Have a spooky Halloween!

A Kindergarten Halloween Party

My Pinterest Project: Ghost Pillowcase Dress

This week’s project is Halloween themed in honor of the upcoming holiday. I made it just in time for Mady to wear it a few times before Halloween.

 

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My Pinterest Project: Princess Laundry Photoshoot

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You’ve Been Boo’d!

I recently learned about this Halloween activity from a blog on the web.  You put together goodie bags and bring them along with a “You’ve Been Boo’d” sign and instructions to your neighbors’ houses.  Then you leave them on the doorstep, ring the bell, and run away.  Mady thought it was fun and wants to do more of them.  I told her we’d wait to see if we’d get boo’d ourselves – then we’d have to do it again.

Our goodie bags had an orange and black theme.  They were witches’ cauldrons. They included a bag of Cheetos and Reese’s Pieces.  And we also included some “Blood Orange” Italian Soda to wash it all down.

We used signs from boograms.com.  The Eat Drink and Be Scary image is from Craftily Ever After. (I ran out of ink and only had black, otherwise it would’ve been orange.)

After we did one, Mady wanted to include her own sign in the next drop off so she drew her own skeleton.  Isn’t she sweet?

Poor Rylan got left at home with Dad.  I didn’t figure I could run very fast with him in my arms.

Happy Boo’ing!

Pictures of the Day: Water Fun

Mady was playing with the hose while Rylan was napping. She said it was more fun than the sprinkler! "Holy buckets, it's raining!"

Picture of the Day - Mady and Aunt Birt Play Dress Up

This picture makes me giggle.

Picture of the Day - Madylan's Lunch of the Moment

A ham sandwich, hot (spicy) cheetos (hence the red tongue - she just licks the hot stuff off and doesn't eat the cheetos!), cherry tomatoes (with ranch), watermelon and milk.

Frosty the Snowman - Mady Style

Frosty the snowman
had a happy family
come come come and a rubbie nose
and two eyes made out of snow.

:)

Happy 50th Bday, Papa!

Happy New Year!

Mady's Preschool Christmas Program

NOTE: This is two classes, not just her's.

Princess Madylan's 3rd Birthday

Mady had a wonderful princess party today. She wore a new Sleeping Beauty dress that we gave to her. We also gave her a battery powered car to drive around that goes up to 5mph. She's still learning to steer and stay away from the fence.

Had a lot of family in town to celebrate. Her friend, Ava, also came over. The kids made crowns/tiaras and had their pic taken in front of the castle that Devon made out of boxes. They also hunted for the King's treasure in the backyard (much like an Easter egg hunt - only with gold coin chocolate candy instead.) She got tons of presents! Her cake was in the shape of a castle.

We enjoyed lots of food - hamburgers/hot dogs on the grill, and lots of salads made by the grandmas. It was so good! Seems to be our yearly tradition to have a barbeque for Mady's party.

Thanks to everyone for making her day so special!

View all the pics here.

The Things Kids Say

Just wanted to capture this little tidbit said by Mady this morning. As we were getting ready to go to work/daycare, the tv screen went to a black background with their routine "emergency testing" and the beeping came on. Mady said, "What happened? Batteries went dead on the tv?"

So cute!

Pineapple Cherry Dump Cake

Here is a dessert recipe that Mady mostly made tonight with a little of my assistance. It's really easy since you just dump in all the ingredients for the most part. I got it out of a Toddler Busy Book I have.

It comes out kinda like a cobbler. We haven't eaten a bite yet as it just came out of the oven but it smells lovely.

1 (20 ounces) can crushed pineapple, undrained
1 (21 ounces) can prepared more fruit cherry pie filling
1 (18.25 ounces) box yellow cake mix
1.5 sticks of butter or margarine
1/4 cup chopped nuts (optional - we didn't do this)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (325 for glass baking dish). Have a 9 by 13-inch baking pan ready. Dump undrained pineapple into baking pan and spread it out evenly. Using a spoon, dump globs of cherry pie filling evenly on top of the pineapple. Sprinkle the cake mix evenly over the cherry and pineapple layers. Cut butter into slices with a butter knife and place slices evenly over cake mix. Sprinkle nuts on top if you're using them. Bake for 45 minutes - 1 hour.

Off to bath time while we wait for the cake to cool!

A Castle for a Princess

Mady has been requesting a princess castle lately. We saw on an episode of Caillou where they built one out of boxes. So Devon built this elaborate one out of some of the boxes in our garage.

I would say it's fit for Princess Mady, don't you?

How Does This Happen?

How did these crayons get in my shoes?

Probably the same way this chapstick seems to have exploded all over my daughter's face.

Hee hee.

Bowling Gone Wrong

The three of us went bowling tonight. It was all fun and games until Mady dropped a bowling ball on her pinky finger. It's all bruised now. :(

I don't remember what the final score was but Devon won of course. He can't just bowl for fun - it's all serious practice for his league. I'm pretty sure I lost but I had a little helper for most of the game.

Sledding

We had a nice visit from Brad, Sunny and Braden today before they went back to Chadron for the holidays. Brad and Devon took the kids out back and pulled them on the sled. Braden's goal was to get Nutmeg on the sled with them! Mady did two face plants into the snow and laughed and laughed.

It was quite cold out tho - their cheeks were very red when they came inside.

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

Today Mady and I made a Rudolph craft out of a paper sack. I traced her hands for the ears and a shoe for the head. She helped glue it together and color it. She's very proud of her creation!