Well Michael came home today with two more frogs so that Jenny won't become to lonely. It was very sweet of him to think of her. I was a little worried thought that with having two new ones they would want to bond with one another and not her. Well We have another boy and girl frog and they all are doing fine with each other so I really didn't have to worry at all. For some reason though these two were easy to name. The new boy is named Teddy because the girls like to cuddle up with him and the new little girl is named Becky. They all really seem to get along with each other fine and I hope that in a couple of days I can see them all relaxed into the new situation. I have also decided that they have a different last name then the rest of the pets because they went so long without any names that the frogs will always have the last name of No-Names!
She is trying to use her log to see above the obstacles so that she can see the progression of the cleaning of her tank. I think that she also wanted to see Matty because he was in the room and she really loves him.
Now she is just sitting on her log demanding to have her sunning light. Her light bulb went out today so she is going to be doing a lot of sunning tonight. Lilly is funny in that when she wants her light on she will get on top of her log and wait for you to turn it on. At least now her tank is clean and she can enjoy the treat that she got on Halloween. We sure do have some very interesting pets.
Hope is starting to wonder what I am doing and what all of the leaves are for. I just love her curiosity and that she hasn’t gotten into any trouble from it yet. 
Now she is getting a little tired from all of the exercise she has gotten and figures that since the leaves were so much fun to play in they would be even better to rest in. I would have to agree with her on that because they do give some soft padding against the hard ground. I do think that next time I am going to have to make a much bigger bunch of leaves then this one.
I don’t think that she can read the words of the card but she sure looks cute trying to do so.
Here is what her new toy looks like. I think they look cute together and what is even funnier is that she is going to be a dragon for Halloween so it just fits perfect. All the way home she wanted to play with the dragon but we had no scissors to take the tags off so she had to wait. I am actually amazed that she is not trying to eat the toy just yet. She is just so good when I want to take pictures!
Now she is ready to play and get the toy. I’m just glad that they say this toy is more durable so it will be harder for her to destroy it. She actually has really only destroyed one toy and we fix it for her all of the time because she loves it so much. I know she is going to have a lot of fun with this toy.
Here is how ours look after we have finished baking them. Not totally golden brown but I think that if we put some butter on the top on them they would have become golden. They did taste fantastic and I am sure going to make these again but Michael says that the Brazilian cheese ball roll bread is much saltier and so he is going to try to correct the recipe for the ball rolls someday. I sure do like trying to make some of the Brazilian food that he had while he was there. Maybe one day I can find a good cook book or something to help me out.
You can see that Michael and I were picking out a lot of pumpkin seeds from the left over mess and it was hard because the seeds wanted to slip out of our hands. We tried to get a lot of the pulp off and I think that we did pretty good too seeing how slippery it was. I still can’t believe it but some of the seeds that we had pulled out of the pumpkin were actually beginning to grow! Like roots and leaves were already coming out of the seeds! So we really couldn’t use those ones for our baked pumpkin seed recipe but we did joke about growing a pumpkin indoors because they had already started. I’m just glad that all the seeds got baked.
The best part of the entire process was washing the seeds, well at least for me it was. I had so much fun playing in the water that I really felt like a little kid again. I think this would be a really fun part for a child and probably the most worth wild part of the process for them too.
After we were done washing the seeds we let them dry out on a clean dish towel. This sure did take a long time so it is very good to find another fun activity to do while you wait or else your kids are going to be going crazy.Once the seeds are dry you can start the cooking process. I tried to combine two recipes into one. 
Here is how mine look after all the baking is done. The bag on the left is plain and the other bag is what I tried to do for the seasoning (cinnamon/nutmeg). Michael says that they turned out fine and I think that he might be the only one to eat them. I will have to wait and see if I can get other people in my family to try them out.
Here is our pumpkins before we started. Michaels is on the right and mines is on the left and the very small one in front is Hope’s pumpkin. I think hers is going to turn out the cutest of them all.
Of course Michael finishes his first, like every year. I don’t know how he does it but he is just really good at cleaning them out really fast and good. He calls his pumpkin, Franken Pumpkin! He is too funny sometimes but at least I know that he had fun with it.
Michael carved Hopes pumpkin for her this time and I got to draw the cute little face onto it. She sure does love the smell of pumpkins. Maybe one day I will have to get a pumpkin smelling candle for her. 
Hope is trying to be patient for Michael to finish carving it so that she can see it again. She sure is cute and I am glad that she woke up from her nap in time to see at least her pumpkin being carved.
Now, finally, all of the pumpkins are finished. Michaels has his Franken Pumpkin, I have my sunny face pumpkin and Hope has her cute somewhat imitation puppy face pumpkin. I think that they turned out cute enough. I can’t wait to see them lit up tonight. I’m sure that they will look great. I was also right that Hopes pumpkin was going to turn out the cutest of all.
As you can see she did finally lie down on the pillows that I made for her but it did take some coaching. She really likes the green pillow more then the pink and I think that is because it isn’t as busy pattern as the other one. 
Luckily I finished the pillows just in time for her nap. So we did a little mini test of the pillows with her nap time. She just zonked out on them so fast that I couldn’t believe it. She must have been really comfortable to do that or just really tired after playing so hard again today. 
She also looks really cute, I think, when she is just leaning against them. I tried propping them up for her instead of just laying them flat and she likes both ways. I’m really glad that she isn’t too picky of a dog. I am very curious how it will go tonight with her pillows and if she will sleep well with them too.
I took this picture from off the deck and with as far as my camera would zoom in too. He sure is a really good sport for me to take a picture of him and for her not to run away.
