TaterScraps

Well I hope everyone had a great time this weekend celebrating Digital Scrapbooking Day! Hopefully you were able to get some great deals!

While my dh and ds were outside enjoying the beautiful weather we have been having I managed to get a LO done. It felt so good too! I love to design...but it just feels so good to actually get a chance to scrap every now and then too.

Ever since my ds was born every year in October we get so excited to go shopping for a Halloween costume. He just turned five not too long ago and every year I've always been able to have a big influence on what costume he's going to get. I like finding the costumes that not everyone has...or is at least different in some way. This usually means we have to travel out of town to find something. His very first costume was a pumpkin costume, then it was Thomas the Train...then he was a fireman...and last year he was a police man! All of these costumes I picked out and he just went along with it. Well earlier this year when we were discussing costumes I told him that he should be a pirate...he makes the cutest little pirate face!! Plus I already new which kit I could use to scrap the photos too!! (Ha ha....yeah...I had a plan)! Well all was good until we went into the Halloween store and he saw all of the Super Hero costumes!!! You know...Spiderman, Superman, Power Rangers etc...well I tried to steer him towards the pirate costumes to help persuade him into being a pirate...but my plan failed me!! He found a Transformer Bumblebee costume and he had his mind made up! He wanted to be Bumblebee the Transformer. Uggh!!! I wasn't happy...I just knew that I would see tons of Bumblebee costumes on Halloween night!! But then I had to pull myself together and remember he is at that age where he and his friends are always pretending to be superhero's. Well I finally gave in...and he went trick or treating as a Transformer!! He's put on this costume every day...and I mean every day...since I've bought it. Here he is with my dh and our cousins...whose house we have trick or treated at every year since he was born...The kit that I used is called Spookalicious by Simply Sweet Designs and the template is from Sya's Blueprints both at ScrapMatters.

My camera actually stopped working during our trick or treat outing so I didn't get a chance to take photos on the rest of our stops...but I am so thankful for our friends and family that let us trick or treat at their house every year!!

Here's another LO that I did about a week ago using WM Squared's Grab Bag which you can get at ScrapMatters...we love to eat Giordano's Pizza!!

On a serious note...I just wanted to remind everyone how important this Presidential Election is! We are 2 days away from the General Election and if you didn't vote early make sure on Tuesday you go and exercise your right to vote! My husband and I have made plans to get up early to go vote. I'm not sure if we will have long lines to wait in or not...but long or not we will be there and will not leave until we have voted! We are even taking my ds with us! I figure no matter who wins it's going to be history in the making and I want him to be there for that! Although he is only five he is very well aware that the country is in the process of picking a new president and he as even expressed to me who he is voting for. ( I guess I'm going to have to create a kiddie ballot for him so he can pretend to cast his vote...LOL!) But anyway we will be there standing in line...and of course I'll have my camera with me so I can scrap the event! And years from now...I will be able to show him the LO and let him know that he was there to witness this historical event. Now...I'm not quite sure how I'm going to keep him entertained during the wait especially if there is a long line...but I figured I'd take his wagon and some toys so at least he would be able to sit down and play for a bit while were waiting. I'll let you know how that goes!! LOL!

Well I guess I've rambled enough!! Now I have to go and get my LOST fix...yeah I'm still watching it! I want to be caught up when the new season comes out in 2009. Somebody please tell me though...are they EVER GONNA GET OFF THE ISLAND???!!!