Okay, so a cheerleader and Elvis walk into a bar...

Just kidding!  We didn't go into a bar of course but we did have the best Halloween ever!

The girls went from one fun activity to another.  I'm more than a little worn out.  My house looks like a cross between a candy factory and a scene from Hoarders.  It is a mess.  And I have no energy to clean it up.  It's going to have to wait until tomorrow.  We have candy, costumes, coats, and shoes strung all over the place.  It really won't take me that long to get cleaned up, it's just annoying that the less time we spend at home, the messier it gets.  How does that happen?  I guess if I'm home I am continually cleaning up after the Mini Coopers, but if we're constantly running from one place to another nothing gets picked up only dropped off onto the kitchen table and the floor. 

The Halloween fun started on Tuesday when Maleah got to wear her costume to her tumbling class and then after that we went to Grandma Sherrel and Grandpa Clarence's for trick or treat. The girls had so much fun! The fun continued on Wednesday morning when Maleah got to dress up for her class party. Carissa sat this one out and stayed home with Daddy while I helped with the class. It was so fun to see all of the cute little boys and girls in the costumes. They all looked great. Maleah had fun and really made a great Elvis. She got lots of compliments on her costume.  Below is Maleah and one of her besties, Erica.

The real K2

Thursday night we had trick or treat night here in Flora.  We had so much fun!  Jason had to work but I took the kids around town with my friend Deb and her kids.  Our group looked so cute and we had a really nice time.  Maleah really got into it this year.  Carissa was a good girl and rode in her stroller without complaining.  We all ended up at my Mom and Dad's for their annual party and ate chili and my Mom's famous homemade donuts.  Deee-licious!!  Thanks Mom!  Our friends, the Kuhlig's, came out and joined us this year along with the McNeely's, the Atwood's, the Wilson's, plus lots of family came too.  It is one of my favorite nights of the year.  It would've been more fun if Jason could've been there.  But oh well, somebody has to work around here, because I'm retired (according to Maleah).  By the way, Carissa was really not into having her picture taken and Maleah was.  Therefore, I have lots of good pictures of Elvis and lots of bad pictures of my little cheerleader.

Okay, by the time Friday rolled around, I was exhausted. The week of non-stop running was catching up with me and my butt was dragging. My little book that I write all our activities is hard to read because there is so much stuff scribbled in for the week. Not only did we have a lot of Halloween stuff going on but I also had a several other appointments and activities this week. Note to self: take it down a notch and quit trying to fit everything in.

Anyway, on Friday night we went to the Louisville Fall Festival and Maleah performed with Das-zle.  She danced and she cheered.  It was the first time the mini cheerleaders performed and she did great!  She was the one who yelled "Set, ready!" and then all of the other cheerleaders followed her lead and they did the cheer.  I was so proud of her! 
 
Saturday was parade day.  Maleah walked with her Daisy Girl Scout troop in the Louisville Fall Festival parade and then rode on the float with Das-zle at the Flora Halloween parade.  She was exhausted by the end of the day.  We all were really.  Carissa was exhausted from watching two parades.  She loved every minute of it though.  I was reminded again of just how fast that kid is.  She repeatedly tried to run away during the Flora parade (what is up with that?) and she is like lightning!  Now you see her, now you don't.  But by the middle of the Flora parade she had started to pick up candy and really got into it.  Someone was even passing out little stuffed animals and gave her a stuffed puppy.  She was thrilled!  She hugged and kissed it.  She is so sweet when she is standing still. 
 
Now it is Sunday and we had a Harvest Party at church tonight, followed by trunk or treat.  It was the final time for the Elvis costume to be worn and boy was Maleah happy about that!  She had begun to hate that wig.  She told me "I'm over being Elvis, Mom".  We had a wonderful night with the church family.  We went on a hayride at Oil Belt camp.  Maleah hates hay rides and barely tolerates the hay touching her.  She brought one of her blankets with her and decided to wrap it completely around her so that no hay actually touched her.  Smart girl.  Carissa, on the other hand, loved the hay.  She grabbed handfuls of it and thought it was fascinating.  Had I have let her, she probably would've rolled around in it like a farm animal while her sister looked on in disgust.  I'm not sure yet, but I think there might be a little bit of tomboy in Carissa. 
 
