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Highlights
-Boo Bags!
-Date Nights are always something I’m wanting to make a priority! It’s something I look forward to all week long. Dallin truly is my best friend and such a cutie! It’s fun to go out and get dinner or a treat and sometimes we have a little buddy with us or a family date night! We went to Vessel Kitchen for one of those date nights and Lone Star Taqueria! V loved the horchata!
-Liv got her school pictures back and I’m shocked with how much older she looks! She is so adorable and funny! I love her bubbly personality. She is such a sweetie and has always been full of life and love!
-We had another General Conference weekend full of our favorite conference traditions! General Conference Activity Bags, Papa’s crepes, and cinnamon rolls! The girls loved THESE crafts I had in the bags this year, I did too because they were SO easy for me to put in!
-We had extra chocolate, caramel and toppings from our caramel apple night so had another one with the Strongs!
-We had even MORE toppings leftover so I whipped up a batch of Candy Bar Cookies and added in all the leftover candies! A new addition was topping THIS flaky finishing salt on the cookies after adding a few extra pieces of candy on each cookie right after they come out of the oven.
This cauldron was my October decor find and I absolutely love it!
-I always love to decorate for Halloween! HERE are some of my favorite decor items that I either have or want!
-Liv’s school had spirit week during the last week of October and it was wild. haha Crazy hair day was fun and we did this cute dumpling hairstyle! Dallin was so sweet to help too! We really needed all hands on deck. To get this look you need: a large dumpling case (ours broke and we were still able to use it with some tape!), hair ties, hairspray, hair gel, smoothing hair brush, bun form, large googly eyes, and glitter! Then right after school it was Trick or Treating at Dallin’s work with just one mermaid this time and the rare Olivia dumpling!
-Little Violet lost her FIRST TOOTH!! She is definitely on the young side, but it was loose and was ready to come out. Her adult tooth is already on its way in so it was definitely ready. I cannot believe she is already old enough to lose teeth! She lost it by eating some caramel at Grandma Warners house! haha She was so funny telling everyone the story and how she ate one caramel then ate another one and it had something hard in it and thought caramel doesn’t have bones! So she pulled it out and saw her tooth! When she came running into tell me she was SO excited!! She could not wait for the Tooth Fairy to come and leave glittery money.
-The next day Daniel was so adorable and had to give Vi a little check up even though he was with her when her tooth fell out! haha
-I have loved really getting into Halloween themed meals, mostly dinners this last week of October! We’ve made a Sausage Ravioli Vegetable Soup with halloween themed raviolis, ghost grilled cheese (recipe from Kelsey Nixon) with tomato soup and cheesy eye balls, mummy dogs, monster/zombie mac and cheese, pumpkin quesadillas, apple cider donuts, homemade witches brew rootbeer, and (had planned) chili and cornbread.
-Boo Lights at Utah Hogle Zoo is always so fun! I love seeing how our night changes each year based off what the girls are interested in at that time. They are growing so fast!
-Painting Pumpkins! Liv painted a raccoon of course, and Violet stayed painting long after everyone was gone!
-We searched for some fall leaves at the Temple Quarry at the base of Little Cottonwood canyon, I think we might’ve been a bit early, but it’s always hard to know!
-Found our way through a muddy corn maze and ate the most delicious apple cider donuts (and had lots more fun) at Cross E Ranch!
-Took the long way to Grandma and Grandpa’s cabin and drove the Alpine Loop! It was beautiful! Then went to our favorite little petting zoo, the RunDown Ranch Kids Farm in Oakley. We were so excited to spend the night with Grandma and Grandpa! We had pumpkin shaped pizza from Papa Murphy’s, took a great walk and got to ride in the “granny mobile”, had hot chocolate and cookies while looking at stars on the deck (our favorite cabin tradition!)
-Found all the cute witches at Gardner Village.
-We pulled out the 5T clothes for little V and she LOVES that she has some adorable holiday options thanks to one of my cute friends! She dressed up really cute one day and had to show everyone! haha
-We had the girls friends over for two cookie decorating parties! It was a lot and a lot of fun! Dallin and I made so many cookies that we even had enough to decorate some with both sides of our families! We used my sugar cookie recipe of course and it’s a hit every time.
-My mom helped out with both cookie parties and I thought it was the perfect time to take her to Lone Pine! Our favorite bakery!
