Last Week Catch Up!

Last week was a full fun week for all of us (still recovering)!

MONDAY
After a weekend of celebrating Jon's birthday, I went down to Long Beach on Monday to attend the CA Womens Conference. I have been going to it every year for the past 5 years and love going for fun and inspiration! This year because I could not leave Baby M too long (my brother watched him and Shayla and his 3 kids all by himself!) we opted to attend the short evening program with my fellow gals who have also been with me over the years - my sister in law Christine, my college buddy Jenn, and my long time pal from 3rd grade, Michelle! It is fun to listen to catch up with the gals, listen to inspiring speakers, and browse the fun booths! This year we heard many great speakers from Paula Dean to the McCain ladies to Maria Shriver to Jessica Simpson. It went by way too fast and I look forward to going to the long program again next year!

Me with Christine and Jenn and crazy ladies (:

Inspiration - Me with Jenn and Michelle

TUESDAY
We had an awesome moms group Halloween party with tons of kids in costume, cookie decorating, food, fun, etc. We love our group of friends and look forward to our special holiday get togethers each year!

The kids!

Shayla and Emily (Madeline and Lion)

FRIDAY
Halloween Bunco! I play bunco with a group of fun ladies once a month. This month I co-hosted with Sherilene and we had fun planning our Halloween menu and decorations! I did not however have fun afterwards where a gallon of my leftover black bean soup spilled all over my car! argh!

The co-hosts with our spread!

Some of the ladies in costume!

SATURDAY
Shayla hosted her first fun little Halloween party for our neighborhood kids. She had so much fun planning with me from tying up goodie bags to cutting up tissue paper for our candle craft! I wanted it to be for her and by her and it was fun to see how much she could participate! We had fun decorating pumpkins with parts, pinning the tail on the kitty cat, egg eyeball walk, freeze dancing, etc.

Mr Potato Head Scary Pumpkin

Kids doing the egg walk (Shayla was too hot in her costume after running around)

CHURCH FESTIVAL
Saturday night was the church Fall Festival so we went and had fun at the booths and then did some trunk or treating in the parking lot. She loved the cake walk and donuts on a string the most! Nana and Papa came with us and we had lots of fun!

Shayla at a booth - Bait and switch

Nana and Mitchell

SUNDAY
Shayla wanted to pass out candy with Jon on Halloween and loved doing it and was so careful to give each person one piece each (: Here is the only photo I have with Jon is his "costume" - the tin hat on his head for the tin man - sad I know but lucky I even got that on for a pic!
So that was our week in summary and photos! It was fun and tiring and I am done cooking for a few days! I am not ready to start planning for Christmas yet but it will be here before we know it!