halloweeny.

we have had quite the weekend of festivities here. we went up to reno, took family pictures from my momma, went to trunk or treat, and wore costumes quite a bit. 

i will admit that our costume's for my parent's trunk or treat was kind of lame. but our kid looks awesome so that's really all that matters. he was a rock star, in case you couldn't tell. and he looked fabulous. 

do you like his earrings? yeah, they're the center of reinforcement tabs that go on notebook paper. my husband's brilliant idea.  

oh, and his leather jacker? $20.00. win for mom because he's styling in it. 

our kid is an awesome trick-er treater. we taught him how to say "trick treat"  and "punkin". and he would just hold up his pumpkin for people to give him candy. quick learner. 

then we happened to pass these baby chairs, so he took a break from stealing candy. love it. 

 this morning, we went to our little friend's second birthday party, and it was awesome. isn't he so cutee??

 for some reason he refused to have any expression or look at the camera today while playing with his friends. mom was being annoying apparently. 

i feel like the comment "why so serious?" needs to be said during these pictures. yeah, i'm cool like that. 

then this afternoon we went to trunk or treat in pacifica. we decided to dress up a wee bit more. wee bit.  

my kid's face in this is awesome. 

isn't my husband's eye liner sweet? he's so hard core. 

for his lack of faces this morning, he made ridiculous faces tonight. love it. =) 

although our costumes were not quite as cool as last year's, it was so fun this year! i love that the man gets excited for things now. it makes holidays so much more awesome than they used to be. 

aaahhhhh.

i know. you all have been anticipating when i would post pictures of our new place! you don't need to tell me. but we've had a very busy week this past week, with me single handedly moving all of our house monday and tuesday, minus the heavy furniture and the few odds and ends, done by my spouse and the lowry family, and then the rest of the week was spent introducing the canadians to our life. 

{more on that in the future blog post}

but at last, your curiosity can be satisfied! prepare for way too many pictures. but i just love it so much. it's amazing. 

dundun dun duuuuunnnnn: 

the tv room. duh. 

because we no longer have gigantic ceilings, or an awesome blank wall, my frame wall ceases to exist as awesomely as it was. so it's shrunken and not quite as cool. ce la vie. 

dining room area. on the left is the door that leads outside to the "choo-choo's". i would show you, but all you would see is dirty handprints and nose smudges all over the door from stalking the train, and no one wants to see that. the door in the picture is the room to our "suite" haha. 

my uhhhh-mazing kitchen. to say that i love it is an understatement. 

the hallway down from the kitchen. at the end of the hallway is the guest bathroom, zak's room and the office. 

these doors hold the washer and dryer and pantry. and the dryer actually works here, so that's an improvement as well. the other one took three cycles to dry clothes. pretty much the worst. besides not having a washer and dryer at all, of course. 

now for our "suite": 

our closet. which isn't quite as cool as the old one, but is still a walk in, so i liiike it. 

 the other side of the closet. 

 our's and the cat's bathroom. not a fan of that, but she does need a place where some person in our house can't eat all her cat food. no idea who that would be. but as a side note, i finally get to use my awesome shower curtain i bought. 

 this is the hallway from our room to the closet & bathroom. 

our bedroom. well part of it, the other side is not put away yet, so you don't get to see that. 

 zak's room. which is in the corner, off by itself. did i mention that because he can't hear us anymore he doesn't wake up until 9:00 everyday?! it's AWESOME! 

he loves it so he can see all the trucks pass by out of the window. 

 and i can stash all his toys in the closet so that they are not everywhere in our house. win win win. 

the guest bathroom, next to zak's room. 

 this is my "where we've been" wall. each of the pictures is a place we've called home. 

 in order: san fran, reno, provo, lacombe. 

 now my least favorite room in the house. the office. probably because it has no decorations, and crap all over. in any case. scroll quickly over the mess we call the office. 

this is our "front entry way" which isn't usually used by anyone besides us because you have to come in through the garage to get there. i'm also looking for a table to re-do to go underneath my pictures hanging, because it's a huge area. 

 a legit coat closet. awesome. 

phew! you made it. and that is the end of our house. cool eh? and much more practical. the only downside is that we're right on the busy road, so it is much louder than our old place was, especially with the windows open. but we'll get used to it. =) 

pumpkins.

after finishing lovely super saturday {no more crafting for a very very long time}, the family and i decided to pumpkin shop, seeing as this is our last weekend to do it by ourselves this month. this is also our first time carving pumpkins with the child, {last year, we were kind of lame with all the holidays because he had no idea what was going on, we should have put more effort in} and he was not really impressed. he just said "ewwwwwwww" and refused to touch the guts. but being the jerk awesome parents that we are, we would drop seeds and tell him to pick them up, and he totally would. and then proceed to wipe his hands on everything to get the slime off. it was hilarious. 

this is his "i'm so excited you're making me do this" face.  

he did however, love to help dad poke holes. why do i feel that's such a boy thing to do?

again, very thrilled to be doing this.  

"what the??"

"this is weird."

i am such a creative mom. in case you can't tell, his pumpkin says "zak". win for me. i should be a pumpking artist

however, it is levi's thing. he has a gift for grim reapers. 

this picture cracks me up a lot. this is what happens when mom goes outside to put the pumpkins on the patio, and he's not allowed to come. 

i can't wait for halloween. our little man is going to be awesomely dressed. his costume involved hair dye, makeup and holey clothes. any ideas of what he will be?