Halloween

This was our first Halloween that we happened to be in Raleigh. We went to E-man and Amy's and went trick-or-treating with their son AJ. AJ was spiderman and Grace was a snowman.

I did make her costume. The red tights, boots, and scarf we already had. All I had to do was stitch some felt black circles on a plain white long sleeve shirt, make a tutu, and make her hat/headband. I was really proud of myself! :)

Wedding Guest Bags

Back in June a friend got married. Together with some other ladies we put together these bags for out of town guests and the bridal party.

The bags consisted of different brochures of information about the area and some of the bride and grooms favorite snacks.

Starfish Bags were purchased from Jennifers Cookies on Etsy.

Infinity Love Knot Wish Bracelets were purchased from Made by Dina on Etsy.

Have you ever made out of town wedding favor bags before? What's your favorite thing to include in them?

Kiwi Crate: Lightening Bugs

Each month Grace gets a package on our door step! It's called a Kiwi Crate and there are two crafts / activities inside of the box for her to complete. In this particular kiwi crate one of the activities was to make a lightening bug!

It had everything, even glow sticks that we got to put inside of the bottle!

We had a lot of fun with it once it got dark! We went out on the porch and "flew" it around. There is a very long string that threds through the straw on the lightening bugs back. Grace would hold one end and I'd hold the other and we'd let the bug "fly" back and forth between the two of us! Thanks Annana for such a fun gift!

Kiwi Crate: Gardening

Annana gave Grace something called a Kiwi Crate for her birthday. Basically its crafts and activities that are delivered to your door once a month. Our first crate is a gardening crate. It came with two projects. A window garden project and a designing flower pots project. So far we've planted squash seeds and bean seeds in our window garden.

Dying Eggs

Before the egg hunt we woke up early to dye easter eggs. I thought I was going to have time to be able to do something really fun and creative this year, but I didn't get around to it, so we just basic coloring with the tablets you find in the Easter Kits! :)