I still don't even know this little angel but I have a special feeling that we are going to be seriously tight! Can't wait to hold you Emily! Being your Aunt is a huge blessing for me. Stay small. Love you big time, girly!
We spent the evening of our dress-up-cute-and-do-silly-things-for-candy-day in our very own neighborhood and it was a huge success! Mark even collected beef jerky at one house. Sadie was just as into it as every other bigger kid and she did not like being helped. The only problem is we would head one way and she would go the other.
Payton was a ninja "warrior"!
Hi----Ya!
Sadie a little chicken!
Katelyn came as the beautiful pink butterfly
Love this shot! "Are they coming?...Here they come! Here they come!"
Okay! Cutest caterpillar costume ever on the most handsome little boy. Cameron is my little buddy and his mom does magic with socks and stuffing.
Sophie was a darling little witch!
First thing in the bag went right into his mouth. What? He needed his energy to make it through the entire neighborhood.
Payton was sure to keep Sadie on the right track. 
Although after a while she didn't need anybody!
Sweet little Naomi, the bumble bee, stayed cozy and snug with her mommy and a carmel apple sucker!
Isn't he sweet?
She eventually let her Daddy walk with her and hold her sticky little hand.
For Family Home Evening we had a little bit of a carving party! The Cooks, Teeples and Millers joined us and we had so much fun! Everyone did their own thing, we ate Halloween goodies and the kids went crazy! 
Rachel brought eyes, mouths, noses and other facial features cut out of magazines to glue onto their squash. They turned out so cute and silly. Plus they can still eat them later! Rachel is one smart and creative lady!
James still flirts with his cute wife!
I made my favorite treat in the whole world.
There was even sharing.
The finished products!
Mine was interesting and the day after Halloween it caved in.
The crew whom we love minus Jason who took the picture! We debated having him photo shopped in as a spooky floating head. We had fun. This just might have to another awesome Halloween tradition! Thanks for coming you guys!
So I found some forgotten about Halloween decorations and had to put them up before the big day tomorrow. I hung these paper bats from fishing line in our archways. I love it!
Payton made me the prettiest blue pumpkin at preschool.
I told Payton I wanted to make him a trick-or-treat bag and he requested a monster one. This is what I came up with. He loves it and that makes me happy! Sadie's will come next year. This one is as big as she is and might be hard to carry around. That way she can pick what she would like.
Look! He even has a belly button. Payt thinks "that's sooooo silly!"
Some of Payton's preschool creations. We love his preschool and he can't wait to go every day. Thanks Miss Ashlee!
Oh and I have been adding a little bit of fall flare to our house. Mark helped me put these shelves up in our dining room. Playing house is so much fun. I have a hard time thinking about anything else. 
Last night for family home evening we busted out the Halloween decorations and we went at our porch. Payton helped me add spider webs to everything.
I wanted a Halloween wreath but the ones I saw looked so silly to me or gross so I made this one in literally 20 minutes.
all you do is take a metal notebook ring...as large as you can find...and then you just tie strips of back tulle to it until it is full. Then I just tied an orange gross grain ribbon around it and made a bow. Pretty cute but I wish it was a little bit bigger.
I also took some black tulle and some cut out white fabric stars and made this. 
Really easy and with white lights under it it looks just like a fortune tellers window or something.
Oh...and my new favorite find. He sits on our piano right now. I call him Jack.
Favorite thing in the whole house. I love this as my key ring holder...right by the garage.
This use to be our old tv stand. I love it way more as a china cabinet.
I found this at a garage sale for like 10 bucks and I finally got to it. Painted it to match my curtains, added new fabric for the pockets and then put new cute blue knobs on it. I saw it's potential a long time ago and now I love it!
Do you see my chair? Yup! I got it! All I need to do now is a little bit of painting (archway and piano) and find me one fantastic couch. This is where I teach and practice. Nothing else really happens in here.
I just couldn't clean up my mess. I even have a sewing room and this table makes for one awesome craft place. I have been quilting lately and can't seem to stop. I just finished a scrap quilt for the play room last week and had to start another one right away.
Sneak peak at the one in progress.
A lot of love has gone into this room. Almost everything is handmade by somebody who loves her very much...and I'm not talking me. The quilt was a baby gift from two of my best friends Rachel and Cortney the blankets hanging there are from her Gammie and her Grandma. the dress is from Gammie the doll in the corner is from Gammie and the wall hanging with the green around it was embroidered by Cortney too. I made her her big S and her Sadie wall hanging. Mark and her aunt Megan painted the dresser and my dad...her Potts took the pictures! 
I am waiting to paint this room. I have a quilt in mind that I am going to make her for her big girl bed in a year or so but I have not yet picked all of the fabric out. When that is done then I will paint...oh and fix her curtains which are too short for this house.
This room still needs a dresser, some paint on the walls and on the bed (old one of mine from forever ago with the fun nasty gold spray detal), fixed curtains and some shelving on the wall but I think it has a good start. 
When I made sadie her big S I had to of course make him one for over his bed. They are easy and really cute I htink. Again, scrapbook paper scraps, glue and some embellishments.
I made these for Payton a while back to hang in his room. I had three old matching frames and nothing to put in them so Walla! He still seems to like them.
Just to show the book case and the easel oh and the nasty gold. His bed would be cute chocolate brown or we may just get him a new more manly bed and give this one to Sadie when she needs it.
This image is not mine but cute huh? I need to make this one! 
Oh and yes...those are peanut butter captain crunch. I found her with the entire bag pulled out of the box sitting in her own awesome mess just having breakfast.
Sadie is 15 months old now and just a laugh. She's charming and intelligent and a little bit mean...although sweet immediately after her attack. She talks quite a bit and is starting to run...almost faster then I can at times. She copies her brother in every single way and plays with him perfectly. She's a hard little girl...I'm not going to lie but trading her for another would be crazy. She keeps me on my toes and her weight helps my muscles grow, she also knows exactly what she wants. Still no babysitters for this little girl unless it's one of her favorite other mommies. She seems so attached and why am I surprised. She's been that way since her birth. But at least her daddy is the twinkle in her eye. When he's home he's all she wants. Break time for me for a minute or two. Her hugs are really really great! 
