Our Week in Review - Halloween Week 2014

WOW! It has been a very long week!!! Let's recap.

Saturday the 25th we went to the Frog Level Fall Festival and had a BLAST! This was one of things I missed so much when we moved away. 

The kids had their faces painted, rode the horses, jumped in the bouncy house, met some farm animals, watched a parade, ate a lot of fair foods and just had a really great time. 

The Hubby had me grab him some of the famous Brunswick stew from the volunteer fire department. He's set for a little while. ;)


The past few weeks have not been very good for me health wise. I have been battling a horrible toothache and infection. I finally went to be seen and get some antibiotics. Unfortunately I had a bad reaction to them and ended up in the ER. For a few days I did nothing but lie around and try to get better. That worked until Halloween. LOL Now I find myself taking a few steps backwards as far as getting better goes. So, with all that said, I may not have much in the way of blogging for next week. I have no projects and nothing put together as far as a new homeschool theme goes. SO SO SORRY!! I may try to cobble together a couple of round ups just to give you something to look at. ;)

Anyway, back to our week.....

We picked up a few more pumpkins and let Cailey, Colin and Deanna decorate them. 

Colin's are the bat and skeleton. Cailey's are the cat and pirate. Deanna did the raven. 

I tried to do some reading while waiting on cupcakes to cool.... Cloud had other plans.

Speaking of reading.... I am SO FAR behind on my challenges for the year! I started off with a bang! Sadly, life happened and my reading has fallen by the wayside. :/ I guess it doesn't help that several of the titles were more than 1,000 pages! LOL That's not good for a total count!!!

Those are the treats that I made last week.

The spider cupcakes were from a kit that I picked up at Michael's.

The witch fingers and pumpkins were from candy melts and molds. 

And we went out for trick or treat, of course!!!

I bought a TON of candy to hand out but we only gave away about 1/2 of it. :( 

The kids managed to nearly fill their bags!!! I wonder how long it will take for all the candy to disappear?? 


                      HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!!

Fall Festival, Frankenstorm and Farewell

We headed out to the Frog Level Fall Festival this morning. This was our third time. I LOVE the Frog Level community! I made sure to buy a t-shirt this year. Last year it was cold and rainy so I bought a sweatshirt.... LOL I am really going to miss it here. This was the first place that I truly felt at home since I left West Virginia 20 years ago. Pray that I can find a "home feeling" in Georgia.

Cailey rode a pony but Colin said they were too stinky. LOL  And of course we had to get candy apples and cotton candy!





























Well, I guess everyone has heard about the Frankenstorm that's approaching. It couldn't have waited until AFTER we moved??? LOL But I can't complain... At least it will be out of the way for Halloween and Moving Day!!!!

We went out last night and stocked up on canned food and drinks. We have plenty of batteries and flash lights. We might could use some more candles, though..... I am charging all the electronics!! And I need to find our corded phone. The last time I saw it Colin was playing with it. LOL We lost power during Irene and from what I understand, this has the potential to be a lot worse.

We have cards and board games to play with the kids. I also have a Nook and about 1,000 paper books to read! LOL

OH!! I need to remember to fill the tubs, sinks and washer with water! We have a well so if the power goes, so does our ability to flush!!!!!!

Please, pray that we don't get flooded like we did last time. We lost A LOT of books and toys when Irene and then Lee came through. It worries me..... We were bailing out the sunroom while the storms were raging. NOT FUN!!!!!!







I went on my last drop off for the Concord Bags of Hope and Love.  We took 11 bags!!!! YIPPPPEEE!! There were only 3 left in the office. It was a little sad, though. My last time doing it here.... But I am looking ahead! It will be great to get another one started in Georgia! Spread the Hope and Love!!!!!



I am still slaving away on Cailey's costume... BUT.... I forgot to take pictures. I am SOOOOOOOOO sorry!!!!!! I will have to come up with another tutorial for you.... :( I need to get this costume DONE!!!! LOL I have just had sooooo much going on that it's taking me forever to get anything accomplished!!



My blog views have been VERRRRRY low the past week... Not sure what is going on. Is it because it has been a long time since my last tutorial??? Or is Wordpress acting up?? My numbers haven't been this bad since the first week of the blog! LOL