Lake of the Trees Pt.2

Kaspers Vs. the Waterslide!

Em and Lizzi hit the slide!

Em says the waterslide is VERY deep

Not the most flattering, but fun things seldom are!

Im going to have to use that one. “Fun things are seldom flattering”-Ckasper

Sploosh. Emily kept yelling “cannonball!” at least she wasn’t singing the “fat guy in a little waterslide” song

Lake of the Trees Pt 1.

We went out to Lake of the trees on Saturday for a baptism. It was a really cool thing to be a part of. 5 of the staff decided to take the next step in their relationship with Jesus and get baptized. We also stayed for swimming and dinner! I have oodles of pics from that day, so I’m splitting it into 3 parts to make is manageable! I have some from the baptism, but they aren’t really mine to share, so I’ll post some of my girls at the beach.

Shhh Mommy they are praying!

Sunscreen nose in the sand equals sandscreen nose!

Half asleep water baby.

Grubby lil girl! Loves her sand!

Aves loves splashing!

Thats the smile I got when I said “smile”. Its the pained expression of “can I go back to making a sandcastle now that I’m finished humoring you mom!”

Slow Cooker Scalloped Potatoes

I’ve been loving my slow cooker lately! Currently this is whats cooking in mine!

Stupendous Scalloped Potatoes!

Ingredients:

8-20 Red Potatoes with skin on

Garlic Powder (didn’t have any real garlic )

Onion Power ( need to go shopping )

Salt

8 oz Cream Cheese – Roasted Red Pepper makes it awesome!!

Parmesan Cheese – Add as much as you like!

Cheddar Cheese – Grated 2 hand fulls!

Slice Potatoes using SUPER SLICER! This is similar to a Super Soaker, but not quite the same thing. I can barely live without my SUPER SLICER!

Layer the Potatoes in a olive oil spritzed Crock Pot.

Potatoe, cream cheese, spices …Repeat!

Then Top it all off with Parm and Ched and you are cooking away! 5 hours later Dinner is ready and everyone is oh so happy!!

Cherry Baby Food Reheated

My Bad

Still tasted awesome on Pancakes!

Blogcation is over!

Wow, new blog record. My Blogcation was almost 9 months long. I guess I just haven’t felt very blogable lately.What to say about the last 9 months…hmm…well, they went by and now I’m here. I think I’m going to have to just pick one thing and write about that because my thoughts are far to scattered to write about everything all at once. So um…I’ll write about the girls because they are the cuteness. In the middle of my blogcation, Emily turned 4 and Avery turned 1. So here’s a little word journey about where my girls are at.

Emily is a voracious reader, which makes me a voracious reader because she cant really read yet. She goes to book club every Tuesday and we come home with a pile of books to read. They should never have given us a chart to fill in because we can’t help but turn that into a challenge to read more than everyone else! Competitive…me…no!Back to Emmyloo. Her newest habit is sucking on her hair. It grosses me out, but when you’ve got a sensory seeking little one, you just have to make due. We bought her an extra tooth brush to chew on and that seems to help. The Occupational therapist who was working where I did my practicum suggested chewey foods like licorice, but giving a 4 year old red dye and sugar, isn’t my idea of a good time.  The chew brush seems to be working well. She asks for it when she needs it. She wrote a poem yesterday all by herself. It goes like this “Snuggle Wuggle, give me a hug. Wash your plate and wash your mug”. Pure Genius I know! the cadence, the metaphors, the pure lyrical brilliance, It leaves me dumbfounded! On to brilliant baby #2

Avery is walking and babbling a million miles a minute! She says “tickle Tickle”, “giggle giggle’, ‘dada’, ‘mumum’, ‘ba’ for ball and ‘plah’ for play. She says ‘eye’ for light and signs milk, more, all done, ball, light, change, hi and a few others I cant think of too. She babbles about everything and is starting to copy the different sounds we make. She currently has a cold, so she isn’t a happy camper, but she’s starting to feel better already. The snot ration in our house has been a little on the high to severely high scale lately.  Avery finally gained some weight too. 18 lbs now! She weighed 15 lbs for ever!

Well theres a bit of blog for you to chew on. I want to pace myself and not try to blog a marathon or anything while I get my blogfingers back into shape. don’t want to pull a blog muscle or anything. type you soon!

Cassy Kasper

Introducing… Cassy Kasper.

Cassidy Cassarole Casanova Chewbackella Kasper

Born September 2nd. Adopted November 3rd!

The cuteness

Cassy! Or as Emily says “Cathy.NONONONONONO!”

Love me.

It it winter yet?

Is there snow yet Mom? Can we build a snow man yet Mom? Is it Christmas today Mom? PLEASE!

Um…Not yet sweetie.

Sisters

Portrait of a Wedding Photographer

A couple of weeks ago I went to a friends wedding at Lake of the trees. I chose to sit in the shade with Avery, so I couldn’t see the wedding well enough to take much for pictures. What I could see, was my great friend Elisha taking pictures. She was the official photographer. So I started taking her picture. I think its a really neat thing to be able to take pictures at someones wedding. I took some at Kipp and Georgia’s wedding earlier in the summer and I loved it. I was having alot of fun. I don’t think a photographer enjoys being photographed as much as they enjoy taking pictures though. haha.

Conversations with Emily

“Mommy can we talk about the news?”

To a neighbor who walked over to say hi: “HEY! you’re on my yard!”

Looking in the fridge: “What the heck is that?”

“When I get bigger, I’m going to be REALLY BIG just like you mom!”

Driving by the temporary library: “HELLO Temporary Library!”

Driving by the new library, which is still in under construction: “Thank you for building me a new library!”

“Mommy, Im playing the drums on Avery’s tummy!”

Emily:”Grama, want to watch The Emily Kasper show?”
Grama: “Sure sweetie, but I don’t know where to find it, Auntie Roxy looked it up for me.”
Emily: “Thats ok Grama you can just go to google and find it”

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