Ah... who doesn't love SHOPPING! And it's even better with huge crowds, long lines and in the cold darkness of the night (or very early morning that is).
Yes, another successful round of Christmas shopping complete! My game plan was to get up at 3am, shower and leave by 4am. But what really happened was I got up at 3am... didn't feel like showering, so I went back to bed until a little before 4am, THEN got up (without showering), got dressed and was at Macys by 4:30! Then I wandering around the mall after that. I had to make a few trips out to the car to unload my bags before continuing on!
Hubby and his family were going to go to Hershey Park today with the kids. But I got a call at 9am saying that Pinky was too cranky and sick to be outside all day. So, I stopped at home to pick sicky up! And what better way to get rid of a cold then to SHOP! So, I toted her around with me the rest of the way. We stopped and had lunch in there at some point. We finally got home at 2pm! We obviously took a nap! So, here I am now... up from a nap and ready to unload the car.
And I am proud to say that I am DONE shopping this holiday. All in all, I hit about 15 stores. (Kohls had the longest line, it wrapped clear around the store... it went fast though) Sure, I might see a few things here and there, but my list is complete! Phew... it's hard work shopping for 10 hours strait!!
Friday, November 28, 2008
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Update on Belle
Today we took Belle to the neurologist. It was interesting. I'm glad hubby came with me because he asked some really great questions!! The first option the doctor gave us was to medicate. Um... I don't think so!
I wont go into detail about what all what said, but basically we will now see a therapist to start CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) and see if that doesn't calm things down. Alot of her tics overlap into being mildly OCD. So, if the CBT isn't working, then he said we will have to use medicine to calm the OCD. But even if it doesn't work, I will research other ways before I put my 6 year old on meds.
I wont go into detail about what all what said, but basically we will now see a therapist to start CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) and see if that doesn't calm things down. Alot of her tics overlap into being mildly OCD. So, if the CBT isn't working, then he said we will have to use medicine to calm the OCD. But even if it doesn't work, I will research other ways before I put my 6 year old on meds.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Crazy House!
My house has been difficult to live in the past week. We are getting alot of work done to it. Since last Tuesday my kitchen has been torn apart because we are getting new cabinets, new painted walls, new painted ceiling, new bathroom cabinets, painted bathrooms, and after all that they are painting our exterior bay windows. THEN in the first week of December we are having new windows installed. It's seriously crazy right now! We've been eating out most meals because there is nowhere in the kitchen to cook. Plus even if I COULD cook, all the food and pans are on the living room floor until I can put them back in the cabinets. But when it's done... it will look SOOOOOOOO good!!!!!! I'll post before and after pictures!!!!!
We'll I'm off, it is after all another school day!
We'll I'm off, it is after all another school day!
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Holly Shrader
I found out today that a dear friend of mine died Friday afternoon. She was in my ward for several years. She was my age (27), married and had a daughter the same age as my daughter (6 and a half). Holly was diagnosed with MS a few years before I met her and actually led a very normal life. Until she had her daughter, then things went bad. Soon after the birth she became wheelchair bound and slowly over the next few years she got worse and worse.
When I first met her she was new to the wheelchair thing, and still very much herself. She could do everything she could before except bound to wheels! We'd go out occasionally with other friends. I hung out at her place and we visited. I used to cut her hair because salons weren't too accommodating. She was so so sweet! And would often get up in church and talk about how blessed she was to have MS because it gave her the opportunity to meet all of us and to see how much love for one another people really do have (she would say this because all her friends would help her out with household things that she wasn't able to do on her own) When she'd say things like that I would think "Wow, how can she possibly be grateful for this? It's completely debilitating and getting worse... yet she's grateful?" I can remember so many times thinking that very thing when she'd comment on how grateful she was for her life. What a strong person!
In the last year or so her condition just plummeted. Her eyesight got so bad that she would have to stand 2 inches in front of her for her to recognize you. She often forgot names even though she knew me (and others) well. Her speech was very slurred and she spoke and moved very slowly. She was in constant pain and all the drugs in the world couldn't relieve her of it.
Her family moved away in August (it was a fast move, because the opportunity came fast for a new place) while I was away on vacation. I didn't hear about it until I got back. I was a little sad I wasn't able to say goodbye. She didn't move too far though, maybe 30 minutes, so I was sure I'd see her again. Well, I never did. I just got the letter today stating that Holly has passed away peacefully in her home with her family.
