Happy Halloween!

I must say, it is quite shocking that it is NOVEMBER tomorrow. Where has the time gone? I'm gonna need it to slow down a bit.


 Happy Halloween from Ethan:

Our little Mummy :)

We had a great time at Spooktacular at the Jacksonville Zoo! They did a great job and Ethan had a blast. He was very well-behaved and held on to his pumpkin with a death grip I have never before witnessed. There was a sea of people:

We trick or treated and Ethan rounded up a stash of candy that Mommy and Daddy can sneak some from too:

I always said that I didn't want my kids to eat candy and sweets. It makes him happy though...so a little bit here and there won't hurt! :)

We rode the carousel too! Someone please explain why I look so enthusiastic and Ethan dosen't. Hah! We chose to ride the manatee. Be jealous.

On the way home. Still having a good time. We have the Kit Kat to thank for that.

A ton of gauze (Thanks Mom!) and a bit of Mommy's makeup is all this costume took. So fun! He was Cat in the Hat for his Halloween party today at school. I will get a few pictures of him a bit later and show you. It was cute.Two frugal, homemade Halloween costumes? Oh, I think so!

Have a great Halloween, friends! Stay safe out there. Don't eat too much of your kids candy! :)

-K

Wagons, biscuits, and pumpkins.

Happy Sunday, ya'll!

The weather was cool and breezy this morning. My favorite fall weather! So, we decided to take a walk around the neighborhood. And, in the spirit of obsessive-picture-taking of offspring, here are a few I snapped of Ethan:

Wagon rides are just too funny! :)

Daddy is the best wagon-puller on the planet!

Before we left for our walk, we had a scrumptious breakfast. Not very healthy, but it's Halloween tomorrow, so we are allowed to eat super sweet stuff for breakfast. I tell myself that, at least:

Flakey biscuits with Nutella baked in the middle. Mmm!

He didn't enjoy them at all.

Last night we carved our pumpkin up. This was the first year Ethan participated and he couldn't decide if he liked it or not. He is slightly OCD and dosen't enjoy textures much, so the Goo inside weirded him out a little. God love him. He was, however, very very good at helping with picking out the seeds. One by one.

Here is our final product, carved and all:

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Juuuuust kidding. Baahahaha! Here's the actual pumpkin I carved:

The intricacies are far more astounding on mine anyways...

LOL.

Have a lovely evening! We are taking Ethan up to Spooktacular at the Zoo tonight for some Halloween fun. His costume is either going to be fantastic OR an epic fail! Haha! It is definitely homemade and it is going to be trial and error putting it together. We shall see!!

-K

Room Redo: Sneak Peek.

I have decided it is time, now that Ethan is two...to start on his big boy room.

Because I am in full time nursing school, it is not a surprise that we are a bit tight on money. I promised my husband that I would not go wild and I would work mostly with what we already had. Lord knows I would love to just march on in to Hobby Lobby and feverishly shove everything into my cart that I desire. Self control and willpower, Kristina...self control and willpower. I stuck to that promise and haven't spent much AT ALL. Maybe $50 to redo his entire room, including paint and brushes.

Here's a little sneek peek for you:

I still have a few more things to put together, but I can't wait to show you the final product. I am so happy with it.

Come back in a bit to check out the entire room, ya hear? :)

And while we are on the topic of frugality, let's observe the shoes I got the other day at my favorite: Goodwill! "You buy shoes from Goodwill?" Yes, yes I do. This was my first go 'round at it, but I couldn't resist. I brought them home, gave them a good scrub down with 50 some Lysol wipes and they were good to go:

3 whole dollars. Love.

And last but not least, my child is as cranky as they come this morning. Good God! What a lovely start to the weekend...

Hope you have a cranky-free child this weekend. Enjoy and Happy Halloween early!

-K

Savannah.

Oh, how I love Savannah, GA. Other than the mountains of North Carolina, it's my favorite place to go.

My mom and I headed up there this past weekend for a girls getaway for my birthday. We had the best time!

I took a ton of pictures. I'll show you a few:

I would like to have a garden like this. Please and thank you.

LOVE vines growing on walls.

I would live in this park if I could. So what if people thought me a vagrant.

Me and my ma :)  She's the best. Just so you know.

Cutest fall decor ever. Just a few hundred dollars for pumpkins. No big deal.

I could take pictures of trees in Savannah until the cows come home. I will spare you. This was a neat-o one, though.

I love cemeteries. This little one was only 3 years old. Bless her heart.

This was the oldest one I could find. 1770. Fascinating!

We did some great shopping too. Here's a few of my fav finds:

"Medicated and Motivated" My new moto!!

Ha!

This was the most amazing honey shop. The bottles were totally gorgeous. Who knew honey could be so pretty!? :)

We stopped by this shop. HAS to be the most incredible store I have ever set foot in. Like an amped-up Pottery Barn meets Anthropologie meets William Sonoma. I mean, come on!

And last but not least...there was a "Wag-o-ween" celebration going on in the huge shopping district near the river front. All the doggies of Savannah dressed up in their finest Halloween costumes and walked from store to store and trick or treated for doggie treats. Um, cuteness. There were SO many fabulous outfits, but Lola's was my favorite:

Dorothy even has a basket for Toto!!!

