Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving from....

My 3 Indians
And My Little Turkey

Not Me Monday

I did NOT wake up yesterday morning with the outside of my nose being sore to the touch. I did not apply more makeup to cover the redness. I did NOT ask a friend (who's a doctor) if my sinuses (which have been giving me grief) could actually cause the outside of my nose to be sore. I did NOT have my husband ask me repeatly all....day....long why my nose was so red. At the end of the day, while our family was eating dinner, my husband did NOT look at me with a puzzled look and tell me that I had to have hit my nose on something. Then he did NOT burst into laughter as he told me that he just remembered something. He did NOT at that very moment remember this.....that in the middle of the night Sat. night while we were sleeping, he had rolled over in bed and when he did his forehead hit my nose! He woke up when it happened, I did not. I have NOT been in pain all day because of it.

In Ground Trampoline

In June 2010 when we were packing our boxes to move, we asked ourselves the question. Do we move the trampoline & the swing set/play yard too? We decided to even though our current backyard has holes, trees, stumps and is a gradual down slope. So the question was where do you put a trampoline & swing set??? We still haven't figured out the swing set / play yard (it's in pieces on the back patio) - the trampoline however now sits in our backyard. Literally.

After many measurements & drawings on paper we came up with a plan. Then over the course of a few weeks Ben, my dad and the boys dug a 3 foot hole in the back yard.

Then we laid the trampoline on top of the hole and attached the poles for the net.


It's the perfect fit for our backyard!

Bet you won't guess where I got the idea? Yup, Pinterest :)

Burlap Turkey

My new door decor obsession involves burlap so you may see lots of it in the months to come. Not that I'm an expert on how to make these burlap designs, but here's what I do if your interested.

When I purchased my burlap from Hobby Lobby they only had a few colors left so I took what they had and have just made it work. My first step is to decide exactly what I want - in this case a turkey for Thanksgiving / November. So I cut my burlap into a round / oval shape. Then I painted the whole thing brown. If you notice the white lines on the edges, I took a piece of chalk and drew exactly where I needed to cut, so I didn't just take scissors and start cutting aimlessly. That would be way to risky as I can't draw or cut a straight line without guidance.

I like the "frayed" look on my burlap so after it was painted & cut into my shape of preference I went along the edges and pulled just a little to fray all my sides. It is easier to do before it's painted, but I wanted to make sure I had the shape I wanted before I started fraying.
I then drew in chalk the exact design.


Picked out my paint colors

And got to painting.

Decided to dress him up a little with some polka dots, because everything is cuter with some dots.

I then hot glued some hemp cord - something I had left over from when we made some bracelets - to the top to hook on my door hanger. Seems to work great.

Since the Turkey was wider than he was tall he kept wanting to bend in the middle when he was on the door. So I got out the handy dandy hot glue gun once again and hot glued an extra blind blade to the back for support.

Then sprayed it down in this for sealing & protecting.

Happy November!!

Not Me Monday

I did NOT leave my baby home with my husband while I ran some errands. When I returned I did NOT find the baby in the middle of the living room floor in front of the t.v. watching an episode of Phineas & Ferb - by the time I got the camera out to snap a picture, Cannon had NOT fallen asleep.

Amazon Mom

Ben and I were blessed by friends and family with 3 months worth of diapers for Cannon. When it came time to buy diapers again I decided this time around to order them online. There were too many late night runs to Wal-Mart for diapers with the other 3 kiddos. There are several popular websites for diapers, but I decided to go with Amazon since I visit the site frequently & 90% of what I buy online comes from them anyway.

I had a friend tell me about their Amazon Mom program so I quickly checked it out. It is wondermus! You sign up totally free for Amazon Mom and their Subscribe & Save Delivery Program. Not only do you get 20% off diapers with your membership you get prime shipping (free 2 day shipping on everything NOT just your diaper order) up to a year. Thing is it's not just for moms or just for purchasing diapers. Best way to see all the details is to just go here.

When this box of size 3 pampers cruisers (186 diapers total) comes to my door each month I get supper excited. Because I know it's regular 47.19 on Amazon. Then I get a discount of $7.08 for being a free amazon mom member and another discount of $7.08 for being a subscribe & save delivery member (which means you tell them how often you want your diapers delivered & they send them automatically). Best part is you can cancel or change the delivery frequency anytime. So my big box of diapers is only $33.03.

