Halloween recap

Halloween for us started bright and early. The kids were so excited and they giggled at mommy when I woke them up saying "Merry Christmas!" hehehe

Colby had morning kindergarten that day and they would both be participating in the costume parade that morning as well plus their class parties. I swear we were at the school ALL day :). The parade was a lot of fun. Each grade took a turn parading around the others so that everyone could see eachother's costumes. I remember doing that when I was in elementary school too. There were some cool costumes! And also some very inappropriate costumes (in my opinion). The teachers' costumes were also pretty impressive. My two faves were Steve (or Joe?) from Blue's Clues and Mary Poppins! There were a few other Bumblebee Transformers (B was one of 2 in his class!) but I didn't see any other pink genies!

The kids and I came home and took a nap and then got up and got ready for our night and waited for Daddy to get home and join us. Unfortunately Daddy got home late and then we had car troubles so are night o' trick or treating got off to a REALLY late start :( It ended up fine in the end because we met up with my brother, sister-in-law & nephew for trick or treating. It was the first time the cousins had ever done this together. :) David was a Lakers fan (big stretch huh?) and I was a deviled egg hehehe

Raymond was pretty sleepy LOL

Carving pumpkins

BEFOREAFTER

Gettin' Crafty! FINALLY!

I have been SO busy lately with home, schoolwork, volunteering, and LFR that I haven't had any time to get crafty! A few weeks ago I did go to a crop with some friends but even then I worked on Christmas presents!

Have you ever had an idea in your head for a project and it won't go away until you DO said project? This has been happening to me lately. I have had 2 ideas for scrapbooking layouts that I want to do about Colby and they have just been nagging me and nagging me. It gets to the point where I feel like I can't do anything else until I DO what is on my mind! I sound crazy I know!

Anyway tonight I finally had the time to do a lil scrapbooking! With the kids on the floor in the background doing their scrapbooking (so cute! I really should get some pictures of that), I sat at my desk and busted out this page:

The journaling says " One day Mommy asked you if you were CUTE and you said "No Mommy I'm not cute I'm COOL"

I had a lot of fun with this page. The background is a metallic silver and I used some embellishments that I've had on hand FOREVER! Oh and I also did some photo editing with my new picasa program. Can you tell? :)

After baths and bedtime for the kiddos, I was still in a crafty mood, but not so much in a scrapbooking mood anymore. So I decided to tackle another project that had been on the backburner.

This lil guy (gal?) is going to be hard to say goodbye to! It has a twin, and they will both be filled with treats and given to my kids' teachers for Halloween. I saw it in last month's issue of Scrapbooks etc. but I did some tweaking to the general idea with size and such. Isn't it darling!?

I wonder what I'll get a chance to work on tomorrow! I still have 1 more Colby layout in my head, need to finish the other lil frankenstein box, I have a baby blanket & taggie already cut and ready to be sewn, blogs to write, hmmmm...Stay tuned!

Halloween Costumes Past & Present

I know I already showed you what the kids & I are going to be this year but I love photos (especially those of my kiddos) so I got the idea to post Halloween costumes of them growing up. Eventually these will be put into an mini album that is brought out every year when we decorate for fall and we will add to it every year. :) I apologize in advance for the quality of most of these pictures - they were either taken with a crappy camera, scanned, or taken from my scrapbook.

2002 What else would my Lacie Bug be but a LADYBUG for her first Halloween :) I LOVED this costume! It was so soft & snuggly and I think my mom is the one that found those cutie patootie Lady Bug slippers for her.

2003

This Halloween was cold and rainy so I wanted the kids to be dressed in something comfy. Target had these ADORABLE costumes that were more like clothes but they were so soft and snuggly! I found a lil puppy dog for Colby & a pink kitty cat for Lacie. They were ADORABLE and these costumes got the most use I tell ya!

2004

This year Lacie wanted to be a bride (that's her with her lil friend Tayler at Preschool who by the way goes to her school now too :) ) but that night it was REALLY chilly so we put her in a lil outfit that her Uncle Greg brought her from Japan. Colby was our lil Dodger boy in a jersey that was actually given to us at the baby shower for Lacie (member she was supposed to be a boy?).

2005

Doesn't Lacie look JUST like Snow white!? I love it :) And Colby was Buzz Lightyear, complete with inflatable wings! Haha! Isabelle was Cinderella this year :) Love the wig sista!

2006

Lacie was Ariel this year and Belle put together her own costume w/mom's help! Colby/Buzz Lightyear made a repeat appearance this year because it was too hot to wear his other costume - Emperor Zurg!

Lil Raymond in his pumpkin costume was barely 1 month old!

2007 My lil Angel & Jedi - Luke Skywalker
My baby sister as Sharpay from High School Musical
My mom as a rodeo clown and Lacie

My nephew Raymond as Tigger

2008

And this year, we have the PINK Genie - "I want to be a Genie so I can wear a shirt that shows my belly" (oh lordie we are in trouble!) and Colby as BUMBLEBEE transformer!

Hug-a-Boos

I got this recipe from Becky Higgins. She calls them Pretzel Hugs and I did make them last Christmas if you'll remember. I decided to make them this week when I saw the new Halloween M&Ms and their fabulous colors! Then I came up with the cute name :) BOOS get it hahaha So cute :)

And since I'm SO nice, here's the recipe for all of you (in case you don't wanna click over and search Ms. Higgins' site :) ):

• The ingredients are pretzels (the twisted kind), Hershey's Hugs, m&ms, and 2 adorable helpers!
• I always cover my cookie sheets with foil - a fabulous tip from my fabulous mother - it cuts down on clean up lemme tell ya!
• Preheat oven to about 200 degrees or so
• Lay out your pretzels, leave a lil room in between em - be sure to eat the broken ones!
• Then top pretzels - right in the center - with 1 HUG
• Put in the over just until the HUGs are soft
• Top with 1 or 2 m&ms
• Cool in fridge for a few hours**

**This is a very important step! The HUGs need to re-harden so setting them out on the counter will not suffice!

There ya go! I'd love to hear if any of you try this recipe! :) Enjoy!

Halloween Costumes

I found these awhile back and they go perfectly with this post I did a few weeks ago.

And here's my lil chitlins in their costumes for this year :)

And here's what mine will be hahahaha

Seriously?

Why is it 99 degrees out today?!?!? Fall wherefore out thou? I just put up my Halloween decorations yesterday, doesn't that count for something??? :(

Hilarious Halloween Costumes for the Babes

Just make sure these first 2 don't get handed out

to the Trick or Treaters!

Better keep this lil guy away from

the kids dressed like MONKEYS!!!

I'm hoping this one helps out with

that stinky diaper odor!This guy's ready to go for a swim!
Think this ones ready to turn into a Butterfly? Try learning to crawl or walk with EIGHT legs bub!