What we did for Halloween

This is a week late but I just couldn't miss posting pictures of what we did last week for Halloween. We kicked off the celebrations on Thursday at music makers and the kids all got to dress up in their costumes. Coop was Harry Potter (wizard coat hand crafted by Grandma Fry and scarf made by Aunt Brittney...in lower pics) and Jack's costume wasn't quite finished yet....well it hadn't even been started.

Cooper and his buddy Paul

For lunch on Halloween day while carving our pumpkins we had

apple dumplings with vanilla icecream. Best lunch ever.

Cooper, R&J, and Jack's commemorative white pumpkin (like his helmet) carved like Tim Burton's Jack Skellington

Trunk or treat at the church. Jack in his ghost costume.

To see us at Halloween one year ago, before Jack arrived, click here.

And the winners are....

Krista

Doranda and

Claire!!!!!

I'll be by sometime tomorrow morning to drop them off :)

Cupcake Giveaway!!

It was a rainy rainy day today and I wanted to bake something. All signs pointed to -----> Cupcake. So I googled "beautiful cupcakes" and this is the one I thought I could pull off. (This is a pic of my finished result) It's not perfect in my book, well nothing ever is, but I thought they turned out cute. Not as big and velvety looking as I had imagined but, they are scrumptious. Heaven knows I'll eat all 30 of them before the weekend is up so I wanted to do a giveaway.

The first 3 people to respond to this post will have a couple of cupcakes hand delivered by yours truly. And if you're sitting at home on a Friday night reading my blog....you need a cupcake you poor thing :)

***Disclaimer: Recipients must be within a 30 mile radius of me. If you're far far away, you can take a rain check and just drool for now.

Turnin' it around

I really miss the warm summer sun already and I've been kind of a mope about it. So I decided that I'd write ten things about it NOT being summertime that I love to make it a more positive time of year :) If you're down in the dumps about rainy Washington fall then this is for you my fellow sun lover.

1. Snuggling in blankets a lot more often
2. Baking baking baking
3. Soup
4. The beautiful fall colors
5. Volleyball season
6. Decorating for the holidays
7. Hot chocolate, hot cider and hot peppermint tea
8. Tons of new movie releases
9. Walking into a warm house
10. The clear clean skies of WA, thanks to the frequent rainfall.

Feeling a little better? Good, now go bake some bread and watch Elf with someone you lovey love. I'll be doing that.

NaBloPoMo!!!!.....what?

I saw this on my friend's blog and she was my very first ever friend I knew that had a blog. She taught me how to actually work this so called blog that I keep. I've always admired hers and a few other people's blogs and the interesting, emotional, funny and original posts they write. I'd love to be able to reach their level in my own blogging and this is a great way to get some practice. I am starting this late so I'll make sure to post for 30 days straight.

I'm actually pretty pumped! Leave a comment on an idea for a blog post and I'll use it. I PROMISE....it's not like an amateur like me can come up with 30 original ideas 30 days in a row all on my own. Trust me.

Open invite!

The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Friday November 20th 7pm

Regal 4 Cinemas in Silverdale

Tickets @ Fandango.com

Let's make it a party!!!

Let me know if you're going to that one. We're dressing up like hott cullens (basically, we're wearing all black and looking really sleek and pretty for the night). I'd love to make an event out of it but only if there's a few more people than just, well....me.

Pumpkin patch, painting, puking and other events of Oct '09

This is your basic update here. At the beginning of the month the kids and I went to Spooner farms with my family while Jake worked and picked out some pumpkins (which we have YET to carve) It was a really fun trip and some good quality time together, not to mention dinner at the new Sonics in Puyallup afterwards! Always a bonus.

Jack finally got his helmet and should be in it for four months or so. He tugged at it for about 5 or 10 minutes the first day and that was that. He now crawls around looking for things to run in to just to make a little noise. It gets stinky so we make sure to keep it clean. Now when I take it off to bathe him or change him, he looks funny without it.

We also started a mini-facelift at our place. Our project was to replace all of the pink blinds with white ones, frame out the exterior of the windows and paint all the trim and doors white instead of the pinkish rose/blue colors that just didn't work well anymore :) Here are some 'before' pics:

We just finished yesterday so the 'after' pics will be posted soon!

Jake's brother John was voted on to homecoming court at Olympic High and he asked Cooper to be his escort for the coronation. Kris, Brittney and I picked out some GQ for Coop and he was perfect. We all thought that if the voting for homecoming King happened after everyone was escorted in, John would have had it in the bag.

Jake was laid off from his job a little over a week ago. We knew it was coming so that makes it ok to deal with and he now gets to focus completely on Decclo. His first week home working was pretty good I think. It will be hard for him to get used to the noisy kids and all three of us walking in on him at random times throughout the day, but for the most part he got lots done already. His mom has been great with helping us out especially with the Quickbooks program. We also painted his office yesterday and have yet to finish putting the room back together but things are coming along well. (To see what we've been working on at Decclo, use the link on the sidebar)

I started playing on a competitive volleyball team this month and we've had so much fun so far. We have only lost one of our games which, I hate it when people say this but, we were truly robbed. It's fun to get back into a little competitiveness though and have a hubby who doesn't mind or complain about staying with the kids.

Today while at church in sunday school class (right after they announced in sacrament for families to stay home if anyone is sick) Jack puked all over the place. Well, all over Jake and a little on the poor lady sitting in front of us. We both put our hands up to catch it but he just kept puking. Thank heavens for all the people around us who went above and beyond and helped Jake in the bathroom, me in the classroom and everywhere in between. It truly is mortifying to have your kid throw up all over the place in a setting such as church but I think we got through it ok. Jack has been throwing up a couple of times this week but we're starting to think maybe it's a food aversion of some sort? He has had NO other signs of any type of illness, and how are we supposed to figure it out with a baby who still spits up/vomits on a regular basis? Oh well, such is the life of a mommy and dad.

For those who were there to witness the spectacular event (and probably smell it too) I don't think you have any worries for a bug of any sort. This has been the norm for a couple of weeks now. It mainly has happened at home though and of course the church puke was by far the biggest puke to date for him.

So, in a nutshell that's October so far. The plans for Halloween are this:

-Cooper has a new obsession which is Harryyy Pottaaaaa (call it Harry Potter and you'll be corrected quick by a smart-alec little two year old.) So, this is his costume for halloween this year. We have a broom stick and a wand but I need to get the actual outfit together.

-Jack has a helmet now so the ideas for a costume have been so cute from everyone. Obvious ones like a football or hockey player, a skydiver, speedracer, the michelin man, etc. Since I'm lame and lazy, I've decided on Casper the friendly ghost. Sounds easy enough right?

Next week is Halloween then the holiday season is here? What? This time last year was the end of my pregnancy which, as we all know, is the not so fun part and I just COULD NOT WAIT to be done. Where did the year go???