Tomorrow I am saying goodbye to the Halloween decorations and hello to my pilgrim friends.  My cute pilgrim decorations have been in the basement anxiously awaiting the three weeks of every year that they get to make themselves useful.  Someone on the radio the other day said that Thanksgiving was right around the corner.  Maleah said "Thanksgiving???  Aunt Kayyyy!!!!!".  I think seeing Aunt Kay is her favorite part about the holiday.  It will be here before we know it and you guys know how fast Christmas sneaks up on us as soon as Thanksgiving is over.  I love the holidays!
 
Don't call me this week before 10 a.m., I might still be in bed trying to recover from all of this Halloween madness.

Elle Woods: Cutest Car in Town

Sorry this blog update is so late but I have a good reason for it.  Our favorite laptop died last week.  They were unable to resuscitate her at the hospital (Yes, it was a girl laptop, why not?  Everything in this house is female except for Jason).  She was so young too.  Only two years old.  In computer years, that's sixty-five.  Her hardware just up and quit.  She went quickly.  I guess that's good?  Anyway, we have a newer younger model now.  I think I'll name her Harman because that's what the monitor says right beside "Toshiba".  You guys know I love to name my appliances, cars, etc.

Speaking of cars...  I now have a name for the Mustang.  She is now known as Elle Woods.  Thank you to Bethany for thinking of the great name.  The original Elle is from the movie Legally Blonde and she loved pink, in case you are lost and wondering what on earth I am rambling about now.  Since I have not posted pictures of Elle Woods yet since she was all pinked out, I will now.  Thanks to Lance for doing an awesome job with that. 

I have been busy sewing again.  I have been working on some cute shirts and also some really cute aprons.  My booth at Robin's Corner is looking good and I have it filled with aprons and squeaky shoes!  That is the surprise item that I mentioned a couple of weeks ago.  They are toddler shoes that squeak with each step.  They encourage toddlers to start walking, plus they are great for keeping track of where your kids are.  I ordered a pair for Maleah when she was one because she was such a late walker.  I was ready to try anything to get her to start walking.  She got tons of compliments on them and they were really cute.  I kept them and Carissa wore them too until she outgrew them.  Then I found Carissa a new pair a few months ago and I was constantly having to tell people where I bought them.  So I just decided that there might be a little business idea in there somewhere and voila!  I now sell squeaky shoes. 

We had a surprise 60th birthday party for my dad on Saturday night.  It was a lot of fun.  We had it at the Elks and we all crowded into a corner of the back room and yelled "surprise" when he walked in.  He was truly surprised.  He had a lot of fun seeing some people that he hadn't seen in quite a while.  Maleah and Carissa had fun visiting Avery, my cousin Ryan's little girl.  I think those three little girls might be quite the trio one of these days.  The cake was so yummy too (thanks Lora!!)!  It was just an all-around fun night.

Since I was unable to post last week I didn't get a chance to tell you all about Hillary and Kevin's wedding.  It was absolutely beautiful and she had the two cutest flower girls ever!  One of them was Maleah, the other was Kevin's niece Madelyn.  She and Maleah are the same height, same hair color, same attitude, same everything.  They were so cute together.  They did their duties perfectly and had fun.  I think most of the fun came after the ceremony though.  Those two girls danced and danced and danced.  Until midnight!!  We all had a great time.  The bride was gorgeous and the whole wedding just went so smoothly.  I know a lot of work went into it and it really paid off.  Here are a few of the pictures I took. 

We have been so busy!  I still feel like I'm leaving out some stuff, but oh well.  Get ready for next week!  Halloween pictures!!!  And you'll never guess what Maleah is going to be!  Carissa is going to be pretty cute too but her costume is sort of common.  Maleah's - not so much.  Have a spook-tacular week!

My bad...

