10.31.2011

Happy Halloween!!

It may come as a surprise, but I am obsessed with Halloween!  I began thinking about my costume in March, when I cut my hair.  I decided I would be the perfect Tinkerbell!  So sure enough, on Friday I got the cutest Tinkerbell dress at Goodwill, got some nude colored leggings at Target, and enough craft supplies to complete the costume from Michael's.  :)


Don't you see the resemblance?  Haha!


Our ward Trunk-or-Treat and chili cook-off was on Saturday and was so much fun.  I made some yummy southwestern chili and passed out loads of chocolate to all the little kids in the ward. 
 

Now that it's actually Halloween, we get real trick-or-treaters!  As I write this, we have had over 20!  Yay! Last year, we had the grand total of ONE trick-or-treater.  And we didn't even answer the door, bahaha!

10.30.2011

Billions of Pictures

Be prepared for the billions and billions (ok, maybe not that many) of pictures!


 My delicious 100 Grand birthday cake!



Matthew and Lindsey's wedding!  Her dress was GORGEOUS.





Hurricane Irene's damage







This is our church on the left hand side




Making homemade scones, Conference Weekend



My Halloween craftiness - this is puff paint that you use on fabric!  Super duper easy.



This wreath was super simple too.  I made the fabric flowers (you can find tutorials anywhere on the internet) and hot-glued them to a vine wreath.  Took about 10 minutes.




Love my hair-stylist!  I was asking her how to do a faux-hawk and she did it for me :)



Huge spider web in our kitchen window...and HUGE HUGE HUGE spider outside our front door!  





Our Apartment Complex



Fun park across the street from us.  It has little fitness stations!



Our apartment


It's kindof hard to tell from these pictures, but this is the crazy rain we got from Hurricane Irene.  Pounding on the windows!



Again, hard to tell from the pictures, but there are some big and deep puddles outside our back door from the amount of rain we got.




Damage in our neighborhood - thankfully, none of it near us.




They didn't cover the pool up during the hurricane, and it's almost overflowing!







This was the worst damage in our neighborhood - this is the huge branch that broke off and snapped loudly in the middle of the night.