Christmas Craft

I was looking on the Internet at two peas in a bucket, which is a scrapbooking website that I go to for inspiration, and saw a wreath made out of scrap book paper. I loved it enough to give it a try, and this is the result. I love it! It is perfect above my fireplace. If you are interested in making it let me know, and I'll help direct you to the page.

Kira Turns 5

The past couple of weeks have been crazy busy. Starting out we had Kira's class Thanksgiving presentation. If you look above Kira's head you'll see a flower. On the left of the flower is a turkey with a green face, and yellow body. That's Kira's turkey. Immediately following she had a turkey feast and we celebrated her birthday party with her class. I kinda felt bad because there were other classes there, and only enough goodies for her class, but we were doing what her teacher requested. A child came up to me with his spanish speaking mother who basically pushed him up to me, and told him something I didn't understand. Then he proceeded to ask me for one of the goodie bags. Of course I was unable because I had only made enough for her class. I felt bad, but what can you do? Craziness though.

Then on Thanksgiving we went to the Sherratt gathering. There were about 50ish people there, and when we broke out in song for Kira, I think she was a little shocked, and overwhelmed. She got over it real quick, and headed outside to the big blowup bouncing tent slash slide thingy (the one's that people normally rent for birthday parties), and well she had a great time on that with all the other kids. Us adults even took it on at one point. It was so much fun, but my back hurt for a few days after that. Anyways, Kira is now 5 years old, and I just can't believe it. My adorable Kiki is growing up.

Family Home Evening

We had a spurt of the moment FHE pumking carving night. I was totally in the mood to try new soup recipes so we had dinner too. I made acorn squash bisque (which is basically baby food) it was delicious. I also made corn chowder from scratch as well, and a store bought ministrone. I think the ministrone was the most popular though. Mom Horspool/Grandma Kathy made her mouth watering cinnamon rolls. mmmmm... Amber brought her homemade applesauce, made with red hots I might add. It was all very tasty. A perfect fall combo. The dads did there usual. Yep! You guessed it...Monday Night Football, along with work related discussions. The usual. Then we moved on to what brought us all together in the first place.....PUMPKINS!

FHE CONTINUED...

Next...we carved, and gutted the pumkins. The kids loved the messy part. Then they separated the seeds, and we baked some to eat. I ended up separating the rest of the seeds later, after everyone was gone, and it took me 45minutes. Sheesh! I tried 3 new pumpkin seed recipes that I got online, but my favorite is still good old fashioned salted seeds. We ended up with a Brin-O-Lantern instead of Jack.

FHE CONTINUED CONTINUED...

Even Matt participated. He said it was the first time ever pumpkin carving. He did the advanced cartoon figure on the right. Pretty good. All-in-all we had a great time. I only wish everyone could be with us. Hope you all had a fun Halloween!