busy, busy, busy and a county fair...

now that p and b are in soccer, our days are busy. they both have practice twice a week and games on saturdays- all at different times, of course! it can be tiring! i think that's part of the reason i didn't have any energy this weekend. i took two naps yesterday! ;)

no pics yet of them playing- i forgot my camera during their first games. :( i will post some pics of them next week showing their soccer skills.

anyway, since the games were cancelled yesterday due to the freak snow we got on Friday, we got to go to the county fair at school. it was pretty fun. there were a lot of games to play, a cake walk, face painting, a jump house and even a jail. the boys got thrown in it, too! ;) one of peyton's friends threw him in and i paid to get brendan thrown in. it was funny. they also both won little cakes at the cake walk. they came home with so much sugar and little toys, it was a little too much. i didn't have my camera- but i took a few pics on my phone (good thing it takes decent pics!).

so- i {thought} this weekend was going to be a quiet one with the games being cancelled, but it really wasn't. yesterday we went to the fair and did a little shopping and today peyton had a birthday party. brendan felt a little left out, so i treated him to lunch. i let him pick the place, anywhere BUT mcdonalds... he picked dairy queen. what a cheap date! ;) seriously- lunch and ice cream for both of us under $10! that's my boy! oh- and austin likes him some ice cream, too. i think i've created a monster...

{productive weekend}

let me just say that i didn't get everything accomplished on my list, BUT i got a lot of it done. i am so impressed with myself- especially with 3 kids running around. okay- austin isn't running around, however, he is CRAWLING! yup- that's right! he's crawling. he started this past week, like a scoot and crawl mix. he is so cute. this weekend, though, he was full on crawling. yay! i so need to baby-proof now. that's going on the list for next weekend. **side note- not sure when i started making lists or who i inherited this from, but i LOVE lists. i make them for everything.**

anyway- back to what i did this weekend...

saturday, i took the boys to lowe's for the build and grow project. it was their first time and they loved it. they made a baseball game and got to hammer nails and everything. now they both want to work at lowe's. they love the apron they got and wore it the rest of the day. they got a certificate and a patch for their apron for completing the project.

after that, i picked up a few things there and at michaels. we came back home and i started my projects. i got some spray paint and started transforming some old frames and a vanity stool for my bathroom. i also painted a few old iron candle holders. that was a lot of fun! my bathroom is going to look awesome when i'm done! ;) i finally finished painting the bathroom. only took 3 weeks! lol. i was up until almost 2am saturday painting, putting the light switches back on, towel bars back up and touch-up painting. i also hung two shelves in there. NICE! it is coming together. i'm not done yet, but it is SO close. (pictures to come after completion)

the next room on my agenda is my bedroom. kyle and i need to decide on a color first, though. (and he has to tape up the walls again! i hate that part of painting)

today, the boys played outside the majority of the day. i spray painted some more (until i ran out!) and made a leash holder for katie.

i also took some really {cute} pictures of austin! what weekend would be complete without new pics of him?!?

ohhh- also, a BIG feat....i organized ALL my pictures on my laptop and cleared my camera! SWEET! i haven't done that in so long! that took a while....but SO worth it!

wow, i'm tired.

{Easter 2010}

today was nice- we are all starting to feel better now, which is wonderful!

we decorated eggs last night for the Easter bunny to hide. i found a monster egg decorating kit at Target and the boys were excited about that! ;)

they turned out really cute, too.

this morning, they woke up to baskets full of fun stuff. after breakfast, Peyton & Brendan hunted for the eggs. Austin was happy to just play with the empty plastic eggs.

i had a few of the plastic eggs on the floor and Austin wanted them so bad. he is SO close to crawling. right now, he does the little inch worm thing. he made it to the eggs he had his eye on, too. i took a few pictures of him doing this. he was so cute!

i hope everyone had a great Easter with their family and friends!

spring break?

isn't spring break supposed to be a BREAK? it started out great! kyle's parents drove up from Dallas. they arrived on Saturday afternoon and stayed through Thursday morning. we did some shopping, the boys went golfing with grandpa & daddy, we made lots of good food at home (thanks, grandma!!) and played a lot of cards. we even drove to Evergreen on Wednesday for a walk and a little shopping and drove to Frisco (near Breckenridge) for lunch at Backcountry Brewery. all was great up until this point!

