Who doesn't love free stuff?!

As a mom who always likes to save a buck or two I was overjoyed when I stumbled upon this number from Shutterfly!

50 Free Christmas Cards to Bloggers!

Really? How awesome!!! That just isn't saving you a buck...but a lot of bucks!

I had just finished creating some of our Christmas cards so I am stoked to get them made! Now just to pick the final one!!!!!! Ekk!

That is what happens when you love design & you are a photographer! There are always too many things to choose from! But, Thanks to Shutterfly, it makes it a lot easier when the price tag for them is $0!

Now blog about it to get your own! GO!

Oreo Turkey Cookies

 If you Google, Oreo Turkey Cookies. My Flickr  is the 1st link that pops up. These sucks have been made by me for so many years & within the last couple of years has been a huge internet hit! Everyone just loves them! How could you not?!

I am starting this years batch on Sunday. I plan to make a picture by picture on how to make these! It's a lot easier than just the text!

Watch out you cute little devils! Little hungry kids are coming to snack on you! hehe

Seriously! Aren't they the cutest!?

Honestly...I have no idea how I get any work done with these two cuties running around everywhere!

September & October...I failed you too!

Apparently I am not a good blogger when it comes to my personal blog. I can keep up with my private one & my photography blog...just not this one.

I swear I will make a change to update this more. I swear. Maybe not this year...but for 2011 for sure! ;)

For now...a few updated pictures!

The house is coming along. It is pretty much done besides the kitchen & main floor bathroom. Our basement is of course not done, besides the bathroom, but we aren't sure if we really plan to finish it. At least not right now. Maybe just make it look a little better. Putting tile down (or something on the floor) and painting all the brick down there. We want to set up the basement furniture & have a play room for the kids somewhere down there. They have big toys that will only fit in the basement. Toys like a princess castle and a dinosaur tent that the kids can crawl inside of. That will only work in the basement for sure!

Oh July! I forgot about you too!!!

Well, we are this close > < to being in the house. We had to rip out the floors...more of them...and kind of start over so that pushed us back. We painted the house again. Yup. It looks 454543546 times better! So, until I get a good update...pictures!!!

We also added a new member to the family!

His name is Kooper. Yup. Kooper Coopet. lol He came with the name & we kept it because it's oh so funny!

Kegan turned 4!!! OMG 4! I have a 4 year old!!!! Wow! He is getting so big now! It is just crazy!!!!

Of course we can't forgot Miss Crazy Karie who we all love & is also getting really big!

Oh yea...there is a month called "May"

I totally skipped blogging...all of May. My attempt to blog more totally failed! I do have to say though that May was insane. 7 weddings & countless photoshoots. It was pretty much all work & no play. But, that is what summer aka wedding season is all about right?

The house is coming along nicely. We are ready for paint in the kids rooms. We are completely sheet rocked in the entire house too. Floor tile is in & now we need wall & ceiling tile in too. Hopefully the kitchen can be started too. I am oh so excited for that...and the main floor bathroom. Both of those were pretty much 100% me & I can't wait to see my vision come to life!

Kids, hubby & I are all well. Hawk isn't. He is in tons of pain & not sure what we are going to do. He has an appointment early tomorrow morning so hopefully we will know more then. Speaking of Hawk, he turned 8 yesterday. I gave him lots of treats in the morning before I left for my wedding. <3 Poor little guy.

My hair is now blonde which I love by the way. I totally missed my blonde hair & for the past 6 months I never felt like myself. I do now. I love it.

And just for fun, a few pictures.

None with Daddy. He fails at pictures lately. Maybe, since he is off today, I can force him to take a couple of pictures with us...maybe. lol

The house the house the lovely house!

I stopped by the house today to take a few new pictures. Not only for myself but also to blog about too. lol I like to share. So lets begin shall we!

The 1st picture was taken about a month ago. The second one was taken today. Not a ton has changed but you can see we have a "new" screen door (as in the one from the side door) & new landscaping around the trees. You can kind of see the new fence on the right side too. Also the grass is a heck of a lot greener now too. lol It is getting there. The front tree on the left is dying so it needs to come down before it comes down on the house. Yikes! You can also see my two little peanuts sitting on the front steps of the house. Too cute!

This is the new front walk way. It looks SO much better than before. I just wish those stupid orange rocks weren't there. Have I mentioned just how much I HATE the orange rock?! I also need to figure out what to do on the other side where all the dirt is. Maybe plant some plants or something. I need something pretty even it's just some boring green plant. Better than boring grass. lol

 That awesomely ugly plastic is whats keeping my basement from flooding. I can't wait for it to be covered up. But for now, I will settle with ugly.

This is a nice sight to see. I hated the orange rocks. lol I can't say that enough. The fence is coming out & being replaced. More stones are going down too. These stones are all wet so this isn't the true color. They are lighter like the front walk way. We got a really good deal on these giant things. We also have ugly gray ones. Kyle buys ugly things sometimes. Like white rock? Um no. That is going bye bye for sure!

This is the start of our fence. It will be so nice to have a fence here considering there was nothing here when we moved in.

This is the current sate of Karie's room. Kegan's looks the same but his room is filled with stuff so it was hard to take a picture of. All the sheetrock is down & all the insulation has been replaced. All the windows have been taken out & got all new casings. All the trim will be replaced & the carpet too. Along with a new door. Of course new sheetrock too. lol

This room has changed a lot too. We actually have some walls up! OMG! We have a new window & the two others we taken out & all the casings replaced here too. We will be getting a new floor which I admit I am sad about. I love the old hardwood but it was put in really badly & it will be impossible to save. So new floors it is.

That is really all that is anything "exciting". I just can't wait until it's all done. All the walls are painted. All the pictures on hung & we are living there. That will be an exciting blog post for sure!