Forever Beloved

Faith, Love & Truth

current crushes…

this owl cake…i totally want to make this!!!  jade would just adore it…
i love this new shirt over at c28…
this necklace (that i just ADORE) from this site…i love all her jewelry creations…
this sweater from american eagle…
this coffee cozy from THIS etsy store…makes me want to rush out and buy a chai latte…
out for now
~kisses

tiny weekend recap (aka i.HATE.ups)

saturday i was so excited for us to all head over to state college to the ups store and get my painting mailed off to it’s new little home in LA…so we pulled into the store parking lot…so SO excited to get my painting mailed off (and a little sad to see it go).  i hand it to the girl working and she measures it and writes down all the info (my address and the shipping address)…rings it all up and tells us the price…$65!!!!!  oh yes, you read it correctly…$65!  here is the most awesome part of the story…i only charged $15 shipping.  so yeah, i basically lost money on selling the painting.  lesson learned and i’m fairly sure i will never EVER be using ups again…ever…

after that we were all just bummed…so we headed to texas roadhouse for lunch in hopes it would cheer us up.  um yeah, not happening…their food was seriously suckish…and i didn’t like anything i got.  it was certainly no outback…

after that, still bummed, we headed to get groceries.  now THAT is something i love doing (i know, i’m a freak)…i just love hearing at the end “you saved ______ today”.  and this trip didn’t disappoint…i saved $74 between store sales and my millions of coupons.  LOVE coupons!

we headed home from the grocery store, hurried and put groceries away and did a quick clean sweep of the house.  after the cleaning i went and put my jammies on, turned “halloween” on the tv and just relaxed.  i sent joe out trick or treating with our littles…and i staid home to hand out candy (first time EVER for me).  it all was going great until i realized i was starting to creep myself out watching halloween while i was home alone.  i just kept thinking “please don’t let any of the kids coming to my door be dressed like michael myers”…

sunday we missed church…miss jade still had a big cough going on.  actually she still doesn’t have a voice either, poor thing.  we totally hung out at home ALL day sunday…i wore my jammies all stinkin day long and i loved it.  i needed that after how the day before was.

and once again, in case you missed it before…i’m not so much for ups…at all…

out for now
~kisses

halloween events…

fall and halloween are such a fun time of year around our house…i just really enjoy every single thing from when the leaves begin to turn clear up until christmas…totally my FAV time of year!!!  around halloween we always try to keep up with most of our “cutler traditions”…we carve pumpkins, watch TONS of scary movies, roast pumpkin seeds, decorate our house and go trick or treating.
wednesday evening we did some pumpkin carving…it made this mama so happy to know her “almost” teenager didn’t think he was too old to carve a pumpkin.  i can remember when i was little how much i enjoyed carving pumpkins with my mama…and how fun it was to get my hands in the ooey gooey guts and pull them out.  i hope my kids always remember these fun times we’ve had together…
jade’s finished product…
joey’s finished product…
friday night we went to a family halloween party that friends of ours had.  joe was jason voorhees/penndot worker, i was the bride of chucky, joey was the pig head from saw and jade was a dead prom girl.  we had a GREAT time…i hadn’t been to a halloween party in years…
jade still wasn’t feeling her best and was in NO mood for her picture taken…can you tell? 

out for now
~kisses