Halloween at mom and dad's. Can you guess who the bug-eyed beauty is in the back?

Funny Adria

Funny Kim!

I had to hide the camera from her, other wise she would have stopped singing. I thought I would sneak a closer look at her, but then she saw the camera and tried sticking her apple on the lense. I wish she wasn't eating her apple while singing too, but I am glad she was atleast singing with me. I love that she knows this song. Just ignore my voice and listen to hers. hehe

Little twinkle eyes!

Just had a photo shoot, and wanted to share : )

I was so impressed with this salad, I took a picture of it and had to post it.
It is delicious!!!! I am currently eating it while I post.
I just used a small plate, so you can get the size of it. I would say if you were to fill up a glass liquid measuring cup it would be about 2 cups of lettuce. Then I put a tiny bit of ranch dressing on, and then about 4 oz. of kidney beans out of a can. Then here is what has made it yummy. I put "Pace Picante Green Taco sauce" on it. It only has 5 calories! And then I sprinkled it with ground black pepper. And thats it!
Its hitting the spot though, and so fullfilling and delicious!!!!

Adria found the camera and took the first picture. Cute huh!, You can see her eye and nose in the top corner.
We love to eat our dinner outside on a blanket, its so relaxing!
Well if you didn't think these two were buddies, now are you convinced!

I love this picture!!!!!! And I took it!!! haha

She was so busy being a princess, she got tired and past out on the couch. My sweet little girl!!!
She loves to wear her "pincess dgesses".

Here is the Dinosaur cake I did for my neice Savannah. She wanted a pink dinosaur cake. So her mom compramised with her and asked me to make the cake part strawberry. So I used a "Bakers Secret" pan. It is as Deep as a cake pan, but almost as big as a cookie sheet. I used two normal strawberry cake mixes baked seperately. Chocolate frosting for the base, and butter cream frosting for the trim.
I got the dinosaur set at our local Macey's grocery store for $5.00. I put first cake down and frosted it, then put little candies on top of the frosting. Then I put the other cake on top of that and frosted with the chocolate frosting again. The River part is blue decorating gel. I spread it out with a butter knife, and then put blue sugar sprinkels on and then put more blue gel on in a striped motion to make it look more rippley. Then I put all the dinosaur stuff on, and then made the butter cream frosting. The butter cream frosting was supposed to be a light pink, to enunciate the "pink dinosaur cake" idea, and I had it a nice pink color, but then I had the "bright idea" to put raspberry extract in it. The weirdest, most unexpected thing happened! My pink frosting turned bright white!!!! So I tried adding more pink food coloring back in, and the only color I get it back to was this light peach. I think it turned out better that way though, because it matches the sand color under the palm trees. I had more dinosaurs for the cake but my daughter decided to run off with them and lost them. Sorry Savannah!!
The dinosaur eggs in the back of the cake are just decorating candies that you get with the sprinkles and stuff. They are also the candies that I put in between the layers of cake. They are like fruit flavored cinnimon red hots. I have the cake sitting on tinfoil wrapped onto an upsidedown cookie sheet. Oh, ya and I sprinkled green sugar sprinkles too, for little bits of greenery in the land scape.

Wyoming Trip From Tara's Camera

Matt and the kids getting the pole ready.
Tucker taking a swim.
Taking a break on the trail

Abby cheesin for the camera.
Mazie crashed at the end of the trail. She even got to ride on daddy's shoulders the whole way. He should have been the one to crash.
Chris fishing on his rock.

Annie's 3 inch fish.

Here are my pics from the Wyoming trip. My camera was buried for most of the trip too. I've got to do better at keeping it right with me.