Kid-Friendly Halloween Treat Bags

You know that I can’t stay away from a good Halloween DIY especially for the kids! I’m assuming that Haidyn’s class is having a little Halloween bash (I honestly didn’t even ask oh well!). And since my current obsession is anything by the pioneer woman I recreated her popcorn balls with my own twist for the kids.

Waymon even stepped in on the action in whipping up these bad boys. (How did I get so lucky with my guy huh? ** insert gushing wife here).  Guys these popcorn balls are easy to make and are to. die.for. If you ever have the chance to make them, DO IT! You will not be sorry. Haidyn even got to decorate them for her friends!

We decided to make these since it was a lot cheaper and better for the kids instead of giving the usual candy. It was tempting tho to just buy it and get it over with, but it wouldn’t be me if I didn’t DIY it. Haidyn choose the special gift for her friends (bubbles) as well as the cool Halloween bags to put them in. I can’t wait ‘til she surprises her class with these!

halloween treat bag // popcorn balls //  halloween bubbles 

Happy almost Halloween !

Date Night

Waymon and I rarely have date nights since our date nights become a family affair more often than not. I also am ready to admit that for the longest time I’ve had such separation anxiety with Haidyn that date nights weren’t an option for such a long time. So, when my husband planned a date night for us to see our mutual favorite band, Parkway Drive, before our vacation you can imagine my instant excitement.
 

 

 

Our night was simple but yet noteworthy, hence this blog post. We’ve seen them together in SF years ago with Jon so it was so amazing to see them again in our town. This mama even crowd surfed! (Yes you read that correctly).   So you know we had a great time out.

Here’s to more date nights in our future.  

Hunkin Carving

I love including Jon in our family traditions when he’s down for a visit. Mostly, because as kids we never created traditions together as a family. I think it’s amazing now that we get to create little things we do every year during the holidays. Yes, Halloween is a holiday in the Wells’ household! Everyone in our family loves Halloween. I think we love it too much, but that’s okay. I planned so much for us to do while Jon was here that we basically didn’t get to do it (per usual Jannine planning), but pumpkin carving was at the top of that Jon’s here to do list. This was Jon’s first time carving a pumpkin and I think I may have made it his last. (Crossing my fingers that I’m wrong)  I like to carve pumpkins as a theme because you always have to have a theme. :) 

 

Our theme was baseball! As many of you know we’re a family of SF Giants fans so obviously we were getting the updates for the game when they lost.  We were hoping they would win, but they didn’t . So instead of being bad sports about our team losing we made fun of it! We created out Giants pumpkins with our two baseball players that are bummed they lost the game. We learned this year that Haidyn loves her  pumpkins (or hunkins) from the outside as well as bossing you around to what you SHOULD be doing to the pumpkin but HATES pumpkin guts. Girl was literally screaming in fear when we told her to touch it. It was actually really funny since last year she loved touching it. 

I think we did a pretty decent job with our pumpkins. They’re out early but eh who cares! And you cant forget to bake your pumpkin seeds!  I’m glad that Jon got to join in our Halloween fun.