Five.

        H A P P Y    F R I D A Y !!!

{ONE}

Trick-or-Treating got postponed yesterday due to the weather, but we headed to a near-by antique mall where they were having indoor trick-or-treating. 

Tonight we will go actual trick-or-treating with friends! 

Happy Halloween from my little lion and scary vampire! ;)

{TWO}

Crockpot Potato Soup

I've made this soup twice now and it is delicious and super EASY! If you don't want to make in in your crockpot, you can just throw it all in a pot and cook it for about an hour and it tastes just as good. Perfect for all the upcoming chilly nights!

Find the recipe HERE

{THREE}

First Steps!

This week my baby took his first steps! And, the best part...it was on our anniversary (which I STILL need to blog about. ;) Garry was actually able to see it too, which makes it that much better. :) He never comes home after work on Mondays because he goes straight to chorus after work. But this Monday he came home real quick and he literally walked in the door 2 minutes after Hudson took his first steps...then Hudson took a few steps to Daddy! We were so excited!! Of course, I was a crying disaster. ;) I love watching this sweet little baby grow and learn, but he seriously needs to slow down! 

{FOUR}

Well, moving on to the next holiday. I'm in love with this tree. :)

{FIVE}

The FIRST birthday countdown is on! This little turkey will be ONE on the 23rd--how is that even possible?! Here is the invitation that I made...

Pumpkin Carving!

Dawson was SO into carving pumpkins this year. We put it off a couple times because we were just too busy with everything going on, so this past Sunday we finally were able to get it done. Normally we carve more than one with some fancy schmancy patterns, but we opted to just carve the one we had and bedazzle a few of the smaller ones. Dawson was set on a plain ole jack-o-lantern. He told Garry and I that over and over. He didn't want anything but a "clain" (plain) jack-o-lantern.

Guess what? 

The excitement level for a 4-year-old for carving one pumpkin as opposed to 4 was still the same. ;) 

And, of course my favorite part of carving pumpkins is baking the seeds!

Killion's Halloween Party

Because I do 99.9% of everything last minute this is how my hubs and I's covo went down in Wal-Mart as I'm trying to find us a last minute costume to wear three hours before the party.

Me: So since our anniversary is on Monday, why don't we just be a bride and groom. That is providing I can fit my fat ass into my wedding dress. <------WTH, was I thinking?!

Garr: Really? Ok, but why don't you get some make-up while you're there and we can be a zombie bride and groom.

Me: Done. That will be an accurate description of 2 kids and 7 years later. ;)

Fast Forward to when I got home and had to come face to face with my wedding dress. Let's just say it involved lots of laughing and me instructing Garr to zip my back fat in it...I don't care, just make it fit! He laughed, laughed some more, and then basically told me there was no chance in hell that it was going to fit. So after that slap back into the reality of two kids later, I headed to my closet to come up with plan B. Plan B involved a red dress from two New Years Eve's ago that also didn't fit. Are you sensing a pattern here?

Plan B was gonna have to be zombie prom king and queen. Every couple has to do that once, right? I cut the dress up at the bottom so i could squeeze said fat ass into it, and threw some leggins on underneath it. Because prom queens always have leggins under their dress----->Lame.City.  Whatever. I made it work. It was cut, and smeared with make-up to zombie it up. Then my apparent wanna-be make-up artist of a husband completed my zombie look. 

I have to say for basically pulling this out of our asses two hours pre-party, we did a pretty good job!

We had a blast! Thanks Killions for hosting a great party! 

Hanging with the big boys to help look for things on the Halloween scavenger hunt. My favorite was when they were looking for a monster and Daws says, "Hey my Daddy can be the monster since he's dressed like a zombie!" Touche! ;)

Halloween Pictionary

11 Months

One more month, big boy!!

FOOD: Pretty much anything and everything. Tried scrambled eggs for the first time last week and loved them! I have yet to find anything he doesn't like. ;)

SLEEP: Bathtime is around 6ish, then bed at 6:30. Still waking up around 3:30/4:40 for a bottle, but goes right back to sleep until 6:45/7ish. Naps: Morning nap around 1 1/2-2 hours, then afternoon nap around 2-2 1/2 hours. 

WORDS: Mama, Dada, All Done, Cat

GROSS MOTOR: Starting to stand on his own, taking steps 

FAVORITE TOY: Loves anything that's not a real toy! ;) Huds loves to play with kitchen utensils and open and close the cabinet doors. :)

*YOU TOOK YOUR FIRST 3 STEPS TONIGHT!!! {10/28/13}

Halloween Hodge Podge

We have done so many fun Halloween/Fall things over the past couple of weeks. With everything going on, I just haven't had the chance to blog about them. So in honor of my laziness busyness, I'm just going to do an October photo dump with some of our happenings. :)

 {Haunted House the Children's Museum}

{Peewinkles: The Slightly Haunted Puppet Studio}

Daws with his buddy, Owen!

{Stonycreek Farm}

Daws and my Dad. I love this picture so much!

{Pumpkin Drop}

Note: There were SNOWFLAKES during this event. Say what? It was freezing, so we didn't stay long!

My FAVE morning show!

{Halloween Party at the Library}

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