TIME TO BAG ME A TURKEY! Just as I was sending the last post off a flock of Turkeys came waltzing through the front yard. Talk about timing!

Thanks Giving is in the air

          

It's almost Turkey Time! We have a lot to be grateful for this year. Here is a picture of our sweet paper Turkey that Anadel and mommy made. It is being stuffed daily with all of out Thankful Thoughts. 

The start of a wonderful family tradition.

We attended Anadel's preschool Thanks Giving Performance and Feast last night. She sang 3 songs with her classmates in front of a packed room full of parents, siblings and teachers. Sorry for the poor photos of our little Anadel taken from WAY across the other side of the room (she is wearing a striped pink/grey Hello kitty shirt with a grey skirt/ black leggings 5th kid from the left).  We had a wonderful time and Anadel loves to sing and preform for a crowd.

Mommy is busy with a new recipie for our own families' Thanks Giving Feast next week since we were put in charge of dessert and drinks.  Here is what we might bring. Cupcakes and bars made with : Carob powder, spelt flour, honey, coconut sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon, balsamic vinegar, olive oil, water and of course the usual baking powder, soda and salt. Topped with a Coconut Cream pumpkin spice frosting that tastes like pumpkin pie fluff. Yummmm! All dairy free, chocolate free, egg free, refined sugar free and made with whole grain spelt. Can't wait till my little chef gets home to try these and take a few to Grandma and Grandpa tonight as payment for our date night  babysitting. :)

We hope everyone has a wonderful Thanks Giving next week. We love you all and are blessed to have you in our lives. We are so sad that our Good friends the Proctor Family is move down to So. Cal. in a weeks time. :(.  We have been so bless to have them as friends and wish them the best of luck and guaranteed a visit from us when they get established. :) We looking forward to our feast with family and visit with grandma Anadel soon. HAPPY THANKS GIVING EVERYONE!

Anadel my tiny chef, dancer, preschooler and costume designer

My little chef and I have been whipping up some yummy fall baked goods. Peanut butter, carob chips and candy eyeball toast. Spelt cinnamon and pecan muffins, pumpkin pecan bars, pumpkin/carob glazed and carob mini doughnuts. All made with whole spelt flour and without eggs, dairy, chocolate, refined sugars ( we use honey and coconut sugar). Yummy! As you can see Anadel is stuffing her cute little face eating as many as she can before daddy comes home and finishes off the rest. :)

 Anadel attended a combo dance class program this last summer. Basic ballet, tap and jazz. She picked out her own leotard too. So pretty!

 Anadel is enjoying preschool (pre-k classes) at Kids Planet. Here she is with her nap time blanket and hello kitty pillow for school. She goes from 8-4 three days a week and learns everything from Russian, Spanish, letters, reading, basic math and science. She gets breakfast, lunch and a nap time too. Anadel loves her teachers and  new friends. Mom is enjoying a break and much needed free time to get the house clean, shop and much more.

 My sweet little costume designer and her monkey Alice. She told us the other day that she married bear in the temple and moved to Africa. LOL she is so darling.

Halloween

Hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween.
Here are a few of the spooktacular events that happened at the Cassani home this year.

We spent one family home evening night, making Halloween decorations from simple things we gathered at Target. Construction paper we made into some amazing wall and window siloettes, pipe cleaners and eyeballs for spiders, cotton spider webs and glow in the dark ghost and pumpkin pillows for our front porch.

Anadel picked out a beautiful Cinderella costume at TJ MAXX for $30 (compared at $70-$100 at the Disney Store). We thought it just included the beautiful velvet dress, crown and wand.  We were surprised when the cashier said it included a beautiful fur cape as well. Wow what a deal !!! Anadel was hugging, kissing and telling us how excited she was about her costume for weeks. The dress has a hoop built into the bottom  so it swishes and holds its shape just like a royal princess gown.

 Here are some of our cute spiders we made from pipe cleaners and eye balls. They look so realistic on our fireplace, bathroom mirror and round chandelier.

 

 Mommy and Anadel had a great time cutting out construction paper pumpkins, bats, ghosts, owl,  a cat howling at a slivered moon and a cat playing with a crow and mouse on  pumpkins.