It's beginning to look alot like Christmas!

I love Christmas Time! It's my favorite time of year! Today, I made Pretzel Hugs. Super Yummy!


Supplies:
Round Pretzels
Hersey's Hugs
M&Ms
Put in oven at 200 degress for 7 minutes and then put M&Ms on top. Super easy and super yummy! Noah loved the Hugs the best along with the M&Ms.

This is what happens when Noah eats M&Ms.

 After his M&M treat, we went straight to the bathroom to take a bath. M&Ms are so messy!

 We got new windows put in just in time for Winter! Mike finished up putting new blinds in the bedrooms and we have to finish up putting the blinds in the dining room and kitchen yet.

 I am done with going to Madison, WI for awhile. I was down there for 7 total days the past 2 weeks. I have taken all of my Epic InPatient courses now and it's time to do the projects and exams. I love Epic!

 Noah loves to go outside with Papa! He looks so cute in his winter clothing. We just bought him some snowpants and a little shovel today so he can help Papa with the snow in the driveway!

 Noah loves his little chuck trucks. They are the first things he plays with each day.

 This was our attempt to get a nice family Christmas Card picture, but Noah could not sit still. Hopefully next year!

 Noah loves to look at his books. I love that he likes to lay on his tummy now and play or read. So cute!

 Noah already loves computers just like his Mama and Papa! I just realized that I haven't taken a picture of our new Dell LapTop yet. It is our Christmas present to ourselves.

Hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and a fabulous New Year!

A little bit of this and that

We finally bought a new camera since the photos at the end of October were getting to be too dark. We bought a Nikon Coolpix camera and love it!

It's my favorite time of year with all the holidays coming up, but it's kind of stressfull too to try to get everything done. It also takes a lot of planning.

Mike has been bowhunting with his new bow.

Noah was Superman this year for Halloween. He was a monkey last year and it is cool to see how much he grew in one year.

I loved Noah's Superman cape.

  

 This year we only went trick or treating at four houses, all family houses.

It is crazy to think that last year at this time Noah could not walk yet. Noah loves to try on all of our shoes lately.

Noah is getting more teeth, finally. He only had 4 teeth and now he is working on 10 teeth.

 

Noah loves his toy trucks and he loves to push them all around the house. He does pretty good with making the truck sounds too.

Noah loved looking thru the Toys R Us toy catalog. However, he wanted the toys to be real so he could play with them right now. Sorry buddy.

A night out while Grandma and Grandpa babysat! Yay for Grandparents!

For work, I have been learning Epic InPatient. I love learning new things! Being in Verona at the Epic Campus is like being in Disney World. Love!

Mike bought a crew cab truck and now he is able to pull our camper up to Crivitz and back instead of calling someone to do it.

Hope everyone enjoys the upcoming Holiday Season!

Quick Look

Here is a quick look at what we have been up to:

I've been staying up way too late every night. Mainly working. Then when the alarm goes off at 5 AM, I am not a happy person.

Noah loves to play in the tupperware cupboard lately.

 We bought some pumpkins a few weekends ago. We cheated and just bought some off a trailer along side the road. Sometimes easy is better.

 Noah found a catepillar in our backyard and it was too funny to watch him with it.

 While I was at a baby shower, Mike and Noah carved one of the pumpkins. Since Noah loves eyes, the pumpkin has one big eye. Love it!

 Noah loves Halloween Oreo Cookies! Orange frosting makes it even better!

My camera is being stupid so many of my pictures are really dark this past week. I am so annoyed by it. Grrrrrrrrrrrr

I am also very frustrated that Noah is going thru a stage where he doesn't want to eat anything.

On a good note, Mike and I had a date nite last weekend and we got some Christmas shopping done and grocery shopping too! We ate at Chili's and it was yummy!

Hope everyone has a fabulous week!

WOW-it's the end of September already!

Seriously, I can not believe that it is the end of September already! Geez! Christmas is going to be here faster than what we think and I haven't even started shopping yet, which is totally normal for me. Usually the day after Thanksgiving is super shopping day for me. I usually try to buy all my Christmas presents on one day, yes thats right, one day.

Okay, so I have been super busy the past few weeks so sorry the blog post is delayed. I am also fighting a cold right now. Maybe that's why my house currently looks like this (yes, in the middle of the room is a pile of clean laundry that has to be folded and what am I doing instead of laundry, why blogging of course because that's more fun):

A few weeks ago we decided to give Noah a haircut and well we used the wrong setting on the clippers and he got a buzz cut. Sorry buddy!

Rene' and I went to Mall of America a few weekends ago to go to ScrapFest. It was awesome! I did more shopping then scrapbooking because I realized I only got 4 scrapbook pages done, but I did start 3 projects.

For work, I went to Epic UGM for the week in Madison, Wisconsin. It was the best UGM yet!

Who needs a huge living room to play toys in when you have a tupperware bin to play in instead:

Noah is thinking, "Mama, let's go outside, please, so I can check out all the tires on the car and on the wagons, oh and you can't forget the lawnmower or the stroller."

I found on a blog that someone had a huge dry erase calendar in their kitchen and I thought that would be awesome to have. I hate trying to write things in small little calendar boxes. So, Mike made me a huge calendar for our dining room! Yeah, I know, you are jealous! It is sweet!

Oh, one more thing, there is a cool website called " The Blog Guidebook". Today I learned how to get blog stats on my blog to see how many people are visiting my blog. I love this, now I need one of these "counters" for work so I can count how many clicks are in the workflows we are designing in Epic. 

http://www.blogguidebook.com/

Here's to a fabulous rest of the week!

I'm thinking about Christmas already!

It's crazy that I'm thinking about Christmas already (meaning treats)! I was craving peanut butter balls and roll out sugar cookies. So, this week, I made both. The peanut butter balls only lasted a day and we are still eating up the cookies. Both turned out so yummy! The perfect Autumn treats! Who says you have to wait till Christmas for treats.

Noah looks so cute in his big boy clothes. JCPenney has awesome clothes!

Last week, my Mom, Noah, and I went to Build-A-Bear Workshop and we created the puppy named "Boo" and Noah absolutely loves him. He loves to chew on his nose.

I love burning candles during the Autumn months. Our house currently smells like an apple orchard. Love it!

Noah loves to take out as many items as he can from the cupboards. In this picture he was fascinated with the bottle warmer.

Hope everyone has a great week!

Ahhh...the start of Autumn

I love the start of Autumn. It's the time to start decorating the house with oranges and reds. I absolutely love the color orange, so it makes sense that I love Autumn. I also love burning yummy scented candles during Autumn. This weekend, we have been enjoying the wonderful smell of spiced cider as the scented candle of choice. Whenever Autumn approaches, I like to also cook more crock-pot meals. Yesterday, I made a beef roast and an apple pie! Mrs. Smith made the pie, I just baked it. Gotta love it!

The start of Autumn also means sweatshirt time! My Mom, Noah, and I went shopping at the Fox River Mall and bought Noah a whole new wardrobe! Noah looks very cute in his football sweatshirt and jeans!

It's crazy to think just a few days ago, Noah was in a tank top and shorts. How fast the weather changes.

Noah is very smart and he loves to brush his hair after this bath. Way cute! I couldn't find his brush for days until I looked in the laundry hamper today! Geez!

Hope everyone has a fabulous start to Autumn!