Crafting Mania

The past couple of months I have been looking at a lot of crafting blogs. I am addicted!! I see these things and think I can do that, so I try. It has been so hard to finish some projects because our Jo Anns (only fabric store in town), is moving to another store so for the past few months they haven't got any new merchandise (who does that before Halloween), so next week when they open I am there! Here are a few things I have made.

My friend had a craft night. This was one of them. They are two sided, so both projects are on the same pieces of wood. I thought that was so clever.
This was another project from that night. It was so much fun to make. The other side has Thanksgiving words.
I made Ava some booties before she was born, but they are now to small. I decided it was time to make her some more. They are so easy to make, and so much fun.

I have been working on Ava's room. Here are a few pictures. When I get everything done, I will post more. The butterfly picture frame was soooo easy. I just cut butterflies with my mom's cricket and then found a frame at DI and spray painted it. Then I just measured out and placed the butterflies. I love the way it turned out.
I found the instructions for this shirt, and this is the second one I have made. They are way easy, but a little time consuming. I'm think of trying one with some tulle next time, and maybe two toned. I can't decide.

Joe Cool

I looked outside yesterday while the boys were cleaning up the flowers in the front yard. This is what I saw.

Grant just sat there and watched them work like he was supervising. I love that the glasses are 1 pink, and 2 upside down. Man he is growing up so fast.

Halloween Part 2

After a crazy day (I'll explain later), we got to celebrate our Halloween. Chad couldn't make it to the trunk or treat because he was working, but we did go trick or treating to a few houses after he got home. This year Claire was a fairy, Owen was Iron Man, Grant was a horse, and Ava was a Pea in the Pod. The kids had so much fun. Grant learned to say "thank you," really well. He loved getting candy. He also learned how to say "candy." I think I hear that about 15 times a day. We hope you had a wonderful Halloween!

The Bus Driver

Chad has a new job, and the kids are sooooo excited!! He is a bus driver for the city. It is a great job, and they work well with his schedule. He already had his CDL when he applied so he only had to get his passenger endorsement. He works about 20 hours a week. He has driven at the college, but also has a route around town on Saturdays. We have been busy on Saturdays so I am looking forward to the day that we can go ride the long route. After we went trick or treating downtown we headed up to the college to ride on "daddy's bus," for our first ride. The kids had a great time, and of course I had to take a picture of Chad in uniform. The first time he put it on I laughed so hard. Doesn't he look handsome!! Now every time we see a bus around town the kids yell, "there's daddy's bus!"

Halloween Part 1

On Friday we started the Halloween festivities with the kids. My friends Emma and Jodi and I took 8 kids downtown to go trick or treating. It is always crazy and I don't like doing it but with Halloween on a Sunday, and I didn't want them to not get to trick or treat this year. We had a lot of fun, and Grant finally understood what Halloween was. He cried the minute I forced his costume on him, until he got that first piece of candy. Once they put candy in his bucket he wouldn't walk for awhile because he was so enthralled by having candy in his bucket. I finally convinced him to keep going by telling him that he would get more candy. We had a lot of fun, but an hour was enough time to spend around all of those people.

Ava, Grant, Cosette, Cassidy, Claire, Ethan, Issac, and Owen

Owen's Preschool Halloween Party

Owen was so excited for his Halloween party at preschool. I think he was more excited to wear his costume because I told him he couldn't wear his costume until his party at school. There ended up being 4 Iron Men in his class of 12 kids. There were 3 red ones, and one black Iron Man. There was also a Superman, so we had a superhero convention. Owen had a lot of fun, and got to get wrapped up like a mummy by the other kids. He thought it was fun at first, but was ready for that game to be over. They played a few other games, and then they each got to decorate a cookie and eat a ton of treats.

Halloween FHE

We have enjoyed having FHE with our good friend Anjie and her daughter McKinlee.  Since Chad works every evening, we decided to have a "single ladies" FHE.  It has been great.  It has been hard for me to always get FHE in while Chad is not home.  This evening we had a lesson and then we made monsters out of Ho Ho's and candy.  The kids had a lot fun, and as you can see they were very chocolately!