fall festivities....

so... i had to work this weekend so i didnt really go to any halloween parties, i didnt dress up & i didnt even carve a pumkin. kinda lame? yeah, maybe so... but i did go to the corn maze out at buckelew farms last weekend [ps... it was also austin's first date! :) he was too cute! and it was fabulously fun!] and then last saturday we went to nightfall out at old tucson studios. i dont ever remember going there before, it was fun... not quite as scary as i expected, but it was still fun! anyway... here is the one picture from my halloween adventures. [hopefully adrian will post pictures of halloween before christmas gets here... lol].

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alrighty... so. halloween is over and it is time for thanksgiving... which means i get to redocorate! woot woot! i'm kinda a fan of thrift stores & diy right now if you hadnt noticed. lol... here's the whole shebang then i'll tell you about my wicked good deals :)
 

i'm in love with this sign... it was a $2 frame from a thrift store, $2 worth of scrapbook paper from michaels, and rusty wire from dad's shop. i had the ribbon and twine already. a cheap adorably cute thanksgiving sign for $4... not too bad, eh?

$3 for these candlestick holders... way cute. then i just used the paper covered balls [plus twine] from this project.

 i used the hurricane lamp from this project and wrapped a candle from the dollar store in the twine i already had... i dont have a picture for the little frame yet, soon enough though. and it will probably be one of hayley [much to austin's chagrin, haha]. and then i got this funny little cheese dish [does anyone know the actual name for it? not that it matters, i love it anyway.] it was $2 too... heck yes.

 

mom got this cute turkey from kohls for super duper cheap too, but i cant seem to recall how much, but it was a wicked good deal. 

how cute is our seriously cheap thanksgiving decorations?! 

i love them.

my hayley bug...

on thursday i went to adrian's house to pick up the bug so that mom could babysit her while i was working... i fed her breakfast and got her dressed. but while we were eating i was messing around with adrian & dustin's new camera... i really like it, by the way. anyway... here are a few funny pictures of miss hayley.

she doesn't like fruits or vegetables ^

this one is for kels (hehe...)

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we got eegee's for lunch today... and these were our kids meal prizes. i sure love me some hayley. she's such a goober.... such a crazy almost 2 year old.

oh mama...

so... apparently our family is prone to kidney stones. both the mom & adrian have had multiple. welp... it's the mom's turn again. she's been having a very familiar pain for the last few months. she knew she had a kidney stone... and has just been waiting around to see a doctor & get this taken care of. she had her appointment to get it checked out and she got this wicked cool cd of all the images they took. and i'm not gonna lie... i didn't understand a good 97% of it haha... but we did find a couple that looked like something.

yeah so... see where her liver is? and her kidneys? and see that HA-UGE white blob in the middle of the kidney on the right? yeah that's a 1.6 cm kidney stone. yuck. needless to say, she's hurting something fierce. now we wait until she can get lithotripsied (and i'm pretty sure that's not a word. she needs to have a lithotripsy procedure? treatment? meh... screw it. i like "lithotripsied"). anyway... i liked the pictures so much, i just knew i had to blog them. hahah...

it feels so good to laugh again...

austin showed me this japanese game on youtube. oh mylanta. i've been laughing so hard. its fantastic! bahaha!!

:)

maybe it's a sign....

little zac [now medium zac] is staying out our house while his parents are on a cruise. he's in the little room. well last night we were all getting ready for bed and i hear a crash from his room.... he came out and apparently the creeper mask face thing that i made in my sculpture class a few years ago just fell right off the wall... this mask man was a bit of a creeper, but i liked him. and i liked his nose... and he is broken now. right in half. sad day. so... maybe it really is a sign, but if it is... what exactly is it a sign of? hmm....

candy corn monster...

so... i might have had some leftover candy corn [from that last post] and if any of you know my little brother at all you would know that he couldn't very well just leave them alone. instead he spent a few minutes [and a whole glue stick] making his very own candy corn monster. i wouldn't let him put it on the entry way table, but it is funny... so i'm sure it will be up somewhere. he sure is a creative little booger. he's been making funny little creatures out of any medium he could find since he was able to walk. i'm jealous of his creativity.... anyway, without further ado i give to you austin's candy corn creation!!

happy fall y'all...

it's officially fall and we are still in the triple digit heat... everybody is complaining, but i love it! i figured it was time to start changing the decor so while mom was gone one morning i whipped out some stored up ideas [thanks to blogs & woman's day magazine. haha] aaand.... tada....

candy corn balls... fantastic, eh?

a fall leaf from provo canyon

and a picture of mom & paula in front of the giant pumpkin mickey head at disneyland

and then of course miss hayley bug [ps... austin is getting tired of all the pictures of her - haha]

 the sign is from paula... she's so fansastically crafty! 

[this is an interchangeable sign... it has one for halloween, christmas, spring & the 4th of july!]

i made this hurricane lamp [and the little votive thing in front of it] with dollar store stuff. [i blog stalk a few diy crafty blogs... and i think this is the one where i found that idea ...http://dollarstorecrafts.com/...] anyway, its just a candlestick and then a vase... i just super glued it together! a $2 hurricane lamp.... i love it!

and the candycorn tree... sigh. so easy & so simply. i love it... 

:)

happy fall y'all!!