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!!

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!

B O O

Welcome to the first ever Lawanscaping Blog Hop ! So glad you’re here! You should have come to me by way of Ruza . This month's theme is Celebrate the Holidays!! The hop runs from Friday, September 9th - Sunday, September 11th! Make sure to comment on all of the blogs because there are LOTS of prizes to be won! Additonal details can be found on the Lawnscaping home page.

4 winners will receive a free Lawn Fawn set of their choice. One will go to a random hop participant (DT members not eligible) and then THREE will go to three random people who comment along the hop! Mold Muse is giving away a $25 gift certificate. There will also be mystery prize packs to another random hop participant and commenter…. Not only will you be inspired, you have lots of chances to win!

Next head on to Donna's blog. If you've gotten off track, don't worry! Head on back to Lawnscaping to see the complete list of designers.

Here is my card. Used Lawn Fawn's heebie jeebies and quinn's ABCs. I heat embossed the web and spiders. Added some glossy accents and stickles. Finished it off with some orange tinsel.

thanks for stopping by!

august already?

can you believe it's august already? brandon starts school in september. where did the summer go?
getting ideas for my next card class. this halloween one will be one that we will be making. not sure what the other 2 projects will be.

a birthday card for a friend. it's late. i can never seem to get it together to be on time!

thanks for stopping by today. gotta run & entertain the boys!

halloween

how was everybody's halloween? brandon woke up halloween morning and greeted us with a very loud, "happy halloween"! he was so excited all day and couldn't wait for it to be dark. brandon had the plastic pumpkin buckets at the front door 2 weeks before the 31st, all ready to go.

we went trick or treating with 2 different families---separately. don't ask how that worked out....but we ended up with the same family we went with last year. the kids all had a blast. and can you believe I forgot my camera?? hoping to get pics from the mom we went with. here is our loot. there's something in there for everyone! we must have about 5lbs of candy. yay---cavities!
here's my buzz lightyear.

some pictures from brandon's school parade. he was extremely excited!

brandon as a kamen rider. he handpicked his costume this year from the party city catalog. that catalog is such a coveted item in our house. the boys would fight over looking through that!bryan's a sweetheart......no really, he had the underwear to prove it ;)

brandon had a class party with many activites. cookie decorating, bingo, coloring a frame, cutting a black cat and word search. class picture

treat bags i made. i found an online free printable to make these tags here. they were perfect for his class!

right before the kids came into the party from recess, brandon's teacher told the parents that volunteered for the party, that friday was her last day. WT....... really? what happened to 2 weeks notice? i was just glad i was there so that i could take this picture of her with brandon. we hardly got to know her. [she was little red riding hood BTW]

i forgot to take a picture of the card i made for brandon's teacher so i had to do it outside his classroom. excuse the half shadow.thanks for stopping by and looking through all these pictures!

the 1-3 count

don't let brybry's usually sweet face trick ya........he can be a booger. a real BIG booger. i came across these pics from my iPhone. i don't even remember what he did but he got the 1-2-3 count from daddy. [i actually only got the 1-3 count documented here =)]L O V E his face here

daddy still has his 3 fingers up waiting for bryan to stop crying.

last month, brandon got an award at school. here his is walking up to receive it. the principal [L] knows him by name since his 1st day in kindergarten. could be a good & bad thing. his 1st grade teacher is at the mic.

it was an extra special day since daddy took the morning off to see brandon at the awards assembly.

brandon's so proud and it shows!! (holding up his award) he got the outstanding citizenship award (friendship) just like he got in kindergarten. at least he's consistent!

like my ugly, bumpy pumpkin? made a tag here.another lawn fawn card. after making this card, i thought maybe i should add some pictures on the wall or something. looks so bare----- but it reflects how our house walls are. BARE!! hubby has a thing about knocking holes into the wall......... the string of lights has glossy accents on them.

i made brandon write his own thank you notes to his friends for coming to his birthday party and for his presents. i let him do the stamping on the front with a stamp of his choice.

thanks for stopping by today!