Elfing Around

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Having a little fun with the other elves today.

Enjoy!

Dancing with the Stars

Caleb's bedtime is at 8pm but usually on Monday nights when he hears "the Dancing show" he comes out of his room and is just so excited. I give in and let him watch the show. He gets his animals lined up in the livingroom and takes turns dancing with them or makes them dance together. Caleb LOVES to dance!!! He imitates the dancers and it is so stinkin' cute! He claps when the audience does and when the scores are given Caleb will shout "9, yea!!!"...I so need to get this on video. How can you not let him watch something that brings such joy and excitement. I know it makes my night:)

trick or treat

Just thought I would post a few Halloween pics.
Friday was Sondra's 40th birthday so we started out the day with breakfast at Crackers & Co.

We then did an open lab at our LSS...so fun.
Of course lunch was Costa Vida and then we went home and got stuff ready for the night.

Caleb was a cowboy for Halloween.

The Choules went as the Scooby Doo gang. I made them the mystery machine, which Sondra and the kids and I painted the night before. We attached it to Caleb's wagon and it looked great. It was a fun and busy birthday for Sondra.

We had a great time at their neighborhood block party and then went to Gene's parents neighborhood for a trunk or treat.

Caleb LOVED Halloween! He played games, loved the scaries, and of course enjoyed the candy:)

Here are the pics.

yummy pasta

Okay I know that I have been such a slacker in the blogging world lately. I have started blogging and then lost everything so I had to back away from the computer for a bit:)

A couple of weeks ago I made this delicious pasta. We wanted something lighter than our usual "meat sauce". I don't have a detailed recipe but here is the cast of ingredients:

boneless, skinless chicken breasts
roma tomatoes/grape tomatoes
green onions
crushed garlic
fresh pasta
chicken stock
parmesan cheese
garlic plus seasoning (for chicken)
olive oil


I begin by sprinkling my cut up chicken breasts with garlic plus seasoning. Cook chicken with a bit of olive oil. Remove chicken and deglaze the pan with chicken stock. Add tomatoes, onions, and garlic. As the tomato mixture cooks down be sure to add chicken stock every once in awhile so it doesn't get too thick. This is going to smell amazing!

It doesn't take too long to cook...about 10-15 minutes until it's at your desired consistency.
Cook pasta and drain. Add tomato mixture and add parmesan cheese. It is so much better with freshly grated parmesan cheese but we were out for this picture.

Enjoy!!!