I had a blast at the game last night. OSU didn't win (sad), but it was a great game! 
Jeff is on the sidelines...at the 35 yard line in the black. 
Another pic. of me (duh)....didn't get many pictures last night, but that's ok. Hope you all had an eventful Thanksgiving weekend! Go POKES!!
I know, this is about pitiful. I NEED/SHOULD clean the house, pick it up make it look nice. I have family coming here Thursday evening or Friday morning after our T-Day dinner and I want it to look nice for them. BUT I DON'T WANT TO, I want to paint and create things and play ribbon dress up with B girl.
L cleaned out his closet earlier and left this mess on his table....I think he thinks a fairy is coming around to pick it up for him. he he....what he doesn't know is that momma is gonna make him pick it all up here in a moment.
Do I really have to get busy! Seriously yall, it is NOT fun. Cleaning fairy..come help me!!
Mc just thinks it's funny and all he wants to do is eat pudding in the floor of his room and make pudding handprint crafts on the carpet. Why does he laugh at me when I get mad with him? It's not fair.
These are my three non-helpers today. They make fun of thy cleaning. 
Saturday after cousin J's big #5 birthday party (pics. to come on that) we headed to my parent's house in A town. As you can see we "tried" to take some family photos....our attempts were so so. It was a spur of the moment deal, like "ok, Jeff it's warm outside let's run out there and let Aunt Sissy take some pics. of us". No one matched or even looked good, but I thought it was the only chance to have someone take a pic. of us all together, so I took the opportunity. I figured if any of the pics. turned out decent then I'd turn them to black and white and no one would ever know that we didn't color coordinate in the slightest of ways and Jeff usually doesn't wear hats in pictures either....interesting that I didn't even notice that until halfway through the photo shoot.
The kids had so much fun playing in some of my mom's aprons (that she had as a little girl) and my old ones. They were funny and pretty much wore them 2 days straight. The funky furry hats are from cousin J's b-day party and L has worn the green one EVERY day since the party....he even wore it to bed the other night. 
Jeff brought Taco home in January about 4 years ago, just a couple of weeks before B was born. He was a year old, very sweet with our oldest son and ready for us to love him. 
and VOILA she'll look like new. I cannot wait to see the end result. I think it will be fab and I'm pretty sure everyone in the nation will want to come visit Fun with the Baker 5! Whatever, it's a stretch but it's fun to pretend. Speaking of pretending, why is getting married (or the thought of) so much fun in the "pretend" play world? I guess it's the whole dressing up thing. Here's a pic. of B getting ready for the big day...
Little boy outfit from theplaidgiraffe . It's easy to find girl clothing and not always so easy to find fun boy things {ya know, everything starts looking the same}, well that ends here. Don't leave those boys out, No WAY.... here's a cute one and she has many many more to choose from.
Hi friends! I was browsing the other day through Etsy and found these dresses and outfits. I thought it would be so nice of me to share them with you. The Christmas bulb dress is from bowbakery. You can put a turtleneck underneath, or a little tee, some tights, leggings, or jeans...the possibilities of cuteness are endless. She also makes bows {even custom ones} oh the sweetness.
Another bit of sweet is this little outfit. Have her put the age of your little one on the shirt, pick short or long sleeve and color of pant....they go up to size 6. I will have to get one of these for B to wear to her 4 yr. old b-day party in January....there are many different patterns to choose from, don't you love the ruffles on the rear. Outfit and more cuteness can be found here at theplaidgiraffe.
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We had vegetable/beef soup for dinner tonight, the kids liked it...but I think they're bored with what I cook. You can only make so many soups, pizza, grilled cheese, chicken nuggets and french fries. What do you feed your kiddos that's easy and yummy? I need some extra kid friendly go to's stored away in my mommy recipe file. 
These are a few of my favorite things. 
Remember when we took a trip during Fall Break to Eureka Springs, Ark.? I've been meaning to post these pics. and am finally getting to them after a month of them resting in my picture file. Now that they've had some much needed sleep, it is now time for them to come out and show their beauty. My sister and I took a little walk through this all black and white store and I just couldn't help but LOVE everything. The owner told me that I could take the pictures, too bad I didn't take more. {thank you kind lady} 
Looking at these pics. makes me want my house to look like this.......so, today I will slather white/black paint on everything sitting still. {not}
There is the kind owner lady, so nice. "Hey, love your store I want to live in it!!"
Look you guys! I received an award from Kacey just now. Just to let you all know, this is my first award EVER. I am more thrilled than you can imagine, but more importantly it is the friendship that has developed via blogging. Thank you for thinking of me Kacey, I'm truly grateful for your kindness. We have been working on our Master Bedroom re-do's together and it has been fun. Hopefully sometime soon we will be able to finally show you pictures of our re-do's as we have both posted our "before" pics.What does the award mean? Look below for the answer.
“This blog invests and believes in ‘proximity’[meaning that blogging makes us 'close' - being close through proxy].”
Love you guys and thanks again for the award!!!!!!!!!- K to the Tee
The first wknd. in the new house (we've lived here for 4 yrs.) I took the old wallpaper off and put the toile up. Don't you just love the Sid Dickens plaques on the wall? I do. I also like that little boy jumping into the photo.
I took some of the wallpaper off here and have done nothing w/ it yet {i did this about 3 yrs. ago). The kids drew on the wall....they were trying to "pretty it up". I would like to rip it all down and paint {formal living room}.
Here is the lovely parquet wood flooring that was hiding underneath the carpet. I only ripped up a 3 ft. area. The wear of the carpet pad did damage to the floor. Would love to have the floors sanded and redone, but don't really want the entire house to be covered in sawdust. Uggh! Still don't have the solution yet. I know for sure I do not want to carpet it again. I wish it had never been covered. Sad.
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