Sassy House of Spalding!: September 2012

Sunday, September 30, 2012

Northern Lights

Tonight my darlings long after your beautiful baby blues were closed tight and sweet dreams were swirling around in your magnificent little heads...the Northern Lights kept peeking out it was amazing! I tried to capture it for you. Look closely its the greenish haze you see in the picture.

Painting Phase 1 Complete!

A whirl wind of a week... our painting has come to an end (thankfully -- I think everyone was sick of the furniture being everywhere with no place to sit)... our put together living room and dinning room is once again decorated with all the Halloween garb and you love, love, love it! You may notice there are a few extra floor lamps now too my Sassy Spalding's.... well, with the darker paint job we noticed that the room is much darker -- more cozy -- but darker. So, off to "brighten up" the room we went yesterday! We found some nice looking silver ones at Wally World. You both definitely take after me! We spent an hour browsing the lamps in various shapes and sizes... after coming to a mutual group decision we made our way over to the light bulbs. {More lamps = more light bulbs} Well, it turns out there are even more choices of light bulbs than there are lamps and lamp shades! We browsed, we read, we contemplated what would best "brighten our room up"... well, after some subtle nudging from me, we all decided that purple light bulbs, blue light bulbs and pink light bulbs that would totally rock in a bedroom would be a little... too wild for our now cozy living room. We found some great "100 watt -- that only use 26 watts -- light bulbs" Kk was exceptional at figuring out the best light bulb to choose. She read every one that I asked you to and it was awesome to see you whip through words like, "iridescent" or "electrical" without a beat. Any chance I get at having you read; I take and yes, it happens all the time and yes, you love it! We also moved the pictures of Aunties, Uncle & Cousins to living room. Everyone came to the conclusion that we needed a picture change. So... mommy pulled out Uncle Lou picture & Auntie Angela's wedding picture and put them up on the wall. (My favorite is the symmetry of the pictures.) Thank you my Sassy Spalding's for being so patient through out this endeavor. Tomorrow mommy is going to start taping off the kitchen and by the end of the next weekend we should have a painted kitchen too! :)

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Picture Perfect

Recently mommy, Grandma Deb & Great Auntie Roxanne spent an evening looking through old photos of Great Grandma Joy's... we sorted, we laughed, we even cried... we miss Great Grandma so much. Well, while reminiscing I found old school year photos. Wow. Big bangs, weird outfits and awkward smiles are all I seen... I do not want this for you my Sassy Spalding's. So, it is my mission to make sure your school photos are magnificent!

Today we started out making memories by going to Gramma Deb's and Grampa Lou's where we proceeded to dabble in some photography... it was fun... minus the "I don't wanna's" and "no not yet's"... after mommy lost her temper... (can you believe it?) we got back on track and captured some beautiful moments. Then Auntie Angela & Uncle Josh stopped over, mommy took pictures of Jordy & Abby Doo, then their whole family... capturing those pieces of time in a photograph already is a beautiful thing. All 4 of you love your pictures taken... it just has to occur under the right circumstances.

After we came home and a wave of mommy's magical wand (candy bribing) you both agreed to a few more portraits... and I think we have our school pictures for 2012 complete!

And now unto the photos... These are my favorites.

Friday, September 28, 2012

The Many Shades of K-K

R.A.K.

Random Acts of Kindness: Day 2: Pick up litter when you see it!

Day 3

Day 4

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Banana Ramama Ding Dong

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

The Painting Ninjas

Helping prepare the living room for paint.

This painting process began on Tuesday evening... Sept 25, 2012 because daddy really wanted to get this done before mommy's surgery. We are the luckiest girls to have daddy. We really are.