We had a phenomenal weekend! The weather was gorgeous, the food was to die for and my mom's company was the best of all!

Thanks for a great weekend, Mom if you ever get your fannie on the computer and read this!

Enjoy your week, folks!

-K

Morning light. And a book.

Gosh, we woke up to some gorgeous cool weather here in north Florida!

50 degrees? Yes, please. I have waited anxiously for you, 50 degrees.

There isn't much better than the windows open with a cool breeze coming through the house. And some gorgeous morning light beaming through the front door? Oh, I think so:

He loves looking through the glass. So do I.

Now all I need to do is light my harvest candle and it will really feel like fall!

We have this book. It's really weird. And for some reason it's really famous. I can't really wrap my head around it. And I can't really figure out why it's famous. Can someone help me out here:

Goodnight mush?

Goodnight Nobody? Weirdness.

He likes it though, which I guess is all that matters:

So, I've made a new bloggy friend. Her name is Shazina. Go check out her blog, Nicks and Nacks. She's a newbie to the world of manmade blogs, but she's super sweet and has some great stuff on her site already. And she's sorta smart--only a doctor, geneticist and a scientist. No big deal or anything ;)  She was the winner of the free wreath giveaway a few weeks back! Go show her some love!

Have a great rest of the week, people!

-K

Pumpkins.

First, before we get to the Pumpkin Patch portion of today's post...I have to tell you a funny story.

My kid is a mess. I gave him one of those small Dum Dum lollipops, or whatever they are called. He had it for a while and eventually put the rest down on the table. So, I threw it away because he walked off and I didn't feel like having to pry a stuck-on object off of the table. About 20 minutes later I hear the trash bag rustling around in the kitchen from the living room.

Side note: I just cleaned out the trash can and it is drying on the back porch, so I just have a trash bag hanging from the pantry door handle.

OK, back to the story. I hear the bag rustling, which is not uncommon. He likes to mess with the garbage bags in the trash can all of the time. Lovely, I know. Anyways, I see him stroll in with the leftover lollipop in this mouth--happy as a clam. This child burrowed a hole into the side of the bag and dug out the friggin leftover lollipop. God love him. I couldn't even holler "No!" I just let him be happy--germ-ridden and all.

Back to the patch:

Blurry, I know...but I had to show you how excited Boo looks with this little girl. Ha! She ran right up to him and he was so thrilled! :)

Leave it to me to have a grey and white striped pumpkin. Yes, my mom bought this for me and it is sitting in my doorway :)

Have a great Wednesday!

-K

Weekend Recap. Through Pictures.

I haven't done a weekend recap in a while.

As some of you may know (and many of you do not...considering that I see people from Singapore, France,Canada, Israel, etc. on here reading--KEEP coming back. So awesome! Oh, you Americans--keep coming back too! :-D)...it was my birthday yesterday, the 15th. So this was my birthday weekend and it was super relaxing and I had a great one.

I'll hush and let the pictures tell you what we did. I love my big, bad camera, but sometimes I like the little'ol cell phone pictures too!

We started out at The Loop for lunch with my mom on Friday:

I just love when he neglects to cooperate. At all. Haha!

We headed over to the pumpkin patch next:

I will have an entire pumpkin patch post later on.

We then went to The Dollar Store. I snagged this ridiculously cute rug for....drum roll please...$1! She's in our kitchen:

Disregard the ugly toes.



Yesterday we woke up early and headed over to Panera for breakfast where Ofir decided to do a birthday-girl photo shoot without my knowing:

Around the 4th picture I realized what he was doing. Stinker.

Notice the Goodwill hoodie? ;)

Here is my fav picture from the breakfast:

And yes, he is wearing the same shirt as the day before. No need to dirty up another shirt just for breakfast :)

Afterwards, we took these to our dry cleaning man, Joseph:

Why, you ask? Well...because he got Ethan a $25 gift card to Toys R Us for his birthday! What dry cleaning guy does that?? Ours does! :) Such a sweet man!

And then Ofir asked me what I wanted to do. What did I say? Garage sale hunting. :)  I love it. I found this pretty thing:

She's thick and sturdy and was only $2! What do you think--fill with black and white pictures of Ethan OR old photos of family from generations ago? Opinions, please!

We had lunch here:

What did I have? Oh, just a Philly Cheesesteak AND fries. It was my birthday--I'm allowed to eat that on my birthday. I don't eat like that hardly ever. And it was good. Damn good!



My friend, Laura's daughters birthday party was yesterday. We swung by for a bit to say Hi, let Ethan run off some steam, give her a gift and eat some cake. We had to run off early, but a good time was had:

I dont know if you can tell, but Ethan looks so thrilled in the presence of these ladies! Hehe!

Hey, look...Ethan has a new, clean shirt on! ;)

I started to stock up on necessities for the season:

You know you want some. Come on over and get 'em :)

This is what I have been doing all day today:

But I took a break to come visit.



Gettin' back to it.  I hope you had a great weekend and have an even better week!

Friday I am heading to Savannah,GA with my mom for a girls weekend (sans baby and husband!). One last hoorah before Adult Health 1 starts!  I have been there a million times, but still adore it! Where is your favorite place to go there? Send me your suggestions (minus Lady & Sons...I don't want to run into anymore ghosts! ).

-K