All Things Halloween

I know Halloween is old news by now, you know me-I'm always two weeks behind on just about everything! Anyway, here's how spent our very happy Halloween...

Saturday we carved our Walmart pumpkin. Victoria thought that was pretty cool and loved helping me clean out the pumpkin.

Here is Victoria helping me pick out the pumpkin seeds so we could roast them. She loved getting her hands dirty with this stuff.

She even tasted it a few times. It took her a few more times of tasting the pumpkin to decide that it wasn't her favorite.

My turn to carve the pumpkin now.

Getting ready to go Trick or treating.

Cute little witch!

Our pumpkin. It's supposed to be a witch stirring her brew with a face in the steam...I'll never carve that pattern again. It took way too long.

Victoria had her friend Seth over on Halloween night for dinner and Trick or Treating. They were pretty cute!

These pictures below are from the night before Halloween, when we had our ward Trunk or Treat.

Peering into her little witches pot and checking out all her candy.

Victoria and Daddy trunk or treating.

Here is Victoria and Sierra as a cute little fairy just before going out to trunk or treat.

Shawn's awsome costume... that he made...he's "Balloon Boy"..ya know, the kid all over the news who was thought to be inside his dad's science balloon thing that floated away, but he wasn't..the whole thing turned out to be a hoax planned out by his parents who told their kid to go hide in a box in their attic while all sorts of rescue teams tried to catch him in the balloon....if you don't know what I'm talking about, you should, so google it! In the picture above Shawn is pretending to throw up...as the kid did on TV during his interview because he was so nervous about lying.

And here we are as a family..haha, kind of a ridiculous picture! We had such a fun Halloween!

The Perfect Pumpkin...Smashed

So in the previous post I wrote about our trip to the pumpkin patch a couple of weeks ago and how we picked our perfect pumpkin...it really wasn't that perfect. It was half green and half orange...but it had a great stem! Anyway, the next day I picked up the pumpkin to put it out on our porch next to the cute little hay bail we bought at the farm where we got our pumpkin. The bottom of the pumpkin was a little soft...rotting obviously...I forgot to mention that the pumpkins were 40 cents a pound. Our pumpkin was 22 lbs, so we paid almost $9 for it...so I got the pumpkin out the door and as I was placing it on our cute little hay bale that "perfect" 22 pounder slipped out of my arms, rolled down all of our porch steps, spilling pumpkin guts and seeds along the way, then finally landing on top of the storm drain in the street. Smashed. All I could do was stand there and watch it all happen in slow motion with the "great stem" left in my hand. I just stood there staring at my smashed pumpkin and couldn't believe what had just happened. I sighed, started laughing a little, then looked up to notice that some worker was sitting in his truck parked in front of our townhome had watched the whole thing...kind of embarrassing, but totally hilarious to watch I am sure! I am still laughing about it!

Yep, there's the truck with the guy in it who saw the whole thing...probably recorded it with his cell phone and posted it on youtube

I might as well have thrown $9 down that storm drain

Picking The Perfect Pumpkin

{Victoria and our perfect pumpkin}

On the 22nd of October we headed to a near by Pumpkin Patch. We were kind of bummed out that we missed the hay ride, which are only given during the weekends...we had to go on Thursday, before the rain came on Friday and Saturday. The pumpkins had definitely been picked through and we were left with the green ones..Victoria loved them just the same though, especially the tiny ones she could actually pick up. She loved the wagon ride down to the pumpkin patch. She bounced and pointed and gibber gabbered excitedly for the whole two minute wagon ride down there! She always has something to say!

Notice Victoria's cream cords? Not the best idea I've had... definitely cute, but not very practical. For some reason they seem to attract everything from V8 Splash juice and Mac N Cheese to sticky fruity cheerios, smashed bananas and soggy graham crackers...the five main food groups at our house (which change on a daily basis actually).

{Victoria trying to sit on the pumpkins}

What a Little Witch!

I finally finished making Victoria's costume! I am pretty proud of the way it turned out...I even made the hat! But lets face it, Victoria definitely makes the costume look adorable! We took advantage of the beautiful day and snapped a few pictures of her outside. We just love our little witch!

Apple Of My Eye

A couple of weeks ago my friend Hilary and I took our girls to a local farm and met up with a few other kiddos and mamas for some apple picking. It was a lot of fun and the girls looked adorable in their wagon together! They did get a bit irritated of the bumpy ride though. Sierra just wanted to get out and run, and Victoria was more interested in snacking than apple picking.

Sierra is just a couple months older than Victoria

They weren't too into having their picture taken

This picture below cracks me up.

Victoria and Sierra in their wagon...and sierra trying to get out.

A quick update on what our family has been up to...

We are settling in our new town home (still renting, just upgraded to a bigger one...much bigger one compared to the one we were living in.) As soon as we clean up one mess we seem to make another with all the stripping of wall paper and painting. I will post more on that project. Shawn is still busy at work, and others are noticing his hard work and "get the job done" work style. He was given a cash reward for all his professionalism and hard work! That's my Shawny Pooh! Other than work he's been busy with his church calling, helping me paint, hang, and fix stuff around the house. As for me, I've been crazy busy trying to get the house organized, looking good, and feeling more like home-on top of all the mom and wife duties, which seem to be endless, but I love it...except putting together the grocery lists! I've been taking a photography class on Wednesday nights. It's been nice to be in a class room again, pretty fun actually. So if any local friends need some family holiday pics taken, let me know! We also had a little switch-a-roo in Young Women's at church. I was the Secretary in the presidency but the YW pres moved me to the Laurel's Advisor...so I teach the Laurel class (16-17 yr olds) just about every Sunday.

Victoria will be 13 months in a matter of days! A couple of weeks ago she had her 12 month check up and weighed in at 19 1/4 pounds and measured 30 inches tall. She is standing up/ pulling her self up on everything. every now and again she will get brave, let go and balance for a little while. She can crawl supper fast, it's like a sprint crawl. she claps and stomps her feet along with the song "If you're happy and you know it clap your hands...stomp your feet...". And of course she dances to everything and anything that has a beat...cell phone ringers, loud broken grocery carts in Walmart...seriously everything. It's so cute, and it's definitely the Waldron in her (my side of the fam). She likes to tease the kitty and tell her "no no" when I say it. She can say a few of her own words like banana, doggy, balloon, and a few others that sound the same but mean movie, cracker, or whatever. she jabbers all the time! She is still loving books and she just stated shacking her head back and forth like she's saying "no no"....just perfect. We love this little baby girl so much!