Big News!

It's almost midnight.
The baby is in bed.
Eric is in Portland (comes home tomorrow).
I'm too tired to blog and don't feel like it at all this week.
But big events have been happening in the Fuessel home.
And even bigger events are to come at the end of the week.

I've been waiting to write this post so I can give every detail about the process so I don't forget it, but we all know that'll just take forever and I can't postpone this post any longer. So here is the condensed version.

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We are now HOMEOWNERS!!!!!!
That's right. We bought our 1st home.
We closed on our house last Thursday and got the keys on Friday.
Had our first fancy dinner (card table and paper plates) at our new place with family on Sunday
and bought 15 gallons of paint yesterday.

We're now responsible adults with a mortgage.
Woot Woot!
It's always been our dream to be homeowners and that dream has finally come true.
But that's not all.

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We're going to be on HGTV's HOUSE HUNTERS!
Filming starts this THURSDAY.
I can't believe we're going to be on HGTV.
It's only our most favorite network on television.
So. much. to. do. before. then.
The important question is:
What am I going to wear?

I'm exhausted already and we haven't even gotten started. I just want this week to be over so we can start moving into our new home and begin renovating it room by room.

Isn't she a beauty!

Side yard.

Living room...look at those gorgeous floors.

Kitchen. Needs some TLC.

Awesome backyard. Great shop and lots of extra storage.

Basement family room but we're turning it into the master.

Leila's room.

Trick or Treat

I totally winged Leila's bun hat and it worked out. I pounded that out in less than 30 min (experimenting mostly) and I'm not gonna lie, I'm pretty proud of the way it turned out. Except for the fact that it kept falling off causing her little blondies kept poking out.

Eric had everything in his closet for Justin Bieber and was almost embarrassed by it. His facebook post said, "Not quite sure how I should feel about the ease of putting together my complete Justin Bieber costume straight outta my own wardrobe". The light grey skinnies, the purple hoodie, the purple jacket, the shoes, the hat, and almost the hair...he's my real life Justin Bieber. For my costume I just made a fan sign and added "I heart JB" on one of Eric's hats. Easy peasy. Not bad for putting it together last minute.

It was a perfect Halloween night, like in the 60's, but we still opted to go trick or treating at the mall. Should've gone door to door like I originally planned but neither one of us - the Crocketts - have neighbors so which neighborhood would we go to? The one that hands out full size candy bars. What am I talking about, we're in a recession. No one hands out full size candy bars anymore. So the mall it was. Little did we know that trick or treating at the mall was from 5-7 and we got there at 7:30. We should've hit up In N' Out after the mall.

Luckily, there were a few stores that still had candy and Leila seriously got 5 pieces. We'd be the ones to eat it anyway so it's all gravy. Next year we're definitely going door to door. Leila was much more into the tricks than the treating. Lately, all she wants to do is push her stroller around, seriously didn't want to do anything else, and didn't have an interest in getting candy. But did gobble up one fun size M&M's.

Chelsey put all of us to shame with her legit CocaCola costume...and SHE MADE IT! That girl is the busiest woman I know, has 2 real jobs, a 10 month old, and still has time to craft? What? She whipped that thing up like it was nothing, and all from scratch. No tutorial. Talent right there.

McKay also picked something out of his closet. Can you tell what he is? A trucker. Flannel's are apart of his everyday wardrobe so it doesn't really count.

Now that the Halloween Festivities are over it's time to take down the decorations - okay I actually never got around to putting them up - and bust out the Christmas music! 

Dia de los Muertos

Today is Dia de los Muertos (day of the dead).

In honor of this day, I picked up some pan de muerto (bread of the dead) at the local Mexican market and made traditional Mexican hot chocolate. Scrumptious. I remember making paper mache skulls and paper decorations as a kid but haven't done that in a while. We always forgo-ed the private alter honoring the dead but my mom always made sure to buy pan de muerto and make hot chocolate. 

Happy Halloween!

Don't have too much planned for tonight, we'll probably just take Leila trick or treating with some friends. I've kinda slacked off this year and have procrastinated our costumes. Well, I procrastinate everything so that's nothing new. I don't go Christmas shopping until a week before Christmas and don't send out birthday cards until AFTER someone has had a birthday. It's the Mexican in me, what can I say. I'll try to be on top of it this Christmas and will actually send our Christmas cards on time. Last year they didn't even make it out!

Back to Halloween. I still need to complete Leila's costume. I was going to get ambitious and make her a Princess Leia costume but just never made it a priority and we didn't have huge plans this year so that's my excuse.

Well, now it's October 31st and we still have no costumes...for all 3 of us! So this year Leila is stuck with an outfit that Abuelita sent her - but it's so cute and thought it could be her Halloween costume anyway so no biggie. She's gonna be a little geisha. And she'll be the cutest geisha around! I still need to make her a little hat with a bun. I really wanted to dress up as a family but better luck next year. Eric will probably be Justin Bieber and I'll be a crazy Bieber fan! I know it's a cop out because everything we need for the costume will just come out of our closet. Oops!

Two years ago Eric and I were Juno and Paulie Bleeker, little did I know I was actually like 2 weeks pregnant!

Last year, Eric was the paparazzi and I was a celebrity...Leila was just a little 3 month old skeleton.

We'll see what I can pull out of my magic cap today.

Anyway, we've coped out on the costume but not so much on the festivities...

Rachel and Ben have a cute tradition of carving pumpkins while eating chili in bread bowls and invited us to join in on the fun. It's the season of soups, hot chocolate, and cider so why not enjoy it while carving pumpkins? It's perfect and am totally stealing it for next year.

It was a nice change having the boys around for our monthly GNO.

We didn't get around to carving pumpkins because we had too much fun talking so it gave us something fun to do yesterday.

Leila didn't really appreciate getting her hands dirty. 

Hope everyone has a happy and safe Halloween!

More YouTube Videos

Ok, this genre of music isn't really my thing. Just not into it. BUT...I stumbled upon this video on the blogosphere today and felt like sharing it because I really like the message of the song.



Then all of this woman's videos showed up on the sidebar of YouTube and the name of this video caught my attention so I had to see what it was all about. Kinda funny...and will probably be my life.

What happens when Daddy makes cookies?

Leila gets to lick the spoon.

The Loop

Fall doesn't feel complete without a drive up the Alpine Loop. We love to take this drive and do it often, especially during this time of year when the mountains look like they're on fire. Love that this canyon is so close to our home, it's practically up the street. Can't get enough of this place.