We're in Whistler!

Part two of our timeshare this year! This time around it's completely covered in snow - aw...just GORGEOUS! Pictures to come as soon as we get back!!

Jason - Kristie and I miss you! Wish you could be here with us, and not working! See you tomorrow night!

Pretty Toes

I was sitting on the floor painting my toes the other day, and Kristie sat down next to me and watched. So I painted hers too...it's been awhile! This time though, she actually sat still and let me paint! It was soooo sweet! 

(We're matching.)

And some fun on photo booth. =)

New Keys

I forgot to update on the apartment situation - thanks Kali! So Baycourt is raising our rent if we were to renew our lease at the end of this month. Yuck. We could barely afford what we had in the first place and they were going to raise it to $1100. So we started searching quickly found a 2 bedroom for $900. Also, we get free rent for November & December! Yeah, a little smaller, but it's at Millington apartments in Everett, which are only a few years old and SO nice. Really, really nice. We signed the lease and have the keys as of today! 

There are ups and downs to this. We are really comfortable where we are now...our apartment is HUGE and great. We're in my Dad's ward at church and loooove everyone there. I LOVE my calling in Young Womens...it was something I saw myself doing for years and years. And our ward choir is AMAZING. Seriously. We have an amazing director, we do challenging, beautiful songs - I'm really going to miss that. And we just love being in Mukilteo. Such a great town. And we just don't physically feel like packing, cleaning and moving. 

But the area we're moving to is a good part of Everett. And we'll be in Jason's family's ward! haha. One fam or the other! I love it. So that'll be fun. And I do love that everything in the apartment is newer & more updated...crown molding, bigger kitchen, lots of nice cabinets, nice fridge, HUGE tub in the bathroom....we'll be able to like it. =) Also, with the free rent in November & December, we'll have some money for Christmas, my birthday and our anniversary - when normally, we just don't have anything for the holidays. So that's definitely a plus.

I just realized I never took pictures of this apartment (in Baycourt)- I will do that to document and so you can see what we'll be missing. =) Then I'll take pics of the new apartment. 

For today, you get new Kristie pics. =)

A new love of hers - putting her hat on by herself and keep it on! Wish she would've done this during the summer. Haha.

If I ever leave the pantry open on accident, she get in, pull out the vegetable oil and walk around with it like it's a purse. 

This was today during lunch - she was tapping her foot on the table...it was pretty hilarious! Got a video too, I'll put that up sometime!

Halloween!

Man, what a busy day! First went apartment hunting in the morning - long story to come. Then K took a nap. Then it was off to the mall to go trick or treating with our playgroup! But since Kristie was still sleeping by 2pm rolled around, we were late. So it was just the three of us, Daddy, Momma & Tinkerbell - we still had tons of fun! She was like "Uh guys, what are we doing?!" Then she started to get it and put the candy in her bag. It was SO cute! Then we went trick or treating at the church, then at Opa & Abue's, then at Grandpa & Grandma's! It was a Halloween to remember! 

Ended the night munching on candy with Uncle Blake. =)

Cute little Tinkerbell

Kristie got to wear her costume to story time at the library - it was so fun! She was super, extra shy that day for some reason, so no smiles to be found in these pics. =) Hopefully on Halloween she'll be her happy self! We're going trick or treating at the mall on Saturday with our play group, so that should be pretty stinking fun. She just looks SOO cute walking around in this outfit - just kills me! 

With her friend Matteo, so cute! 

Made the wings from hangers and knee highs. =) Then put glitter glue polka dots and used the extra fabric from the top to wrap around the middle. 

Graduated from Course 3!

Woohoo! I'm so grateful that I was able to take these courses. I learned SO much! Click here for more pictures!

Now I'm technically done with all the courses. There is an optional Fondant & Gumpaste course, but next month we'll be in Whistler during a class day. Kathy said we'd be doing really cool fondant flowers that day and that I wouldn't want to miss it. So I will skip a month and take it another time. It'll be nice to take a breather though. With class on top of cake orders, it has be BUSY around our kitchen, my heavens. Thank goodness I have Jason - he's so wonderful and supportive. I honestly don't know what I would do without him!

Tinkerbell Preview

Halloween is coming up...which means it's tutu time! Woohoo! =) This year Kristie's going to be Tinkerbell, and I have the tutu part done. This time around I tied the tulle to ribbon instead of elastic, and I LOVE how this turned out. Plus, I got the sparkliest tulle on the planet so it's pretty much the prettiest thing I've ever seen. The picture does not do the glittering frenzy justice. =) I will also be making a top, fairy wings and Tinkerbell slippers. Oh my, it will be pretty darn cute!

Somehow I need to finish this costume amongst the 4 cakes, cake class and practicing for cake class that I need to do in the next week. Oh-me-oh-my... 

Course 3 Flowers

We took a break from fondant this week and did more advanced royal icing flowers. Cute!!

Easter lily

Poinsettia

Morning glory

Petunia

Case of the sillies

 Today we were kinda hanging out in little K's room, and I found her gloves and hat from last year! Now last year, she couldn't fit into these gloves 'cause they were too big, so I'm so pumped for her to wear them...and she LOVES them! I thought she'd hate them, but I was wrong. She kept them on for a good half hour, still thumbing through books a playing with toys. Totally cracked me up! And she normally doesn't keep a single thing on her head nowadays, so I was shocked when she kept her hat on that whole time too! She must've known that it went with the ensemble. =) 

Sunday, she found two toilet paper rolls, and somehow managed to get both of them on her arms by herself! Jason and I were laughing so hard, it was so cute! As Kali said on facebook, maybe she'd rather be a robot for x-mas?

Halloween Desserts

Halloween desserts  

  are too fun!!!

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