3 reasons

I wasn't able to go with Connor this year to our schools book fair to help him make his selections. There are three reasons why I'm sorry I didn't get to go.


Reason #1
Reason #2
Reason #3
Pokemon books. Really Connor?

Merry Christmas!

Looks like Christmas came early to the Young household this year, at least for Madison. I had one of her presents, a baby doll, hidden in my closet. In my cleaning and reorganizing of my closet it became "unhidden". She quickly found it and had it ripped out of the box before I discovered her. What a stinker! Merry Christmas Madison.

Roomates

Madison moved out of her crib into a toddler bed a few months ago but only just recently figured out that she can get out of it herself! Since then Samantha has had a sleeping partner. This is what I see every night when I go in to check on the girls! I think it's adorable that Madison is such a bed hog! And Sam even likes it. One night Mads slept in another room while we had company and Sam commented on how much she missed her!

Halloween

We spent Halloween night at a party at our friend's house eating chili cheese dogs, nachos and tamales followed by lots and lots of candy. Does it get any better than that? Here's a picture of the kiddos ready to head over to the party. Yes, Amanda is missing. Her first Halloween not dressing up and going trick-or-treating! She did make a deal with me though, that if she took Mads out, she got half of Mads candy!
The gang getting ready to go out.
Post trick-or-treating trading.
The Mads.

A parade and a party

Yesterday was the elementary school's annual Halloween parade and class parties. Shaun was able to take the day off so that we could join in the festivities.


L.T. Young.
Dr. Young in the parade.
Mads checking out the parade.
After the parade Shaun and Mads hit the playground.
Connor partying Kindergarten style, doing a coloring page.
Mads crashing the party!

Pumpkins, candy corns and more pumpkins

This Halloween meal was the one I was most excited about making. Bread bowls made to look like pumpkins and my family's favorite cheddar chowder. I am not a bread maker. Sometimes I forget that and attempt to make it. My bread bowls were a bit of a flop. They didn't rise enough to fill with chowder and the stems just kind of melted into them instead of sticking out. Oh well. My family loved the chowder and they had some quite good tasting pumpkin shaped french bread rolls to eat with it!
For dessert more candy corn cookies. They're sugar cookies colored orange and dipped in white chocolate.
After dinner we carved our pumpkins. Funny story...I went to the grocery store the other day and decided to pick up our carving pumpkins while I was there. I stuck three of them in the bottom of the cart, did my shopping and then realized I needed one more pumpkin.I grabbed one and stuck it on top of my groceries. A little boy, probably about 4 years old said,to me "You have a big pumpkin on all your groceries." I said "I know, and I have three more underneath all my groceries!" The look on his face was priceless. The he said "You have that many kids?! That's a ton, no wonder you have so many groceries!" It was so funny, and so much like something Connor would say to a perfect stranger to cause me loads of embarrassment!
The finished products.
All lit up.

Mummies and meatloaf

Tonight's dinner starred mummies once again and the kiddos loved it. I made Shaun some real pizza which he loved and I'm sure appreciated too! I know my ideas are not original. Let's face it, if you've been to an elementary school class party you've had all of these.
If you're looking for something a little more original why not try this?! I wish my friend Jeanette had clued me in on this before I had already made my menus for the week. Who wouldn't want meatloaf hand for dinner? Shaun for one. He wouldn't even look at it up close. This from a man who cuts people open all day. If you really want to make it you can find the recipe here.