French Toast Sticks

Mike and I have a tradition that on Sunday mornigs we have nice breakfast together (luckily our church has always been after 11 so we'll see if the tradition continues if we ever have 9am church). Anyways, today Mike asked me if I could make French Toast sticks. I've never made them, but I decided to try. Haha, it turned out to be an adventure....
Half of them ended up in a glass pan, stuck to the pan, and were a total disaster:( But the other half were on a cookie sheet and turned out perfectly:)

The moral of the story? Bake French Toast sticks on a cookie sheet, not in a glass pan and enjoy!

Kiara is throughly enjoying the fall weather! We were up in Denver this weekend and Kiara and her sister Elphie were "helping" my mom and I rake the leaves from the huge maple my parents have in their front yard. They were wrestling and having so much fun. I decided I needed a picture of how cute Kiara looked all covered in leaves. Silly dogs:)

Last weekend my dad got the whole family tickets to go see the Barnum and Bailey circus. I sware we were the only group of adults there without at least one toddler, but we had a blast! The show was great and we got snow cones in these really cool tiger cups (of course I forgot my camera). It's has been great to be so close to my parents. They let us stay over any time we want and Kiara loves to come visit Elphie all the time. Thanks mom and dad - we love you!

Garden of the Gods

Have I mentioned how beautiful Colorado Springs is and how much we love it here? The weather, the mountains, and everything about this city is beautiful! Last Saturday we decided to go explore the Garden of the Gods park that is only about 5 minutes away from our house. There are tons of huge red rocks that rise up out of no where. They are each unique and in the background you can see Pike's Peak. It's no wonder they call it Garden of the Gods. Here are some of the pictures....
Unfortunately my camera batteries died after these 2 pictures so this blog does not do it justice. But we will go back often for sure!