Her last few months were the worst and I know she's in a happier place and I know she's not suffering anymore. I hope her little daughter Sarah grows up and remembers how much Holly loved and doted on her.
Rest In Peace
When I first met her she was new to the wheelchair thing, and still very much herself. She could do everything she could before except bound to wheels! We'd go out occasionally with other friends. I hung out at her place and we visited. I used to cut her hair because salons weren't too accommodating. She was so so sweet! And would often get up in church and talk about how blessed she was to have MS because it gave her the opportunity to meet all of us and to see how much love for one another people really do have (she would say this because all her friends would help her out with household things that she wasn't able to do on her own) When she'd say things like that I would think "Wow, how can she possibly be grateful for this? It's completely debilitating and getting worse... yet she's grateful?" I can remember so many times thinking that very thing when she'd comment on how grateful she was for her life. What a strong person!
In the last year or so her condition just plummeted. Her eyesight got so bad that she would have to stand 2 inches in front of her for her to recognize you. She often forgot names even though she knew me (and others) well. Her speech was very slurred and she spoke and moved very slowly. She was in constant pain and all the drugs in the world couldn't relieve her of it.
Her family moved away in August (it was a fast move, because the opportunity came fast for a new place) while I was away on vacation. I didn't hear about it until I got back. I was a little sad I wasn't able to say goodbye. She didn't move too far though, maybe 30 minutes, so I was sure I'd see her again. Well, I never did. I just got the letter today stating that Holly has passed away peacefully in her home with her family.
Her last few months were the worst and I know she's in a happier place and I know she's not suffering anymore. I hope her little daughter Sarah grows up and remembers how much Holly loved and doted on her.
Rest In Peace
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Pinkys post!
Since the last one was dedicated solely to Belle, I though I'd write on about Pinky! She is sure at a funny stage right now, she makes me laugh all day long! One of those times was when I walked into the school room to find Pinky completely passed out on the floor asleep! I had left her coloring and I came back to find this...
I guess coloring is a hard job! When she woke up she had purple marker all over forehead.
Then yesterday Belle came down an announced that she had turned her sister into an 'evil Pinky', that was pretty funny! Here's EVIL PINKY!
And in the bath yesterday she insisted on wearing her goggles... need I say more!
So, as you can see, Pinky really keeps things lively over here! (when she's not asleep on the floor!)
I guess coloring is a hard job! When she woke up she had purple marker all over forehead.
Then yesterday Belle came down an announced that she had turned her sister into an 'evil Pinky', that was pretty funny! Here's EVIL PINKY!
And in the bath yesterday she insisted on wearing her goggles... need I say more!
So, as you can see, Pinky really keeps things lively over here! (when she's not asleep on the floor!)
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Little Belle
Today we had an interesting day. I have to start by saying that for a while now, probably the past few years Belle has been showing signs of having a Tic Disorder as well as a slight speech problem (stuttering). I know that some of the actions associated with stuttering and tics is pretty common and normal at young ages and so I let it go, hoping she would grow out of it for her sake! But around the age of 5, it was apparent they were here to stay. I had her evaluated right before she turned 5 and they determined that her speech fluency (meaning how well she can get a word out) was a bit of a concern, but to not worry about it that that time because Belle was completely oblivious to it and it wasn't hampering her ability to do anything. Plus, bringing it to her attention would only make her aware of it and it might be worse. So, again, I let it go.
Fast forward to now. She's almost 7. And while her fluency and stuttering aren't TOO bad, her tics are! She saw a neurologist a few months ago, who said that same thing... yes, she definitely has what is called 'Chronic Tics' (which he described as Tourettes, but without the vocal tics), they weren't bad enough to elicit treatment. He said to come back if they are causing her pain, he sited for example if she were flinging her head back and causing neck pain. Or is they were hampering her ability to concentrate or do everyday things, or if she was becoming increasingly self conscious of them.
That time has come, and today it came to a head. They have been getting worse and worse. They are DEFINITELY hampering her ability to do everyday things. They are also causing her pain (one of the many tics she has is she shrugs really hard to one side, then really hard to the other then shrugs both sides really hard together. Today she was complaining of neck pain and I didn't know why, until I saw her do it for the millionth time and it clicked! She did it so hard she almost made herself cry because it hurt so bad. I gave her a shoulder rub. As she gets more and more she is becoming very self Conscious of them.
