Veteran's Day Holiday {2015}

We are just wrapping up our Veteran's Day holiday.  We played hard, learned a little bit and most importantly we HAD FUN!!

As always we, we said our thank you's to Trevor's dad & uncle for serving in our military.  Outside of Trevor and maybe my dad, Papa Dave is the most important male role model in our lives.  The boys definitely look up to him, admire him and respect him.

With that I am going to enjoy the much needed quiet sending the kids to bed at 7:30 brings!  Oh wait...we have to go to work tomorrow!!

 - xo

Vosburg-Griffith Wedding {10/31/2015}

Well y'all my sister's wedding went off without a hitch!!

We started our day with loading up the car and getting our hair done...

We hustled off to Mom's to put our dresses on.  Christina and Alan chose the quad at UNR for their bridal pictures...

We waited patiently in the Founder's Room at the Nevada Museum of Art for 5:30 to come...

Then before we knew it it was time to walk down the aisle.  Christina and Alan said "I do" in a very sweet and to the point ceremony.  Next was cocktail hour in the 3rd floor gallery.  I think the kids had a blast "looking" at the art...

After we dined on delicious steak & shrimp and I made my toast we headed out onto the dance floor where we stayed for the rest of the night...

Wonder of all wonders my sister is married and the kids made it all the way to 9:30 p.m.  It was fabulous and fun wedding and I can hardly believe that it's over.  Now Trevor and I are sitting in our PJ's watching the Walking Dead trying to figure out what to do with the newest edition to the Bradshaw Nook.

I hope everyone had a fun and safe Nevada Day/Halloween Weekend.

xo

Monster Mash & A Healthy Halloween Snack

Healthy Halloween???  Is this even possible?!

I decided that it being Halloween week and all we need to really do it up this week.  Trevor said last night he felt like Halloween this year is anticlimactic so I am really hyping up spookiness everywhere...including their lunch boxes!!  Their snack today was jack-o-lantern orange cups to go along with their ghostly sandwiches.  It was pretty much a snap!

Tonight we got all decked out in our costumes and threw ourselves a monster mash.  By we I mean Carter and me!!!  Ethan wanted to save his costume for Friday and Dax is teething (molars - - YIKES) so Carter and I danced and danced and giggled until we couldn't anymore.  

If you look closely you will see Hocus Pocus in the background...oh yes my children are just as in love with that movie and I am!!!  And Carter thinks it's hilarious when I sing "I Put A Spell On You"

It was very fun just playing around with this little pipsqueak tonight!!

xoxo

S'more Halloween Fun

Friday was the start of fall break for Ethan, and we spoiled his teacher with home made chocolate chip cookies.  Carter and Daxton are still in school this week, so I needed to come up with a really a fun idea for their teachers.

Inside of the trick-or-treat bag is 2 chocolate graham crackers, 2 Hershey bars and 2 pumpkin shaped marshmallows - all the fixin's for some really spooky s'mores.

Last year we were on our way to Vegas, so I didn't get to do anything fun for the kids' teachers or friends.

Now on another note, Ethan received a perfectly glowing report from Mrs. B and Trevor and I couldn't be prouder.  He's reading above grade level and is a little math whiz in the making.  He also seems to be making lots of new friends, and is helpful to his classmates when they need extra help with instructions.  We will be enjoying a special trip out to dinner and maybe some ice cream this coming week!!

Fingers crossed we have many many more report cards like this.

xo

A Fun Poulakidas Halloween Tradition

We have so many traditions in the Bradshaw Nook.  We have created some really fun things we do from year to year that I look forward to continuing on.  So y'all it's a crying shame that I didn't know about this fun Halloween tradition Trevor's grandpa did with his mom, aunts & uncle when they were growing, and then with Trevor and Tara when they were young!!  My mother-in-law is one of the most talented and creative people I have ever met, so it doesn't surprise me that she carried it forward...ok so what is this fun tradition???

Every year Trevor's grandpa would take a pair of his pants and button down shirt and stuff it full of wadded up newspaper, add some straw coming out here and there and a garbage bag or pumpkin for a head...sit him on a law chair on the front porch and wha la a life-size scarecrow.

I am for sure renewing this long standing Poulakidas tradition next year!!  Thank you Elaine for sharing it with me!!

xoxo

Wormy Halloween Dinner

This wonderful little Mommy Witch cooked up a sensational wormy dinner tonight for the little monsters' delight.

Wiggly worm dogs, squiggly wiggly beans, and "rotten" apples comprised a very not-so-fancy Sunday supper.  Ethan and Daxton thought this was the best dinner all week, while Carter Bug slept through it.

Ten minutes was all it took to throw this fun Halloweeny dinner together.  We have been non-stop go since the end of August so it was all I had in me to get everyone around the table.

Happy Sunday!!

xo

No Junk in the Trunk Challenge

I do love every season, but fall definitely starts the beginning of my favorite time of year.  There is just something about the baking, the smell of pumpkin spice everywhere, and chocolate that gets me every time.  Well not this year...

Starting tomorrow I will be embarking on a two week challenge.

I am so excited!!  Last Monday I said I have 4 months until I turn 30 and want to be super fit...this is the jumping off point!!

xo