Preston's First Halloween!!!!!!!!!!

Man'o man!! I can't believe we just celebrated Preston's very first Halloween. I have been looking forward to this day since I found out I was pregnant. The holidays are so special to me and to share them with your child and family makes them even that much sweeter. After searching all over town and on the internet, I finally found the perfect costume for Preston...a Pirate!! We got his costume embroider with 'Capt'n Jack" on it and it suited him perfectly.
We shared Preston's first Halloween with my Mom and Dad, Bub, Michelle, Jerod, Vicki and Dave. Jerod is on the verge of retiring from trick-or-treating but thankfully he and his parents made the trip out to Plano to walk the streets with us and Preston. Jerod's costume this year consisted of a T-shirt that said "This is my Costume" written in spooky letters, crazy hair spiked with hair glue and pair of black and white sun glasses. I also dressed up this year and went as Brent's favorite animal...a kitten.

Jerod's costume this year

Once everyone arrived at the house, we took a few pictures before it got too dark and then made our way to Preston's first trick-or-treating house!!

Preston loved his orange pumpkin bucket

I was super excited and luckily the house a few doors down from ours was decorated and already had other children going up to it. Preston did great and didn't get scared at all. We made the rounds on our street and then headed to the neighborhood just north of ours and discovered the hot spot of our area. There were kids everywhere and most of the houses were decorated to the nines. Jerod ran from house to house and Preston and I tired our best to keep up. Preston absolutely loved being outside all evening and the dark and spooky sounds didn't seem to faze him one bit.

Our on way to our first house

 Preston's first time to trick-or-treat

On to the next house

Spooky grave yard

After we went down several streets, it was time to head back and finally eat some dinner. Vicki gave Preston his bath and then it was time for the Pirate to head to bed. Jerod and I went through all his candy and picked out our favorites and gave the old person candy to Mom and Vicki...hehehe.

I couldn't have asked for a better first Halloween for Preston and I'm already looking forward to next year!!

Craft Night & Carrie Underwood

Kathy invited Jessie and I to go with her to a craft night her church group was having at their church. Kathy had me at "Craft Night'. I was totally in even before I knew what the craft was going to be. I got even more excited when she said we would be carving a pumpkin out of those carvable pumpkins from Hobby Lobby. I have always wanted to get one of those but just never did and this gave me the perfect excuse to get one!! We we arrived, the girls in her group had made food and desserts and I didn't think it could get any better than having food to munch on and a craft to work on. The lady that was helping all the girls was very creative and had some great ideas. I ended up carving a night-before-christmas type face on my pumpkin, Jessie went traditional with her jack-o-lantern and Kathy made a cute witch's legs that she carved and painted. We had so much fun that Kathy ended up emailing us and invited us over to her house in November to do a Christmas Craft Night. Can't wait for that one!! I've already got so many ideas of the craft I want to bring...so hard to choose just one!
Another great tradition is now in the works!!

I was lucky enough to get tickets to the Carrie Underwood concert and I knew just who I wanted to bring with me...Mindi of course!! There aren't too many people I get excited about to see in concert but Carrie Underwood is one of them. I was curious what kind of performer she would be and I have to say, she didn't disappoint. Mindi and I got to park VIP style and we had great food to eat on along with the best cookies in the world...may goodness, I ate 2 of them which would probably equal like 4-5 regular cookies. The opening act was really good too although I felt a little old watching a young Hunter Hayes perform. Carrie sang all my favorite songs and I got to sing along with my best buddy. Great night for sure!!

A couple of "Firsts" for Preston

Preston has experienced a couple of firsts in the last few weeks. He got his official first shiner on his eye while pushing a cardboard stackable box piece on the floor. He slipped and hit right underneath his eye on the corner of the box. Nana said he got pretty upset but he recovered fairly quickly. Poor guy

First shiner on his eye

Preston has officially cut his first tooth and we can already see more on their way. He has been a good teether so far although I had to give him baby Tylenol a couple times because he seemed really uncomfortable. Other than a very runny nose, he has been dealing with it very well.

First Tooth

Preston's School Fall Festival

Preston's school held their first Fall Festival on Friday, Oct 26th and I couldn't wait to get through the work day so I could head up to his school and begin the festivities. While we waited on Daddy to get there, Preston and I had a great time taking pictures in his room and I got to watch Preston crawl successfully under a crib and make his way out. I have to say, I was impressed.

Waiting on Daddy to arrive

 Playing with  mommy's lens cap

 He's very intrigued

 Crawling under a crib

 Seems like he has done this before

 No sweat off his back

 Pushing the lens cap around

 Yea!! Daddy's here

 So excited to see his Daddy

Daddy finally arrived and we made our way to the first activity...Cookie Decorating. I knew this might turn out a little messy but I couldn't wait to sit down and see what kind of cookie Preston and I could decorate together. We used the Halloween themed sprinkles and orange frosting!! After we were done, the best part was to come...eating the cookies. Preston got his first taste of frosting and cookie but wasn't too big on it so Mommy had to finish it off, which I totally didn't mind doing. A momma's got to do what a momma's got to do ; )

Lets get to decorating

 Our finished product

 Time to taste

Next we couldn't pass up getting an animal balloon made so we waited in a short line and asked the balloon man to make a blue elephant for Preston. I had no idea Preston was going to love chewing on the animal balloon. I just knew any moment it was going to pop right in his face but luckily it never did.

Watching his elephant balloon getting made

 He loves this thing

 Hope it doesn't pop

In the hallway, the school had all the pumpkins the different classes had decorated. We found Preston's class pumpkin and I thought they did a great job but the Cat-in-the-Hat pumpkin won the grand prize. I actually liked that one the best too. It was soo cute!

Preston's class pumpkin

The Winner

The last thing we did was the cake walk. This was Preston's first time and he won a decorated skull cupcake. All the kids were winners but he had a great time destroying the cupcake as we kept it in the wrapper and let him go to town on it!

Halloween gifts we made for his teachers

The school had all kinds of things to do like face painting, games, bounce house, petting zoo, touch and feel zone and cotton candy but Preston is still a little bit small to enjoy these things so we headed home but before we made it home we grabbed dinner at Chili's. It was a great evening and next year, Preston will be able to enjoy it all!!