So, since our house is currently on the market, we’ve done a few things to upgrade the place, namely painting and rearranging. If such things interest you, feel free to check out the pictures of some of the updates we’ve made. Peace out!
Pumpkin Roll Wednesday, Oct 21 2009
Recipes 7:35 pm
This is one of our favorite fall desserts.
1 c. sugar
3 beaten eggs
2/3 c. canned pumpkin
3/4 c. all-purpose flour
1 t sp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. baking soda
1 8-oz package cream cheese, softened
1 tsp. vanilla
2 T. margarine
1 c. sifted powdered sugar
1) Preheat oven to 375o.
2) Mix sugar, eggs, and pumpkin in a bowl.
3) Sift flour, salt, cinnamon, and baking soda in another bowl. Combine with pumpkin mixture.
4) Spray rimmed baking sheet with Pam and line with greased wax paper extended over sides.
5) Pour batter in rectangular shape on wax paper. Bake for 15 min.
6) Beat cream cheese, vanilla, margarine, and powdered sugar until smooth and creamy.
7) Sprinkle clean dishtowel with powdered sugar. Flip cooked batter face down on towel. Remove wax paper.
8 ) Roll loosely and let set until cooled.
9) Unroll cake and spread with filling. Roll again without the dishtowel.
10) Wrap in foil and freeze. Unwrap and slice while frozen.
Miriam at 6 Months Tuesday, Oct 20 2009
Cute Kid Stuff and Photo Albums 7:37 pm
Bill laid her down for a moment. When he came back she was out.
Our little bib nun
Sweet baby
Playing with Daddy
Our little precious girl
Subscribing to the blog Monday, Oct 19 2009
General 6:00 am
So, I know there are some of you who read this blog who are not blog people. So, for all you wonderful people out there, I’ve gotten us connected with feedburner. At the top left of our blog, you’ll see a link to follow that allows you to either subscribe via blog reader or email. By clicking on that, you can sign up to get an email whenever we put a new post on the blog. That means you never actually have to come visit the blog and you’ll be notified in your email inbox if we post. If we don’t post, you don’t get an email. And feedburner doesn’t spam or anything, so it’s safe to subscribe (I can vouch because I’ve signed up for other people’s sites using the feature).
So, if it’s helpful to you, awesome! If not, then don’t worry about this post!
Peace out!
Branson, Day 7 Sunday, Oct 18 2009
Cute Kid Stuff and Photo Albums and Vacation 6:00 am
The final day in Branson. It was literally just a day of breakfast, packing up, and heading out. Here’s a picture of the sign for our resort. Exciting, I know…
This really has nothing to do with leaving, but I just thought it was darn cute to see all of our sandals side by side.
Liam and Ariana at breakfast (featuring the freaky fish-shaped fruit bowl on the table)
Esther eating with Court in the kitchen in the background.
On the way home, one of our stops was at a McDonald’s playplace so the kids could get some monkeyness out. Here are the last pictures I took from the vacation.
Well, that’s it for Branson, folks. It was an awesome family vacation with great weather, a fantastic place to stay, and a lot of great time together as a family. A special thanks to our good friend (if you’re reading this, you know who you are) who blessed us by giving us a time-share for the week so that we could stay seven nights for FREE. And as always, my greatest thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus who gave me this amazing family and this great time to enjoy them and the world he made.
Branson, Day 6 Saturday, Oct 17 2009
Cute Kid Stuff and Photo Albums and Vacation 6:00 am
The sixth day (and final full day in Branson) was a nature day. We ended up with some free tickets to go up in something called the Inspiration Tower.
The kids checking out the view in the glass elevator as we went up in the tower.
I think Miriam was actually paying attention, too.
Up in the observation section, the kids are checking out the scene and, of course, all the historical/geographical material. Right…
Ariana was all into pushing Esther around in the stroller.
The view from the tower.
We also found a nature trail to walk that included this rickety tower thing.
Court said she wasn’t interested AT ALL in going up the thing, but Liam, Ariana, and I decided to brave it together. Check out my little troopers.
Saying “hi” to Court and the little girls down below.
After that, we went to Stone Hill Winery (which was super close to the resort) for a tour, but it didn’t really work out. We ended up just walking around, pointing at grapes (as part of the nature day, maybe?), then heading out. A little disappointing, but fun just to be together.
And tomorrow will have the last Branson post. After that, onward and upward into new posting realms…
Branson, Day 5 Friday, Oct 16 2009
Cute Kid Stuff and Photo Albums and Vacation 1:23 pm
So, I know I’ve been taking FOREVER to finish the vacation pictures, but the last posts are finally all finished and are scheduled to post over the next three days so that we can finally get on to some other stuff on this blog.
Day five in Branson was a “stay at the resort” day. It started with a little pool action (this is obviously the kiddie pool, in case you’re thinking that the resort had a sick sense of humor with their “pool”).
Here’s Liam with a little jumpin’-in action.
And a sweet little Esther-girl
Due to a bit of a mix-up with having a new bathing suit shipped to the resort for Court to use, she was without one until we left. So, here was her interaction with the pool.
There were also 18 holes of miniature golf at the resort. We decided to try it out with Miriam in the sling, Esther in the carrier, and the older two kids playing some mini-golf with Mommy and Daddy. We only got through nine holes (and that was stretching it), but we had a good time nonetheless.
Check out that AWESOME putting form.
Essie on Daddy’s back
Miriam’s usual disposition when in the sling against Mommy.
Some sweet close-ups of Ariana and Liam.
A couple of “out-take” close-ups of said children.
My sweet little family
Like I said, Day 6 of the trip will post tomorrow (Saturday) and Day 7 will post Sunday. Again, sorry for taking so long!
