A Princess and an Owl

This year for Halloween, Tessa wanted to be a princess. Her Grandma Wilcox was already planning on making her a princess costume from a skirt she had so it worked out great! Princess dresses are way beyond my sewing expertise so thank you grandma!

Here is a picture of Tessa in her costume with Grandma Wilcox after trying it on for size. Extra credit to Grandma for the hat!!

It was unfortunately pretty cold on Halloween so Tessa's costume was partly covered by her winter coat, but I suppose that's just how it goes most Halloweens in Utah. 

Jenny kept flip flopping on what she wanted to be. First she wanted to be a pirate. Then she changed her mind to a mummy. Then she wanted to be a nose. When I asked her how she was planning to walk around in a nose costume, she said I would carry her the whole time. When vetoed mom holding her the whole time, she changed her mind to be a witch. Then she finally decided she wanted to be a Halloween Owl. After confirming a few days in a row she still wanted to be that, I told her she was locked in and began working on her costume. I cut out felt feathers and sewed them to a piece of fabric cut into a cape shape, sewed some feathers on some sweats, and painted her face. This was the result and while a few people seeing her guessed that she was a flower most everyone said bird or owl - success!

I had a lot of fun making her costume. It got me back into sewing and wanting to do it more. Maybe I'll even finish the baby blanket quilts I started for the girls before they were born someday -LOL. The girls had a lot of fun with trick-or-treating. We tried to keep up some traditions and do some fun Fall activities before Halloween as well. 

First, we had to pick out our pumpkins at our usual place - Bob's Pumpkin Patch.

Or just roll on them - LOL.

Silly Tessa! Then we had to climb the hay bales and go down the slides and feed the animals.

We had to paint our pumpkins.

Then a new thing - we went to the Witch Festival and Six Hags. The Witch Festival had a bunch of these cute decorations and displays of witches.

Then at the Six Hags, there were a bunch of fun little activities. Tessa's favorite was the rope swing.

Jenny's favorite was the corn pit. She had me bury her probably about 5 times. And she even buried me.

Happy Halloween!

Feeling on Top of the World

David and I bagged our first summit. We climbed to the top of Mount Timp! It was awesome! The hike took all day; we hiked from 8am to 6pm - 10 hours! It was tough and we were in quite a bit of pain by the end - mostly our toes from the downhill, but it was totally worth it. It was incredible standing at the top of the summit looking down at the tops of the nearby summits along the range. It was a super surreal feeling just being that high. I mean how often do you look down at the tops of clouds! It was incredible. Looking back at the pictures, it looks almost photoshopped to me since it is just so unusual to be on the top of the world like that. I promise they're not photoshopped though.