October 31, 2012

::halloween 2012:: tinker bell & peter pan

i love halloween and i love homemade costumes.  i'm a little obsessed, so there.  i said it :)  i mentioned earlier that currently our household is completely obsessed with tinker bell, peter pan, and never land, so costumes this year were so easy peasy to decide on :)  i love that i have one boy and one girl...both different ages...and both currently sharing the same obsession...score!!  this is by far my favorite photo of the night...
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i love them all and had a hard time picking which ones to post, so lucky you, you get them all!
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i did make both of their costumes with a little help from pinterest.  i don't sew, somehow, i just manage to make it all quasi-work.  i've never followed a sewing pattern in. my. life.
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if i had a pattern, it would probably be called...wing it.
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we'll start with memms...
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i thought she was so pretty in her fairy costume :)
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wings were from the dollar tree and the rest was just tulle...
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bro.  oh my bro.  he was "peter pan with a sword."  his sword was from the dollar tree too.
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i wanted to eat him with a spoon.
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he would pop his sword out and say, "heh."  so funny.
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a couple of self timed family photos...
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and we were off to the neighborhood party.  everyone was so cute!
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we are so blessed to have met so many friends so quickly...
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and so blessed to have aunt lindy come trick or treat with us.  i didn't manage to get her photo, but this is the first halloween of 7 that we've had family with us on such a fun day!  i wonder what they'll be next year??
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October 26, 2012

a fun fall weekend

y'all might want to grab a cup of coffee for this one.  i am pretty sure it is on photo overload.
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our weekend started with a fire on friday night.  we ended it by making fireplace s'mores with the kiddos.  the weather was cool, and we were all so excited!
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rob brought home a beautiful bouquet of fall flowers for me.  those are my favorite flowers...the unexpected ones :)
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the kids and i worked hard all week on our leaf people...
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and they both enjoyed watching the hair on their people grow, grow, grow!
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saturday morning, we made pumpkin pancakes.
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i love everything pumpkin and bro loves everything cooking, so we made a great team.
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miss emma continued to decorate the house with her craftings....
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we even made these pumpkin ornaments to hang in the window...
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and, we all continued our new obsession with peter pan, tinker bell, and never land.  the idea of never growing up and having pixie dust to fly sounds just delightful :)
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saturday afternoon, we loaded the four of us up and headed to the local balloon festival.
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we generally aren't "fair" or "crowd" people, but i will say that this time, our afternoon and night were simply amazing!
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the kids enjoyed all of the little carnival rides.  the festival was in a super small town, so there were no lines, and everything was really affordable.
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i bought our admission tickets through groupon, so they were half price...score!  i think for 10 bucks, we were all in the gate with parking and all...score again!
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their little face on all of the rides were priceless.
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it was so much fun and so laid back...
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bro requested the "choo, choo train."
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and off they went...
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we made a pit stop for some junk food...
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and them memms requested the ferris wheel.  i let rob run with that one.  i. am. not. a. fan.
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they all three came off smiling, but i do think my dare-devil husband had a few different thoughts about the ferris wheel with the safety of two little ones at heart :)
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we stopped off again for a yummy corn dog and fresh-squeezed lemonade.
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yum-o!
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one more snack...kettle corn.  rob loves it!
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then, we began waiting patiently for the sun to go down.
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they dig some field rolling :)
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and were invited inside of a balloon basket...
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it was getting pretty chilly, so the fire felt wonderful!
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inflating the balloons began and the kids loved watching...
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everyone there was so nice and let us take as many pictures as we wanted.
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a little sibling love.
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going up.....
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still waiting on the balloon glow, but freezing to death...
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we were so cold, that we headed back enjoyed the glow from inside our heated car.  we are true southerners at heart.  sunday morning, i woke up to bro with his trains...
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i think that is his #1 favorite toy...
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and memms with her crafting...
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her masterpiece was none other than....TINKER BELL!  it was such a fun weekend.
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