Dakota Village Christmas...

We had a beautifully bright Saturday and took advantage of it, heading to the Dakota County Fairgrounds' Village Christmas. All of the buildings are historical buildings that have been moved to the fairgrounds to make up the village.

(I told Alex we were going to use this one for our Christmas card if he was naughty!)

We went into the church where we sang Christmas carols and on the way out played with the old fashion phone, but look what we found inside:

Alex didn't get the irony, but enjoyed the phone none the less!

At the printing press:

At the post office, Mrs. Claus was there to help the children write letters to Santa:

We went next door to see Santa:

It was a fun day and a beautiful evening, complete with a full moon!

Fastenator...

According to Wikipedia (love it!), a fastenator is a headpiece, a style of hat. Well insert a Martha Stewart wanna-be on a shoe string budget in need of a hat (me) and this is the result:

I loved how it turned out! It cost me $20 to make (with lots of leftovers). I wish I had more places to wear a hat because I would make one in every color!
I wore this to the Christmas Magnolia Luncheon at the Edina Country Club. I cannot wait to our spring luncheon...already planning a spring-like fastenator!

Falling for Fall...

I hosted a fall tag swap, Falling for Fall. Everyone's tags were beautiful, the colors are my fave.


Here are some close-ups:

Here's mine:

I'm working on my next set of tags, it's a White Christmas tag swap. Ready to fill my wreath with them!

Thankful...

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving, but unfortunately only took 3 pictures:

At least they were 3 yummy pictures!

Snow Funny....

We had our first snow of the season. Alex decided that he needed his helmet on to play outside:


He loves headgear!!
BTW, snow melted in two days.

Belt Testing...

It was belt testing time again - still a blue belt, but with a yellow stripe:

Alex was an honor student this testing:

New belt:

Alex noticed that his and dad's black belts are on the wall:

Getting closer and closer to that black belt!

Skateville...

Our Wednesday night church clubs went skating:

Alex had fun and was good (his school had a skating week in gym last year). I loved watching him, but wasn't brave enough to join him (it was crowded!) - maybe next time.

Happy Hayride Halloween...

This year, we spent Halloween with some friends who live in a country neighborhood - we had to have a hayride to take us to the houses since they all sit on an acre or two. It was fun:

Our hayride even had a couch (that's our friend Tim):

We finished off the night warming up at the Lake's house, eating pizza and catching up with old friends. What a fun Halloween!

Pumpkin Carving....

Alex found a cute Iron Man pumpkin decorating kit to put on our white pumpkin:

It got chilly, so we moved the pumpkin carving inside:

Alex got a little bored with the process and hung out with the doggies. Love this picture of he and Daisy cuddling:

The end result:


Spookily cute!

Farmington Halloween...

We went to the Farmington Halloween walk:

We had a great time!
We finished off the night at a local favorite:

Pizza and halloween candy, yum!