7.  Stubborn...it's what best describes her lately!

8.  These would be the next project on my 'To-Do' list...we need some seats for around the pool table in the basement.

9.  I have a love/hate relationship with laundry...I have I love my washer and dryer, so doing the laundry isn't so bad anymore...putting it away however...not so much! PSSS...what you don't see is the two full baskets on the floor!

Finally done!

I knew the second I stepped foot in this house that it was THE ONE!  I saw past the oak...I saw past the awful carpet...I saw past the paint and the black out curtains.  I knew that the bones of the house were all that mattered and I LOVED IT!  I really wanted a house with a finished basement...my hubby did not...he won that battle because I loved the rest of this house too much to care about the basement.

We were fortunate enough to be able to finish the basement after only living in the house for a year.  Although the project took way longer than we had planned...I am happy to say it is finished and we are enjoying our investment.

Excuse the crappy lighting in some of the pics...I promise the wall color is the same throughout even though it looks different in each pic...LOL.

Thanks to my moms creative thinking...I took the inspiration EXIT sign and have added multiple arrows to this wall.  I am not done...I might just fill the whole wall...or at least add a few more.

So this would be the truest pic of the wall color!! It was also requested that I not add too much 'Girly' stuff...I found these pictures at Hobby Lobby...Nice, but not girly!

Our Craigslist pool table...some guy left his wife with 5 kids, so she decided to liquidate his stuff.  His loss...OUR GAIN...at only $300.  We paid movers and had it re-felted to match the décor, so it was an $800 total investment.  Totally worth it!!! 

My mom and sister got to enjoy the new sleeping quarters in September, but there wasn't much else for them to enjoy.  This past weekend though...my parents surprised me and stayed for the five days and got to enjoy all the new amenities.  Maybe they will visit more now that they have their own space!!

Participation Awards Go To...

Thomas and Taylor's football and soccer teams have not had excellent seasons thus far.  OK...if I am being honest...which I always am...Taylor hasn't won a single game and Thomas finally won his first game last weekend.  Despite their records though...we truck out to the fields every weekend and put in 200% effort...me included.  I might be one of the loudest parents on the sidelines regardless of the score and you only have to sit by me once to know which kids are mine!!!

 

Just like Tatum, Taylor is decked out in pink so you can't miss her.  She does not stop...and even when her team is losing she keeps at it!

Thomas is a jack of all trades...master of none when it comes to football.  I am grateful this season he has gotten to play multiple positions and decide what he likes best.  I think if you asked him he would tell you that QB is his position, but as you'll see in the pics he plays quite a few.  And if you can't tell which one he is...look for number 11!! 

 He finally got to try his kickoff abilities...and he didn't do too bad!!

 

 

Look at him go!!  I'll let you decide if he made it to the end zone or not...WINK WINK...or if that #74 tackled him in the what would have been next shot!!

 

Winning or losing...I love watching them both play!

Fall Break Shenanigans

It's Wednesday and I am happy to report that fall break is going swimmingly.  I haven't lost my cool a single time...where's the wood because I need to be knocking on it ASAP!  Our weekend was filled with the usual football and soccer.  I managed to sneak away on Saturday night for a friends annual Witches Party.  A great time was had and it was back to reality on Sunday morning.

The kids and I were invited to tag along with friends to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo...and it was SO FUN!!  You know me...I love the Denver Zoo, but if you can believe it...this one might have been better.

We got to get up close and personal with the Giraffe!!  These animals are just amazing and so beautiful and SO BIG!!

 

 No fear with this one!!  Her and I both could have hung out with the giraffes all day!

 

I love taking selfies...especially with unpredictable animals!  He swung his head over the rail a nanosecond after I took this.  I may or may not have screamed a little.

 



 Tatum wasn't as big of a fan of the up close and personal part, but she didn't mind watching them from a distance.

 

 Every animal she saw was "So cute!"...even these hogs...not so much in my opinion, but whatever!

 

These little 3 year old legs made it through the whole zoo without whining once!

 



 Love these kids!!

 

Yup...another CUTE animal...no Tatum alligators are NOT cute!!

 



 

 Against my will I went on this sky ride to the top of the mountain.  My palms were sweaty and I wasn't a fan of the wind.

 

 Every time we touched the glass these two orangutans would try to eat the glass.  They didn't seem to be too amused by us, but we took pics anyway! 

 

 

Because I am the best mom EVER...we ride!

 

And because I was obsessed with the all the giraffes...we ended our day the same way we started it!!

 

 

It was a great start to our fall break!!