P.S. Halloween Happened

We were dinosaurs and at least two of us were darling. Wiggly tails, spikes, and all.

This was Logan's first year trick-or-treating and he LOVED it. He was a little shocked each time people just gave him treats. Getting to be a dinosaur and roar at everyone was a bonus.

This is the best we got on my camera as far as a family picture goes. One of us is always pulling some weird face.

Happy Haunting!

Happy Halloween!

These are our costumes from this year. We actually had a different trio of costumes that were mostly completed, but I didn't finish them in time for the ward party on Friday so we came up with these three. Kimbal was a Mad Scientist, Logan went as Frankenstein, and I was some sort of Spider-queen-person.

Boog is in a fun phase where he thinks having his picture taken is awesome.

I had the big purple spider on my headband and a bunch of little spiders tucked into my bun. You can see the web on this side, the other side had one too, as well as a spider down on my cheek.

My mad scientist complete with goggles and M.A.D. name tag.

Close-up of Boog's onesie. I painted it for him to wear around town in the days before Halloween. His eyes even glow in the dark!

Aren't they cute!

easter p.s.

i DID have the basket done for easter sunday i just didn't get the pictures up and ready to be blogged until today.

mr. joseph and booger both really liked the basket which is a good thing because that thing took freaking forever and there would have been one very grumpy momma had they not oohed and awed appropriately but they loved it and all was well in the house of josephs.

and booger had a VERY happy easter.

how cute is that kid?!?! seriously. i could just eat him for breakfast.

booger's bunny basket

here's the story...

easter was quickly approaching. the stores were filled with cheap plastic grass and over-priced buckets for the collecting of fake huevos. booger NEEDED a basket. no, he can't even crawl. no, he wasn't going to remember this holiday. yes, it was a NEED. but i refused to pay ten bucks for something i could only mildly stand this year and would be sure to hate by next year. thus the FREE easter basket was born. brown felt (left over from the mail bag) a cereal box (for the base) and ribbon from a recent apron project.

the handle- i folded a long strip of felt into thirds, sewed the sage ribbon in the center, pinned like a mad woman, and top stitched both sides so it'd be sturdy.

the bottom- i hand sewed the bottom on. oh. my. word. took forever. two circles of felt with a slightly smaller circle of cardboard sandwiched in between.

the sides- two pieces of felt a few inches longer than the circumference of the bottom. don't look too closely. maybe i didn't finish the inside as nicely as i might have liked. i'm considering trying to line it somehow for next year.

the stripes- you know how grosgrain ribbon has a sort of edge to it? no? ok... go look at some. i'll wait right here.

see it? ok. i stitched right up next to that with cream thread so that the stripes would look perfect. the also held the two pieces that made the sides together and made it a bit sturdier.

all finished and stuffed.

all in all- it's not perfect, but i love it. mr. joseph was super proud of me for making it with what i had on hand and we think it'll last for a few years at least. i'm already picturing boog dominating at future easter egg hunts (this sucker is BIG.) and it makes me smiley. happy belated easter.