Works for Me Wednesday/ Christmas edition

My favorite gift I gave was for my mom a few years ago. It was a scrapbook called "Nana's ABC Book". I put together a simple ABC scrapbook with pictures of my kids. I tried to make it very simple. On each page in the upper corner I put the letter. I used ABC stickers from a scrapbook store. I also used Creative Memories square cutter to mount the letter sticker. On the "A" page I put pictures of my kids doing things that started with the letter "A". As I am typing this I can't remember for the life of me what was on the "A" page. But the "B" page was bath pictures, "P" page was pumpkin patch pictures. You get the idea. Now this was not an elaborate scrapbook each page just had cropped pictures with 1 picture backed in paper. I chose 3 colors for the book. All of the paper or stickers were red, blue, or yellow. This made it very easy. I didn't try to make each page have a theme or decorate it too much. One great thing about this gift was it can be done again. I gave this 3 years ago to my mom and I am going to do it again this year. I would love to hear if you make one. My mom loved it!!

Pumpkin Bread Recipe

Today I am making some pumpkin bread loaves for tomorrow. I am really involved with our mom's ministry at church and we meet tomorrow. My husband was given pumpkin bread for a gift from a student a few years ago. Attached to the gift was the recipe. This is the second year I have made it. It is fun to start new traditions.
Here is the recipe

Pumpkin Bread

3 1/2 cups flour
2 tsp. baking soda
1 1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp. cinnamon
2 tsp. nutmeg
3 cups sugar
4 eggs, beaten
2 cups pumpkin
2/3 cup water
1 cup vegetable oil

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, adn surgar in a large mixing bowl. Add eggs, pumpkin, water, and oil. Stir until blended. Mix well. Pour into two 9x5 loaf pans. Bake 1 hour. Cool slightly and take out of pans to let cool on a rack. This bread keeps well in the refrigerator and can be frozen.

Hope you enjoy!!

He's Growing Up

Lately I have been thinking about the fact that Cadyn is really growing up. He will be 4 on December 4th. Just in the last few weeks I have really seen a big difference in his behavior and his understanding of everyday life. For example tonight we had some friends over for dinner and he sat and ate with us. When dinner was over I asked him to go get his pj's on and go potty. When he was finished I told him he could have some shebert for dessert. Sure enough a few minutes later I saw him headed into the bathroom with his pj's on. Now this might not seem like a big deal but these few things have taken a lot of training day in and day out. There were some days I thought that everything would be a battle with him everyday. But things are changing with him just in time for Griffin who is not quite 2 to start to exert a little opinion himself. Oh the joys of motherhood never end.