Gingerbread Houses

Our Masterpeices from Thanksgiving. Notice the detail of the alligator sneaking up on the dog in one, and the dog "marking the tree" in the other.

Thanksgiving

This has taken a week to do, but here are the pics from our family Thanksgiving. We had a great time, ate a lot of food, and competed in the 2nd annual gingerbread house contest. (I think that ours was the best...) Brynn learned the age old tradition of olives on the fingers. Cannon jumped the night away in his jumperoo, and the adults sat around and laughed about the both of them.
It was a wonderful night spent with family that we love!

The Great Giant Pumpkin

Funny story. I wanted to make a huge batch of oven roasted pumpkin seeds, so I found the biggest free pumkin I could. I thought it would be filled with seeds. Big pumkin = lots of seeds. WRONG! When we cracked it open, there were like 30 seeds inside, and to make matters worse, the inside was already moldy! So we ended up throwing away 125 lbs of pumpkin in our trash! (Brynn thought it was pretty cool anyway.)

Yipee!

My sister in law and I have tried to start a little business. We are making blankets, burpies, and bags. We are proud to announce that our first products in stores now! (Actually, its just her stuff, but I am still excited!) We now have burpies at Midnight Sun Children's Shop in Healdsburg and Rockit Kid in Windsor! Hopefully, if we can get our act together we can do more business! Every time we go and present our stuff we learn a little more about it. Monday we learned that invoices are necessary (duh).
Unfortuneatly for me, my bags are not selling in the stores yet. I have had a lot of orders by word of mouth, but nothing in the stores. Oh well, we will keep trying! Even more unfortuneatly, the blankets don't seem to be a popular item either. I have a few strikes against me, but I will keep going! Perserverence is the key!!

Six Months Old!!

Cannon is six months old! Everyday he is doing more and more. Rich and I are loving how interactive he is getting with us and Brynn. He is almost sitting by himself, has a cute little mohawk, and is now rolling all over the house.
I caught Brynn having a little doughnut break with Treks and her dolly. Too cute.

Happy Birthday!

Today is my birthday. (29) We have had a great day. Slept in (7:30am), family breakfast, lunch at Chevy's, nap. I am loving it. Brynn, on the other hand, isn't so happy today. She didn't get to open the presents (because they were MINE) and the balloon that they gave her at lunch flew out the window on the ride home. So sorry baby...

Halloween

We are recovering from Halloween last night. The kids had a blast, and the day ended like it should with Brynn having a complete meltdown following her sugar high. (It didn't help that she got stuck in her costume, and we almost had to cut her out of it....) Brynn was Winnie the Pooh, and Cannon was a little spotted cow. Of course Treks was Superdog, like every year.