On the 3rd Day of Christmas My True Love Baked for Me

Pumpkin Muffins!!!!

All you need:

1 box yellow or spice cake mix

1 can Pumpkin

1 TBS Cinnamon or Apple Pie Spice

Mix well, pour into muffin tins and bake at 350 degrees for 18 to 20 minutes! So easy and so delicious!!! ENJOY!

(Thank you Hannah for this amazing recipe!)

Haileys Heart

Hailey had her cardiology appointment yesterday. She was being so sweet to all the doctors " you are not going to give me a shot right!?" She has the heart condition SVAS a narrowing of the left valve in the heart. The doctor said that it is ok for now because she is growing so slowly...we could have a problem if she starts growing faster and it doesn't grow with her. I did ask what the chances that she would have to have open heart surgery and the doctor said probably close to 50%...she acted like that was really good news....doesn't sound too good to me! We will just have to cross that bridge if and when we get there...and hopefully it never does!

On the 2nd Day of Christmas My True Love Baked for Me

Chocolate Mint Crinkles!

You will need:

2 cups all purpose flour

1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

2 tsp baking soda

1/2 teasspoon salk

2 cups sugar

1/2 cup vegetable oil

4 eggs

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 teaspoon mint extract

1 cup powdered sugar

Directions:

1. In a small bowl mix together flour, cocoa, baking powder, and salt

2. In a large bowl, whisk togethe sugar, oil, eggs, and extracts until well blended.

3. Stir dry mixture until combined, Cover bowl and refrigerate two hours.

4. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Roll cookie dough in powdered sugar and place on parchment-lined cookie sheets. Add mint baking candies to the center of each ball.

5. Bake for 9 to 12 minutes. ENJOY!

On the 1st Day of Christmas

...My True Love Baked for Me:

CARMEL CORN!

You will need:

2 cups brown sugar

1/2 cup light corn syrup

1 cup butter

1 tsp salt1 tsp baking soda

8 quarts popcorn

Preheat oven to 200 degrees

I can never get the regular popcorn not to burn on my stove...so I use good old microwave bags! Combine all but baking soda and popcorn in a heavy pan. Bring to a boil at a rapid boil for 5 minutes. Then add soda. This will make the mixture rise so your pan should be big. Pour over popcorn as the mixture is rising. Mix with two wooden spoons until popcorn is fully coated.
Bake at 200 degrees for half an hour turning the popcorn over every 15 minutes.
Enjoy!! It's our tradition to eat while were listening to Christmas music and decorating our tree :)

Getting Festive

Happy 2nd Birthday my precious Ashtyn!

Celebrated her birthday at her Grandpa Larry's and Nana Jan's

We watched Toy Story 3 in their movie theater.

The girls loved it!!!!!!!!!!

Halloween

Stole a few pictures from Summer from our Halloween trip to Texas.

Nate's new hobby

Ok so I still don't have my camera back, but I figured out to upload pictures from my phone...so here are the 2 1974 Ford Broncos that Nate has been spending much of his free time on :) He iis keeping 1 for the parts and will get rid of it when he is done so we will just have 1. He said he is about 65% done with the engine...then for the fun part...the body!

Snow!

First snow of the year today! The girls and I went for ice cream, grabbed a movie, put some muffins in the oven and are now already in our jammies watching Up. Mmmmm love snow days!

Creepy

Look what Nate dug up on his job site the other day...there have been 7 bodies (skeletons) total. They speculate it could have something to do with the 1930's mafia......creepy!

Burg Sibling night out

We have been having monthly "Sibling night out." We do have a crazy crew! We all got sitters and headed over to Lime to hear Taylor DJ and enjoy $1 Taco's and Margaritas!! What a blast!From left to right: Taylor, Myself, Hannah (Tay's girlfriend), Amy, Tighe (Aaron's wife), Jordan, Travis (Jo's bf), Russell, Nate and Aaron
The Ladies

The Happiest Place on Earth!

Here are a few pics of our Disneyland trip. I left my camera at our friends house out there:( As soon as I get it back I will post the rest. It was such a great day!!!

The Page cousins: Maddie 3, Hailey 5, Caleb almost 1, Ashtyn almost 2

Where was Nate ALL summer?

Here are just a couple of the hundreds of photos taken of Nate's jobs this summer. Denver Public Schools are his largest client. He was the project manager for dozens of schools and got to do a lot of that awesome concrete painting himself! We are so proud of you babe! Thanks for working so hard to provide for our family!

Fall Family Photo Shoot

Sorry these posts are so few and far between! We have been having some computer issues...AHHHHH Finally got the lap top fixed so we have lots to catch up on! We are back from our wonderful California trip and have so many pictures! In the mean time we had a fall family photo shoot with our favorite photographer while we were there! Here is the link with the slide show: http://www.studio317photo.com/page10/

A Long Summer

It's been an incredibly long summer so far!! Hailey has been out of school since May and our days are extremely LONG!

Nate is still very busy and leaves before I wake up and doesn't get home until sometime after 10pm...most of his projects will finish in September so we should be getting back to normal soon! This summer I have pretty much felt like a single mom! AHHHHH

The girls are growing and learning new things everyday!

Hailey starts Kindergarten Aug 25Th...she will be going from 9 to 12:30 Monday through Friday and as she adapts to that we will see when she can handle 9 to 3 everyday! I know I can handle that ;) Looking forward to celebrating her 5Th Birthday!!!!

Ashtyn is talking so much more and starting to put together 2 to 3 word sentences! Love to hear her say "Bye bye mama!"

I am still so thankful that I get to get out and work 4 nights a week! I am now consistently working at 2 of the 4 locations and managing sometimes the location right in downtown Denver! I continue to LOVE my job!

For all of our California friends and family...we are coming out for a visit the first week in October! We will spend the first 3 days in LA and the last 4 up in Kingsburg! We are so excited! It has been long over due! Nate will be joining us as well so we can start catching up on some missed family time!

6 Years baby!

I got pictures taken for our 6 year wedding anniversary to surprise Nate....here's a glimpse!