SANTA! Oh My Gosh! SANTA'S COMING ! ! !

Yes.

I am one of those people. You know the ones... The ones that get way too excited for Christmas, way too early. Yep, that's me! 

I think that fact that i have to order Christmas gifts super early due to being overseas and all just makes it worse.

This year we will be introducing a reindeer to the kids... Kind of like the whole Elf on The Shelf thing but way cheaper. I just couldn't bring myself to spend $30 on a doll, so instead I found this cute $6 reindeer.



I plan on doing all the same things with this as you could do with the elf.

There are only 43 Days until Christmas and me and Lilly watch at least one Christmas movie a day thanks to Netflix. Here are some of our favorite holiday movies.

• National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
• A Christmas Story
• The Grinch Who Stole Christmas
• Polar Express
• Elf
• Home Alone
• The Santa Clause
• Jingle All The Way
• Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
• Frosty The Snowman
• A Charlie Brown Christmas
• Mickey's Christmas Carol
• Santa Claus is Coming to Town
• Miracle on 34th Street
• Christmas with the Kranks

The list could go on an on. I promise not to post about Christmas again until after Thanksgiving.

30 Days Of Thanks . . . Week One

Happy NOVEMBER!

In honor of thanksgiving at the end of the month, I've decided to participate in the 30 Days of Thanks challenge via Instagram. So here goes nothing.

Top to Bottom : Left to Right

I'm Thankful for...

1. My husband, who loves an supports us every minute of everyday

2. My children, who are so beautiful and healthy

3. The opportunities I've had to see new and amazing places

4. My Green Bay Packers

5. My friends, both past and present through the good times and bad.

6. My family, those with us and those passed. They helped shape me into the person I am today.

&

7. The Internet, for keeping me connected to my friends and family both near and far.

Mommy Monday - October 2013

It was a nice month for our family. Mr W was working the day shift so he was home every night with us and the kids had a blast with all the fall/Halloween events that happened this month.

Age: 3 years

Height: 3ft 3in

Weight: about 35lbs

Favorite Food: Corndogs

Favorite Fruit: Apples

Favorite Movie: Ratatouille 

Favorite TV Show: Lazy Town

Other: Lilly had a fun month. It was a pretty eventful month. she had a sleep over and went trick or treating. She's been a little stir crazy though, due to the sudden abundance of rain. Over all she it was a good month for her.

Age: 11 Months

Height: 2ft 4in

Weight: about 19 lbs

Diapers: size 3

Eats: 3-4 8oz. bottles a day. Plus 1-2 jars of food and some regular food too

Favorite Food: Macaroni and Cheese

Other: Logan is getting SO big! he is crawling and sitting and playing and climbing and standing! He even got to celebrate his first Halloween! he ate a lot of lollipops and even a few chocolate bars. He likes to play with his sisters stuff more than his own but what younger sibling doesn't?

See you all in November!

Caution! Monster Crossing

This was our first year doing Halloween in Italy and it was nice....for the most part.

I'd heard rumors about how crazy trick or treating gets on Halloween (because Garrison lets the Italians into housing in order to be hospitable and make nice with the locals) but I though people were just exaggerating, but no... they go NUTS! There had to be a couple thousand people here. We ran out of candy in 15 MINUTES!!!

But That is okay because the USO did a very nice Trunk n Treat with games and food and other activities and some people on the housing development organized a Pre-Trick or treat for the younger kids and did a great job it was nice to have some alternatives to avoid the rush and crowds.

This was also Logan's First Halloween and his favorite candy this year was the suckers and Lilly just loved everything you gave her.  They were dressed up as Mike and Sulley, from Monsters Inc. Lillly had so much fun helping me carve the pumpkins and decorate our house. and she even helped me hand out some candy today!

And now that Halloween is over for us my little skeleton friends are saying goodbye until next year. I'm not sure if i'll find anything small to use for November, but I've already got my December theme picked out! 

Happy Halloween Everyone!

Stay Safe and Have fun!

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The Great Birthday Battle

So Mr.W and I are having a slight argument on the matter of Logan's first birthday.
Mr.W says that its a waste of time and money, because he won't remember it anyways. I say that its not a waste because of the wonderful memories that will come from it, besides I'm just planning something small.
(keep in mind that Lilly had a first birthday party)

as some of you know I posted about this on my personal facebook page and a lot of people agreed with me. But the way I see it the party is happening either way :)

So I wanted to give everyone a sneak peek at what i have planned so far...

Mr.W has chosen a football theme and here is what I've come up with so far...

Invitation:
Idea:

Final Product:

Tableware:

Food:

Cake:

(Just an idea)

To see more ideas make sure to visit my pinterest page and look at my birthday board.

Chocolate & Horses & Wine . . . Oh My!

It has been a pretty busy month so far, and its only halfway over!

We have attended 2 birthday celebrations,

carved 1 pumpkin,

ordered 2 Halloween costumes,

tried 2 new wines,

and had a lot of family time.

The first of the 2 birthdays was to celebrate the Military Police Corps. 

And the second was our next door neighbors birthday. It was held at a local ranch and they let everyone ride horses. It was Lilly's first time riding one and Logan's first time seeing one. She was all smiles about it and Logan wanted to see them but was nervous about their size.

That same day, our friends took us to a local winery and we sampled some wines and I got myself 3 bottles (Marzamino, Moscato dolci, and Fragolina Rosa) after that the took us to their favorite restaurant, which just might be one of our new favorites as well!

Then the other night our friends came over again and we carved our pumpkins, made cinnamon sugar roasted pumpkin seeds, drank wine and watched a couple Halloween movies. Now that sounds like a perfect fall night to me.

Today, We attended Cioccolandovi, The chocolate festival in downtown Vicenza. It was amazing to see all the things they had done with chocolate. We got to sample some and even bought some. We got Lilly a truffle with sprinkles, I got a chocolate cover orange slice, and got a big chocolate bar that he was nice enough to share (it was AMAZING) and we got Lilly a chocolate Rapunzel (see bottom right photo)

Everything above is made of chocolate

Its been a great month so far and I can't wait to see what the rest of the month brings!

Skelegram

So this month on Instagram I'm doing skelegram a for Halloween. So every picture I post has a little skeleton in it. 

If you'd like to join the fun find you skeletons, ghost, pumpkin or whatever other Halloween themed item you'd like just make sure to tag me @kwaye23.