Halloween

This Halloween was tons of fun. It was a beautiful warm day and evening which made it easy to have a long trick or treating and ALOT of candy. My mom made some great costumes (as always) and it was fun to celebrate a fun day with so many friends and family.

My niece (Girl E) and and Baby S were both Tinkerbell this year, my mom made them matching costumes and they thought it was so fun to match!

My brother Jon wanted to be a mummy this year, his costume was the coolest mummy I have ever seen! and baby S just loves him, even in the scary costume.

Ralleigh was some sort of Jedi, with chains across the face as a detail, he has a great imagination, that my mom is so awesome to help come to life for him. E was Optimise Prime, my mom made the body suit, but I made the boxes that made it into the transformer, I say this because I think they came out pretty cool! I made the templates for the autobot and the flames from scratch... and it turned out awesome if I do say so myself :) A was CocCoke an imaginary character that he has been talking about for a long time and my mom once again brought to life. According to his latest description it had 10 arms but 6 were enough to make him happy. It turned out way cool, and he loves it so much that he has worn it for PJs every night except for one (because it was being washed) since Halloween.

Here is a better look at all the arms on CocCoke.

All in all it was a great night, we Trick or Treated at my mom and my dad's neighborhoods and Trunk or Treated with my ward. We got to see everyone in their costumes and LOTS of treats!

Candlestick Ward Relief Society Super Saturday

My ward is having a Super Saturday soon and I wanted the sisters to be able to get on line and get the information. So for those of you that are not in my ward I hope this gives you ideas for your own Super Saturdays one day, and I promise I will have pictures from Holloween soon!

Candlestick Ward Relief Society
Super Saturday
November 21st
10a.m. to 1:30p.m.

We will have quilts set up for everyone to work on and visit. Please signup to let us know we will have the pleasure of your company at for lunch at noon, even if you do not want to do any crafts! (we need to know how many sisters to prepare for.)

Please have money in by November 8th, make checks payable to Linda Jensen

1. Joy Christmas Blocks
Cost: $3.75 add $1 for candle
Time to make: 45 min
Supplies you bring: none needed


2.Explosion Picture Box
Cost: Free
Time to make: 45 min
Supplies you bring: You may bring three 12”x12” and one 8.5”x 11” scrapbook card stocks. Or you may use what will be provided. (these can be made to match any color scheme so if you have one in mind please bring what you would like to match that.) You may also bring any embellishments you would like to use.

3.Casserole carrier
Cost: $.75 (this covers the wood that will be used)
Time to make: 45 min
Supplies you bring: 1 yard quilted fabric and 1 yard matching bias tape

4.Glass Etching on Casserole Dishes
Cost: $1.50
Time to make: 15 min plus dry time (the older your dish is the longer it takes for the etching cream to take.
Supplies you bring: You bring your own dish to etch, we provide the stencil and etching cream.
**Please specify exactly what you would like your etching to say.

5.Seasonal Tiles (this is to complete the set of holiday decorations that Alex started with the valentines day LOVE tiles)
Cost: full set (includes 12 seasons and holidays) $15
Seasons (spring, summer, fall and winter) $5
Holidays(new years, Easter, St. Patrick’s day, forth of July, Halloween, thanks giving and Christmas) $8.75
Valentines set (LOVE) $1
Time to make: 45 min per set
Supplies you bring: none needed

6. First aid carry pack
Cost:$1.30
Time to make: 15 min
Supplies you bring: you will provide you own first aid supplies to put into the carrier

7. Foam picture frame (pictured with matching explosion picture box)
Cost: $1.25
Time to make: 45min-1hour
Supplies you bring: 2 squares of 14”x14” fabric (matching or coordinating) and 18” ribbon and any other embellishments you want. Many of you would have this sitting around already

8. Soap dispenser
Cost: $1.50
Time to make: 10-20 min
Supplies you bring: none needed

9. reusable ice pack
Cost: $1
Time to make: 10 min
Supplies you bring: none needed

10. microwave produce cooking bag (perfect for cooking potatoes)
Cost : $1.25
Time to make: 10 min
Supplies you bring: none needed

If you would like you may sign up for the craft by leaving a comment here or emailing Kris Campbell and then getting your money to Linda Jensen.

Please come have a great time with us crafting, eating and visiting!

