Two Thanksgivings

John, Maggie, Dalton and Wally flew to Utah for Thanksgiving.

 Meanwhile, I took the little kids to visit our family on the coast.  We also stopped by the Natural History museum and Pea Soup Anderson on the way home.

Made a couple beach trips, rearranged furniture, and built a desk for Maggie.  A great double Thanksgiving!

Sienna Turns 9

Sienna had a movie party in the garage with a few friends.  They watched Raya and had pizza and lots of treats.

We also had friends over for Oreo cake that Sunday.

Six Flags

For Dalton's birthday, we went to Six Flags Magic Mountain.  John and the big kids went on scary roller coasters.  The little kids went on little kid rides.  We waited in a ridiculously long line for food. 

 

Homemade Halloween: Aladdin Family Costumes

We saved our Aladdin theme for this year when we could go to the Disney party again.  John: Genie, Me: Jasmine, Maggie: Magic Carpet, Dalton: Aladdin, Sienna: Rajah, Arthur: Abu

I crocheted all the hats of course.  This is the closest we've come to all six of us having a crocheted hat.

Nearly everything else is from Amazon.

Genie: ostrich feathers on ribbon, rolled up for the boop.  Crocheted wrist bands.

Jasmine: borrowed the necklace, earrings are from Walmart.

Magic Carpet: Used iron on adhesive (Heat n Bond) to add felt shapes to a pair of sweats.  Made tassels out of yarn.  Also, the hat isn't quite my usual pattern.  I did back loops only, and did it in a spiral shape, instead of chaining up each round, to make it look like coiled rope.

Aladdin and Abu vests are loosely traced from Simplicity 1509. The Aladdin pants were what I agonized most over.  In the end, they took about a half hour to make. Once I got brave enough to just cut what I thought would work, and add some elastic.

Rajah: Fabric painted the stripes on, and used Heat n Bond to add the white belly.

Rajah and Abu tails: I cut out a tail shape, sewed it into a tube, stuffed it with fluff and a piece of wire hanger, and sewed it to an elastic waistband.

 

Halloween Fun

Making succulent pumpkin decorations

Teaching Dalt how to make caramel apples

Took Arthur to the Irvine Railroad pumpkin patch

Hosted a pumpkin cookie decorating party

Carving and painting pumpkins

Trunk or Treat

We had a few people over for dry ice root beer and donuts before trick or treating