Pumking FHE

OK so there are a lot of pictures in this post, watch out!
For FHE this week we carved pumpkins. The girls loved getting all gooey and slimy and drawing faces on their pumpkins. Fun for the whole family.




What A HOTTIE! Am I lucky people or what, I mean look at him, gorgeous! ! !




AJ just crawled around and looked adorable with his big smile, as usual.



YUMMY!!!



This was my pumpkin. I wanted to learn to make fondant frosting and decorate cakes. This was my first attempt. Don't look too closely, the girls helped with the face. (lots of hands in a small space). The real goal here was to learn to do the fondant frosting. I had a friend teach me. Thanks Minda. I made the frosting (fondant) and she did the decorating. (except for the stem, I did that). It was pretty easy. I am excited to try again, and do it all by myself.

My Birthday

For my Birthday Adam (and the kids) gave me a new set of pots and pans. I have been using second hand, mis-matched dishes since we've been married. So this is my first set of brand new cookware. I love to cook, (most of the time) and so I am very excited to use these. However they are so pretty that I will have to take a few deep breaths before I plunge them into sticky, oily, colorful food, and hard water.

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This is my new candy pot! I asked my mom where I would get a heavy thick pot to make Christmas candy this holiday season. She said she wasn't sure. Then lo and behold, she sent me one for my birthday. Not just any pot, but her pot. She gave me her pot so that I could make candy for my family and feel a little closer to home this Christmas. This is a very secial pot! Thank you Mom! I love it!

This is Adam's lovely trophy that he received for his amazing skill at horseshoes. They had a tournament at work. They first had to play doubles. He and his partner were victorious over them all. For their victory, they each received a gift card to a local restaurant. They then had to play each other for the total grand prize. Had I known what the grand prize was, I would have counseled him to bow out gracefully. But instead Adam killed him, and proudly brought home his trophy! It gives me the creeps to look at it's little feet and claws, and to feel it's fur. It is a real hind end of a raccoon. The bosses custom made this for the horseshoe event, and I am forced to conclude that they are all a little deranged. But I am proud of my husband! ! !

Hello Family and Friends! OK so after much persuading from friends -I think it's called "peer-pressure :)- we finally have a blog! (and it only took Leah a couple hours to set it up and explain it well enough for me to attempt to navigate it on my own. (I'm kind of a dork). I really appreciate her help! So I am an official blogger and will try to figure this out. Right now I feel a little nervous, like it's my first day on a job and I don't want to look stupid, but I think that it is inevitable. I will probably make many mistakes. I am not very technologically minded, but I am excited to give this a whirl and am excited to keep up with all of you better. So here we go, and good luck to me! ! !

The girls spent all summer in their little back yard pool. I am will have to say that one of my favorite things about Texas is that the weather is still warm. Here it is October and there are days when they are still able to play in the water. They used their pool so often that it now has huge cracks in it and will be retired and a new one purchased for the summer of 2009. Both of the girls have the cutest tan line on their backs. We're all about the sunscreen, but even still, their skin seems to soak up the sun really well. I love it, and think it's so cute! (does that make me a bad mom?) :)

AJ is 7 months old this month. I can't believe it! He is doing this inchworm crawl thing. I'm not really sure. We keep waiting for him to take off with his crawling, but yesterday he pulled himself up on the furniture and just stood there. Now I am thinking that he is perfectly capeable of crawling, he just prefers to "inchworm" his way around the house, and maybe will focus on walking instead. How cute is he? Pretty Darn!

New Addition to Our Family!

I am happy to announce that we received a new addition to our family last week. We now have our first piano! After 6 and a half years of begging my husband, he finally bought it for me. Now for family home evening we sing around the piano and the girls love to dance while mommy plays.

Something I wasn't expecting was Adam's protective attitude about the piano. If the girls try and play polly pockets on the keys he is right there reminding them the rule of "NOTHING ON THE PIANO! ! !" It surprises me daily how much he cares about it. Not for the monetary value, but because he knows how long I have waited to get one, and how much I love it! I think it's cute how he appreciates how special it is to me and takes such good care of it.