Our Wild Safari

This weekend we all went to a birthday party at a Put-put place....but you wouldn't know it from the pictures we came home with. Looks more like a wild safari! We started out with four put-put clubs and balls, which we quickly changed to just two. What were we thinking...there would be no grown up put-put...the kids needed major help. Matthew LOVED "whacking" the ball. And Ellie gave it a few tries too. After about two holes though, the clubs were completely abandoned and the wild safari began! This great put-put place had HUGE animal statues for the kids to sit on, and each "Daddy" animal had a "baby" with it. Not quite sure why both our kids thought all the animals were Daddies...no Mommies to be seen. Maybe the Mommies were at the spa. Ha! Anyway, while there was little put-putting at the put-put place, the kids had a ball!!!!!!

Happy Halloween!!!!!!

In this house, Ellie is in charge of this adorable little duo. So, following her obsession with the Disney Princesses, she picked Ariel the Little Mermaid for her own costume, and then told Matthew and I that he was going to be Flounder. She has even been calling him Flounder during play times. What a good little sport he is...one time I called his name, Matthew, and he told me, "No. Name Flounder." He was happy to oblige, and be Flounder for Halloween.

The Flounder costume proved to be a little difficult to find. Well, let me take that back. There were plenty of them on ebay, but no joke they were all selling for over $100!!! So, with my limited sewing skills I knew that I could do something for a lot less. I found a stuffed flounder for $14, cut it in half, and sewed one half to the front of a short and the other half to the back. To top it off, we made him a blue fin on his head with the help of some blue hair spray. Perfect, simple and cheap!



I had no trouble finding an Ariel costume. They are everywhere. And the creme de la creme was the long red wig. She was SO impressed with herself, but did look slightly concerned as she asked me, "mommy, is my real hair still in there somewhere?".


And no Halloween is complete without carving our pumpkin and roasting the pumpkin seeds.

Happy Halloween from Texas!!