Halloween/Fall Treat

My Mom found this cute idea in her blog adventures one day! We tried it out and they are super cute and super good if you like peanut butter. They taste like peanut butter fudge, only better and much cuter! They are a little time consuming but kind of fun to make especially with the kids.

All you need is one bag of peanut butter chips (like chocolate chips) and one container of vanilla frosting.

Melt the peanut butter chips in the microwave and then add the vanilla frosting to it. Set aside a very small amount to color green for the stems and color the rest orange. It kind of gets tuff to stir. Then you set in fridge for one hour.

To make pumpkins you roll the orange into balls. Take a knife to score like a real pumpkin and then you set it down and push the top down with your thumb. It opens up the scores that you just made to make it look like pumpkin. Then you use a tooth pick to make a little hole in the top to stick the stem in that you make out of the green.

I hope this makes sense. There really isn't any directions so these are my special instructions and I wanted to be clear as possible so it may be sound stupid. If you have any questions let me know.

Enjoy!

8 Things...

About Me... 8 TV shows I love to watch: The Young and the Restless(my FAV!!!), The Hills, The Kardashians, The Girls Next Door, The Real World, The new 90210, Dancing with the Stars, Gangland. 8 Things I did yesterday: slept in, went to work, went shopping, watched the tile prep work at my house, laundry, cleaned up, went to dinner with Mom & Hayden, went to bed LATE. 8 Things I am looking forward to: our little remodel project to be done, Hayden to be potty trained completely, CHRISTMAS!!!!, card swap night with my great friends, Halloween, going to work (that sounds sick but I actually really like work), Hayden's 3rd birthday, and at this very moment I am looking forward to going to bed! (I am very sleepy right now!) 8 things on my wish list: A baby sister for Hayden, a new car, MONEY! (I know money isn't everything but it would sure help things!) For none of us to ever get sick, Hayden to be potty trained, to be skinny, a fun girl vacation to NY, a romantic vacation to Fiji!!

Potty Training Update

I haven't given a potty training update since we started which was the beginning of the year sometime. That is because Hayden was doing really good for a little while then he gave up on it. It could have been partly our fault for not keeping up with it ourselves. We just kept forgetting. Well, I thought it is really time to crack down on this and get him potty trained. So we started a potty chart and he FINALLY filled his first one all up. We told Hayden that once he filled up his potty chart that we would take him to the toy store and he could pick out a toy. After a few months... he finished! So last week we took him to Toys R Us and after a long hard decision he picked out a crane type truck for his reward. He has been so funny though with going 2 in his pants. He knows he is supposed to go on the potty but I guess he doesn't want to go 2 on there so he gets really quiet and sort of hides out until he is done going. Then he will come back into the room we are in and have this guilty look on his face and sometimes even tattle on himself. That look is just so funny! I can tell immediately what he has done.

He has been doing really good for the past month so hopefully we can stick with the program and he will be using the potty all time (even #2!).

Good Job Hayden! We are proud of you!

He looked and looked for the perfect toy!

He was all about these remote control tractor things but luckily he didn't choose one of those! ($65 for one of those things. YIKES!)

Decisions Decisions! He could not choose between these two! He thought he could have both! Everything with him comes in two's! He's so silly!

The green one it is!! Hayden is headed home to play with his new truck!

Look at my crane Mommy!!

Hayden is already excited about filling up his next potty chart so he can go get the other crane that he wanted. That boy never forgets anything!

Family Photo 2008

We had our yearly Family picture taken. I found the best photographer ever! Her name is Heather and her business is called Bridge Photography. She takes beautiful pics!! You should check out her website- http://www.bridgephotography.com/

Here are a few from our session-

Deer Hunt Season 2008

I haven't mentioned much about my hubby on this blog and he has been feeling pretty bad. He won't admit it but he hints around all the time that I never mention him. So yes, he really does exist.




I thought I would post a few pics of the deer hunt season that just passed. (I am secretly very glad that it has passed!) Nate goes on the bow hunt every year to the La Sal mountains which is just about 30 minutes away from Moab. He has been going to the same place since he was young and over the years he has made some out of state friends that travel here every year just to hunt mule deer. Hunting is Nate's passion especially bow hunting! He talks about all year long and once it starts getting closer and closer it is like Christmas around our house, for him anyway! The bow hunt was unsuccessful for Nate (thank goodness as I don't need another one of those things hanging on my wall!) but he still wouldn't have missed it for the world, deer or no deer!



This year Nate was extra excited for the hunting season because he got to go on the bow hunt as well as the muzzle loader with my Dad. My Dad drew out on a hunt down south in the Panguitch area. They were both pretty excited for this. This hunting trip was with my family that also drew out in the same area so they stayed at the cabin on Panguitch Lake. My Dad WAS successful on his hunt!!! I was excited too because now my Mom will now know what I go through having these things on my walls! I understand that these are their "trophy's" but come one.... dead deer on my walls?! As Nate always says it was part of the deal when we said "I do"!

Here are a few pics from their hunts- I do have to admit that my hubby does look pretty cute in that camo!Aunt Marilyn & Shaun (thought it was a cute pic)

Dad showing off his kill

Nate with one of his best buddies, Dave

Nate, Jeff from WI, & Dave getting ready to go hiking for deer.