October - Part I

I love to let others be creative for me and then I just copy what they do.  I found a blog that made this cute gumball looking machine out of a planters pot, I thought that was super cheap and cute so I made one.  It was one of the easiest and quickest crafts I've ever made.  Love it.

Love me some Cooper crack

 We went to our friend's house to carve pumpkins.  The kids painted theirs and the adults carved. 

 Our pumpkins.  This October was on the warmer side.  We had our pumpkins on the porch for a few days and they started to wilt and get all deformed. 

 Date night

 My as Buzz at the Costume shop, Cooper making a mess of his food, our Batman falling asleep in the car, and ELEFUN

 My hubby and I at Jake's preschool

 Bike rides

 AMANDA VISIT
My sister Amanda flew in with her two boys for a week over my birthday. I love visitors and I hadn't see her in a long time so it was a treat!  Isn't she pretty?

 We celebrated my birthday by having an 80's party, pictures on the next post.  Here's the cake

We did lots of fun stuff when my sister was here.  I get with a group and we rotate doing storytime at each of our houses each week.  This week it happened to be my turn which was convenient.

Cooper and I have been in this dance class at the rec center while Jake's been in preschool.  It's a cute class where they play fun songs and the kids have to jump, hop, clap, bang an instrument, etc and the parents do it with them.  I took Cooper and my nephew Simon one day.  Simon loved the class.  Ella and Kara were in the class with us as well, which Cooper LOVES.  And we love the teacher, Miss Jayla (below)

Dress up

 Trips to the park

 I can't get enough of this little guy, Eli.  I hadn't seen him yet and he is just the sweetest baby.  He's so happy and has the cutest smile. 

 We went to the mall that has an indoor play place.  It was a MAD HOUSE.  I'm not kidding, I've never seen so many people at one place before, it was more than difficult to track where your child was, I hated it!
We also got to ride the horse at the grocery store, not just any horse, he costs 1 penny, which is my favorite.  And we ate Jimmy Johns, oh how we love Jimmy Johns.

 Amanda had just recently learned how to make fondant and assured me it was super easy so I had a go at it.  I thought it turned out alright for my first time. 

 I love to do hair, and my favorite hair to work on is my sister, Amanda's.  She has long and very thick hair.  It's not too fine and usually lets me tell it what to do, it's great.  So every time I see her, she lets me play with it and try stuff out.  This is what I came up with one night, we thought it was kinda cute. 

 The boys.  They had so much fun playing with Simon, Amanda's 2 year old.  He's such a cutie and I love the way he talks.  He enunciates every word, it's so cute.

 My sister and I
Thanks for visiting me.  I enjoyed the company!