{punkins}

EUW BRAINS!!

{mummies}

Dave had a really bad cold the other day and we needed to give him time to rest and in order to keep the boys quiet I got them into a craft. We cut out little cardboard people and ripped up an old pillow case and made mummies.

{creepy crawly}

Took this picture out at my Dad's house..very halloween appropriate:)

{good times}

Here's a little recap of what we've been up to the last week or so..

The boys and I made cookies together. Let me correct that. The boys made a mess while I made cookies. And I wouldn't have it any other way.

Dave and I headed out to Salt Lake for a photoshoot last weekend and alas, the client never showed up. So we had our own little practice session, played around with light..and Dave got sneaky with the camera while I was "reflecting". I look really ticked but I promise I was just contemplative at that moment:)

After that we stopped at my sister Becky's house to say hi and then off to the movies we went. We went to "Paranormal Activity". Dave has been sleeping with the tv on ever since. Wuss.

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We spent the day out at my parents house in Portage last week. The boys are in heaven at "grandpa with the hummer"s house. We raked funky yellow and green leaves and jumped in them, David worked on his new blue four wheeler and grandma gave wheelbarrow rides. She wouldn't give me one:(

All that beastly hair you see on him is now gone. The man has since shaved his head. It's a little early for midlife crisis if you ask me;)

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The best thing of all was that Grandpa let Jared drive his tractor and they hauled dirt..just to haul dirt.

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This is my Dad's precious. He named him/her (I haven't checked) "Meowy". I thought my Dad hated cats until this cutie wandered into his life. Sweetest cat I've ever met.

what are you going as for halloween?

While on a search for an original halloween costume idea, I ran across some pretty funny stuff..

I've seen adult Napoleon and Pedro's but this just brings it to a new level of funny-ness..

And I don't even know what to say about this one..it's almost creepy. My first thought was "wow that's a lot of paint!"

taking a craft break.

It's been a long time since I did a craft so I bought this paper mache pumpkin at Michaels for like $2 and painted it to look vintage. Then I rubbed a light stain over it to give it that old distressed appeal. Isn't it kinda creepy?

boys.will.be.boys.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
~Plato

Here is a rare fight where Jared wins. Ashton weighs a little bit more than Jared does, so he usually works it to his advantage. I love this series of photos mainly because you can see Jared revelling in his victory, savoring every last moment that he has his brother pinned. And you can also see how hard Ashton is squirming to break free. I love it. Sometimes.

The boys love our backyard. It is completely fenced in which I love. But what I don't get is that although we have a pretty big sandbox, they still insist on playing in the DIRT. Go figure.

I {heart} halloween.

So we moved into a house in North Logan a few weeks ago and we absolutely LOVE it! Honestly, it's like it was remodeled just for us, the paint colors are exactly what I would have chosen, the carpet, the kitchen! I am in heaven..so of course I couldn't WAIT to decorate for Halloween seeing that it's my favorite holiday EVER! I usually start on Setember 1st, but we didn't even get our stuff out of storage until late this week, so the first thing I did was pull out the Halloween bins and get to work! (yeah, even before kitchen stuff!) Then I found this AWESOME little guy at Ross for $7..I couldn't pass him up. I absolutely love vintage halloween decor. Yeah I'm turning into freaking Martha Stewart over here, and I DONT EVEN CARE!

This mummy dude I got at Ross for $4! SCORE!

Oh and we found this human scull buried in the backyard so I am keeping it for decor. I will call CSI after halloween is over.. he he

Anyways, I promised myself one post a week and Sunday is usually when I work on my family blog..I will post more pictures of the house and the Hawkes neanderthals (meaning my husband and children) later:)

{gRanDpA's gArdEn}

My father in law has an amazing vegetable garden..I spent an afternoon photographing it..it's so peaceful in the garden..

longest.post.ever.

Holy WOW. My poor blog you've been neglected. So many things have happened since I posted last. I feel as though I was caught up in a horrible twister of emotion and struggle. Trying to run a business and a home and care for my boys was enough to make me go nutty. Yeah I went a little nutty at times. The good news is, I'm back.. And I'm ready to blog..