What A Great Day!

Today has been the best day!  For starters, it's mine and Lloyd's eighth anniversary!  We started the day by going with Lauryn to her school and watching her and her classmates do a parade with their Halloween costumes.  Then we were surprised to see them all sing a few songs together.  It was adorable!





After that, Lloyd headed to work and Lucas and I headed to Greenville to get gifts and party supplies for Lauryn's birthday.  We got back into town just in time to pick up Lauryn and then we headed home.  I wanted to do some major cleaning since we're having friends over tomorrow and I won't have any time to do it then.  I stalled though and didn't get nearly as much done as I wanted to.  I got a surprise delivery shortly after we got back.  Lloyd sent me the most beautiful bouquet of flowers!  I was surprised because I thought getting my tattoo this Friday was my anniversary gift.



Lauryn and I made some of my pizza sauce and when Lloyd came home from work, we had homemade French bread pizza with chips and guacamole for dinner.  I did a little more cleaning, we got the kids into bed and now we're relaxing for the rest of the night.  :)

Halloween

I finally got the finishing touches for Lauryn's Halloween costume. She wanted to be Minnie Mouse and I got her the costume but had to get some shoes and tights. I was hoping for some sparkly pink shoes but the only ones I could find were for bigger girls. I finally got some adorable sparkly black ones today. She's going to be adorable....or should I say, even more adorable!! I think I might get some little white gloves. Minnie has white gloves too and this way, I can make sure her little hands stay warm while we're out trick-or-treating.

I must say, I miss dressing up for Halloween. We haven't gone to any Halloween parties in ages so we haven't had a good excuse to dress up. I like really elaborate costumes! I could never dress up like in one of those lingerie babydolls dresses like some girls do. I've always thought Halloween was just an excuse for some girls to dress trashy and get away with it but I could never do that!

Pumpkins

I really like carving pumpkins :)  Lauryn didn't have a lot of interest in helping but she did pick the dinosaur design.



I also really like baking pumpkin seeds!  I'll post the recipe I used later :)

I can't wait to see Lauryn all dressed up as a girl gnome!  Her daddy collects gnomes so I thought it would be cute for her to be one for Halloween!  I'll have to post pictures of that for sure!

In just a couple of weeks, she's going to be 2!  I'm excited and sad at the same time.  She's growing up so fast!  She goes through clothes like crazy, I think I should invest in a stadiometer just to keep track, and she's learning everything so quickly.  I can't believe she can count to 10 already!  I was just looking through some of her newborn pics and was just amazed at how it doesn't seem like two years ago that I was holding her in my arms and looking into that sweet, newborn face.