An extra hour

Man oh man was it awesome having an extra hour added to our day yesterday from daylight savings time! We of course woke up too early (but I also went to bed embarrassingly early for a Saturday night) and just had the best day. Actually the past week throughout yesterday have been such a blast.

Last week for Halloween we took the kids to the neighborhood elementary school for their trunk-or-treat on Tuesday night, which actually ended being a bust since everyone was out of candy after 10 minutes. The kids however still thought it was awesome to dress up and run around. Then Thursday morning Paxton and I dropped Harper off at school and then went down to the gym and waited for the preschool costume parade to begin. It was so freaking adorable. All these kids dressed up, parading around the gym and looking around excitedly to see where their family was! Then they all gathered in the center of the gym and sang Halloween songs. I could have died. It was too much for this mama and I was tearing up too quickly. I am that mom that will be crying at every play, recital, performance, and achievement that my kids experience.

That evening after J got home we went to a neighbors house and had a pre trick-or-treating gathering of many kids, many adults, and lots of good snacks! Then we went back towards our house and began the trick-or-treating just the four of us. It was SO. MUCH. FUN. After Pax received his first treat in his bag, he immediately shoved his hand down in the bag to retrieve the chocolaty delight and hold it up to have us open it. We then proceeded on to about 10 more houses to keep receiving more and more goodies. Our neighbors did a great job this year with chocolates! No gross Twizzlers or weird hard candies.

After the post candy hangover and laziness at home on Friday we decided to venture out on Saturday afternoon to get Harper a haircut. She has been a few times before to just trim her hair up as she was growing it out but this was her first official cut & style. A mom friend at her school suggested this salon called Sugar and Spice here. It was the most genius and adorable place ever. They took Power Wheels and made those the seats they get to sit in while getting their hair cut.  They also have portable DVD players at each station so they can watch Thomas the Train or Barbie Fairy movies! We decided since we were there to get Pax's hair trimmed up as well and holy smokes they both look so adorable.

We all went out for dinner afterwords at Jose Peppers and then came home to attempt to adjust to the upcoming time change and called it a night. Sunday morning like I said we were all up by like 6:30 and just hung around for the morning. I made a deeeeelicious pork butt in the slow cooker that I started in the morning. Then a quick trip to Target for a fabulous new rug for the living room which sparked my desire for cleanliness. Something about getting a new item for the house makes me want to clean and organize and change things. I washed all the couch cushions, vacuumed, dusted and reorganized all the bookshelves and prepared the house for fall color and decor. Bye bye floral summery pillows, hello burgundy & brown plaid and pine cone decor. I love the coziness of fall! Luckily I had the cleaning bug while J watched the Chiefs win yet another game. This season is proving to be kind to not only the Chiefs fans but the wives of Chiefs fans. It sure makes for a more enjoyable afternoon when they win =).

Of course with the beauty of all the leaves turning to fiery red and golden yellow in the neighborhood, it means that raking and mulching are in our schedule for the next few weekends. We spent the afternoon cleaning of the back porch while Josh mowed up the leaves in the front and back yards. We ended our evening with having a family dinner of pulled pork sandwiches and then after the kids were down to sleep we enjoyed a bottle (or maybe two) of wine with our next door neighbors. We could not have gotten any luckier with who we moved next door to. The four of us love to drink wine, eat delicious food, and laugh and way to inappropriate of jokes (mostly made by Josh and Brian).  It been such a fun growing friendship and even better, super convenient since they are only 10 steps away!

We ended the night in the best way possible by watching The Walking Dead. Doesn't get better than zombies right before sleep!