Let's get Crafty

You'll have to forgive me because I am way behind on blogging but some of the stuff we have been doing has been fun so I didn't want to leave it out! I have never been one to be crafty but......when a group of girls gets together and tells me exactly what to do and gives me all the tools to do it I figured I couldn't exactly mess it up! We got together a few weeks ago and made some cute decorations!

You can tell Raquel and I are pretty proud of our handy work!

This was everyone there! Amanda was nice enough to put it all together and let us make a mess of her house. Her hubby cut all the wood so thanks guys for your hard work, it definitely made it easier for me!

Can you believe I actually made these and they turned out ok? I was quite excited. We did pumpkins for Halloween and Thanksgiving and then some firecrackers for July (I can't wait to use them). These actually aren't mine (I had to steal them from anothers blog) I never got around to taking pics of my own, but they look pretty similar.

Party Hardy

I don't know about you all but here in Columbus we partied hard this year for Halloween and had so much fun. Much better from last year when we didn't even see our husbands on Halloween at all.

First up pumpkin carving - We look forward to this every year - well Sherri does anyway :)

We went to the Davis' and had yummy soup (thanks Quel) and watched a movie while we carved

Shayne doesn't love the carving part so much so he scoops out the guts, which Sherri hates anyway, and then Sherri usually does the carving Gutting the pumpkins - Shayne loves to have the baked seeds after

This is where Shayne and James ended up when they were through to finish the movie!

I love this girl (Lexie Heaton) she is so dang cute

ARRRGH Matey! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Here they assign different cities days for trick or treating (weird I know) ours was the day before Halloween. Not sure what your neighborhood does for Trick or Treating but ours apparently does this.......................... HOT AIR BALLOONS!

It was really cool, we walked outside and there were 3 balloons that were in the middle of our condo complex. They kept lighting them up and were handing candy out to the kids from the baskets, it was fun - only in Columbus!

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Halloween we had a sports themed party. We may have just as well had a spandex party since that seemed to be the popular trend. Shayne went as Lance Armstrong and Sherri went as Alan Iverson (or so she said, she didn't exactly look the part but he is her favorite player) Sherri made a creepy themed dinner and it was lots of fun. Thanks everyone for dressing up, what a great time! THE MENU

THE PEEPS & THEIR COSTUMES

The next day we went to our friend's (the Whipple's) house for another party. They had yummy food and we played some really fun games, we were boring and wore the same costumes!

Raggedy Ann and Andy

Hicks (since some of you don't know these guys FYI that makes this even funnier - their last name really is Hicks)