THEN- the strep happened!

i got sick on Wednesday night. went to the dr. on Thursday (strep).....then Brendan got sick on Friday (strep). our pediatrician wanted to see Austin because he hadn't been eating a lot....and guess what?? strep AND an ear infection! my poor little baby! he was so uncomfortable. :(

his first sickness and it's a double whammy! the pediatrician couldn't believe the test came back positive- he had only seen one strep case in a baby that young before....yep- just our luck!

just when i thought it was over, Peyton woke up Saturday morning with a fever and a sore throat. come on! kyle took him to urgent care and it was confirmed...strep. surprise, surprise.

i wish our pediatrician could have tested Peyton on Friday with Brendan & Austin, but he wasn't showing symptoms and the dr. was worried about a false negative test result.

wow! what an end to spring break! at least we got to see grandma & grandpa sharp. that was an unexpected surprise! (and so was strep!- i just wanted to say it one last time....lol)

Austin with Reggie, Grandpa & Grandma with the boys and us!

boys and their {thoughts}....

fun with sidewalk chalk....lol

it finally made an appearance!

Austin's first tooth popped through on Friday {26th}. It is so cute! ;) He has been really fussy lately and chewing on EVERYTHING (even my purse strap). He finally has a tooth!

they're {crafty}

**i got this idea from a friend's blog (thanks, jules!)**
the boys made magnets this weekend and here are the finished projects. we made them out of wooden letters and decorated with paint, pom poms, googly eyes and a few buttons. they will be hanging out on the fridge for a while!

it's hard to find things that they actually want to make now- they ARE 7 and 8, and {boys}. ;)

they did a good job with these... if you look closely at the 'p', you will see the little button "shoes" and the 'b' has a cute soft, puffy smile! lol

{austin} at 7 months

sweet, sweet baby,

first off, i cannot believe that you are already seven months old. this month flew by! you are such an amazing little boy. you have mastered sitting up and you are actually really close to crawling. i think it's because your brothers move so fast- you feel the need to keep up. please don't. you have plenty of time for that. ;) some things that you've done this month: started eating baby food {fav. is bananas and you HATE peas- i have a funny picture to prove it!}, you roll over ALL THE TIME! {tummy to back & back to tummy}, you "scoot" to move around when you are on the floor, you started moving around in your walker and you love walks around the neighborhood in your stroller {although the weather keeps tricking us- warm one day and snow the next}. you are still such a good sleeper. you love your turtle night light that shines stars on your ceiling. you have the cutest {giggle}! we all love it and try so hard to get you to do it more. just this week, your brothers and i were on the couch with you and we had you laughing so hard. it was the cutest thing. i was making kissing noises at you and you thought it was hilarious! :)

you have no teeth yet, and no signs of any in the near future. that is one of the things i don't want to forget about this age- the {toothless, gummy grins}! AND open-mouth kisses from you. that, and your chubby little baby fingers. now that i'm thinking about it, your feet are quite chubby and cute, too! i can't resist kissing those feet after your bath, either. that also makes you giggle; you are extremely ticklish {you get this from daddy, you'll see}. i love that you let me sing to you and that you will sit still for a minute or two to let me read to you before bedtime. i know that is asking a lot out of an infant, so thank you {i also know it helps to show you the pictures}.

you also have this talent: you are crying one second and the next you are laughing. it is very musing.

happy 7 month birthday, austin! i love you, little bug.

p.s.- B is already trying to protect you from getting hurt. ;) they both love you SO much!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

"Kiss Me for Good Luck" baby- how can you resist! ;)

I wanted to show off Brendan's last minute Leprechaun trap project. We started it at 7pm last night, even though he found out about it on Friday. He's only in first grade- I thought the procrastination on school projects started in later years!
He did a really good job on it. He was up past his bedtime, but he was so excited about taking it to school this morning that it didn't matter.
He asked me this morning "Is there a leprechaun in it yet?" LOL.

I hope everyone has a fun day!

no more {EXCUSES}!

I finally got an elliptical! I've been looking on craigslist for about a month and I finally found one. It was right here in our town- about a mile away. This baby is going to be used and abused (I'm hoping!). It will be moved to my room as soon as Kyle gets home. Bassinet OUT, ELLIPTICAL in!

It was a busy week at the Sharp house. The boys had student-led conferences. They both did great. Peyton has been a strong reader from the beginning. Brendan, however, was a little slower learning- but, WOW! He blew us away with his mad reading skills. And spelling- man, can that boy spell! He is just surprising us a lot lately. Brendan can usually even spell Peyton's word list, including some of the 3rd grade challenge words. B is also REALLY digging football. He tosses the ball around whenever he gets the chance. First grade has been a HUGE year for him so far!

