Halloween traditions and a family fun day!!

Happy Halloween!

Today the kids are home from school and we are excited about all the fun that we are going to have!

As a Halloween tradition, we recently got to go to our old Fullerton neighborhood to go to our friends annual Halloween costume party.  (We miss our girls...)  The kids had stayed with their Mia and Papa so we were footloose and fancy free!
The homemade halloween continues...

 A drop cloth, spray paint, and rope:

Here were a few little photos from the evening!

 

 Our girls...
In my heart, they will always be our neighbors...
We love them so much and miss them to pieces!

These girls loved on me in my postpartum anxiety and the sleepless nights and long days wile Kit was at work.
They held my babies and fed me dinner and let me cry when I was exhausted and listened to me while I processed this thing called life.  We have laughed harder and supported each other in life moments and I could NOT love or appreciate these girls more.
How much better life is with them!
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Another Halloween tradition is the school parade at Ryder's school this last Friday...

 We made his light saber the morning of because he wasn't able to take his LightSaber to school, since it was a "weapon"...  A paper towel roll, duck tape and blue construction paper...

Have I mentioned how much I love his teacher?

They had a fun time and I love watching them grow each year!

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Then this past Saturday after our soccer game, we hosted our family for chili and pumpkin carving!
Here were some highlights:

 

 

 Our finished products!

Gosh how I love spending time with people that I love!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

All that to say, we can't wait for all the plans we have for today!

Pumpkins!

The other day we busted out our paints and our tiny pumpkins!

It is so much fun to watch my kiddos create!

I can't be trusted...

... to go to Target for something like 409 and think that I won't come home with anything else.  These were my recent finds and we LOVE them!

Target will always be a favorite!

probably my favorite house "craft"...

One of my favorite things right now is to go to thrift shops/garage sales and antique stores to look for milk glass that I can turn into planters.  They can be a little hard to find, but when I do, I have so much fun finding a place for them in our house:

The galvanized tins were from my mom and the small hobnail creamer was my grandma's:

 And then this little helper helps me find the perfect place for them!

A weekend with the "class pet"

This last week, Eden got to bring the class pet, Ruby home for a sleep over!

She was THRILLED!

 She gave Ruby a tour of her room...

 Gave Ruby a nap and read the book "Biscuit" to help her sleep...

 She got to sleep with her in a slumber party in Ryder's room...

 Ruby the puppy to to go to a soccer game and got to meet Eden's favorite person ever, her cousin Ruby...  Her mind might have exploded with excitement.

Then Ruby got to go to hang out in Redlands with our family time and her Mia and Papa:

We couldn't have had a sweeter time with this preschool tradition and I am SO thankful that the class pet is not of the living or reptile nature...❤︎

It finally came out!

Ryder had a front tooth that had been hanging by a thread!  It was just a matter of time...

So at his game on Saturday, he took a drink of Gatorade and thought that he swallowed it, and immediately burst into tears, only to find it at the bottom of his gatorade bottle:

 It was so fun to have our Mia and Papa there to not only watch the excitement of his game ON the field, but to also celebrate his lost tooth OFF the field...

 The little toothless grin pretty much melts my heart like nobodies business...