Merry Christmas!!

....to all and to all a goodnight!

Hope you all have a fabulous holiday!!

A little of this, a little of that...

The Holiday season has made our life so very busy, and blogging has been last on my list of things to do. But now...surprisingly, life has slowed down a bit, at least for today. I'm happy to say I'm pretty much done with all my Christmas shopping! I worked really hard to get everything done early so I can actually enjoy the Christmas season instead of stressing about getting it all done. It's been a tough year for our little family, a fun and happy holiday is much needed. And so far...it's feels so nice! Why haven't I done this every year!

So, on with the story of our life, October and November were as good as can be expected. We kept ourselves busy and had fun along the way. November 18th.....The Breaking Dawn midnight premier!

It was GREAT! I LOVED it!! It was probably my favorite one so far! They just keep getting better and better! All my waiting was not in vain :)
It's so nice to have a sister that has the same obsessions as I do. I can always count on her to go with me on any crazy adventure.
Ellie loves to watch TV, especially animals, even if it's a cartoon. She makes life so interesting :)

For Halloween, we had a movie night and ate lots and lots of candy. I do love candy!

The Sunday before Halloween, my family got together to eat some yummy food and carve pumpkins.

My cute niece Amberlee and her soon to be Hubby :)

Love my sisters

And there's the finished product! My pumpkin! I worked so hard on it :)

Halloween is on of my most favorite holidays. I love, LOVE to get all dressed up! But this year, we really didn't have any parties or activities that gave us the opportunity to dress up. So, for the fun of it, we decided to do a Halloween photo shoot. If you can't tell, I'm a corpse bride and Katie is Red Riding Hood. It was alot of fun :)

Always have to get pictures with my sweet Ellie.

the WitchFest

I have decided that I need to buy a bike, preferably a pink one, because biking is so fun! My brother Mike and my sister-in-law Julie go on these long bike rides all the time, and lucky for us, they invited us to come and join the fun. Ryan and I don't have bikes (yet), but thanks to my sweet mom and dad....we got to borrow theirs for a day. Our bike trail started off somewhere in the middle of Salt Lake and from there we rode to Gardner Village in West Jordan. Total round trip was 30 miles, which is the longest I've ever rode. I won't lie, my legs were very sore that night, but it was so fun! It was worth all the pain! I can't wait to do it again!

Our ride was so, so pretty! I couldn't get enough of all the different colors on the trees! I love, LOVE fall! love, LOVE him too!

This was my first time at Gardner Village, and it was so much more than I ever expected! This place is amazing! We didn't plan it, but we went on the Saturday that was celebrating the WitchFest. Everyone was dressed up! There was mostly witches, but there was also many kiddos dressed up in their Halloween costumes. I must come to this event every year...I can't believe I never have been to it before!

They had cute witches EVERYWHERE you turned!

and other cute Halloweenie things...

why Hello!

A hula-hop Witch

"Come over here and give me a nice wet lickery kiss!"

Can you name the movie?

This baby was one of the cutest I've ever seen! His momma was trying to take a picture of him with all the pumpkins, but all he wanted to do was eat the pumpkin stem. "Sigh...." I'll get one soon, I hope.

Fire(wo)men Witch....

I LOVE this place!

Where I get all my pictures! Thanks bonehead :)

"Double double toil and trouble"

"I put a spell on you...and now your mine!"

the bikers :)

just a little shopping....

He is my most favorite.

Oh, and today is HALLOWEEN!

Happy Halloween to you from us! We hope it's to die for!

(haha, I know I'm lame but I don't care!)

My Halloween Crafts

Halloween is a big deal at our house, it's almost as big as Christmas. Our house is decked out with decorations and every year I try to add more to spice it up. This year, I went a little crazy with all my Halloween projects. I was almost too busy. I spent many late hours drawing, painting, burning my fingerprints off with the glue-gun, tying hundreds of knots, and gluing lots of googly eyes on everything! But now that's it's all said and done, I am happy and have very much enjoyed them this season. They are defiantly not like professional crafts you buy in the stores, but they're cheaper :) and they are something I can call my own that I worked really hard on. It's a good feeling to see things you accomplished.

My wreath was probably the most time consuming. The tutorial on the Internet that showed how to make a ribbon/fabric wreath said it's an easy project and it will take an hour tops. Well, for me and my picky ways (I guess some people say I'm a perfectionist ;) I found that wasn't true...... it took me like 5 hours! By the time I tied that last knot, I was so ready to never tie another knot again. But I do see more knot tying in my future, I have plans for more holidays wreaths. Welcome to our Home, Baaaa-ha,ha!

Here's Elphaba's broom. Yes, from time to time, the wicked witch of the west comes to visit us. But if you give her chocolate and some ice cream, she isn't so wicked anymore :)

This is my "Happy Halloween" banner...but it's hard to see, cause my picture stinks. It's cute, I promise.

My Spooky Scary Skeleton family portrait. Yes, I plan on having 5 babies, so I had to make a skeleton for each one. So far...there's me, Ryan, Our sweet Jason, and Ellie. Only 4 more to go till our family is complete.

Now, that October is coming to an end, it's time to move on to my next projects.....Christmas ones! I gotta keep busy, it's good for me.