Happy Halloween!

We were so happy this year, Halloween fell on a Saturday. This meant we could head out guising (trick or treating) really early. Well of course the best laid plans and all that.
We finally headed out the door over an hour late. Sigh. So we ended up being more rushed than normal, never mind it adds to the excitement!

Here they are heading in to the first house, Murray's Gran and Grandad's. K was super excited! She didn't remember Halloween last year so it was all new! And she was loving it!

Our sweet fairy

And our clown!

"Do you want any guisers??"

Even special Halloween Emmy made an effort! K helped her out a bit with her costume

Then we went on to Aunt Sarah's house. Here we indulged in some amazing hot dogs! Then onto the fun of a doughnut on a string! This is great fun especially for Fraser because he is older so we could be much meaner! That string was swinging and his mouth was going like a guppy!

Here he is in action!

Here is the aftermath on the Fairy's face

And the aftermath of all the sugar was unbelievable! She was wired to the moon! She eventually hit the bed running at 9pm and was out like a light! Leaving all sorts or carnage in her wake! LOL can't wait to do it all again next year.

Oh and did anyone notice the most expensive Halloween bags in the history of the universe! Yep it was the black thread from sewing these that landed Meaty in so much trouble! I should have known how it would end! Here she is helping me cut the bags out!

It all went a bit pear shaped

well I have halloween treat #3, not photographed and not blogged. Also not eaten (darned slimming world)

I do however have a seriously ill pussy cat, as you all know my sweet Thalia is in intensive care at the vets after undergoing serious surgery. This has overcome my halloween food plans a little. Luckily I never told the kids I had a plan to do something each night so they are happy with the things we have managed to make and eat together. I do have some other ideas up my sleeve so I will show you them when they are done. Halloween or not! I can do cakey eyeballs in November right??

Missing you meaty, can't wait to have you all smily and sleepy on my bed.I sure hope those whiskers that were sad and drooping are back up and proud when I get to bring you home.

I have lots of kisses to make you feel better and all of my thread is now locked up!

K wants you to come home from the "cat hotel" but I promise she wont cuddle you like this for a while.

we love you , get better xxxxxxxxxxx

Halloween feast #2

Today we made Mummy dogs. The kids enjoyed making and eating these! They are basically hotdogs wrapped in strips of puff pastry to resemble mummies' bandages.


what you need

I had 8 hot dogs and cut them in half

I used pre rolled puff pastry and cut it into strips

A little milk for washing over the pastry before cooking.



Then you just wrap the strips of pastry around the dogs
 

this takes much concentration

Baste with a little milk.Then pop onto a baking tray and into the oven, I am not sure how long they cooked for , maybe 15 mins?
 

Cook until golden and then enjoy. My kids dippped them into tomato ketchup (which if you were going to be trully gross you could call blood. I didn't because K is a bit chicken hearted about creepy stuff)

Halloween feast #1

I have decided to do a week long Halloween feast. Every day I am going to do at least one Halloween themed meal, snack or treat.

Last night I made jacko lantern style oranges filled with strawberry jelly/jello.

sorry for the rubbish pic I couldn't get a good one at all

They went down very well!

Even the photo face seal of approval!

we have no pics of Fraser eating his unfortunately, Murray was upstairs cleaning up a halloween horror that the cat had left! yuck!

And I would also like to say that my kid actually does have clothes and also we do own a hairbrush! But what can I say? It certainly doesn't look like it from the most recent pics!

The truth behind the facade

Lor mentioned to me the other day about how sometimes my posts seem like they are written by someone else. How they don't bring across the true chaos that is my house! (ok my words not hers, but I think this was the general gist ;) )  so for Lor I have added in the pics of the kids having a full on sword fight with the glow in the dark bones. And yes my daughter was decorating wearing only a top and her pants! Also you can clearly see in the background all of the washing that was drying inside that was cleverly left out of all other kitchen pics taken that night ;)

Look at his face! Surely it shouldnt be encouraged to try so hard to hit your 3 year old sister?

