Tiny Triumphs 49! A Day Late

Sorry about not posting last week and for being late this week. We have been so busy that I just plain forgot. Last week, my dad was in town so we spent the few days that they were here with them. This week has been non stop fun. So on with the triumphs!

1. Jared and I bottled our first beer that we made ourselves. We will see in another few weeks if it is any good. We also attended a M.A.S.H. (Marshfield Area Society of Home Brewers) meeting last night. We got to try many beers! By the end of the night they all tasted the same to us. We will be joining this group as it is a fun way to learn a few things.

2. Kellen is still keeping up with the French Horn. He has gotten better so now I don't get quite as many headaches as I used to.

3. Ethan is really doing better with his reading. He was put into a special group to help with his phonics and a few other things. I can see an improvement even after just a few weeks.

4. The litter is still being taken care of! It has been a little over a year since we got Lily and the boys are doing a wonderful job at taking care of Lily and K.C.! I love that they are taking the responsibility!

Have a great week! I will try to do the triumphs on the right day next week.

Trick Or Treat, Smell My Feet.............

On Halloween we went Trick Or Treating with the Siebel clan. We had a good time. Kate and I were amazed that Kellen and Becca were the ones to go back. We thought that it would be Becca, Ethan, and Logan. But, Logan and Ethan made it the whole time! Kellen claimed that he had enough candy to last him till Christmas so he was done. The neighborhood was a sad place to Trick Or Treat. Very few lights were on so we had to trek a long way between houses.The gang
Another of the gang. We have a Yellow Lego, a Skeleton Ninja, a purple Dragon, and a Self Carving Pumpkin. We called Kellen a Self Carving Pumpkin because he insisted on carrying a knife with him.
Trick Or Treating
Ethan and his haul
Kellen and his smaller haul

We hope everyone had a Happy and Safe Halloween!

Final Flower Class Cake

The last flowers class was held last night. And of course we had to do our final cake in order to pass. I have been in a Halloween mood for over a month now. So I had to keep it up.My cake with black roses on it
Vines down the side of the cake. With blood on the thorns of course
Blood dripping off the flowers
The cake

Let The Force Be With You!

Sunday night we decided to carve pumpkins. Now every year we say that when we do we will buy a drop cloth so that it is easier to clean up. And every year we forget the drop cloth and use garbage bags. This year was no exception. No drop cloth just garbage bags were used. But the boys had fun and I did not have to help very much at all!The boys cutting the top off of their pumpkins
Ethan working REALLY hard
Kellen trying to get the top of his pumpkin off
Something ate the top of Kellen's pumpkin while it was outside
Ethan scooping out the guts. This is something that I never thought that I would see. In the past just being in the room where carving is being done makes him gag. And don't even think about getting a seed on his foot, there might have been a lot more than gagging. But check out his face he is none too happy that he had to do it this year.
Kellen scooping
The guts
Check out his face in the above and below picture. He had that face on the whole time he was scooping

More scooping
Ethan getting his pumpkin ready to carve
Kellen getting all the dots so he can carve his pumpkin

Ethan's Pumpkin, it has the Republic Symbol on it
Kellen's Captain Rex
Captain Rex lit up!

Tiny Triumphs 48!

It has been a great week here! But there is one bad thing. My camera is doing some throes of death. Not good. What will I do without it? I am thinking that I will take it in and get it cleaned and looked at. Better than a new camera. I am just hard on cameras I guess. This one is less than two years old. It should be all better soon.

1. Ethan has survived to the ripe old age of 8! Not only that be the other three of us have survived also!

2. Jared and I have been painting upstairs and plan to finish tonight. Then we plan to move things upstairs this weekend. It has taken four and a half months but it is almost done. What was done upstairs was a bathroom was put in where there was a large closet. A large closet was built where there was none. There was a small windowless room put in. And the floor was refinished. Dave (our landlord) is coming to finish the floors tomorrow. Then we will have a WHOLE floor for just Jared and I! We can hardly wait!

3. Cake class is going well!

4. The litter is still being scooped!

I will have some pics of the upstairs once the camera is working again!

Have a good week!

Flowers Class 3!

Tuesday, was the third class of my flowers cake class! We learned Daffodils, Violets, Lilys, and Roses. My icing was having issues so my flowers did not turn out well. But I got the general idea. Also, I have a final cake to do next week so I will be making flowers for that this weekend. I will take some pictures of the flowers that I make (if my camera behaves)A sad looking Lily
A black rose. I think my cake will have a lot of these on it. I am in a Halloween kind of mood. I did not get a picture of the daffodils as the boys ate them as soon as I got home. Also, with the icing not being good I could not take the violets off of the nail.

Cupcakes For Ethan's Class!

On Sunday night I made cupcakes for Ethan's class on Monday. I had to make thirty of them! Yikes my hands are hurting. I made some pom pom flowers and turned them into monsters.I think they turned out cute!