The Newest Riley Nemesis

 

HOT PINK SHAG CARPET!

What  were  we thinking????

Before we put up our Christmas tree we bought a carpet for the playroom floor.  We knew with a new kitten and Phoebe being mobile this year the tree just might come down.   Since Chad put a lot of hard work into the new hard wood floors  we tried to not ruin them with tree scratches.

 Pyper had picked this carpet out months ago and we said yes how fun is shag in a playroom!   What  we didn’t realize is that the shag carpet sheds worse than the cats!!!!

  

Pink fuzz everywhere, on the stairs pink fuzz, on the hard wood  pink fuzz, on our clothes pink fuzz, on the kids  pink fuzz, on the living room rug  pink fuzz …….in the kids hair and Puff’s tail

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 Learn from this post friends shag carpet may seem fun until you are brushing it out of your five year olds curly NEED I SAY curly hair and all you see in the brush is more

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 Needless to say we love our Swiffer Sweeper (-:

 

 

I didn’t know we got a new ornament….

Has anyone seen Puff?? is he locked in Py’s bedroom again?  Puff? Puuuuuffff!

Hey what the heck is that??

 

 There you are you silly cat!   Apparently by the hole in the tree this is where Professor Puffington spends his days while his family is at work and school.

 Ah yes he knows better look at that “I’m so busted”  look on his face!   

Well at least the tree wasn’t lit!   Merry Christmas everyone!!!

I heart faces…Pet week!

Of course we are going to share Pete’s spotlight with Professor Puffington!    It seems as though he was meant for our household the flash doesn’t seem to bother him a bit; and with a mommy like me……well he will see a lot of flash bulbs!

Puff now weighs 6 pounds when we adopted him he was only 2 pounds!   He was recently declawed and the kid’s legs thank us for that.  He is not an outside cat and it doesn’t seem to bother him.  He was in a funk for a few days why the heck did we leave him at the hospital over night??  He is over it now and it acting as though he has his claw anyway.  I would like to say that our vet Dr Pat is amazing she takes such good care of our animals and never charged us for the hospital stay!  When Pete got delawed that was the most expensive part.  She also gave us the litter to use for a few days so we would have it and gave Puff two days of pain meds poor Pete never got that either.  SO thank you Dr Schmitt in Grove City at the Community Vet Clinic!

Now go enjoy all the other photos at iheartfaces.blogspot.com they aren’t always your every day cat and dog tails they could be lions or tiger or bear tails too!

I Heart Faces

Reindeer Chow

Reindeer Chow

I got this recipe from a former co-worker God bless you Judy! I have made it every year since and gave away to my husband and I’s co-workers and friends.

Over the years we have made some slight versions as my husband doesn’t quite care for chocolate….I know who doesn’t like chocolate ??? that would be Chad (-:

So here is the recipe follow along with the pics too!

 The ingredients :

5 cups of Corn Chex

5 cups of Cheerios

8 ounces of salted/or unsalted peanuts

10 ounces salted mini pretzels

12-16 ounces Christmas M&Ms

2 12 ounce bags of white chocolate chips

2-3 tablespoons vegetable oil

 Mix together all the Dry ingredients and set aside; then put the chips and oil into a microwave safe glass bowl I love the Pyrex large measuring bowl.  Put in microwave on high for one minute; stir; then another minute and stir if this doesn’t melt them all you can heat for 30 more seconds at a time until done ( 3 minutes max or it could burn). The bowl WILL BE HOT! BE CAREFUL!

Pour over mixture and blend until all the dry ingredients are covered. Then spread out over wax paper to dry make sure you have a large spot to spread the love. 

 Once it is all dry break apart and put into an air tight container or if you are giving it away I have put it in those ziplock containers with the red lids.  I have put it in zip lock baggies and this year I found these bags from Oriental Trading Company and used them.  I added a tiny reindeer and a tag!

The finished product but in peanut butter!

For the peanut butter version replace the white chocolate chips with peanut butter chips and the M&M’s with Reeces Pieces.  I have a lot of friends who like this one better.  I tried butterscotch once and it was waaay to rich!

I hope you like it!

 

 

Christmas is almost here! and I finally scrapbooked last Christmas…here are some pages….

My Christmas scrapbooks are never small! We have such fun and we do so much!  We have started to have a cookie party each year this year it’s December 12th and I can’t wait.  The following are just a few pages from each event I hope you get inspired!!! I love looking at other websites and getting in the mood to scrap I feel so behind now that the girls have more and more of a social life I can’t let a thing pass by.  It is an obsession I know this the first step is admitting it….LOL

So scrap on scrappers I hope to have more to share soon and if you are visiting leave me your link so I can get inspired by YOU!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These are just a few of the pages you know I had a million more! I will get more uploaded soon…until then friends scrap on!~

 

iheartfaces this week….Sun Flare!

Yes, I didn’t know what it was either until I looked at some examples! 

So I searched my files and found what I thought to be a perfect example of my own. 

