Busy Days

Wednesday morning I baked 4 loafs of apple bread.  Claire said that she had to get pretty for the "concert".  Not sure what concert she was talking about, but it was cute.  Then she wanted to skate around the house in her strawberry dress.  We made some Thanksgiving crafts and Claire played some really pretty music on her piano. 

This morning we went to the dentist, and Claire would not sit in the chair for anything.  She watched me get my filling and was having fun whith the assistant.  The dentist asked Claire if mom should get astrawberry filling or a monkey booger filling, good thing Claire picked strawberry for her mom.  After the dentist, we met my parents in Le Center and went to Mankato together.  Claire liked riding in Grandpa's truck.  Claire got to pick out some make up and crafts at the store.  We had a busy, but great day...I am very tired.

Claire with her skates in the kitchen,

and in the living room,

and skating around the house with her barbie skates that she got for her birthday.

Claire playing me pretty music on the piano.  She was playing twinkle twinkle little star, and singing it to me.

Here are the Thanksgiving crafts that Claire made.  The turkey is with her feet and hands.  The scarecrow she drew the face on.  It was cute, she was supposed to make a face on it, and she made a whole person.

The Dentist

Me and Claire went to the dentist yesterday, Tuesday.  It was Claire's first cleaning.  I am so proud of her, she did so well.  I was not in the room with her, I was getting my teeth cleaned same time as she was.  She has 3 cavities that need to be filled.  We are going back to do them tomarrow.  She is having hers done first, so I will be able to take a picture of her in the dentist chair.  She was very happy about getting a new toothbrush, and brushed her teeth very good last night with her new brush.  Not sure what the plans are for today yet, she is playing dress up for a "concert".

Another Great Day

Sunday John took me and Breanna out to his uncles to practice shooting slugs for deer hunting.  Breanna did better than I did.  I really do not feel very confident about going out in 2 weeks.  My shoulder is a little sore too.  Breanna is going out hunting first weekend, and me the seond.  After we got home, me and Breanna played games for a while, and had a great time.  We snacked on so many goodies from halloween that neither of us were very hungry for dinner. 

Today Grandma Friesz came over to help me can tomatoes.  We got 4 nice size jars from the tomaotes that I planted.  My mom helped me so it was really easy.  While the jars were cooking, Claire and Grandma played play doh, and I made some banana muffins with chocolate chips.  Claire helped do the dishes too.  It was really cute to see her washing the dishes.  She is relaxing and watching a movie now, I am thinking she may even fall asleep.

Claire washing the dishes in Grandma's apron

Claire and Grandma playing play doh.  Claire had to wear a pretty dress.  I dressed her in a turtle neck and pants and she told me that shirt would not be good for grandma.  She had to have on her Dora shirt, then it got all wet when she did the dishes, so she had to have on a dress.

Here is my canned tomaotes.  Can't wait to be able to use tomatoes that I planted and canned myself.  Next year John is making me a bigger garden, I am so excited.

Just as I am finishing this up Claire is asleep. 

Happy Halloween

Fiday Claire was busy playing dress up and putting on lots of pretty make up.  After lunch we went to pick up Bre.  On our way I saw a black lab by the side of the road.  I looked at her and she came closer to the road.  I had to stop and see where she lived.  As I was pulled over the man from the pound stopped and said that he had the dog there about a month ago and that she is very sweet.  I said that I would stay with the dog, that I had just called the owners.  It was so windy and cold and I was worried that the dog was going to get hit, so I decided to just bring her home.  Claire was very excited when I put Snoopy in the car.  She was not far from home and her owner was very happy that we brought her home. 

We had supper at Grandma Friesz's house and then we went home so Bre could carve her pumpkin.  She made a really neat jack 'o lantern.  Then we started making a chocolate cookie gingerbread castle.  Breanna did most of it by herself.

Claire putting on her make up

she put on her sunglasses and smiled pretty

my little princess as pretty as can be

Saturday morning the girls helped me make a desert for the halloween party.  They had a lot of fun adding the fool coloring.  It turned out great and was a huge hit at the party.

top view of the delicous treat, we made it with halloween colors

side view to see the layers

We had so much fun at the party.  There was so much good food too.  This was Claire's first time trick-or-treating.  She had a great time, but had a bit of a runny nose, so she did not stay out too long.  The other kids came back with lots of treats in their bags.  My dad came dressed up as a ballerina, everyone thought it was really funny.  Tim dressed as a girl too with dress,wig, nailpolish, make up and all.  We werer the first ones there and the last ones to leave.  I guess we just can't get enough of the partying.

