what we have been up to!

What a fun filled summer, sleep overs and play dates and birthday party's. I have been working on purging and simplifying my life, so the house has easier up keep, we have counted almost 30 trash bags full!!! not including stuff that wont fit in trash bags..that's allot of stuff!!

The next project i have going in order to become more organized.......

Is getting my recipes in order!! Holy cow do i have a whole lotta them!!! So i at down with my recipe box (who is now in the trash) and compiled them all, the pile above is the pile after i sorted and threw away allot. And now i am putting a recipe binder together, i still have to figure out the best way to compile and sort but i am over half way there! yay!!

Speaking of recipes, a new family favorite is home made gyros. I have to admit the desire to make these came from jealousy, while on jury duty my husband had a gyro down town he raved about...so i had to then make my own, of course ;) I found a recipe for homemade tzatziki sauce, and as some of you know i make my own home made yogurt...and tweaked the sauce a bit and made the gyros with caramelized onions and oh my!!! yum yum yum!!! They are too good :) I highly recommend you try making them. I will have to post a recipe sometime.     

This little girl made me so proud the other day. She came running out of my bed room (which is normally not a good thing! )    And said to me, mommy i made your bed!!!  And she did! so well, i was so impressed! WOW, a reminder she is growing up way to quickly :( So i had to take a picture. She is also doing so well in school. we are nearing being half done with kindergarten (probably in the next month) and her reading is taking off! i will have to post a video sometime, i can not believe she is old enough to read, and well....her hand writing has gotten much better also. I love knowing i taught her all of that. It must be the "must do everything myself" part of me. lol.

And this little boy, besides getting, how to tie a big boy tie lessons from his daddy has been doing pretty well :)     He takes himself to the potty on his own, rarely has an accident and is pretty proud of that fact. We just had a huge breakthrough with discipline and now threatening him with a consequence is starting to get him to control himself (thank God) His naughty tempers are starting to become little more normal, more like a typical child, and i can tell he is now learning his lesson, which is a huge answer to prayer and means his progress will  be huge!!! He is trying to sing the alphabet, its very hard to understand but the tune is there and it is so cute!! Along with other songs, it does make me a little sad to hear him try but normally if Elijah is willing to try he eventually masters it, keep on growing little man,mommy i proud of the progress you made and celebrates each victory!

And Titus has now gotten tall enough to pull his breakfast off the table  on the floor and to play in it ;) He walks everywhere repeats quite a bit considering his age and just yesterday was trying to sing "eieio" from old McDonald had a farm. He Loves to color on the magna-doodle, and his first tooth should be poking through any day now (mommy is a lil sleep deprived) I can not believe he will be one in less than a month, where did this year go?? I walked in on this sweet moment and had to take a pic (of course) awe, my kids are so blessed with the best daddy!! I love him just a *little* bit.

And Kristofer has big woodworking plans for Christmas so he is busy blueprinting and scheming, so he is a happy clam!! I am so blessed with such a kindhearted husband, always thinking of his family, that man.

Any way that's what we have been up to!