Halloween and... Snow?

Okay, I know that those two things are not usually in the same sentence in most parts of the world.  But here, they definitely are!!!  There is probably a good foot and a half of snow outside so I was searching online for WARM Halloween costumes!  Sierra wanted to be a fairy princess. I told her fine, but you have to wear thermal underwear and sweat pants underneath your costume.  Wouldn't you know, she turned up her nose, so we looked for sweatsuit type costumes.

 

Here are the girls costumes this year! They are too cute and definitely will be warm! We are only planning on trick or treating a few blocks and then heading over to the chapel for their Fall Harvest Party - inside!

 

Karis wanted to be a Care Bear - so all her sisters wanted to be Care Bears too. No problem, right? WRONG! They only make Care Bear costumes up to 3T - unless you want the 'Sexy Adult Care Bear'  Think Playboy bunny with a Care Bear on it! Um, no, not for my 5 year old!!  So I just got her this cute little lady bug!

 

Ruby wanted to be a bunny. Um, yeah, what is with Halloween costume makers!!! I type in Bunny costume on ebay and a huge list of PLAYBOY bunnies pop up!!! AGGGHHHH!!!  So I added '5T' hoping to get more 'kid friendly' costumes.  There were a bunch, this one was pink, so of course she loved it!

 

 

And Sierra has really been into Monkeys lately.  She wanted Monkey sheets and pillows for her new bed, she wants Monkey shirts she sees, anything Monkey she loves.  So this is Sierra:

 

And of course they'll be wearing thermal underwear and clothes underneath!!! Don't worry, they won't be too hot!

 

Because this is what our DRIVEWAY looked like last night before Dustin shoveled it! Yep, that would be about 1.5 feet of snow!

The girls were all bundled up - and Karis was so funny. She reminded me of Ralphy's brother on A Christmas Story.  She fell down and just layed there yelling because she couldn't get back up! LOL!

 

And this is them all bundled up before they went outside. They were complaining they were hot!! LOL! I told them JUST WAIT until you get outside (it was 10 degrees).  So Karis lasted all of about 10 min outside, Ruby came in about 5 minutes after Karis and Sierra actually stayed out there until Daddy was done shoveling the driveway.

Taking a Break

Well, I didn't get anything house wise done today.  And I'm sure the Grandma's are tired of seeing pictures of the house... its been awhile since I posted pics of the girls.  Its been snowing a little bit the last few days, leaving an inch or so behind. The last week we've gotten about 5 inches.  And today its been a light snow pretty much all day long... supposed to get 3 inches by tonight.  So we went outside to play in the snow (the girls were driving me nuts!!)  We'll see how fast they get tired of the snow! LOL! 

The dreaded toy room

So we got the bookcases together and the books on it. I'm going to put the scrapbooks on the empty shelves as soon as I dig them out of a box in my scraproom.

And next - I did it! I went downstairs and after much flipping out (because I hadn't been down there in a few days and you seriously could not see the floor because they had dumped every toy, crayon, bead, etc) - I started sorting through the mess... and I sorted, and sorted, and sorted some more.

The girls had taken every Little People set they own out of the box, so I made them find all the pieces (except two... but they've gotta be around somewhere!) and put them back in the respective boxes and they got to choose two to keep out. Then I put the shelves together, sorted out the toy drawers, put the books on the bookshelf, barbie stuff in the barbie house, etc...

And three hours later, this is what it looks like

Now... I guess I'm going to have to start going through the boxes in my scraproom!

Day... whatever!

AGGGGHHHH!!!! I'm so tired of the mess!!!! It seems like I get one room done, and the girls have trashed another, so then I straighten up that one, and then we fill it up with stuff again!

We spent about $400 in Fairbanks yesterday on bookshelves, computer chairs, a carpet for the playroom, and shelving for the girls closets. Which means instead of spending the weekend putting our stuff away, we spent it putting together the storage so we can put our stuff on it. Needless to say, we haven't been able to clean because we've made a bigger mess putting the stuff up! ACK!

And I'm tired, and my back hurts, and I'm tired... so we got the shelves up in the closets (but I'm not taking pictures because we've already put junk on the shelves!) We got both the computer chairs put together (one for the scraproom) and one of the bookshelves... Dustin is putting the other one together as I blog... hehehehe!

And look what my lovely husband did today as I was totally unmotivated to do anything but cook! LOL! Seriously, we had breakfast and lunch and I did the dishes, but I didn't want to leave the kitchen today!

Here is our master bedroom. Now, I know the before picture doesn't really look that bad, but TRUST ME!! Over the last few days it was a 'catch all' room and you couldn't see the floor, much less get into the closet. I crawled over clothes and linens to get to bed and have been wearing jamas out of my dresser as I couldn't get to my closet to find real clothes!

And now...

My closet... seriously, you couldn't even get in here before! And the clothes were on the floor in the bedroom, not hung all nice. The only thing I had to listen to from my husband was "You have way too many clothes, and look at all these shoes!!! You cannot possibly need this many shoes!! Why don't we get rid of some!" LOL! You'd think he'd learn after how many moves... and I've actually downsized my clothes and shoes!

And the master bath - which has been done since we got in the house, but this is what it looks like :)

Day 2 Progress

So Wednesday night, since I slaved over the kitchen all day long, I made Dustin do the living room!  Plus, he wanted to hook up his TV, and xBox, and Playstation... and everything else! So the room with the TV in it was a priority for him!  Remember what it looked like before:

Hey, I think he had it pretty easy compared to the job I had with the kitchen. Especially since the clothes were just thrown in the girls' closets and whatever else didn't go in the room was put in the office for me to do the next day! MEN!

The girls are happy to have their TV back as well! LOL!

See the snow outside the window...

This is what it looks like from the front porch - we have about 4 inches and its still snowing lightly outside.

And then yesterday I got some of the office done too! I was tired of sitting on the floor to get to the computer!  Before:

Off to the right (not in the picture) there is still a large pile of books.  I think they were packed in a box in our basement, we're going to buy bookshelves to put them in. Oh and it turns out they broke the computer chair... so we have to buy another one this weekend.

I also did the girls closets last night and separated all the clothes into summer, winter, and by sizes (somewhat). And we were able to put their clothes in their closets!  Ruby and Karis' room before:

Now... matching princess quilts and the dresser is moved to the wall on the left.

Next job is Sierra's room and the master bedroom... I've semi-started the scraproom, but I'm not taking any pictures of the mess yet!! And I'm dreading the toy room... its worse than a few days ago as they've basically dumped every box of toys onto the floor!

Day 1: Kitchen

So remember a few weeks ago when we first moved in:

And then yesterday it was this:

Well, after about 5 hours today, it now looks like this!

My back hurts, I'm done for the day... will work on a room tomorrow!