Halloween 1

I do have Halloween pictures. And I will post them, eventually. But my camera is downstairs right now and I'm upstairs. You see the problem . . .

But Matt's camera is sitting right here and it has two very cute pictures on it, with a cute story to go with them.

Tali was having a hard time deciding what she wanted to be for Halloween. The only thing she could come up with was "a purple monster." I wasn't quite sure how I would pull that one off, so I took her to Wal-Mart so she could expand her options. She immediately fell in love with a neon green, glow-in-the-dark skeleton costume. I was pretty surprised, but she insisted that she wanted to be "scary." I showed her princesses, cowgirls, fairies, even Wonder Woman, but she was totally attached to the skeleton. It actually had a cute face, so I bought it. She was so excited to try it on for Matt. When he got home, I put it on her. She looked in the mirror and . . .

started crying. She was "scary!" So scary she scared herself. So, we went back to Wal-Mart and she made a 180. She decided a pink fairy would be a better choice.

Liz's Birthday Party

For birthdays I'm usually all about simplicity. Yes, I make a big deal, but I like to have the party somewhere else so all I have to do is bring the cake - store-bought if possible. But when I'm pregnant I tend to get a little more domestic. For Liz's birthday this year, I decided it would be fun to let her have a party at our house. Liz chose a Halloween theme and we stuck to it, mostly. We had to throw in some girliness here and there :)

Liz and I found all of our spooky food ideas online and we worked on them together, all week. We made one thing per day until we ran out of steam. Then I turned to Papa Murphy's. I had to ask the guy to be a little artistic and he was happy to oblige. The only casualty was the bread sticks. I was too tired to make my own so I used Pilsbury pizza crust from a tube. Don't try that at home. They were cool-looking, but not tasty. But the rest was fantastic.