Trunk-or-Treat

This year’s Trunk-or-Treat we did a Princess Castle to go along with our Royal Family.  Nathan loves to hand out candy so he spent most of his time doing that while I took the girls around to get candy.  Maejae got tired of trick-or-treating so she played in the castle while Natalie and I finished up.  It was a lot of fun, and Natalie got too much candy!

As you can see, Natalie even got candy from her Daddy!  And, Maejae is eating hers in the castle!

I just think this is a cute Picture of Natalie.  She decorated a sugar cookie, and was so proud of it!

 

      

These are some of the games at the trunk-or-treat, and our friends handing out candy.

Sewing, Sewing, Sewing . . .

This year, I decided we’d do another family theme for Halloween.  I know that it won’t be long before my girls have their own opinions about what they want to dress up as, so this year is probably our last year of family themed Halloween.  Natalie chose our theme because she really wanted to be Cinderella, and dress up like her Cinderella Princess doll. 

I had planned on making all of our costumes, but my mom found a Tinkerbell costume for $1 at a garage sale for Maejae, and I found a Cinderella costume at Big Lots for $10 for Natalie.  Those were cheaper than it would have been for me to make their costumes, so we went with it.
 
Along with that, came mine and Nathan’s costumes.  Natalie decided that I would be Snow White (something I have wanted to be since I became a mother 3 years ago - because Snow White is my favorite Disney Movie), and Nathan was going to be Cinderella’s Prince Charming.  Now – adult costumes are EXPENSIVE!  So, I decided to make ours.

I took a trip to Goodwill and JoAnn’s.  This is what I came up with:

This is a old yellow graduation gown I got for $2.50, and a blue sequined shirt I got for $1.50.  I got both of these at Goodwill.  Then, I bought a scrap of red sequined fabric for $1.25 and some blue scraps for $1.00.  I had great ideas for these pieces, and at only $6.25, I knew it would eventually become the perfect Snow White costume. 

 

This is Nathan’s costume.  We had an old white church shirt that was a tad too small for Nathan’s neck, and had a stain on the pocket.  We used a pair of his slacks for the pants and I made removable side strips for them.  Then, I bought the blue fabric for $5.00 and the gold trimmings for $4.50.  So, all in all – Nathan’s costume would cost $9.50 . . . not too shabby for Prince Charming!

The results . . . Amazing!

Halloween Craft Night

Every now and then, some of my friends and I like to get together for Craft nights. 

This month, I hosted the craft night, and we did Halloween Crafts!

 

This is the wreath that I chose to teach the girls how to make.

  

These are some of the other crafts we did.  I didn’t get pictures of 3 of the crafts, but we had a lot of fun, and we each made 6 different projects!  Our houses were much more decorated, too!

Arizona finally had a good storm!

A couple weeks ago, we finally had a good storm.  Our house was nice and peaceful, with the girls napping, Nathan on the computer, and myself sewing.  All the sudden we heard thunder, and then pounding on our house.  Nathan and I ran up to the girls, who were awakened by the large hail hitting their bedroom windows.  Then, we all watched the hail storm as it passed through our neighborhood.  A lot of ward members got their windows broken so we were very lucky to have survived the storm with no problems!  All of our porch items got blown to one side, but it wasn’t bad at all.  All in all it was a fun storm to watch and Nathan had fun playing in the hail!

Time our for Women

I went to Time Out for Women this year with some of my girlfriends here in Arizona.  We had a wonderful time, shared a few good laughs, shed a few tears, and learned a lot about gratitude, holiness, and love.  It has already changed my life in the 2 weeks following the event, and I know that I will continue to reflect on the wonderful words that were spoken, and the testimonies that were shared. 

Pam, Jenn, Jillian, Carissa

* For a recap on the event we were blessed to take part of, check out this or this.  It was Amazing!