Recipe Hoarder

I have a confession!  I am a recipe hoarder!  I really don't even cook very often but I am continually pulling recipes out of magazines or printing recipes off the internet!  Currently I can smell something yummy baking in my oven.  It's pumpkin bread with a twist!  You start with a yellow cake mix and add pumpkin, mashed  banana and cinnamon.  After it cools, I will top it with cream cheese/powdered sugar icing!  What's the occasion you are asking?  Nothing!!  I tore the page out several weeks ago and purchased the ingredients.  Finally the bananas were so  brown they were about to be thrown away!  So I made it this afternoon.  If we don't make progress with it, I will take it up to work!!  Needless to say, I have uneven pages stacked up and bunching up on the shelf.  I love cookbooks too!  When you look at the bookshelves, you would think I cook every day!  The other problem is how not-often I sort through them and file them away.  So just a window into my soul!  Let me know if you need a recipe!

Update on my girl

Despite the drama we have been through, Audrey is doing great!  She only occasionally complains of itching or hurting.  She has become more active and pretty much back to her usual self!  She is trying to climb and play like normal.  I keep having heart flutters when I see her doing something that might result in another fall!!  I think I worry a lot more than I used to.  Funny how my attitude can change so quickly.  She will have the long cast on for around 3 weeks and then she will get a shorter cast for another 2-3 weeks.  So all her Christmas pictures will have a pink cast!! 

When my boss DG heard about her cast, he said she needed to come up to the store to get signatures.  When I told her, she responded "OK, I'll go to work with you tomorrow." 

Me-"Ummmm, I'm not sure..."

Her-"What? I'll get a ride back!"

I worked this morning and JD brought the kids up to the store to eat lunch with me.  So DG signed the cast and wrote on her other hand.  Then, she walked around getting more signatures.  Once, she even asked "who else do I need to get?"  

The truth is I think it feels a little bit like being a rock star!!!  She is loving the attention (even when she acts shy)!

Absentee Blogger

So I've had several ideas for posts but it's amazing how hard it can be to sit down and put it on blog paper!  Most recently, we had some drama yesterday.  We spent 3 hours in the emergency room because I was concerned Audrey had broken her right arm.  She fell off the arm of the couch and was death-gripping her arm.  Her pain did not seem to lessen.  The problem with scrambling off to the ER was Paxton was still napping and John David was also sleeping!  So I called our adopted college student and she was gracious enough to come hang with Paxton.  I also woke John David up to give him the scoop.  She was such a trooper and so stoic at the ER.  Many nurses, EMT's, etc. came by to say they had heard the cutest girl ever was in our room.  One even told me Audrey looks like Suri Cruise!  Yep, I get that alot! After some x-rays, they confirmed that it was fractured in 2 places.  They also needed to bend her wrist back, etc. to re-set the bones.  So they kind of put her to sleep so she wouldn't remember it!  She is doing so well.  If only Paxton could understand why he needs to keep a 5 foot radius away from Audrey!

Another song or two

I think she really likes being on camera! I'm not sure how I feel about that!

Kingdom Kids song

A Girl Who Loves to Sing

My daughter loves to sing!  She loves dancing even more but I think she is constantly singing in her head.  Here is a video I took of her singing the kingdom kids song.

Technical Difficulties

I have been MIA for a while because we were having major computer problems!!  We could barely use our old computer!  We could get on the internet but not type in any box (like a blog) and often the computer was randomly restarting in the middle of whatever you were doing.  It couldn't even download pictures off the camera and print them! 

So, we have our early Christmas present for John David and myself!!  Now we can finish our Christmas shopping online and get our Christmas cards ordered!!  It's been a tough few weeks with the computer getting worse and worse!  Sad how desperate we were without it!!!

Family and Zoo Visit

This past weekend the kids and I went to Abilene to visit my family and go to the zoo.  My kids both LOVE playing with their cousins.  They would do it all day, every day if possible!  Sadly, we only briefly saw one set of cousins.  We also came to Abilene to see the zoo.  My children also LOVE the zoo!  They love animals of many kinds.  We especially wanted to see the 5 lion cubs before they went to new homes.  I was surprised the cubs were already getting big!  Paxton continues to talk about the alligator we saw sunning himself!

He and Grandad have a special bond!

Don't you wish childhood lasted forever?

Ok, so I don't really mean forever, but I do wish we could freeze that feeling of pure joy without any complications!  Remember when you just played hard all afternoon and slept hard that night.  I just feel like all adults could use a reminder of what is feels like to be a kid.  Even though it is a fleeting feeling, it is a really important one!  I love being a parent and witnessing these moments in the eyes of my children. 
Click below to see Audrey and what I'm talking about!

Dinosaur Obsession

This is what my husband and I have been driven to do.  First Paxton found a little blue dinosaur to which he became very attached.  The problem was he kept losing it for hours, even days.  This was upsetting to him!  Then I found 4 more little dinosaurs.  Then he became attached to the little green t-rex.  He had to have BOTH the blue one and the green one at all times.  Except sometimes they get lost or left on the playground!  So my husband began looking for bags of dinosaurs (just as long as it was more than our son could count!).  So here we are, with more dinosaurs than any child needs.  Thankfully, he no longer cares as much if some get lost!

Funny!  The giant triceratops was the first dinosaur we ever bought him and he's never attached to it!  The giant t-rex was a recent gift from someone who knows how much he's obsessed!!

We are living in a golden age of breakdancing.

If they had a "so you think you can dance for kids", I think these might win it! This video is pretty amazing and will make you smile if you like breakdancing even a little bit!

We are living in a golden age of breakdancing.

Trunk or Treat Pro's

We had a great time at our church's Trunk or Treat!  Paxton tried the horse-riding but it jostled too much!  Audrey got her face painted (which left a rash today!!).  We had fun and got some exercise.  Then we went to my friend's party with some delicious food!  If only Paxton would sleep in after having so much fun!!!

Cowboy Spiderman