Projects

My mom let me borrow her sewing machine a few months ago and I got busy with a few little projects for my baby girl. I had a ton of fun working on my sewing skills and making cute girly stuff! This little dress is tiny and darling and super easy:I found the pattern here
if anyone is interested in making one-there is a pattern there for bigger babies, too! It seriously took less than an hour to put together! I think I will be making many more!

I also made a carseat canopy:

I love these things! I wish I would have had one for Jackson-he was always kicking the blanket off of his carseat and onto the ground!

I made a couple of "Hooter Hiders":

And flannel blankies:

I have also been working on my hairbow-making skills, but I will wait to post pics of those when there is a sweet, new, little baby to model them!

Halloween

The Stoker Family has never been big "Halloween-ers", in fact we realized this weekend that Seth and I have NEVER once carved pumpkins in 5 Halloweens together! We had no plans to make this year any different until one morning Jackson says to me "Mom, I want to make 3 Jack-O-Lanterns. I want a mad one, a sad one, and a happy one." How could we say no to that? Ultimately, Jackson decided he ONLY wanted a happy Jack-O-Lantern. And we had a great time carving our first pumpkin together as a family:

Jackson was a monkey again this year (since his costume still fit)!

Mommy was a spooky witch

And daddy was "Big Daddy Dollas" according to the tag on his Goodwill costume!