Trick or Treat

Oh, you though that since I haven't posted in over a week that you would be spared the Halloween pics of my kids? Think again. I just dropped my mum and sister off at the airport. They've been here for almost two weeks, and since my office also acts at a spare bedroom my blogging has suffered. But never fear, I am back! And with pictures of my beautiful girl and sill super hero in their Halloween costumes. And no, I did not make them. Maybe one year I'll get myself organized enough to do that.

 Summer was Princess Jasmine for Halloween. When I was shopping for costumes the model for the costume looked surprisingly similar to my baby girl, and that is where they got me. I am such a sucker for advertising it's not even funny. I can't even count the head shakes I've gotten from my husband at my weakness for a good ad.

 It took us weeks of convincing, and finally my husband drawing a beard on himself, to get Logan to have a fake Tony Stark beard. He had a mask but I knew he wouldn't wear it for long. I love the beard though. Every time I looked at him I couldn't help but laugh.

I have quite a few more pictures, but I thought I'd spare you. Happy (Belated) Halloween!

Healthy Halloween

I think all the holidays at this time of year were purposely placed to help us build up our fat stores for the cold season. Down here in Houston we don't have much of a cold season so I don't think I'll be needing those fat stores this year. I found some ideas for a Halloween snack that are cute and healthy that I thought I'd share with you. I took these to a Witches Lunch we had last week and they were a hit.

 Banana Ghosts:
Peel some bananas, break them in half, and stick some chocolate chips in them. The eyes are mini and the mouths are regular sized. I actually had a mystery kid bite the head off one of these ghosts and put the rest of the banana back into the bowl!

 Pumpkin Oranges:
I used mandarin oranges but any small orange will work. Also extremely easy, just peel the oranges and stick a pretzel in the middle for the stem.

 Vampire Apples:
Core and cute up the apple. Cut a little mouth in the side and stick some slivered almonds in there for the teeth. I was the least pleased with these, but that was because I was in a rush and didn't cut the mouths the way I wanted. Check my inspiration here to see them done well.

Inspiration: here and here

Milk Jug Ghosts

Just a little warning: there is a slight chance that the Halloween theme will be dominating this blog for the next week. We've been very busy with all things spooky lately.

I'm sure many of you have seen this idea floating around out there, I will not claim that I came up with it. However, I will claim my own way of doing it and the month of preparing in order to save up enough milk cartons.

  This was a cute little craft that was quick, inexpensive, and something you're toddler will probably take a lot of pride in. I know Logan did. Tonight I found him outside turning on the lights for the ghosts. It was pretty simple. I let Logan draw faces on them, then I went over them with a permanent marker to clean it up. I then cut holes out of the bottom of the jugs. Once that was done I took them outside, placed them where I wanted them, and strung a string of icicle lights out in front of them. I stuffed a few strands of "icicles" into every ghost, buried the line, and voila! These little cuties:

They really turned out cute. Brian expressed his surprise on the outcome. He was a little dubious when I told him my plan. They look even cuter at night time all lit up, but my night picture skills are non-existent. So you'll just have to go make some and see for yourselves!