Trick-or-Treating

This weekend while Janessa was at my parents house we dressed her up in one of my brothers OLD costumes!  She LOVED it!! She wanted to wear it all weekend!! She was too funny!! She only trick-or-treated to our house.  Granny, Aunt Mac, Scott, and I all had candy and she would go outside and knock on the door and then come around and get goodies from each of us.  We did this about 4 times!! 

Getting Ready to go inside!!

Getting candy in her Pumpkin!

Janessa and her Daddy!

Janessa and Granny

Janessa and Aunt Mac

Gran Gran and Janessa

Aunt Lucy, Janessa, and Trigger

We had such a fun time watching her trick-or-treat!  No matter how ugly the costume was, she LOVED it and enjoyed getting her goodies!! 

Fall Cookies

I love it when Janessa comes over.  My mama always has something fun planned and I am so glad they invite Jake and I to be part of it!  I love to see my mama re-using fun things that Scott and I did growing up and seeing them from a different angle!  Being a grown up and watching how much joy and child has when making cookies is awesome!  Its the little things in life that we look back on and smile.  I hope one day Janessa will look back on the fun time we had making cookies and remember how much fun we had!  

Using the rolling pin to flatten the dough!  Look at that concentration!  She would blow out her cheeks like it was hard work!

Using cookie cutters!

Proud of her cookie cutter pumpkin!

Gran Gran helping to pull away the extra dough

Look at that face!! We all had so much fun making pumpkin and ghost cookies!

Look at all those cookies!!!

Added a little frosting to make them taste better!

Janessa frosting her own cookie!

And this is why we didn't let her help with ours! :o) JK

Adding sprinkles!  Funny Story:  When mom first opened the sprinkles and handed them to Janessa, mom said, "Shake it, Shake it."  Well to a very literal almost 3 year old...SHE SHOOK IT!  Straight up and down!  Sprinkles went EVERYWHERE!!  We all started laughing!  This is when mama added a little assistance! 

Finished pumpkin cookie!

Very proud of her cookie!

YUMMY!!!

PUMPKINS!!!

A few weekends ago, I bought pumpkins and took them to my parents house and we decorated them.  This is the first time we have ever painted/carved pumpkins with Janessa.  She had the best time...shoot we all did!!! I really wanted a pumpkin to put outside our apartment door and thought it would be fun for everyone to participate!

Janessa watching Gran Gran put a face on her pumpkin

Soctt was the only one that wanted to carve his pumpkin.  

Janessa painting "hair" on her pumpkin.  Of course its pink!! She is such a girly girl just like her Aunt Lucy!

Scott Still hard at work!

Janessa hard at work!

More Hair!

The final product!  We had to make sure it looked like a girl pumpkin!  She wanted her pumpkin to have a BOW!

Me hard at work on our "G" pumpkin

Granny said she was NEVER invited to do pumpkins with us and she was excited to finally get an invite!  She over saw Scott, since he had to use big knifes! HA!

The finished product!  The scary side of Scott's pumpkin

The finished products with Janessa's initials carved.  Pretty impressed?? The "B"  was the hardest letter to carve!  We all had to be creative and help with it!!

 Overall we had such a good time painting and carving pumpkins.  I have a feeling this will become something we do every year!!! I can only imagine one day having ALL of the grandkids sitting around my parents table carving and painting pumpkins!!  Oh the things we have to look forward to!! 

Our Front Door!!!