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Happy Halloween! November 3, 2009
Yeah, I know I’m late. It’s just been so busy over here. So, let me start out with what we did Saturday. Having a toddler and wanting to participate in Halloween can be a little…tricky. She can’t actually eat the candy, she’s too shy to knock on stranger’s doors, and there is not much to chose from with Halloween costumes. We decided to dress Kayleigh up in her costume and take her to Sears to get her picture taken. So, we woke up early in the morning, got her all dressed, but we still needed to get hairgel and some tattoos so we went to Walgreens. At Walgreens we had a problem with Devin’s card because of “suspicious activity” and it wouldn’t work. Of course this “suspicious activity” was us buying some much needed…and let’s face it, some much wanted things at Babies ‘R Us. Anyways, after we got done with that fiasco, we got to Sears and after a lot of hard work we ended up with only 9 or so poses. We ordered the prints (I will post those once they come in) and went home. After that we planned to spend a nice quiet evening at home with just the 3 of us.
A couple hours later, however, Devin’s friends started showing up. So, our house was a wreck, we had no food in the fridge and 3 20 year-olds decided to make a mini halloween party in our small apartment. It’s all good, though. We ended up “trick-or-treating” at Grandma’s house and hung out there until Kayleigh passed out in my arms.
What? I’m forgetting something?? No I’m pretty sure that’s all we did that day. Ohhhh! What did Kayleigh dress up as for Halloween? Well, like I said the costumes available for toddlers is pretty limited and I have had this costume idea in my head for over a year now! My baby dressed up as a Punk Rocker!!
Yeah, I know she was too cute! We wanted to put her hair into a mohawk, but with the whole bank fiasco, we didn’t have time to do that before her pictures, so it just never got done. If you guys want info on how I made it, here’s the link to the Craftster post that I made. I entered it into the Halloween Costume contest, mostly to brag about how cute she is. The costumes that people made were just crazy awesome!!
We went to the Alameda Antique show on the day after Halloween. It’s basically a flea market, but everything there needs to be at least 20 years old. It was awesome, we got some cool stuff. I will post more on that later!
A Fresh New Beginning October 23, 2009
Ahhhhhhh, a nice fresh, clean beginning! I cleaned out my blog because it was a not such a good time in my life and I was only talking about not so happy things. Soooooo, I am restarting the blog! I’ve grown in the past year that I’ve taken off-I mostly grew in waist size. Ok, seriously, I only gained 16 pounds when I was pregnant and I lost it all very quickly. But no one warns you about the weight you put on in the first year or so of your baby’s life. But it’s all good, I’m doing my yoga and pilates again and I feel better.
Another new development is my crafting. I have seriously branched out of my “crafting comfort zone” and not all of my experiments have been bad. Actually a lot of my experiments turned out pretty dang cool. I’m actually in the works on 2 projects that are close to completion. I will post pictures of those as soon as I get them finished.
I, unfortunately, had to take a semester off of school. So, that’s going to be starting back up again January. I kicked major butt in my last lab class that I took. I think my photography instructor really liked my work (especially because I got 100% on my final project…not an easy feat, let me tell you).
Devin and I are in serious wedding planning mode (finally). I got him to promise to save at least $500 a month and we’re planning for an October 2010 wedding. I will keep you guys up on all those plans too.
My beautiful little girl is so big! She’s walking, climbing, and even cussing. She’s also showed quite an interest in Mommy’s crafts and is getting into it. When Devin gets paid next, I’m going to buy her some markers, crayons, and some construction paper.
Well, that’s all for now! Take in a nice deep breath of fresh air, because I feel change coming. Finally things are starting to go our way!