After the shoulder rub, we had a 'talk' on her bed. We listed all the tics she currently has so I can bring it back to the neurologist(they change every few months) and until I wrote it down I didn't realize how many there were! After she listed them she said something that really broke my heart! I wrote it down. This is pretty much verbatim what she said:
"Before tics my life was better, I could remember things fun that I did all day. But now my tics make my life foggy. It makes me mad in my head that it happens all day. I wake up and each day is here and then the day is gone really fast and I all I remember are having tics all day long. They get bigger and bigger and bigger and they can't stop." She was fighting back tears through that whole little speech, which was even more sad!
I tried to make her feel better by saying that everybody has things about them that are hard. Some people have harder ones then other, and that's okay. I mentioned a few people she knows and told her things that they had. I told her that I had tics and stuttered as a kid and mine were really bad like hers. Then I made the mistake of telling her (I thought it would be helpful) that I still have them even today as a mom. (She has a friend who stutters and another friend who had tics, and I told Belle that I had BOTH those things as a kid and still today ans SEE, I turned out okay!). I was trying to make the point that even with those things, I'm still a good mom, I can still go do everything I want to do, and that having little problems like that don't curse you into being bad people. We are all just like everyone else... well, as soon as I told her about ME, she actually couldn't hold it in anymore and burst into tears, literally collapsed onto her pillow sobbing and she said "Oh no, I'm just a kid and now I will have them all the way until I'm a grown up and all the way until I die like you do!" That of course broke my heart into a million pieces! She'd acted as if I'd given her a life sentence. Which I guess in a way, I sort of have. But there are worse things to have then tics!
I remember as a kid having them SO bad I wanted to die. And stuttering so bad I wanted to die. Luckily as I grew they got progressively less strong. And today I'm left with small tics that I'm still affected with every day of my life and that are physically exhausting sometimes but are also things that nobody would ever see or if they did see, they aren't too weird that they would be noticed as such. I still stutter a bit, but again, it's not so bad that people would even notice. When I can tell I'll have a 'bad' speech day, I usually keep to myself more to avoid situations where I would have to talk.
If Belle has to endure this throughout her life, I hope that like mine, hers tapers off a bit as she gets older rather having it get worse as she gets older (which is entirely possible!) I wouldn't never tell her that though.
I know as she gets a bit older she'll be faced with alot of teasing like I was and I will fall apart at the seams when that happens. Luckily for now, her friends aren't old enough to recognize it for what it is yet. I'll keep you updated when we get in to see the neurologist again.
On a happier note about Belle, she has been wanting breakfast in bed for a while, so I finally did it today. Of course she loved it! Here are a few pics from that.
Also, some of her and Loki taken yesterday. What a giant dog! He went to the vet yesterday for a check up and he's nearly 60 pounds. The vet said that from this point on, he'll gain about 30-35 pounds of just muscle, they said he has a big frame and he will bulk out!
Fast forward to now. She's almost 7. And while her fluency and stuttering aren't TOO bad, her tics are! She saw a neurologist a few months ago, who said that same thing... yes, she definitely has what is called 'Chronic Tics' (which he described as Tourettes, but without the vocal tics), they weren't bad enough to elicit treatment. He said to come back if they are causing her pain, he sited for example if she were flinging her head back and causing neck pain. Or is they were hampering her ability to concentrate or do everyday things, or if she was becoming increasingly self conscious of them.
That time has come, and today it came to a head. They have been getting worse and worse. They are DEFINITELY hampering her ability to do everyday things. They are also causing her pain (one of the many tics she has is she shrugs really hard to one side, then really hard to the other then shrugs both sides really hard together. Today she was complaining of neck pain and I didn't know why, until I saw her do it for the millionth time and it clicked! She did it so hard she almost made herself cry because it hurt so bad. I gave her a shoulder rub. As she gets more and more she is becoming very self Conscious of them.
After the shoulder rub, we had a 'talk' on her bed. We listed all the tics she currently has so I can bring it back to the neurologist(they change every few months) and until I wrote it down I didn't realize how many there were! After she listed them she said something that really broke my heart! I wrote it down. This is pretty much verbatim what she said:
"Before tics my life was better, I could remember things fun that I did all day. But now my tics make my life foggy. It makes me mad in my head that it happens all day. I wake up and each day is here and then the day is gone really fast and I all I remember are having tics all day long. They get bigger and bigger and bigger and they can't stop." She was fighting back tears through that whole little speech, which was even more sad!