End of Summer Sillies

Well we still have a couple of weeks for summer vacation as the boy's preschool doesn't start until the second week of September. So we have been trying to take advantage of the time we have left as much as we can.
Today we are doing a silly project we are still in the middle of (they are still cooling). We took a bunch of broken crayons and peeled them then broke them into pieces and melted them into new swirly ones. The full instructions are on my friend Launi's blog. We used one of those "water bottle" shaped ice cube molds and lined it with foil to make sure they would come out easily. So far they look really cool!

***update, the crayons turned out awesome, they took about 25 min in the oven, but when finished they were about the size of the large crayons, so they worked really great! One note though is to make sure you don't even get a pin whole in the aluminum foil or you will get a mess, in the mold and it stains!

My sister Jenni comes over every Wednesday night so while her hubby Braeden plays basketball with Matt. Well this always ends up being a really late night for my kiddos, cause who wants to go to bed when your craziest aunt is there to play? This will have to change a little after school starts cause none of us will be able to sleep in on Thursday mornings like we do pretty often right now. Well last week we were all playing in the living room like normal and I hear baby S gag on something (this happens often cause she likes to stick her fingers down her throat for some strange reason) This time there was something crazy in her mouth that made us all laugh so super hard! She spit it out right after these pictures (she wasn't suffocating, or anything, it was just SOOO big for her mouth!)

We play a lot of dress up at our house because we have all the old Halloween costumes that my mom has made over the years and they are REALLY cool! Well this time E used a pair of padded pants that the crotch had warn out of as a shirt... I couldn't stop laughing! (Sorry the picture isn't great, but if I go and edit all the pictures I don't get the post done... so I am posting it even though it's a little dark and blurry)

My boys used to love to wear goggles all the time, and I have some great pictures of especially E, but Baby S does NOT feel the same way about them, but I had to see, so here is a couple of pictures of my attempt at putting goggles on her. As you can see she was much happier once she got them off of her face.

One more silly thing I don't have a picture of... we haven't been camping yet this summer and we have been missing one of the things that you have to have when you go camping especially so... we have been making smores in the oven. We start with one graham cracker and pile up the mini marshmallows on each and put them under the broiler for 1 minute. (watch up close!) When browned pull them out and sprinkle them with chocolate chips and smoosh the other graham cracker on top and enjoy.

Matt took me on a great adventure and we took lots of pictures for our anniversary, but that is going to have to wait cause not it is nap time and I have to go... so until next time.

E and his kids

E has told me a few more things over the last couple of days that he will do when he goes up.

While climbing down from the table (he was for some reason standing on it)
"When I grow up it will be OK for my kids to put their feet on the table"

While E and I were cleaning up one BIG mess and E asking to do another project already and me saying not right now he said," My kids will be able to make lots of messes and I will clean them all up"

At a random time he said "my kids will get to eat LOTS of candy and get to build a tree house"
(we have been working on plans for the later.)

I love him so much! I am glad he has awhile before he really grows up, cause he is going to be one busy guy!

talking

Baby S is starting to do some really awesome things. (well new really awesome things) The last couple of days she has really started to get a move on. She rolls and scoots to get anything she wants, usually something she is not supposed to have. She has really started to try to mimic sounds that you make. She says DA DA (usually very loudly) often... and she is talking about her dad. She says mmmmm when she likes something she is eating or when she is thirsty. She claps when she likes things or when ever you say "yeah for S" And this morning Matt was making kissing noises and she made them bake before laying one on him and if your really lucky she will give you a real, rap her arms around you and squeeze, hug.
BUT the inspiration of this post is her newest trick.... She signed "Milk Please" tonight!!! We have been working with her for a few months to try to get her to ask for Mommy milk instead of crying and tonight she signed it and hollered to make sure we (Matt and I) were both watching. I'm so so so excited for her to start communicating clearly. I'm so so proud of her!!!

Mmmmm...brother!

Baby S has learned how to play from her brothers, mom and dad, and one of the silly things that we do is "eat" each other. Well she has started to do it all the time to those that she loves! So I was able to catch her "eating" A the other day and both of them laughing and laughing.

And here is her face after she was "caught"
I love my kids! And they all play together so well... most of the time :)

Another E comment

E had another "when I grow up" saying after feeding his lone gold fish named spiderman.

"When I grow up I'm going to have LOTS of fish and you can come see them if you want to."

I love this boy, and it's going to be fun to watch him grow up! :)