Is it Halloween Yet??

 I am trying really hard around here to gain 10 pounds before Thanksgiving...(ha!)

Yesterday we made Halloween cupcakes.

 I had three very anxious helpers!

 Working hard...

 Can you say MESS!!  But I just let it go...he sat there and played in his icing and cupcakes the entire time. 

 Our spider

 Our monster

 And our one-eyed ghost

 And here is Cade's area when we were all finished.  I might be scraping icing off my table for months

Carving a Pumpkin

 Last week they boys had a pumpkin carving night at their mother's day out.  Riley had a program at school the same night, so Justin and I had to split up.  So...Riley had not carved her pumpkin yet.  It was on our agenda for tonight!

 Check out that blue tongue Riley has...someone has been in the Halloween candy.

We had to dig deep to get all the guts out.

 It called for some serious on-the-table action

Once I carved the face, Riley added the "bling"

The cutest cat pumpkin you have ever seen!
Complete with a tail!

Next on our Halloween to do list was decorating sugar cookies.  (excuse the messy walls...I am in the middle of painting the kitchen )

 I think they ate as much icing as they put on the cookies.

 And we made a little bit of a mess!!  There were sprinkles and candy balls all over my kitchen.

 The finished cookies...don't you just want to gobble one up?? Ha!

 While I cleaned up, the kids did what I am sure every normal family does...they made a run through sign.  Yesterday was the start of the basketball season for Justin so the kids felt the need to make a basketball sign.

 Riley is my little artist. That girl can draw better than me!

Once the sign was finished, we hung it up and the kids ran through it.

Again and again and again!!!

Halloween

As much as I love a child who questions all the things in life...I got very tired of "Is today Halloween?" so we made a calendar to countdown to Halloween.  Problem solved!

In the spirit of the season we have been busy "decorating" around here.  For the record, I take a child-driven approach to this decorating.  Home and Garden will not be photographing my house anytime soon.

We started with the beautiful fall leaf wreaths (thank you dollar store)

Then we colored some Halloween placemats.  Cade is obsessed with these Dots.  He ends up a dotted mess.

Halloween is not complete without our ghosts.

I have these beauties hanging throughout my living room

Oh and yes, don't forget the kitchen lights need ghosts.  We had a fun game of "where is the ghost hiding" every morning until Cade tore off the ghost's head...shocker!

After ghosts, we moved on to spiders.  Easy to make with some black pipe cleaner.

We hung them on a nice decorative spider web displayed across my hallway wall.

And don't you worry if you run out of black pipe cleaner...these glamorous spiders can come in all colors!

So, we are ready and decorated for Halloween.  Is it Halloween yet??

Halloween Preview

I should wait and post Halloween pictures after Halloween but I have the feeling this might be my only and best shot of Cade...

 

In case you are not living in a toddler world of Yo Gabba Gabba....

DJ Lance

Can't you see the resemblance? 

I think I got as much wear out of this diaper as I am going to get...

Pumpkin Patch

  We made our annual trip to the pumpkin patch. 

And, like always, we ran home to paint our small pumpkins...

Our finished products