Christmas 2010

Izzie or my reindeer?



Piper as a reindeer..can you tell he hates it! HA!

His little sweater kills me!

Some of the decorations around the house

I love these little snowman candles

Mr. Snowman...wish I could sit like that.

Dancing Santa - one of the kids favorite.

Our stocking hanging on the fireplace..opps I mean stairs.

Our tree this year-the kids helped put up the decorations on the tree- some branches got 3 to 4 balls on it! To funny.

I love Christmas time!!!!

Pictures from this week November 2010

Matthew and Izzie, just full of LOVE!



I got my hair done - going lighter. Hard to tell in these pics. But here you go SIS!



November 21, 2010 - heading to church. That is why we look so FINE!! (heehee)




Our first snow!

Pumpkin Cobbler

Sorry no picture, but you really can't mess this up. Throw it together and save tons of time-pie is just harder. I think it is even better than pumpkin pie and it is even good for breakfast!


Pumpkin Cobber

3 large eggs
1 (15 oz) can pumpkin
1 (12-oz) can evaporated milk
1 cup sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 ½ teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground ginger
¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
¼ teaspoon ground cloves
1 Tablespoon vanilla extract
1 (18.25 oz) package yellow cake mix
1 ¼ cups (2 ½ sticks) butter, melted
1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a large bowl mix, eggs, pumpkin, evaporated milk, sugar, salt, spices, vanilla and mix well. Pour into an ungreased 13 x 9 inch baking pan. Sprinkle the cake mix over the top. Drizzle with melted butter. Bake 25 minutes. Top with nuts if desired. Bake an additional 15 minutes. Can be served with whipped cream or try vanilla ice cream too.

Diane's advice***(I even halved the recipe (I am the only one in my house that likes pumpkin and it worked great - I shared my yellow cake mix with my neighbor, so she could make it too!) if you half it-use 2 eggs.)

8 to 10 servings

Quick Yummy Dinner

You have to try this! It was so easy and so YUM!

We added fish (Tilapia) 4 fillets

1 cup of red and green red pepper

1/2 cup sliced or diced onion

bunch of cilantro and slice of lime for garish

tofu would be good too!

Just follow directions - and add rice. Yum in under 30 minutes. Kids Loved it!

Books we are liking

Little update on our favorite kid books!



Both kids love any books from Arthur.

We just bought Fancy Nancy and Matthew liked it better than Izzie, but she likes the pictures.

We love little Llama all the books are cute.

#1 hit -Little bunny foo foo - the fairy is so darn funny! We read it everyday and it is a library book -how long can you keep borrowing from the library?

Halloween

Izzie showing off her wings. Her hair was darling!




Our front door - we skipped the carving of the pumpkins.




TWINS - Matthew, Spiderman for the second year in a row. This is his friend Derek that lives down the street from us.




My kiddos - to darling! They loved Halloween, especially the knocking and saying "trick or treat'.

If I am feeling down or blue all I have to do is...

I was working on my primary lesson for Sunday and had to stop look and at the video messages online at www.lds.org
They make me feel the spirit...... well they just make me feel better! So if you need a little pick me up - don't go to the fridge, go online!