Sunday, October 28, 2007

Spook-Alley


Bryan's Family has a Spook-Alley every year! All of the neighborhood kids get together and paint refrigerator boxes to depict a particular scene. Then they all dress up and act it out. They charge 25 cents to go through, and then they donate the $ to charity. I think it's really cool how hard everyone works on the whole thing and how it always turns out so fun!


Tate was really excited to go through until he stepped into the first room. There was a scary looking old man, who Tate thought was "Santa Claus". At that point he totally wanted to go back out!!!
He was completely "freaked out" until he saw Sarah. He got really scared again when we got to the graveyard!Then, someone gave him candy-so that helped.
He wasn't quite sure about Elmo's operation and especially the doctors who were doing it.
He was very happy to see Grandma Stradling when he came out!Amazingly after all the scares, he wanted to go through again...
This time, he was a little less scared!

New Discovery


I'm SO EXCITED because I just found out that the magnets that I make work perfectly with a dry erase marker. So, I made up some magnets with Tate's morning and evening routines on them. When he has finished the job, he can cross it off!!! So far, HE LOVES IT.

Saturday, October 27, 2007

Cousins Party

We had a little Halloween Party for all the Manning cousins on Thursday!
Here they are from left to right: Lily (Hello Kitty Princess), Anson (Pinocchio), Tate (Dinosaur), Rebecca (Blue Fairy from Pinnochio), Emma (Kitty), Peter (Dragon)
It's soooooooooooooo hard to get a GOOD picture of Tate, especially when he's in a costume. But, I finally got these two which I think turned out pretty cute.


Thursday, October 25, 2007

Fun with Panoramics



My Brother in Law Joseph introduced me to autostitch. You can get it for free HERE
Basically, you take a ton of pics, and autostitch "stiches" them together automatically.
The top picture is the view of the Superstitions from our home. The bottom pic is our backyard.

5 Little Pumpkins

I made some magnetic pumpkins for Tate to play with on his board. He loves singing the Pumpkin song over and over again! I love that he's so easy to entertain.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Fridge Make-Over

I'm in the process of giving my fridge a new magnetic make-over!
I figured that the front of the fridge is wasted space, and why not display all of my scrapbook pages there?
So, I'm making 4"x4" waterproof magnets of all of my scrapbook pages.
I use a material that's similar to car magnet material with a laminate on top. I think the fridge magnets turned out pretty cool,
what do you think?
I think it would be AWESOME to cover the whole fridge someday!

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

I can't stop eating Cinnamon Rolls!

I stayed up REALLY LATE last night making these cinnamon rolls-just for fun.

So now, we're ALL piging out eating em.

I had one for breakfast and one for lunch. I'll try and not have one for dinner too ;)

Please, someone take them away from me...
Disclaimer: You have to come all the way to my house to get them