Halloween!

I love Halloween but have a super hard time coming up with costume ideas.  Can't wait till she can chose her own.  You can never go wrong with a classic (at least to me), so we went with a basic witch.....the good kind of course.

Here's Sophie's costume:

And the back:

The hat and cape were made out of an old dress of mine and the skirt is made out of tulle....I love how simple it was to make.  The whole thing came together in less than 2 hours and it turned out great.  I wish I had dressed her in less black though because it's kind of hard to see all the details in the dark.  Oh well.  She had fun.

Here's her buddy Blake.  He was a cute puppy.  Sophie kept barking at him.

She's gonna catch him...

Running away...

Here's all of us....lacking costumes, I know.

Trick-or-treating!  Sophie and Blake made it to about 3 houses.  Sophie insisted on holding her candy in her hands (all 3 pieces).  At each house she tried to put her candy back in the bowl.  Just trying to keep things neat and tidy as usual.

Yup...we've made it past 32 weeks....it's probably the last picture you'll get of me, so soak it up.

For Your Tuesday...

Unfortunately I forgot my camera when we took pictures of the Sophster in her cute Halloween costume. As soon as I get them....I'll do a Halloween post.  Until then, some links and other things.

A picture to hold you over....

All sweaty after our hike at the beginning of the summer.  Oh how I miss summer.  

(Yes...steff....I still do that tongue thing.)

In order to justify my Pinterest account, I try to do/use the things I pin.  If you don't have an account, you are seriously missing out.

In the last week I have:

Made this tomato soup.  So delicious.  I've actually made it twice.  The first time I followed the recipe, but skipped the sugar and added two whole carrots instead.  My little brother and Rob both loved it.  The second time I skipped the sugar and only used half the cream.  Still delicious.  I like it with carrots the most (just make sure you blend them up really well first).

Made this chili.  With lots of changes.  Basically I only used the spice profile.  I used 1 lb. of ground beef and replaced all of the pork with beans.  I also skipped the beer and added about 2 teaspoons of chicken bullion instead along with about 2 cans of crushed tomato's which I pureed first.  Next time I would use tomato sauce as well to make it a bit thicker.  I loved it.

I made these bats and this wreath for our Halloween decor.  I even used this money saving tip for the candy corn wreath, but I think this tip would work better for lighter weight wreaths.   Mine turned into an oval after about 2 days due to the weight of the candy.  

I used this tutorial to make part of Sophie's costume.  It's my favorite part.  I didn't have enough felt, so I used material from an old black skirt of mine and some heavy interfacing to help it stand up on it's own.  Slightly more complicated, but still came together in less than 30 minutes (minus all the little roses....those took a bit longer).

Read this article.  It was first referenced in a General Conference address given by Neil A. Anderson.  I did a little searching and found the entire blog post, which is totally worth reading.  The writer also posts on motherhood in the same series here and here.  All worth your time.  

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Happy pinning!