What's on Julie's Phone?

So if you haven't heard of Jessica from The Lowe Family News or HunDuddle Hussy go check her out now! This chic is super funny!

Anywho, she has started a new linky party called What's on Jessica's Phone Tuesdays! So I'm sharing mine and linking up here

Let's go from oldest to newest, shall we!

Back in August Brinley went to her first Rodeo with her girl scout troop! It looks like Gabby is trying to eat her face!



Brinley's 7th birthday was also in August!



In August the new 31 catalog and Holiday Guide came out and this is me modeling one of the new goodies! (Wow I really need to clean out my pics!)



Sometimes I babysit my 1st niece from my side of the fam. This pic is off Hadley and my 1st great niece Hylee having a play date!



Do you remember the bobcat from this post? Well we caught one of it's friends!



Brinley got a black eye playing at a friends house. My kids are super clumsy! She did this in the midst of a marshmallow fight! *Sorry Margy, I had to add it!



Here a few in a series of 20 or so pics that Maddy took of herself when she wasn't supposed to be playing with my phone!






Gibby is the chillest kid you'll ever meet! She loves to just sit back and listen to her ipod!



This is one of my favorites simply because it's so special! This is my dear friend Liz and her daughter walking in the Komen Dallas Race for the Cure 5k in October! We walked in honor of her! If you've never been involved in one of these events I highly recommend that you do it at least once! The feeling of love and hope is just amazing! I can't wait to do it again next year!



Some of the tombstones from our graveyard that we put up every year for our Halloween party! We made these a few years back and I still love them!




The hat I made for Aaron's costume.



Brinley doing the Gravity Ropes at Main Event for the 1st time!



The girls playing with the Halloween makeup! So funny!





Halloween!



And Maddy playing with my phone again last night!



I hope that I didn't bore you to much! I'll be linking up again next week and you should too! It's pretty fun to see what you've snapped with your phone! :)

Halloween Festivities!

Okay, so I was in a hurry and didn't get all of the pics that I wanted. So you'll have to excuse the silly pics of my husband as the Mad Hatter. They were taken by others and I wasn't around to make sure that he was smiling!

We will start a with picture from the Fall meet and greet at Bright Elementary.



Then we have a couple from our Annual Halloween Party! I forgot to take pictures so these were all stolen from Facebook!

Maddy as the White Queen ( minus her wig and crown )!


Hadley as a punk rocker!


Me as the Cheshire Cat!


Aaron as the Mad Hatter!


Mad Hatter got lots of attention!


Now on to the Trick or Treating! We stayed in our neighborhood this year and walked with friends! We had a great time!

The Lollar Girls!


Brinley as Alice!


Gibby as a Fire Fighter!


Maddy as Aurora!


The girls with daddy!


Off to Trick or Treat!


I hope that everyone had a fun and safe Halloween! We really enjoyed it! :)

Mad Hatter Part 1 - The Hat

Hi friends. Long time no see right? I apologize for being gone so long. I still haven't fixed my camera and let's face it the best part of my posts are the pics!

Anywho, We are gearing up for Halloween and our Annual Halloween Party around here. So I thought that I might share our costumes! This post is dedicated to my husbands Mad Hatter costume. The Hat in particular. I followed this awesome tutorial from Thread Banger!



I had to make a few adjustments but overall it was very easy to follow. *Just make sure that you cut your fabric on the bias and you bring your patience! ;)

The Supply List
* Sewing Machine
* Scissors
* Glue Gun and Glue Sticks
* Spray Adhesive
* Spray Paint
* Lighter
* Marker
* Tailors Chalk
* Heavy Gauge Wire
* Tape
* Poster Board
* Foam Board or Card Board
* Textured Fabric
* Coral Fabric
* Hat Pins
* Feathers
* Heavy Card Stock

Here are some pictures of steps that I took. There are a few missing like making the hat pins and hat band. I must have spaced on those. The pictures aren't the best quality because I had to use my iPhone. Anyways, it was really fun to make and I'll post the rest of the costume once I'm finished with some minor details! :)

The First Step - Cut the poster board and foam board to size and attach together using tape and a glue gun. * Refer to tutorial for measurements!



The Second Step - Cut fabric to size. * Make sure to cut on the bias! Start hot gluing around the top and fold fabric in when your edges meet. * Again refer to tutorial for more details! ;)



The Third Step - Pull the fabric down into the poster board shaft tight and hot glue or staple it in. All the way around. * This part takes lots of patience and you may have to start over a couple of times! This is how I found out that I prefer to use staples!* Again refer to tutorial! :)



The Fourth Step - *Sorry, no photo! Cut a piece of fabric the same size as that top and glue it down. * I used spray adhesive but you can use hot glue if you like!

The Fifth Step - Trace a circle onto to another piece of fabric around the bottom of the hat. Cut a circle out of the center and then cut slits to the edge of the circle that you traced. Cut a piece of heavy wire and and form a large circle. * refer to tutorial for measurements! ;)

* Notice that my fabric isn't the most gorgeous? No worries! I chose it for the raised texture that it had. I got it off the clearance racks at JoAnn's. The colors don't matter because I'll be painting it! ;)



The Sixth Step - Hot Glue the slits to the inside of the bottom of the hat. Then pin your wire into place around the brim. Sew into place and cut off any excess fabric.



The Seventh Step - Spray paint if you chose to. I used layers of dark green, black and gold.



The Eighth Step - Make your accessories! I made hat pins, a coral colored hat band and the famous style tag! I also cut down some peacock feathers! Then attach them to your hat!









For my first attempt at making a hat I think that it turned out pretty darn good and Aaron's going to make a great Mad Hatter!

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I'm Still Here!

I'm still here! For some reason I can't get my pictures to download! Hmmmm.... Anyways, that's why I haven't posted since last Tuesday! As soon as the Hubby gets home I'm gonna have him figure it out!

On to other things now! We went to Sea World over the weekend with Brinley's Girl Scout Troop! We had a blast and Brin's troop got to sleep over. They slept next to the Shark Tank! How cool is that! We took pics with Aaron's camera and I was able to download those! You will see in the pics that I must have been much more interested in the Halloween decorations then the sea life!


The Girls at the entrance!


Girl Scouts and family friends after riding Atlantis!


The one good sea life shot I got! Cute little otter, huh?


Golf Skeletons!


Basket Ball Skeletons!


Brake Dancing Skeletons!


Pirate Skeletons!


Single Skeleton!


And Brinley being eaten by a werewolf!


We had so much fun! I hope to get back to my daily pics of the girls sometime this week and I'll do one post to get them caught up! :)

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