Halloween Costume #1

Here are the school costumes from yesterday. How adorable are these dalmatians. Not too bad for last minute costumes. Today is the big costume day. Guess what, Pierce had a fever last night. He seems to be better today, but looks a little pale. Not really having any other symptoms. Hopefully he will pull through for tonight. I will get back tomorrow with the pictures of the galaxy.

Shout out to the husband...oh yeah!

Listen, I know I have a great husband. He cooks for me, shops for me, and basically caters to my every whim. Not everyone has that, not by a long shot. And, to top it off, and don't tell anyone, he is really freaken hot! Smoken. Now that he has shaved off his goatee (spell?), I can see his smile lines again and they are sooooo cute. I love to rub my face against his. Wait, this is a family blog. Anyway, my point is I know I have a great husband and everyone wants one like him. But he has been even more incredible then normal. Every year we come up with some crazy idea for Halloween. We both just love it. Our kids have no choice but to participate. Anyway, this year is a space theme. Elle has been obsessed with space since summer school. We came up with the idea for our Halloween theme. The problem is that time just got away from us. We worked pretty steadily on Elle's costume, and I got my costume for work done (candy corn.....pictures to follow). The problem was the rest of them. Let's just say it is really hard to create the Apollo space shuttle and the galaxy all in one week. Well, Keith did it. I had my doubts, but I can't wait to show you what he did. The space shuttle is just amazing. Too bad we aren't going to a costume contest somewhere, because this year we (he) outdid ourselves. Bravo.

You will have to wait until Sunday to see the pictures. But let me just tell you, it will be worth the wait. I want to give a big shout out to the best husband ever!!! Thanks for all your hard work this week. The kids love it and so do I!

Can I tell you that because of the space theme the kids are not going to be able to wear their costumes to school. I had decided I was not going to make another costume because it was just to much work. Well.......today at school everyone was talking about the costume parade and the guilt just started to eat away at me. I went to target tonight and gave it the old college try. I think I made some pretty cute dalmatian costumes at the last minute. I will post some pictures tomorrow so you can see. Oh well, the Mommy guilt had to happen sometime. Stay tuned for lots of pictures. The Galaxy awaits you!

Terrible Blogger

I have decided that I am a terrible blogger. The idea is to write a daily blog, not weekly or every other week. I have a lot to talk about, I just can't seem to gather the energy to do it. So, I am setting a goal to start blogging at least every other day. Even if it is meaningless and all I can talk about is the weather......I will start tonight!

This picture cracks me up. We were getting our Halloween decorations out last week and Elle put on Keith's old Darth Vader mask. Maybe if Darth Vader was choking me I might blog more. Who knows.

Elle's 6th Birthday

Elle turned six on September 26th. It is hard to believe. It just seems like yesterday that she came into our life. I feel so lucky to have such a wonderful little girl. I remember my brother saying to me that he couldn't wait until I had a second child so I could feel what being a parent was all about. I guess he didn't think she was challenging enough for us. She has always been an easy child. There are times when we think she is difficult, but then we look around at other children and remember that it is all relative. She is funny, smart, beautiful, strong willed, and loving. At six she is almost as competitive as me. Almost. Her are a few pictures of her over the last six years.

I love the one of her laying on Keith. She is so relaxed. She has her foot up on his arm likes she owns it!

This is Elle's first birthday. She almost put her finger in the flame so Keith and I shouted "no" at the same time. She didn't stop crying for ten minutes.

Hard to believe only one year later she had that much hair. What a cutie!

You can see her starting to loose her baby fat at three. She still has some cheeks, but they are starting to thin out.

This was on her fourth birthday.

This was her fifth birthday. Not much differant. Just a little more thin in her face. Same smile.

Here is the princess this year. She had her party at pump it up again. Everyone had a great time. A few injuries, but nothing too serious. She got great birthday presents. Her interest in science and space continues to expand so she got a lot of space toys.

This is her friend Stephanie.

Elle doesn't like Birthday cake so we made a rice cripsy treat cake.

As you can see, Elle had a howling good time.

Monkey Off My Back!

It's been a while since I posted a blog. A lot has been happening. Elle's birthday party was last weekend. I have a lot of pictures which I plan on posting soon. However, my biggest issue has been this monkey I have been working on for a while. I was working on her slowly, just doing a few things a weekend. I realized this weekend that Halloween would soon be here and we have a huge project this year with the costumes. Don't ask. Just let me tell you that there will be more "constructing" then there will be sewing. We spent about two hours at home depot today. That should tell you everything. I hate not finishing something so I worked hard this weekend to finish the monkey. This is my prototype. I was thinking of making them for Christmas presents, but I wanted to make one before I invested the time. I think she came out adorable. She has two left feet (oops), but other then that this is a real contender for Christmas. I got the idea from one of the blogs I follow. You can also do a boy monkey with a tie and pants. Very cute. I will post more pictures but wanted to give you a sneak peak!!