Oh Yes We Did!

Matthew wrote a letter to Santa this week. He asked for a blue car and a book. He was so excited to color a picture for Santa, and put the letter in the mailbox.

After we put the letter in the mailbox I said, “I love Santa!” Matthew got REALLY upset and even started to cry a little and said, “You don’t love Santa! You love my dad!!” How cute is that!? And yes, I DO love his dad—LOTS more than Santa!

Now, I’d like to get a little feedback on the whole “writing to Santa thing. Trying to decide if we should make it a tradition, or is it a little selfish to write to ask for what you want? Matthew had so much fun doing it, but I have mixed feelings. Thoughts?

Harry Potter Party

We had a little Harry Potter Party this weekend. (Does it still count as a party if it is just our family?--the kiddos were sick so we didn't end up inviting anyone over) We ate some yummy food and then watched the LAST Harry Potter (finally)—and I loved it! I only took pictures of the food.

Pinkalicious

I threw a baby shower for my friend this weekend. She wanted to keep it small, so we were able to do a sit down lunch. It was simple but really fun! We had chicken noodle soup, potato cheese soup, salad, and rolls.

One funny thing about this shower…I wanted to do a “pink” theme, but I also wanted to base the shower off of a book—so I thought of doing “Pinkalicious.”   I made my plans, and then went online to see if anyone had ever thought of doing a Pinkalicious party.  I found some REALLY cute ideas via pinterest, and clicked on the pictures which took me to my sister-in-law’s blog!  Ha ha!  No surprise, she always has the most original, darling ideas!  Great job Jadi!

Once there was a Snowman!

I love this snowman that Darin and Matt made. I especially love the tomato eyes, zucchini nose and mouth, and the leaves for a head dress and skirt.

Quick Trip to the Cabin

I LOVE the cabin in the fall!!

Darin and I went up to the cabin this last weekend. It was a short trip, but it was really fun. Nothing like sitting by a warm fire and watching scary movies up at the cabin!

The only bad thing about this trip was right as we left I said, “I hope we remembered everything we need.” Followed by, “I guess all we really need are the diapers, wipes and our clothes, and I know that we have that.”

We got up to the cabin and less than 5 minutes later, Matt had a dirty diaper. So, I went to get the diapers, and guess what…no bag! I remembered everything but the bag I had packed with the diapers, our clothes, underwear, makeup, etc. So, Darin had to make a quick trip to town to buy some diapers. After that, it was a very enjoyable weekend!

Oh, and my two sweatshirts were in that bag, and it was SUPER cold---luckily there was a coat up at the cabin for me to use!

Mr. Toad's Great Adventure

*Disclaimer: I let my dad chose the title of this blog post—this post has absolutely nothing to do with Mr. Toad.

We has an awesome Halloween Party with my family last week at my parent’s house. My sister planned lots of fun games for the kids, and we all had a GREAT time! The kids made q-tip skeletons, a relay with ghost shaped marshmallows on a spoon, picking up “witch hats” (chocolate chips) with a straw, and more. We had soup in bread bowls that looked like pumpkins and decorated Halloween sugar cookies. It was such a fun night!!

We went as Captain Hook, Peter Pan, Wendy, and Tinkerbell.



Sucking up Chocolate Chips or "Witch Hats" through a straw.

The two Tinkerbells.

Q-tip Skeletons

I did this every year that I taught school. I gave each of the kids a paper with an outline of a grave yard.  Then I let the kids color in everything but the sky with crayon.  Next, we paint over the top with water color.  What the kids don’t know is that I had colored a ghost with white crayon somewhere on the paper, so when the paint goes on a ghost appears! 

Carving Pumpkins

Carving pumpkins was so much fun!  I gave Matt options for his pumpkin and he thought triangle eyes were about the funniest thing on the planet.  He also was insistent on having a sad pumpkin with teeth.  Darin did a spooky haunted house and I did two ghosts.

Trick or Treat

Oh my goodness!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE being a mom! Halloween is extra fun again! The most fun it has ever been in my whole life! This was the first year I have taken Matthew trick or treating—and he LOVED it! I first took him to the retirement home.  The old people were SO excited! It was really cute! Then I took him trick-or-treating to my parents’ and grandparents’ houses. Then Matt went trick-or-treating on Main Street with his buddy Daxton. Last we did like 4 houses in our neighborhood. It was so fun!

 

We also have some awesome neighbors that chose a theme every year and dress up as a family! This year was Aladin—don’t they look AMAZING!!?

Playing in the Leaves