Trick or Treat!

Hunter and Cavan spent the last few days practicing their Trick or Treating skills and it was all put to good use this evening. With snowsuits on under their costumes, they hopped into the gator and hit the town.... well actually only about 20 houses. What a heap of loot they came home with. Tonight the Treat Fairy will be coming to replace their treats with some new Might Machines movies. The Treat Fairy, aka Matt the sugar fiend, will be taking it all to work with him. We let them have a bunch tonight and I am pretty sure they ate more chocolate tonight than they have in their entire lives!

The Puppy and Chicken ready to hit the town:


Move outta the way mom! We need to get the candy!


Our Puking Pumpkins!! They were a big hit with all the kids.


Trick or Treating in Style!!

Trick or Treat In Style from Kara Went on Vimeo.

The Dance Recital

For the last couple of months a local high school student has been teaching dance classes to a variety of age groups. Hunter only made it to about half of the classes with us being in and out of town this fall, but he still loved them! All the little girls would show up in the frilly tutu's, and would follow directions and dance their little hearts out. Hunter.... well he would show up in jeans (and once in a huge yellow foam hat) and spend most of the time pretending to be a train by speeding along on his knees yelling, "CHOO CHOO!!" Thank goodness the dance teacher has heaps of patience!

On Friday, all of the age groups put on a fabulous recital. The turn out to watch the event was impressive with more people standing than there were on chairs. Cavan spent most of time trying to get up there with the dancers! Hunters performance was hilarious. I laughed so hard at him and the other little kids up there I nearly peed myself. Between Hunter not really doing anything, my friends kids nearly duking it out part way through and the girls in their tutu's it was quite the performance.

Thank you so much Cayla and Dana for your hard work getting the kids ready for this!

Enjoy the video everyone! Hunter is in the middle of the group.

Dance Recital from Kara Went on Vimeo.

Halloween Party and Prep

Today the town put on their annual Kids Halloween Party and the boys had a fabulous time. It was just for kids aged 10 and under; later tonight there are parties for the older kids. There were some games, but mostly the kids just ran around the gym in their costumes having fun. It was over lunch time and there was quite the spread of snacks for the kids and parents to enjoy

Hunter taking his swings at the pinata:

The shy little puppy:

My pumpkin carving assistants:

Cavan enjoying the pinata too:

The cutest little chicken in town!!

Winning Bid

Last week some playground equipment in Faro came up for tender. We put bids in a couple of pieces of equipment and ended up winning both! We turned down one so another family could have it and are very pleased with our win. It is a pretty large play structure and we only paid $505 for it. There is a one week timeline for removing the equipment so Matt started at it today. It is actually going quicker than we though. Since the posts are cemented into the ground, he is just digging down and cutting the posts off.

I finally conceded defeat with my hopes of having a level in the backyard as my gardening spot. Matt pointed out that since I couldn't even keep four hanging baskets alive this summer that gardening should be put on the back burner for a while. He does have a very valid point! So that level in the backyard will be prepped in the spring and this piece of equipment installed there. I found slides that you can buy at Home Hardware that we will put between the two levels. Are we cool parents or what?? I cannot wait to see how it all looks next summer with this installed, grass, flower boxes.... oh my!!

Our win!! Matt had already taken off the two slides and some other accessories:

My Head Is Going To Explode....

Hello. My name is Kara and I am a mac-addict.

It has been nine days since my last mac use and I don't know if I can handle it for much longer.

Sigh. My beautiful macbook pro is in for repairs. Something about a logic board they say now. Which is just gobbilly-gook to me. I could have burst into tears when they said today, a week after it arrived there, that it is going to be at least another two weeks before it will be repaired. A real pain in the arse. I had projects to do, pictures to post, housework to procrastinate from...

Thankfully my husband has a little netbook that I have commandeered from him. It drives me nuts with its itty bitty key board and enter key that is all wonky. But at least I can get on the internet and get some stuff accomplished.

I need to figure out how to put pictures on this gadget. While I was away in Mayo for the last week, I did some serious sewing! I made four pairs of adult mittens and three pairs of kids mittens that just need liners put in, four pairs of baby booties, and the bottoms for another pair of mukluks. I am awesome!! Last week I had my first customers on my Etsy site and sold a pair of mittens and a pair of baby mukluks. Sure hope they like their purchases.

AND!! My new leather sewing machine arrived in the mail today. I am so excited to pull my new toy out of the box and try it out.

AND AND AND.... check out my guest post over here at Johanna's beautiful blog.

Off we go to condiment town!

The kids and I are almost all packed and ready to go! We are off to Mayo for a week. Matt is already up there working right now and the boys are excited to see him.

So our week will be filled with walks, visiting with a new baby, sewing projects, playground visits, satellite tv, supper with friends, books and hopefully the odd visit to a computer with internet! It should be a fantastic week.

Now hopefully I have everything. House/cat/fish sitter has been arranged, kids stuff packed, my stuff packed. Just need to fuel up the truck and pack up the fresh stuff from the fridge and off we go!

Have a great week everyone!

Using the Elk Hide

I was finally brave enough to cut out some of my elk hide to try another pair of mukluks. And another snazzy result!!

I am going to find something else to use for ties. I don't like using the leather- just doesn't tie tight enough. Other people use yarn, but I am no good at making those yarn ties. My friend has some laces she said will work well with them, so hopefully that works!

So here is my smoked elk hide, canvas top mukluk in a men's size 10 with a store bought felt liner good to -40C inside. Who wants to buy it? :)