You can thank my sister

     My little sister Briana has a habit of giving me a hard time when I don't post anything for a while. You can all personally thank her for guilting me into keeping this blog alive ha ha.  Especially since I have recently started hand journaling again. I forgot how much I love to hand journal! Anyway it is way past time to update this blog so let's start back in Oct.

     For Halloween Tyler's school did a trick or treat party. We went to his school and the kids got to go around to the administrations offices and trick or treat. It was really cute! Joel had just started walking a couple weeks before and we threw a cape on him and turned him into Nacho Libre! It was probably the best costume ever! His little pot belly and drunken baby walk were a priceless combination!

     Sophia dressed up as the ever adorable Annie! I made her watch the movie a couple times before hand so she knew who she was. She at least knew how to sing "Tomorrow tomorrow I love ya tomorrow" It was cute!

         Tyler and I dressed up as Wolverine and Gene Grey for Halloween. We were invited to a Halloween costume party and it was so fun to dress up! I don't think we have dressed up in years.

     Our ward also did a trunk or treat. My trunk was a bat cave with Potions inside. I feel like we celebrated Halloween like four times. Which was awesome!

     On the actual day of Halloween Tyler's cousin Mitchell and his Girlfriend Darrian were in town visiting so we spent the day on the beach. When we got home it was a little late for trick or treating but we went to some friends house and had some yummy food and played till late. It was a great day! 

~A

Halloween

We figured this was the last year Sophia would let us pick  out her Halloween costume. So we decided to make it count! I give you,............Richard Simmons!!!

Doesn't she make the best Richard Simmons?! I was tempted to get some fake color and make her hair brown but I didn't have time.  

I made that little shirt. I am pretty proud of it. There is 500 jewels on there! I glued each one individually. Yes I am that crazy but the rest of the costume was super easy!

Our little skeleton. He is the cutest! 

We just went around to friend's houses to trick or treat and hang out. Maybe next year we will really take her trick or treating. 

~A

Happy Halloween!

     Happy Halloween! I hope everyone had a great Halloween or as my husband would say happy Nevada Day. Nevada's state day is October 31st so my husband insists on that holiday first and Halloween second. He is kinda a goon that way but I don't mind.

     Well our Halloween was pretty low key but a lot of fun! It started like this..

       Sophia is in this new phase where when she wakes up she has to have everything that was on her bed with her. It is really cute! So we started the day lazy as I did the final touches on her Halloween costume. Then we spent most of the afternoon shopping. I am lucky I have a girly girl cause she loves to shop with me. We spent the afternoon going to stores looking for shoes for our family pics on Wednesday. We finally found Sophia and Tyler shoes at the very last store we went to. I think it will pull all the outfits together I really hope the pics turn out! 

      Then we made dinner. For our Halloween dinner I found these amazing huge mushrooms! 

      So we had stuffed mushrooms. Oh yum! They were the best stuffed mushrooms ever. I don't even typically like mushrooms, but I love them stuffed! The recipe is so simple and I got a little creative and added some flavors of my own and they turned out so great, even Sophia liked them.

      With all the Halloween parties going on this week I had to make desserts for 3 different ones. I was wanting to make pumpkin cupcakes. It was my first try and they turned out so yummy! I made some fun cupcake liners to go around them in fall colors, they were gorgeous when I was done. So we enjoyed cupcakes for dessert. 

     Then came the fun part. Dressing up Sophia!! I decide with her red hair she would make the perfect little Pebbles for Halloween. So I googled some pics and came up with my own pattern to make her costume. In a lot of the pics Pebbles had a pet turtle and we had a little stuffed turtle that was perfect for her to carry around with her! 

     She was being the perfect little poser! I hope she is this good for our pics tomorrow! The night ended with all of us snuggling on the couch eating cupcakes and watching a movie. Sophia's hair was so goofy looking after we took it out. She looked like a who from Whoville so we snapped this silly pic.

     Look at that face! ha ha She is so goofy! I  Love her. I hope everyone had a great Halloween/Nevada Day! Stay tuned for family pics coming up in a few days, I hope they turn out good, wish us luck! 

                                           ~A