Christmas Sugar Cookies

The girls wanted to make sugar cookies. They had so much fun. Two pans of cookies! They had a lot of fun and even helped me clean up.

Mix:
1 1/2 C sugar
1 C coconut oil
3 eggs
1 tsp lemon/almond extract
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp salt
4 1/2 C flour ( I used only 4 C)

Chill dough, bake 350 degrees for 9 minutes.

Alternative: Chocolate Sugar Cookies
3/4 C cocoa powder
1/2 C brown sugar
Omit lemon extract

Family

Story Time with Daddy

The girls love daddy reading to them. He is great with girls.
Almost ready for bed time for two little girls.

School Pictures (Fall)

Here are the Fall school pictures:

 I took Elayna's picture and it turned out great!  I got a print for the wall.  Now need to print some for grandma's!!

Lilia did a great job for her first grade pictures.

Many Faces of Lilia

We played with camera tonight and took some crazy pictures. She makes me laugh! We could have taken twenty more. She did not want to stop.

Painting Pumpkins

Elayna and Lilia have been begging to get pumpkins to paint and decorate. We went shopping and found pumpkins! They were so excited. They still are excited.

Apple Pie

I made apple pie for the girls for dessert. Lilia is studying apples at school. The pie was delicious  and house smells great! I canned the apple pie filling in 2008 with a great friend. It was still very good.
*I cheated and purchased store bought crust in the refrigerator section. Makes things so easy. 

Gymnastics: Elayna

Elayna loves gymnastics. She is learning  a lot and has fun with her friends.

Dentist: No Cavities!

The girls have gone with me to our dentist since they were babies. They are great and know how to work everything. They were all smiles and no cavities.

Word Search and Cuteness

Lilia should be eating breakfast but is doing a word search on back of cereal box on her own!

Elayna dressing up to leave house.

Made her Bed!

Elayna  made her bed all by herself. She decided  where all her stuffed animals  would go etc. In her Sunbeam class at church they talked about a Job Jar. She is now sweeping the floor. Yeah!

Thank you Sister Klotter!

Dying Cow

Set stage....

Asher heads outside to the porch to practice  the trumpet. Elayna  follows. She asks him if she can play. He says, "Just a minute, it's not working."  She says, "Are you bringing in a dying cow?"

Few minutes later...she says, "Is it still a dying cow?"

Asher laughing. Keep practicing Asher.

He let her play.

Happy Father's Day!

We love daddy!

Silly Faces

Elayna misses her sister. Elayna loves to paint and make silly faces!

Bunkbed with history

I decided Saturday morning to set bunkbed up. 

The girls slept in their "new" bunkbed.
Lilia said, "being higher helps her sleep." Elayna woke up at 6:30 am to go potty and then got back in bed and told daddy "there are no stars out".  Our previous house we had stars on ceiling. When I asked her how we would get stars on ceiling she mentioned daddy's ladder. 

They loved sleeping on the bunkbed.

Some history:

My dad made this bed about time my youngest brother was born or soon after. I slept on it as a teenager and Nathan on bottom bunk. My great grandma A. sept on bottom bunk. The bunkbed is 30 years old. My parents brought it to me in their van at the other house and helped set it up. We took it apart. This time setting it up was a lot more work. :)