Evelyn was just proud of herself this evening as she said, “Mama, look at my ‘eautiful g’asses.”
It is almost as if it should be spelled ewwtiful, those gasses are so eww.
A Quick Link to a Cool Tool: Bible Maps
If you like to read your Bible and research a little bit about the locations that the text mentions, this is a really, really cool tool: biblemap.org.
Funkin’ Punkins
Tonight we had a blast with some friends from church. We ate some spaghetti for dinner and then covered the table in plastic & newspaper and carved pumpkins. These two are my creations. Abby & Jessica did a ‘light brite’ pumpkin while I will post pictures of soon.
Yes, that is a squash for the nose & hat for the one on the left.
Yes, I’m weird like that.
The one on the right came from our garden and I used the stem as the ‘nose’.
Thanks to Jacquelyn for hosting the event and to everyone else involved. Thanks to April for inviting us on the Facebook.
Heavy Whipping Cream
Did you know that heavy whipping cream can really change your tea? Because if you didn’t, it does. A tiny bit of heavy whipping cream in a cup of tea turns it into dessert.
I guess any value the tea had prior to the cream has been replaced by the fatty, yummy flavors of the cream. But it tastes good so I’m going to look the other whey.
Baby Squirrel
Evie is getting cute with her phrases. Evie-isms will be on their way quite soon I think. Today, just now as I was in the kitchen, she said, “Awww, Sirl. Baby Sirl, where are you?” She was referring to squirrels. But the ‘qu’ combo is a bit much for her so she just cuts them out. Its cute and it makes me smile. Of course if she’s still calling them sirls in 5 years we’ll have issues.
Evie is TWO!
Evelyn turned two today. Yes, those terrible twos. The twos that make an intense little girl intenser. She’s a very cute intense girl and I love her dearly. We’re having the tiniest of ‘parties’ tonight by having family over and that’s about it. Next year when she’s older we may do a larger party, but she doesn’t tend to be a people person yet so we’ll see. Her blond hair, her cute blue eyes and her ability to distract me. We love her very, very much and can’t wait to see what two brings.
Peppers
Today I picked a peck of (non-pickled) peppers. We’re predicted to have our first snow tomorrow morning so I grabbed what had grown and now its in the house and hopefully will last us a couple weeks. I have enough habaneros to last a lifetime, but we’ll probably grow some more next year because I’m goofy like that.
What is your favorite dish with peppers in it? I have jalapeno and habanero peppers waiting to be cooked!
World Series Tickets
A news report just came on and they were announcing that if you wanted tickets to the World Series you’d have to buy them on… the internet. And then they said, “If you don’t have a computer you can go to the library to try to buy tickets.” Yeah, because if you can afford $200.00 or more baseball tickets I’m going to predict that you’ve got enough money for a computer. Maybe its just me, but that seemed rather silly.
Of course, it is ‘news’ so I shouldn’t expect too much.
Thankful Thursday: Our Friends the Masons
Our friends the Masons are coming into town to visit this weekend. They’re bringing their little girl Nadia for us to meet for the first time. That’s pretty exciting by itself, but also we’re going to Estes Park with them. Its rather wintery in Estes Park compared to the planes of Aurora, but we’re really hoping for some beautiful pictures, fun times driving and chatting, and of course laughing about the crazy stuff in life.
We’re rather thankful for all of our friends, but its nice to have the Masons come and join us.
Go Read This: Hugs
Our friends Mike & Louanne have a blog and Louanne posted a sweet and encouraging post about hugs and kids. If you have a moment please go read it.