Day 348

Today I finished building and painting a Santa sleigh out of a cardboard box for Ryan's school play. Now it just needs a few reindeer to pull it...Ryan will be playing a reindeer in the play, so he's really excited to try it out.

Wally wrote all over the box so that nobody would throw it out at work. Right on the back it said "Wally's box" and the paint wouldn't cover it up, so I had the idea to print Santa out his own personalized license plate to help cover it up a bit.

Day 340

We finally put up all the Christmas decorations today. Alex loved it. I think this is the first year he really gets it. Every time I turned some lights on he exclaimed "Yay! Lights! You did it Mom!" he also kept telling us how beautiful everything was. He's too cute at this age.

We also finally threw out the halloween pumpkins much to Ryan's dismay. Wally wiped the snow off of this one and some of it stayed in the carved parts. I thought it looked neat so snapped a pic.

Day 296

I saw this display at the grocery store today and thought it was pretty neat how they used the boxes to spell pout the name. I don't know if all the stores are told to do it this way, or if it's just the creativity of one of the employees, but I thought it would make a cool picture of the day.

Day 271

Today I did one of my favourite things of the year...decorate for Halloween! We live in the middle of nowhere so we never get any kids, but now that I have my own kids, it's an excuse to go all out.

Here is the porch

The decorations on the side of the house. Can you believe I picked the ghosts, the witch's cauldron, and the orange pumpkin and cat in the previous picture out of peoples trash a few years ago? There was nothing wrong with them! The biggest ghost even lights up!

Vlad, the impaled. I made him out of a dollar store mask, some $ store eyeballs, $ store gloves, $ store cape, a styrofoam wig head, 2 pieces of wood, plastic bags for stuffing, some wire, and some old material.

An unsuspecting victim. I added surplus eyeballs to the skull. It makes him look creepier.

This sign pretty much sums up our place :P

When Ryan got home from school, we pretended he was trying not to be Vlad's next victim

Day 269

My Halloween lights :)