The cousins...

So while we were at it we took Milan and Sofia's pictures too... These girls are pretty silly and fun we enjoyed having them to visit!

Family pictures...

Yesterday Adam took the day off and we went down to East Aurora for something to do...Well outside of Millard Filmore's home turned out to be the perfect place to take some super cute family pictures! The leaves were so lovely and all perfect colors! And the kids cooperated for the most part, and I think we ended up with some fantastic pictures! I don't seek perfection, once you have more than one kid, that becomes a dream. So a little chocolate, one sock off, Hey whatever, that is my family...Those are my cute kids...I love them!

Allie on the ol' Horse

This was today at Viddlers in East Aurora NY, This horse is from the 1930's, and for 10 whole cents Allie got to ride that beast for a full minute! Seriously! She loved it!

Phoebe video...

Phoebe going Rumm rrrummm...

lots of fun pictures....

HI!

cute cousins!

This is cutest baby Sophia, she is a great model... LOVE HER!

love this one she is pure Fun!

Sunday drivers...

That is us I had to get out the house was getting to me I needed fresh air and relaxing time. I really wanted to take some pictures too so we went on a drive. Which Allie hates... she needs a destination. But Alas she enjoyed playing games checking out cows and looking for horses. Which we found toward the end of the trip. She also remembered another similar ride we took back in April when we saw a Manure "sprinkler" and she asked Hey is there where we saw the Poop flying through the air? Yes dear it is! What a memory!
The sun peeked through for a few minutes....
Our family, Yeah I only noticed that LUKE had that Coke can when I Uploaded these pictures!

Here it is, somedays we just need a little fizzy drink to help make it through...

While we are at it maybe we need a little something wiggly too? Nah we passed...I love this picture, if you click and make it big the dandelions are all lite up, it is so pretty!

Same here with the dandelions...

The Three Amigos...And if it were up to them we would have a plethora of Pinatas.

Daddy and his girls...

This was too cute of a picture to pass up! Phoebe LOVES having her picture taken! I need to take some family pictures! I keep meaning to for you know about the past 6 years or so... I just never seem to get on with it! Anyway, hopefully this fall it will happen, before the corner turns and Phoebe HATES her picture taken...You know it will happen!

Can we bottle that sweetness and save it for the teen years?

8 years ago today I bought my wedding dress...

And something else pretty amazing happened....I love the power with which this survivor speaks, He had the nightmare but is making it the dream...

More yummys...

Fall makes me want to cook...This is what we had last night...left overs are SO yummy!

Black Bean Lasagna
2 cans (16oz) black beans rinsed and drained
1 cup salsa
2 cups spaghetti sauce
1tsp minced garlic
1tsp ground cumin
1 ctn. ricotta cheese
1/3 cup parmesan
1 egg white
1/4 cup milk
6 lasagna noodles
1 cup Monterrey Jack
1 cup mozzarella

spray a 13 x 9 pan Pre heat oven 350

1 bowl -Stir beans salsa spaghetti sauce, garlic, and cumin.
another bowl - ricotta, parmesan, gegg white & milk

Spread 1 cup of bean mix on bottom
cover with 3 noodles, cover noodles with half of the bean mix and then half of the riccotta mix. Sprinkle with half of the Mozzarella and Monterrey Jack cheeses
3 more noodles, bean mix, cheese mix top with rest of the shredded cheeses.
Cover with tinfoil
bake for 30 min. Uncover and bake for 10 more min.
Let stand 5 min. before serving.

Fall Yummys for your tummy

Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread

1 can of pumpkin puree
4 eggs
1 cup Veg oil
2/3 cup water
3 cups white sugar
3 1/2 cups flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp cloves
1/4 tsp ginger
1 bag of chocolate chips (or how many every you like, we happen to be chocoholics at our house)

Preheat oven 350 grease and flour 3 loaf pans
in a large bowl mix together pumpkin, eggs, oil, water and sugar until well blended. In a separate bowl whisk together the flour baking soda salt cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and ginger. Stir the dry ingredients in to the pumpkin mix until just blended pour into the prepared pans
Bake for about 50 minutes Loaves are don when knife inserted in the center of loaf is clean.

YUMMY, this recipe was shared with me last year by my friend Rachel, it made me Very happy many a morning, it made my house smell like fall and yum, it made me fail my glucose test, it make my kids eat something yummy and learn and want to help me make bread....Thank you yummy bread! No you too can have some...get baking. (unless you are lucky and it isn't already fall where you live then save it for a month or so)

BYU and friends...

Ok just so everyone knows Every BYU game day (pretty much every Saturday till the end of Nov.) we will be hosting a viewing party. So come over...This weeks party was with the Marchants, Barrys and Davis families. Hope to see you next week, just let me know we will probably just BBQ again if anyone wants to just bring what you want!

And the best part was BYU beat Oklahoma, and took down their trophy toting QB.
Gotta Love that!

Check out these great Dads babysitting...

They lined everyone up by height... so cute (except Lucas who wouldn't cooperate)

B-Y-U go Cougars!

she loved it

I went in and helped out at lunch time and she gave me the biggest longest hug ever, it was so cute, she already had a little friend or 2 and had fun eating lunch with them.
Well she got off the bus with a strange/sad/worried look on her face and I am panicked! OH NO someone pushed her or yelled at her or something! What is wrong? What is wrong? What is wrong? Then she smile HUGE and says I AM SO EXCITED!!!!
She almost missed the bus the second day since it came earlier and she told the bus driver, Sorry we are a little late today! So cute. But she came home equally excited and was sad when she found out there was not school on Saturday. But she played with her friends and had too much fun!

First day of school

Here is Allie last night with her crown for her special family dinner...

This morning first day of school...

Love the shoes??

waiting at the bus stop with fellow school kiddies, Sydney, Sarah and Andrew, with siblings thrown in...

Allie and Sydney they are getting to be good buddies.

Well that is it...Then she just got on the bus, and left me standing there...

She is a big girl now

Meet the teacher Day

Today was Meet the teacher day for kindergarten.... So we headed over to the school and found Allie's desk, there was already an assignment! Find your locker, Bathroom, put away all your school supplies, tour the school and find the gym, cafeteria, and art room...
Here is Allie and her new teacher.... last night she was scared and today she is much more excited. Her teacher seems very nice.
Checking out the classroom...
My cute family...

Of course we had to check out the gym, it was a hit! Even the Bee, thought it was cool, or she just wanted her picture taken...

The best part... BUS TOUR! Ok take me to school now!
Luke loved it!
Watch out world...