Halloween a very favorite holiday

I love Halloween since the day I can remember. . . I guess my mom made me love it so with all the fun activities we would do, the creative costumes we always wore and of course the Halloween dinner was divine! Here are just a few things I LOVE. What do you love about Halloween?

1. Dressing up
2. Eating candy -- chocolate
3. Anything pumpkin-- carving pumpkins, pumpkin desserts, decorating pumpkins etc.
4. Telling ghost stories
5. Spooky Halloween dinner
6. Carmel apples
7. Carmel's
8. Trick or treatin oh wait im too old for that
9. Halloween parties
10. The leaves start changing colors -- really missing that here in houston.

So here are a few Halloween crafts I did for my lack of Halloween decor. They are simple but cute.

1. I traced a bat pattern onto a piece of paper and then transferred to construction paper.

Vase pumpkin. Painted it orange. The top I used a paper plate punched a hole through it and put a stick and leaves I found outside. Glued construction paper for the face.

Crepe paper flower bouquet and wreath tutorial

Supplies: crepe paper, elmers glue, tape, black tape, hanger, cardboard

Flowers: Fold crepe paper like pic above. Then glue onto piece of wire from hanger (can be as long or short as you like it) Roll to make center of flower. showed in next photo. 

Gather the end of crepe paper at the bottom and make it bunch up.

Keep wrapping around don't make it too tight. You'll get the hang of it after a few tries.

Once you made it how big you want it tape the end to the wire. Tape the whole wire with black tape to hide the wire.

For the wreath:

bunch up on the bottom when desired size is met. 

Cut off the end and glue it to your piece of cardboard. Mine was kind of uneven but I wanted it that way. Simple but looks pretty. (sorry for the bad quality of photos)

Happy Halloween! Can't wait to see everyone's costumes and parties. 

My sister is doing a project party on her blog.. so share what you've done and grab her button so everyone else can be inspired. 

One Years Old and Family Photos

Calvin turned the big 1 yesterday and wow can I tell you how weird it felt... I can't believe that a year has already gone by and so much has happened in just one year.  A few weeks ago Calvin and I had some fun taking pictures in our backyard. He is quite the poser and i was eating up every moment of it. And i took so many and they all turned out so cute that I couldn't help but post them all -- i have way to hard of time choosing just a couple. 

I can't tell you how much I love this boy of mine. I'm bias but I just think I have the cutest boy in town. 

Calvin's year one embarked many fun adventures and new discoveries. 

Was born at momma's end of school battle

Had his first Christmas in Utah

Could lift his head up at 2 weeks

Hated being on his belly

Started sitting up at 5 months

First road trip to St. George

Gave kisses 4 months and still does

Lived in 3 different homes

started crawling 10 months

Moved to Texas

says and waves hi and bye

sings la la la

signs more/food

crawls up the stairs

His favorite toys are plastic spoon and his gas relief bottle or mini tub of toothpaste

loves to read, dance and eat

Favorite foods: any fruit, ice cream, grilled cheese, bread + jam, cooked carrots

Favorite book: llama llama

Loves to be with people especially mommy and daddy

I sure love my cute boy! It has been one eventful and fun year. can't wait for more memories with you.

We celebrated by getting him a red wagon and the best part is that it was free. We had dinner with some friends and ate some yummy apple cheesecake bars = Heavenly.. I'll have to post this on the cooking blog. 

I planned his party for this upcoming sat because his cousin (that lives here) has the same bday as him but sadly everyone but one family I invited couldn't make it to the party... how crazy is that. ha so we are just doing a dinner, cake and ice cream on Sunday to celebrate 

 Here are the Family Photos we took in the summer awhile back I said I would post them. well here they are.