My Dear...

So, I was cleaning out my Yahoo and Hotmail accounts today (I deleted over 1000 messages. It felt good.) and came across this gem of an email. Thought I would share it since it made me giggle...

My Dear,  (a bit presumptuous for a scammer, no?)
Be informed that We have concluded to effect your payment (2.1M USD) Two Million One Hundred Thousand Dollars through Western Union Money Transfer. But the maximum amount you will be receiving daily starting from tomorrow onward is 5,100.00USD until the funds is completely paid out to you.
Now, contact Western Union Agent:  Eric Gomez with your : Full Names , address, Telephone number. (What, you don't want my social security number, birthdate, and credit card number too?)
E-mail him at :----- Though, 5,100.00 USD has been sent in your name today so contact Mr.Eric Gomez and tell him to give you the MTCN, Sender Name, Question/Answer to pick the 5,100.00 USD.  Please let me know as soon as you received all your funds (2.1M USD) Two Million One Hundred Thousand Dollars.
Thank you.
David Martin (yay! I am rich! Wait...)

Happy weekend, all!  Hope you have a chance to sleep in, get things done, and enjoy the beautiful fall weather.  We have a birthday this weekend, so a special breakfast is on the menu (I'm thinking baked french toast, bacon, and orange juice), as well as the obligatory chocolate cake - in this case a peppermint chocolate cake. :)

Imagination is GO

There are monsters down the dark hallway at Grandpa and Grandma's house, the badger that lives down the road (and was seen one late night driving home) is a topic of much conversation when walking in from the driveway at night, and and sometime small hoodie'd dragons race through the living room. 



A sweet friend passed down a sparkly, tulle-petal'd, satin 2T dress up dress. My girly girl is SO happy!  And I loved letting her wear it to the grocery store and library... she looked adorable sitting in the cart surrounded by tulle.  I think she also enjoyed that it drew the attention of the older ladies that usually are adoring Levi's baby chub. ;)

"...and I was in my cocoon and I came out and I was a beautiful butterfly and I shoot them with my guns!" - Nathan, 3 years, 5 months

Rainy day.  Boots obviously required!

"...your feet are getting old and they're going to die and you'll be in Heaven..." - Nathan*

And Levi and I watch wide eyed as they juggle ideas and jostle each other, racing to decode this funny world. 


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* (Yes, I need to carve out time to exfoliate and moisturize.  Until then, my neglected feet serve as a reminder of my mortality, apparently.)

Friday Phone Dump

Pin Tuesday

Why am I such a pack rat?  {Self, you do not need to save every Martha Stewart Living magazine you've ever received!}   Happily, I now have Pinterest to organize and enjoy all those clever and creative ideas {I will do someday when I have longer than twenty minute stretches of free time to be creative!} - and some nights stay up after I should be in bed with a hot cup of tea and enjoy some relaxation, calm, and total silence.  Therefore, all the stacks of magazines went into the garage sale pile and are now out of the house.


Anyway...

Source: lanternpress.com via Natalie on Pinterest

We went to the Outer Banks on our honeymoon four years ago, and climbed this beautiful lighthouse. I have a photo of it hanging up in our office (well, not right now, actually, it got taken down to paint!), but I ADORE this vintage poster. So fun!

Source: weheartit.com via Natalie on Pinterest

Yeah. Sadly true. I've never been super fit and three babies in four years hasn't changed that. Taking baby steps to work on it, though. (Side note: exercise videos are hilarious.)

Source: realsimple.com via Natalie on Pinterest

I was super excited to see this as our blender pitcher has cracked and started leaking. I really didn't want to buy one right now.. now I don't have to give up my smoothies... YAY! :) Kristen warned me not to use a mayo jar in place of the mason jar, since the mayo jar would not be tempered. Good to know!

This morning had a little bit of a nip to it... so happy to see the beginning of fall!  Now, where did I stash the box of sweaters... 

p.s. Yes, I know it's Wednesday... yesterday I got hit by a truck came down with the fever and chills, aches and pain of a lightning fast case of mastitis, so I've been laying low and trying to fight it off. My temperature is down, so my hopes are high of recovery without antibiotics this time. :) But I had this all ready to go so I decided to post it anyway!

Wordless Wednesday

(Summer wedding! Congrats, Erik and Amber!)