Why does Blogger hate me?

I cannot figure out what the crap is wrong!! It's so frustrating. I can't see my pictures when I upload them, all I see is a bunch of text. I can't change my font or colors of my font anymore. And it doesn't update on anyone's blog rolls!!! Ugghhh!! That's probably the most frustrating thing of all. I know I don't really need people's comments to help validate my dumb little posts, but it's nice sometimes ya know? And for the life of me, I can't figure out how to do a cute banner. So any help would be appreciated!! If anyone even sees this.... THANKS!

We watched The Wizard of Oz today, haven't watched that in a long time. The kids enjoyed if from the comfort of their couch "cave".



Karter's been making mustaches and beards lately. He cracks me up and he's so creative. Here are a few, I believe they are Captain Hook, Davey Jones, Jack Sparrow.


I've finally made time to scrapbook. Here are a few layouts I did about our little adventure to The Canyons to see Better Than Ezra.




P.S. I think I'm done with my lame project blog, I'll just post the very few things I actually get done here.

Mama’s Holiday Wish List Meme

Mama’s Holiday Wish List Meme
TodaysMama (http://www.todaysmama.com/exclusives.php)and Provo Craft (http://www.cricut.com/holidaywishlist/default.aspx?utm_source=todaysmama&utm_medium=meme&utm_campaign=HolidayWishList_Today%27sMama&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1) are giving away a sleighful of gifts this holiday season and to enter I’m sharing this meme with you.

1. What 5 items are on your holiday wish list this year?
*A new house, or just a house for that matter. Puh-leaaassseee Santa!!
*Perfume, I’ve been out for a while and I miss smelling lovely.
*A new coat- I LOVE my current coat so much, but it’s going on its 5th winter and the down is matted and falling out of the tiny little holes in the arm seams.
*Pajamas- I have NO pajamas. Just sweat pants and I decided I want some real jammies.
*I would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE all the stuff in this awesome giveaway!
2. What is your favorite handmade gift you have received?
*I think I’ve only ever received one homemade gift for Christmas and that was a set of dish towels- with a super cute design for each month from my mother-in-law.
3. What handmade gift have you always wanted to tackle?
* I was hoping to make cute aprons this year for all the women in my life but after the first one ended in disaster, I realize it’s just not going to happen.
4. What was the best Christmas gift you received as a child?
*My most memorable gift was a My Child doll and a Cabbage Patch Kid in the same year. They were all I wanted and I was so happy!
5. What items are on your kid’s wish list this year?
*Almost every single item in the ToysRUs catalog and pretty much everything they see on TV.
6. What is your favorite holiday food?
* Candy canes!
7. What will you be hand-crafting for the holidays?
*Probably nothing, I’m pretty short on time. :(
8. What is your favorite holiday movie?
* I love Christmas Vacation- makes me laugh out loud every time.
9. Favorite holiday song?
*God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/We Three Kings by Bare Naked Ladies and Sarah McLachlan and Christmas/Sarajevo by Trans-Siberian Orchestra (I totally had to look those up)
10. Favorite holiday pastime?
*Our new thing is going to Zoo Lights as a family and then hot chocolate to warm up. It's FREEZING being at the mouth of the canyon at night in the winter, but we love to bundle up and go have a good time.

Capture Today

November 8, 2009
Lazy Sunday.
Zachary got his robot (a decepticon?) as a late birthday present from aunt Teresa. And when we were cleaning out the playroom he found my old doll which he LOVES. The point of cleaning the playroom was to get rid of some toys to take to a shelter for kids who don't have any toys. I could not convince him to give it up and now he won't let it out of his sight.


I just love the mixture of toys here.


Karter in yet another pirate get-up.



Ready for church, so handsome.


Can you tell Zachary picked out his own clothes?

Bad Gwendolyn!

I am a terrible mother! I can't believe I didn't get ANY pictures of my kids this Halloween!! And even though I went to a killer Halloween par-tay (thanks Deb!) I'm setting goals right now to do things differently next Halloween.

Cooler decorations:



(I kinda want this shower curtain now.)
Funner snacks:



WAY cooler pumpkins:





And a much more thought-out costume:



I'm so excited already and I've still got a whole year!

Principal Karter

The other night I told Karter to go get in his jammies and when he came out a few minutes later, this is what he looked like: (black church shoes and all)

"I'm a principal."

Poor Karter...

Remember when you were a kid and you used to swing on the living room furniture? Resting one hand on the arm of the couch and the other on the arm of the chair, hoisting yourself up and swinging back and forth? Well, my children seem to think they have perfected this.... they have not. Numerous times, they've slipped and hit a head, hip or knocked the wind out of themselves by falling flat on their back. Do you think that would teach them? NO, of course not.
On Monday night, Karter attempted this yet again. I happened to be doing laundry when I heard they hysterical crying and didn't run out right away because..... well because it's not an uncommon sound in our house (having two CRAZY boys). Poor Karter, he came running back with blood gushing out of his nose (both nostrils) leaving a trail of blood from the living room all the way to the laundry room (I say that like it's SO far...). He had slipped from his swinging position and face planted it right into the wood floor. I gave him a washcloth and had him sit down while I went to clean up the trail. He kept screaming and screaming and at one point, I said "Karter, calm down. You're not going to die." To this he replied, "Yes I am Mom, I'm running out of blood!" He was pretty serious and upset so I had to try not to laugh at his response. But man, he was almost right- there was a TON of blood. That's always kind of a scary thing for a mom.
Anyway, we got everything cleaned up and Karter calmed down (sort of) and I had to take a picture for Dad. You can't see it very well, it hadn't really started to swell yet but it got huge! My poor, little, perfectly-symmetrical-faced boy-- I was afraid it was going to be broken. The swelling finally started to go down today so I took him to the doctor for x-rays and thankfully, it's not broken. Whew!!
I just love the poor, sad look on his face in this pic though: