Halloween!!!

The words to Laura's halloween song she learned at preschool, we've been singing it all month:

'Her hair was green, her teeth were kind of purplish, her hair is an awful mess, oh what a creepy dress, a wart on her nose, but that's what she likes I guess, she's a Halloween witch! HEHEHEHEHE!'

No witches here though, just a beautiful mermaid and an adorable little piglet:

Halloween highlights:

-Dressing up and trick or treating at Daddy's office, those nice ladies sure know how to spoil cute little girls!

-Going around to a few houses in our neighborhood and getting a load of candy

-Carving pumpkins on Halloween night because Daddy was on a business trip the whole week before.

-Getting to wear their costumes the whole day!

-Nice warm fall weather, no snowstorms like when I was a kid in Rexburg:)

Trick or Treat!

Christmas Organizer

This little craft has taken my obsession with lists to a whole new level: a christmas list organizer! A custom scrapbooked list organizer complete with list inserts of list ideas, stocking stuffer and actual gift purchased list, gift shopping list, and budget tracker. lists+christmas= happy abby:)

p.s. i can just see 'i'm so blessed' making a spoof about this blog entry. oh well!
p.p.s. if you'd like to also have a little bit of heaven here's where i found the idea and list templates: http://christmasplanner.com/tour-christmas-planner/pocket-planners

Black Island Farms

Black Island Farms

Laura's preschool had a busy week: they took a field trip to our local 'pumpkin patch/harvest festival'. The kids and I stayed afterward and had lunch and played around. The girls loved the bouncy pumpkin, the tractor train, and especially the super big haystack slides. It took a bit of convincing, but Laura followed after watching Eden go down safely a few times:) I even took a few trips down. They also loved picking out pumpkins and just being outside in the fun sunshine. If only I hadn't had a terrible cold everyone would have had a fun time...

Also it was the ever exciting preschool halloween party today as well. I will admit that instead of making Laura's beautiful mermaid costume like I had planned I got sucked into an absolutely great book series and even forgot to make her cookies to bring until 10:30 the night before. Oh well, she look so cute, thanks Rita for letting us borrow mary alice's from last year! Eden wanted to wear her costume too so we went to walmart while laura was at school, and got lots of smiles in my little piglet's direction.

A crafty week

I go through spurts of creative energy. Of course being pregnant those spurts were very short lived. Now that I'm back on my feet the creative flow has been revitalized as well. This week I pulled out my sew machine and internet resources and got busy with the girls! We made mini candy apples on monday, and although they didn't turn out nearly as well as family fun's version they were still yummy, on tuesday laura and i put together a silly spider, wednesday both of the girls helped me make a collasol mess and a double batch of rolls, thursday we hit the fabric store and made green halloweenish playdough, friday and saturday I made these adorable trick or treat bags, and today laura and eden made this 'custom' picture for Ryan to look at while he's hanging out with us in the kitchen. We really have been busy doing other things too, but it's just been a crafty sort of week.

Ryan has finally started really smiling at us. I love his cheesy smiles, they're so innocent and in a way very experimental:) I managed to have the camera next to me last night when I looked over and he was just grinning at me from his swing. What a sweetheart.

Random silly scenes from today

Tonight, at her insistance, I helped Larua make a letter to Santa Clause. It's not even Halloween yet and she's got it in her sights. Probably because she saw one of her presents I had not hidden very well. I told her Santa had asked me to send it to him, it was in a box. I'm glad she's only four and believed me. It's amazing how innocent they are. Anyway, tonight we pulled a piece of lavender paper with cupcakes on it off of my fridge list pad and made what I'm sure is one of many, christmas lists. Perhaps she's inherited my love of lists. She would draw these cute, tiny little preschooler doodles of her wishes and I wrote what they were next to them. A pink barbie dress, a yoyo that she saw at the zoo an entire year ago, a violin and a guitar(I suttely hinted to that one, she is getting a violin and I wanted to make sure it was on her list:), a rocking horse like the one at Grandma Rosey's, and a toy sew machine (I was in the middle of sewing her trick or treat bag). She made an envelope for it, and after remaking the list because the original got lost already, Laura got her and Eden ready with coats and flipflops on, grabbed daddy's flashlight because the sun was going down, and dragged me outside to find Santa's mailbox! I steered them towards our box down the street and made the incredible discovery that our mailbox had magically become Santa's! So her letter is mailed, I hope Santa gets it before Christmas:)

Today while Eden, Ryan and I were on our way to the fabric store I looked back and saw Eden sticking her finger in her ear. I asked if she was ok and in a rather confused voice she said she had 'nicey' in her ear. In our family we call vaseline 'nicey', we use it in place of diaper rash creme; the term originated from when my sister Sarah was a toddler:) I asked if it was yellow and explained that it was ear wax. Her reply, "Mommy I like ear wax!"

Ryan's starting to smile more and more. I love it, it's like a wonderful reward for the last year's trials and tears. Thank heavens for little baby smiles. It even makes up for today: I was holding him and talking to a friend when all of a sudden I felt something warm and wet go straight down my cleavage. Yep, he's the spit-up king, and I love him.