milk n cookies

Well, even after bringing the leftover 80 sugar cookies to my mom's, for everyone to decorate I still ended up with what seems like a ton more +extra dough... I decided to make mini fruit pizzas. I followed a new recipe that has fluff mixed w/ cream cheese... I honestly prefer the plain cream cheese, vanilla & sugar recipe better. They are pretty though & I hope my community group enjoys them & EATS THEM ALL.

Today @ baby reading group (@ the library) Mel ventured off to play for the first time. So far, she has always enjoyed everything from my lap or close to it. As soon as they dumped out the toys, off she went. I was so proud; then a wave of sadness also passed through me about it. She is growing soooo fast (:


So little Ms. Mel Veil is better today after being stung on her nose on Saturday @ the soccer game. The swelling of her eye is almost completely down. Thank God we were obviously frightened @ the time. Come to find out you are never allergic to anything the first time your body experiences it.
I wanted to post this not so great picture of her having her breakfast. I think this is a genius way to let her have her breakfast. She always wakes up starving. As she feeds her itty bitty self with relatively little mess, I enjoy my coffee & granola (occasionally I even shower, aaah). We are both better off after this!

This was a fun project, that had me looking @ things in a different way. I took these @ my moms house mostly outside. I look forward to doing this with the kids soon, I will post them as well!

Middle School Harvest Festival!

Yay it was all worth it! Alex had a blast (as did the entire fam). The kids loved their costumes. Here are the fantabulous pics, as well as a few from this morning of my gorgeous husband & baby.

This week...

Being over the kitchen when it came to making dinner, my sweet boy volunteered to make a revoltingly delicious dinner. He made rotten bloody fingers, YUMMY!



Today I made a ridiculous amount of sugar cookies, for the middle schools harvest festival tomorrow night. My mom & I are working the cookie decorating booth. Tomorrow I will go to grocery stores & try to talk them into donating a bunch of frosting, I feel slightly nervous about humbling myself in this way, but it is a good lesson for me I think.


Yesterday Brandon & I went to Alex's parent teacher conf. Nothing they said was a shocker as we are more than aware of how well he is doing! Mel was soooooo bored by the time we were waiting to talk to his 6th teacher when I took this hillarious pic w/ the blkbry. LOL


Tuesday I made my first tutu for Ireland's costume (I hope she likes it). It was pretty simple. I look forward to making more in the future. I will post a picture of her in her complete costume asap.


Monday night Ireland & I went to her panther pal's volleyball game. The game was fun, Dooda learned what bump, set, spike is! I miss playing. Ireland snapped this great pic.

obvious?

How we spend our days is, of course,
how we spend our lives.
~Annie Dillard

Another fun filled weekend!

On Saturday the baby in my family turned 13. (WOW) She is turning into such a lovely lady! We had a wonderful party for her @ the delicious Bucca Di Beppo & afterward she got the best present could be... Frankie surprised us all with a visit! We were ALL so happy to see Frankie, Julia, baby Clayson & 3 week old Josiah. I love being with all my sissies & its getting to more & more fun the more cousins there are (the more the merrier)!








Our weekend started off rainy... although that didn't stop the kids from enjoying the great outdoors. Ireland learned how to use a sewing machine & made Aunt Joy a great gift. I captured a sweet moment between Mel & Brandon (what a awesome Daddy)!

Grateful for it all.

Most exciting news is...

He was perfect. Josiah James Caswell, my sweet nephew.



On the 12th I woke up to a long awaited text. My little sissy Frankie was having her baby boy. So Mel & I got up before the sun & ditched the boys & headed off on our 5 hour journey to Oregon.

Some catching up to do...

Ireland recently got paired up with a local high school student, called a panther pal. I was excited that they seemed to be very similar in interest. I think Ireland liked her a lot too!








I got a call from the school counselor the other day, she was calling to tell me how great Alex is doing & that she would really like to move him to the hard program. I was so happy for him as he has been working hard! He is such a good boy.







Recently we went over to Terry's & she taught me how to make cobbler. Now I can cook for days... but baking is something I' am kinda intimidated by. The cobbler was way easy and soooo good! While I was there she gave a sewing machine & a beautiful desk for it. I made my first project from an old t- shirt of Alex's... Not perfect, but pretty sweet. I look forward to many more projects. Thank you Terry!








We have been going to the baby reading time @ the library twice a week, almost as fun as the little gym & best of all its F-R-E-E. Melly is now drinking from a straw.

Well rounded diet for our Cotton headed sweetheart!

Spent a big chunk of the day in the kitchen. Mostly whipping up baby food. I think Mel was thankful!

2 1sts for Melie

SUSHI & shopping cart

Hopefully since Halloween is coming revisiting this old haunt wont seem so strange.

When I was a kid, growing up around here we had several stories of these tombs @ the Evergreen Cemetery. People 'saw ghosts walking in the windows or around the cemetary itself'.
Well I took a wrong turn yesterday & ended up revisiting this old stomping ground.
Also a eery rumor... They say this about the Rucker mansion: The Rucker mansion is haunted by Mrs. Rucker, who committed suicide by jumping from the bedroom window on the top floor. Sometimes she can be heard playing the grand piano when no one is in the room.
Nonetheless this is fact: The Rucker Tomb is a historical landmark in Everett Washington. The tomb was built in 1907 by the Rucker Brothers to honor their mother, Jane. The granite pyramid is 50ft tall and houses the remains of several Rucker family members. The Rucker family is one of the prominent pioneer families of Everett, WA.

I have to admit I enjoyed photgraphing &visiting this cemetery, I have always found them peaceful.