Well here are the pictures of Brock blowing out the candles on his cake. This post comes with an explanation. We had our beautiful airplane cake on the counter while we were all out of the room and our oh so lovely puppy put his front paws on the counter and ate one of the wings, we were so not happy with this! Don worked so hard on that cake and boy were we angry. Needless to say we made another cake that we could eat. It turned out yummy just not as cool looking, I am bummed we didn't get any pictures of Brock with his other cake but I am thankful we took some pictures pre-Ben!

Better late than never

Well as you know we are big into the kids birthday cakes and to say the least we were a little late again with Brocks, yes it's the 22nd today and Brocks birthday was the 25th of October. Anyhow, here it is, we will serve it to him tomorrow sometime so I'll get some pictures of the candle blowing, etc. Enjoy and another great job Don!

Morgans updo!

My lovely daughter asked me to share pictures of her hair. Here they are now make sure you ooh and ahh at her beauty.

Bargain Alert

For those of you here in the Albany area this post is for you! Albertsons has their turkeys 23 cents a pound after you spend $25 in the store. The other stores in the area you have to spend more money to get that price so for us this is the best deal. We don't do much shopping at the grocery store anymore mostly Costco but $25 shouldn't be that difficult. Don wants me to try and get a few this year so we'll see if I can make a month menu in order to find enough to buy at the store to make it worth it. Oh and we've stuck to our menu so far, well except for Monday the kids and I walked to Costco to get milk and ended up having sausages for lunch there instead of eating at home. It is so nice to be able to look at the menu and know what to prepare etc, I can't believe I haven't done it before, I'm a little behind the times on that one I guess, huh?

Update: I just spent $4.14 for an 18 lb turkey yeah! I plan on going back in the next couple days to get a couple more to stock the freezer! YEAH!

Reading time

The kids and I have been reading Little House in the Big Woods every night and last night I got a few cute pictures. We are hoping to get through that series and then read Robinson Crusoe. I watched the show Crusoe on NBC and loved it and thought the kids would totally get into the book.

Our Fun Saturday!

Right before we had a huge leaf fight we were so dirty by the time we got home.

They are the cutest aren't they?

All in a row

Just the right place for a gap in the railing for Brock

Ty had a blast

Morgan was not impressed with the seagulls eating the ducks bread

Darn seagulls!

Don is on his way to North Dakota this weekend so it's just the kids and I and our no eating off the menu life. Today was finally sunny so we walked to the park and fed the ducks with bread I've been saving for the past couple months. We had a great time and I got a few cute pictures. We came home and raked the leaves in the back yard and cleaned up all the toys back there. I'm hoping to mow one more time before the real rain starts. We're heading to church tomorrow and that about wraps up our excitement woohoo aren't we thrilling?

Our menu

The kids and I decided that since Don wasn't going to be home until the end of next week that we were going to have a goal of not eating any meals that we didn't make, so last night we sat down and made a menu, I'm sure it doesn't look very exciting or creative but hey it's a start and we decided together.

Today
Raisin Bread
Mac n' Cheese
Homemade Pizza

Saturday
Biscuits w/jam and applesauce
Leftovers
Cales Chicken

Sunday
Eggs w/ toast
Chicken Noodle Soup, Tomato Soup and Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
Roast

Monday
Pancakes
Pb&j and apple chips
Tacos or leftovers

Tuesday
Pumpkin Chip muffins
leftovers
Morgan's chicken

Wednesday
Make your own breakfast
nachos
steak

Thursday
Oatmeal
mac n' cheese
spaghetti

Friday
oatmeal
hot dogs
fancy nachos

I'm hoping writing it down will keep us on task I'll let you know how it goes they can't complain about the menu if they made it