HALLOWEEN!

Trevor and I headed to Salt Lake for the day to take care of some car things and my mom was nice enough to take the boys. She always has fun things to keep them busy and of course they loved raking the leaves and in the end they actually left them in neat piles.

We had a hard time getting any good pictures of the boys in their costumes, I think they were kind of done for the night.

Will "Obe Won Kanobe"

Charlie "Tiger"

We had soup at my in-laws and then took the boys to about 10 houses in our neighborhood. Definitely cold, but so fun to see them so excited. Its amazing how much candy you get at 10 houses!

I almost forgot about the pumpkin walk. We went on Monday with my mom and grandma. Its fun to have my grandma make memories with my boys. She is in her 80's but the woman can go! I hope I am as healthy and active at her age. She is darling!

Charlie

So, when Will was little I thought I would always remember the cute things he said. Turns out the memory isn't serving me that well, so I thought I better write down Charlie's cute 2 year old comments before they leave my brain for good.
Charlie has the funnest/funniest personality. If you get him going he will talk your ear off about stuff that normally doesn't come out of a 2 year old mouth. (It could be the older brother influence, ya think?)
-"Dad, I not want you to lay by me. I not like your smell." (Trev actually smells quite good:))
- "Interesting."
- "This is delicious!"
-"Mom, you are MY sweetheart."
-"Can Santa bring me my own little pour wheeler?" (four wheeler, his F's are P's)
-When we were potty training, I would come in to check on him, if he had already flushed he would say, "Sorry, you missed it." Like, too bad for you.
-"My baby peets are cold."
-He has a bean bag that he loves to curl up in and when he's curled up he looks like he's in a little nest. So now he will say, " I want to sit in my nest and have a ba-ba." (ba-ba=sippy cup with milk, no REAL bottle, come on the kid is almost 3. Maybe we should get rid of the sippy cup with milk.)
Those are just a few of his funny things, which I realize don't sound as funny written down. But he has the cutest little voice. He has honestly been so much fun from day 1. He is a total cuddle babe and still loves me to "hold him tight". I love it!! It is hard to think that he will be a big boy in 2 months. Here is a sweet sleeping picture of this non-stop boy in his "nest". Don't you love to look at your kids after they are asleep, somehow it makes anything they did naughty during the day "null and void" (is that the right term?).

Halloween Decor

Okay, so I have a small obsession with decorating blogs. I can thank my cute mother-in-law for that, she is the one that introduced me to them :) I seriously LOVE to check them every day or so and see what they have done. So, not that I am a decorator by any means but I LOVE to play around with decor and inexpensive stuff. And see what I can come up with. I often catch myself wondering why I care so much what my home looks like, no one really sees it. So when I get excited about something I guess in order for someone to see it I better blog about it, right? And truely I decorate for myself, because I'm home all day and decorations make me happy!! I know, I'm kind of nerdy. Also, note to self: don't blog while kids are awake, HUGE MESS in my living room!

Here is my entry table with it's "standard" decor. I love the sconces that were a steal at Real Deals. And the old window frame that I have propped. I love that layered look.

I am also really into glass containers lately. I love them because they are fresh and light and you can always change their look. I needed something to fill in around the bird in the container so I cut up a wreath that didn't work for my house and now it is awesome filler! The bird pic is a TJ Maxx find that I had been eyeing at a full price store. I was stoked to find it!

Here is my Halloween entry table. At first I was kind of bummed that I didn't have a ton of Halloween decorations to put out, but I just used what I had and made one area feel Halloweenie. I ended up loving it, and each year I will add a few more little spookies to more areas of the house.

Again, glass jars and cloches are my favorites!! And seriously, they are like $10-$25. Ribbon has also been fun for me to play with tying around my cloche, it adds color and sort of softens it. The pumpkin was a little too bright so I ran my black ink pad all around it and it gave it the look I was going for.