Birthdays, Sickness, Organization and Vacation Time!

Phoenix with all his Bday gifts!

So things have been pretty boring lately. We had Phoenix's birthday..it was the first time we had hosted a birthday party in about five years as we went to family trips after Chelsea's last sleepover..12 girls one house= yuck!!!
This party went off without a hitch, there were 13 kids total including our three, a friend of Tristan's and a friend of Gryphen's. We had it at the Jolly Roger which was great! They did everything for us and the kids had a blast..Phoenix made out like a bandit too...tons of great toys and books it was great!

Since then we have been back to normal most of my time spent volunteering at the school or hanging out at home. There has been a pretty nasty bug going around the school and it hit our family Thursday night with Gryphen waking up in the middle of the night throwing up, he was sick all day friday and then woke up good on Saturday just to have Tristan, Phoenix and I all feeling under the weather. Sunday we all woke up well except Brandon who was REALLY sick! Then Sunday night Gryphen threw up yet again...not a fun weekend, we kept Gryphen home from school again today but he seems to be fine today and will be going back to school tomorrow pending of course how tonight goes! Everyone else seems to be over it.

In addition to the fun around here we are really working at getting our house organized, we have alot of stressful things going on in our lives right now and our house is a big part of it. We have a plan of action but haven't really had time to get started on it, hopefully will start to put a real effort into it after our vacation.

I really want this! Actually several of these..one of course for crafts but I think it would work great for so many areas!

Speaking of which it is almost here! We leave friday morning for our week in Devon and I am SOOOO excited!!!

My CJ entry for this month...It is for my favorite place...one of the pics is from our last "real" vacation to Snowdonia!

So that is about it...check out the few pages I have gotten done this week....

Just a picture of Brandon and Phoenix...they are so much alike!

The earliest known Halloween picture of me...I did this for the October Challenge on UKS...the challenge was to use non-traditional colors and metal. I don't love it but it fits the rules at least!