In The Spirit of Halloween

In the spirit of Halloween,

which is gone for another year,

I post all the pictures from October that I meant to post before 

the month ended, yesterday.

On a positive note, however,

this post will now include pictures from last night--

Halloween itself!!!

:)

Some Halloween Projects...to start off with...

Made these blocks last year, but didn't have a blog yet ;)
They are so fun :)

yarn dipped in a bowl of watered-down glue
and positioned like a spider web

To make it more permanent I tied each intersection with some thread
and left the threads dangling-it added to the spider webby look!
Adding the lights made things look a bit messy

Step 1 of making a Halloween tree...spraying a branch black

Sydney was a good helper

I love Halloween trees! And it was so fun to make

Zoo Boo at the Houston Zoo...

You like our Mommy-Stroller brigade?
You can't even see all the mommies and strollers
in this pic, though I tried to get us all...
even Syd barely made the shot ;)

She called it "BABY pumpkin,"
and held it like one, too. :)

Ha, I love random animals standing in random places. 

Our carpool buddies and good friends Liza and Ashlee!
Who also hosted the Halloween party you are about to see pictures of...

Pumpkin Carving...

The boys.
I didn't get a picture, but they even whipped out a small power drill
to assist them in their carving. 

Shannon, the lovely host
and all-time group-get-together-er

Syd's pumpkin. She supervised as I carved.
Good job, Syd :)

These definitely rotted about a week before Halloween
Note to self: Carve your pumpkins the day of or day before Halloween, not 2 1/2 weeks prior
so the humidity can leave rotting pumpkin stains on your front porch.
Oh well, we don't get trick-or-treaters at an apartment complex anyway.

Trunk-or-Treat...in Dallas (in case you missed last post)

Baking Halloween Cookies!

Syd's first cookie cutting/decorating experience
though, she was in bed for the decorating part.
We started them late, the night before Halloween, and sent them to school
with Scott on Halloween for his groups and friends. 

HALLOWEEEEEEN NIGHT!!! ...

Cute group of kiddos,
I mean monsters and princesses, eh?

Sydney did a really good job, she knew
just how high to hold her bag up and we've been practicing
the phrase "trick-or-treat" all month long.
She thought it was so fun that mommy had a kitten face and ears. 

Family :)

That's it! Until next year, 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

YESTERDAY ;)

MOVING WEEK: KC-Galveston

I'll let the pictures do most of the explaining, but in our last week in KC, we had a lot of projects we had to get done before the big move, and there were lots of goodbyes to be had, and on top of that Melissa had her baby just a couple days before we left. :)

      Short story real quick- My sweet sister Michelle had Scott, Syd and I over for dinner the week before we left; Nothing out of the ordinary. I was already emotional because of a $500 Sprint Bill that was only supposed to be $100, and this would be my last meal at Michelle's before we moved so of course when I walked in the door to see some of the faces I care most about and Michelle holding this sign, I started to cry. It officially marked the beginning of saying "Goodbye."

Scott and I sanded and restained some furniture we were bringing with us- update it a little! This bedroom set was my Grandma Welling's set. My mom remembers it in her house all growing up. Now it's Sydney girl's!

grayish/brown BEFORE

Copper/Gold AFTER

BEFORE

AFTER!

We got to spend some time with one of my best friends from home, Melissa during our last couple weeks in KS. Here we are at Lake Quivira Golf and Country Club, a place I used to be a banquet server at in high school and wanted to show Scott. 

I always thought it would be fun to live at Lake Quivira. Now I live at the beach ;). 

For one of our last family dinners, Scott and I made one of our specialty dinners- Sweet 'n Sour chicken with chow mein, crab rangoons (minus the crab..ha) and rice, and had everyone over. We're lucky Mel didn't go into labor until the next day. :)  

I probably should have gotten a picture of the people too...

Two days before we moved, Jeff had to leave for a business trip.

It was sad to say goodbye to him. I didn't expect to cry and neither did he!

This started a chain reaction as you can see (if you zoom in ;)).

We needed to update our barstools to match our new furniture we ordered for our living room/kitchen area. This light brown color wasn't doing it for us anymore. 

Voila! Much better.

MEL AND MIKE HAD BABY #4!!! 

Lacy Jayne Morris

Born Fri. 7/27
We got to be there for the birth!

Our new lil' niece, Lacy :)

Uncle Jeff, Syd and baby Lacy

Sydney was and still is OBSESSED-

with ALL babies, all the time.

This called for finishing another project. 

I did the final touches the day before our move. 

I had no other choice! They couldn't decide on a dang name!!! ;)

There's mommy, enjoying her new baby out on her new covered patio.

MOVING DAY 1

Packing the truck.

Thanks to all who helped!

Michelle is pouting. 

She was sad to see our car all hooked up.

One last bath in Grammy's tub for the best friend cousins Sydney and Madie

MOVING DAY 2

The drive to TX/Galveston

SO MUCH CRYING!!
It was weird to leave knowing we wouldn't be living here for at least 8-12 years if ever again.

This is the last I saw of my family in KS. I took this picture from the truck window as we were just about to drive away. Sad day. But exciting adventures ahead!

She looked so funny sitting shot gun in that big truck!

This was from the trucker before us. Can you believe it?!!?!

$620 for one fill-up! 

We were glad ours didn't hold that many gallons, but we did feel very much

a part of the trucking community the whole road trip down, stopping at all the trucker

stops and eating at all the trucker places. There are only so many options when

you are driving a big diesel truck with a tow dolly behind a trailer. Truckers are so nice. 

WELCOME TO

!!!!GALVESTON!!!!

Doing a little stocking up on food so we could survive

during the long grueling unpacking ahead.

I took this pic two nights ago- 

This is her new best friend here in Galveston.

She totally deserved it. :)

See what I mean? Grueling (I'm not even sure if that's the 

correct word, but it sounds intense, right?) See where that huge

box is to the left? That's our walk way. Wish us luck.

wow

Unpacking has been one big game of Tetris,
which you can only expect when you downsize :)

My new friend, Stormie, invited Scott and I to a "play group" at a pool where another girl from church lives. It was the morning after we moved in and we decided it would be a good way to meet people and other medical students from school and church. 

This pool, which looks out over the ocean was at the two mysterious towers that I can see across the field from my computer room window where I am now typing. They are no longer a mystery to me :).

We've met lots of really nice people. Some guys from church and a random neighbor walking by helped us move in. Someone brought us dinner our first night in town and our next door neighbor Maggie made us a pie. I think we're going to fit right in here in Galveston for these next four years. :)