OcTobler Phone Favorites

 Okay OcTobler, you went by much too fast but you were jam packed with big and small events. Here's a round up of this month Phone favorites. Conference!!! Full of snacks and treats and spiritual messages!

Some were better at listening than others.

 Papa was an expert snuggler!

 

E had an assignment at school to make a custume out of things you had around the house. E made a fairy dress for her Barbies out of leaves and gosh darn it this girl never ceases to amaze me!

One afternoon the kids had the wiggles something offal. SO I loaded them up and we went for a walk to the grocery store. This is the first time they had been to a grocery store since the pandemic and they were actually pretty excited to go and pick out a few extra goodies. 

They had to work pretty hard to push the wagon home.

I was supposed to be cleaning but Teething baby, Duke needed help distance learning, Dory was on repeat and I just sat and snuggled my babes. 

I made a flying key mobile for E's room. It came out se dang cute!

CArmale apples from Gram!! SO delicious!

More E leaf art.

During nap time I had climbed outside to snuggle in the hammock and read. a little girl found me and brought her book and climbed in next to me. This is a view I don't think I'll ever get tired of. This si E's first big book that has bore than 25 pages. It's an abridged version of the Wizard of Oz and it has the occasional picture but I am so proud of this girl and her love for reading! 

My book, a blanket and a couple of snacks and I'm set. 

Roo is our cuddle bug. He's always ready for s snuggle.

I love her little notes. 

I moved the chairs to vacuum and then I heard them singing the wheels on the bus. I came down to Sprouty the bus driver and his passengers.

Just a casual day to the office. That office makes my cringe in the worst way. But Jakob on a important call in his work day best makes me smile!

Sprout taking back the neighbors trash cans. 

If Roo isn't watching a show, he wants to be in your lap reading books. He could read books all day long. He is actually really god at sitting there and letting you turn the pages. He loves to point and touch and feel but this boy loves his books!

A friend dropped off a sunflower just because and it brightened my entire week!

We are getting close to walking people!

My second commissioned cake. I don't know if cake making for other people is for me. I get SO nervous. I always second guess myslef and pile on so much pressure. Making cakes for yourself is so fun. I'm happy with how this turned out, but PHEW it was a stressful situation. 

Leave him alone for 5 minutes. How many cupboards do you see open?

Our nursing journey is coming to a close. He really only nurses before bedtime and once a night and I am both so relieved and devastated. Nursing brings such a bond and this is one of the only times that he is STILL in my arms. i have loved nursing my tiny humans. I am amazed at what my body is capable of and what a gift it is. I will miss these moments dearly, but I am also excited to officially close this chapter.

 

But if this pictures doesn't describe motherhood in a nutshell I don't know what does! 

 

E trying to make the fishy face. Oh my goodness we laughed and laughed and laughed. 

Those chubby cheeks. 

Sprout keep splitting his toes open and they look so so painful!

Found this selfie on my phone and it may be my favorite!!!!

Sprout was left unattended.

Costume prep!

Had to start another batch of vanilla. We cruise through vanilla!

All four kids were OUT!!!

This video of Sprout may be my new favorite. He is speaking in a British accent while making a teapot full of tea. Someone has been watching some Peppa Pig.

Jakob made some of the best steak tacos we have ever had! They were AMAZING!

Some days you just need to wear heels while you do chores!

Some cakes aren't fancy, some are just for dinner. Easy chocolate peanut butter cake. 

Thank heavens I had a little helper to reach the top shelves!

Some cool decorations at the church by our house!

Had to add Redd's hand prints to my collection and take some pictures of the other ones. 

Phew! That was a fun month but November is going to be BUSY too!!!! Here we go!!

Halloween

Happy Halloween from our neck of the woods. This year I decided to go as easy as possible. I wasn't sure what the world would look like with COVID and Halloween and there was no way I was spending a couple hundred dollars on costumes for us not to wear them at all. So we raided closets and pulled together a pretty awesome set if I do say so myself. 

For E's costume I bought the bunny ears because the one's we had were pink. The night before Halloween she came downstairs to tell me that the jacket she had for her dress was too small. So I raced down to my fabric stash and found some left over fur. THANK HEAVENS! I whipped up a really fast shrug and It cam out so dang cute! 

 Perfect little bunny! 

 

 I let everyone pick their forest animal and when I asked Duke what he wanted to be He told me a walrus. I explained that it wasn't a forest creature and gave him a list. He then said "Still a Walrus." I was a bit torn barbecue gosh darn it it would have been hilarious, but the next day he decided he wanted to be a moose. Then we locked in a hedgehog.

 

 For Duke's costume i had to buy the felt and the nude hoodie. His actually took a bit of work but it was really straight forward. 

 

 I should have done a few more rows with some small spikes, but gosh darn it, he is dang cute as he is! 

 

 

 I sure love you Duke!

 

 Sprout's was my easiest and cheapest. Sweats and a sweater from the closet and a mask from the dollar store! I had every intention of either making my own mask or painting his face but then I saw this mask just by chance at the dollar store and I snatched it right up! 

 So perfect. So easy. Also, if Sprout asks you what he is.... the correct answer is a sloth. He asked to be a racoon but Halloween day, he was very insisted that he was a sloth. Sold, you do you buddy!

 

 And Roo was a fox! The cutest fox you ever did see that I ordered online without hesitation. 

 

Please enjoy a few pictures of my baby's first Halloween (and his last first holiday. I'm a puddle!) 

 

 

 

 

 I took a ton of pictures of my snail costume in the forest and none of them actually took, so my pictures are at the end. I was really proud of the snail costume though. 

 

 Jakob made an excellent lumberjack! 

 

 Attack of the animals!

 After our pictures we scurried over to the ward trunk or treat. It was so nice to have something "normal" again for the holiday. 

 

 

 

 

Callie was a squirrel and she fit in perfectly with our family theme!

 

 Poor boy was so tired. What a trooper!

 

Papa tried to get a few pictures of my costume for me. I'm not going to lie, I felt like the pretties snail around. My dress was from Savers, left over from a gala that we never attended. My shell was packing paper rolled up and hot glued. And then I added twinkle lights to my shell which really set it over the top IMO. To get a slightly longer train, I ordered a really cheap curtain off of Amazon that matched almost perfectly.

 

 It was a fun one for sure! 

Originally we decided that we had no intention of going  trick or treating this year. The kids had gotten plenty of candy from trunk or treat. We were just going to stage a picture with Sean handing Roo a candy for his "first Halloween" picture. But then Paula said that she wanted to pop over to the neighbors house really quick so we raided her clostest for costumes for the kids really quick. 

 

E was the cutest crayon. 

 

 

 GRYFINDOR! For Bear!

 All Roo wanted to do was jump into the fire pit then had set up on the driveway. The kids went to three houses and they came home with two full sized candy bars and a big handful of mini bars.

I love the Dyches family and I am so glad that the kids get along. We have a lot of fun together. 

 WE came back to food, more treats, movies and games and it was awesome! Happy Halloween everyone!