Uppercase Living and other sorts of stuff....

If you read my sister Mary's blog then you will see all about words, saying and things and how we got into Uppercase Living. It is a really neat company and I especially really like the personal, meaningful touches you can do or the fun things you can do with them.

I have a few more things on order that I am very excited about, but here is what I have done so far.

First when you walk in our front door, there is a large mirror on your left and on the bottom, it now says........

Here is a closer look.

Then in the laundry room, we just had plain white cupboards, and now it says....

My favorite one is the next one. Steve and I sang the Shania Twain song, From this moment, to each other at our wedding and I took a phrase of that song and special ordered it and now it is over our wedding portrait in our bedroom.

A closer view.........In three weeks, Steve and I will be celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary, so this makes it a nice addition to our wedding portrait and it also puts our wedding song in our minds, constantly! I now go around having it run through my head and singing it all the time.

When my other things come in and I have them up, I will share those too.

On a different note.....

My parents have tried to make it a tradition that when any of us girl's husbands have a birthday, they take out that couple for dinner, but it seems like our schedule's don't always work out or things come up, etc. so this year they decided to take all four couple's out together at the same time and it was a nice. My Mom paid for our babysitting and my Dad paid for our meal and we had a nice two hours at Outback. We had a couple pictures taken as we left.

On another different note........I tell Bryce all the time that he is a very good big brother to Bryce. Bryce asks a lot of questions about Connor and I try my best to explain to him why Connor can't understand and play like your typical 5 year old, and Bryce seems to understand it pretty good. If Connor is sad or upset and crying, Bryce tries to get him to stop by being silly or will go run and get one of Connor's favorite toys to play with to distract him, etc.

Recently, Connor has become fascinated with watching Bryce play his Nintendo-DS. I have come out from the laundry room or my bedroom several times to find Connor watching him intently and now, whenver Connor hears the music or sees Bryce playing it, he will go running to sit beside him or watch over his shoulder. Over several different times, I have snapped some pictures because I just think it is so cute to see Connor getting into what his brother is doing and several times I have seen him give Bryce these adoring eyes, as you will especially see in one of the pictures below. It is also very exciting for me to see him interact like this, because he is in his own little world often, and this gets him interacting with Bryce. He now is really getting into playing with Jackson, our dog. Connor will throw Jackson's toy and Jackson will go fetch it and come running back and then they play tug of war with the toy. Connor loves this whole thing. It is so neat to see, but back to the pictures......

These are two of my favorite's. The boys had no idea I had my camera and were just all caught up in the game.

Giving adoring eyes to his big brother.

As I was doing this blog, I turned around and this is what they are doing again right now. This time Jackson is trying to get some of the attention though.

I love these three boys!!