Halloween Laylaisms

What kind of treats should we give out this year?
“Beans!”
What?
“Sweet beans!”
…Oh! Jelly Beans.
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“Ahhh! What’s that!!”
A scarecrow.
“He’s too scary! Get him away from me!”
Scarecrows are just supposed to scare crows. And you’re holding a witch!
“Witches aren’t scary they just make soup and stuff.”
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*After leaving the house of an old man…*
“That guy sounded like he had no […]

A Very Avatar Halloween

Of course we had to choose costumes that you can’t just go buy. Of course. This year we’re being characters from Avatar.
Layla is being Toph and her costume was relatively easy to piece together.
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Ben is supposed to be Aang:

And in preparation for the role he has done this to himself:

And now we’re […]

Simple Lasagna

I meal plan. It saves us money because I only shop for what we need to eat for the next 7-10 days. I order groceries online because it stops me from impulse buys. Yet some weeks I mess up and I forget to order something. This week it was tomato sauce and onion for the […]

It’s Been A Big Week

It’s week 2 of Ben being out of town and we’ve been trying to stay busy. He was actually in town for one day, but headed back out Saturday. So it’s taken lots of fun to get us over missing him.
First we went camping again:

Then to the pumpkin farm:

And then to get Layla’s first big […]