She is ready to retaliate with a biiiiig swing!

Halloween decorating fun

Yay! It is almost halloween.

 We had great fun on Sunday , we headed out for a nice walk to look for treasure. What treasure were we seeking? We were looking for conkers! This is something we do every year, it brings back fond memories from our own childhood.
Someone forgot the camera (ahem, twas I) so we have no pics which is a shame as we had a huge haul! The fact that it had been veeeery windy overnight and it was slightly raining meant that loads had blown down and we were the only ones there! yay!

we have 2 pumpkin buckets filled with this fabulous autumnal treasure

Murray was horrified to find that I had never played a game of conkers in the playground. I used to just keep them in my pocket and love how pretty they looked! I was certainly not up for smashing them! what a waste! Such a girl!

Once we were home and suitably warmed up, it was deliciously dark  due to the changing of the clocks. We dragged out the boxes of halloween decs and set to it! There were some seriously scary monsters out that night!!

I would also like to introduce you to Frank! He becomes part of our family for Halloween

We love you Frank!

I took this one because I htought it looked like Frank was pointing down at K! She of course enjoyed the opportunity to show off her photo face again!

It is only

67 sleeps to go! wow!! Anyone else excited????

it is also only 12 sleeps until I am allowed to play Christmas Music! yippee!

What makes you keep reading?

When you look at a blog for the first time, what is it that sucks you in and makes you go back?

Firstly I have to like the way it is written, I like it to be simple and self explanetory, I like to drop in on a random blog and feel at home straight away.


Most of the blogs I have come across have been found through the buttons and blog rolls on other's blogs. I have added a few onto my blog but always feel weird! I don't know these people! Maybe they don't want to be on my blogroll! So there are a few that I still only have in my bookmarks, I need to be trully addicted before it warrants being added on here  for all to see.

Then comes the most important ones! I immediately go to the Christmas category! If there isn't one then I become really scary and stalkerish! I go back through all of the November and December posts to find recipes and craft ideas! And just to see if these people are as pathetic full of the festive spirit as I am.

I seriously lose whole evenings of my life reading about other people's lives. Hmm there is something wrong about that I think .............

 Obviously I am not a total loser (ok well maybe I am ) but I also have people I actually  know in Blogland! So I keep reading theirs to find out all about them and their families! I already know if they are as crazy as me ;) They are the only people who read mine! There are prob a few reasons for this!
1- They are the only ones who have the address!
2- I am ungoogleable!
3- Anyone who may have randomly come across this blog by reading a comment I  have made, probably took one look and went-Yep this woman is a crazy, Christmas loving stalker, who can't spell most of the time, really has nothing to say  except talk about how much she loves other people's blogs! Think I will be moving right along now ..........

Or maybe there is someone out there just as pathetic nosy as I am who also loves finding something new! They too may have a checklist of things to tick off before they keep reading! If you are one of those people who look back at November and December archives before anything else, make yourself known! We could trully be friends! Also you would make me feel a whole lot better about myself! LOL

I found it!

Today we took Murray in to work. We managed to turn this into a day of  fun with the kids. After a trip to Asda (our sad relative of Walmart for all the US girls)  to pick up a few extra halloween decs.

We enjoyed some fine dining c/o Mc Donalds!

And then we enjoyed a while at Camperdown park.


Guess what I found there!


I have been waiting for it here...........................

I was so excited to see some fallen leaves as we drove in that I stopped to take a pic out of the car window!  In the process I held up a car behind me! Oops

Slowly

But surely

the trees

are beginning to turn!

Look at what else I found! These crazy people who seem to follow me around!

The kids in action

We have been having some really mild weather here this month so we have been enjoying plenty of outside time. Yesterday we had a blast at our favourite local park. Here are some action shots of my munchkins

I don't even know! But she looks like she is flying! This HAS to be fun!

The name's Bond. James Bond.

Such stealth.

Playing tag, K was "it".

Our favourite photo face at the moment!

Got the smile in the end!