A Daniel Tiger Halloween

Hope y'all had a safe and fun Halloween this year! We had lots of fun. It was not hard deciding on a costume for Jackson this year. He has adored the character, Daniel Tiger, for months now. He loves the music they sing on the show, and claps his sweet little hands every time the show is on.

Here is our little "Daniel Tiger" at Daddy's work. They always love for kids to come and show off their costumes every year. Special thanks to Aimee, who made the ears and also to Maureen, who made his tiger tail. :) 

So cute!

He loved sharing his candy at Daddy's office as well. Too funny.

Here is Jackson checking out his loot. 

Friday night, we lit the jack-o-lantern that Russell and I carved for sweet J. It was so cute watching his reaction to the light inside the pumpkin.

Playing around and laughing. It's what we do best!

I love this one of my boys!

Sweet boy

Russell worked so hard for the past three weeks to build Jackson a "trolley" to fit over the wagon we have. I enjoyed painting some of the pieces, but he did most of the work. Here is our Daniel Tiger in his trolley. Ding, Ding! 

Our family with the trolley at Fall Fest. 

It was so good to see our friends, Kelsey and Abbey there too!

Fun activity to try! 

We also went to Laynette and Rusty's house to trick-or-treat and to visit for a few minutes. Laynette goes all out for Halloween, so it was fun to drop by.

Our little tiger was getting sleepy. :)

We still made time to stop by Starbucks and get a "frappula" for Halloween. Did you know they only make these Frappuccino's one day a year? 

How I love my little pumpkin. It is so bittersweet to look at these pictures. Time truly flies.

Last night, when I was putting Jackson to bed, I held him and sang, "Great is thy faithfulness," "I love you, Lord," and more. Jackson rocked back and forth and clapped his hands and gave me the biggest smile. It was the perfect reminder that no matter what you are going through, good or bad, God is faithful!! It brought tears to my eyes. Cherish every moment with your babies, kids, teens and adult children! :) It's worth it for sure!

 

If you honor your father and mother, things will go well for you, and you will have a long life on the earth. Ephesians 6:3

A Lion and a Jack-o-Lantern

Happy Halloween, y'all! I know we have posted many Instagram, Facebook, and blog pictures of our adventures this fall, but it's our favorite season, and we just want to cherish every second with Jackson, along with making new memories. Of course I will document it! :)

The picture on the left is when I was 10 or 11 weeks pregnant, and the picture on the right is now! I can't say enough how grateful I am and I just love being his Mommy!

Jackson dressed up as a LION for his 1st Halloween. I am partial, but he's the sweetest and cutest lion ever! :)

We went to Russell's work because a few of his co-workers wanted to see Jackson in his costume.

Jackson had to try out Daddy's work chair! Bless his heart, that lion head was floppy on his head! HA!

Jackson LOVES Linda! Linda was so sweet to hold him while we ate lunch at the office.

We came home so Jackson could rest. Oh, I love his sweet smiles.

We wanted Laynette and Rusty to see Jackson in his costume. Laynette always decorates for all holidays-so fun!

Too cute!

Our lil fam! Boo!

Jackson's jack-o-lantern!

We adore our little pumpkin so much.

Jackson's pumpkins.

I think his 1st Halloween was a success! Next holiday is Thanksgiving! Hope y'all had a fabulous holiday!

A Bunch of Hocus Pocus

Happy Halloween! I thought I would share a few "throwback Thursday" pics in honor of today's holiday. I probably have shared these before, but oh well.

 Here I am on Halloween night 1994. I was Miss America.

 October 2005. Russell and Mer's 1st Halloween together! We started carving pumpkins together and did it every year together since then!

 This is also from 2005. We were on a hay ride and it was freezing outside. We were all bundled up. Fun night!

Fast forward to this Fall...

The other night we carved pumpkins and had a yummy dinner of what else? Jack-o-lantern pizza from Papa Murphy's!

 A pumpkin for baby!

I usually write or draw on the pumpkin what I want it to say and then carve over the markings. Russell likes to use carving kits with patterns and we really love it!

 Our pumpkins!

 Baby Price due May 2014!

I am almost 13 weeks so that means 1st trimester is almost over! Yay!

I hope y'all have a fun Halloween either trick-or-treating with your kiddos, or just watching Hocus Pocus with your sweetie. Just make it fun!

 

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. Psalm 91:1

Sweet Trick-or-Treaters

Hello again! I hope y'all had a great Halloween! Here's a recap of what we did.

 Earlier last week, we carved pumpkins.

 Our pumpkins are done!

 We loved having trick-or-treaters on Wednesday night. We had candy and play-doh ready for them.

 Our front porch with pumpkins

 Kayden and Presley came with their mom Brandi and their friend Christie. Brandi and Christie are also my sweet friends.

 Eden, the ballerina came over too! She looked SO cute in her outfit. So adorable.

Mandy, Eden, Kelsey and me.

Kelsey brought a fun mask to wear and I wore scrubs to dress as a nurse for the night. HA! I love being festive! We loved having our friends stop by. So fun.

Now it's November! This year is zipping by!

 

How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth. Psalm 119:103

Halloween Flick Picks

Happy Halloween, y'all!

Hope you are ready to celebrate Fall!

We will be home and ready to greet little boys and girls at our door tonight. In the meantime, we will be watching a few Halloween flicks. I thought I would share most of my favorites with you.

 It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is a definite classic. You just can't go wrong with it. It's so cute. I love Charlie Brown..

 Hocus Pocus is another great Halloween movie. It's probably at the top of my list for October movies. It was huge when it came out in the early 90's.

 Casper is also good. It is pretty funny, too.

 Edward Scissorhands is another great movie for Halloween.

 Any Harry Potter movie is perfect too. But I like the first one better for Halloween.

 Double, Double, Toil and Trouble is so adorable. Who doesn't love Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen?

 Addams Family Values is pretty good as well.

Do you remember The Worst Witch? It was made in the 80's and I always liked it for this time of year. An oldie but a goodie.

 

So that's it for my list. You may have noticed that I didn't put ANY horror films in my favorite picks. That's because they literally scare me to death and give me nightmares. No thanks! I just really like friendly, happy family ones.

 

Be safe, have fun, Happy Halloween, Happy Fall!

They do not say to themselves, "Let us fear the Lord our God, who gives autun and spring rains in season, who assures us of the regular weeks of harvest." Jeremiah 5:24