{1} Elliot turned five and started her last year of Preschool!
Elliot is going Monday - Thursday all day long. That means packing lunches four days a week! I distinctly remember the end of the year last year I gave her some nuts, a string cheese, and a bag of chips. Whoops! But our game is SO strong right now! I pack her a big lunch and what she doesn't eat at school she has as her afternoon snack on the drive home. It works perfectly! Elliot also turned five, which she wanted a Rapunzel party! I love getting fun cakes and this time was no different! I also love me a good theme so we made some tangled angel hair pasta and braided garlic bread sticks! My sister made capellini from our garden tomatoes and it was SO good! Definitely a fav now! Her recipe was super simple. Get some olive oil warming up, put as much minced up garlic as you like (we love garlic) cut up some roma tomatoes or leave cherry tomatoes whole, sprinkle with salt and pepper and simmer until all the tomatoes have broken down. Put some fresh basil in at the end, toss with noodles, sprinkle with some Parmesan cheese and you are good to go! Here is Elliot with her cake from the party!
{2} Football is back!
We love love love football in this house! The girls got some new NDSU Bison apparel last time we were in Fargo and they are just the CUTEST! We are that family that totally loves to be lazy on the weekends to catch up on all our football games. We will maybe run an errand or two on Saturday, but Sundays are church then straight home to watch football all day! We love it!
{3} Dixie's progress! Dixie is so so so close to walking, in fact her PT at the school said she things she has the strength but she's just not confident in herself so we are getting her a little walker to help her out! She has made huge gains in language these last couple weeks. I swear she is mimicking all the words Elliot says lately. Actually if you ask Dixie what her name is she says Elliot and then giggles. Yesterday I had to grab the girls from my sister later which they were at Qdoba and somehow Elliot convinced me to get some chips and queso for the drive home. I mean she really really had to beg. Anyway now Dixie likes to ask for queso, except she keeps yelling quedo quedo quedo! Its the best. I understand girl, you want your queso! Dixie is getting quick as can be getting up and down from the couches and beds too! I think we will have a walker soon!
{4} Kicking ass and taking names! I've been pretty lazy lately! With school starting Tuesday I made it a goal Monday to enter the school year with a little more organization in my life and a little less laziness. Tuesday at work I made a long to-do list to keep knocking things off throughout the week! It has worked wonders. I get Elliot after school, we get home unpack all our bags (which means throwing the 800 million half colored sheets of paper from school right away), repack everything which includes lunches, get coffee ready for the next day, start a load of laundry, workout, get two things done off my list, fix a decent dinner, and get the girls bathed and ready for bed. I don't sit down till 8 pm, but I guess that's what happens when you have to grow up ha! I have accomplished SO much this week and the house is pretty well picked up! I really hope I can keep with this schedule! I have tackling our basement on the radar this weekend. We never ever use our basement, just to workout and when J needs to bill, so it becomes somewhat of a throw all area. I have big plans to get rid of at least HALF the stuff in the basement. We don't ever use it! It needs to go! I feel like even getting some totes, throwing a bunch of toys in there, and rotating the totes out so the girls feel like they are "new" toys. Anyone have luck with that?! Also I need to get rid of SO MANY SHOES. Mine and the girls shoes! I don't know why I keep so many of the girls' shoes when they aren't in great condition. I need to donate those or just toss them if they are in bad shape!
{5} Speaking of shoes, J saw that I bought a new fall pair. Whoopsie! He said if I was going to do that I probably should get rid of a bunch. Which is totally justified. But my new pair is a pair of Sperry shoes! Not the boat shoes, but the ones that almost look like converse. I have a pair of converse I like, but they are so uncomfortable. Does anyone else feel that way?! The new Sperry shoes have memory foam in the sole! Sign me up! I've worn them a ton this week and they are like little pillows for my feet!
That is all for now! Hopefully I'll be around this place just a little more! Fall seems to slow down and bit and I just LOVE that. Now I need to scour pinterest for some good apple recipes! Enjoy your weekend!
xoxox
Your daughter's birthday cake is adorable. Happy Friday!
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