non-traditional colors

hope you all had a wonderful thanksgiving! i enjoyed the week off and had some time to play with paper in between entertaining the boys.
i love to make holiday cards with non-traditional colors. glitter has been fun too BUT, very messy!!

starting to make teacher gifts and will show those later in the month. i also have a few other projects i'm trying to finish. i've been collecting vintage glass bulb ornaments and making a wreath out of them. anybody else working on fun stuff? i'd love to see!

Happy Thanksgiving!

i went to a pie-making party tuesday night. it was 6 moms getting together and making pies to bring to thanksgiving day dinner. if anyone know me....KNOWS me....i don't like to cook. baking so-so but i've never made real pie so this was fun! LOL

let's eat!! turned out great!! my sis would be proud of me!! [hi sis!]

and an early thanksgiving wish to you all! thought i'd be early for once rather than later...this is a treat bag i made by randomly stamping a brown paper bag. inside is a box of chocolates from See's for brandon's teacher for thanksgiving. teachers give us so much of their time and has so much patience....they deserve a treat now & then.

been a little MIA, have 2 boys that are sick. effects from their flu shots. i am starting to feel run down. we are going to the yo gabba gabba concert on friday and we have a wedding to go to saturday. soccer is over for the boys...kind of sad. they had a lot of fun and it was a wonderful experience!

happy thanksgiving to you and your family! thanks for stopping by!

celebrations

we've been doing a lot of celebrating these past 2 months! we celebrated my niece's 1st birthday, had a halloween party in school, been to a boot camp birthday party, and had bryan's end of the season soccer party. tomorrow, we will be going to brandon's end of the season soccer celebration.

here is brandon walking in his ash costume in the school parade.

one of his 2nd grade teachers....yes, i did say 1 of his teachers. he has 2 teachers this year! they split their days (M&T, the other teacher takes TH&F alternating wednesdays). i think it's great! the teachers are more refreshed and energetic!

here is jadeyn. she's sooooo cute! really makes me want to have another! she looks innocent enough but don't let those big eyes fool you!

here she is climbing up on a step stool. she is quite daring and has no fear.

enjoying her birthday cupcake! she's a quick learner!! and did i mention she started walking at 10 months old!! trouble at an early age!!

it was soooo very hard to get a picture of these 3! i love how brandon trapped jadeyn by locking her in with his legs!in their halloween costumes.

in her other costume.

my parents with the grandkids

dontcha wanna just pinch those chubby cheeks??

some birthday cards

the inside

TFL! TGIF! have a great weekend!

halloween pics and holiday tags

ok, look at this little cutie! this is my niece, jadeyn. we went home to SF to go help celebrate her 1st birthday. she's adorable! more on her party at a later post.we drove home on halloween to get back in time to go trick-or-treating with our friends. brandon is ash from kemon and bryan is pikachu. i made brandon's costume this year ('patting' myself on the back).

we had thor, a witch and sully (from monsters) to treat with.

pikachu hanging with the joker. bryan talked his ear off...

the kids got to pick 10 pieces of candy to keep. the rest were donated back to our school who collected to send to our troops.

side note....bryan one morning wanted to ride in the stroller which has been put away for over a year. he whined and pleaded so i said, "sure, you can ride in the strolled BUT it's going to cost you 10 pieces of candy". he thought about it and came back to me and stated counting out 10 pieces of candy. i was surprised!! (i told him it's a 1 trip deal)
i love fall when i can pull out all my favorite owl decorations.

candle holder that will never see candles.

love this one!

a luminarysome holiday tagsused some scraps to make a quick card.

thanks for stopping by!!

a banner flashback

my friend amy has a challenge here. this is my 1st banner ( a monster banner) that i ever made back in May 2010. this was bryan's 3rd birthday. can't believe he'll turn 5 in 2 months!

pumpkins

sharing this simple holiday card. now that halloween is over, i need to get cracking on holiday cards.

i had these halloween/fall pics loaded on blogger but never finished the post. and i'd have half the photos uploaded here and the rest, would come up with an error message on blogger....anyone else? so frustrating.

we were in SF this past weekend celebrating my niece's 1st birthday. she is SUCH a doll!! took tons of pictures of that cutie and will share some party pics and the boys in their halloween costumes.there were some gorgeous pumpkins!

i like the ugly, bumpy ones and i came home with one.

their choices

which pumkins do we want to take home????

some halloween cards i never got around to posting BEFORE halloween!

silly boys! happy fall! and thanks for stopping by!