a little clown & a her friends

happy halloween
from a little clown & her friends...

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i love making costumes for the kids.
as you can see, they don't always want me to make their costumes.
apparently they don't believe i can make fake muscles as well as target can.

my all time favorite costume - and the FIRST one i made -
was the clown costume.
i totally forgot about it last year,
and after much discussion
{as much as you can have with a 2 year old}
josie agreed to wear it.

so as i went to post our halloween photo,
i decided i needed to go look at the costume's debut - halloween 2004.
which wasn't too hard to find
since i only have ONE cd of pictures from 2004!
how crazy is that????

anyways...

here is the original little clown & her friends

no school!

what do you do when you have...
no school,
a beautiful fall day,
and kids that just want to sit around and eat their candy stash ??
head to the zoo!
it ended up being a great day to go -NO school field trips and practically NO other people!
we had the place to ourselves and it was AWESOME!
a few highlights of our day...

{ryan really wanted to take this "tall funny guy" home - ha ha}

ahhh.... a good day :)

please pass the sugar

3 parties in one afternoon...

it's not even halloween yet and i'm already SICK of hearing -

"can i have another piece of candy???"

ready for winter

still celebrating...

this weekend we finally finished celebrating
olivia & garrett's birthdays!

thankfully christmas is just around the corner {winter...cold...sigh}
because they are sure used to getting presents every other day - ha ha!
anyways, back to the final installment of our october birthday celebrations...
first up, olivia's party...

yes, a house full of 2nd grade girls is CRAZY

but it was actually a lot of fun.

i had braced myself for the usual drama that happens

when you put lots of girls together -

but seriously, i have never seen 13 girls play so well together!

it made me really happy that olivia

has such a fun {and nice} group of friends :)

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the next party was soooooo much easier -

boys, bowling & food!

it was the perfect party for boys!

don't you think we fit in well
with the die hard bowling fans around us :)

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say it with me now

{one.last.time}

HAPPY BIRTHDAY olivia & garrett!!!!!

a day with ryan

yesterday ryan's class went to an apple orchard.
it was a beautiful day when we left home,
but by the time we got there it was cold, windy, rainy and oh so gloomy.

we managed to quickly do a few of the "usual" activities...
a dirty pumpkin...check!

snack on yummy apples
direct from the tree -- oh wait, from the crate...check!
{something about an early frost - argh}

and perhaps the best of all,
a big lollipop...check!

since the day was so cold {and we didn't ride the bus!}
we decided to go home early,
have a nice quiet lunch {just the two of us}
and cuddle up on the couch and watch Survivor.

definitely a fun day with ryan :)

{little}

with a {little} help

from my {little} assistant

here's a {little} preview of someone's halloween costume

worn by someone who's a {little} too {little} to actually wear it

but she still rocks the look, don't you think?

outdated

why is my blog header so outdated?

well...
getting a good picture of a certain person is harder than you think!!!

halloween preview??

nope.

just cousins being crazy!

welcome to the world...

beckett warren white
born 10.14.10

and welcome to our crazy family!

we love you, little beckett!

get big quick because there are a few little boys
who have waited a long time for a boy cousin to play with!

i love photo editing software...

...but i love it even more when i don't have to use it!

it was the perfect fall morning

to canoe -

without kids {ha ha}

and rake & burn -

lots of leaves {can you spot where?}

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and it was nice to remember that the most beautiful sky color
can exisit without photoshop or a big fancy camera!