Halloween Prep!

Halloween is coming up!

And I have already started planning preparations for it. Well, just the costumes really. And probably a good thing too!

Chrispy wants to be a Zombie Hunter and be able to use his gear that he's bought.

I am going to be a pumpkin, or my tummy will be.

Christian wants to be Aang from Avatar: The Last Airbender (picture below)

We still have to buy Christian's costume. Unfortunately I'm am not skilled enough to make the animated shows clothes and will have to deal with the movie version. We will not be shaving his head but give him a close buzz with the clippers and put a blue arrow on his head/neck.

Nayeli wants to be Princess Celestia (the white-winged unicorn in pic below) from the new My Little Pony.

This is the progress so far...

Multicolored yarn wig (not yet finished) and I do realize the colors are very light but too late now.

White dress to which I'll add a sun on the hip.

Clay-made ears and horn which I'll glue to a head band or something.

I also have gold shoes and white wings.

I plan to paint Nayeli's fingernails gold and make the gold crown and maybe necklace.

I'm probably doing too much for this but I like a challenge now and then.

Slowly But Surely

Our house is slowly making it's return from a disorganized mess into a house of order and use.

Like I said before Chrispy and my Dad have worked on our master bathroom.

 It may not look like much but before the backer board wasn't up, the lights above the shower and tub weren't compatible for the the moisture it would take and had to be replaced, and there was insulation showing out of the now mud covered walls. It's a leap trust me!

And they also fixed the shelving in our master closet and Chrispy has organized it very well to include our food storage, clothes and other random stuff. I don't have a picture cuz the closet is basically an organized crowded hallway and I see it pointless to show it.

 It's still not perfect but at least those of you who HAVE seen the mess it was before, you would agree its much better too.

Before we had a ton of shoes just lying on the wooden floor nest to the front door. For a while we were looking into shoe racks when last night I looked at this shoe rack that Chrispy has had since before we married and was barely holding anything. We are hoping this is a permanent fix.

Even have the kids names labeled where their shoes are.

We're slowly getting there, but we'll get there.

Pregnancy # 3

 24 weeks/6 months

Tehya is doing good. The amniotic fluid is normal and she's making her Mama fat and awkward. Chris and I have also seen her kick so much it makes my belly dance. I can now definitely feel her kicking when I walk. Bending over and getting up is making me sound like my dad and/or like that witch from Dark Crystal. I can often distinguish where the womb is in my belly, especially during a braxton hicks or when it firms up out of nowhere, which I classified as braxton hicks. I do believe I'm having a harder time sleeping these days, or at least staying asleep from uncomfortable moments, though the only stuff that really bothers me is my lower back (big surprise) and my right knee which has become stiff now and again.

Now as for these t-shirts below...while I was shopping for things for Halloween costumes I realized that there are some pregnancy shirts I'm outgrowing and I wanted new ones but not spending a whole lot, and came across these make-your-own shirts at Walmart and found out they fit and probably will fit for a while. I got some shirts for a low prize and some fabric paint and looked up funny pregnancy shirts online.

This is what I have so far:

Light pink shirt

"Yes. I'm Preggo. It's A Girl. I'm Due In January."

I've worn this already and women have asked me if I get asked a lot, or I'm tired of being asked, but smile at the words nonetheless.

Made this the other night and haven't worn it.

I still have a purple and orange shirt to decorate.

Oh and the only "craving" I've really had was Matta's Mexican Pizza. I've had it twice within the past month or so and to save ourselves money, gas, and time, I decided to learn to make it.

Used:
tortilla
ground turkey (although Matta's uses beef)
onion
tomato
shredded cheese blend (not sure what Matta's uses)
green chili
Spices: cumin and chili powder
I'd give measurements if I had them. But I cooked 1lb of ground turkey, diced onion, chili powder, and cumin. After eating a Matta's pizza recently I found out that it smells strongly of cumin so I added cumin in addition to what the chili powder already offered. After the meat was cooked through and smelled good, the cumin not too overpowering, I turned off the burner and set it aside. I cut up a tomato (took off the seeds), heated up our toaster oven to 425 F on bake, mixed the diced tomatoes in with the beef mixture, put the tortilla on a flat cooking sheet, put on the beef mix, added the cheese, put it in the toaster oven and waited till the cheese melted and the tortilla was crispy on the edges!
I don't know if it's perfectly close to Matta's but I'd say I got close.

Work Worn

I don't know about you but sometimes I don't realize how hard a UPS driver works.

You see them drive around with open or closed driver doors in brown trucks stopping in places to drop off or pick up packages. But do you realize that they drive in a poorly cooled truck for 8-12 hours, lifting those variously weighted packages ranging from a padded envelope to a hundred pounds (give or take), dealing with people (in, out, of cars and homes) and sometimes their pets, wearing out their shoes within months?

This picture shows the same type of shoe. He bought two of the same type of shoes around six months ago. On the Left is how they look after just months of driving and delivering. On the right is a shoe he hasn't yet worn to work. It just amazes me how much of the bottom of the shoe has worn off.

Karate

Christian and Nayeli in Karate

The karate class

Warming up

Stretching

Practicing a new move

Nayeli in her karate uniform: Karate Gi

Christian in his Gi

The back: Young Champions U.S.A

Another move they practiced and Christian showing off. *Hee hee*

These kids have a lot to learn about paying attention and being respectful of this class though. And I may have to separate the two during the class as well. But good thing is Chrispy got to see the class and got a little more excited about them in the class and helping them learn. Even helped out during the class itself. I have video of the kids attacking the body shields they had and the battery on the camera was dying so that's why there wasn't that many more pictures after a certain point.

Park Play!

With good weather comes good play time!

Look at how far up Nayeli went!

Chris was shaking the teeter, making them laugh.

Christian was catching the high shooting fountain! I kept telling him to catch it and he'd get wet each time! Too funny!

Chris doing underdog with Christian.

Stretching...?

Relaxing...?

Pushing Nayeli and she yelled, "Cannonball!" Don't know who taught her that.

Like father like son.

 And Chris showing off.

Funny Photos

These are the result of your husband being careless with the family camera when the kids get a hold of it.

Christian

Nayeli

Chloe