Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Baking With Bunny

Baking has become a favorite thing to do while Baby Squirrely is napping.
On Friday, we made a big batch of Baked Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal for Papa to have for his breakfasts before going to work.


Bunny loves to help me mix and is learning how to crack eggs.
Speaking of eggs, look at the difference between store bought eggs and our own chicken eggs. 
Our are still small, but what beautiful golden yolks!
It is very exciting that our chickens are finally starting to lay.
We are hoping to start selling eggs very soon.


Here is our recipe:

5 cups rolled oats
2.5 cups of milk
4 eggs
1 Tb cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla
4 Tb oil (coconut or olive is what we use)
2 cored apples - diced

*all our ingredients are organic, but you can use non-organic

Mix together and pour into an ungreased 9 X 13 baking dish or cake pan.
Sprinkle the top with cinnamon. 
Bake at 350 for 30 minutes.

Serve hot or cold, dry or with milk on top.


A yummy breakfast for a crisp fall morning.

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Monday, November 5, 2012

Hoopin'

Ever since Baby Squirrely was about a month old I have been hooping. At least learning to hoop. I never even hula hooped as a kid (so sad, right?), so I was a complete beginner.


The kiddos got really into it too.


It was a favorite afternoon activity all summer.


They all got pretty good at it.


But Bunny rocks it!


She has such a natural flow.
I am kinda jealous haha. 


In the future, I hope to write more about hopping. 
I recently bought a new ploypro hoop and am very excited to get some use out of it.
Stay tuned!

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Sunday, November 4, 2012

All Year Round Blog Carnival: Autumn: November 4th


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It is so much fun to co-host the Autumn Edition of the All Year Round Blog Carnival, hosted by SunnyDayTodayMama.  Every day new ideas, crafts, recipes are being added to the list! Each week, I hope to highlight a few of my favorite ideas!


What a sweet idea.. A First Frost Feast over at Simple and Joyful.  I am pretty sure we went straight to blizzard and by passed a 1st hard frost, this year. But hey we can try this next year!



Smiling Like Sunshine has a great little fall book list! 
I think the book Autumn with Squirrel will be on my "to buy" list!




Connecting Family and Seoul shared a great idea!  A Wonder Jar.  We LOVE nature and often bring in bits of it to display, pass around, or play with.. this is a great way to collect it!




What a great snack.. homemade so you can have control over the ingredients: organic or not, it's up to you!
Buggy and Buddy shared her whole wheat cheese cracker recipe!



What a fun idea.. to bring out the artist in everyone. Dollar store canvases make the art seem so much more "important"! The Usual Mayhem showed off some great Pumpkin Folk Art.



Be sure to check out the entire Autumn Carnival.  You will be inspired, I promise!
Then come back and link up your creations, activities, books, whatever fall ideas you enjoy!
You will always find my link up at the top of my blog, titled

Saturday, November 3, 2012

An Enchanted Childhood ~ October 29th--November 2nd ~ Halloween Week


Following our yearly tradition, we started off Halloween week by reading Where the Wild Things Are!  After reading it, and acting out the roaring and gnashing teeth and rolling eyes and showing claws, we headed to the table to make monster masks.  We had found some foam monster parts at Target, so after decorating their paper plates with markers, the children then added eyes and teeth and scars and all kinds of important monster parts!






The following day found us with a few inches of snow, thanks to Hurricane Sandy.
The big kids were allowed to do a puzzle by the fire.. very cozy for a winter day.. oh yea October... really?


The children love when we bring snow INSIDE to play with in our red trays!







Wednesday was our little Halloween party.  In years past, we took either a walk or a haywagon ride around the neighborhood, dressed in costumes.  The weather was not ideal (haha) for such an adventure, so we stayed inside and had a photo op....



wore animal masks...


ate lots of spooooky food...





and painted little gourds.




It was very low key, but nice!

Thursday, we read Five Little Pumpkins and made cute little fingerprint pumpkins!






We only had two little ones (both one year old) on Friday. 
We did managed (Thanks Katie) to do our yearly ghost footprint!




Now we are into November and looking forward to learning about birds, hibernation, and Thanksgiving!


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Friday, November 2, 2012

{this moment}

{this moment} - A Friday ritual inspired by SouleMama.  A photo capturing a moment from the week.  A simple, special, extraordinary moment.  A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.  If you're inspired to do the same, leave a link to your 'moment' in the comments for all to find and see.






Thursday, November 1, 2012

Crafting Along With needle and thREAD

This past week I was very busy with Bunny's costume.
I had already made her fairy wings, but needed to finish the rest.


I made a sage green peasant dress. A variation of this pattern.
I also made an apron tie tutu.


Not knowing which she would want to wear, I made both a crown and a hair clip.
And what fairy would be complete without some fairy dust?

Add some moccasins and leggings and...


TADA!
My little woodland fairy, taking treats to the grandparents and great-grandparents!

As for reading... continuing on with my weekly Life Group (Bible Study) book!


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