Halloween 2010

A few pictures of my "trick or treaters" from Sunday.

Little Em showing some "cattidude"

ARRGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

This was the 3rd year in a row that we trick-or-treated with my brother, sister-in-law and niece (above as a witch). My brother lives two blocks from my parents so we are trick-or-treating the same neighborhood we grew up in.

This is my dad, answering the door at the house I grew up in, TRICK OR TREAT!

little red

Last Halloween I had one little guy that wanted to be Spiderman and one little girl that wanted to be Little Red Riding Hood, jeezo I could not believe what the stores wanted for a LRRH cape, too much! "I can do that" I thought, so I did. I googled "hooded cape tutorial" and looked around for the easiest, quickest one I could find, of course I can't find it now, but there are several out there....trust me, this was so EASY!

I went to JoAnn's found this awesome crushed velvet like red fabric in the remnant section, yahoo even cheaper, I decided to add a little bit of ribbon to it so I found some nice Scandinavian like ribbon and added it, I must say both Emily and I were really happy with how this turned out.

After Halloween I decided I needed a little bit of LRRH up year round, so I made a wall hanging just for me, this year Jack is a pirate so I think I will be doing the same for him, arggggggghhh!


...this is what I came up with. I just printed one of my favorite photo's of Emily onto some Printed Treasures fabric paper (use a coupon!!) then used it for the center of my wall hanging, used some of my favorite little scraps and viola a little wall hanging for me to enjoy year round of my little Em as Little Red.

Then made a little something for Emily, so with the same picture I made her a little pillow to have on her bed, she just loves it.

I belong to a bunko group (so fun!!) and every October we all dress up, guess who I came as this year?

Happy Halloween!

Mother's Day

I made my mom this pillow for Mother's Day....this is a photo that was taken last summer of my brothers and I with our spouses and children.....only person missing from the photo is my new nephew Garrett but he really is in the photo....he was cookin inside my sister-in-law. :)


up close, I used some of my Sweetwater au.then.tic yardage, I really like the way the black and white photo looks with the green....my mom liked it too.

Ever since my first Mother's Day when Emily was 9 months old I have had my husband take a few pictures of me with my child/children and I have a little "Mother's Day" scrapbook just for those photos...yesterday he took these of Jack, Emily and I....silly kids.

Here is a family picture of the 4 of us. :)

See those HUGE diamond earrings??? They were a gift from Emily....she really likes the bling! She bought these for me at Target, she was so proud of herself. (note to hubs....I would love a REAL pair of diamond earrings someday....no need for them to be this large though!!)

Hope you all had a nice Mother's Day!

Grow old along with me.....

...the best is yet to be

advent

These are the worst pictures ever...but hopefully you will get the idea :) This year instead of the little cardboard picture with little windows to open (ok I am doing that too) I came up with these little bags numbered 1-25. Last night the kids opened #1 which was under the tree, it is the Fisher Price Little People Nativity set and inside some of the bags are Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus and the 3 Wise Men along with some candy, socks, a toy for each of them and more candy...thought this would be a fun way to "keep Christ in Christmas" and the kids will love to play with the Nativity, not a lot of Christmas decorations that they are "allowed" to play with.

Halloween and thank you

Pictures from Halloween....Jack, spider man....Emily, Litte Red Riding Hood (made the cape, I thought it turned out pretty cute!) my niece Abigail, Daphne from Scooby Doo. This was the 2nd year we have gone trick or treating in the neighborhood I grew up in....my parents still live in the same house, brings back a lot of good memories for my brother and I and now we are doing the same with our kids.

Earlier in the day, Emily posing at the library

Jacko on a candy mission, no mask needed

the end of the night trying to get a picture with these two sugared up knuckle heads....good luck!!

Thanks for the nice comments about my mom....I don't know how to respond to someones comments...I am such a dork....if someone can tell me how I would love to reply to you!! Happy November....oh yeah....we went to Target today...holy smokes....CHRISTMAS everywhere! EEEEEK

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