I tried to make her feel better by saying that everybody has things about them that are hard. Some people have harder ones then other, and that's okay. I mentioned a few people she knows and told her things that they had. I told her that I had tics and stuttered as a kid and mine were really bad like hers. Then I made the mistake of telling her (I thought it would be helpful) that I still have them even today as a mom. (She has a friend who stutters and another friend who had tics, and I told Belle that I had BOTH those things as a kid and still today ans SEE, I turned out okay!). I was trying to make the point that even with those things, I'm still a good mom, I can still go do everything I want to do, and that having little problems like that don't curse you into being bad people. We are all just like everyone else... well, as soon as I told her about ME, she actually couldn't hold it in anymore and burst into tears, literally collapsed onto her pillow sobbing and she said "Oh no, I'm just a kid and now I will have them all the way until I'm a grown up and all the way until I die like you do!" That of course broke my heart into a million pieces! She'd acted as if I'd given her a life sentence. Which I guess in a way, I sort of have. But there are worse things to have then tics!
I remember as a kid having them SO bad I wanted to die. And stuttering so bad I wanted to die. Luckily as I grew they got progressively less strong. And today I'm left with small tics that I'm still affected with every day of my life and that are physically exhausting sometimes but are also things that nobody would ever see or if they did see, they aren't too weird that they would be noticed as such. I still stutter a bit, but again, it's not so bad that people would even notice. When I can tell I'll have a 'bad' speech day, I usually keep to myself more to avoid situations where I would have to talk.
If Belle has to endure this throughout her life, I hope that like mine, hers tapers off a bit as she gets older rather having it get worse as she gets older (which is entirely possible!) I wouldn't never tell her that though.
I know as she gets a bit older she'll be faced with alot of teasing like I was and I will fall apart at the seams when that happens. Luckily for now, her friends aren't old enough to recognize it for what it is yet. I'll keep you updated when we get in to see the neurologist again.
On a happier note about Belle, she has been wanting breakfast in bed for a while, so I finally did it today. Of course she loved it! Here are a few pics from that.
Also, some of her and Loki taken yesterday. What a giant dog! He went to the vet yesterday for a check up and he's nearly 60 pounds. The vet said that from this point on, he'll gain about 30-35 pounds of just muscle, they said he has a big frame and he will bulk out!
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Random Stuff...
For art the other day I had the kids make trees! I had them collect leaves outside and they made the tree from brown paper bags. They turned out super cute! We have them on display on the kitchen table. 
An interesting thing I learned about Belle... she loves to clean bathrooms! This photo I got after I opened the bathroom door the other day to find her in there cleaning away with rubber gloves and everything! Hmmm, now to use this super power to my advantage! 
The girls slept over at my mom Friday night (aw... date night!!) and in the morning we all went hiking in the woods behind our house. The lake looked bigger with the leaves mostly gone from the trees, you could see more of it in a sweeping glance then usual. I like having bare trees because from the windows in our home you can plainly see the lake. Whereas all summer, you can't see it at all! 
We've started doing fires already this year. We have an entire cord of wood to last the winter. That's enough for a fire every night! Which is what we usually do anyway during the winter months. Who doesns't love the smell of a burning fireplace! I can't wait for snow! And with snow comes CHRISTMAS!!!!
An interesting thing I learned about Belle... she loves to clean bathrooms! This photo I got after I opened the bathroom door the other day to find her in there cleaning away with rubber gloves and everything! Hmmm, now to use this super power to my advantage! 
The girls slept over at my mom Friday night (aw... date night!!) and in the morning we all went hiking in the woods behind our house. The lake looked bigger with the leaves mostly gone from the trees, you could see more of it in a sweeping glance then usual. I like having bare trees because from the windows in our home you can plainly see the lake. Whereas all summer, you can't see it at all! 
We've started doing fires already this year. We have an entire cord of wood to last the winter. That's enough for a fire every night! Which is what we usually do anyway during the winter months. Who doesns't love the smell of a burning fireplace! I can't wait for snow! And with snow comes CHRISTMAS!!!!
