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 303

Halloween! My favourite holiday! Today I put the finishing touches on our costumes, we carved our pumpkins and I roasted the seeds, and then we ordered out pizza for supper.

Here we all are in our costumes ready to go out

Day 302

Today I finished working on Alex's Halloween costume. He is going to be the cat in the hat and Wally and I will be joining him as Thing 1 & Thing 2. I'm not 100% happy with the costume, but for one night in the dark, it will do.

Day 301

Today I brought the cupcakes to Ryan's school and the teachers said I could stay and help out if I wanted. I had a great time with the kids and even stayed for their surprise lunch (pizza!). Ryan also loved having me there. When I left after lunch I got a big hug and an I love you from him. Awwww!

Here he is doing one of the Pumpkin activities with his friends

Day 300

Tomorrow I'm bringing cupcakes to Ryan's school for their Halloween Party. I can't wait to see all the kiddies in their costumes! I made sure the cupcakes were Halloween themed. I Think the kids will like them :)

Day 295

Today I finished off Ryan's Halloween costume. This year he wanted to be Waldo as he has all the books and he loves them. His costume was so easy. The jeans are his own, the sweater and cane came from the thrift store, the hat was 2 hats from the dollar store cut and sewn together, and the glasses and binoculars were from the dollar store as well. Put them all together and he make a pretty adorable Waldo :)

Day 294

Ryan was in school and Alex was in daycare, so I had some "me time" today to do whatever I wanted. I had saved these stackable tea tins the other day when I was cleaning up and had an idea as to how I wanted to re-use them in a craft project. So today I sat down with my supplies, and made it.

After Ryan got home from school and spotted it, he said "What is that?" So I told him it was just a Halloween decoration, to which he replied "Pffft! It isn't even scary!" Well excuuuse me! I think it's cute anyways. Hmph!

After he put away his school stuff, we went to pick Alex up at daycare. When we got back home, I got out of the car and something started meowing at me under the trees. Sure enough, another stray had found it's way to our house. So once I got the kids inside, I put on a movie for them, got out some cat chow, and went to greet our new friend. She is super friendly. She was shivering a bit, and was very happy to get something to eat. I went to the barn and got out our winter cats shelter, but by the time I got back with it, she had disappeared. Oh well, she knows where the love and food is now.

Day 283

Alex got into some of the Halloween stuff. It's Count Clothespin Fingers!

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 :)

Day 266

Today I got treat bags ready for the kids in Ryan's school. I thought to myself that I'd better make them now and tie them up or I'd be too tempted to eat them all before Halloween.

Each kid gets a Halloween stamp, a Halloween eraser, 2 chocolate bars, a spider ring, a Twizlers or Nibs, a tube of gum, and a squooshy pumpkin ball. I found the treat bags at the dollar store and they were just too cute to resist.