Why does that bring such a huge smile on my face? Because I know Wal-mart has the same big box of diapers for $47.19 online (free shipping if order is more than $45). And Diapers.com has the same item for $44.99 (if you sign up for the take 5 program - free shipping included). I get supper giddy knowing I'm getting a deal :)

5 Months

Don't get many upset faces from this little bundle.

Doesn't take a paci, but does love his "lovey". Where does he want it? Right next to his face for sleeping.

I'm sure we'll hear arguments when we're older than 5 months, but today big brothers are letting him in the "living room tent" and everyone's happy.

He can pull his toy & make his own music on the bouncer. And he wants you to clap every time!

The days of baby food have begun. Loves some carrots & sweet potatoes.

Always has those feet crossed. Love me some baby toes!

Not Me Monday

I did NOT have to ask my kids to forgive me for the way I reacted after I found this had happened when they knocked my favorite pitcher off the counter.

October 31st

Every year I always ask myself the question of do we or don't we go trick or treating on Halloween? Last year I read this article here. After reading it we decided we were in a new neighborhood and we would just stay home and hand out candy and meet our neighbors who came to us. Great plan! Then we had two, count them with me....1...2 trick or treaters. Oh well. This year we had the fall festival with our church family on Sunday afternoon, which was magnificent. But Halloween was on Monday. So what do we do Monday night? Even though I'm not a huge fan of Halloween with Jack-O-lanterns, ghosts and goblins. I'm not against dressing the kids up as long as it's not anything gory or scarey to go knock on doors and get candy. So we made it a family fun night (with a few friends & grandparents joining in on the fun).

Even though Caden dressed up as a bat at the festival, his actual costume of the year was Dry, Dry Bones from Mario Kart Wii. The turtle shell just wasn't complete by festival time. Ben took on the challenge and made it all himself. I bet you can't guess from what? Yup, cardboard and duck tape. The mouth is duck tape on top of a ball frame, turtle shell is cardboard stuck together with duck tape and the shirt is duck tape turtle bones. We can't survive in this house without duck tape.

Even though Grandaddy is a big Alabama fan, he couldn't resist his picture being made with Aubie.

We went to a neighborhood that ended up not a lot of people were trick or treating in. Kids benefited from it though because when you don't have many trick or treaters then the ones that do come by get more candy. These three didn't mind at all.

We were with some friends who told us where the "candy man" lived, so we paid him a visit as well. He had a nice little set up and definitely earned his name.

Even this little lion got something from the candy man.

After the trunk was full we headed home.

Unfortunately now I have this to resist every time I pass through the kitchen!

It was a fun night spent together with family & friends. So even though it's a few days after....Happy Halloween from the DeLoach's :)

Fall Festival

I realize that I have not posted about our church and really hope to do that one day soon. I want to spend focused time on telling you about how we worship as a church family and focused time without distractions is not something I find a lot of. Most of my blog post are written while holding a baby or turning around to answer a question from a 4, 7 or 8 yr old. So today this will have to do. As I rock the baby's bouncer with my foot :)

Our church - The Church @ South East Lake had a "fall festival" in East Lake Park this past Sunday afternoon. I put fall festival in "" only because we didn't know what else to call it. We have $ from our tithe's and offering, but we didn't want to spend it if we didn't absolutely have to. Most of our games were more field day type games. Three legged race, flag football, corn hole (which we borrowed) and ultimate Frisbee.


We also had a table to make bracelets (where we were able to share the gospel story using the color beads) as well as tables for face painting & nail painting.

Some were too little to play the games or get nails painted so they just sat in a bucket and watched :)


Our focus of this festival was to create a family type atmosphere and get to know some of our neighbors better. We also invited all the kids from our Discovery Club group that some of us are a part of on Tuesday afternoons @ Robinson Elementary. More information on Discovery Clubs to come in a later post. We had a wonderful turn out and got to meet lots of the parents of the kids we work with. One of the main goals of having the festival in the first place.

We did provide (some of which was donated) hot dogs, chips, cookies, water and a goodie bag full of candy for everyone. It was a wonderful time of fellowship with our church family as well as our neighbors. It was a costume optional festival, but my kids were not about to miss an opportunity to dress up.

Meet Cannon the Lion.

Carter a.k.a. Thor
Caden a bat and Parrish a knight.


and my favorite costume of the night....Izzy as Aubie!