Target Tuesday: Pirates Skulls and Bones

please imagine me singing "pirate skulls and bones, sticks and stones and weed and bombs" like M.I.A. in her song " Paper Planes" for the second part of that title, k?

I'm linking up with Tara @ fabulous but evil for Target Tuesday!

My favorite part of Halloween is that there are skulls and cross bones EVERYWHERE, so obviously I do the logical Pirate thing and stock up on anything I can find to use during football season.

Skull Pillow

Skull Damask tablecloth

Silver Skull & Crossbone Earrings

Boston Warehouse Bone Collector Earthenware Footed Candy Dish

Set of 4 Skull Tumblers

Alright, now ya'll go do it too. ARRGHHHH!

riding in cars with babies.

the five hour drive from our little end of NC to Beech Mountain, NC was an eye-opening experience.

this little guy - who was teething like crazy - did NOT want to be in his car seat for 5 minutes let alone all 5 verrrryy long hours.

I had come prepared for any sort of catastrophe in the car. I had wipes, I had several changes of clothes (for both me & sawyer), diapers galore and almost every toy the kid owns... but nothing could calm him down at certain times.

let's rehash Sawyer's schedule for the day shall we?

9 a.m. - arrive at grandparent's house to help them finish packing their car
9:30 a.m. - decide i'm hungry
10 a.m - get in car.
10:01 a.m. - puke in car seat INTO EVERY SINGLE CREVICE.
i am not even kidding, there was puke in every part of the seat, down my shirt, on my pants, under   
my chin, on my hands. it was ridiculous
10:15 a.m. - after a wardrobe change, dose of Tylenol and thorough cleaning of seat, leave for mountains
10:30 - 11:00 a.m. - chew on my sunglasses, pinch tongue in hinge of sunglasses, cry then get even madder when sunglasses are taken away from me

11:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.  - take nap
12:00 p.m. - get diaper changed at a rest stop outside of Durham and scream the entire time
12:30 p.m. - decide I'm hungry again, so all stop at McDonald's where I eat only a little bit of food and spit the rest of it second outfit of day then make Daddy drop tub on bananas on floor
1:00 p.m. - back on road, scream at Mommy while she tries to make me watch The Wonder Pets on DVD.
1:30 p.m. - chew on shoe, makes me happy.

2:00 p.m - 2:25 p.m.- take a very brief nap followed by a poopie diaper
2:30 p.m. - pee on mommy in a parking lot where she had to change my diaper in the seat of the car
3:00 p.m. - scream at mommy for no reason other than I am tired
3:30 p.m. - get hungry and stupid mommy tries to feed me a bottle while we're driving down the winding mountain road, resulting in me puking on 3rd outfit of the day
4:30 p.m. - finally arrive in mountains, happy as a lark because mommy found out that I love my Very Hungry Caterpillar

It will be AWHILE before we do any more traveling. Quite awhile.

Grassy Butts and Giant Houses

On Monday, we ventured down Blue Ridge Parkway (one of my favorite drives) and went to Flat Top Manor (aka Cone Manor) and downtown Blowing Rock.

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Brief history lesson about Cone Manor:

Moses H. Cone was a mountain man who owned a textile factory that letter became the main supplier for Levi Strauss denim. He built this giant house in 1899 which has twenty-three rooms and 13,000 square feet on the way to Blowing Rock, NC near Flat Top Mountain (hence the name).


Wellllll, while we were at Cone Manor, I forgot to get the diaper bag out of the car so Joshua someone had to walk back up to the car and get it. On the way back down he that person thought he'd they'd take a shortcut instead of walking down the path like normal people  down the side of a very steep hill. This "shortcut" resulted in that person taking a little tumble and getting covered in grass stains. Needless to say, Josh that person didn't enjoy Cone Manor and let that tumble set the tone for the rest of the day.

sissy in front of the beautiful view from Cone Manor

us on the porch since someone was ill and didn't want to walk around any  more - and I am NOT talking about Sawyer

After stopping at Cone Manor, we continued to downtown Blowing Rock where Sawyer had his first swing experience. He loved it.

posing at the park

he was NOT happy to get out of the swing

I call this his Papa Dude face because he looks like my grandaddy  (who we call papa dude)

After a quick lunch at Blowing Rock Cafe, Joshua took Sawyer home since he was getting incredibly fussy. I then went on a mission that I failed to disclose to my husband, see below for a hint.

Then we all returned to the cabin for a little bonfire and s'more action.

Here are just some fantastic pictures of my sweet boy.

notice the bumps on his noggin? yeah his crawling gets a little crazy and he likes to ram into things.

you can only see two here, but Sawbug has a ton of teeth already.