You Capture ~ Halloween & Silence

This week the theme over at

I should be folding laundry

was Halloween & Silence

This worked out nicely since I am so behind & haven't shared

 any Halloween pictures yet.

Halloween:

This is one of my favorite shots of the girls.

I love how they are just a little blurry.

They were done with posing for the camera

& all about trick or treating!

Silence:

This is truly what silence looks like in my house.

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Here is the rest of our Halloween in photos.

Trick or treaters started around 4:30 which was about an hour early.

We were so not ready & it amped the girls up even more.

Handing out candy while waiting for it to get dark enough to go out.

This was Zanders first Halloween & he wasn't sure

what to make of it. He did enjoy licking lots & lots of kids though!

The only picture I got of all 3 kids.

Matthew went out with his friends this year.

Zander the squirrel dog.

Our "Mummy" dinner.

English muffin pizzas & bread stick wrapped hot dogs.

With fun jello for dessert.

Lime jello with gummy worms & bugs.

Love this idea that I got from

Random Thoughts of a Super Mom

She had the coolest containers for hers,

but I thought my Partylite mini barrel jars ended up cute too.

They kinda looked like witch cauldrons.

Marissa really really enjoyed handing out the candy this year.

I was SO ready to turn the lights out at 8.

She insisted on leaving them on longer & taking care of it.

Around 8:45 she was finally done too.

Our pumpkins.

And finally a few pictures of our decorations.

I almost bought some pom pom spiders at a gift shop.

Matt took one look at them & said you can make those.

I made a bunch of them & they ended up all over the house.

The cats like pom poms & thought they were great new toys.

The Frankenstein that Maddie made in 1st grade.

This was the one decoration she asked about & got so excited

once he was back in his spot.

Thankfully I was able to finish my Spooky blocks before Halloween.

I love how they turned out!

Matt is usually in charge of the outside of the house.

This year he just wasn't into it, so I put up just a few things.

The ghost was a big hit with the kids this year.

It moved & made creepy noises. It didn't have any lights

so I taped a battery tealight under him & it lit him up fabulously.



Snapshots of Life Week 1

The fun ladies over at Eighteen 25
are hosting a new photo challenge.

Every Wednesday evening, they will be posting a time on their blog.
Then on Thursday, at that time, you need to take a picture of whatever is going on in your life.Whether you're cooking dinner, working on a project, watching a movie, getting kids ready for school... Then link up with them on Friday morning. Easy Peasy!

Thursday at 5pm

It doesn't get much more normal than this.

 Jammies from this morning still on the floor.

Blanket & pillows on the floor.

One kid plugged into her DS, the other glued to the T.V.

Jacket thrown onto the couch so as not to lose precious game time.

Ignored homework sitting on the floor.

I look forward to catching some more real life next week at a new time :)

 

I did unplug the girls after that photo to take care of their Halloween goodies for school tomorrow.I printed out these Halloween Jokes(Ooh there is another set of jokes now, too bad I didn't see that earlier)Asked the girls to color away then stapled them to the mini bags of Halloween pretzels Wal-Mart has.Fun, quick, easy & cheap!  

I do have to add that around 6:30 pm,

hubby & I happened to be sitting in our living room

talking to our State Senator.

Yup, he just popped in to see if we had any questions.

Now did I get a picture of that?

Nope.

I was too busy trying to think of intelligent questions to ask him.

Didn't even think of my camera until after he left.

I am so thankful that

a.) The front room was picked up, even the couches

b.) The girls were quietly coloring & got to hear our conversation

c.) The dog was outside. He would have gone nuts having someone new to sniff!

This week

This week my kids have 1/2 days so I am hoping
to have lots of fun craft time with them.

This will work well because I have all kinds of Halloween projects to finish.

I might have to leave Halloween decorations up for a couple extra days

 just to give them a little bit of time out.

We will see.

Project #1 to finish: Spooky Blocks

For you digi scrapbookers she has $1 Wednesday & has several kits or templates on sale for only a buck!

On Friday she also has a Photoshop lesson that also include a mini kit

& a hybrid project like the one above for only a $1 each.

Gotta love dollar goodies!!

Project #2

Those fun candy corn banners that are all over blogland right now.

This one is my favorite:

tater tots and jello

Project #3

Halloween Border

This one has a free pattern to download, so pretty much all you have to do is

gather supplies, print, cut & glue. Easy peasy.

Project #4

This one I discovered last night while reading a blog I like.

It's the same blog that I got the pom pom spiders idea from.

So I really didn't need another project to do, but really I just love these:

Spider chair huggers

I think the kiddos can help me with these too.

Project #5

Gratitude Project

We will start this on the 1st so it would be nice to have it all ready to go

before hand. Novel idea, eh? 

 Especially considering it's the week before Halloween & I'm still trying to finish those projects.

and finally Project #6

to keep with the Thanksgiving theme

counting-down-to-turkey-time

I like the idea of having the kids or maybe all of us writing something everyday that we are thankful for.

It kinda overlaps project #5 but can you ever really be too thankful? I think not.

Today I also started this class

True Stories

I am going to give the girls each a journal so they can do a kid version of this with me.

So what are you doing this week?

Kids craft ~ Halloween Banner

I am loving all the banner ideas floating around blogland right now.

When I saw the one featured on this blog: purple sage creations

I knew I had found the right one for now.

Not only could the girls help me make them, but she also loved the same

spiders that I had already decided to make too!

I bought a package of 8 1/2 x 11 Halloween cardstock & cut out several

6" x 8" triangles, leaving about an inch at the top to fold over.

I was able to cut out 2 big triangles out of each sheet of paper with a funky

little triangle left over that the girls

 are going to use to make a banner for their room.

I handed the triangles to the girls along with some crayons &

asked them to draw some Halloween pictures on them.

I love watching these two create. They have such fun imaginations.

While they finished drawing, I started folding the extra inch over on the triangles.

Cutting any extra that peeked out, so I had nice neat triangles.

I then sewed each triangle to a string of black yarn & hung them on the windows.

Super easy peasy, quick & inexpensive too!



This orange one cracked me up. At first I thought it was a bunch of spiders.
I was corrected & informed that it was a bunch of pots of cooking witch soups.



While this one is for Halloween,

I am already thinking how fun it would be to make one for Thanksgiving.

I will switch the colors up & ask the girls to draw things they are thankful for.

What other themes would you make?

I am linking this up with

a lemon squeezy home

She is having a Kids Craft Week.

Check it out & join the fun!