Feeling Crafty

I have been in a crafting mood lately. It started last week, when I needed to paint a table that was given to us. It was white, but we have all black wood in the house. I have been in a teal kick for a while, so I went a little crazy and painted the legs of the table teal. Looking at it now, I should probably paint the top black. (right now its a darker wood) And I also need to re paint our old chairs! So that started my crafting mood.

Then I saw this on Pinterest. It was really easy to do. I bought 3 tomato stands at Lowes for under $3 a piece. Then I wrapped a strand of white lights around each cage. I'll probably go back and wrap another strand of lights around each one.

Then, I found these (unfinished) blocks in one of our Christmas decorations bins. I bought these last year at Super Saturday, and I never made them! So I painted, applied scrap book paper, stuck on some vinyl numbers, and called it good! I wish the numbers/letters were black, but I think they turned out cute!

Here are a few other projects that I want to do soon!

November 26

We have started decorating for Christmas! I love this time of year, and I love having so much red in the house!

Happy Thanksgiving!

This week, Claires class and another 1st Grade class put on a Thanksgiving play! It was too cute!

Claire's part was "I is for Inside where were warm as toast!"  She had it memorized, and did a great job!

Wednesday both girls had a Pizza party for lunch in both of their classes.  My friend Sarah made these super cute Turkeys for their hair!

I cant believe how grown up these two are!

Last night (Wednesday) we had Aarons family over for a Thanksgiving feast. We smoked the turkey in the smoker and I think it turned out awesome! We also had, homemade noodles, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, cranberry salad, Amy brought rolls and her amazing stuffing, Carey brought asparagus and green bean casserole, and I made traditional pumpkin pies, a pumpkin cream pie, and a chocolate cream pie! Everything was so delicious!   Tonight we are stopping by Grandma/Grandpa Valentines, then heading over to my Grandparents house to have dinner with my family.  Happy Thanksgiving!!

Over the long weekend last week, we went to Hemmingway Park in Boulder City, with some friends! We love seeing the sheep down in the grassy area. When we got there, we didnt see any sheep at all. Then after an hour a small group came down the mountain to graze in the grass. The kids were so excited to finally see the sheep! Carlie kept calling the biggest sheep, the "boss". it was pretty funny.

Halloween

I just realized I didnt get any pictures of Colton! Oops. This year we went Trick or Treating with the Barlows again. The girls had so much fun with their cousins! Claire was Snow White, and Carlie was Repunzel. I am so ok with the girls still wanting to be princesses! I love that they act their age, and arent trying to be/act older than they are. I wish they could stay 6 forever! Looks like I found a picture of Colton boy! He LOVES Lizzie, and was attached to her almost the entire night! Colton was a Skeleton. Aaron made him his costume. He had black sweat pants, with bones on them. Super cute!

Pumpkin Patch

We took the kids to the Pumpkin Patch by our house. The girls had been begging for us to take them ever since it was set up! I told them if they did good on their spelling tests, we would take them. And so we went! I love the stage that the girls are at. They are old enough to do things by themselves, and they actually ENJOY trying new things! Colton was stuck in his stroller the entire time, but im sure he enjoyed watching the girls!