Field Trip Friday
This weeks field trip was to the Museum of Natural History. It worked out well because on Monday we watched 'Night at the Museum' with the kids and Elle LOVED it and wanted to go visit that museum! Even though that particular one was the one in New York, that we could go to the one here in D.C at some point. She was dying to go! Well, on Tuesday I happened to get an email letting everyone know where the field trip was this week and it was to the Natural History Museum! It was serendipitous!
We took the metro there... I will never do that again! I usually drive anyway, but we went with some friends so we decided to take the train from Hell. I'll spare the details but just know that metro trains aren't as great as everyone thinks they are.
The Museum itself was actually recently redone and looked great! I love Museums and I actually learned alot of facts that I had never heard before. For instance I learned what a 'Morgie' is and how it shaped animal evolution. I discovered the Hope Diamond is 42.52 carats. Belle was NOT impressed! I think she was expecting a giant monster diamond, but instead it's on a necklace.
Part of the movie we watched on Monday had Easter Island heads that came to life at night and talked. So, the kids really wanted to see the heads! Pinky kept telling me that these one also came to life and really talked at night! These ones were a little smaller then the ones in the movie, but it was still very neat to see one in person.
So all in all a good day... until the train ride BACK home...
We took the metro there... I will never do that again! I usually drive anyway, but we went with some friends so we decided to take the train from Hell. I'll spare the details but just know that metro trains aren't as great as everyone thinks they are.
The Museum itself was actually recently redone and looked great! I love Museums and I actually learned alot of facts that I had never heard before. For instance I learned what a 'Morgie' is and how it shaped animal evolution. I discovered the Hope Diamond is 42.52 carats. Belle was NOT impressed! I think she was expecting a giant monster diamond, but instead it's on a necklace.
Part of the movie we watched on Monday had Easter Island heads that came to life at night and talked. So, the kids really wanted to see the heads! Pinky kept telling me that these one also came to life and really talked at night! These ones were a little smaller then the ones in the movie, but it was still very neat to see one in person.
So all in all a good day... until the train ride BACK home...
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Fall Weather In D.C
This week the fall colors are in peak season. They only lasted about a week. We went to Sugarloaf mountain yesterday and the leaves were barely already starting to turn brown. When I woke up this morning, I can tell that they are changing from that brightness to deeper colors. Only another day or so until they are all just brown. Then we can rake them and jump in the piles!
Sugarloaf has all these incredible mountains of rock to Climb, which the kids could have done all day! We went with some friends and they literally used their imagination and played and climbed those rocks for hours! In the picture below, you can't really tell but it's super steep! The photo doesn't do it justice.
Here's brave Pinky!
Monday, November 3, 2008
Voting
Tomorrow is voting day, I hope you all know where your place of voting is. I read a very important notice today and would hate for anyone to miss it, so I'll let my dear friends and family know about it NOW. It was of some concern the amount of voters expected to show up on Tuesday to vote. Lines that were hours long! So, there is now a clever solution in place. All the Republicans will go and vote at the scheduled time on Tuesday and the Democrats will cast their vote the following day, Wednesday. Thus dramatically cutting down the lines you will encounter. Hopefully this finds you in time.
Dinner in a Pumpkin
When asked by my hubby what we were having for dinner on Halloween, I proudly announced "Dinner in a Pumpkin". Seeing as how he had never heard of such a thing, the whole idea of cooking dinner IN a pumpkin sounded preposterous and he didn't seem confident in my ability to make such a strange sounding concept taste good. We instead had pizza that night.
Tonight though, he couldn't escape! He worked all day, I was home and thus in charge of dinner! I was determined to make him like it, if only because I'd talked it up so much. The truth is I had never had it either but it LOOKED like something that should be incorporated into every homes Autumn dinner menu. I found the best looking recipe online, prayed I would completely ruin my chances of ever trying this again by having it suck this one time... then I went for it. When asked again tonight what we were having for dinner, I said as cheerfully as I could on instant message (by adding a smiley face!) that were having Dinner in a Pumpkin tonight honey! Hubby asked if it would be good, I assured it it would be great (saying another prayer!), then hopped off instant message before he could object.
I layed out our festive fall runner and displayed my wondrous pumpkin dinner among lit candles. It LOOKED good at least! We sat down to eat. I nonchalantly asked if it was good. Yes, he liked it! He even had seconds! He admitted he'd never thought of pumpkin as food in that way (besides buying the purred stuff in cans), but that he liked it. YAY! Mission accomplished. Now for my next experiment...
