Snape Snape Severus Snape...

Two things. First off, this movie is amaaaazing! Second, movies are so cheap in Oregon!

Weird child...

So I was doing something on the computer and saw this:

Apparently she doesn't like the label as mommy's little alarm clock?

All is Right Again

So, for the past few weeks I've been working because basically, the economy out here is terrible and Mike couldn't find a job. Needless to say, I was not very happy to leave my baby and husband all day to work retail again (ugh). But, thankfully, Mike found a job this weekend! Nothing great by any means, but a job with 40 hrs a week and higher paying than mine certainly was! So, I got to quit yesterday, which was perfect timing because yesterday was just a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. So, in honor of being a stay at home mom again, here are some cute pictures of Alexa:

(By the way, ponytails? Total pain in the rear. It's next to impossible to do her hair without her squirming to try to see whats going on up there.)

Thanks for noticin' me.... :)

Halloween Festivities

Normally we don't do a whole lot for Halloween, just carve pumpkins and hand our candy. This year, being around family and having Alexa be able to enjoy her first Halloween we did a lot more. We went to a pumpkin patch and did a corn maze:
We went to our church's Trunk or Treat on the 29th. Alexa enjoyed her spoils very much:

We dressed up and went to Grandma's house for cider and doughnuts after things quieted down Sunday night:

We handed out candy to Trick or Treaters and Alexa greeted them as a cow:

And were worn out by all the partying and sugar crashes:

Which is quite different from how we started the day off:

And of course we had carved the pumpkins from the farm we went to:

Mike came up with the theme all on his own. And sorry for the random order of the pictures, I don't really think out what I'm going to say and what order I need to upload them in.... and then it's just a pain to reorder it all. Anyways, we had a great Halloween, and were so glad that Alexa was here to share it! I can't wait until next year when she can walk up to doors and say "Trick or Treat"!

Welcome!

Welcome into our home! This is what you'd see walking in (ignore the bookshelf, it was a casualty of the move and we haven't figures out what to do with it yet).
This is looking into the front room from the end of the entry:

This wall isn't finished, the couch needs a slipcover, and the pictures aren't hung yet, but just imagine them hung the same way as they were in Wymount.

We love how much bigger this front room is than the Wymount apartment. Alexa can crawl around without having to go in circles, and when we play the wii there's plenty of room to move around. So that's almost half the house!

Home Sweet Home

So, we have finally moved in to our house, and for the most part have started making it into a real home. I'm working on finishing it one room at a time so that I can blog about it little by little. Today's feature is the kitchen! The entry is slightly odd, as you'll see. This picture is from the wall that separates the kitchen from the entry way:
This is from the garage door:

That wall with the banisters is the entryway wall. That's why it's kind of weird, I've seen houses where there is no wall separating the entry from the kitchen and I've seen houses where there are complete walls, never one where it's a partial wall like that.

A close up of the counters (aaaah, counter space!).

I love my Halloween decorations :)

And that's the kitchen! Next up, the front room!

Slacker...

So, I meant to update with this last week.... and then didn't. I don't have a good excuse, I'm just lazy, I guess! This was Alexa's first "injury", at least the first time that she hurt herself and it left a mark. (In case you can't tell, there's a bruise right above her eye). She's going to be walking really soon, I think. She's been trying to stand without holding onto anything, which is how she got this bruise.
Still no news on the job front, but if all goes as planned, we will be in our house tomorrow! Wish us luck!