This is Halloween

This halloween was nothing too fancy. Don and I didn't dress up either which means we're definitely going to have to make up for that next year. We went to trunk or treat at the Central church building and there were tons of people there. Carter walked around in his cute costume and I helped hand out candy. Then we went home and had few trick or treaters come by the house while Don and I watched Hocus Pocus (a halloween classic!) And that pretty much summed up our night. Nothing special, but Carter did look pretty darn cute. He'll be way excited next year when he actually know what it means. Can't wait!

Halloween sugar cookies

Playing with the lights...naughty

Family picture. We all look so dapper

Carter with his cousin, Drew. 

I DIE when I look at this picture.

Our pumpkins. Carter's is there too. He painted on his.

A normal picture of us

This is our true nature

Happy Halloweeners!

 HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Ever since last year Don and I decided to dress up for Halloween together. I love having a husband that doesn't mind looking stupid. He loves going all out for the holidays which is part of the reason why I love him so much. He also let me put makeup on him. I've always wanted to put mascara on his long eyelashes. He looked so pretty :)
This year we were pirates and Carter was our parrot. We wanted to figure out a way to perch him on Don's shoulder, but there really wasn't a way, danget. I tried to find a red sweatshirt for Carter's costume, but I could only find black so people thought he was a penguin....because pirates and a penguin make a lot of sense. Carter has a bad cold so he was cranky and fell asleep, but we had fun at our stake's trunk or treat anyway.
Oh and Sophie you'll like this, I got my pirate outfit in the little girl's section. When I went to check out, the lady was all, "Aww, that's a cute pirate outfit. How old is she?" I was all, "Uh...8 or 9. It's for my niece!" Like she really cared, but I was way too embarrassed to tell her I was going to wear it.

Can't think of a good post title

Squeeze me

We're all moved in. It only took forever. I got stressed out and overwhelmed and may have given up for a few days... or a week, maybe. Luckily, my in laws came to my rescue and helped me organize. When I get my house a little more clean I'll post pictures.

I would be excited for fall time if it were actually here. It's still hot and it really makes me miss home. I miss the colors, the crunching of leaves on the sidewalk, the chill, warm sweaters, cuddling underneath blankets, hot chocolate, corn mazes, and pumpkin patches. I always thought I would like to live some place warm, but turns out I really miss the changing of the seasons. I still have my air conditioning on all day and at night :( But I do have a cold which comes with Autumn. I'm trying hard not to touch or breathe on Carter.

Speaking of Carter...help me moms. I don't know what's going on. Tell me if this is normal or some weird phase or maybe give me some tips. I'm having a hard time getting Carter on a schedule. He takes a long nap in the morning and 3 short hourish naps in the afternoon. It took me a long time to even do that. (A couple weeks ago he only slept 30 min at a time and was super cranky!) I do the same routine every night. Give him a bath, bottle and rock him to sleep. The past 3 nights he screams for an hour or 2 straight and wakes up every hour until 11 p.m. and finally sleeps through the night. He's super tired around 8:30 but he won't sleep. I've taken him outside, let him "cry it out" for 10 min, or just hold and rock him, but nothing really works. Has anyone had this problem? Do I need to shorten his day naps and wake him up? Should I let him cry it out longer?

Other than that, I can't complain. I love staying at home with Carter. It's the best job in the world and I learn new stuff everyday.

HALLOWEEN aka: the old fogies night out

A glimpse of us in the future! Don and I went to our stake's Trunk or Treat last night and it was a blast. When we walked around people didn't pay much attention to us because they thought we really were old people. Then when people figured out it was Don they got a kick out of it.

To make the old lady outfit: shawl (Don's mom wore it in the 70's), moomoo, a walker of course, slippers, baby powder hair, saggy boobs and a big behind!

To make the old man outfit: velcro shoes, stretchy wrangler pants, suspenders, cane, baldness, white hair spray and a squishy belly.
Don looked absolutely hilarious as you can see. And yes, he grew out his beard for this event and we shaved his head. He even did his little Irish dance with his cane for me. I laughed so hard!

Awkward old people kiss

Butt shot

We even went to Wal Mart to get the best use of our costumes.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!!