Thankful

I figured out how to take black and white pictures with my camera and so I bribed the kids with M&M's to sit still for a minute so I could test it out.

I am so thankful for my husband and my kids. I love them so much and I don't know what I would do without them. They make me so happy and I have a wonderful life with them. Have a Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Leaves are Falling

The kids helped me rake leaves last week. It was really fun for them to run and jump in the piles I would make. I can't believe how many bags I filled up and all the leaves hadn't even fallen off the trees yet. That will be this Saturday's project. Yippee!
Jake helped...he did a good job, a little hard for him though since he didn't realize he could use both hands.

He also gave special leaves to Anna and she'd just stare at him. But when she wanted to give a leaf back to Jake, she'd chase him all over the yard and push him over so she could put it in his hand. I don't get it.

Anna is a great leaf thrower. This was Jake's turn to just stare at her.

But this picture will definitely go in the scrapbooks.

There's No Place Like Home

Halloween was pretty fun this year, with the exception that Cody is sick and really didn't feel up to anything. Anna dressed up as Dorothy and Jake as the cowardly lion. They turned out pretty cute I think. Last Halloween Jake was only 6 months old, so this year was a lot more fun with him. It was like he knew exactly what to do with his candy bag and he knew what was supposed to go in it.

I think it is hilarious that candy is such a treasure to kids. I love how they have to study each piece after they get all their loot and sometime they even "organize" it.

We hope everyone had a great and Happy Halloween!!!

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.