Baby Reveal Party

This Saturday, we had a small gathering of family over to reveal the gender of our baby. I know it's usually the parents that have to wait to find out, but I just had to know. It was super fun, and it was really the first time we had lots of family over at the same time. 

I didn't go too crazy with the decorations. Our local party store had lots of cute things for only 50 cents!

I haven't baked a cake cake in a long time, I'm usually the cupcake master. So it was interesting to get the frosting on and keep it on. (Cream cheese frosting melts quickly, even at room temperature).

We had Granny Lou cut the cake! Everyone could hardly stand the wait! :)

IT'S A GIRL!

Halloween Party!

I was Belle from Beauty and the Beast. And yes that is a little kids costume.

 This year come hell or high water, I was going to have a Halloween Party and hand out candy to trick or treaters. So I invited a few friends over to dress up, BBQ, and watch The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown(twice). There were plans to watch Ghostbusters, but it got too late. I ran out candy pretty fast, I was surprised there were so many kids in my neighborhood.

Mr. Pink and Mia Wallace from Pulp Fiction.

Hipster Hitler killing his pumpkin.

I'm grabbing some pumpkin guts.

Sean of the Dead and GF

Lit Jack o Lanterns

My friend T did a post on her blog about all the fun we had, take a look here.

I know Halloween has been over for a while now, but I've been super busy with work. What did you do for Halloween?

Halloween Costume: Coraline

 This year for Halloween, I had my heart set on going as Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter. I was having a hard time wrangling up a worthy costume. Then it came to me to go as Coraline! This year I am having a tiny Halloween Party at my house, and my biggest goal is to have trick or treaters! This is the first place I've ever lived where I could have trick or treaters, but I've always had to work Halloween night. I'm super excited and I wanted to dress up as something maybe some of the kids would recognize.

 I didn't realize until researching this that the movie was based on a book. I can't wait to get my hands on it and creep myself out.

 I can't decide which outfit I like better?! So tomorrow I am going thrifting to see what I can find. I dyed my hair blue again (but not dark blue yet, I was trying to use up my dye).

If you've never seen the movie, here is the trailer:

What are you going as for Halloween? Are you going to a party or just dressing up for fun?

PS The husband and I have a date tomorrow to go to the corn maize! I'm super stoked!