I like this picture a lot and it also really was not that dark this morning when I took the picture (just my camera acting up again). I’m so bad but I tried to get closer by walking up to him a little more. I’m glad that he didn’t run away but I wonder if he is just to use to people and that is really bad with it being hunting season. I hope he makes it through hunting season and winter because it sure would be nice to see him again.
I think that they look pretty good for being inexpensive. I also think that it is really nice to share recipes with others so here is what our recipe is so far for the pizza bagels:
Now that she is giving the go ahead she will do just that. She will chew and chew and chew on that bone like it is the best thing in the entire world. She will carry it around the house and continue to work on destroying it. She will even go as far as to take it in the car with her to show it off to all of the other dogs that she will be passing by, mostly to make them feel jealous but to also let them know that she is special. After she has shown her new bone to all of her doggy friends and neighbors she will want to go home. 
Once she is home she will want to go into the kitchen to enjoy her bone there. Now that she has spent a good part of the day with her new bone it is time for a little nap with her bone by her side of course. (Yes, I know that the bone is big but that means it will last longer for her too.)
I was actually lucky to get her to sit so still for me just for this one good picture of her. I thought that this was a very pretty spot with the trees and leaves. I am really happy that Michael was with me to help keep her a little bit more under control at the park. 
As you can see, she just loves to explore and figure things out. I’m really happy that she just has such a wonderful love and curiosity of life and she makes old things that seem just a second thought become new and interesting. I can’t wait to see what she is going to discover on another trip there.
This is what I have come up with. Because it is mostly for our little girl frog it just had to be pink! I know that it looks a little big for the tank but it really does fit it great. The reason that it looks big is because the bottom of the tank is actually smaller then the top and to fit over the top of the tank I had to make it the same size all around. I added the ties to hold it up so that it wouldn't slide down but it stands up so well that it really doesn't need them but it just looks nicer with them. Something really funny though, while I was cutting out fabric Hope wanted to see what I was doing. Well she came over and recognized that they fabric was the exact same that I had used on her blanket that I made her (it was all of the left over fabric that I had from her blanket). So she thought that whatever I was making was for her so of course she just lays on all of the fabric and wouldn't not get off. I finally had to tell her to go to her bed and enjoy her blanket and share the fabric with her animal siblings. She really does like the cover for them and she is fine sharing now but it sure was hard for her to do that. She really is a very funny little doggy.
Here is what it looks like broke. You can see that the piece of fabric the manufactures picked was way to weak to support anything and on top of that they only based stitched it! That is just crazy to do that on something a dog is going to be wearing.
So to fix it, Michael and I chose a type of material that was flexible but also strong. I then did a really tight stitch and went over it multiple times so that it wouldn’t fall out again. I also have made the fabric wider than the original but the original is still there. I have incased it in the other material.
Here is the other fun thing that I have been working on, her Halloween costume. These are just some of the patterns and ideas that I tried to go through before I made it. I picked to make the bottom picture of the dragon costume. I really don’t like making my own patterns but I am grateful that at least I know how to do it.
This is what I have so far on her costume. The spikes took me a long time to figure out how to make them stand up on there own and look good too. Michael has been helping me with her wings so that they will hang up a little bit to look like she is flying sort of. I also love how he gives me input and his opinion on how it can look. I really do love how he is so kind as to help me with any project that I am working on and because it is important to me it is also important to him. So that is an up to date report on what I have done for her costume. I will still take a picture of her in it when I am finished so that you can see how cute she looks in it.
She is just so cute with the toy and I am glad that she still enjoys it. She loves sleeping with it too. Here is the funny thing though, when she played with her toy she actually played with it one of her favorite ways…on her back! She is so funny when she does this and it is really hard to catch it on camera too but today I finally got it and you just have to see it.
Ok I know that this doesn’t look like a healthy snack and I really don’t care because it sure did taste good. My mother made the cinnamon rolls which was so sweet of her to do but they were for a, “boo” thing that her neighborhood likes to do at Halloween time. Even though they were for other people, Michael and I got the two left over on the plate once my mom had picked the ones that she was going to be giving away, which was very sweet of her to share with us. I then decided that hot chocolate would go great with them because I was really cold. Now I know that this doesn’t really seem like a bad night time snack but it was. Michael and I had just gotten home from going out on a night time run/jog/walk thing and so we were feeling pretty good about us trying to work out and be a healthy couple together but then we go and ruin it by eating this snack. I think that it is really funny that we even did that but hey at least we didn’t have to feel worse then we could have if we hadn’t gone for that run/jog/walk thing before. It was also fun to just sit together at the kitchen table and talk and that is always a healthy thing for us to do in our relationship, so it was worth it.
Yeah!!! I love that I am going to have a door that works again. It is really funny the things that you become grateful for but the one thing that isn’t funny that I am grateful for is my husband.
This is the extra work that I was talking about. My mother has this dresser for us to use except that the little pullout drawers bottoms have been falling out and the backs too. Michael has been so sweet as to fix these as well. My mother has tried fixing them with white glue and tape which I guess works for her but not us. Michael has been using wood glue and nails to fix the problem and hopefully this won’t need to be fixed again and my mother can relax with that being done.
Here is my bread while in the pans. Don’t they have a pretty brown color to them? I made to smaller loafs two give away as thank you gifts to my older sister (who was kind enough to provide a lot in the making of the bread) and my mother (who was also nice enough to help me clean out my sisters garden).
Another picture of my bread out of the pans and this is a big deal for me too because normally when I take the bread out of a pan it totally falls apart and that always gets me frustrated because I put so much hard work into making my bread. So I am very happy that I was able to at least make my bread and everyone said that it tasted really good too. Victory! Here is the recipe that I used for the bread: