Carlie is so lucky......

To have such a wonderful and sweet teacher this year!! We could not be luckier:) Today her teacher gave each student in the class a card saying why she is thankful for them. The following is what it said:

Dear Carlie,

I am so thankful to have you in my class! You always give your best effort with a smile on your face. I love the way you work so hard as a new student! You are so smart! I love you!

Miss Lilly

Snowman Cookies

I found this recipe for snowman cookies! The kids thought it was so fun to make and decorate. The recipe says to use refrigerated sugar cookie dough but I had this simple recipe that I was excited to try and so I used that instead. Still very easy and simple:)

Easy Sugar Cookies

2 3/4 C. flour

1 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp. baking powder

1 C. butter, softened

1 1/2 C. white sugar

1 egg

1 tsp. vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a small bowl stir together flour, baking soda and baking powder, set aside. In large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in egg and vanilla, gradually blend in dry ingredients. Roll rounded tsp. of dough into balls and place on ungreased cookie sheets. Bake 8-10 minutes or until golden brown. Let sit on cookie sheet for 2 minutes before placing on cooling rack. Makes 2-3 dozen.

Decorate with mini chocolate chips (eyes), candy corns (nose) and red hots (mouth).

This recipe is really sweet. I prefer the old fashioned sugar cookie recipe where you cut-out the cookies but this is a fun and quick way to make cookies if you don't have a lot of time:)

Witches, Pumpkins, Lola & Thomas the Train.....

Cayden preschool Halloween party

We took the kids a week ago to see the witches for Halloween at Gardner Village. We did our annual pumpkin carving. Which means Lance does the carving and I take the pictures:) The kids always love deciding what they want there pumpkin to look like. This year Carlie wanted to be Lola from Hannah Montana and of course there was no doubt in Cayden's mind that he was going to be Thomas the Train!! The kids had a fun Halloween thanks to our friend Chelsey who took them Trick or Treating (I just had my tonsils out and everyone who says it is horrible is right, especially when things can't just go normal but that is a whole other story)!!! She made it longer than I would have out there in the cold and the kids have enough candy to last until Valentines Day!:) Thanks Chelsey!! Can't have Halloween without a "pumpkin" pizza from Papa Murphy's:) Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for coming and helping out:) Lance went with our friend Tony to the Utah game (which luckily they won at the very end), so in the end everyone, for the most part had a fun Halloween:)