Randoms

Oct 2--
The boys doing their General Conference activity packets

Middle of Octoberish--

Making caramel apple bites. I've wanted to do this for year and I finally made it happen. It was really easy. But the caramel kind of sucked. It didn't stay on the apples very well and after the caramel dipped apples were in the fridge overnight the caramel thinned out and came off the apples too. Next time we'll just have to make our own.

Halloween Crafts/Decor-- sometime during September I went to the craft store and got sooo excited for Halloween and I bought a bunch of supplies to make this chandelier and the wreath, but it took me about a month to finally find the motivation to actually do them. This chandelier is inspired by this butterfly one: http://suaviloquy.blogspot.com/2010/05/first-birthday.html Since I have no girls, I thought I need a different theme, and the bats seem to go quite well. There weren't instructions so I had to guess, I didn't do the hoops the right sizes. It wasn't until after I made it, that I realized there was a bigger difference in the size of the hoops. There are some other flaws that kind of bug me, but I won't point them out here. I don't love it as much as I thought I would. But I do like it. I used my friends crickut for all the bats. 

I also saw a Halloween wreath on a Michaels email. It was whimsical and I wanted to make one similar. Generally, it takes a lot of time for me to go to the craft store and just buy random things that I hope will come together for a wreath, but so far its worked pretty well. The sign in the middle, was something I bought some years ago with the intent to paint each letter differently and put it on a door knob or something during October, but that never happened. It worked perfect for this wreath. I painted everything with regular colors and then I did a few more layers with a glitter paint. It took a whole lot for me to sit down and do this one, but it came together pretty quick. Lexie had come up unexpectedly one Sunday afternoon and I had her help me on this, otherwise all the supplies would still be sitting in bags in my craft room.

Oct 29-
Some friends went on an overnighter and we watched their kids. The boys loved having their friend sleepover. It took a bit to get them to quiet down and fall asleep. But over all the boys were well behaved. Jon reading them a story before bed.