Saturday Morning

I had this waiting for me when I woke up on Saturday.

My absolute favorite breakfast that I'm always too lazy to make. Complete with chocolate milk.

Thanks to you, Husband! You are so nice to me!

This past week

I haven't blogged in over a week!! Ahhh!!

I know you are all dying to know what I've been up to.

Well, I'll tell you.


1. I started (and finished) these books (which I recommend; they were very entertaining), then watched the movie (which I don't recommend; it was awful) :

2. I also changed about a million diapers and cleaned up spit up. Oh yes. Fun.

3. I made Dax laugh for the first time. :D

4. We made a fire in our chiminea and ate smores.  Yummmm. Then we did it again the next night, even though it was 70 degrees outside.

**Does anyone else want to live somewhere where there are actually four distinct seasons?? I'm kinda tired of turning on the air conditioning one day then turning on the heater the very next day.  It's very confusing. 

5. I made dinner almost EVERY night! I'm soooooo proud of myself. I think this is the first time in me and Gabe's marriage that I've actually done this. I feel so domestic and grown-up! 

6. Meals this week included: chimichangas, pizza and pasta, tilapia, green enchiladas, sour cream meatballs, and breakfast. I'm awesome. Just sayin'.  

7. Pintrest.  

8. A little more Pintrest.

9. Pintrest some more.

10. Went and saw Breaking Dawn last night at midnight. I don't know why I always think it's a good idea to stay up super late at night. I always regret it in the morning. I feel kinda like a zombie today. 

Turkeys

Desmond has been pretty bummed about Halloween being over. So I thought I'd lift his spirits and get him excited about the next holiday.

Except the only problem with that is that the next holiday is Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving is just not as cool as Halloween. And Christmas is still way too far away to get all pumped up about.  .....Although all stores and retailers would completely disagree. Did I tell you I saw a Christmas commercial on Halloween?? That's just crazy! Let's take it one holiday at a time!

SO to get into the Thanksgiving spirit I managed to rack my brain for ideas and came up with this cool project (and by cool, I mean super easy and quick):

 

Dez enjoyed his project and did a great job too! The only thing I don't like is that you can't see his little handprint underneath the bits of construction paper. We'll have to do the traditional paint on hand then stamp on paper turkey later this week. (Lord, help me)

Do you have any other cute ideas for Thanksgiving??

Halloween Part 3

TRICK OR TREAT!!

I have so many fond memories of trick-or-treating. What's not to love about getting free candy AND dressing up?? As a kid, we never missed a single Halloween. We usually went with our cousins, who I was very close to. I always had a pretty costume thanks to the leftover dance recital costumes I accumulated through the years. And then at the end of the night me and Mikah would dump our buckets of candy on our beds in the room we shared. We would separate and group together all our candy and then the trading would begin! It was just awesome being a kid.

I wonder why our parents let us eat so much candy. I really don't think they had any idea exactly how much candy we got.   .....I also wonder why I never got sick eating so much.

This year, Desmond really understood the basics of trick-or-treating. Last year he was only two and didn't fully grasp the concept. It was so fun to see the excitement in his little eyes. He knew just what to do and did it all on his own.  It's always so weird to see him exploring his world on his own because I'm with him all the time and he doesn't always get the chance. Oh he was so fun to watch!! He was even polite to every house we went to. Every person at the door got a cute "Gank you!!" after a piece of candy was deposited into his bucket.

Well, like an idiot, I left my camera when we did all of our trick-or-treating so I only got these few pictures:

As a side note-- I would just like to say thank you to my wonderful husband who has ALWAYS agreed to wearing a costume. He never says no to anything I pick out no matter how ridiculous. Thanks, Gabe! Love you :)

Hope everyone had a great Halloween this year!

On to Thanksgiving!