Another Awesome Kid!!

This time, Saige is AWESOME!! He came upstairs yesterday with some sunglasses (I don't know where he found them). He was being such a stud I had to get some pics!!

Happy Halloween!!

Jaide the Unicorn
Raiden is Buzz Lightyear of Star Command!

Raiden and Saige

Saige is a strong GI Joe.

(From that new movie... apparently.)

Another Jaide :)

I love Halloween! I love dressing up and trick-or-treating (good thing I have kids to take). We have been busy already today. We went to a trunk-or-treat in Salina at noon. The boys walked around with their dad while Jaide and I passed out candy. Everyone thought she was just adorable. After that we went to Gunnison to see my family. We went and saw Papa and the boys kept trying to get more and more candy. Brock took them around my dad's neighborhood while I visited for a bit. We went and saw Maama and Grandpa (they gave us granola bars and peanut butter ritz crackers.. yay, something not full of sugar!). Saige and Raiden also talked Maama out of some cookies (of course!). On our way home, we stopped and saw my friend, Stella. She let my boys fill their buckets clear up (with the good stuff... you know, snickers and milkyways).

Now everyone is napping but me. We will head out again around 6. Brock's sister Skyla is coming down, so we are going to take 2 of her kids with us. YAY!! I love trick-or-treating!!

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I love these pics! Terra from Crazy Eye Photography did them. The kids had so much fun. I can't wait to see the rest! Thanks to Terra!

My BIG boy Saige. He is my handsome guy :)

Raiden wasn't too fond of actually looking at the camera.. so like him ;)

I love her eyes in this one :)

COOKIES!!

Yummy cookies! I have been on a baking kick. (I think it might possibly be because Brock doesn't want me to buy goodies anymore, but I like goodies too much.) Last week I made apple crisp 3 times. Although that was mostly because Julie sent us home a huge bag of apples. I also made my cornflake cookies (that was to entice my dad to come out and get my counters put in sooner... which worked by the way).

So Sunday was Brock and my 3 year anniversary. I asked him what he wanted and he told me homemadde oreo cookies. Well alright, I can do that! I didn't make them until yesterday though. But he LOVED them! He didn't want to share any so I had to make some more today for everyone else. Good thing they are super easy! Here is the recipe I used:

OREO COOKIES

CHOCOLATE COOKIE

1¼ cups flour

½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

¼ teaspoon baking powder

¼ teaspoon salt

1 ½ cup sugar

½ cup + 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temp

1 large egg

VANILLA CREME FILLING

¼ cup unsalted butter, room temp

¼ cup shortening

2 cups powder sugar

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

• Preheat oven to 375°
• Mix flour, cocoa, soda, powder, salt, and sugar.
• Mix on low speed. Add butter then egg.
• Mix until dough comes together in a mass.
• take rounded teaspoons of batter and place on a parchment lined baking sheet 2 inches apart.
• Slightly flatten dough with hand.
• Bake 9 minutes.
• Cool completly on wire rack.

* I used a ziplock bag with the corner cut to put the cream on the cookie.

* You can also do this recipe in a food processor, but I don't have one so I just used my mixer :)

ENJOY!

Raiden ;)

Raiden is the funniest kid. He decided he was gonna "doh out to chill" (yes, he really said that) the other night. This is how I found him. He had on one of Saige's old snow boots and another of Saige's old tennis shoes. He had on one of Brock's work hats. He was seriously trying to leave the house too. In nothing but a pull-up, shoes, and a hat. How cool is that?!