Image of Me

My parents have a few pictures of me like this, I found Hailey like this and flashed back to those pictures, so I had to take one of her.

Happy Halloween

We spent some time outside enjoying the nice fall weather.

Swedish Apple Pie

The first weekend of October the boys went out hunting and us girls stayed back and made a great Swedish Apple Pie.

Swedish Apple Pie

-apples -1T sugar -1t cinnamon

Topping:

-3/4 cup butter, melted -1 egg -1 cup sugar -1cup flour

Fill pie plate 3/4 full of peeled and sliced apples. Sprinkle apples with sugar and cinnamon. Mix topping ingredients and spoon over apples. Bake at 350 degrees for 40-50 minutes.

Hailey All Dressed up

Thought I would just some of the pictures I took Saturday at a beautiful wedding. Hailey was one of the flower girls. What a great day that was!

T-Shirt Quilt

One of my projects this summer was to make a t-shirt quilt for my little brother. He graduated from High School this year and for his gift I made him a quilt for his bed at school. I used about 19-20 t-shirts and then some fabric. For the backing I used fleece to make it nice and warm. There is medium weight batting inside, so that along with the fleece there is a little poof to it. I hand quilted it as sewing around the outside was too much of a work out for my sewing machine.

Out of two of the t-shirts (they had smaller logos) I made the girls skirts. To do this I cut the t-shirt from the bottom up to the length I wanted it+1.5 inches. After that you measure down 1.5 inches and fold it in and sew it up, leaving an opening to put the elastic in. I also sewed around the top of it before putting the elastic in. I used 3/4" elastic. Sew the hole shut and sew a few places verticaly and you have a cute little girls skirt.

Grandma's Thunder Cake

This cake was in the back of a book Logan read at school and he brought home the recipe. Of course we had to try it and I was very nervous about that. Who puts pureed tomatoes in their chocolate cake? I did, yes I did and it turned out great. I don't know what they did, but you could not taste them and it gave the cake a cool color. My little helpers were very proud of their cake too.

Bramble Park Zoo

Last Monday we went to the zoo with Todd's Grandma and Grandpa and his Aunt and Uncle. The kids had a blast there feeding the many animals you can throw food at.

Malia trying to feed the ducks and geese.
My full nest... aren't they cute.

The two bear cubs born in January of this year.

Right before feeding time... they were looking for their food.

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Fun at Baseball

While Gabriel plays baseball we have a little fun of our own. Logan is only in one picture because he found to other little boys to run off and play with. Hailey was being a little camera hog. Malia was making sure her frog diaper cover was showing in both pictures, at least it matched her outfit.

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In the Pool

As You can tell Malia was loving the water. It helped that it was nice and warm.

After a very long Friday and finally getting some sleep Friday night, we woke up Saturday and went swimming. This swimming session only lasted about an hour as Hailey and Logan did not want to get in the water and Gabriel was tired from holding Malia, as she loved the water. After our swim we headed off to find breakfast, even if it was almost lunch time. I love Bruegger's Bagels, so that is where we went. The kids loved walking around St. Paul and loved trying to walk while looking up at the tall buildings. While in the bagel place I learned that Logan does really remember things. I had a spinach omelet that look like green eggs and I was trying to get him to try a bite. To that he responded, "I will not try them with a fox, I will not try them in a box." I started laughing of course and he goes on... "I will not try them here or there I will not try them anywhere. I do not like green eggs and ham, I do not like them Sam I Am." I was so stinkin' funny and proof that he does listen to those stories I read him. I like this kind of reassurance.