Gingerbread Creations

Charlie LOVED doing this! We may have to get a few more to do before Christmas . . . or at least get some frosting and graham crackers.

Thanksgiving

We've been super busy, but I wanted to post some holiday pictures anyway. I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Enjoy all those leftovers!

Finger Painting

Just excited!

I just had to share! Last year, Mike and I got bumped off a flight and got some Delta flight vouchers. Realizing that they had to be used by the end of this year, we decided to plan a trip. And where better to go but to the Happiest Place on Earth. Yep. I just booked us on a flight to Orange County, California where we will hang out by the pool (we're using my mom's Trendwest points for the hotel), visit Mickey Mouse, and spend four days not worrying about anything. The kids are probably a little young to enjoy most of the park, but we've just decided not to stress about seeing everything and just enjoy what we can. I can't wait!

Uh Oh

Peter has learned how to climb the steps and Charlie figured out how to open the child lock on the refrigerator.

Yeah, I'm in trouble.

More on Halloween

Here are some more pictures from our Halloween Festivities. Our celebration started with carving pumpkins on Thursday night. (By the way, I actually finished our costumes on Wednesday! Yep, I was early this year!)
Then Friday morning, we had our traditional Halloween breakfast of orange pancakes and orange milk. Charlie loves it when I color things with food coloring. I made some oatmeal pancakes- a recipe I got from our Moscow ward a few years ago. I don't know who the credit goes to, but we make it all the time. I LOVE them! Mike got home from work and we made tacos and headed to the ward Trunk or Treat. Charlie was more interested in playing on the playground than in getting candy, although when I tried to give ours out, he threw a fit. He wanted it all to himself. He was having so much fun! I could not get him to slow down for a picture. Our costumes were a little underdone. We didn't have time to go all out with make-up and trunk decorations, which is sad because we had such big plans. And I ran out of fabric and ended up having to just make sleeves for Mike and I. But I am pretty proud of the kids' shirts. It is the first piece of clothing I've ever made without a pattern. Go me! (Nevermind that Peter's was too small and I had to cut it up the back to get it on him. I was able to safety pin it together and under the overalls, no one ever knew.)


When we got home we dug into the candy and dipped our cake-pops. They looked good, but weren't as tasty as I wanted them to be. It's probably because I used canned frosting to mix with the cake. I don't like the stuff. If I try them again, I'm making my own "full of butter" frosting.

Halloween 2008

The Candy Land Kids

I know everyone is curious about our costumes so I thought I'd post a picture. We went simple this year . . . nothing scary or bulky . . . in the hopes that Charlie would actually wear it. I'll post more details about our fun day later.