 We had moved four and a half years ago; we are now two and a half hours away from all of our family.  We go back home often  BUT when any of the grandparents can come to visit well…..  it’s the peas turf and they want to show them everything.  On this day it was the play set that their Daddy Pea had worked so hard on (with a little help from some friends Art and Kevin).  The peas were in heaven outside in the warm sun, in their new swings just enjoying their family.  The laughter that day was priceless.  I love the look on Chad’s face,  the genuine smiles warm my heart like the sun in this picture kept  their bare feet warm.

Don’t forget to check out all the other entries at iheartfaces or enter a picture yourself. 

Yoga anyone??

Pyper Sinclair yoga enthusiast……

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Pyper has been learning Yoga in Kindergarten she also does Yoga with me and the Wii fit.  She is better than I and wanted to show me a few things to follow….and here they are…notice the look when she realizes I am not following her teachings….she also looks to the littlest peas and asks her to try um …since she is still a wobbly walkers I don’t see that happening LOL

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Getting into it for sure!  Once she broke a little sweat it was time to color (-: I admit her way of yoga is much more fun than the Wii!!!

 

The newest Iheartfaces contest is Autumn Beauty

Py’s second trip to the pumpkin patch in 2007, she was so cute with her flame red hair and little jeans.   I loved getting her picture in with the colorful ghourds and pumpkins YET when I played around with the pictures I loved it even more in sepia!  I haven’t blogged in awhile but will soon in the mean time check out all the other entries at iheartfaces.blogspot.com!

I Heart Faces

Two Peas and their pumpkins!

This year Pyper went on a field trip to Circle S Farms,  the same farm we go to every year to get our pumpkins.  She got to get an extra one since she went the day before we went with my in-laws. 

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as my Brother in Law Adam pointed out on FB yes there are some lovely porto potties in the background hehe(-;

 The farm had so many fun things for Pyper to do not so much for Phoebe though,  next year for sure but not this year….but she did enjoy the animals and the hay ride!

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 My father in law Dennis was great, my camera ran out of battery and for a scrapbooking blogger like ME it was terrible! so he took all of these pics thank you, thank you Dennis!

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Dennis and Sharon (Grandma and PaPa) with the peas

Pyper was able to play in the hay barn, Phoebe went in but I was afraid the bigger kids would trample her SO I just let her watch.    Pyper had fun she would scream cannon ball and jump right in the hay!

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CANNON BALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There was a sunflower maize BUT the sunflowers were all dead…again….the last time we came they were too!  Py ran through a hay thing that she loves only kids allowed!  We saw goats, chickens and bunnies oh and bees lots and lots of  bees .  We ate donuts and drank cider and then my mother in law was nice enough to take the gargantuan stroller and let us take the girls on  a hay ride to get their pumpkins…..it was awesome there were SO many!

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Chad took Py to pick out sissy’s pumpkins (remember she got hers the day before) she was so excited! and probably picked up the smallest pumpkins there (-:

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Chad got a green one for the “bonus” pumpkin…..two weeks later we carved them OK well……Chad did but Pyper cleaned two out!

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I think Chad has fun he won’t admit it but he does!  Phoebe was nice and patient in the pack and play while the pumpkins were being prepared to carve.  But once they got that taken care of we put her closer to the action!

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Chad told Pyper that whatever she wanted on the pumpkins to draw it on a piece of paper and he would do it….Phoebe’s was simple a smile face….he did it just like the drawing…..then she tried to make him do a tiger, that actually looked like a mouse then she changed her mind.   So he carved the green bonus pumpkin as a surprise and did a cat in honor of Puff’s first Halloween.

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Pyper was upset when she was informed that only Daddy would be doing the carving I think she thought she was going to, but at age 5  I wouldn’t let her and she had a melt down…..once she got over it she watched her Daddy really close…

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Phoebe loved her pumpkin once she noticed it!   Chad cut it exactly like Py drew it….so cute she was so proud.

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Both the peas had a great time with the pumpkins….and with thier Daddy…..

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To top the night off Chad found the candles and lit the jack o lanters on the porch and the were perfect (-:

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Happy Halloween Everyone!

The Chronicles of Professor Puffington

We adopted Puff 50 days ago today…..in not quite 2 months he has been like one of the children.  He pumped some life into this house that’s for sure!    He has taken to our youngest Phoebe so much that he seems like a willing rag doll.  He has never once scratched her believe it or not, he lets her rub her head on him and pull his ears.  I am constantly saying easy or nice kitty.  He never seems to run when he should unless its from me when he is where he shouldn’t be !  DSC06463

I feel like this is going to be a long loving relationship, Puff tries to get in Phoebe’s room every night and every night I run him out.  When she is bigger and when he is bigger right now he is a mere 3 pounds I know they will share a bed.  As I type this post Pyper is sleep on the couch and he is at her feet, Phoebe is already in her crib.   SO here are a few pictures of my two little best friends as they play whenever they can…..I added a picture of  him trying to play with Pete and well you can see the excitement in Pete’s face…..

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See him back there by the chair he is waiting…..patiently 

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By the end of every night we put Phoebe in her pack and play to relax before putting her in her crib to fall asleep. Professor Puffington just watches her from the outside patting at the pack and play making her laugh!!!