Halloween Party

Scott and I were able to both help at the preschool Halloween party.  The boys were pretty excited that both parents were there.  I helped in Bennett’s room and loved seeing all the kids different costumes.  Plus, watching them trick or treat around the school and sing for the workers is so cute.  The boys had been working hard on their Halloween songs all October.  If you spent any time with them you heard "Halloween is Coming" over and over.

Since we had driven back from San Antonio the day before the party, the boys were exhausted, especially Bennett and Thomas.  Bennett was so tired and didn’t feel great, we left school early.  Gabriel and Scott had a lot of fun playing games.  Gabriel was beyond excited that he got to have his Dad in his classroom.

We love our preschool and are so happy both boys are comfortable there.

Pumpkin carving

We spent the Monday before Halloween carving our hand-picked pumpkins from the patch.  Earlier in the day, I had the boys clean their pumpkins and draw their faces.  It was much faster for Scott to help carve them with that part done.

Overall, the boys like pulling out the pumpkin guts and making the faces. Even Thomas helped out with his first pumpkin carving experience.  We were very thankful that we were able to bring a pumpkin carving knife home from San Antonio- big thanks to Papa John for that!

Home Improvements

Scott has been very busy with projects that we have planned out for the house.  The big ones include painting, removing cabinetry and installing shelving.  Scott painted the family room and kitchen in one Saturday while I kept the boys entertained.  I still love how it turned out.

Then while I was in Texas he painted the toy room.  The hideous peach walls really bothered me once the brown was out of the family room.  Also, while I was in Texas he removed kitchen cabinet and installed floating shelves.  Just the painting made the house brighter, but with a dark cabinet removed the kitchen just feel more open.

Next on the big to do list was hang pictures on the walls.  I hadn't hung anything because I wanted to wait till we painted. With that done we were able to move forward with all of our pictures.  Since we had pictures to hang I needed some frames.  It's a good thing I had an IKEA gift card, from last Christmas, to use.  Thomas and I made a few trips to IKEA while the big boys were in school.  That kid is a rock star for being dragged everywhere.

We spent a Saturday hanging pictures in the toy room and then later the hallway.

Scott spent last Sunday quickly making me picture ledges to add more pictures to the wall in the TV room.  Those are in the process of being painted before we hang them.  It's amazing how much more this house feel like our home.  We can't wait to see what the Christmas decorations look like.

Halloween crafting

Besides the usual pumpkin carving, I decided that the boys should also paint some pumpkins for decoration. My hopes were that they wouldn't play with my holiday decor.  And it actually worked.  We did have fun as well. A few rocks that had been collected were painted as well.  The boys had hunted long and hard for the perfect rocks to paint.

Making the new house ours

Step 1 in doing so, paint!  We have been talking about painting our family room and kitchen since we moved it.  We have chocolate brown couch, with brown rug and brown chair.  And the room was painted chcoclate brown.  It needed to be lightened up, big time.  We narrowed down our paint choices to 3, Mega Greige, Anew Gray and Agreeable Gray, all Sherwin Williams.  The middle of the road Anew Gray won!

We spent the week before paint day tapping and getting supplies.  I found a little handy square brush that took the stress out of the cutting.  Scott was able to paint all trim areas super fast and not get it on the ceiling or door frames.  

One long 12 hours on a Saturday and we have a brand new kitchen and family room.  Of course now, the playroom, painted an amazing peach color, is driving me crazy...it's moved up the honey do list rather fast.

New to us table

We have had a table that was once Scott's parents and used as a kitchen table at our old house.  We even put it in the kitchen of our new house.  We decided that it was time for a face lift.  It was a color that didn't go with the rest of our house.  It needed a little TLC to get some scratches out and an updated color.  Scott was able to sand it down, paint and stain it all in one weekend.

I think the table turned out pretty awesome!  I love how the colors stand out in our kitchen.

Another project checked off on Scott's Honey Do List.