Aunt Lesa with the kids. Andy, Sami, Claire, Travis, and Breanna

Claire and Bre taking a picutre just before heading out to trick-or-treat

Claire is off and ready to hit the first house for goodies.

The kids all out and about trick-or-treating

Here they are at one of the houses, just getting ready to knock.

My Claire bear still having fun trick-or-treating at some of the businesses.

Friends halloween party

Wednesday morning we went to friends house for a halloween party.  Claire was so excited to get there, and did not want to leave.  The girls were pretending to cut each others hair and painted their faces with chalk.  It was really cute.  After the potluck lunch, the girls went outside to play in Hannah's house.  Claire had so much fun with Hannah and her kitten, Buttercup!  The gilrs also decided to put on tutus and dance around the living room watching Barbie nutcracker.  Claire crashed in the car before we got half way home.

Right away this morning Claire was begging to go back over to her friends house again.  We just had a slow morning and then I finished up Breanna's halloween costume.  She is going to be an orange club penguin.  It turned out really nice and I know she will love it.  I am picking her up after school tomarrow and will have her try it on when we get home.  We have the halloween party at my sisters house on Saturday, so there will be lots more halloween pictures coming.

We went to the library to pick out new books and movies, then Claire was asking to do school work.  We are still on the letter Cc so we read a little poem about a crocodile and made a paper craft about a crocodile.  Claire gave it to her daddy.

Hannah and Claire doing the chalk make up

The girls playing outside in Hannah's house

Claire with Buttercup

My little princess practicing ballet with Hannah and Barbie

Both girls doing ballet dancing with Barbie

halloween cookies...yummy

Claire was up early this morning when her dad left for work.  We just had a slow morning of relaxing after all the partying last night at school.  Of course, she did have to put on a dress and lipstick so she could be a princess.  We painted her nails all different colors too.  Then after lunch we made some cookies.  Claire picked out the cookie cutters when we went shopping a few weeks ago and had to have them.  She did a really good job with making the cookies.  She helped up until the last batch.  She also enjoyed eating them too!!

Here is Claire passed out in my chair this morning after her dad left for work.  I think she did too much partying last night!!

Claire is mixing up the cookie dough,

rolling out the dough,

and cutting out the shapes.

After they were done baking and cooling, she helped decorate them.

And here is what they turned out like, I know...very yummy!!

halloween extravaganza

Tonight we went to the elementery school in Henderson for the halloween/harvest extravaganza.  Claire had so much fun there, playing games and making crafts.  She even saw a few of her friends there and had fun running around with them.  She was so adorable in her pink cat costume.  I finished up the ears and tail this morning.  Turned out even better than I had expected :)

I took a picture of Claire just before we left the house.

Claire was trying to drop gummy worms into a cup that is inside the bucket.  Then they got a bag of gummy worms.

Claire had fun making shapes and cutting the play doh.

Halloween bowling...it was a huge hit.  They were 2 liter bottles painted like a ghost and then used a small pumpkin for the ball.  Claire did pretty good and loved  it!

Claire was throwing bean bags into the pumpkin pails.  As you can see she made it in!! 

Claire got to decorate a pumpkin cookie with candy corn, sprinkles, and chocolate chips.  Claire really loves the sprinkles.

This was really neat.  They would write the kids names on the green pumpkin stems, then blindfold the kids and have them try to put the stem on the pumpkin.  Claire did not want to be blindfolded though, but really enjoyed being able to put her name up there.

Claire spent a lot of time over at this table.  They had golf tees that you could hammer into the pumpkins.  She would hold the tee like a nail and hammer it in, it was really cute.  She said that she liked the small pumpkin better than the big one.

Besides these picutres, she also painted a gourd, squirted paint on paper to make a spider web, played with green goop, and made bats out of toilet paper rolls.  It was an awesome night and we had so much fun.