Vinyl Madness

For those of you who have been asking to see some of the things I have been working on at my house! Here they are! Before you ask?...Yes I do have a life and no I don't cut vinyl all day long despite what this post may lead you to believe! {A small disclaimer though....I LOVE my vinyl machine!}

Austin's bedroom...

A reminder for the kids {sorry the lighting wasn't great}

Austin's bedroom door

Kailee's door

floor to ceiling birch trees in the bathroom

owl on a branch...still working on the frame that will go around this!

Tyson and Kyler's door

A new Member of the Fullmer Family

This is the new girl in Shawn's life! He always told me I was the only for him...but not so! I have been bumped to #2, at least temporarily! ;) Apparently she loves him unconditionally and is always happy to see him!
I made the kids come outside and Shawn was behind the cars! They had NO IDEA!!! They knew there was a surprise but you can tell from the look on Kyler's face he wasn't so sure the surprise was better than him being able to play video games! (stinker)
Isn't this great! Look at their reactions...it was priceless!!! They couldn't believe it was for real. They all turned to me and asked me if this was a trick!

loving their new friend

Can you even believe that we got a dog? You are not the only ones! All of my friends were shocked that we did AND that it was my idea! I think my poor kids (and Shawn) had finally gotten their prayers answered! This is Bella. She was a stray that a friend of ours found and wasn't able to keep. When she started telling me all about her she sounded too good to be true! We think she is about 6-8 months old. She is a yellow lab. She is already potty-trained, loves and is great with kids, loves to be in the backyard, isn't a barker, doesn't chew on too much, and sleeps through the night! This is my kinda baby! We brought her home about 2 weeks ago. She has adjusted quite well here!! We took her to the vet last week and she was given a clean bill of health! We love her so much already, seems like she has always been here!
Ty's turn

Austin's turn

Kyler did great too!

This is where we can find Bella when we are vacuuming! She hides on the stairs, she isn't a big fan!
Just resting...

Snow in Katy???

Can you believe it? We couldn't either!! I let the kids stay home from school to play in the snow. How often do you get a snow day in Katy? Kyler has never been in the snow either so I couldn't let him sit at a desk and miss all that fun! (I am so glad I did let them stay home because they would've missed it if they had stayed in school!) And boy did they have fun!!! They played in it for quite a while. They were all frozen when they came in, not one of them complained though. They just sat next to the fire to warm up. They were chattering non-stop. It was sooo fun to see them so excited and hear them talk to one another about it! After some lunch and a movie they went back out for round 2! :) I know, there isn't much of it...especially to some of you who live in the white stuff all the time! It was fun for us though...and just enough! :) It was a fabulous day!When it just started snowing, Ty was making snowballs from what he could find on the fence!

He was too excited to go get a snowball of his own to wait for his gloves. He wanted them shortly after this!! :)Brrrr.....Ty is a stinker...he totally freaked me out letting me think he was really sticking his tongue on that pole! No double dog dares at this house. When I told him not to do that, all the kids started giggling and said "Mom!" Ty then showed me that he was touching his tongue to his finger, it just looked real! They love a good fake out on mom!Austin claimed that this was a driving hazard so he cleared the snow from the stop sign.What snow day would be complete without some snow angels?

Halloween 2009

I give up...I guess Kailee and Tyson's birthdays will get blogged about later and this will be out of order. I have Halloween pics ready to go so I better share them before next Halloween beats me to it! The kids were all very creative this year! They wanted to come up with their own costumes and not buy them from the store!! Hallelujah! I love that! Lots of imagination is great for the pocket book! Well except for Kyler...he insisted on being a star wars character of some kind. After about a hundred suggestions of other fun things he could be he still wouldn't budge so I went about bought him a Luke Skywalker costume, complete with a light saber! He was soooo happy!
Kailee went as a gift bag! We took 2 sheets of poster board and covered it with some cute wrapping paper. We added lots of tissue paper (we stamped a little design on the tissue) We added some ribbon, a tag and some curly ribbon to her hair and she was set! She looked sooo great! She got alot of compliments on her outfit! She is so creative, she is never one to disappoint with her costumes!
Can you figure out what Austin is? He went as a "Quarterback". He wanted to be a "Longhorns Quarterback". He took his Longhorn t-shirt and we printed out an image of a quarter and taped it to his back! He wore a Longhorn hat to complete the look! Awesome!!
Last but certainly not least was Tyson. He came up with the idea totally on his own! He was the cutest ever!!! He decided to be an I-Spy game. He started about a week before Halloween collecting things from around the house that he could use. We just started gluing until nothing more would fit. He did both sides of his shirt. He wore a baseball cap with a list of things to find! He loved standing and letting people find the stuff on him! He got lots of great feedback in his idea and he LOVED it!
What was I you ask? Well I was the lady who got her kids all ready and out the door in costume on time....twice! with her husband out of town! I looked good doing it too!! ;)This was the sign Kyler made to put on the door after ran out of candy! This was all his doing! He said he was tired of telling them "We're out!"Austin with his friends Josh as a Zombie, and Tyler the microphone.
Kailee with her friends McKenzie and Hannah the pirate.