Our Lil Reader

Madelyn LOVES to read! I'm thrilled that she inherited that trait from someone in our family. I started reading to Madelyn when she was inutero and we have continued to read to her since. Her nightly routine, even as a newborn, consisted of us reading to her every night. The routine has changed a little because now she reads to us which we absolutely love. But I also love that she can read silently to herself too.

Bringing Back the 70s

If you know anything about my little family you probably know that I rarely partake in home modifications, especially if it requires physical labor. Ryan does an excellent job with home mods so who am I to interfere. Well this past weekend a first happened in the Muhlig household...wait for it.... I painted the entire bathroom all by myself!!! Aren't you proud. I had decided a week prior that I was sick of looking at the lavender walls and striped shower curtain. It was time for a change. On Friday evening I made a trip to Target (Tarjay for the french folks) and picked out my most favorite shower curtain and all the accessories. I then went home and took down all the towels bars and such and then taped off the trim. Then on Saturday morning I went to the local Ace Hardware with my shower curtain and picked out a paint color that would look fabulous with the curtain. Then I spent the rest of Saturday and most of Sunday painting the bathroom.

The before....

And the after......

I still need to purchase a few accessories for the walls and a new toilet seat but other than that my first home mod is complete. I love it!!! Ryan, on the other hand, gave me his honest opinion and said that it looks like something from the 70s and if we ever want to sell our house it will have to be repainted. I completely disagree.

This little weekend project of mine only confirmed that I'm blissfully content with Ryan doing all home mods. Anything that requires physical labor is all his!! :)

Wordless Wednesday

Family Adventure

Wednesday evening we decided to skip our weekly "church" night and went on a family adventure. After eating at our favorite mom and pop restaurant in town we headed to the glorified mud puddle known as the Augusta lake. The lake is really low right now so we walked along the shore where the lake had receded. Our adventure was looking for bobbers, hooks, lures and such. We made it a quarter of the way around the lake before we had to head back because it was getting dark. But the adventure did not disappoint and we came up home with numerous clam shells, bobbers, lures, 2 bowling balls, and a geocaching thing.

 Although you are only supposed to sign the paper and leave the geocach?? where you found it we decided to take it home since after the next rain it will be at the bottom of the lake. Maybe we will have some geocachers stop by our house.

This crawdad did not want to let go of my sweatshirt. He was lucky to be released back into the lake and not be stuffed in Madelyn's backpack as she would have preferred.

Our goal is to make it all the way around the lake before the next big rain but I'm not sure if the weather will permit us to do that before winter sets in.

Halloween Weekend

On Friday I attended Madelyn's class party in the morning......

My little "Army Girl."

 Madelyn and her friend, Kariana

.......Then I spent the day getting some much needed retail therapy. I accomplished some Christmas shopping and some me shopping. It was so nice having the majority of the day to myself and getting to spend money! Love. it.

Saturday Madelyn and I went to Trick or Treat street in downtown Augusta.

 Then Madelyn and her daddy did their annual pumpkin carving....

 Saturday night Ryan and I participated in the annual adults only Halloween party. I was a gothic, gangster girl (thanks Jen for the idea) and Ryan was a construction worker (lame), but, everyone thought he was one of the village people.

 Sunday night we started the evening trick or treating at the apartment complex that Ryan used to manage in Towanda. Then we stopped by the Augusta police station and drove to a few friends houses for treats. We then met up with our friends and their kiddos and finished the evening walking house to house for treats.

Although Madelyn is not a huge fan of candy, her daddy and I are sure enjoying her Halloween treats!

Pumpkin Patch 2010

This past Friday Madelyn and her daddy had the day off from school so they decided to go to a local pumpkin patch, AppleJacks. Although Madelyn enjoyed the big slide, zip line and such, her mission was to get the biggest and best pumpkin there. Thirty dollars later she had completed her mission. She could have purchased three pumpkins at Wal-Mart for that price but instead she chose to buy one really big over priced pumpkin at the pumpkin patch.

Beerfest

Yesterday we participated in the annual Wichita beerfest. Unfortunately this was the first year since we started going that my work didn't have a fundraiser taking place. Therefore we had to pay to get in and didn't get a free t-shirt. That kind of sucked! But, all in all it was a good time, as always. It was packed as usual and women were the minority hands down. It was so nice to have short lines to the womens' bathroom and the mens' line was forever long.

This year we had a guaranteed DD (not drunk driver) as Lisa didn't drink this year because she is expecting. She was quite the trooper dealing with all the drunks.

 Cheers!

Rachel, Lisa (our DD) and me

 I asked Ryan to take a picture of the three of us and Ryan asked some random guy to take a pic with us. He happily obliged. What a cheeseball.

 Rachel and Brandon

Chuck and Rachel (Chuck was proving that he could still put in an earring).

At 4:00pm we had taste tested until we were silly and beerfest was over we headed to Old Town for dinner and more drinks. By 8:00pm most of us were ready to head home, but one of the youngsters of the group was insistent we stay. He is a whopping 22 year old, a senior in college student teaching in Augusta. He was all about the party until the "older" boys started buying him shots such as prairie fire (tabasco and vodka) and the nastiest shot ever (queso and tequila). By 8:30pm he was hurting and the bar trash can became his new best friend. The ride home was entertaining to say the least, as the older boys taunted the youngin' the entire way. I'm guessing that young man will not be taking shots for quite some time. Live and learn.

Thanks Gramma Muhlig for coming down to take Madelyn to her soccer game and staying the night.