5 on Friday

Ok so i follow a lot of blogs out there and these are the posts i most look forward to from other moms/people. So i figured i would try to keep up with it to. Its a list of completely random stuff and its always fun to see what other people are into and products they recommend, books they are reading, etc etc.

1) This kid got his school pictures back this week. I just cant get over what a big kid he looks like!

Noah- October 2013.  When pic was taken he was 28 months

2) Halloween. If you read my Halloween Post you know how much fun we had trick or treating this year. Here is a look back on the last 3 Halloweens

2011 Monkey- 5 months old
2012 Shark - 17 months
2013 Woody- 29 months

3) Book Club- Last month we read the book 7 by Jen Hatmaker. "7 is the true story of how Jen (along with her husband and her children to varying degrees) took seven months, identified seven areas of excess, and made seven simple choices to fight back against the modern-day diseases of greed, materialism, and overindulgence."  We all really liked the book, and even though i skipped all the religious passages,  the concepts of spending less, saving more, and doing without,  really was inspiring. So this month as a little challenge to myself i am gonna try to go without buying coffee at dunkin or starbucks. It seems like a little thing, but with christmas coming and the hopes of doing vacations and fun outings i am sure that even that little money saved will help :-)

4) Pottery Barn Kids: We got the christmas catalog in the mail last week and i am dieing over all the cute things they have!

i am trying really hard not to buy new stockings this year. But if i did, i would get the grey snowmen, noah the green santas, and brian the red  christmas trees :-)

How cute are these quilts! Next year noah should be in a big boy bed and i think it would be so fun to swap out his normal quilt for a christmas one to get int he spirit :-)  Maybe they will go on sale after the holidays ;-)

5) Thanksgiving traditions: When brian was little they had a tradition that all the kids made a handmade christmas ornament on thanksgiving.(we still have a lot of these ornaments he made on our tree!) I want to start doing this again so i am looking for easy and not to messy handmade christmas ornament ideas for this turkey day. The kids are ages 2-12.

I also like the idea of doing this for everyone but worry about how messy it will be. Each year we could do a new handprint and we write what we are thankful for... could be funny to look back and see what the kids say each year :-)