Pumpkin Carving is fun to do

Reagan seems to have found the belly button

Reagan decided to taste the guts

William decided that taking out the guts is too messy


William gets to draw the face on the pumpkin
We had lots if fun

My Little Helper

So yesterday for lunch we made pizza and Reagan was all about helping out it was soooo cute

Rolling the dough



adding the ingredients ( except most ended up in her mouth and not on the pizza, my trick for getting Will to eat the peppers is to hide them under the cheese)



I took this picture right before she put a huge fistful in her mouth



Yummy Yummy, what a good little helper
( I don't think my kids will ever think of pepperoni pizza as the norm, because my favorite is Hawaiian and Kirk likes green peppers so that is what we almost always make)

Another Crazy Day with Reagan

So let's start with the negative because its always better to end on a positive note right?

My Poor little Reagan
She always is getting bumps, bruises and scraps, well this time it is a nice big scrap on her poor little chin. She fell off my lap and was distracted so she fell and scrapped it on the wood floor., She was ok after we iced it and she proudly wore a big band aid on it for the rest of the evening (she's good at posing don't you think)

Then she decided she didn't want to sleep at bedtime, so I let her come downstairs and spend some quality time with her mom and dad, unfortunately she got in our bay window and fell behind the couch and scrapped her back up as well. poor little girl.

But on the brighter side, Reagan's hair is to the point were I can put it in two cute little french braids.

Family Home Evening Fun

It is so much fun to have Family Home Evenings with little kids,
First we get to sing some fun children songs under the direction of William
Then lessons are about two minutes long and then we get to do the fun stuff
We had a great time playing Hungry Hungry Hippos and ate some yummy brownies



Thank goodness for Family Fun

Sneak Peak

So William and Reagan received a package in the mail, They saw what was inside and just had to try them on. Reagan is going to be Jo Jo from Jo Jo's Circus (she'll have a red nose too)










now is the trick, is Will going to be Picture #1









or Picture #2



I haven't gotten a picture of Kaylee yet but she will be a Giraffe ( Will's First Costume)

Fantastic New Apple Recipe

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So with all the apples we have I found a great recipe for Apple Bundt cake that everyone must try.
Ingredients
4 medium apples
5 tablespoons plus 2 1/2 cup sugar
2 teaspoons ground Cinnamon
4 large eggs
1 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup orange juice
1 tablespoon grated orange( I omitted this)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 cups flour
3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon Salt

powdered sugar

Preparation

preheat oven to 350 degrees oil and flour 12 cup bundt pan, mix apple pieces 5 tablesoons sugar and ground cinnamon in medium bowl. combine 2 1/2 cups sugar, eggs, vegetable oil, orange juice, orange peel and vanilla extract in a bowl whisk to blend, stir in flour, baking powder and salt in egg mixture. Spoon 1 1/2 cups batter in prepared bundt pan top with half apple mixture. Cover with 1 1/2 cup batter top with remaining apples then batter

bake cake until top is brown and tester insert near center comes out with moist crumbs attatched about 1 hr 30 min, cool cake in pan on rack 15 minutes run knife around sides to loosen pan turn cake out ontp rack coll at least 45 minutes dust with powdered sugar serve slightly warm or at room temp


It taste best the next day, just ask my kids

Thank goodness for Poison Control Operators

So our Crazy 2 year old Reagan decided that any bottle with liquid in it that she can unscrew has got to be a drink for her. I didn't realize it when she came out of my room and threw up that she had done anything,I thought that she had just eaten something that wasn't settling in her stomach. It was about five minutes later when I noticed that my dresser was covered with my body spray and the cap was on the floor and my jewelry was all over the floor.

Luckily when I called 911 and they transferred me to poison control the operator who was very helpful, I wasn't sure how much she actually got down her throat, but the bottle was full and now it was only a third full, her cloths were wet and my dresser was covered, so I don't think it was that much. They told me to have her drink lots of Juice and make sure that she wasn't getting sleepy.

So everything turned out ok, I tell you William was never like this, with Reagan we can't even turn our backs on her for two seconds, I hope its just her terrible twos

Kaylee's teeth, and Fruits of Our Labor

So our four month old Kaylee has teeth, she was a little fussy on Wednesday and I just looked in her mouth to see if maybe her teeth were coming in and yup her two bottom teeth decided to sprout up. What a big girl!!









So Kirk finally had a Saturday off, He works in retail so it is few and far between, so we decided to do a fun activity as a family, we went apple picking. The kids loved it. all the way there Will keep on saying "Mom, are we there yet?"(typical for little kids) It took about 30 minutes to get there, so it was a long ride, but both Will and Reagan were super excited.

Let me tell you that the patience of my four year old is short, while we were waiting in line to get on the tractor to get to the orchard William said"Mom, they are wasting time!!" It was so funny.



Once we got to the orchard it was so cute to watch Reagan pull the apples down, she had to use both hands and pull has hard as she could. It was lots of fun, finally after we got our bags full we let them pick an apple and eat it,



they had so much fun and it was so funny to see all the cute little bits in this huge apple



It was a great day, the weather was good and the kids had lots of fun finding and picking the apples, William came up with a list of everything we are going to make with the apples
1. apple pie William told me that he LOVES apple pie
2. apple crisp William told me he LOVES apple Chris
3. Apple Sauce (mom I need your recipe)
4. Apple cake
5 apple cookies
6. Apple bread
and the list went on and on
So we will be busy in the kitchen for quite a few weeks

Reilly's Sing Along

So I was looking through our picture and video clips and came across this
Shawn I know how much you miss him so I thought I would post it for you

William Cole is the cutest

So I was dropping Will of at school on Friday after he got his flu shot, he told Ms. Rachel his teacher how he pushed the easy button at the Doctors office when he got his shot and that his Grandpa and Grandma Lindseth had an easy button that he plays with at their house in Misuregan (Michigan) He then went on to tell her how they have giant cielings at their house (valted cielings) so they can have Giants come and visit. I don't know what he will come up with next.


I also found this old video of him auditioning to be choir director of the MOTAB thought you all might enjoy it I think he was a bit older then Reagan

Kaylee Speaks

Kaylee just wanted to say Hi to everyone

Reagan Turns Two

I cannot believe that Reagan is two years old, time goes by way too fast, she had lots of fun at her birthday party here are some pictures




She sure loves Spaghetti and Meatballs








But I'm sure her favorite thing from her Birthday party was her first pair of Purple High Heels ( I just hope she doesn't twist her ankle)