It's almost that most terrifying time of the year, and in the spirit of loving any chance I have to celebrate any ol' thang, I created a Halloween playlist to share with my readers!
I soooo wish I had some Photoshop skills to add some cute graphics, but I don't, so you'll have to settle for some funny memes.
#YouAreWelcome
#WhoAreYouLookinAt?
On to the tunes!
I'll be honest, this is my Halloween-themed playlist, not one I'd necessarily play at an actual full-on Halloween party. That being said, it's not censored, so if you add these to your Spotify, You Have Been Warned!
I Put A Spell On You
Love Potion #9
Howlin' For You
Witchcraft
Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All)
Castin' My Spell
What's a Girl To Do?
My Body's a Zombie For You
Strange and Beautiful
Black Magic Woman
She Blinded Me With Science
Love Song For a Vampire
Touch-A, Touch-A, Touch Me
I'm Your Boogie Man
Lil' Devil
Abracadabra
Strange Brew
Zombie Dance
Little Ghost
Disturbia
Howl
Bad Things
She Wolf
Vampire
Witchy Woman
Gloomy Sunday
Skeleton Song
Witch
Monster
Banana Boat Song (Day-O)
Black Magic
I'm In Love With a Monster
Grim, Grinning Ghosts
Thriller
E.T.
Time Warp
Sweet Transvestite (holla to my fellow Rocky Horror Fans!)
Bad Romance
Ghostbusters
The Devil Went Down to Georgia
This is Halloween
I'll Put a Spell on You
I Want Candy
That's it! Hope this puts you in the Halloween spirit!
We tried to pack as much fun into our last weekend of Fall Break as we could!
We started out in the way the Harbin family likes to have fun: at the movies! The girls had been begging to see Goosebumps, and since I really wanted to see it, too, we went first thing on Friday.
The movie was great, and I can definitely see it being a Halloween classic, but I'll warn you, it's got its scary parts. My girls were perfectly fine by the time the movie was over, but requested an extra nightlight for the next two nights. We're back to normal now!
After the movie, we went out for pizzas and selfies....
Caroline loved the Goosebumps movie so much that she asked if we could go get her a couple of the books at Book A Million. We did, and while I browsed around, I decided to jump back down the Outlander rabbit hole. I'm tellin' ya, these books are so immersive that I feel like I live half my life in reality and half my life in the 18th century!
Saturday morning involved a trip to the gym and running a bunch of errands. #NoFun
Caroline had been asking to go fishing for quite a while now, so Steve got up the gumption to take the girls to a friend's pond and see what they could catch.
Ella Kate caught Moby Dick!
Apparently, the big guy did NOT want to come off the hook, and Steve is in no hurry to take them fishing again after fighting with that thing.
While Steve took the girls fishing, I got ready to go to the movies with my sister and our friends. We went to see Big Stone Gap, which was exclusively filmed in a small town just over the Virginia border. It's only about 45 minutes from here. It was so cool to see lots of local people and places in the movie! I even have a good friend of mine who was an extra in the movie, and was in the movie quite a bit. So neat!
#MikeRingleyFanClub
Sunday, I woke up to this in our local paper...
That's my nephew Teagan right next to the trophy (#8). So proud of him!! #Superstar
We always try to make Sunday an at-home family day, and it mostly was. The girls had asked to have a little Halloween party of their own, though, so we invited over a couple of friends for some Halloween festivities. I made a big crockpot of chili, and the kids tie-dyed t-shirts, painted pumpkins, and made masks. There was supposed to be a costume parade, but we ran out of time.
It was so much fun and I'm so glad we did it! We were having so much fun, in fact, that I didn't get any pics, except for this exceptionally cute one of our friends' fresh-out-of-the-oven baby girl!
Isn't she so sweet?!? I bet you can almost smell that new baby smell, can't you?
Happy Friday, folks!! I'm ready for the weekend, baby. I'm a stay at home mom, so I suppose every day is the weekend (or more like every day is a work day), but there's still something about Friday through Sunday that feels like you can finally take a deep breath.
This weekend's plans are completely dependent on the weather this time. Friday night is the usual high school football, but they're giving rain and cold temps, and the game is an hour and a half away. This auntie may have to sit this one out if the weather is as bad as they say it will be.
Then Saturday is my hometown's fall festival, which I love to go to, but again, there's the rain. Kettle corn might not be worth the misery.
#Imightmelt
#prepareyourselfforaSUPERboringweekendrecap
#again
On to this week's favorites, and don't forget to go by Andrea, Erika, and Narci's blogs to check out everyone's favorites this week!
"Ready Set Roll" by Chase Rice
When I got home from the Luke Bryan concert (I know, stop talking about it already!), I COULD not get this song out of my head. And it's not even Luke's! I was so exhausted I was achy, yet couldn't sleep because I was still dancing and singing to this song.
Oven Baked Chips
I'm addicted. Well, not completely addicted, since it's not like I'm sittin' around eating these things all day every day. But, probably 5 days out of 7 I'm eating them for lunch or dinner. Not as my whole meal, of course.
Geez. I feel like I'm rationalizing my chip consumption a little too much.
Anywhoo....
My very favorite ones are the cheddar sour cream, but they aren't as easy to fit into my diet as the others.
So, the ones I eat most often are the Oven Baked Tostitos Scoops. I make some tuna salad almost every day lately, and I basically use it like a dip with these chips. Great little meal!