Peyton is doing well in school, too. Third grade has been a bit challenging for him, but he is managing to learn a thing or two. It is amazing how different these two boys are, and yet similar in certain ways.

P FINALLY got a haircut. He has been liking the "skater" look, but the parents decided a cut was due...;) Here is the new Peyton look...

It is a HUGE difference from this (showing off his first report for school- on the planet Jupiter):

Did I say "skater" look?? I meant "TREE HUGGIN' HIPPIE" look! lol

{my creative side surfaced again}

FINALLY! I haven't been able to scrapbook in a long while, so last weekend I had a few friends over and we got our {CrEaTiViTy} on! ;) It was a lot of fun just having a few girls over to hang out with. Even though the boys were home, I managed to get 8 pages done! Wow! I was on a ROLL! They were all A's, of course (I love doing baby pages!). I think I have given up on trying to do a family scrapbook. I just cannot find/make the time anymore...with 3 rugrats ruling the roost. But that's okay- I hear snapfish.com and shutterfly.com make mean photo books. I just might have to try that- considering I haven't done anything with our pictures since 2007! Oh, I started on 2008, but it's NEVER going to get finished. I should accept it and move on....put those pictures in a (don't say it!) photo album. ;) Hey, it's WAY better than a box (MOM).

Here are a few pages from A's book...simple BUT cute!

{photos}

our first family photos with our newest addition --only took 6 months!

{so many fish}

the boys had today off from school so i planned a fun day for the 4 of us (poor daddy misses all the FUN). we started out at krispy kreme- yum!. then we were off to our destination...the downtown aquarium.

the boys love going there and it's been a while since we had been (school field trips last year). there is a 3-d spongebob ride at the aquarium right now- they boys were pumped about that! we all did that- austin hated it! they disabled our chair, but i underestimated the volume of the show. wow! it was pretty loud! so i had one of my "mother of the year" moments- taking my infant in a too loud theater. well, at least it wasn't a long ride!

can i just tell you that austin LOVED the aquarium! he was so aware of everything. he couldn't get enough of the fish. he was mesmerized! aside from the fish- the boys climbed the coconut trees and pet the stingrays at stingray cove. peyton even fed them. brendan- well, he preferred to observe that part. ;)

i let the boys do the 3-d ride again- i waited outside this time with sensitive ears (see, i learn)- then we went to lunch. i think there is only one Fuddruckers here in CO. I love it. The burgers are so good {this really was NOT a good weight watchers points day, oops}. peyton & i had cheeseburgers and bren had a hotdog (really, kid? what's up with all the dogs? he loves those).

i had a great day with my boys today. they had a lot of fun- AND BONUS for them! it is "kids night out" tonight! yay! as peyton said earlier..."this is the best day EVER!"

if babies could talk....

"Why must you keep taking pictures, Mom?"

no shoes, no shirt, no service....

My boys crack me up! Yesterday we went to the grocery store. I was getting Austin ready- changing his diaper, putting on pants and a shirt instead of the pj's he was wearing all day, and socks. I took him downstairs and put his cute lil shoes on his cute lil feet. Peyton walks by me and asks, "why does Austin have to wear shoes?" My reply, "we are going to the store". He thought for a few seconds and looked at me all serious and says, "oh yeah- no shoes, no shirt, no service".

sitting man and an anniversary

February 19, 2010: Austin is 6 months old. He is just starting to sit up unassisted. He wobbles a bit- but he is doing great! His favorite past time is still chewing his fists. He doesn't have any teeth yet, so I don't think he poses a threat to himself. ;)

He got a little taste of bananas- here was his reaction...

This picture is priceless. He really did like the bananas, I promise. He is doing pretty good with the spoon feeding. I'm going to do a little at a time with him.

Today was also our 1 year anniversary in our house. We have done a lot in the year that we have lived here...we've painted every room in the house except for the master bedroom and bathroom (can't decide on a color!), we ripped out the carpet in the living room and put in pergo flooring (love it!) and we've done A LOT of yard work (and we still aren't done). We've also made some pretty great memories here so far-

It was kind of funny this afternoon... It snowed all night last night and most of the day today. My husband DID NOT shovel the driveway before he went to work this afternoon. Our driveway is pretty steep and I can't make it up to the garage without sliding back down, so I had to shovel the driveway to get the van in. I was so mad and was thinking to myself, "why did we not consider the driveway when we bought this house?" I highly doubt we would have passed on this house because of the darn driveway, but on a really snowy day when the cars are sliding down the driveway- it makes me wonder....:)