Halloween

Well I'm just about ready to start back to blogging again. The house is almost completely moved into. However there is just one huge room holding us back from total contentment here in Pittsburgh. But more on that nightmare later. For now let's share some Halloween fun. I have really been enjoying reading everyones Halloween posts and I love the creativity of all the costumes out there especially the handmade ones ;) So here are this years costumes:

the littlest was a billy goat:

the older two went with a Wizard of Oz theme:


We really had fun decorating the house for our first official holiday here...

And for day of the dead we honored our loved ones with potato soup (for Kurt) and homemade peanut butter cups (for Nanny Nan). The girls made sugar skulls at the children's museum and we saw a shadow puppet play performed by a wonderful Spanish immersion school for the occasion.

The girls enjoyed serving up the dishes on our altar. I like Day of the Dead so much because it's not celebrating the day your loved one was born or the day when they died it's celebrating their life and their memory. It's a great excuse to take a sweet melancholy trip down memory lane.

All in all I'd say it was a nice weekend. I hope yours was too.
See you soon!

Newsflash!

OK, let's get right in to it...

M1 painted this while she visited the Waldorf School of Pittsburgh last month

We are OFFICIALLY moving to Pittsburgh!!!!

At this moment we are planning the move and busy organizing all of our masses of junk.
I really want to take some picture of each room here nice a clean before I pack them up, that's how I'd like to remember this house- yes, I'm rewriting history just a tad- so what?!
My plan is to only box up the things in each room that we need and love. Then we will load the boxes on the truck and everything that remains in the rooms will head down to the 1st floor to a massive moving sale. Look out for that sometime in late-June/earlyJuly. Everything that remains will head to the Salvation Army and then we're off. (And I'll be wearing a huge flower on the side of my head saying things like "Honey, STop the foolishness!" the whole time:)

Enough about cleaning house, there will be plenty of that to come. For now, let's think back on the fun month we had here in Lumpkin Land. And let's do it with a whirlwind of photographs because I'm too tired/lazy to write too much about it.

I knit...
One measly sweater for the month of April. "Mapping", features Cosy's yarn, fits size up to 7-8.

and
some doll sweaters for my imaginary dolls
Both feature Rachel-Marie's hand dyed yarns




The little one played peekaboo...

The bigger one splashed in the sun...

a heat wave always brings out the wading pool.

The biggest one got her hair chopped...

12" headed to Locks of Love

Most of us gardened...

things are sprouting up already!

and We ALL raced...

April was fun.

I'll try to break May into smaller chunks;)

See you sooner...