Hmmm....

Have you ever seen a tomato that has sprouted seeds? I guess I let this one sit on the counter too long. Are sprouted tomato seeds more healthy than non sprouted seeds?

Black Friday

I guess I am not much of a shopper. I think dragging 5 kids (or 4, or any for that matter!) will ruin it. Usually Brad goes on his own on Black Friday but for some reason I went with him this year. Oh, it was to keep HIS spending under control. I was not planning on a 9 hour shopping spree-UGH!
Our first stop was Smiths Market Place. We got there about 7:00 am (one good thing about Brad-he won't wake up super early to go). I walked around with Sal and we made our way to the free donuts. I put some in the cart on a napkin and started looking for white underwear for Emily to wear for her baptism (ever look for all white panties for an 8 year old? not so easy-) and then I look at Sal and she has grabbed most of the donut holes and is covered in powdered sugar. This picture isn't so bad, but then she got her fists rubbing in it all and it was from the top of her face all the way down.
She is till too cute for words! :)

We went to Karen's home for Thanksgiving this year. We had our traditional yummy salads that Kim makes: rainbow ribbon and layered lettuce. It was a fun day and the food was yummy (and the pies were the best ;). Nothing better than a day with the family!

our pies

Last year I decided to have my children learn how to make a pie. Rian learned how to make White Chocolate pie and ice cream pie; Paige made the banana pie. This year Rian made the triple mud and the white chocolate and Paige made the key lime, Emily helped me with the apple pie. Here are our creations: (left to right) ice cream, triple mud, white chocolate, apple, key lime, banana. I love to have them help me and they love to do it.

"We got ourselves a crawler!"

It finally happened! Sarah got all four extremities going the right direction at the right time. She has been doing this frog thing with her back legs (it is really cute) when she jumps her back legs up to her tummy at the same time.

She doesn't move very fast yet, but I am sure she will.

Jakes "world"

We wrote in our journals last night as part of our FHE lesson. Jake is sounding words out now and it is really cute! He wrote "My wildl is gow good!". Translated is "My world is going good!". I am glad about his world going good, but I am starting to wonder about this "world" of his.......

Indian Summer and a loaf of bread

We decided to go feed the ducks on one of these warm days we have been having. Sarah loves to be outside and in her stroller and I don't make the time like I should to take her on walks. Today I took a loaf of old bread I had been saving to try and get me to the park and we were off.

The ducks and geese were horribly loud. But they boys (Jake and his friend Tyson) loved to throw the bread. We took a long walk around the stream and played on the playground for a while. It was a great afternoon.