The First Snow

So winter has arrived here in Missouri and we had our first snow! It was only one day we had the snow but the cold temperatures lasted a while and since then temperatures have been up and down like crazy- pretty typical for Missouri really from what I hear. 

Of course I had to let Calleigh have a play in the snow, she was excited watching it fall all day and we had a great time building a snowman and having a snowball fight. 

Best thing about having a snowball fight with a toddler- they can't throw haha!

Afterwards I brought her inside and gave her a nice warm chocolate drink (hot chocolate that wasn't hot haha) with cream and sprinkles! 

I'm assuming this will be the first of many snow posts as winter goes on :-) 

Outfit of the Month: November

Jumper- Next 

This month's outfit is her new Christmas Jumper, It's so cute. I figured since it snowed the other day it was the perfect time to bring out the Christmas jumper!! 

Getting Back on Track

Things have been a bit crazy over here in the last couple of weeks and once again my little blog has been feeling a little neglected. Just to catch you all up and offer a bit of an explanation I thought I would share a bit of what has been going on these past couple of weeks. 

Of course first off my mother is over visiting us again so we have been spending quality time with her and going out and about quite a bit. It is also November which is Calleigh's birthday month so we have been shopping, wrapping and organising birthday celebrations. Christmas is also just around the corner so that meant more shopping and wrapping as I wanted to get a good head start as we may not have much time leading up to Christmas. 

With that being said it leads us to the next couple of big things that have been happening. We have found ourselves a little house we like and have been (and still are) in the process of securing it and sorting out all of the painstaking tasks involved in buying a house- obviously made even more of a difficult job thanks to the fact that we are not American and have not been here 2 years yet. But we are getting there slowly. 

And the second thing is that I have finally found myself some seasonal work :-) 

Aside from all of that we have been enjoying quiet nights and I have really neglected my camera, which I hate because I love taking photo's of Calleigh so much and it pains me that I don't have hundreds of photo's of her to share with you! 

But alas there are some- so here is a little bit of what we have been up too told in photo's! 

Making some cookies with Mee Mee

White Chocolate and Cranberry Cookies (slightly burnt due to multi-tasking)

Playing at the park

Learning to climb up

She can do it by herself now but still needs us near for support

"Helping" Mee Mee with her latchhook

On a play date with her best buddy

Beautiful smile ruined by chocolate!

Building a cushion fort!

She wanted a froggy on her face

Wrapping up her birthday presents

Daddy went away for a week on business so I was on night time duty!

Taking a break in Starbucks with a cake pop and ponies!

Trick or Treating

Calleigh had so much fun trick or treating this year and really got into the spirit of it shouting "Trick or Treat" at people when they opened the door. It did get very cold though and her little nose went bright red, I thought we should have dressed her up as Rudolph! 

Here are a few photo's of her cute little witch costume. 

Happy Halloween!!

Happy Halloween from Rainbow Dash :-) 

Calleigh enjoyed her Halloween goody bucket this morning and we can't wait to go trick or treating later, although it's going to be very cold! 

Spider Decorations

We are excited for Halloween tomorrow! Calleigh can't wait to go out in her costume and get some treats!
A couple of weeks ago we spent some time making these super easy spider decorations! Calleigh loved painting and sticking on the eyeballs. Now they are hanging from the ceiling and she likes to hit them with her broom haha.

The Pumpkin Patch

This last weekend we went down to the Pumpkin Patch to pick out some Pumpkins for our front porch display. It was wet and muddy but Calleigh had a great time, jumping in muddy puddles and all that (thanks Peppa Pig). 

It's amazing how many pumpkins there are! 

Decorating Halloween Cupcakes

We had so much fun making and decorating Halloween cupcakes the other day!

Our cupcake recipe you can find here. The icing and decorations were store brought and Calleigh loved that I let her do it all herself, well four of them, the rest I decorated.