Crazy Beautiful Life

Halloween Happenings

Hi!  Did you have a great weekend or what?  Ours was awesome!  Brianna really had a blast the entire weekend, especially on Halloween.  :)  She trooped along joyously in spite of the runny nose and cough she's had for the past 4 days.  She's not running a fever, thank God, but still keeping a careful eye on her for that.  We DO NOT want pneumonia to reappear!

This is going to be a picture heavy post--I'm rolling a couple of days worth into this one post.  Haha!  Most posts will be like this from here on out.  If Jeff can catch a break and get to a computer, he enjoys reading and seeing pictures of what's going on here at home. :) 

First off, I'd like to show you what Brianna gave her little classmates for Halloween on Friday.  It was really precious.  I showed up at her school early to pick her up and brought these.  She got to pass out each little bag to her friends.  She totally loved it!!     

 

Pumpkin Carvin' 101:

On Thursday evening I seriously thought Brianna would ditch me for some cartoons and leave me to carve pumpkins all by my lonesome.  In previous years, she's wanted nothing to do with the pumpkin goo and guts. That little munchkin shocked her mama!   She dove right in there this year...had it up to her elbows and everything! lol  We had so much fun together!!! 

 

 

 

 

 
 
  

 

Here she is on Halloween in her costume:

 

It was so windy!!  No wonder she didn't want to take pictures.  Haha!! 
 

Alright, that's about it for now!   

 

 

P*I*N*K Craziness

Okay, Jeff is going to kill me....I just really L*O*V*E pink and well, Brianna begged to change her hair....

 

No worries!!  It was only temporary!  She's having "Red Ribbon Week" at school and each day is a new theme.  This was for "Crazy Hair Day".  I thrive off of this kind of stuff!!! lol We'll always participate!!  Even if it's crazy! :)  

 LOVE this one...... the back of her little neck...so sweet and girly....

Oh yes, and another day was "Mismatch Day".  You have no idea how hard it was for my brain to try and mismatch her clothes.  LOL  This is the best I could come up with.  She can mismatch...but still has to look cute, ya know? 

 

 

 

 
  

The only day we're not participating in is "Camo Day".  I want her to wear her little Halloween outfit for that day.  Friday is "pajama day"!!!  Yippee!  LOL  I'm crazy, I tell ya.

Sure hope your week is going good.  Are you ready for Halloween?  I'm almost there.  Can't wait...too much fun going on!! 

Laters!

Buzzy Bees and Little Monkeys....

Good afternoon!  How's your week going?  Mine is going fast!  I sure am looking forward to tomorrow night though.  Momo (Brianna's grandma) is keeping her for part of the weekend to give Jeff and I some alone time. 

This morning I was looking at the calendar and got choked up---8 days.... only 8 days left.....until Brianna and I have to say goodbye and see Jeff board a plane for Afghanistan.  He has to be at the airport super early Friday morning on October 2nd.  

It's funny.  Just up until a few days ago, we've done nothing but nit pick at eachother and fight (over stupid little crap, I might add)...... heck, I even broke something (which I've never done before and I'm certainly not proud of it).  But now--we're clinging to eachother and it feels good.  It's like an emotional rollercoaster.  A couple of weeks ago,  I was talking with my mom about all the things we'd been going through because I was worried about our marriage and she reminded me that this is what we always do.  We go through this EVERY time before he deploys.  It's just a natural way of dealing with him leaving---it hardens you up--so to speak.   Craziness, I tell ya! 

Anywho....really looking forward to this weekend!  :)

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Onto something scrappy..

I finished this layout this morning.  Figured I better get at least one picture scrapped from Halloween last year before the next one comes up...in what, 37 days.  lol 

 

It's hard to tell because these pictures are bad (apologize)--there's absolutely NO sunshine today, but on the white "BEE" letters...they are glittered white and have a raised glass like finish..really pretty.  I  first painted them and then added some Doodlebug glitter.  Lastly, I covered them with a coat of Diamond Glaze. It gave them a neat effect. 

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Would you just look at these monkeys---I can't believe they kept me up so late Tuesday night!  Hehe..

 

Yup..Wednesday was Brianna's turn to bring snacks for school so I baked and decorated 4 dozen of these lil cuties!  Just had to share...I love monkeys and cupcakes.   :)  You can find the recipe here.

Sorry for such a long post--I meant to post yesterday but was oh so tired!

First Day Jitters...

Not for her, of course....

 

But for me!  Today my little one started her first day of Pre-K and  boy was she proud and excited!  From the pictures, you can probably tell she was all ready to flap her wings and strut her stuff.  Haha! 

 

 

 

 

 

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And lookie what I won!!!!

I won this kit from Candy Shoppe Designs for participating in the "Warm it Up" Pre-Challenge!!  So fun!! I can't wait to get my goodies! :)

If you haven't done so yet, head over there and become a "Sweetheart" and participate in the pre-challenges...you just might win!!! :)