Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween! Lorenzo was a fireman and Rayna was a ninja. We went trick o' treating in our neighbor. After every house Rayna kept asking, "Are we going to get some more candy?" This is the first Halloween she really gets it. She got to wear her costume to school today for her Halloween party. So at least I am getting my money's worth out of it.

Here are some pictures of the kids. There is one of all of us to our annual trip to the pumpkin farm. This has become quite the tradition in our family. We have been going since Rayna was a baby. This year she picked out her pumpkin all by herself. Of course she picks out the biggest one she can find, a 40 pound one! We named it "Big Eddie". It's so big it won't even stand up straight. So Rayna decides to ride it like a horse. Here are some pics of Rayna in her costume with her "boyfriend" Ian. Ian is our neighbor that she hangs out with all the time.

Montessori

Many of you have asked me, "What is Montessori?", since that is the school we have Rayna in. I have now provided a link to the right that you my click on "Montessori Way" and you may discover for yourself the philosophy of Montessori. This type of educational/life training really does make sense once you understand it. Rayna is doing really well in school. She likes it a lot. We have parent/teacher conferences in two weeks, so we will really get to see what she has been doing.

New Family Pictures

We took some new family pictures over the weekend. Please check them out on the Stylized Portraiture blog. Click on the blog link to the right on this blog and scroll down to The Family in Red. That's us! I love the one of me and Rayna and the one of Rayna and Lorenzo.
Enjoy!!!

A Year of CrockPotting: CrockPot Pumpkin Spice Latte Recipe

A Year of CrockPotting: CrockPot Pumpkin Spice Latte Recipe
I can't wait to try this one either! Yum!

Mystery Solved

As for all of you that are wondering about the butternut squash soup, it was delicious! I made it today for dinner. Rayna even eagerly ate it up. Lorenzo was eying it like he wanted some too. It made the house smell really good too. I ended up making him a bowl of rice cereal. Yes, he is eating solid food already. He had two bowls of rice cereal today. I was trying to hold out a little longer to at least 5 months old to start him on solids but he has just been so interested in food. He started throwing a fit tonight because he saw Rayna and I eating and he didn't have anything. Thus, the second bowl of cereal.

Mystery solved about where Rayna got the idea to call the box her "underground house". It is from one of her books called "The Gruffalo". In the book the fox goes to his "underground house". And here I thought she was making a reference to Digital Underground, silly me!!

A Year of CrockPotting: CrockPot Butternut Squash Soup Recipe

A Year of CrockPotting: CrockPot Butternut Squash Soup Recipe

Yeah, I can't wait to try this one! I have been wanting to know how to do butternut squash soup!! Yummie!!!

A Year of CrockPotting: Acorn Squash CrockPot Recipe

A Year of CrockPotting: Acorn Squash CrockPot Recipe

If you have not checked out this blog, you really should. She has got some great recipes. I was just wondering about doing fall squash in the crock pot and here is a easy recipe. I will be making this tonight as Randy is out of town. He does not like acorn or butternut squash so I can have it when he is not around. :)