Birthday Party

The party theme was FALL. Here are some beautiful zinnias from the garden.


Chocolates

Cookies made with Grammy's recipe.

Traditional German fruit cake

Apple Upside-Down cake made from a recipe from the October Cooking Light issue (Thank you Mommy & Daddy)

Game Time

Present time

Thank you family and friends for making Clara's 7th birthday such a special one.

Art by Clara

Clara started taking art classes with a local art teacher yesterday. Anyone want to guess who they learned about this week?

Self-Portrait

Apples & Pumpkins

Today we went apple picking. We got lots of yummy Golden Delicious (to eat) and Jonathan (for baking). The pumpkin patch had soooo many to choose from, but we think we found some good ones.

Happy Birthday, Clara!

Look who's 7 !!!


When Daddy came home to take Clara to lunch, she was allowed to open one present. She chose the gift from Nicholas.

...and was very excited.

Here's where the birthday girl went for lunch. She had a double chocolate fudge milkshake!

Opening more gifts

Thank you Mimi and Pappy!

Fall Baking & Cooking

Butternut squash...This makes a great vegetable side dish, especially with a little honey on top.


Pumpkin Cupcakes

Nicky Rhinoceros

This is how Nicholas came downstairs this morning. He announced to us (Monica & Clara) that he was superhero "Nicky Rhinoceros".

GO BUCKS!!!

We had fun cheering on the Buckeyes to their 36-24 win over Miami today.

Homemade pizza for the occasion.

Wild Storm

Here is a pile of branches from Mr. Bob and our trees.



Mr. Bob's tree lost a big limb and he is getting the entire tree cut down =(

Clara and Nicholas under the fall clematis from Grammy's house.