MIA - Life Happens!!

On the 26th my daughter and her boys from Austin drove in and spent the night and we all flew to Kansas City the next day. We were there to celebrate my mother-in-law's 90th birthday. She is in assisted-living but still can get around a little and is alert and cognizant. We took her to her favorite Italian restaurant for a birthday lunch on Saturday.

Mitchell was so tired he fell asleep just before we got to the restaurant and he slept on the floor during the entire meal.!

On Sunday we all flew back to Dallas; my husband drove home; and I drove down to Austin with Kelly.  Monday we looked all over for pumpkins as the ones they had gotten earlier in the month were rotting. The two pumpkin patches had none and were closed. We ended up at the grocery store which only had small pie pumpkins left.  That night the boys carved their pumpkins with their Dad.

Then on Tuesday, Halloween, my husband flew in and we went to Carl's school for his kindergarten Fall Festival. It was freezing cold and windy so we were glad it only lasted an hour! The kids all wore their costumes and it was really cute. Each of the 6 classes had 2 booths of fun/learning activity games.

And then it was trick-or-treating time!  Carl was Pikachu - Kelly made stripes on the back of the yellow pjs and also the tail. The costume even made it through the school day intact.

Mitchell adores the Moana movie and was Maui.  Kelly made the leaf skirt, necklace and hook. She had bought tattoos to put on his chest and arms but since it was so cold she got a t-shirt and just drew them on with Sharpie. Mitchell didn't know the difference.  He had refused to wear the wig for days, but that night he wore it! It really finished the costume off nicely.

The next day we came home and brought Mitchell with us for three days as Kelly had to work and her babysitter was unavailable. He was a joy to have - such a sweetie and no homesickness or missing Mom and Dad.  I had ordered him a suitcase for his first solo trip. He chose a Minions theme and loves it.

So, this week there is nothing planned for a change and I hope to catch up on everything and get back to arting and blogging! And resting

I'm late - for Halloween!

Hope everyone had a fun and candy-filled Halloween! My little grandsons were so cute in their costumes. We even were able to go trick-or-treating with Carl as they came into town to spend the weekend with his two little cousins in Plano. How cute it was to see those three littles (oldest is 3) figuring out what it was all about and then getting really into it!

Drew went as "Boots" from Dora, his favorite show

Carl was Superman - last minute costume change - don't ask

These were the treats I made them. Didn't want to do a lot of candy since they are so young, so found these on Pinterest.

Frankenstein snack cups (snacks from Walmart, painted cup, added cut
black card stock hair, eyes and drew on mouth - Peanut butter cup "bolts")

Small Playdoh containers with goggly eyes and pipe cleaner spider
legs glued on. Original pin had pipe cleaners in colors to match
lid but I only bought 1 package.

Each of them got a fun-size M&M package but I put Drew's in
this treat bag made at the LBH Make&Take last weekend.
I only had one so it had to go in his mailed package!

Again, Happy Halloween everyone! It's on to Thanksgiving and then Christmas. (Actually I'm very busy creating Christmas projects this week for our Holiday Open House on Saturday!)