Trunk or Treat Was A Blast

Our 1st Annual Trunk or Treat was a blast. The newspaper put the wrong date but that's ok. We still had a load of fun.

JT and I dressed up more than everyone else but Halloween is like Christmas for us, not to mention the first holiday we ever spent together. This year I went as a witch and my hubby was a dead fireman.

I didn't care too much for my truck but JT's truck had people stopping and taking pictures which made me feel great. Next year I won't go scary because some of the little kids were scared to come up to us and get candy.

Next year we are going to really do it up since we have so much more time to plan for it. We thought we had enough candy.

We ended up having to go back to the store and buying candy from the gas stations. The guy was like "Really" when I put the 2 boxes of suckers and 2 boxes of air heads on the counter and I was like "Yes, Really."

All in all it was a success and we were lucky enough not to come home with any of the homemade goodies I made for the cake walk.

Now it's time to start crafting for Winter Festival.

My Kids

This is my family, well minus Daddy who is taking the picture. I brought 4 kids to this marriage and my husband brought 2 but for us, we have 6 children. It's funny really because when I was a little girl I always said that I wanted to be a wife and a mother when I grew up but somewhere along the way I decided I didn't want any children but instead wanted a life in a busy place like New York living the good life (at least that's what I thought back then).

My first marriage didn't work nor did my husband's first marriage. I guess that's a good thing for us considering we were each other's first loves and we dated in high school lol. I will be the first to admit that at times a blended family is the hardest thing in the world to have. Besides dealing with sometimes unreasonable ex-spouses, we also have to deal with children who are use to doing things one way and us all having to adapt to one another. We have taken it in stride and are doing alright in my opinion.

After my 4th child I had my tubes tied. After my husbad's 1st child he had the snip snip. Yes, I said he brought 2 children to our marriage. Our current baby was a total shock but an amazing little guy to say the least. One thing I have always regretted is not having a child with my husband and he has the same regret.

There are people who have rude things to say about the size of our family, they make assumptions that we are Mormon (nothing wrong with LDS) or that we adopted or that we are plain crazy so imagine what they are saying now that we are wanting to have reversals and add to our family?

You guessed it, "What the heck is wrong with you guys?" People think having a large family has got to be the worst thing ever. I mean really, everything must be total chaos but it so the opposite. Having a large family is the most amazing thing ever. You have 6 individuals who all have different personalities, different talents, they each are unique in their own way. In addition, it actually is much easier. We have the best times as a family. We play hard, we work hard, we talk through our issues and there is so much love to give one another that our house is overflowing with love.

Don't get me wrong, we have our challenges, our children butt heads, argue, disagree, challenge one another, it's not sunny all the time but like New Edition asks "Can you stand the rain"? and I can say that our family has learned to make it through the storms, take things in stride and make the best of it because we all understand that on the other side of this hurdle is a huge breakthrough and blessing from God.

There was a time I said I was done having kids and that I didn't want to deal with kids and now I want a job where I am around kids all the time. I want to add more children to this family and not that I want to be 19 and counting but I will be satisfied with whatever number God allows us after our success surgeries.

The Invention Of The Cake Walk

What is a cake walk you ask? There are numbers taped to the floor, there is a DJ who starts and stops the music. The concept is similar to musical chairs with a twist. When the music stops, everyone stops on a number. The DJ pulls a random number and the person standing on that number gets to go to a table filled with homemade goodies for their choice of which cake they want to take home. But how did the cake walk start?


According to Wikepedia, the cake walk started back during Civil War times where African American couples strutted their stuff on the dance floor and which ever couple strutted it the best won a prize of a cake.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cakewalk

In today's times cake walks are done at all kinds of social events. We did one at our family reunion on my mother's mother's side of the family.

(that's my granny in the black jeans)

Cake walks are done at church functions, small town events, carnivals and we will be having a cake walk as well. I have no idea how much I was suppose to make or who was bringing what. The things I do know is when I get done with this blog I have to get busy. Last night I made the following:


3 funfetti cakes
1 double fudge cake
2 butter pecan cakes
2 yellow butter cakes
1 pound cake
2 loaves of pumpkin bread
1 loaf of banana bread (minus the nuts since it's for kids)
2 batches of sugar cookies
1 batch of peanut butter cookies
1 batch of pumpkin spice cookies
1 batch of oatmeal cookies (plus one batch with raisins for Daddy)
20 strawberry cupcakes

So now it's time to make icing, drizzle and decorate the cookies, cakes and cupcakes. Did I tell you I love living in a small town?

First Aid

On Monday I will be in Dallas for the entire day. I have decided that I need to take a CPR and First Aid class. This won't be just for adults but for children too. I think it is a great idea for anyone. Of course I have plans to use my new found certification and hopefully gain some employment. Since we are also part of the fire department I felt it would be beneficial as well. I am hoping to work at one of the daycares around here when I am done since that means no nights or weekends and who better to work there than someone who can handle an emergency well and also a mother of 6 children? lol

Trunk or Treat

My husband and I, along with my mother in law, father in law, grandmother in law, aunt in law, uncle in law and cousin in law, are all members of our town's volunteer fire department. I just joined and wish that I had much sooner than now. I am part of both the fire department and the ladies auxilary. This year, along with the First Baptist Church are hosting our first annual trunk or treat. Since we have two vehicles we will be decorating both of our vehicles.

I drive a white SUV and my husband a black Dodge Dakota. I am dressing up as a witch and am hanging black shredded trash bags inside my truck and covering my windows. I will be taking out my 3rd row seats and having a strobe light going on the inside. I am also going to have a full moon hanging along with bats and a black cat.

We are going to do my husband's truck with a huge coffin I made out of a treadmill box along with a scary guy sitting on a chair next to my hubbs who I am going to do his makeup and make him look dead.I am also going to do some other head stones but I am def going to have to make another trip to town for more spray paint lol.

We bought some yummy candy along with things that kids with braces can eat, since we deal with this one at our own house. In addition, we are having a cake walk so I have my kitchen table full of things to make cookies, cupcakes, breads and cakes.

I love Halloween almost as much as I love Christmas, which reminds me, I also bought our stockings for this year and a nutcracker that's a fireman. Good looking out Bryan.

last weekend my mom did their annual haunted hayride and I did some cakes, cupcakes and cookies for that as well.

Happy Halloween!

This year we are going to my cousin's annual Halloween party for the kids, at least it is suppose to be, lol. This is the first year that we are going minus 4 of the 6 pack this weekend. Of course I am making sweets.

So far we have cupcakes, a pumpkin cake covered in fondant with mini pumpkins around it, an entire sheet cake that will be a graveyard, molded candies and I am making a special spice cake with pecan drizzle for my aunt and my grandmother.

I have missed being in the kitchen and still fell like I can't manage to get it all done, lol. That's usually how this always goes. The good thing is I have our costumes together.

JT and the boys are going as something scary. JT is a flying grim reaper, Bry is going as dead lady liberty and Nick is going as Dracula. I on the other hand wanted to be a fairy but wanted to step outside of my own comfort level and am going as a gothic fairy complete with this crazy looking purple and black tutu (yes for a grown woman, lol. It's Halloween).

I wish that my baby sister was bringing my niece but I have to respect her decisions as to why she is not and support her even if I want to see them.

I'll post pics soon.