Boo!

Did I scare you? Well I hope not. Because I hate scary things. Halloween really creeps me out. Don't get me wrong. I love to carve pumpkins and dress the kids up in cute costumes but, for me, the fun stops there. Corn mazes and blood and goblins Creep. Me. Out. And don't even get me started on the scariest place I have ever stepped foot in-the Halloween Store. Or adults in costumes. Seriously, people. You are a GROWN UP! And tomorrow I will get to spend my day with 22 5-year-olds who have had way too much junk food and way too little sleep. Jealous?

All that being said, I had a great day! In fact all weekend we have been having a ton of Halloween fun. It started on Friday when we finally got around to carving our pumpkins.

 Abby's pumpkin is a princess...and it is almost as big as she is!!

Ben's is a football player.  A scary football player.

 

Notice the high heels the princess pumpkin is wearing?  She had a wedding dress too but we just couldn't figure out how to make it work...

 We have a hard time getting to everywhere we want to go in one night so on Saturday we made our first stop at my parents house.

 Tonight, we fueled up for our big night of trick or treating with a very scary dinner.  (Well, not that scary because, as you know, I hate that stuff.)  What did we eat?  Well guts and blood of course.  And eyeballs!

We also ate witches fingers,

 and brains.  (Full disclosure, this actually started out as worms but they melted together so I had to make a last minute adjustment.)

 For dessert we had skeletons!

 Then my little scuba diver and mermaid headed out on a 2 and a half hour trick or treating marathon.

 A lot of work, but well worth it!

Now, bring on November because that means Thanksgiving and the minute Thanksgiving is over I get to start getting ready for Christmas, which I love.  Because it isn't scary.

Where'd the weekend go?

This weekend I:
celebrated my birthday with my friends
spent most of Saturday crafting at our first ever "craft day" (many more to come, I hope!)
celebrated my birthday with my family
went grocery shopping
went to the pumpkin patch
reincarnated Steve, the scarecrow
celebrated my birthday with Robbie's family
cleaned the garage


Now? Time to relax because this week is going to be BUSY (again).
Thanks for a great weekend everyone! Love you all!

A cry for help

Okay people, I can admit it.  I have a problem.  A big, huge, time wasting, money costing, problem.  I am addicted.  I.  Cannot.  Stop.  Pinning.  Yup that's right.  My love for Pintrest has gotten out of control.  I need a pintervention.  And quick!  Because not only do I stay up into the wee hours pinning, I have begun spending all of my free time enhancing my life with all sorts of new projects. 

Like this one:

I colored the rice in my rice table at school.  Kids love it!

Or this fine piece of artwork that I made to hang above the bathtub in my bathroom:

 And this one:

 I've been eying this cute map at Target that I want for the playroom but I can't talk myself into the forty dollar price tag.  Enter a $3 piece of burlap (which I wouldn't recommend if you are thinking about doing this project because it sure made things difficult) and 50 different fabric scraps that I already had and wa la!  My plan is to finish it at some point but I am currently not getting along with the mid west or the burlap so it could be awhile.

This weekend was sewing day at our house.  Sewing?  you ask.  Yes.  Sewing.  You see I decided that this is the year I would make costumes for Halloween.  So I asked the kids what they wanted to be.  The verdict?  A scuba diver and a mermaid.  Ummmm ooookaaaay.  Enter my new BFF, Pintrest where I found just what I needed to get me started.  And good news!  Sewing day was a success:

 As long as I was at it, I decided to whip up some cute little burp rags for my nephew who is due to make his grand entrance before too long:

And that's not all.  I have been finding all sorts of new recipes on Pintrest.  I know you are trying to picture me cooking something other than tacos and now you are laughing.  Well stop.  I've made some very yummy things.  I've also made some complete disasters.  But that's another story for another day.

I can't wait for Christmas so I can try out all of my new Pintrest ideas for the holiday season.  Like wrapping up 24 of our Christmas books and unwrapping one each day.  Or putting our elf, Kelf, up to some serious mischief!  The ideas are endless.

Also, I have found a number of things that I MUST have.  Like a new camera, new bedding, and a baby giraffe.  (At first I thought the baby koala was the cutest thing I had ever seen, but then I saw the giraffe.  Game over.)

Yup.  You can see I have a problem.  If you are unfamiliar with the world of Pintrest I beg you to enter at your own risk.  For the sake of your sleep and your family and your friends but most of all, your sleep.  Because no one told me this, but once you start pinning, you won't want to stop!

Down on the Farm

When Megan called to see if we wanted to join them on the Pierce County Farm Tours today, of course we said yes.  We picked Spooner Farms and headed out to meet them.  We had plenty of fun and even avoided the rain!  Scotty was happy to be at the pumpkin patch for the first time...

 While we were there, we rode bouncy horses...

 checked out the farm animals, like this guy (we think his name is Albuquerque)...

 played in the pumpkin pit...

 raced ducks in the water trough...

 found some really big pumpkins...

 watched some goats play king of the haystack...

 hung out with a giant spider...

 smiled for the camera....

 and had our faces painted...

It was a perfect way to spend a fall morning.  Thanks Megs!