September 2014

Amelias Birthday!

Amelia had her first friend party-which was super cute! We made homemade pizza and a cupcake horse. Great grandma and grandpa came it's always fun to have grandparents on your birthday! They were both so impressed with how much Jon helped with the party-and he did! Having a baby this year has given me more opportunity to rely on Jon and the kids for help and they have just been awesome! Aubrey and Amelia made the cutest pin the tail on the donkey game. Then we did the typical treasure hunt-kids always love that. They loved the pizza and Amelia and I had a great time making her cupcake horse cake together before the party. I think she had a great 4th birthday!

Here's the birthday girl ready to pop her 4 balloons-birthday tradition to pop as many balloons as you are turning and there will be a nice surprise inside.

Aubrey drew the outline and Amelia colored it. The kids each colored their own tail.

Funny faces!

Little dishes with little food-it's become a birthday tradition!

And I don't know how to move this picture down, so here is me making one of Jons favorites-scones (with honey butter of course).

Aubrey sewed a spider man, batman and hulk for Amelia. She loves those characters. She also got woody, which she also loves.

Horse shaped cake with cup cakes. Amelia loved helping frost it.

We did ab ripper for family home evening. It was hilarious!

Canned pinto beans.

Amelia folding laundry-she's such a good helper.

Isabelle taking a bath in the kitchen sink. And below she is sitting up and staying up on her own for the first time.

I was really into trying new homemade food this month. We did homemade egg noodles-which were amazing! I don't I will ever buy them again! Here they are in chicken noodle soup-homemade of course and delicious!

This was a fun find! I can't believe how many things I have found on the street for free! I was taking the kids to school and saw a huge free TV. I wanted to stop and get it but the kids didn't want to be late for school so I hurried to drop them off, came back and it was still there. I got it into the can-which I discovered I had to fold the seats to make it fit anyway so it wouldn't have worked to get it before dropping off the kids anyway. Jon was super surprised! It does have pixels on it, but it's better than our old TV and it's fun to have such a huge TV!

Here is our adorable Isabelle! She is really trying to copy faces we make. This is one of our favorites.

And of course this is adorable too!

So we got into homemade pizza hut pan pizza-deliciousness!

Everyone made their own.

Really LOVE homemade ice cream! A LOT!

And it's also amazing on chocolate waffles with homade carmel and chocolate sauce!

Homemade pasta noodles with the most amazing sauce-recipes found from the pioneer woman.