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Just Carleigh

70 Degrees and Sunny so Santa Brought this...

The Christmas Lights Are UP!!!

We got some really neat Christmas lights from Darcy's dad, Jim; today we put them up!

California update!

Today in front of our tree!


Lissie and brody on thanksgiving

Lissie with Grandma GG my moms mom!

The kids with Uncle Chris Aunt Val and Grandma GG at GG's house!

Lissie with my cousin Christopher! He is like 6'5 I think. I use to change his diapers!!!!

The kids being silly with our stockings!

Brody was so upset with the bubbles all over him!

Sweet baby girl!

Zander with his blades!! He is so good on these things you would not believe it if you saw him!

Okay so I have been a complete slacker blogger since I have moved here!!! SORRY!!!! So here is the the long story short. Once we got to CA it took us 6 days to find a place and we scored big time. The house is in a great little area in Thousand Oaks. It is in the more "country" area so if you walk through the neighborhood there are people that have horses, chickens and goats. THe first day we moved in we saw two horses walking on our street. It was pretty neat for me and the kids!!! The house is a really nice 3 bedroom 2 bathroom. We put carpet in the garage and turned it into our "basement playroom!" The back yard is HUGE there is a lighted basketball court in the back and tons of grass for the new Trampoline that Santa is bringing! SHHHHHHHHHHHH! Zander spends his time rollerblading in the back yard when he is not a school and also he loves to climb the apricot tree and make a "battle station!" There is also a covered patio with a fan for our out door dining! We have and apricot tree and an orange tree! We will be singing popcorn popping a lot in the spring!!!!

The weather here is pretty close to PERFECT!!! It get cold at night but during the day the kids are out playing in the yard. As wonderful as all this is I am still missing and longing for my wonderful family and friends in Wisconsin. I miss you all terribly. I pretty much spend everyday of my life in my house sewing and cleaning and the sewing and cleaning some more. We only have one car until Feb so zach takes the car everyday and I stay home! When I need to go places I walk with my new amazing Valco tri mode twin stroller with the toddler seat and hitch hicker! It is awesome all 4 of the kids can be on the stroller at the same time and it pushes like a dream!

If anyone want to come to CA we would love to have you!!! We have a queen bed for guests to sleep in!!!!!!!!!!!

Off to update my craft blog!!!!

please vote?

Here are our 2 pumpkins from our first annual pumpkin carving contest! Please vote for the best one in the comment section!

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halloween costumes!

Zander doing the army crawl!
not sure why it turned out sideways but I am too lazy to fix it!!!!

Zander in his Halloween Parade at school!!!

Lissie found these fun wings on clearance at Joann's so we got two pairs and I made the girls fairy princess dresses!!! They turn out beauiful! Zander wanted to be an army man, so when we found the hat, cantina, and walkey talkey on clearance we went back to the fabric counter at Joann's and bought him some water resistant nylon army fabric and this is what we came up with! I used my friend Natalie's "Koolmono" pattern to make his costume. You can see her stuff on Etsy if you type in KOOLMONO in the search! It is all super cute!!!!

sewing projects!!!

This is what I have been doing instead of updating my blog!!! I have finished two other dresses but Ihaven't taken pictures of them so there is more to come soon!!!!

Please excuse the string cheese on the floor! I spent the morning sewing the top instead of cleaning! Off to go do my chores!

pink fig olivia top and the pink figsweetheart pants

please excuse the leggings I didn't feel like taking them off when I tried it on her!