my muffin munchkin......

this was where me and the Bit enjoyed our bellies full '0' muffins and watched some TV. So warm and cozy, "thank you for the fire daddy!!!"

someone got REALLY into the photographing of the muffin date!

she kept saying "mommy, I wann say cheese!!"

such a good helper

Taking up a little more counter space then last years muffin making pics. :)

Such a ham!

Well it's that time of year again. Time to fill the house with the delicious scent of cinnamon and alspice for our holiday pumpkin muffins. Always a family standard in our house growing up and now a must have in my own home. Unfortunately my hubby won't help me eat them (the recipe makes like 30 muffins!) so I have been thrilled to have a new tummy to please in consuming the little orange miracles. Abigail is really a good little helper and insists on participating in as much as possible in the baking process. She frequently chants her mantra we hear so often "I wannn do it mommy!" She did good once the batter was liquid but she pretty much got flour and sugar all over the counter when I mixed the dry ingredients. She kept flipping the spoon full of powder out of the bowl when she so enthusiastically did her part to stir. :) We will donate half the batch to the L&D unit so our skin won't turn orange this year. Usually I troup through the whole batch no matter how long it takes to finish them. It was a lovely evening together and a cherished holiday tradition now w/ my sweet girl. And I love the new addition of fireside floor picnic once they're all done. And the reviewing of some much loved Harry Potter made the night complete!

Just some fall festive sweetness..

Nothing special....well she is obviously. Just captured some sweetness on our deck the other day. A day in the life w/ the Bit! This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad!

We got crabs!!!

This is Lobsta, our fire shrimp!

Kinda hard to see this guy, I named him Arnold cause he's very buff and looks like he works out a lot. We just added him tonight.

No really, they live in our basement now! Along w/ some snails and a couple shrimp [one named affectionately "Lobsta" in honor of my hubby's heritage! :) ] My sweet hunny has been wanting a salt water tank for as long as I've known him so here we go. Pooh on the crappy housing market we're going ahead w/ our own ocean reef in our basement. The first night we got our crawly things we found ourselves , all three of us watching for almost an hour, literally noses against the glass. A little sad I know, we don't get out much! It's a facinating process. We're growing live rock and waiting anxiously to see what's gonna grow next! We are all turning into Ocean science nerds. Love it!

Pic your party GOP girl!!!

ok I swear we didn't prompt her choice of clothing for yesterday's big vote. Well, I take that back she and I wore matching red shirts and jeans to actually cast our ballots but that night, she was all about insisting on the red vs. blue sock combo. And randomly through the stressful evening she would swap the red on hands to blue on feet and dance about with singing to cheer up her mommy and daddy. She kept coming up and whispering in my ear "Mommy, what's wrong"?? It was so sweet. We popped a big bowl of popcorn and the 3 of us crawled into bed watching the numbers roll in until 10:30 when the electoral college was looking pretty clear we put our little light bulb of cheer to bed. Oh well, it'll be 4 long years but I'm hopeful someone in DC will make a good move for change. I'm already working on letters to Mark Warner and Bob Goodlate to make sure it's the right change!!

Happy Halloween!

"Mommy I wan dance!!"

Well she wasn't quite sure what hit her but she had a blast this year and came away asking for more candy! The week started out with a County library kids party that was just adorable. She got to do her very first 'trick or treating' from the reference section to the periodicals and she was all about it! Next we did some daytime visiting to family again on Friday and she loved any excuse to don her too too again and go see her Grammie. That night I had to work but Bri took her to our churches "Trunk or Treat" and let her hang out with her good buddy Jordyn and see some familiar faces in not so familiar outfits. No pictures of that night, but we got some good Princess Bit pictures anyway to mark Halloween '08!