TAG 8 THINGS!

*8 t.v. shows I like to watch:
1. The Office
2. Amazing Race
3. Biggest Loser
4. Seinfeld
5. Jon and Kate Plus 8
6. Little People Big World
7. News
8. Friends

*8 things that happened yesterday:
1. Went to work
2. Cleaned the kitchen
3. Went grocery shopping
4. Made bbq chicken for dinner
5. Went to the bank
6. Helped with kids clean their rooms
7. Watched the news
8. Ate Halloween candy with Cody while watching the news

*8 favorite places to eat:
1. Olive Garden
2. Wingers
3. Brick Oven
4. Pizza Factory
5. Gandolfos
6. In the backyard
7. Ruby River
8. Red Lobster

*8 things I'm looking forward to:
1. Holidays with the kids
2. Dressing up the kids for Halloween
3. Payday
4. Paying off the truck
5. Next summer
6. Christmas
7. Jacob talking
8. Dinnertime

*8 things on my wish list
1. Unlimited amount of money for books (for the kids and me!)
2. Family vacation
3. Clothes
4. New kitchen
5. Healthy happy kids all the time
6. New couches
7. Scrapbook supplies
8. Piano

*8 people I tag
1. Nicole
2. Amanda
3. Erin
4. Stephanie
5. Mom H
6. Angie
7. Sandra
8. Shawna

Halloween Treats

I'm a total sucker for anything baked with sugar and frosting. Anna is the same way, so we like any excuse to make cookies with sugar and frosting. We spent yesterday making Halloween sugar cookies. We found some cookie cutters at the dollar store and, come on, you have to admit that making cookies into certain shapes is really fun! Anna is such a helper...she organized the cookie cutters and had them all ready to go, about three hours before. But we had fun.



Since I wasn't about to let Jake get near the frosting or sprinkles, I gave him a piece of dough and some flour so he could roll it like me. That entertained him for about 30 minutes, which is really amazing when you think about it. The dough was eventually eaten, but the flour was still really fun to play with. He had it everywhere, but at least he had fun!

Doesn't she look like a professional chef with her apron on?

And the finished product...

Yeah, you might be wondering what's with the blue/purple frosting? Okay, well, I realized that with our bat shaped cookies what color were we going to frost them? I didn't have any black frosting, so I thought I'd try to "make some". Yeah, just for future reference, no matter how much food coloring you put together it doesn't make black. So I tried to salvage it by trying to turn it into purple for the witch's hat shaped cookies and this is what it looked like.

I'll try to save some for the kids to eat while they are sleeping...he he he.

Playing Outside

Since our warm days to play outside are numbered, we've been taking advantage of it every chance we get. We got some cute pictures of the kids (don't you just love digital cameras? you can take 100's of pictures and then pick the best ones!) and Anna is getting to the stage where she LOVES posing for the camera. "Dad, take my picture!" "Dad, are you taking my picture?" "Dad...take my picture again!" Jake will just smile his cute smile and wave.


Apparently we have a cowgirl in this family who loves to jump on the tramp with her "lasso".

Jake is just happy with his rock collection. I never knew boys could get so excited about a rock. By the look on his face when he finds one you'd think he'd just been given a toy, a really, really awesome toy. I found about 10 rocks in his pocket yesterday. No wonder he was walking weird!

Pajamas

I love pajamas.
Especially my kids' pajamas.
I love snuggling with my kids when they are in their pajamas.
I love buying new pajamas.
I love washing pajamas. Weird. I know.
I love watching them run around in their pajamas, especially Jake since his pajamas are just a little too big and the footies come off so his foot gets stuck above the elastic that usually goes around his ankle. Then he just stops and points to his feet until one of us fixes it. I am all about cumfy clothes and I even get into my pajamas as soon as it is considered not too early. Last night Jake ran over to his big sis and gave her the biggest love, with his arms wide open and everything. So sweet! And since they were in their pajamas, which I'm obsessed with, yes, I had to take pictures.
Pajamas, my comfort object.

Happy Birthday Cody!!!

It's Cody's birthday today and we hope he has a wonderful day. We are so lucky to have such a loving and funny husband and daddy, who ALWAYS makes us laugh! We love you!!!