Slightly Overwhelmed

Life is starting to get away from me again! I feel like I'm always busy, and never have much down time. With friends coming into town and trying to orchestrate all the meet-ups with them, mommy play dates, planning for Levi's first birthday, family photos, Halloween, pumpkin picking and carving, unfinished crafts, work, life, stupid cloth diapers and laundry in general...I'm feeling pretty stretched thin. Add to that, my bartender at work quit a few days ago, so now everything is going to be different (she's been there 9+ years, I hate change, creature of habit!)...I'm exhausted and strained. 

A bunch of the old Legends gang out to celebrate Becky's new found freedom.

I've been able to edit and post my wedding pictures to FB, but that's about all I've managed to do so far. 

One of my favorites!

We painted our bedroom, which turned out great except the trim is a little uneven. I made a headboard, that looks amazing, but doesn't fit between our windows, so I've gotta figure out how to work around the mathematical error. 

It's kinda hard to see what a big difference a little bit of color has.

My super awesome headboard...still haven't gotten it up yet though.

I made a Halloween costume for myself to wear in the employee contest at work...first place will get $100. Last year my zombie and zombie baby took third place...got beat out by a Tshirt with hands glued over the boobs. 

Naked, censored! Haha...and I won 1st place!

I took a picture of what I was wearing underneath, just in case.

I've been couponing these Fisher Price coupons...they're incredible! I got $149 worth of toys for $15, and have a bunch more coupons still, so this is allowing for some pretty awesome scores for birthdays and Christmas! :) And any leftovers I want to donate to Toys For Tots. Fisher Price has realized their error in wording with these coupons and have since altered them...but I still have $90 worth of the old ones!

My first haul from the coupons! I've made a second one and plan on one more. :)

I started cloth diapering at the beginning of October...and as excited as I am about it, I'm pretty sure I'm failing. There's always something wrong...a smell, an absorbency issue, a leakage issue...I starting to get fed up with them. But I don't want to throw in the towel just yet...I really want them to work! So I'm gonna switch our detergent (one more time) and try stripping them with rlr cleaning stuff...if that fails, I don't know what else to do. :p (I have since realized it was an issue with our washer, being an old front load HE washer...so now I just add 2 gallons of water to each load, and things are going a bit smoother.)

My eczema is particularly bad this season, and I'm out of my prescription cream, which runs $128 for a teeny little tube! When there's a comparable product that's only $4, but I can't have it because that's not what my prescription is written for. Ugh.

Pumpkin Patch.

Levi and his little pumpkin.

Timmy and his pumpkin.

All ready to paint and carve and drill!

All finished.

S for Southard. :)

The boys ghost footprints.

Made the boys matching shirts for our family photos.