-I celebrated my 35th! birthday!! Dallin and I went out for breakfast and it was so fun to have a little day date. We also went to Target where I spent way too much money! Then we met up with some family to have dinner at Bonsai. I love birthdays and it was so special to have such a fun day with some of my favorite people and things: flowers, brownies, and chocolates!
-Our Halloween candy salad was made just in time for Halloween!
-Little Liv chose to be Pink from Descendants this Halloween and she looked so adorable in her costume! Violet chose to be Jasmine with little Rajah too!
-Dallin made a beautiful birthday tea for me the day after my birthday full of the most delicious food. It is always so fun and he fills it with the most amazing food that he plans, bakes and makes himself!
-Halloween is always so much fun! We love to have our traditional Halloween dinner of pork chops and rice with my mom and family at her house then trick or treat in her neighborhood with cousins, aunts and uncles. Then we trick or treat in ours! We have quite the Halloween town in our area so it is extra fun to be in our area Halloween night! There are dance parties, hot chocolate, donuts, fire pits, spooky houses, and more! We love to make donuts and homemade witches brew rootbeer and invite any neighbors over that want to stop by, while the girls sort their candy we watch a short movie. This year we watched Curious George Boo Fest, it was the perfect short movie and super chill and festive!
Worth the Watch:
-This month I read a few great books! I loved reading One True Loves, Great Big Beautiful Life, And Then There Were None, and finishing What On Earth Am I Here For?. I still am not able to get into the Emma M. Lion books... maybe one day. haha I read more books, but other than the last boos mentioned those were the only ones worth mentioning.
Currently Loving:
-We got another set of these silicone spatulas and I’m still in love! Everyone needs a set!
-We got some new seives/strainers and I love that how durable they are and that they don’t have a wooden handle!!
-Always loving new (and old! kids books) I added these to the girls collection-The Pumpkin Thief and The Sun Thief! They are super adorable books and have such a cute story!
-For Mother’s Day this year I got a Vacuum and Mop Roomba and it has honestly changed the cleanliness of my floors. I honestly love it! We’ve named it Buddy and it’s officially part of our family! haha We got ours at Costco for more than the one I linked but THIS one has amazing reviews and is more affordable.
-Prepping for the holidays! I’m sharing a few of the ways I prep for the Holidays on IG too! You can find the ones I’ve shared under my highlight bubble called Holiday HQ.
-The girls and I LOVED our witches potion station that they could play at!
-Violet has been loving her little Rajah stuffy that went with her Jasmine costume for Halloween!
On the Menu:
-We made some easy and delicious ramen with Buldak Ramen, a jammy egg and green onions. Adding more things would make it even more fabulous, we just used what we had!
-My little assistant baker and I made our Pumpkin cupcakes with mini donuts on top! We covered some of the mini donuts in cinnamon sugar and dipped some in a brown sugar icing! We used THIS recipe for the mini donuts and LOVED it!
Fun Finds:
–Bio Ionic Curling Iron 1 inch-wish list item!
-I’ve started Christmas shopping! I found this How To Train Your Dragon book set, and Calvin and Hobbes book set, a Barbie Chelsea Camper, Disney Princess Foil Fun, a Nex Playground is at the top of our list,
–Tarte Tartlette XL tubing mascara-this was a Prime Day find and I absolutely am loving it!
-This Candy Jar Lip Butter Balm Set is SO cute! It has the most fun sents and are mini lip butter balms so perfect to separate and give as gifts!
-OBSESSED with these Christmas finds at Walmart!! The pearl trees (8 inch pearl tree, 10 inch pearl tree) would be so cute for my Merry Mermaid Christmas I’m planning for the Strong Christmas Party this year and the gingerbread house village is just so adorable! I love all things gingerbread!!!
-Dallin and I watched our yearly Harry Potter marathon and I found a bunch of treats and fun finds that are Harry Potter themed!
-I loved finding THESE press on nails! I’ve found that a solid color is the best for me because I like them shorter than their shortest!
-Trunk or Treat with our Under the Sea decorations! We grabbed some under the sea clothes for Liv, Dallin and I that we will use again for the Christmas party. It was so fun to match our themed trunk!
-I found these pumpkin crackers in the deli section at Smith’s and totally love them!
Coming Up:
-THANKSGIVING! I’m not going to go too full into what’s coming up but I always look forward to Thanksgiving day watching the Macey’s Thanksgiving Day Parade! I’m hoping to do a cute set up for my girls for the parade this year. We’ll see!
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