trick or treat!

the trick is that this is the longest post ever! the treat is you get lots of pictures of thalia. i think that's fair ;o)

wow! i had way more pictures from last weekend than i remembered!! what a fantastic halloween weekend we had!
thalia and i carved our pumpkins on tuesday night before chris got back from texas. she jumped right in there and started picking out the seeds! i was so surprised. we baked them and she was eating them hand over fist. again - totally surprised. it was fun doing that with her, and then she even posed for me with both of them.
she's actually kind of smiling too! yet another shocker :o)
on friday afternoon, thalia's class at school had a little halloween "party" for their afternoon snacks. i took some time off of work and we took thalia. this is a picture of thalia and om. they have been in the same class for almost the entire time we've been down here. it's been really great watching him grow up with thalia!
we were lucky enough that thalia got an orange frosted cupcake! most of the kids got black (i don't know who thought it would be a good idea to bring a bunch of 2 year olds black frosted cupcakes!!). she basically licked all the frosting off and handed me the cake.
that night, we went to a work party, and had a blast!
now for those of you who haven't heard the story yet - i did NOT plan on us all coordinating for halloween. halloween is usually not my thing, so when jillian was in town the other day, we went shopping to find thalia a cute costume. nothing was really speaking to us...they were all kind of generic. but then, we turned the corner and we saw it. a hamburger! to any other family, this would have been pushed aside for the fairy princess. but not for the phillipses!! chris and martin had actually found a mustard costume at this thrift store back in september. they bought the matching ketchup outfit and took it on their fall "tour." when i saw the hamburger, i knew we were going to be the best dressed family ever!
my friend denise brought her daughter morgan to the party. thalia wore her out! she had these purple fishnet arm socks that thalia loved.
then on saturday, we went to see the carolina railhawks pro soccer team try to win their first ever championship.
i was surprised how well thalia did. we stayed for just about the full game! the railhawks unfortunately didn't win - but we got to eat some great hole in the wall barbecue and support the local team anyway! if you look closely, you can see that thalia's lips are totally purple. turns out she gets the same purple goatee as aunt steffie and aunt nikki when she is cold! we busted out the blankets after we took the picture and she was great.
finally sunday came! yes, thalia has worn her candy corn shirt about every other day since we got it :o)
thalia was so excited to have lollies to pass out to the kids - even though i'm not convinced she really knew what we were doing.
i couldn't help but take a picture of this! she took her pumpkin bowl, went to the pantry, and put ramen in it! only my daughter!!
you'll notice in this picture that chris and i have switched costumes. i could not find my other yellow tshirt to save my life. (couldn't have anything to do with the fact that we hadn't done laundry in over a week!) so chris got to be mustard and i was ketchup.
this was actually chris' first halloween with thalia. usually the band has a show, but since they had just gotten back from texas they decided to take the weekend off. so i sent chris trick or treating with thalia and stayed home to pass out candy. good thing chris had cargo pockets on his shorts! he had to keep dumping out thalia's bag so she could get more candy!
whew! what a weekend! we had a great time as a family though! and wait til you hear what we did this weekend!

much love and more sleep,
c, c, and t

quick catch up

i just sat down to check on today's weather forecast and stumbled across some pictures i am pretty sure i never posted...so here ya go :o) don't worry - all the halloween pics AND the pics from our fall trips are coming soon too. consider this a small victory :o)

as you may remember, chris spent most of september traveling. mahoney played two fall music festivals on consecutive weekends. so thalia and i had plenty of time to ourselves. usually i feel bad when chris comes home to a messy house and nothing fun done. i know, it's a crazy thought. i mean, i'm watching thalia for pete's sake! how much can i do?! ;o) anyway, one weekend i saw an ad in bed bath and beyond's circular for bar stools. we have had our bar for YEARS without any bar stools. and of course, i decided it would be a good idea to build them (all 3 of them) while thalia was still awake. she actually was pretty good at turning the allen wrench. then she lost interest when her movie came on. just this weekend chris made a comment about "how many pieces could there have been?" - implying that i just magically picked the fully assembled chairs out of some ginormous box! i then explained to him how the entire thing came in pieces - i think i counted 10 pieces for each chair.

HA! i literally just remembered the funniest part of this whole story. when i was taking all the pieces out of the box, thalia grabbed the instructions. i asked her to read them to me and honest to god, this is what she said "it says 'build me a new chair'" oh my gosh, i was crying i was laughing so hard. anyway, here is thalia on "her" new chair

the following weekend...well, i guess the same day i bought the chairs, i also bought some window treatment things for an idea i had. i was only able to get the chairs done the one weekend, so the following weekend, i braved hanging curtains all by myself. i waited til thalia was taking a nap this time! i basically bought "tie backs" that are supposed to go on the sides of windows to hold curtains open. instead, i put them up top and used them to drape this beautiful fabric that has been floating around my and yiayia's possession for years.

thalia woke up just in time to have yet another shirtless picture taken of her! :o)
anyway, hope you enjoyed those. now it's off to work. hope you have a great week!!

much love and less sleep (i'm still adjusting to having chris home and taking my covers!)
c, c, and t