Random October Fun

Caramel apples...mmmmm! 

Painting cars! 

Happy with finished products.  :D 

Girls sleepover with my sister Jen! So fun to visit and see her cute prego belly!

Where she dyed my hair for the first time ever. (shhhh, don't tell anyone! :) Kidding!) 

The Philmont Craft Lodge

The Craft Lodge was a hit!  Abby picked a bird house to build and paint.  Joey helped too!

These kids were good with a hammer.

Check out my little artist!

Joey brought his snake to paint!

Dave made his own Philmont belt!  It was awesome!!

Holding Snakes

There is a craft building up at Philmont and the kids both chose wooden snakes to paint!  Doesn't Joey look SO happy?

Finished Jewelry Box

Abby LOVED painting her jewelry box she got from Grandma & Grandpa Omer and Aunt Katie!  Here is her final product.  Doesn't it look great?!  I have a little artist on my hands!  This girl can color better than me almost!!   

Painting Pro

One of the gifts Abby got for her bday was a Paint your own Jewelry Box!  She LOVED IT!  

This girl could paint for hours!  She asked me one or two questions in the beginning and then, she was just at it!  Making her own creation 100%.  I love watching her be creative.  She has such a bright little mind!

I'll post the final product when I find the picture I took of it!  

New Tradition

This year I wanted to start a new Thanksgiving tradition.  Something that focused a little more on family and gratitude and less about food...that part comes naturally.  :)  Well, I ran across the idea of a "Book of Thanks" on some awesome craft blog, but the book they used and the only decent looking, even somewhat like I had imagined it, book I could find in stores or online was $50-60.  

So, I decided to make one!  

Each thanksgiving for the rest of our lives (?) we will bring our Book of Thanks out and everyone that we are sharing that day with will sign it and write something they are thankful for from that year.  I think it will be a lot of fun to be able to look back and read the things written in it, see who we had Thanksgiving with each year and see the handwriting and content of our children's writings change from year to year.

I decorated the inner pages a little. 

And attempted to add some embellishments...i'm a wanna be crafter, not a real one yet.

Ta-Da!  There she is.  Thanks to all who helped in the making.  Here's to many wonderful Thanksgivings full of gratitude!  I am so very blessed.  

Abby had a blast painting the white pumpkins we picked out this year.  I think she did a fine job!  Makes me think of Return to Oz ...weird weird movie.

Here's what that brown ball of string turned out to be Heather.  Thanks for helping us roll it on Thanksgiving day!