sewing costumes and reminiscing

 

Well I'm in the middle of sewing five Halloween costumes. Yea, you heard me....sewing. Totally winging it. No patterns. Just ideas in my head. It seems that it was more work that I anticipated- especially since I technically don't know how to sew.  But when you've created the tradition of themed Halloween costumes, have grown to five children (Bell girl cousins) to try to incorporate into the theme, and are on a budget (it is just Halloween after all)- you have to get creative. So that is what we are doing. This might just be the last year of themes. Kyla is already not thrilled with the costume choice, claiming its "baby." 

Let's take a trip down memory lane. Halloween pasts... 

2011: The year of the pirates. Actually, one Pirate Princess, two Izzys from Jake and the Neverland Pirates, and one lobster and one shark (you will see the last two are repeats). My mom made these ones. She's a much better sewer.

2010: The year of the Chipettes. All the Singles Ladies must have been played one bazillion times this year. 

These ones were made entirely from the Goodwill and a strip of fuzz for the ears and tails. Alivin kills me. I love that Alvin.

2009: Santa and the Elves. This one is my all time favorite. Totally Kyla's idea. We got a lot of use out of these costumes! 

2008: Ariel, Sebastian, and Flounder. Adorable.

2007: Ladybugs...Ha ha!

 2006: Oh and here she is the loan shark...before themes.

Stay tuned to see this year's theme...I'm still working on it!
I love the progression of photography on this too. Haven't been to Picture People in a long time.

toothless.

Well it finally happened. 

That gray tooth came out.

It's gone...almost 4 1/2 years after becoming gray. 

She smacked it on a concrete pillar at Gramma's while wearing ballerina slippers. 

I think I will miss it. 

It was part of her.

This is her 3rd tooth lost. 

She was really hoping for it to come out at school.

You know you get a tooth necklace if it does.

This one didn't.

Dad pulled it.

It was just hanging there, totally gross.

She was really hoping to have no front teeth for Christmas.

So she could sing "All I want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth."

We'll see. 

I think the new one will be in by then.

But maybe not.

She thinks it would be the perfect talent for the Lang Family Talent Show.

Twinkle the Tooth Fairy came last night. 

Twinkle is Sparkle's sister. 

Sparkle came the first two times.

How do we know?

Kyla writes letters asking for a reply.

This time she left a jar out asking for Pixie Dust.

Twinkle delivered.

It looked a lot like silver eye shadow.

She also got four sparkly quarters.

I love this girl.

ducks

We fed ran from the ducks this morning.

It’s just me and Mcgee every morning. It’s been really fun for us. I’ve been trying not to only run errands and go to the gym (although it is SO nice with only one child) but once or twice a week let her have a playdate with someone her age or go to the library or do something that I would have done when the other two were little.

Last night I decided that this week’s activity would be feeding the ducks. We took our bag of bread (and the camera of course) to Lk Wilderness.

Well we ended up getting mobbed by about thirty ducks. It was really kind of scary and neither of us liked it. So we tossed pretty much an entire loaf in the middle of the bird frenzy and started running. They chased us but we managed to get away.

So much for feeding the ducks.


After running away we spent a little time walking around the deserted park. I just love this picture of her saying cheese and then laughing at herself. CHEESE…..

This face is totally Molly McGee…

And this face, well it is the TRUE Molly- crusty nose and scratched up eye and all…
A fun, short outing with my littlest one.

P.S. It's driving me crazy that all my pictures are off center. I can't figure that out!

photos photos and MORE photos.

It seems like the last couple of weeks have been full of photo sessions with my friends and family! It’s been fun. Here is a snippet of the people I’ve been looking at through my lens lately.
September started off with my old neighbors the W family. They had just gotten a brand new puppy named Luke so he was center of their attention.

The next day I got to meet sweet Miss Brynn Lily. She was seriously SO cute. Really a VERY cute baby.

Next I got to attend my friends Holly and Chad and Heather and Darin’s double anniversary party. Here are a couple of my favorites from that day.

Some of my most favorite little boys were next to take pictures of. I love these two brothers….

This week I got to see the C family. Adam is Casey’s go-to anytime golf buddy and his cute family.

And last but not least I owed Kristin for some MAJOR babysitting that she has done for me.

It’s been a great start to fall and fun to see some fun families and kids!
MORE photos to come! :)

nine years

This past weekend Casey and I celebrated nine years married. We had a super fun weekend. We stayed downtown, went to fun restaurants and bars, and walked around Seattle just being us. I loved it. Special thanks to YaYa and Gramma and Papa for keeping the girls for two whole nights. We spent Saturday at Luke's 30th birthday party with friends and family. A nice end to the fun adult weekend. 

I love you Casey.

are you ready for some football?

the fair

Yesterday we did the Puyallup Fair- complete with rides, our cowboy boots, delicious scones, krusty pups, molly loving the sheep and goats and chicks, rides, cotton candy, and hobby hall. The only thing I was disappointed not find were the old time photobooths...those are my favorites. Loved these girls faces on the rides and Molly with the animals. 

Molly

 Just scrolling through my last blog post and realized that these two favorites must have been deleted. :)