Baby Alligators

Last week while on fall break we went to Louisiana to visit family and friends. While visiting grandparents the kids got to hold baby alligators in the big town of Jennings. They loved it! The alligators do not bite. They are fed a soy formula and feed by a dropper until they are two. Feeding them soy ensures that they will not bite. After they turn two then they start feeding them chicken. Bailey and Jesse loved holding them. Jack didn't want anything to do with the alligators. He wouldn't even touch it. The alligators were named Bubba and Hampton. The alligators are rescue gators. Hampton got his name from the hotel. An owl dropped him in the parking lot of the Hampton hotel and someone brought him to the welcome center in Jennings.



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see Jack did not want to get close to it


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This was a big alligator at the restaurant we ate at that night. Jack didn't want to turn his back on the gator!


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Breakfast with Bailey

Last week Bailey had a "grandfriends" breakfast at her school so her nany, granddadddy and KeKe came down so they could go with her. They also got to be the mystery readers in her class that day.


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Homemade Goldfish Crackers

You all know that I love to read Pioneer Woman's blog. Last week she had post on making your own goldfish crackers. If you've lived in Turkey let me say goldfish "gibi" crackers. You could easy make them in the states or in Turkey. Billy thought I was crazy when I told him I was going to try it.

I did and it was so easy! And they were good. I have to say though they were better right out of the oven or  shortly after. And if I make them again (which I will) I will make them thinner and cook them maybe a few more minutes. They weren't quite cracker crisp but they were delicious.


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The instructions say to use an aluminum can to make your goldfish cutter but it didn't work so well for me. I made the goldfish just fine but it was getting it out of the cutter that was the hard part. So I opted to use a small pumpkin and leaf cutter that I had for pie crusts - much much easier.


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So give it a try and let me know how it goes! Thanks again to Pioneer Woman!

Orange is our favorite color!

Just wanted to show you a picture of the kids in their (our) favorite color! Don't they look great?! We dress in orange every Saturday. Even my husband wears orange. Go Vols!
for some reason Sara does not look that happy.


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there that's better, Sara


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Haunted House

You might think this picture is from some sort of decoration from a haunted house but actually this is a cobweb from my house! In my defense it is in a window above the door so I never really look out of it nor can I reach it. I guess I need to get out the ladder. I promise the rest of my house is not like this!



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just so you understand how high it is and why I don't really clean up there but I'm thinking it might be time.


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Mommy Time

With Bailey in school and the boys in preschool a few days  a week I have a little time to myself. So far I have used it to grocery shop, shop for other things, have lunch at fun places, clean the house, do my DIY projects and go to places in the city I have never been to. And this past Wednesday was one of those days. I went with a friend to Marietta Square to try a cupcake place that I heard about from the one of the Cupcake Hunters. A friend of mine, Kim, in California, with three of her friends on are on the hunt for the perfect cupcake. And I am so glad they are because one of them was in GA the other week and went to Miss Mamie's Cupcakes.


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She said it was the best cupcake she had ever eaten! So I had to go and try them! So Karri and I dropped our kids off at preschool and away we went! I had never been to Marietta Square so I was excited to finally go. It is such a quaint little town square in the middle of a big city. And it has lots of little boutique shops and cafes. Before the cupcake shop we went to an Australian Cafe. We had some kind of spinach/feta pie. It was yummy.


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 Then we just walked around. I almost felt like I was in another city because we parked and walked around the square a few times. People in America never walk. It was nice. Then we window shopped before we headed to get our cupcakes.

So the cupcakes...they were sooooo good! Amazing! The cupcake hunter was right. They had the perfect amount of cake/icing ratio. Not too much icing or not enough cake.


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Someone else I met had suggested the cheesecake cupcake. I was skeptical but it was so moist and tasted just like a cheesecake. I loved it. I also tried the red velvet because it's my favorite and it was spot on! Karri tried the banana pudding cupcake and it did not disappoint! I also took home the Guiness and a Reese's peanut butter cupcake both of which were delicious and the kids loved them as well.



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happy that momma brought home cupcakes!


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The shop was so cute. And one of the most amazing things is that the girl who owns and makes the cupcakes is only 24 yrs. old! Wow!


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So cupcake hunters I hope you come again my way! Maybe I'll have to go hunting for them! :)

Organizing!

We have been in our house just a little over a year and there are several things that just needed more organization. One was the master closet. We had shelves but things were just stuck here and there or thrown up wherever and half of it was falling down. So one day I loaded up the kids and headed to The Container Store. I know a recipe for disaster taking three kids on a rainy day to any kind of store. But thankfully they were pretty well behaved and I was able to get what I needed. I love the way it turned out and don't get stressed out when I walk into my closet because of all the chaos. It is organized!  Another reason I wanted to reorganize was to have a place for my undies in the closet. I got tired of walking into the bed room and then walking back into the closet to finished getting dressed. I know sounds lazy but that's just how I am.  I also got an extra shoe rack so I didn't trip over my shoes every time I went in my closet.

I don't have a true before picture but this is an in between picture. It is sorta organized. Before I took this picture I threw away things and put them into totes but it was still not great. All that stuff in the totes was just laying of the shelves. Also all my purses/bags were just thrown up there but I decided to stick them all into one big bag. So it was better.



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But after thinking about it some more...here's what I did.


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and this...


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so until my next project!

A little DIY

A few weeks ago I decided to do some DIY work in the bathroom. I would normally ask Billy to do this but being the type of girl I am  - I didn't want to wait on someone else. I just did it myself. So this is what I did. In the kids bathroom they had two towel racks both of which were very high for kids. My kids could not reach them. And one we never even used. So I decided to take both of them down and put up a smaller one. Let me say I have never done anything like this before so I didn't tell Billy until I was already halfway through. :) I didn't think I was going to be able to get the screws out of the wall but after lots and lots pulling and googling how to do it, I finally got them out! Then I had to fill the holes, let them dry and then paint. My job is not perfect. I did learn a few things along the way incase I ever do something like this again. So the little imperfections are kind of like a battle scar. It's not all that pretty (but not that bad either) but I got the job done and I did it myself!

Before. There was a bar over the toilet just like this one but I didn't take a picture of it.


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it's gone!


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After


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After. I did need help with hanging the new towel holder. My sweet husband did it.


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