Generations...

Birthday Donut...

Peyton turns 14 today!!!
Birthday Bash will be Friday... so we celebrated this morning with BIRTHDAY DONUTS!
How can ya resist some donut love on your b-day?
Happiest Birthday Peyton... I love you!

Our Little Girl: Playing Dress Up...

Part of being a little girl is playing dress-up...
Watching Skylar play *cheerleader* and have so much fun is just one of the many things I love about being her Mommy...
She makes me so proud every single day.
I love you Skylar Rockets!

Super Harvest Moon...

I debated on even posting these...
I took them Thursday and found the bizarre orbs and distortions so interesting.
But perhaps I am the only one who sees the beauty?
But here they are.
And keep in mind, we will not see another Super Harvest Moon until the year 2029.

Full Moon Open Circle

Sparks

Every once and again the planets align just so...

Or a full moon rises?

Or perhaps its just the driving force of the human will?

Whatever the case may be...

Brian and I have a little romance planned for tonight.

Wine...

Candles...

Soft Music...

No kids...

(Okay Skylar is here, but she is sleeping like, well, umm... a baby!)

♪ Love is in the air...

Everywhere you look around... ♪

Sadly we haven't gotten to truly celebrate our official engagement.

Can you even believe that?

Have three children and you won't be surprised in the least!

I was thinking today how non-traditional our life is...

All while creating a *wedding website* which in turn makes life really hard for me as it is one more thing to maintain... but SO easy for our wedding guests as everything they need to know pertaining to our wedding is all in one neat little spot. (In purple Verdana font nonetheless...)

But I digress...

Getting back to our non-traditional life...

So Brian and I meet at a nightclub that we both happened to be at with our own respective group of friends...

A mutual friend introduces us...

Sparks fly BIG time...

We never exchanged a single bit of contact info...

Yet somehow he manages to find me the very next morning on a internet dating site of all places...

(Obviously we both had profiles on there.)

He emails me...

We talk on the phone...

And we have our first *official* date that same night...

The night after we were introduced!

Basically...

We have been inseparable since!!!

A true whirlwind romance.

We couldn't get enough of one another and were so madly in love from almost the second we met!

No really... it's true!

From there things move pretty fast. Within four months we were living together and I was pregnant with Skylar!

So no... we aren't your traditional couple with a traditional love story!

If I were the betting type... I would have bet against us!

Most people in our situation would have never made it this far let alone got engaged with plans to marry within a year!

And even after all that, we still love each other like mad and those sparks still fly BIG time!

I adore him with all my heart and soul and cannot wait to be Mrs. Bertenshaw!

329 more days... or so my new *wedding website* tells me!

Blessed Be...

♥Cyn♥

A Fun Day...

Skylar at Mommy's Weight Watcher meeting today... of course she had to wear a nametag too. All of the Weight Watcher Gals got such a kick outta her... can you blame them?

Afterwards we stopped at Daddy's work and tried on silly Halloween headbands!

A fun day!

My Obsession: Purple

I am obsessed with the color purple and my wedding palette... can one actually be *in love* with a color???

If so, I am head over heels...

Blessed Be...

♥Cyn♥

My Talented Daughter...

How can someone so young be so commical and know their funny on top of it all?

She is a riot... truly one of the funniest people I know!

And who can deny her talent? Two binky's at once... come on!

She makes me smile every single day...

Wedding Inspiration: Purple Lush