Tonight though, he couldn't escape! He worked all day, I was home and thus in charge of dinner! I was determined to make him like it, if only because I'd talked it up so much. The truth is I had never had it either but it LOOKED like something that should be incorporated into every homes Autumn dinner menu. I found the best looking recipe online, prayed I would completely ruin my chances of ever trying this again by having it suck this one time... then I went for it. When asked again tonight what we were having for dinner, I said as cheerfully as I could on instant message (by adding a smiley face!) that were having Dinner in a Pumpkin tonight honey! Hubby asked if it would be good, I assured it it would be great (saying another prayer!), then hopped off instant message before he could object.
I layed out our festive fall runner and displayed my wondrous pumpkin dinner among lit candles. It LOOKED good at least! We sat down to eat. I nonchalantly asked if it was good. Yes, he liked it! He even had seconds! He admitted he'd never thought of pumpkin as food in that way (besides buying the purred stuff in cans), but that he liked it. YAY! Mission accomplished. Now for my next experiment...
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Exciting Saturday
My grandparents flew out from Utah and another aunt flew out from Colorado this week to be with my mom because she got her endowments out this weekend! It was really exciting and has long been anticipated! I was her escort through it which was fun for me! The proccess started early morning and went into early afternoon, then we went to lunch with all the family after. It was nice to visit with everyone. I hadn't seen my grandparents in three years. We only saw them the one day, they had obligations at home and had to fly back early the next day. But even one day, I'll take it! I wish we lived closer to family! I guess it will be a good excuse to fly out that way soon.
So, now that my mom is endowed she can be MY escort when hubby and I get sealed. Whenever that will be! It's one glitch after another!
So, now that my mom is endowed she can be MY escort when hubby and I get sealed. Whenever that will be! It's one glitch after another!
The Obligitory Halloween Post!
Why is a blog worth having, if not for it's holiday picturs! We had a super busy week chalk full of parties, pumpkin carving, a giant baby shower at my house, family visiting from utah and Colorado, trick or treating, buisiness trips, soccer and swimming. Hmmm... there might be more but I can't remember!
Halloween is my most favorite holiday (well, it's tied with Christmas). Last year I threw away ALL our autumn/Halloween decor to make space in the storge room... what a dumb thing to do! My wonderful hubby noticed how lame our house was this year and sent me out one evening to buy up a ton of decorations. His only stipulation was that it had to be stuff we could store and use ever year, rather then buy cheap things that would break and need to be re-purchased next year. This was my mission. I feel like i did pretty good! One of the better items I bought was a fog machine! It was a good investment! Any house's cool factor triples with a fog machine!
Here are the pumpkins the we did this year. The polka dot one is Martha Stewart inspired and suprisingly easy to make.
Here were the kids in our co-op for the Halloween party. We tried lining them up tallest to shortest.
Belle dressed as Snow White this year and Pinky was a Snow Princess. Notice the foggy yard!!
I used a spray on hair color with them. Bells had black hair and Pinkys was pink, it was a MESS to get out! It took several washes, lots of conditioner and elbow grease on the tub and tile when they were done. I don't think I'll ever use that again on them. Next year WIGS for all!!
My dad moved over the weekend as well, so here is a picture of him with the kids
Halloween is my most favorite holiday (well, it's tied with Christmas). Last year I threw away ALL our autumn/Halloween decor to make space in the storge room... what a dumb thing to do! My wonderful hubby noticed how lame our house was this year and sent me out one evening to buy up a ton of decorations. His only stipulation was that it had to be stuff we could store and use ever year, rather then buy cheap things that would break and need to be re-purchased next year. This was my mission. I feel like i did pretty good! One of the better items I bought was a fog machine! It was a good investment! Any house's cool factor triples with a fog machine!
Here are the pumpkins the we did this year. The polka dot one is Martha Stewart inspired and suprisingly easy to make.
Here were the kids in our co-op for the Halloween party. We tried lining them up tallest to shortest.
Belle dressed as Snow White this year and Pinky was a Snow Princess. Notice the foggy yard!!
I used a spray on hair color with them. Bells had black hair and Pinkys was pink, it was a MESS to get out! It took several washes, lots of conditioner and elbow grease on the tub and tile when they were done. I don't think I'll ever use that again on them. Next year WIGS for all!!
My dad moved over the weekend as well, so here is a picture of him with the kids
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