Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Brooks

 Man. I was so on top of this blogging thing a few months back. I had caught up, and was posting weekly (sort of). I have failed again. I did not post for a little over two months. Way to go, Aubrey. Huh, I'm going to briefly go over what happened in each month. (Oh, and if you didn't already read it, go look at the post before this, it's about our cute little Brooks)

September passed and we came to October. The month went by very quickly. Let's just say it wasn't one of the most exciting months that we had had that year. We decorated for fall and put out our cobwebs, and signs.We bought our candy and spread it out for a little bit of sweet decoration. We also got out costumes. I guess, this was where the month picked up. I was a Greek goddess, Walker was a ninja (for the third year in a row), Maverick was a skeleton, Ainsley was a vampire, and Bode was an Angry Bird. Which he was very proud of. Ainsley was also proud of her costume. At first when we asked her what she wanted to be that year, she said a flower. She quickly changed her mind to a vampire. But not just any vampire, a very creepy, scary, and freaky vampire. I had been a vampire a couple years back, so we decided to just use that costume. But it was too big, so Mom decided that she was going to pin it and hem it. We didn't have many pins, so Mom had to go to the store. Ainsley really wanted her costume finished, so she asked every single day for Mom to get it done. It got annoying really quickly. But, on Halloween we had a lot of fun. A couple nights before, we went to the church's Trunk or Treat and got a bunch of candy. So, it was even more fun to get more candy. We went trick or treating for thirty minutes before we called it a day.

Halloween passed and Thanksgiving came. Thanksgiving took a lot of planning. Especially, because we had a newborn baby. My Grandma Clark came down to help with the baby so therefore, she would be help in making Thanksgiving come peacefully to our home. We decided that we were going to make a homemade centerpiece. The Mayflower. We cut out some cardboard in the shape of a boat and painted all of it brown (we ran to Michael's to get our craft supplies). We then got a different cardboard box, cut it to fit in the boat, then covered it with wet brown construction paper. We made three little holes in the box. Before we did that step, we cut out different fall colored construction paper, punched two holes in it and stuck a straw in (we taped it so it wouldn't move). It made a great centerpiece:

We also made cute watercolor leaves which you can see in the above picture. (sorry for it being blurry) Everybody watercolor painted fall colors onto sheets of computer paper. Even Bode helped with the project. We let it dry, then drew leaves onto the papers. We cut them out and voila! We were done with the leaves. Also, we made cute pieces of paper that said 'Thankful For' on them that were then folded to hold a gold napkin and out silverware. Now for the cooking. We made lots of food. We made green bean casserole, seven layer dip, deviled eggs, orange rolls, turkey ( of course ), pies, and a lot more. A cute thing that we made was found on Pinterest. Pilgrim hats!

It was Reeses peanut butter cup miniatures, oreos, and icing. They were fun and very easy to make. Everything for Thanksgiving, turned out really nice. We played outside and ate lots of food. Now, it's time for Christmas!