This Is Us

  Here is our little family Halloween Party this year.   I made mummy dogs (hot dogs in crescent rolls) that I make every year, zombie mac & cheese (regular mac & cheese dyed green), and little bags of chips. We got drinks from the gas station, which we do almost every night. I bought Halloween plates, dessert plates, and napkins. Zain wore Xander's inflatable dinosaur costume, Lydia was Jasmine (except when we went trick-or-treating she wore Xander's inflatable bull rider costume), and Tyler was a police officer. Brichette and Sam joined us (Sam is wearing the white wig). Xander went with his friends to a party. I felt like I was running around all day and hardly got anything done.  It was a crazy night! It got dark before I could get individual pictures of them in their costumes, so I took them the next day.  Although Zain wouldn't let me take it, so there's that!

  This year we have been making our kids school lunches. You can find our list of lunch ideas  In This Post .  Here is a fun lunch for Halloween. I gave them mini bagels with pumpkin cream cheese, cut up strawberries, and Halloween shaped pretzels.

  We made these Hocus Pocus Halloween signs to sell in our  Etsy Store .  Nick bent the metal and drilled holes, and I put the vinyl on and tied the string on. What do you think? I added the string later…

  We had created Instagram Story Highlight Board Covers using Canva, but after taking  Michelle Gifford's BMS  (Business Mom School) we decided to change them. We created a Brand Guide with our Brand Colors and Fonts.  I am still working on headshots and stock photos, but that's a story for later.  I changed the colors and added cute stickers that would go with our highlight stories.  So here they are!

  With it being close to Halloween, I thought this was so neat and wanted to share. There is a big spider, a cat spider, that made this beautiful web on our chicken coop. I don't really like spiders, but as long as they stay outside and don't come in our home, I leave them alone. If you'd like to see our chicken coop it's in  this post .

  My first Halloween nails for this year. I painted them black and orange, used my pink glow in the dark, and then put gloss and matte finishes on them. I’m not sure why in the dark the pink is a different color… the only thing I can think of is one finger is painted orange and the other is black. 

Here are my first fall nails of the year. I painted them to match my toes (I used vinyl stickers). I used a dark maroon and black. Used gloss and matte finish. I used this  Nail Tool  to make the white flowers and do black vines.

Today I made a Reel on Instagram about the benefits of tomatoes. There are lots of benefits to eating healthy food, especially homegrown food. Some from tomatoes are Vitamin A, Fiber, Antioxidants, Vitamin K, Potassium, Folate, and Vitamin C. They can help with heart, eye, skin, menopause, and more. These articles are where we found our information. 5 Health Benefits of Tomatoes Tomatoes 101 Do you like tomatoes?

  Tonight for movie night instead of making my mini sourdough pizzas round I shaped them like pumpkins. Here is my  Recipe For Sourdough Mini Pizzas When Jeff (my cousin who is more like my brother), his wife Abbie ( Here  are their wedding photos that I took), and Jeff's boys come over for movie night, we have so much fun that I don't usually get a lot of photos.  Tonight was no exception... I only got these three photos. haha We watched the new Hocus Pocus 2.  It was really good and I enjoyed it.  However, the first one will always be my favorite!