candy galore!!

Ashlyn and Braelynn dancing to the scary music with crazy googly eyes

Cheesy grins - gearing up for the night

Adams and Cotton crew - ready to go - oh and by the way, Brady is dressed up as a 13 year old teenager - see the smile on his face! (actually he really had a good time)

Our three little pretty witches - Braelynn, Callie and Ashlyn - Brady and Jackson the baby tiger.  He was so happy to be there.

About 5 years ago I started having doughnuts and hot chocolate after we trick or treat.  I guess because I don't think the kids have had enough sugar yet. :)  The Chace family came over this year.

Brady's second costume of the night - he really needs to see a good dentist - Sarah with an eyeball in her mouth - Last year I bought a package of eyeballs and put them in the kids hot chocolate - a couple weeks ago Ashlyn asked why she hasn't had an eyeball in her chocolate milk.  So I guess we now have an eyeball in the hot chocolate tradition.  That is as spooky as I get.  

The kids got so much candy!! I couldn't believe it - Yummy doughnut holes and doughnuts.

Happy Halloween

I hope you all have a SPOOOKY day!! Enjoy all your little ghosts and goblins.

This is Ashlyn dressing up as a little kitty when she was 2 years old.  Such sweet little memories.

I am part of a launch Party -

Click on the icon below and check out this great blog designer page.  I use her blog designs for my blog.  She has some really cute stuff.  There will be lots of fun giveaways (check out the simply sassy daisy giveaway - it will be on Tuesday the 28th)  and new announcements!! FUN STUFF!! 

Check it out - you won't be disappointed!!!

AFTER ALL  - WHO DOESN'T LOVE A GIVEAWAY???

fun with construction paper

My sister Liz has a cute little babysitter who came up with this fun idea while she was babysitting.  Being fall break this week, I needed to throw in a few fun things for the kids to do.  These pumpkins turned out really cute and the girls loved making them.

Here is how to make them:  Super easy!!!

gather your supplies - construction paper, brads (2 for each pumpkin) and cutter

cut strips about 1/2 inch wide of the paper.  We used 8 strips per pumpkin.
Turn them into a fan.  This is great for their little fingers and they have a blast doing it.

Concentrating - my domestic diva
We fanned the leaves tore them short and tore them into a point for the leaves.

Take 8 of the fanned pieces and a brad - punch each end through the brad connecting them all together.
Take the second brad and bring each end piece up (use the green leaf piece first so it is on top) and put it all together.  note- we wanted to have different sized pumpkins so we left some of the strips long and on a couple of the pumpkins we made the strips shorter.
little nimble fingers - so sweet
There you have it a cute little pumpkin made by your little pumpkins.  (Callie took this picture she is very proud that I used her picture.)

Thanks Liz  and Megan for sharing this idea.

googly eyes

I saw this too cute googly eyes wreath on someone's blog. (I have backsearched and can't find it, sorry) but I just had to have it for my front door. Connor helped to spray paint this grapevine spray wreath and then I attached the googly eyes with hot glue.

So spoooooky -