A lot of you might know that I have a sister living in Egypt right now. Her boys go to school there. I want to give everyone the opportunity to help out some orphan kids that live there if you can. My sister's son Grey (second grader) is holding a read-a-thon at his school to raise money. The purpose is to raise money for an orphanage that is too small to let the kids go to school every day. They have to take turns going to school, while the others stay at home.
My nephew will read books, and you can sponser him by pledging a certain amount of money for every book/minute that he reads until November 27th. It can be any amount! Anything will help.
Here is the link to my sister's blog to find out more details.
All you need to do is leave a post on this blog with an amount that you are willing to sponser and a phone number if I don't already have one for you. I will contact you after November 27th, and collect the money to send to my sister in Egypt.
This is a great way to serve and it is going for a good cause. Please help out if you can!!!
19.11.10
3.11.10
HALLOWEEN
My friend was giving Aiden a ride home the other day and she asked him what he was going to be for Halloween. His reply, "I don't know, my mom hasn't told me yet."
I laughed so hard when I heard that. We always make homemade costumes every year for Halloween, which means if I have some time, I can make some cool costumes. This year, I felt like I didn't have near enough time because I have been so busy lately. So we decided to have our boys be mummies. Aiden wanted to have a skeleton painted on his face too, so he would be more scary. (no time - sorry Aidey-guy)
The problem with being mummies, we later found out, is that it took forever to wrap up our boys in their mummy gear. After finally getting them all wrapped up, the strips of fabric came falling off after 5 minutes. Pretty soon, it looked real dumb, and I wish I hadn't decided that would be their costume. Plus, the boys hated it. They wanted it off pretty quickly.
Here we are as Mario and Luigi. The hats didn't take me to long to make and the facial hair is just felt. Caleb borrowed these overalls from the neighbor who we've talked to about twice since we've lived here. The guy wears overalls to work everyday, so Caleb thought it would be okay to borrow them from him. Well, he did (I wouldn't go with him) and they were high waters pretty bad. That is why Caleb has the look with his overalls down to the middle of his stomach, cuz he had to lower them as low as they could go. Then he had to wear regular pants underneath too, so he wasn't a nerdy Mario. The nerdy Mario just wasn't the look we were going for.
Caleb would go around saying "Mamma Mia."
So, I whipped up some masks, and vwa-la! We changed their costumes to super-heroes. Cute and fun and easy too.
P.S. My sister made these awesome capes for my boys for Christmas last year!
I laughed so hard when I heard that. We always make homemade costumes every year for Halloween, which means if I have some time, I can make some cool costumes. This year, I felt like I didn't have near enough time because I have been so busy lately. So we decided to have our boys be mummies. Aiden wanted to have a skeleton painted on his face too, so he would be more scary. (no time - sorry Aidey-guy)
The problem with being mummies, we later found out, is that it took forever to wrap up our boys in their mummy gear. After finally getting them all wrapped up, the strips of fabric came falling off after 5 minutes. Pretty soon, it looked real dumb, and I wish I hadn't decided that would be their costume. Plus, the boys hated it. They wanted it off pretty quickly.
Here we are as Mario and Luigi. The hats didn't take me to long to make and the facial hair is just felt. Caleb borrowed these overalls from the neighbor who we've talked to about twice since we've lived here. The guy wears overalls to work everyday, so Caleb thought it would be okay to borrow them from him. Well, he did (I wouldn't go with him) and they were high waters pretty bad. That is why Caleb has the look with his overalls down to the middle of his stomach, cuz he had to lower them as low as they could go. Then he had to wear regular pants underneath too, so he wasn't a nerdy Mario. The nerdy Mario just wasn't the look we were going for.
Caleb would go around saying "Mamma Mia."
So, I whipped up some masks, and vwa-la! We changed their costumes to super-heroes. Cute and fun and easy too.
P.S. My sister made these awesome capes for my boys for Christmas last year!
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