"Hello, I'm Dancin!" (Video!)

Here's a precious little gem from Oct. 22.  ;)

Elli on Ice ~ Beginner 1 Class Oct. 21 (Videos!)

Here are pictures and videos from the beginning of Elli's second session of Beginner 1 ice skating!

Picture taken through plexiglass.

Video ~ backward wiggles.

Video ~ more backward wiggles.

 

Niagara Falls & Canada Trip ~ Part 6

On the next day of our vacation in Canada (July 8), we toured the inside of the Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal and also took a bus tour in Ottawa.

Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal.

The pipe organ has 7,000 pipes!

Kaitlyn and Brady went to the Treasures of Napoleon exhibit at the Basilica.

Jeff, Elli, and I did a bit of shopping in Montreal.

Pictures from the bus tour in Ottawa.

"Big Hero 6" Movie!

We saw Disney's "Big Hero 6" at the movie theater last night!  We thought it was pretty good!

Elli's blue raspberry ICEE and popcorn lasted the entire movie! :)

Thanksgiving ~ 2014

We were so blessed to have a big family Thanksgiving at our house.  <3

Our Thanksgiving dinner included turkey and dressing, mashed potatoes and gravy, sweet potatoes, green beans with ham, creamed corn, cranberry apple crisp, cranberry fluff salad, rolls, lemonade, pumpkin bars with cream cheese icing, chocolate sheet cake, and crustless pumpkin pies in ramekins.

We got our Christmas tree up this week too!  Elli loves putting on the star!

Kaitlyn and Me at Starbucks!

My Three Babies at Starbucks

Love <3

Thanksgiving Cake Balls!

We made Thanksgiving cake balls!

We used a Betty Crocker gluten-free chocolate cake mix.

Waiting for the cake to bake...  ;)

After the cake was baked and still slightly warm, we crumbled it up in a mixing bowl and added about 3/4 container of Betty Crocker Hershey chocolate frosting.

We formed the mixture into balls and put them in the freezer on a cookie sheet lined with wax paper for about 30 minutes.

Then we dipped the cake balls into melted chocolate candy coating.

They were a bit tricky to hold on the fork!

To make little turkeys, we dipped candy corn in the melted chocolate for the feathers.

For the eyes, we used a toothpick to put dots of melted vanilla candy coating, and then we placed half a chocolate sprinkle in the middle of each. 

Half a piece of candy corn for the little beak. 

A bit of red icing for the turkey wattle.

Our cute little turkeys!  :)

Running and Jumping Barefoot Outdoors!

Pics from Oct. 19 ~

Leaf Rubbings!

We gathered some leaves outside to make leaf rubbings!

 That leaf on the low branch looked perfect...  :)

We gathered several different shapes and sizes of leaves.

We tried to find leaves without holes and ones that were not too dry and brittle.

We placed a leaf with the vein side up under a piece of drawing paper.  Then we rubbed a crayon on its side and gently colored on the paper over the leaf to "draw" the leaf design on the paper.

We used pretty fall colors ~ red, orange, golden yellow, green, and brown.

Elli did leaf rubbings for a fall scene with a tree, acorns, and a squirrel.  ;)