Halloween

treats for our treaters(well the special ones, Taylors is the little lunch bag)

wearing her 1st Halloween shirt (hard to believe she has been through all of her 1st holidays)

Her boo bib

showing g-daddy & gma her candy from trick or treating

opening her goodies for us, a few new bath toys & some oragel with a tooth brush to leave here :)

chewing on her new toys

neighbors & former preschool family the Steenbergs, look in the door we said Molley little sister ghoost was inside :)

Another former preschool family the Meltons (Jessi gets our diapers cheap from the hospital)

Another former preschool family that we love to spend time with "The Johnsons", Taylor was still here when they came she LOVED the other kids...All in all a fun night poor CHuck has a bad cold...

Big News

Today was a special day for our family, Jeremy asked Chuck last week if he could ask Natalie to marry him & he wanted to ask her in our tree house out back. So I made heart cupcakes to celebrate

We had lunch & Taylor loves Landon so she was following him

Taylor is in this pointing stage

Trying to get a photo of the cute outfit grandma Jackie sent Taylor

cute Minnie mouse

Jeremy & Landon decided to go out & rake leaves, it was a nice cool fall day

They got Natalie up in the tree house to "see a bug" Landon found it was a ploy to get her up there, Jeremy had planted a "treasure map" in the tree for Natalie to find, she was surprised

showing off their rings

posing for me to take pictures

teh treasure map & ring

g-daddy & Taylor got in on the action after it was overmommy decided to rake

The happy couple

Poor Taylor we think hurt her ankle jumping in the leaves

happy couple with the cupcakes

watching football

sweet a boy & his daddy.....

All DAy Crop

Ran into an old friend from church I took a picture of her with her cricut cutting machine & all the cartridges she had I wanted Chuck to see I wasnt close to be obsessive with this hobby as some people. I bet she had close to 50 cartridges, WOW ...She had all the gadgets & organizational things you could imagine..

In case you dont know what a scrapbooking crop is I guess I would compare it to what a quilting bee used to be, except we are documenting our lives etc by making scrapbooksHere are the fun make & takes we did & the free stuff I got or door prizes, this is one of my favorite crops my friend who is the director of the library in Greentown does it every year as a fundraiser I wish she would do it 2 times a year but I know its a lot of work, in years past I have always taught a few of the make n takes but this year I didnt.

new magazine, album, papers, made some cute flowers (little blue one)

we made 2 i page layouts

a 2 page spread

This cute little mini album that i will put Christmas pictures in & she gave me the stuff to amke another one & cute stickers for Taylors 1st birthday.

These are all the photos I got put on paper to finish Taylors 1st year album, I just need to journal & maybe add some embellishments, I want to be able to give it to her for her birthday

The cover of taylors new album i learned how to make those cute little rosette flower things

Taylors 1st year album & her new album already to add all her wonderful memories, It was funny last year at this crop I was making the cover for Taylors album & she wasnt born yet. Wow how time flies. The people around me enjoyed seeing the album full of Taylor life fromthis year.

I saw this idea on teh web of making a mini book out of toilet paper rolls, so I made my own version for Halloween, in case you cant tell I love little mini albums I have 2 baskets of them in our scrap/office room

You can see I made cute little pull out pages for journaling or more photos

little pull out cards from the toilet paper book

inside pages of toilet paper book

I also saw this cute idea to make flowers out of toilet paper rolls. Can you tell I was a preschool teacher, just can make myself throw anything away. Just ask Chuck sometimes it drives him crazy LOL Actually he is a good sport about it all...