Power of Positive Thinking

I was having a conversation that Zack overheard, and his positive (and innocent) mind put a smile on my face:
Me - "It was such a piece of... you know." (Making a face.)
Zack -"Cake! You said 'piece of' and I think you mean 'piece of cake!'"

A Big Challenge

This past month I had probably the biggest challenge of my floral career; to make wheat look good. I was asked by some leaders at the church to make massive wheat arrangements for the October 24th women's breakfast. When I said that I would take this on, I didn't realize that it would be really HARD. Nicole, one of the ladies that asked me to do this, ran behind the Jespersen's combine (she honestly had to run) and had gathered rubbermaid bins FULL of wheat. My job was to make something "harvest looking" (whatever that means) that could be used for the podium and registration tables. All I could use were the bins of wheat, and then some blue and white ribbon and some fake sunflower-type things to add a bit of color. It took me hours to do; wheat is really hard to work with. LOTS of mess and wheat slivers and I'm still finding random pieces of wheat around the kitchen. But I got them done and I'm pretty impressed with how they turned out. The first one below is the massive long vases with tied-up bunches, and then below that are the ones for the platform. They don't look that big, but everything was HUGE.

Dressing Up!

Batman and Optimus prime pose with their stash of newly-acquired halloween treats!

Finally!

I finally uploaded more pics off the camera, so here's some random shots of the recent goings-on in the Heinbuch house!

Zack and Nathan spend a great deal of time drawing at the kitchen table - making cards for everyone they know is what they do the most (probably something to do with me doing that too!).

Above: Zack drawing a police chase, the police car of course is making the siren sound, while the car being chased is yelling, "Aaaaah!" Love it.

Below: Nathan's first ever attempt at drawing letters - the ones in his name! Not bad for his first try!

Nathan hams it up in every shot - he is way too fun to take pictures of.Nathan with the aforementioned baby giraffe... How sweet and innocent he looks, yet you can still see the stinker inside.

Zack and my friend Erie's daughter Tara. They love eachother a lot. It's adorable.

They look so grown up in this picture! I love it.

For my birthday I made some cupcakes and they turned out really cool. I'm kind of a dork, making cupcakes for my own birthday, but it was fun.

Baby Giraffe

Nathan loves little things. He loves miniature versions of anything; gravitates to the cuteness, I think. Nathan's favorite friend is his baby giraffe. It's about the size of my palm, and Nathan got it as a happy meal toy over six months ago now. Baby giraffe is the one that sleeps in his arms every night and Nathan loves to bring him places. Nathan makes him talk in this tiny high-pitched baby voice, and he tells people that although he personally doesn't like kisses, baby giraffe loves them. He makes baby giraffe kiss everyone. Once when my cousin Dale was over, Nathan hit him with baby giraffe. When we disciplined Nathan, he said that it wasn't him but that baby giraffe hit Dale. Hmmmm. Nathan shows his soft-heartedness when he plays with baby giraffe, and when he's in bed waiting to fall asleep I can hear him talking with baby giraffe. Last night Pete and I were in the living room after the boys went to bed and heard Nathan singing "Bicycle Race" by Queen in baby giraffe's voice.

Show & Tell

Last week Zack had his first show and tell for kindergarten. Every week they focus on a new letter of the alphabet, so their mission for show and tell is to bring something that starts with the letter of the week. The letter of the week was D. Zack thought and thought about what to bring, but he was sad when he realized that all the other kids would be bringing dogs, dolls, and dinosaurs - things that he didn't really like anyway. So we brainstormed together, and for show and tell Zack danced. I would have loved to see it. He made a sign that said, "Zack is dancing!" and he did a break dance for his class. He was so happy to have done something different and totally unique.

Rice Christians

We were picking up Zack from school yesterday with my mom, and his teacher was talking about my mom doing chapel for the kids one Wednesday. Nathan was thinking about this word that he hadn't heard before, and then it clicked and he said, "Like Snap, Chapel, and Pop!"

Sigh...

On the way home from taking Zack to school this morning, I asked Nathan, "What do you want to do with Grandma today?" And he answered in his cute little voice, "Love."