Halloween

 

Something is wrong with this dress--besides the wonky hemming.  It's supposed to be a Robe de Style, but it just drowns Isabel.  I need to fix it.  

Elena's was my favorite costume this year!  I saw the fabric while looking for fabric for flapper outfits and made this instead for her.  I just used a pattern I already had, so it's not an exact match to the movie, nor is the fabric an exact match.  But close enough for me.  AND the tail and ears weren't supposed to be delivered till Friday--the day she was going to wear it to school--but it came a day early.  YAY!!!

Jubal wore his birthday present Black Knight costume I made.

And Nicolas wore his birthday present Ninja costume I made several years ago.  I lucked out and found green nunchucks at the dollar store and ninja swords at Walmart.

I love Sebastian's costume too!  I made him real leather pants.  And they cost more than anyone else's costume just by themselves, but I figure all the boys can wear them to the Mountain Man Rendevous, so it's an investment.  Sebastian loved them and didn't want to stop wearing them.  ❤️❤️😍 I love when my kid's love the things I sew them.  

And Efraim--He wanted to be a princess.  He wears the purple dress all the time.  Leo was not impressed, but we decided it wasn't worth the fight as he was adamant.  So despite me having SOOO many costumes that would fit him and be so cute, this is what he wore.

Isabel threw a party and had a couple of friends over.  It was pretty awesome, she planned everything, made the invites, and made all the treats and planned a bunch of games.  Super cute!

October

The first week of October, Efraim had an appointment in SLC to have a heart murmur checked out at Primary Children's Hospital.  He's fine, basically they said he was so little that you could hear the blood reverberating off the walls of the ventricles and once he has more mass, they won't be able to hear it anymore.  So after his appointment, I took the opportunity to go to an international Latin market and bought some delicious food for us.   

Best bunuelos I've ever made.  They were perfection!

I planted over 300 bulbs in the yard and a few saffron crocuses in pots in the garage.  They did alright, but I don't know that those are worth it. This is the crocuses coming up.  Yay!

We sold our brand new kitchen chairs and kept ones we found on the side of the road for free instead.  🙄😂They're way more sturdy, and someday I may refinish them with red leather. 

I voted!

We watched Andrea's four youngest kids and her dog for her while their family went camping. It was fun. The kids had a great time.  Ana came home that weekend too.  We went up to the Uintahs with them all, and that will be a different post.😊

I planned on making flapper costumes for Elena, Isabel, and me, but nothing turned out like I planned and I only made Isabel's and it's the first costume I've ever made that I thoroughly dislike.  I need to revamp it and the fabric I had bought for the other ones ended up not working and I lost the expensive trim that I bought from France for one somewhere.  Sigh.  It was all very disappointing.

Isabel had fun dressing up the Clover and Harriet while they were here.

Leo fixed the electrical wiring for me on my new machine.  I love that man!!!

I tried canning tomatoes--I actually went out of my way one day to go to Willard and buy tomatoes and then I ended up not being able can them as soon as I planned and over half went bad and the bottom of the box of the rotten tomatoes broke and went all over the floor.  And then my canner I had bought was missing pieces so I had to send it back, and basically canning was not so great this year.

Carving Pumpkins

I love pumpkin carving!  Leo got the kids started and they pretty much were independent this year, except Leo helped Efraim with his.  I cleaned up and toasted pumpkin seeds.  Somehow I missed a picture of Elena's--her's was wearing a mask.  

 

We also went to a corn maze up in Hyrum, the night before Jethro's farewell.  So much fun! Although the kids all started out fighting, by the end we had an awesome system and made it through!

And a Halloween sign I painted one day.  Totally copied it and free handed it, so not perfect and sad I said, totally stolen idea.  But I love it.