Thanksgiving

This year we went to my Parents home for Thanksgiving and Chris's family went too. We were in charge of bringing the green bean casserole. Which Chris ended up making cause I was busy making other things.

Brooklyn woke up around seven and got in bed with us. I couldn't go back to sleep so I got up and decided to bake an apple pie. Chris had mentioned a few days earlier that he hoped there would be apple pie since its his favorite. Its been a few years since I've made a pie and luckily we had just enough apples. I think the pie turned out pretty good.... Chris had three pieces. Next time I'll have to try making a gluten free pie.

Oh and everyone loved the Turkey cake balls. I can't wait to make some for Christmas :)

Gobble Gobble

My friend Amy from work recently got the neatest book "Cake Pops" by bakerella. Amy showed me the picture of the turkeys and said how she was going to make them.... so I copied her. These took forever and they probably weren't the easiest design to start with. But I had fun making them and am excited to take them with me to Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow.

Brooklyn On The Bus

Brooklyn is such a talkative girl. She loves to tell people stories. This video is from when we were on the bus on our way to Mickey's Halloween party.

California and Disneyland

We were so blessed to be able to take a trip to Disneyland over Halloween this year. We left on the Wednesday before Halloween and came back that Sunday. It was so fun to take Brooklyn and it was great to go with my side of the family.

Chris said he had fun going to Disneyland when he went by himself but that it was so much more fun to take Brooklyn. He pointed out that maybe we didn't get to go on all the rides we wanted exactly when we wanted to go on them but it was totally worth it to see Brooklyn get so excited about so many things.

Brooklyn was such a trooper she got up early and went to bed late. She hardly ever got upset about anything and was always so excited about everything.



This was on our way to Disneyland on the bus. We were all super excited.



At the main gates... ready to go in.

In front of the castle.

I had to post this picture... Every time we tell Brooklyn we're going to take a picture of her she has to pose. She is so cute. Most of the time she'll smile and then she'll stick her leg out like this and just about falls over. We have lots of blurry pictures of her because she can't hold very still when she is posing.

M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E

Brooklyn was Sleeping Beauty for Halloween. She is such a beautiful Princess. We went to Mickey's Halloween party and there were a lot of other little girls dressed up as princesses. Brooklyn made sure to tell all the the little girls that were princesses that they looked beautiful.

She was so excited about everything she was talking to everyone about everything and even offered to pay for some people on the bus to go to the party. I loved it when one little girl came up to her while we were standing in line to see the princesses and just started talking to Brooklyn and touched her crown and told her it was so pretty, the little girls mom quickly came over and told her to leave Brooklyn alone. I quickly told the mother this girl was so cute and just what we needed because that was what Brooklyn was doing to everyone else.

They load you up with candy at Mickey's party. We didn't even make it to all of the trick-or-treat stations.

We were lucky and ran into Belle as we were walking through the park. Brooklyn just sat down and had a nice little chat with Belle. Belle asked Brooklyn if she was going to be a kitty cat for Halloween because she had a cat on her shirt and Brooklyn said yes. Brookie is so full of it sometimes and I love it :) She also told her how we were going to Jack's house but Jack in the house isn't real they're just dummies. She was big on telling people they're not real they're just dummies, she even told one girl she kills dummies and spiders with her hands. I really don't know where she comes up with this stuff.

This was leaving Disneyland the last day and Brookie was so sad. She was also so tired.

This is what happened when we told her to say "Goodbye Disneyland"... I guess we should have known this would happen.

Before we went home we made a stop at the Beach. Brooklyn loved the beach she was sitting in the sand digging before we had even paid for parking.

Brooklyn asked if we were going to put our hands in the Ocean and I told her that we would put our feet in the water. I didn't think she would like it very much I thought it would be too cold.

Apparently I was wrong...

Brookie loved the water. She wanted to go deeper and kept trying to sit down in the water. Luckily it wasn't too difficult to get to dry clothes for everyone.

Hockey

Chris is playing hockey again! His games are on Monday nights so feel free to come out and support him.

Two Weeks

We've been having fun with Brooklyn the last two weeks. We love getting to spend time with the little munchkin.

We have gone to play at the Tree House in the mall, the park (with Julie and Melanie), Toy Story 3, Enchanted at the park, Grandma Debbie's and Grandpa Mike's, Grandma Josh's, and we even went to the dinosaur museum. We've had popsicles in the tub and gone out for ice cream. Cried over raisins dropped in the parking lot and missed some much needed naps.

Since she has been with us she has gotten so much better at going to bed. She gets a little sad and wants to cuddle with us but after we read a story, sing a song and have a prayer she goes to sleep pretty quick. She also loves to say prayers, she even helped her Aunt Amanda say the prayer at Grandma and Grandpa's house on Sunday. She loves to help with everything, she helped with the laundry and dishes and is really good at picking up her toys. She loves to play like I'm the mom of either the baby doll or baby Cinderella and she is the baby sitter and helps me take care of the babies.

Brookie loves water, oatmeal, raisins, cheese, marshmallows, marshmallow mateys, gram cracker cookies with vanilla frosting, bananas, strawberries and quesadillas just to name a few.

If any of you know me you know I love Cafe Rio. On our way to Toy Story 3 Brooklyn told me she wanted a quesadilla with a strawberry on the plate... otherwise known as a kids quesadilla at Cafe Rio. Its fun that she likes Cafe Rio about as much as I do :)

Our time has been so much fun! We are sad it is almost over and look forward next time.

Happy Birthday Chris!

Yesterday Chris turned 27!

We had a family party for him on Sunday. I tried to make a Batman Cake but the easy Fondant recipe I found didn't turn out to be so easy. I finally got the bat to work but the yellow fondant stuck to the wax paper and ended up in the trash. So we had a Chocolate sour cream cake with chocolate frosting with a black bat on top. I thought it was funny. It was so nice of everyone to come to his party. He has so many people that love him.

Last night... his actual birthday... we went to an Owlz game with Brett and Jenna and Bryce. Who are moving to New York next week. Everyone is moving away for medical school and I really would just rather they not move away lol. We had so much fun at the game even though they lost. I think we are going to have to go again sometime soon.

Chris- I love you so much and I am grateful for what you do for our family. I hope you had a wonderful birthday.