{Just My Type}

Arctic Frog Shoes!

 OK so I found a way tonight to combine two things that are very near and dear to me.  My Arctic Frog designs and SHOES!!  Seriously, I am in LOVE :)  Check out these Keds shoe designs with Arctic Frog patterns!  I think I know what I want for the next few holidays :)

 

 

MIZ-ZOU!

WHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!  Mizzou won their season opener against Univ. of Illinois in the Border War game played in St. Louis.  52-42 the final score but there was only a brief period of time where IU was ahead 13-10 and Mizzou promptly responded with #9 Macklin returning the kickoff 99 yards for a TD!

I'm so excited that Mizzou has such a great team.  It's true what they say, there are Mizzou fans that have waited a LIFETIME for a team like this.  I'm one of them and I'm so proud of my tigers!  Whenever we go up to Columbia for a home football game we always have a great time but this year will be extra-special with the winning atmosphere in the stadium.  Something we'll be experiencing for the very first time!

MIZ-ZOU!

^{above pic from rivalsart.com}

I live with Houdini the Cat

Seriously!  We've been putting Chief's harness on him a little bit at a time to get him used to the feel of it.  He likes to go outdoors if one of the boys carry him outside in their arms so we thought he might like to try the cat harness/leash to do some supervised exploring.  I put it on him and he'd been hopping and rolling around trying to get at it so I was trying to catch him on video.  As soon as I turned the camera on, he lay very still on the carpet for about a minute then cleanly and smoothly did THIS!  He makes it look like he's covered in butter he slipped out of it so cleanly!

It's true what they say, Bengals are different from your average housecat.  I don't know that they're that much smarter but they are stronger and more devious that is for SURE!

Back 2 The Books!

And they're off!!  Carter started 5th grade and Alec started 2nd grade.  We've been really lucky so far, Alec has had all the same teachers that Carter had and we've loved every one of them.  This year is no exception.

Carter starts the year in a new uniform for Middle School and he loves the fact that he and Alec aren't dressed the same for school now.  He'd do just about anything to be the opposite of Alec and Alec would do just about anything to be just like Carter.  Pretty typical I guess for the Big Brother/Little Brother relationship.  That's just how my boys roll.

My guys are still so good about me taking "First Day of School" pics of them.  At this point I'm holding my breath every year now for when Carter finally asserts himself and says "NO CAMERA!" because I'm sure it's coming at some point.  I don't look forward to that at all.  I love to watch them change from year to year and school scrapbook pages are among my favorite to do of all the 'themes' throughout the year.  Maybe next year will be the year Carter denies me.  Maybe never ;)  A Mom can dream!

Birthday Bowl

We've been working on planning Alec's 'friends' birthday party.  I whipped up some invites tonight that I think turned out pretty cute.  Obviously he's having a bowling themed party.

I can't remember the last birthday that I bought invitations for.  I have a good time creating original ones to go with whatever theme the boys have chosen or, in this case, whatever activity involved.  We did Carter's this year at the movie theater because his birthday fell on the same week the Spiderwick Chronicles came out so those invites were fun to do as well.  All spiderwick-ey with a picture of the movie poster pulled off the internet to use as the main piece of the invite.

We also got all registered for school today.  Fun times!  Alec says he wishes school started today and Carter wishes it would never start again :)  For the 4th year in a row (counting Pre-K) Alec has the same teacher that Carter had at his age.  We kind of like it because Carter has always had good teachers and we know them this time around and know what to expect.  Personally I can't WAIT for school to start again either but there's probably not many parents that don't feel just like I do after a long summer at home with the kids.  They're sick of being around each other all day every day so it will be so nice not to have to listen to them bicker!