Seriously I felt like I was 15 again ... OH the days .... 
Yes we slow skated together :)
And how I wish I was camera ready ... Joshy had just fallen and busted his rump, neither of us could stop laughing, he only took 3 kids and me down with him LOL!
So she actually made 2 trees one for me and one for E.
And she was so proud. It was so easy! I took a sponge cut in into a couple pieces and let her go to town with some paint. I did learn something new from my sister yesterday when I didn't have brown paint on hand ... if you mix yellow, red, blue, and green you come up with brown :) its not exact science but It does take a few tries or an extra couple squirts of this color or that color to get the brown you want, but now I will never have to buy brown paint :)
I just thought this was a cute photo Lu writing her letter and making funny faces!! LOL silly girl!
I don't know about you guys but I get alot of my ideas and or recipes frum Family Fun Magazine, thats my fav magazine on the PLANET! I needed something simple this week (What week do I do anything hard anyways) Keeping with my Halloween Theme this month I decided to Have Lu make these how much more simple can you get folks? She did do just about everything herself ... but the best part was we actually had *FUN* and *LAUGHTER* over the different shapes and concousions we were getting outta these circus peanuts.
First we rolled and pulled and shaped our circus peanut into a ball .... 
Then take your tooth pick and poke a little hole at the top where your stem goes, then start making your wrinkle lines that pumkins have *with the toothpick*
We then cut the top of the mike n ike (notice my hand over hers, she was quite nervous of the candy rolling away) After that all you need to do is press the *stem* into the *pumkin*
And voila little pumkins! Its just truly amazing the fun and laughter you can have over a couple circus peanuts! If you haven't done this I suggest trying it! It only cost me $1 for the peanuts, I had everything else on hand!
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In our tin:
I just gave the tin to Lu and told her to do with what she pleases and make the noodles into "her" and so she set to work. (she asked me to glue the skittle eyes on which I hot glued) and she said she needed red lipstick bc I never let her wear any. LOL
She painted the Lasgna purple and made that her shirt, she used 2 rotinis for jeans and 2 for her arms. She used angel hair for her hair, a bow tie in her hair, and the gummy bear for her purse, I put it there thinking she'd carry a "bear" around bc she loves stuffed animals however she took an angel hair and stuck it onto the bear for its "purse straps" She also broke in half a mike and ike and used them for her shoes (pink ones at that) *the picture doesn't show her purse bc she added it last minute*
Doesn't it resemble her quite a bit?? I actually love it! So glad we did something out of the ordinary! And she still got her Muffin Tin Monday! She didn't say one word about not getting to eat a thing! She was too proud of her person to notice!!!
Tonight we made these O-SO-SIMPLE Ghosts!
I had the small fruit kabob sticks so we used those, and Lu put 3 on each stick.
Then coated it with the white chocolate. I don't have a picture of us putting on the eyes and mouth because we were racing against drying time, and melted chocolate+camera in hand+disater!
I've never attempted to make "home made" muffins before, always just from a bag or box, however on my new cooking "ventures" and my wanting to do Muffin Tin Mondays with Lu I thought it was only right that I tried to make them the tried and ture way! And holy mess was I missing out! First of all, Lu did most of the work, but secondly they were so delish, better than any muffins I've had, and thats saying something since the BASE of them were Banana and if you read my blog you know I am not fond of bananas *really I think it's the texture, but I am not sure, I could handle them in this maybe because the flavor wasn't as STRONG! In any event we made them Monday and its been GREAT for breakfast this week, something new and different 
Lightly beat 1 egg, then pour in 1 cup of sugar and stir, then 1/3 cup of melted butter, and stir again!
In another bowl mash up 4 bananas *we used a potato masher* and doesn't this picture say it all! "Mom I've gotta use ALL my strength here, quick putting the pressure on me by snapping so many pictures"
Add the bananas to the first bowl *w/ sugar and egg* then add to the bowl 1 and 1/2 cups all purpose flour, 1 tsp baking powder, 1 tsp baking soda, 1/2 tsp salt. STIR WELL!
Added nothing else to the first mixture, to the second mixture we added 2 handfuls of choc chips, and to the third mixture added finely chopped walnuts. All 3 were really tasty. My choice was the banana/walnut. Of course Lu's choice was banana/choc. And Joshy liked them all :)
This is our new dog Dixie she is so sweet! Lu loves her dearly and they play so nicely together! I like her too she lays at my feet while I'm on the computer, follows me around the house when I am walking, and shes so loveable, at 50 lbs she thinks shes a lap dog LOL. She is 1 yr old and we took her from a loving family that could no longer take care of her due to family illness. I never knew I could like an animal this much! She's a great addition to our family!