My other favorite lunch lately is a turkey sandwich with the Oven Baked Original Lay's. I love me some plain chips, and these are the best substitute I'm gonna get.
Plaid Scarves
I've been on a scarf-buying bender lately.
#sorrynotsorry
#callSA
It started with the leopard print scarf I wore to Luke Bryan (last time, I swear).
The same time I bought that one, I bought this one. It's half plaid, so apparently I was dipping my toes in the plaid pool with this one.
Here's a closer look at the color:
Since then, I've bought this one from Target, too.
And then the durn free shipping Nordstrom monster jumped up and got me with this one. For the price, it's so cozy and Christmas-y and snuggly. Plus, with free shipping and returns, what's to lose?
So now I REALLY want to get this one. Mostly because it's lighter weight that the others I've bought, and therefore it's COMPLETELY different and I need it my collection. See how that rationalization works?
And Shay's post about her scarf collection makes me really want this scarf, but I'm not sure how much realistic wear I'd get out of it. Not that that would normally stop me, but yaknowwhatImean.
And to mix things up a bit from my plaid addiction, this would be be awfully nice. Any color that wants to come live at my house can. Any time. Just come on by.
Our Halloween Costumes
I am a little crazy about Halloween, if you haven't noticed. And to drive that "crazy" point home, I will let you know that I typically know what Halloween costume I'm going to wear for the next year right after the current year's party is over.
#neurotic
Not this year. I was totally inspiration-less. For quite a while, I thought Steve had his costume picked out, but it wasn't a couple costume, so I still needed something. Then he decided he didn't want to do that original idea, so we were back to square 1. Having already sent out invitations to our annual Halloween party, I was starting to panic that we didn't even have costumes picked out yet.
Problem solved! This past weekend, I decided that I wasn't getting off my computer until I picked something out. I narrowed down the type of costume we wanted, but just not the specific one. You know how hard it is to order stuff online that you can't see on a real person, right? Well, because of that, I decided to Pinterest my idea and see what other people had worn. I put the search right there in the search box, and up pops a picture of a HYSTERICAL version of our idea.
BOOM!
That was it. We were all in, and ordered our costumes on the spot. Mine came in, but part of it doesn't look quite right so we're going to have to do some finagling with that. Steve's is a custom order and will take a while to come in.
Even though I am listing it as a favorite, I'm not revealing our costumes quite yet. We want to reveal it at our annual Halloween party, but all I'll say is that we've laid down the gauntlet this year! Can't wait for the reveal!
Walker
This little guy. I sorta hate to list family members as favorites, but our sweet Walker is battling cancer, and his time with us is limited. Times like bring things into perspective, and I just want to post about my deep and abiding love for our FURst baby, Walker. I should do a whole post devoted to him, but he's certainly my favorite this week. And forever.
Welcome to Friday Saturday Favorites! I'm linking up with Andrea, Erika, and Narci again for some of my current faves.
Hope everyone had a great week!!
1)
My first Friday favorite is why this post is going up on Saturday: Friday was a total family day! Steve was off, and Teagan had a bye week from football, so we spent the whole day together! It was so nice. Very low key day, and that's exactly what we all needed. It seems like this time of year just gets so dadburn hectic, so these easy days are decadent!
2)Halloween decorations
I had planned to wait until October to put out our Halloween decorations, but the bug bit me this week, and now I'm pretty much out of control. I told Steve that I can't be held responsible for the damage I do to our checkbook when it comes to Halloween stuff. Either he locks me up, or he goes with me wherever I go and reins me in. So far, I guess he's just putting up with it!
Here's what all I've done so far, but I would sure like to do a bunch more!
The newest (and yet unnamed) member of our family!
I told the girls to make a scary face. Evidently Caroline didn't want to participate.
And then I added a few decorations to that area. Pardon the mess on the floor.
I am thinking about spraying this guy (girl?) with clear glitter. You can never have too much glitter, right?
Here's the other half of that credenza.
Owl cloche from Hobby Lobby, Haunted House cloche from Target, Poison bottles from Michaels last year, but they have similar ones this year. Stack of books and burlap from Hobby Lobby, Halloween party invitation plaque from TJMaxx.
Here's the bottom of the credenza. Both pumpkins are from Hobby Lobby. Glitter pumpkin is from Target (I think. I bought it a year or two ago). Pumpkin wallflower is from B&BW, obvs.
Flower arrangement from Target, and mercury glass skull from Michael's last year.
Glitter decor from the dollar spot at Target, candle from Hobby Lobby
Boo! and Eek! signs from Hobby Lobby. I sorta want to glitter them, too.
I'm so in love with this skeleton witch! I can't remember where I found her, but I think Hobby Lobby.
This little glitter skeleton is a little silly, but he spoke to me. I'm a sucker for glitter!
3) My newest pumpkin/fall haul!
I racked up this week!
Smells amazing!!! The pumpkin holder is new, too.
Not pictured: the already burned Sweet Cinnamon Pumpkin candle! I loooove those so much!
4) New fall nail polishes
OPI's I Saw... U Saw... We Saw... Warsaw
This is the nail polish I'm wearing in the above photos, and I love it so much! It has stayed on better than any non-gel nail polish I've ever tried. I'm addicted!
Sally Hansen's Wine Stock
Soooo not my pic. I left my bottle in the car, so I stole this one from imabeautygeek. Just pretend my nails are as pretty as hers.
