just being silly!

This is where I found Riley when I came back into the kitchen to get the rest of the laundry out of the dryer. He thought he was pretty funny.

Halloween.

Okay, so I know I am way behind on these pictures. I am now just getting around to putting them up. The kids had so much fun on Halloween! They were all pirates and even Mommy dressed up as a pirate with them! It started out raining that night but it did not last long and cleared up to a pretty nice night. We went down a few more streets than we normally do now that the kids are getting older and then we went back to check out the Fire trucks by the bank and then we went to enjoy our last Creemee of the season at the Cafe. It was a great night and the kids had a lot of fun!

Changes

It has been a busy time around here at the Carpenter home. I have decided that I am going to talk on a more personal level to begin my time back into blogging.
My family is going through a lot of changes. My husband and I have decided to seperate and eventually divorce. Trust is a key issue in any marriage and once trust has been broken it is very hard to go back to living in a loving, caring and safe environment. So, it is now time to start a new chapter/phase in my life. My main goal is to make sure that my kids are happy, well taken care of, safe and they feel loved.
Wesley moved out of the house in August and we have been working on trying to focus our energy on the kids. Has it been easy? hardly. There are some great days, some not so great days and some down right horrible ones. Being a single mom of three kids is not where I pictured myself at 28. I was suddenly torn from what I thought was my life and thrown into what must be somebody else's life. This couldn't possibly be happening to me? And then I would wake up and realize it is happening to me and I am living through it right now. So I pick myself up and I move forward. I am trying to re-connect with friends and get myself back out there to a 'normal' life.
I know I am going to get some flack for making this such a 'public' thing right now. There will be people who will disagree with my decision to write such personal things in my blog but I feel like this is a safe place for me to write freely, to connect with so many different people on so many different levels. I am also hoping there are people that will be happy about my decisions and be there to support me with a laugh, a hug, a shoulder or just a kind word every now and then.
So my posts will be erratic, cover many different subjects and quite possibly not make sense sometimes; but I hope that you will continue to follow along.

I am (hopefully) back!

Well, my computer is up and running now and I have lots of stuff to share over the next few day/weeks. Things have been very crazy here in the house. I have debated for a while now if I should/would write more personal information about things that have been happening and I have decided that I will write more about it on this blog. I intended this blog to be about me and my life. I want that to include things with and without my kids. I will get to more of that in the coming posts. Right now I just want to say I am here, I do plan on writing still, but time is short and kids come first!
Some topics that may come up in the next posts:
Crafty times
changing families
kids stats
school
just being silly
the good, the bad, and the ugly
the future

It's been a while!

It has been quite a while since I have written anything, but it has been pretty crazy here. Well chaotic I guess.
Aiden has been loving school and he is doing soccer right now. He LOVES playing soccer. I hope to get pictures up once I get my computer back up and running. I am borrowing my mom's computer while I wait for yet another power cord! This time it wasn't my fault...I swear. It just stopped working and makes this beeping sound when you plug it in. I have the worst luck with power cords. Luckily it was still under warranty.
I have lots of pictures from different things that I want to get put up but can't until I get my computer back!
Right now sickness has hit the Carpenter house in full force. Calleigh started with this nasty cold with a cough and runny nose and was complaining about her ears. She had an ear infection. Then Aiden came home from school and was complaining about a headache and he was stuffy and had a bad cough. The school was concerned about it being this H1N1 Flu, and even the doctor's office said they were sure that was what he had....I wasn't convinced. The doctor said they don't even bother testing for it anymore. The next day he was really complaining about his throat and his head again and was coughing a lot. So I decided to bring him to the doctor on Saturday and they discovered it was not the H1N1 but it was strep throat. Poor guy had a really nasty throat. The doctor looked in his throat and just said..."does he take chewable or liquid medicine". They still did the strep test (which Aiden was less than thrilled about) and it came up positive. So he has been trying to rest and get better.
Riley has had the same cough and cold for a while and until Saturday night did not have a fever and his cough kept getting worse and worse. So today I brought him in thinking he probably had strep as well. To my surprise he did not have strep but had an ear infection! Another one. I was so frustrated because I thought the purpose of having the second round of tubes and having his adenoids out was to avoid more ear infections. This does not bode well for the fact that they said taking his tonsils out was the next step. Ugh, I hope to avoid that.
I am doing okay, just dealing with Life and all that it throws at me. Trying to keep busy and be creative with my time. I have picked sewing back up and I am attempting to make a bag and a hat. I am also crocheting Calleigh's blanket but I can only do little bits at a time because it hurts my hands too much. I am learning how to crochet hats. I am excited to make some for the kids this winter. I have also been cleaning a lot. Re-organizing and re-arranging things. Lots of stuff to take care of and I am so sick of the clutter!
I hope to post pics soon of the kids and all the projects I have been working on!

Bunnies!

The new baby bunnies are here! I found them for free and we have wanted rabbits again and these were just too cute to pass up to add to our little mini farm we've got going here! The tan was is named Rocket boy, the grey one is named twinkle, and the black one (the cutest little runt you will ever see!) is named superstar. The kids picked the names all by themselves.

More fair pics!

We ended up going back to the fair on Labor Day to see the animals again (and to hopefully get some more yummy fudge!) The kids had a lot of fun and the last day is the day to go, everyone was trying to get rid of things so we got good deals! There was a booth that had a lot of kids things~ hats, glow sticks, toys, etc. Everything was only a dollar because he wanted to get rid of all of it. The kids made out pretty good. Here are some pics from that day!

We had the greatest mini doughnuts at the fair! Calleigh at most of them!

Calleigh has already claimed this will be her first car!