NOVEMBER IN PICTURES

 WOW!! Things sure have been busy this past 
month. No regrets but I have definitely had to 
neglect my blog. So lets do a quick-ish summery of November. 

Vinny and his wrestling has been going full steam. Right now he is undefeated and his team is 6-1. I am so very proud and a big supporter of my son and his team. GO VINNY and GO BULLDOGS!! 

We also got to spend some time with my Sister-in-law who is my bestest friend and her little family. I loved getting to love on my newest little niece Sailor. My ex husband finally tied the knot with his long time girlfriend and gave my kiddies and new stepmom. She's a real nice lady and we're happy that she has joined the family. We got a surprise when James' other brother from out of town showed up and asked if they could stay two weeks so that they could scout the area for a place to live in town. (YAY!!) I was instantly excited because that meant I was going to get to spend two whole weeks with my niece Talia and nephew Ben that we very rarely get to see. They arrived just in time to join in on the pre-Thanksgiving crafts and decorating. We started out making some awesome smelling gingerbread play dough. the girls added to the fun when they pulled out the cookie cutters to make Thanksgiving shapes out of dough.

 While the boys stayed focused on the games the girls helped make salt dough so we could make hand print turkeys and letters for our names.  They were all going on our Thanksgiving mantel. We all snuggled in the living room to watch some Thanksgiving cartoons while our shapes dried in the oven and cooled. Then it was time to paint. Nov. 20th was Sweet little Talia's 6th Birthday So my bestie brought some birthday cupcakes the weekend before and we had her a little party and once again I got to spend a little more time with Sailor.

 I always love to get updated pictures of family whenever we all get together. Our mantel was finally finished. They did such a fantastic job!!

We also took advantage of the not so cold weather to spend a lot of time outside 

                 going to parks

 and the lake. I of course had my camera on hand to capture the fun photo ops. 

Finally Thanksgiving had arrived! Ready for family and food. 

Daily we had all said something we were thankful for and now it was time to enjoy our traditional family gathering and honored family football game that we have done every Thanksgiving and Christmas since my kiddies were babies.

James played hard, got his belly full and was out.  It was such a great day!!

  Nov. 23 I packed all the Thanksgiving stuff away and James pulled out all our Christmas stuff. I prefer to wait till after Dec 1st before putting up the tree but he's really been filled with Christmas cheer this season so we put up the tree minus the ornaments. The kids were with their dad and that has always been their part so we waited till they got home so they could do the honors.  I did set out my Christmas village and hung our stockings. Which of course lead to more photo taking.

Well that just about sums up our FULL fun filled wonderful month. All except for the many  MANY

Wrestling matches and trampoline fun!!
                                                  

Meet the Perdewcrew!!!

Hello to everyone and welcome to my little page.

What a day it has been!! THe kids had their second day back to school. Hubby got up late and that of course sent everything into a whirlwind  of rushing to get everything done and lastly I thought I would never figure out some of the little tweaks to this page...lol

 Well let me start off with telling you a tad about my little Perdewcrew.

 My name is Summer. I am married to the most wonderful man for me and his name is James.

 He is unfortunately my second husband but lol everybody makes mistakes. I did bring 3 wonderful children out of that marriage so it wasn't all a failure. Anywhoo.



My oldest is Vinny. He just started football and 8th grade. He is very quick witted and loves to read books.  Most of which are even out of my league. He, like his younger brother are both gameaholoics.









 My middle child is my true mini-me. My daughter Santana. She is cut from the same mold, poor girl! Just like her mother she is a major tomboy, loves football and anything the boys can do she can do better. On the other hand unlike her mother she is very stylish. I am your original jeans and tee-shirt kinda girl as where sis can come up with the cutest outfits and do her own hair. She just started 6th grade and band. She will be learning to play the flute.

Lastly my youngest Nick. He is my little cut up. He loves being my little snuggle buddy and I for one enjoy the fact that I still have one. My kids are growing so fast it's hard to image that they will eventually be leaving this nest. Nick loves football, so far he is loving school. but then again it's only his second day and he hasn't had any homework yet either. He loves his games, eating his mamma's cooking ( so he boasts) and just loves family time.

 I myself love taking pictures (I an aholoic), I enjoy baking, doing things with my kids and/or husband, crafts, home improvements -I love to paint..walls that is not pictures. I read when I get the chance. sometimes it takes me a month or two just to finish a novel. Right now I'm still reading The Help. I facebook ALOT!! and when it comes to sayings, ideas, or current evens I am a copy and paste queen. Ohh and I almost for got. They call me Ellie May because I love my critters. With now we have 2 pitbulls.





Isis is our silly but lazy American pitbull terrier.

Then we have our male. His name is Nyne (nine). If you were ever to meet this fella you would swear this dog honestly believes he is human. He would prefer to sit at the dinner table in a chair with a plate when everyone else is sitting than to have his foot in a bowl on the floor. he has to sleep in the bed, again not on the floor. just so many things he does human like it's astounding.

Next we have my insane kitty Spunky. The killer of all creatures medium and small that makes the mistake of coming into our yard. I tried making Spunky a house cat at one time but he hated it and made his way outside. We call him Hannibal spunk because of the way he proudly displays his work for us to see.



Other than our four beta fish we have Hammy my little hamster. When I first told my husband I wanted to get a hamster he totally refused. James has a thing against rodents of any kind. But after a bit of pouting (i'm not proud ;)) I got my way. I love my little fat rat he runs around in his little ball and shoves so much food in his little pouches that he can hardly fit up his little pipe to his bed. He is fun to watch and I love the funny faces James makes every time I get him out and hold him.

Ok, well that's our family so far :)