Best cat toy?

Who needs kitty toys when you have a sink?

Who needs friends when you have anemone?

So we finally broke down and started our anemone tank. Here are a few pics. We may be over feeding the poor thing...

Cookie Making!

We did our annual cooking making day with Carol and Co. We ended up with quite a few different types of cookies:

- Russian Tea Cakes

- Spritz

- Pecan Tarts

- Sugar

- Mounds Balls

- Fudge

- Thumb Prints

- Peanut Butter Fingers

I think that's about it...

COFFEE CAKES!

Coffee cake baking happened a bit earlier this year. We ended up with only 114 cakes, I"m pretty sure I am to blame for this since I like to over fill! So this is what happens when I'm in control.

It was a great day with lots of food and lots of fun. Now I just need to remember to grab a frozen one out of the freezer whenever I want!

Arboretum

I'm a bit behind on keeping up with our life!

I took a day off from work in November to go to the Arboretum with Natalie and James. We walked way more trails than I expected! We had Natalie in her bike carrier so we didn't have to worry about her getting tired out - there was however no bike carrier for me! Regardless we did quite a number of trails, went through a couple of their mazes and in general had a great day! A few pictures from the day...

The plant James donated to the arboretum:

Natalie in the bee hive:

Natalie in a tree along a trail:

Halloween At The Fish Store

The fish store we go to has an annual Halloween party. This year at the party there was Pizza, Cup cakes, member discounts and PRIZES. To our surprise Natalie won the Kids Grand Prize and we won the adult Grand Prize! Hooray for mermaids, bananas and TOGAS!

Us with our prizes:

Natalie with all the fish store kids:

Me with a couple pirates, a hostile Mexican, a fairy, a mermaid (Natalie) and Super Girl.

PUMPKINS

It's that time of year again!!! PUMPKIN TIME!

This year we let Tom and Jeremiah join us.

I had a great time doing what ever I wanted:

Tom had a great time showing his love for NY:

And Brian made a creepy pumpkin which we will soon connect to our fog machine:

And Jeremiah very kindly cleaned all the pumpkin seeds: