Happy Halloween

Can we eat the candy now? . . .How about now? . . .Is it time now? . . . Can we eat it all tonight?

Happy Fall!

I love our house in the fall. I love the crisp breeze in the middle of the day that necessitates the use of a sweater. I love the frigid nights and clear star filled skies. I love the hint of smoke in the air from the few families who've started using their fireplaces already. I love the holly berries turning from yellow to orange and just starting to take on the reddish hue that will soon overwhelm them. I love taking the kids out to the back yard to play and then bringing lunch onto the deck and needing to sit in the sun to stay warm. Praise the Lord for seasons.

Dane's Party

We had a costume party for Dane's birthday bash. We did it at the clubhouse in our neighborhood which was a real blessing for clean-up. It was so weird to have our first party without any of our CA friends and family. So for those of you who couldn't be there here is what we did. We had pumpkin shaped sugar cookies for the kids to decorate when they first got there, then we played hot potatoe and then had a relay race. After that we had lunch and on the menu were worms on a bun, monster munch, putrid punch and worms in dirt cupcakes. Yum yum, thanks Sal! ; )

Then it was gift time and cake time. I had made this huge 3 layer spooky cake and thought that we'd have tons leftover, but the whole thing was gone and mommy didn't even get a piece. The kids had a blast.

Dane's 4th Birthday

Dane turned 4 on Oct. 20th. I asked him what he wanted to do for his special day. He said "I want Dunkin Donuts for breakfast and I want to go to the beach." So we picked up his buddy Jacob, got donuts and had a ball at the cloudy, cold (54 F) beach. I forgot my camera, hence no photos. In the evening daddy finished work early and they went and picked out some presents with the money that Teta, Sido and Yaya (my mom, dad and grandmother) had sent him. Then we had Dane's favorite homemade pizza and cupcakes for dinner. Happy boy.

Blue Shoes Charlie. The crab that Mr. Billy stretched to catch for Dane. Mr. Billy saved the day for Dano who squealled with excitement when the crab landed on the dock.

Looking to nab a crab

Dane and Daddy with our new net looking for blue crabs.

Lamya and Bekaboo on the dock. Smile!

New friends on Bald Head Island

These are our new friends from Cornerstone Baptist Church, Billy, Megan, Addy and Aiden Morris. We went down to visit them on Bald Head Island where the live. It was a chilly rainy day but we had a blast none the less. The rain stopped long enough for us to go out on the dock and see the beauty around us.

Heavy Reading

The other day Tonii walked into the bathroom and saw Dane reading "The Mortification of Sin" by the Puritan author John Owen. Nothing else really needs to be said. Enjoy the photo.

Sweet Toothe

There is a gourmet store in town called Pine Valley Market that has been using me to make most of the desserts for their catering events for the past couple of months. They asked me to come out last weekend and set up a display and sell cupcakes individually in front of their store so that their regular customers could get a taste of Sweet Toothe. They'd like to get people hooked so that they can start retailing my cupcakes in the store on a daily basis. We will see. My proud and sweet hubby took this photo and told me that it needed to be posted. Thanks Sal for pushing me to finally do some posts again = )

BIG girl

Beka has been above average in the height department since she was born (of course, look who her mother is = ) ). But when I took her in for her 18 month check up I was shocked when the doctor, her uncle Patrick (pretty cool) told me that she is off the charts for height! Yes, our Beka is in the 100th percentile for height. He said that she is actually the height of an average 2 1/2 year old. From these photos you can see that she loves her "bay beee" and her "da deee" too.