Halloween Fun

Happy Halloween! We've had some Halloween fun already this year. We took the kids to a local church's fall festival last Saturday night. Then tonight, my bunko group had a Halloween/costume theme. We all dressed up and it was lots of fun! As for Halloween night itself, we are going to Midland to pick my mom up from the airport with costumes in tow and plan to head back to some friends' homes here in town so the kids can trick-or-treat. We are greatly anticipating Nana's visit!

At the festival...me and Claire, sans her antennae (I wore them most of the night!)

Will the Astronaut

Will playing with his friends, Malaki and Cash. They both came as Optimus Prime (the Transformer).

Claire and Daddy...she's actually wearing the antennae in this one!

Me dressed up for Bunko...I went as "Solo in the Spotlight" Barbie.

Scott having fun with the camera...

Katie the Clown and Aubrey the Hershey's Kiss

Barbara (with her eyes closed) and Pat

Abby the Hunter (in case you can't tell, the target is on her pregnant belly!!)

Trissa and Callie and Alice Cullen and Victoria from the Twilight series

Driving Lesson

Today the kids were playing outside and didn't realize I was watching them. They were both sitting in the little Cozy Coupe car and I heard Will saying to Claire, "this is how you drive." It was so cute! I tried to sneak up on them to take a picture but that didn't work so well...but you get the idea!

Showing her the proper "10 and 2" hand positions (as he likes to remind us all the time, "drive with both hands!")

These are a little blurry, but they were just so cute of Claire hamming it up for the camera.

Learning to Design

One dozen roses

A $35 arrangement

A $30 arrangement

A half-dozen roses

A $55 arrangment

My attempt at Teleflora's Halloween special...it is a $50 arrangement

Another view of the Halloween special

The bats are made out of holly leaves painted black :)

I've been dabbling as a designer at the flower shop the last few days. It's been something I've wanted to do ever since I started at the shop six years ago. Here are a few pics of some of the arrangements I've done the past few days. I still have a lot to learn, but I'm satisfied with what I've done so far :) It's been fun, at least!

Pigtails!

The back of Claire's hair is finally long enough for pigtails! They are too cute, if you ask me :) However, they don't like to stay up for very long...we're working on that!

Lil' Ladybug

I was unsuccessful in finding a ladybug costume I liked or could afford for Claire. So I decided, why not make one? My extremely talented friend, Jen, was with me this weekend and we thought it couldn't be that hard. We set out to Wal-Mart to get a simple pattern and some material. However, as I was walking into Wal-Mart, I remembered something. Ours was remodeled this summer and they did away with the fabric department. The whole fabric department. You can't get anything. So, we decided we wouldn't give up hope yet...I had seen a red fleece blanket for $4. And they do have those little swatches of felt, so we got some of those in black. We made this costume in a couple of hours last night without a pattern. I'm so proud of us!

*By the way, in case you're wondering...no, we don't have carpet in our den anymore. That's just the bare concrete floor. Our hope is to someday refinish it (stain or paint it), but for now we just wanted to get rid of that carpet. So that's what you're seeing in those pics up there :)*

In other news...homecomings are over and we are trying to return to normal at work. Claire is really starting to walk well. Claire woke up with hives all over her on Friday so she had a big shot of benedryl on Friday. She's still got some, but it's much better. Will is as silly as ever...he is in that fun stage of not wanting to take any more naps! Yea!

As for me, I am busy working on several projects, one being our church's Ladies' Day coming up in two weeks. I'm one of the people "in charge," so there's several things to be done between now and then. I don't think our life will ever slow down. I should change the title of this blog to Life and Laughter in the Fast Lane :)