Been Busy!

Sorry for not being around much. It was my intention to stay up with my blogging since Christmas, and I've been doing pretty good until lately. It's been a busy few weeks. Last weekend, Blake went to a football camp put on by Max Starks from the Pittsburg Steelers. A whole group of us went so we decided to stay in Orlando for the night, even though it's only 45 minutes or so away.


Mainly because we wanted to stay at Coco Key! Photos of that in a second.


But first, check this out. We had two beds in our room, yet look where the kids ended up. Yep. In my bed!


This is one of the three pools at Coco Key. This one is more for the little kids. It's only 3 feet deep in the deep end. Then there is another (no photo) that is 5 feet deep with a bigger slide. Both of them are covered by a roof. Plus there is another pool & a hot tub in a seperate area with no roof.


The kids, especially Morgan, loved this area! There are several slides here, including some for the really little ones. The water is ankle depth and it's dripping & pouring from everywhere!


Then you have the 3 large slides. We went on all of them, but I didn't much care for the red one in the center there! Very scary! Layla loved the yellow & the blue/orange one. The red one freaked her out a little, too. And it turns out she wasn't even supposed to be on it due to her height. But she survived.


Here is my nephew & a friend chilling in water. Waiting for something...


This!! A huge bucket at the top dumps out a ton of water! The kids love it.


Here's Layla going down one of the slides in the 3 foot pool.


And Blake coming down one of the slides.


We ended our trip by visiting the World's Largest McDonalds.

It was a great weekend! And I hope to get back in to some crafting & blogging. What have you been up to lately?

two.

Somehow, my little monster, my bobo as we call her, turned two today. Where on earth does the time go?




She is the busiest two year old I have ever met. Constantly on the go and into everything! Like cinnamon...

And flour!

(that's flour on her face!). There have also been incidents with ginger, sugar & eggs. Joy. I definitely cannot imagine life without her. She keeps us busy, that's for sure! To celebrate today, we make cupcakes. The big party is on Sunday!



Happy Birthday Bobo!!

Halloween Wrap Up

Since I hadnt gotten around to sharing hardly any Halloween pictures, I'm going to go ahead and do it all in one. So there are a lot of pictures! I'll start with some of our decorations this year. I got this owl painting for $1.00 awhile back and decided to hang it in the hallway. I added some cheesecloth & a snake.


This is on top of our dresser in the hallway. I made the apothecary sign a couple years ago, and the witch fingers & eyeballs I got from a lady I used to work with.



This hangs above the mirror in the hallway, I made it last year.




In the living room, I replaced our candles with pumpkins.

I found these little guys at Michaels two years ago I think. I love their vintage look!

On top of the tv. It's a little blurry, sorry about that.

A jar full of clay acorns we made a few years ago & a vintage card.

Love the chicken nugget! Vintage McDonalds, lol.

Some old cabinet cards, my favorite ceramic crow (that I dropped right before I took this! I guess I'll have to use a Sharpie on the chip) and some glittered pumpkins.

Halloween bottle brush trees from a few years ago.

A big, hair spider in the hallway. Layla asked why I had to hang it above her door!

I stuck a couple more "13" cards in the mirrors in the hallway.

Another HUGE hairy spider over the front door we don't use.

This cute glittered bat took the place of one of my vintage utensils.

And the kitty took up a safe spot high away from Morgan's hands.

Now for outside. I put a faux pumpkin on top of each of our milk cans. I didn't want to show a picture of both together because our dog has this area pretty dirty right now. We don't use this door anyway.

A couple scarecrows, a headstone and a pumpkin my father in law made.

And a pile of Lil Pump-K-Mons from our patch.

We had a very busy weekend. Saturday, Blake had a playoff game for football at 11. They were playing for a spot in the Superbowl, but sadly, they lost. It was really hard to watch all the boys come off the field in tears. But they had a really awesome season. They were 9-1 in their regular season. So football is officially over until January. After that we went Trunk-or-Treating at a couple churches and Trick-or-Treating at Publix. And after that, a Halloween Festival! But Sunday we made time for pumpkin carving.

This was the first time the kids EVER wanted to help gut the pumpkins! Finally, someone besides me can do it!

Morgan was very happy to help!

And finally, the costumes. Layla was a Senorita. And Morgan was a Baterina. But she wouldnt wear the ears and the wings were a pain. So she looks more like a witch.

But a really cute one!

I accepted the fact that I would not be able to get any good group shots with Morgan in them. So I have to be happy with the pictures I do have. Blake & his cousin decided to be football players. At least we already had the "costumes"!

I hope you had a good Halloween!!