Devin's Hanukkah Celebration 2009

This is the second year Devin got to celebrate Hanukkah with our friend. She came home all happy and chatty.. that she is looking forward to the next year Hanukkah celebration. Ok, Roberta, the tradition has been created :)

Gold Nugget Squash Soup

Gold Nugget Squash

During the winter season I use a lot of squash. I had this squash(Gold Nugget is a winter squash) in my kitchen for the last 4 months sitting on the top of the refrigerator and having no time to get to it (It looked kind of pretty too:). I thought it might be bad by now, but once we open it up it was perfectly fine to use it! Tonight we baked it and made the soup out of it. I tried putting some cinnamon, ground cloves, raw apple puree, brown sugar and yogurt in the soup, but at the end the best taste was when I added nothing to it. I used Vita Mix to make the puree.
Topped it with goat yogurt.

Gold Nugget Squash Soup


The Seeds-let me know if anybody needs any.

This squash beat all the other squashes I ever ate! Even my favorite acorn squash...It was so delicious!! Highly recommend to try it!

What do you think about this?

This is that Devin did yesterday: we were getting ready to go out and while I was talking to grandmother she took my car keys, unlocked the car, turn on the engine, sit in her carseat and put her seatbelts on.

Church

Mariners Church

We took Thomas to the church for the first time. He did great, but on the other hand his big sisiter got bored and just wanted to run around.

I know my mom would love to see this picture with all of us in the church.

Thanksgiving Weekend

We did not stay home like we thought we were going to do. We went to see the family and it was fun. Devin had a blast! Got to take the first family photo.

Boths grandmothers.

Cousins-what an age difference..

Cousins.

With auntie.

Our House Remodal-The Manager

We finished remodaling the outside of our house. Devin did a good job supervising everything.

It was so funny: she would take her chair and go sit outside and look at the man working for a longest time. She would talk to them and ask questions. She made a lot of new buddies and learned some spanish words. Than she would go back inside the house and ask me to make her burrito for lunch.

BIG Bear

Devin with Grandpa and Big Bear 08.06. Was easy to take that pic..

Devin with Grandpa and Big Bear in 11.09. She did not wanted to take that pic at all. I had to bribe her quite a bit..

McDaniels

All three McDaniel men.

Love this photo.

Family in Town

With greatgrandmother and Nancy and Hello Kitty of course. Oops, forgat Devin's baby!

Long Beach Aquarium

New Pics of Thomas

He is a calm boy..

I love this outfit! Thanks Missy!

When I was getting ready to take a picture of Thomas, Devin decided that I should take a picture of her baby too! She is all about babies now. She calls herself mommy.

Halloween

I see that I do about one post every year... Again, I am thinking about improving in that department..

Here is a picture of Devin's halloween costume. She was a snowhite as you can see and went trick or treeting with her friend who was a snowhite too. Two walking around snowhites looked adorable! That day Devin and Luke went to halloween store to see if she could pick some other costume, something more like a character but they came back with the snowhite shoes and tiara. She was so sure whe wanted to be a snowhite!

Welcome our Baby Boy Thomas

Thomas and his bigger sister Devin. She already loves her brother! And her all babies..