I have some major catching up to do on my posts, so here it goes. Let me start with Halloween. I went through a phase where I thought Halloween was a totally lame excuse for adults to dress up in inappropriate, scantily clad clothing that would be considered completely unacceptable on any other of the 364 days out of the year, act like fools, and become gluttonous candy eaters. But now that I have a child I have fallen in love with Halloween all over again. This year we celebrated three different times with a preschool Halloween party, Ward Trunk or Treat, and a party on Halloween night. On Halloween we invited a few families over for pizza and salad and then we all headed out into the neighborhood for trick or treating. This was my first time going around in our neighborhood and I was pleasantly surprised at the crowds that walked our streets. It was like straight out of a movie, perfect weather and tons of kids of all ages. This was by far the best Halloween ever. The entire month of October Rylan would talk about the "scaries" (ghosts, skeletons, goblins, etc.) in stores and sprawled across people's lawns. His favorite was turning off the lights, closing the doors with you inside the room with him, and saying "HooHaaHaa" in a deep scary voice. Rylan was secretly terrified but loved playing the part of a scary monster whenever he had the chance. Of course he loved all the candy too. I just love how excited Rylan gets at this age.
November brought some fun and exciting events also, including my birthday, Thanksgiving, and Christmas shopping. I somehow managed to lengthen my birthday over the course of several days by going out to yummy brunch, lunch, and dinner with family and friends. Seriously I ate 4 different birthday meals at my favorite places around town (Adalante, Magnolia Pancake Haus, Pacific Moon, and Salt Grass). I felt totally spoiled and loved! All I want is to be surrounded by family and friends on my birthday and I got exactly that. A little bit of anthropologie money, spin shoes, and a fossil watch helped too:)! Thanks everyone!
For Thanksgiving Ty and Michelle came into town for a week. It was really nice to have them stay with us again and watch Taylor and Rylan interact together. They are at such fun ages and they play so nicely. I think the age gap helps because Taylor could care less if Rylan doesn't feel like sharing his toys. Thanksgiving dinner was the usual Sunday dinner crowd plus Ty and Michelle. All the food was so yummy! We followed up the night with some Black Friday shopping. I hit up Home Depot for my annual $.99 poinsettas (they make great gifts) and then headed out to Anthropologie for their first ever Black Friday sale. All sale items were an additional 50% off. And even though my current figure doesn't make me want to shop for normal clothes, I could not pass up such great deals. I came back with 4 skirts, a sweater, and a shirt and am hopeful that these purchases will fit post baby because I really want to wear them.
Matt and I have also been juggling a series of house projects, a syndrome known as "nesting" that apparently both wife and husband can go through together:) The projects are definitely worthy of their own post so that is yet to come. We're just hoping we can finish it all up before the baby arrives.
