Moments of Fall

Fall is leaving us. The days are cold. I rounded up a few pictures from different outings that I wanted to remember. I had cute kids this fall.

Fall Dresses

I have had a recent obsession with dressing my little girls this fall. I love the current trends and am definitely capitalizing on the fact that hand sewn clothes are in. I LOVE to sew. I love these fall dresses that I made for them and they cooperated pretty well for the camera. I had to share

 I used an old dress I made for Madi the year before, took down the hem and added the long sleeves with the flutter. First long sleeves I have done. It was fun and not to hard! She hasn't complained so I think it must be pretty comfortable.
For Jordyn's dress I had some extra fabric that I sewed the dress with. I added the round ruffle collar that I have seen lately. After it was done, I decided it needed something black. I really didn't want a sash or a flower, because I wanted it to go with the theme of vintage from Madison's dress. Embroidery was the answer. I got some help from a friend and completed my first embroidery project. It has a lot of mistakes, but I am still pretty proud. Enjoy the pictures of my goofy girls.

Anybody else find that loving their kids is a lot easier when they are dressed cute!

Halloween 2017

Halloween this year was packed! So much fun and so busy.

I helped plan and decorate the ward party this year. It turned out cute and I loved the finished product. I did have a stick fetish for awhile as I was collecting cool crazy for the centerpieces. The trees in Iowa are awesome, they actually have leaves and drop a lot of twigs. The fun little photo backdrop is also my brainchild. The tree cost me a lot of heartache, but turned out okay. The moon was painted with watercolor, with the help of a friend, and the fence was an old pallet I found that Jordan cut up.

This year for Halloween little Jordyn was a kitty cat. I decided that this age is perfect for them to be cats! They move like cats and act like cats. At least my girls are both a tad ornery and mischievous, both cat characteristics.

Madison was a "Ballerina, Fairy, Princess, Butterfly. At the moment Madi is the girliest girl you ever met. She is obsessed with all things pink, fluffy, and princessy. She said she wanted to be a ballerina at the beginning of the month. I bought her a tutu, she loved it, but wanted to also be everything else. I slowly added a tiara, wand, and wings.

Jordan and I were lumberjacks. We needed a costume for us to match a trunk or treat. I crocheted a couple of beards, rounded up some Christmas trees, made a Timber banner, and scrounged around our house plaid blankets and found a lantern!

My attractive backwoodsmen making chili.... in a dutch oven. Best red chili award

And a sweet dad that takes her trick or treating on a cold cold night.

Pumpkin Patch

October has been extremely busy for our little family... and incredibly long. It started out slow and calm, however, I had surgery (my gallbladder removed) and Jordan started his Comps. Plus I helped planned a ward activity and on top of it needed to get Halloween costumes for my family.

So the day before my surgery I decided to make sure my kids could go to a pumpkin patch. Its a good thing too, not just because my surgery, that was a fairly easy recovery, but because it literally got freezing cold a couple days after.

We had a blast. I had a great time playing the fun mom. We climbed on pumpkins, rode a tractor train, went down slides, swung in tube slides, played in a corn pit, and jumped on a giant pumpkin.