Thanksgiving and Christmas tree

Gabe and Kent's tree!
Being silly with Grandpa at Thanksgiving

Great - grandpa had some fun games for the kiddos:)

The Crew - we had a great time...the food was perfect - thanks Great Grandpa and Grandma!

Playing with Cousins

Homemade Christmas {Part 2}

Homemade Super Hero capes.....Please don't look at sewing too closely - I am a TERRIBLE seamstress:)

Day at the Aquarium

We had so much at The Living Planet Aquarium....Although Kent was TERRIFIED of the sharks - he is so silly and didn't completely understand that they were contained - so funny!

Homemade Christmas

Some of the puppets I made....they are a little special:)
Before picture of headboard - Gabe doesn't need one - right?????

So this year (with some inspiration from my neighbor and the use of her garage and husband to cut wood for me:) I am trying to make everything for Christmas this year for my kiddos:) Here is the puppet theatre I built from an old headboard (found idea here infarrantlycreative.net) ....I sewed the bag things on the back too and made all the puppets (all 13 of them:) This theatre is FAR from perfect but I think the kids will like it (hopefully) This has been so fun - many posts to follow I've got alot of projects in the making!

Halloween fun!

Chillin like villains (or I mean super heroes) at the Trunk or Treat in the bat cave:)
So - I finally got all the winter stuff organized and in the boys' closet and found some AWESOME costumes I forgot about (thanks mom, she got them for us) - they had so much fun dressing up!

Gabe and Kent doing their 'action shot'


Toys R Us did a Halloween party and the boys got some sweet trick or treat bags for FREE - hooray!

Painting pumpkins - my poor children are deprived I NEVER carve pumpkins...way too much work for lazy old me:)

Another sweet costume found in the closet - Kent makes a perfect lawn gnome - I was seriously laughing so hard:)

Enjoying the Syracuse annual Pumpkin walk - so fun and 1,000s of super cool pumpkins!

Grandpa and Grandma took all the grandkids to boo at the zoo in Logan - such fun! (all the kids got their hair colored at one of the booths)

SUPER fun lunch my mom and dad did for the kids for Halloween....yummy:)

what we've been up to.......

Something frightening is happening to me - I have been overtaken by someone who LOVES to craft!

Here are a few of my latest projects......... This is an AWESOME desk my mother-in-law gave us when we moved to Utah 2 years ago that was in desperate need of a paint job - so I initially painted it black but the paint never set and stayed super tacky - so I stripped it, sanded it, and painted it a funky color and then stained it - I even filled the original hardware holes and drilled new ones and replace it with some new fun hardware....Adam is not a fan of the color but I was SOOOOO sick of everything being black - so here it is after only 28 HOURS of hard labor:) wish I had a before pic - sorry!

This beauty I found on the side of the road in good old Rexburg and we have had it since Gabe was 1 (so 3 years) - it had a lovely laminate finish from the 70's and I finally got around to painting it - this baby only took like 3 hours to complete - my kind of project:)

Okay so enough about my new hobby - here are my DARLING boys!

Fun at the Pack Farm Pumpkin Patch....

Friends Faith and Rahel...Kent would NOT hold still at all:)

Awe......aren't they so stinking cute!?

Stinking cute stuff!

So....my adorable sister Camie opened an etsy shop and you MUST check it out! www.noisysmiles.etsy.com She is super talented and I love her stuff! Check it out:)