Ramblings of a Crazy Woman

We had a fun Halloween !   Thanks Beth for the great pictures  

 Practicing scary clown makeup on Chey.  Love her hair as a bow.  Caity's Halloween make up for a Halloween party. Carving Pumpkins  Chey's Pumpkin  Caity's pumpkin  Of course Colton's Vomiting Cyclopes Pumpkin Chey's scary clown make up for her Girl Scout's Halloween Party.

Caity, Chey and Colton Cheyanne and Sarah Cheyanne in Cody's Costume Cody and Will Our neighborhood kids.

Parent Magazine on Parent.com has a lot of great Halloween and Fall ideas . Go Here for the 100 Days of Halloween . My spider candy holder featured there .

Oh, how I love making Halloween decorations. This is my first Halloween decoration of the year. They are easy to make and look great hanging in the windows or over the table. To make them make 2 fans from construction paper and staple them together. Then decorate with construction paper, scissors, glue and tape.

I can not believe my first baby is now 10! Double digits, he is getting so big. So since his birthday is in Oct., he always has a Halloween party. I love it, the house is always decorated and there are so many ideas. We had a sleep over with 11 kids and every year the party seems to get less work for me. I am over the big activity filled parties. I did decorate the cake. After I decorated it, I did think it was morbid to put the kids names on it, but they all loved it. They liked getting their own piece of cake with their name on it. But I did forget one child's name so he got the R.I.P tomb stone. My only activity planned was a twilight candy hunt. Each child got a small flash light and had to search for candy in the yard. Of course there was a visit from the Grim Reaper. They were so funny, they all got scared, but said they weren't. Everyone of them just froze in their footsteps. They were all in a group with Mr Reaper jumped out on them. The house was decorated with tras...

I love this playdough, it keeps my kids busy for hours (really!) and makes my house smell like pumpkin pie . You can not beat that. The kids have been busy making cakes for each other with this playdough. Pumpkin Pie Play Dough Ingredients: 5 1/2 cups flour 2 cup salt 8 teaspoon cream of tartar 3/4 cup vegetable oil 1 1/2 oz pumpkin pie spice (or your own combination of cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and mace) 4 cups water Food coloring (2 parts yellow, 1 part red) Mix in a saucepan and heat over medium heat until all lumps disappear. As soon as it cools enough to handle, knead on a flour surface until smooth. Store in air tight container. This play dough is not edible, just for playing !!!!!