Happy Thanksgiving!

There are so many things to be thankful for this year .. and every year that it's a shame we don't think about it more often. But non the less, it is Thanksgiving and we are oh so grateful for everyone and everything that we have in our lives. 

This Thanksgiving I am thankful for the strange and yet awesome gift of having my parents to myself for the day. With Emma & Jimmy living in California we decided to have a small Thanksgiving together, just the three of us. Mom and I have been cooking, cleaning, prepping and I can't wait to eat. It's a low key Thanksgiving this year and I'm enjoying every second of it.

Here's hoping you are all having a wonderful Thanksgiving with your families.

"Thank you, Father, for having created us and given us to each other in the human family. Thank you for being with us in all our joys and sorrows, for your comfort in our sadness, your companionship in our loneliness. Thank you for yesterday, today, tomorrow and for the whole of our lives. Thank you for friends, for health and for grace. May we live this and every day conscious of all that has been given to us"

 From The Catholic Prayer Book, compiled by Msgr. Michael Buckley.

Those Turkey's Didn't Stand A Chance!

Some of you may have seen this post where I made Crafty Thanksgiving Turkeys for Daycare (and Sean's birthday!)

So to follow up, I thought I would show you the kids scarfing gobbling (haha, I crack myself up) them down ;)
Happy Birthday Sean!

A Beautiful Fall Day

As promised ... here are some pictures of us playing in the yard and in the fall leaves.

I'll just let the pictures do the talking today.

Fall Leaves

We played in the leaves today .. It was a GORGEOUS day! Enjoy this little picture and there's more to come later!

Crafty Halloween Treats!

Hey Everyone!

I wanted to share some Halloween treats that I found online and made up last minute this week. Check them out!

(Yes that's right ... Thing's I've pinned and actually gotten accomplished!! Woot woot!)

Project #1 - Witch Hat Cookies!

Nice and simple ... Hershey Kisses and Keebler Fudge Stripe cookies (upside down)

Can I take credit for this? Nope .. I pinned it here and made them myself for the kids!

Project #2 - S'more Halloween Fun Bags!
Ziploc sandwich baggies, graham crackers, Hersheys bars and Ghost Peeps!
I can't take credit for this one either... I pinned it here

They had a free printable on this site so I just stapled it to the top of the Ziploc full of the goodies!

One for each of the daycare kids ... (and their siblings)

 This poor little ghost didn't stand a chance ;)

Project # 3 - Goodie Bags!
Mom came up with these. These baggies said all sorts of Halloween words like ghost, goul, pumpkin etc.. and we filled them with suckers and fruit snacks. Each of them had a Avery label with the kids name and a little Halloween sticker. They turned out great!

 Project #4 - Pumpkin cupcakes (I didn't realize I had FOUR projects for this post! woo hoo!)

Inspired by these pumpkin cupcakes, I made my own. You might be able to see the creases of the pumpkin sides ... you might notice the cute pretzel pumpkin stem .. and you might also LOVE these cute little cupcake toppers my mom grabbed at the store. I LOVE them. They totally made them even better than I had planned.

Plastic pumpkin cupcake toppers are awesome because we can wash them and put them away for next year!

Frankenstien, Mummy, Bat, Witch, Vampire and Ghost are wishing you all a Happy Halloween!

I loved the Ghost the best.

This is what I had intended on making ... aren't they SO much better with the little pumpkin cupcake toppers?!

Happy Halloween Everyone!

Tara

Happy Fall Decor

Hey There! It's officially fall ... cool, rainy, the sun is gone ... 

I won't lie - I was in denial, but I've finally accepted it.

I LOVE fall anyways, so here are some of our decorations this fall to celebrate!

 Here I changed our Gerber Daisy wreath into something a little more "fallish"

A pesky squirrel has already started eating my pumpkin!!

Don't mind those red white and blue pin wheels peeking out. They haven't been out since July or anything ... and they totally aren't hiding right there ;) I think I need a big pumpkin or two to add to this.

 Happy Harvest!