Someone loves chocolate chips and baking!

Everly is just like her siblings and loves to bake! But, this summer, she has especially started liking to mix and crack eggs and eat the batter! She also has this little plate that holds 6 slices of pie, all different colors. She will "bake" them over and over and carry them around and it's just the sweetest. On the day that Atticus, Grace and Vic went to the Astros game, we baked and baked (real and imaginary). I had to post these sweet photos and video! Video: https://youtu.be/EdGcUf52T7g

Fall: Pumpkin Patches, Football, Halloween activities

October is always a fun month for fall and Halloween activities. Here are some things we did this month:

 We dressed in lots of cute outfits for Halloween. And, the first picture is Grace and then Everly; they wore the same outfit on the same day 3 years apart!

 We visited the neighbors yard multiple times to see all of their fun and scary yard decorations!

 

 We made lots of Halloween goodies!

 We decorated and crafted and tried to scare Mommy with all of our Halloween masks!

 We went with MOPS to the Oil Ranch and played all of the games and rides!

 We went to a carnival with Dani and then joined Grace for her preschool Halloween party!

 We had our annual family day at the Pumpkin patch where we bought our pumpkins and mums!

And we played a lot of football outside with our neighbors and friends! It was a busy month!

Christmas Cookies

So, for awhile I have really liked icing cookies for events. I am not that great at it, but I am determined to get better. I have just got to get a better homemade recipe for icing that is not too sweet but still shiny and still tastes good a few days later. And, I have to get my system down for making the right amount of icing per color I need. Then, I have to also figure out the right consistency of my icing to outline and then fill. It's really a complicated process. I can see why bakeries charge $2 or $3 dollars apiece for a decorated sugar cookies! I decided to take some to Erwin Christmas and they were fun and tasty. But, 2017 will be my year to get this down!