Autumn Morning

We awoke to squeaks and squeals from Emmy around 7:15a (she only got up at midnight and 3:30pam last night!) and Gubby talking to his toy trains. I snuck out of the bedroom letting Mike sleep in for once and plucked them both out of their cribs and headed to the living room. After turning on the Mickey Mouse Twice Upon a Christmas DVD and flicking on the Christmas tree, I headed to the kitchen to start breakfast. Preheated the oven, mixed batter for chocolate muffins, and started Emmy's oatmeal. Here's the secret recipe:

1 cup puree pumpkin
1 cup puree apple (Galas work well)
1 cup oatmeal (use formula/breast milk)

Stir and heat, cover and refrigerate leftovers-use within 24 hours.

Normally I just put the pumpkin/apple mixture in one container and add oatmeal as I go-she loves it! Gubby likes the pumpkin/apple, we'll call it "papple", with cinnamon and oatmeal, too!

We ate breakfast, donned our cold weather clothes (each with our own knitted hat!) and went for a walk to deliver Gubby's birthday invite to a neighbor and talk to the chickens and goats nearby.

Mike is now outside with Gubby cutting firewood and loading the wheelbarrow for the next few days-we will finally use the wood stove tonight! Emmy is napping (for the time being) and I'm wrapping up loose ends for my doctoral application-nearly done!

It's been a good morning...hope it keeps up!!

Congratulations, Emily Elizabeth

Emily was officially welcomed to the Catholic Church on November 12, 2011. Though she was fighting an ear infection, strep rash, cutting teeth, clogged tear duct AND hadn't napped most of the day-she was a trooper. She even had a blessing of the sick preformed after the baptism. Ms. Christa Snyder served as her Godmother and my uncle Stephen Marens as her Godfather-my father stood in as his proxy as he lives in North Carolina. Don't fret, she's doing well now! Here's a few pictures of the weekend with our families in chilly Tallahassee.

Happy Halloween!

Tell mommy what happened...

Splish, splash

Falling for fall, er, autumn!

We've picked out Gubby's costume (now if he wears it, that's another story), gone to the pumpkin patch, and readied the fire wood stash for this winter-here's a sneak peek! Oh, and if I didn't tell you, the trip to the pumpkin patch did not fare well-but Gubby LOVED watching the trucks at the nearby construction site with his Daddy :)