Wanna hear something hilarious?  Something really funny?  Okay.  Here goes.  Last week I wrote about the cute clothes I had been making for the girls.  Well, remember this cute pink shirt I made for Maleah that says "K2 Rocks"?  I found out that K2 means something other than Kindergarten 2.  Jason was reading the paper the other day and started laughing.  I read the article over his shoulder and found out that the city of Olney just banned the substance referred to as K2.  As of January 1st, it will be banned statewide.  K2 is apparently, unbeknownst to me, a synthetic marijuana.  Okay.  Now, think about it.  I just made my kindergartener a shirt that said "K2 Rocks" and she wore it to school!!!  Have you stopped laughing yet?  How funny is this?  Do you think anybody at the school realized it?  Do you think any of the other parents did a double-take?  Next week I'm going to send her to school with a shirt that says "I love crack!"  Just kidding!  Man, I sure hope nobody thought I had a hidden agenda with making her that shirt.  When I made the shirt, I had thought about spelling out "kindergarten" but decided that sewing all those letters on was just a little more work than what I was willing to do that day, thus I decided to just make it "K2".  Simple and cute.  Why, oh why, couldn't Mrs. Stanford's class number have been K1, K3, K4, or K5?  Plan for this week:  re-design pink shirt.  Perhaps the new design should say "My mom is not a pot head" or "My mom is oblivious to drug terms, is yours?"  Oh, what great kindergarten memories we are making!!

This is all I have time to write about this week.  We have been so super busy!!  I will update again soon!

Introducing "Positively Adorable"

Hey all!  Has this weather been wonderful or what?  I love, love, love it!!!

We had another fun weekend and Maleah was in the Little Egypt Parade in Salem with her Das-zle team.  She had a lot of fun riding on the trailer with her friends and yelling cheers.  In this picture she is sitting near the front and facing the camera.  After the parade we went to a weiner roast at Forbes Lake campgrounds and visited with my parents and their friends Mike and Paula Hufford (yay!  you did make the blog!).  We had hot dogs, chili, and s'mores.  Yummo!

I wanted to show you what I've been up to.  I have been really busy in my sewing room/scrapbooking room making all kinds of cool things.  I am feeling super crafty these days.  My friend Bethany (check out her blog listed on the right side of this page) has been coming over on Mondays and we spend the whole day making things.   We've gotten so much accomplished!  I have fallen in love with my Cricut all over again and have been cutting fabric like crazy.  I also have renewed my love affair with my sewing machine (Baby Lock Espire - the best ever!).  She's a few years old now and has been slightly neglected since the arrival of Carissa Faith.  But she still loves me and I have decided to name her Lydia - after one of the most famous seamstresses in the Bible.  Okay.  It's really the only one in the Bible that I can remember but I bet those other girls knew how to sew too.  Eve, for sure.  Don't you think?  The biblical Lydia was in the tent-making business with her hubby.  I realize most people don't name their sewing machines.  This reminds me that I am still trying to think of the perfect name for my white and pink Mustang.  Any ideas or suggestions?

Here is the jacket that I "made" for Carissa.  It's actually a Wal-Mart jacket that I put her name on and added a few other things.  The next picture is of the back of it.  I love it.  She hates it.  She can't hardly to stand to wear any jacket.  I have to zip it or it won't stay on her.  I hope she doesn't learn how to work a zipper any time soon.

I made this shirt last night for Maleah.  It says "K2 Rocks".  Her class in school is Kindergarten 2 or K2.  She loves it.  I love it.  She doesn't try to take it off. 

I made this jacket yesterday for Maleah.  Okay.  Well, I embellished it.  The jacket itself is from Old Navy.  I got it at a rummage sale and made it better.  I think some people might call that "upcycling".  I'm not sure though.  I have a tool called "Cheri's Cool Tool" (google it) and it puts on all of these crystals.  Think Bedazzler, only better!

 Okay, and here are my next creations.  Aprons!!  I have been busy making these vintage-style aprons.  Aren't they super cute?  I love them!  I have several made up and will be taking them to Robin's Corner later this week.  So if you're a local reader, keep a look-out.  For those out-of-townies, Robin's Corner is a local consignment store where a lot of people display their homemade crafts and such. 

The name of my booth at Robin's Corner and the name of my new little side-business is Positively Adorable.  I will be selling my aprons and ... oh the suspense is killing you, isn't it?  I will announce it at a later date.  It's not something I have made.  Just a product that I really like.  It's on order.  So if it ever gets here, I will tell you.  Otherwise I'm going to keep it a secret until then. 

Ta-ta!!