Pick a Pop!

So you may not be able to tell in the picture but each of us is eating a different kind of frozen treat pop. Now I use such generic language, not as the food network does (to disguise the particular brand they have chosen) but instead due to the huge variety we from which we are eating.

None of the pictured frozen treats is truly a popsicle. Lilly has an Orange Cremesicle, Cara a Dark Chocolate Fudgesicle, Hannah a Milk Chocolate Fudgesicle, and Bill a White Chocolate Fudgesicle. What an aray of frosty treats!!! A testament to the modern appetite. Or maybe I should just get over it and grab myself an Icecream sandwich... but that is for another post!

mmmm frosty!

So what is your favorite frosty treat?

Fantabulous!!! (Easter Bread)

This year the Goodall family participated in a family tradition reaching back over the ages... well since I was a little kid anyway. Once a year we would have home made Easter Bread when I lived with my Grandma and Grandpa - it was really yummy and had a unique flavor and aroma due that is unmatched in my memory - accept for maybe Christmas Tree Cookies with the real silver sprinkles.

Well I heard a ton of chatter on facebook about making the bread this year, and my Aunt Char sent the seeds to my sister and I so that we could try to make some. You may or may not know it, but my wife is an excellent cook and baker, but before this weakened she had never made bread from scratch - dough yes, but actual bread no.

Well Cara stepped out in faith and it was Fantabulous!!!

Watch and enjoy... I only wish you could smell through this thing. Maybe after the iPod touch, they will come out with the iPod scratch and sniff ??!?!?

An Early Spring Bikeride

We had fun today sneaking in an Early Spring Bike Ride.

Last year Hannah learned how to ride without training wheels and remembered very quickly this year.  Lilly's first time she took to it like a fish in water. (It helps that she can finally reach the pedals now :)

Check it out.

Video of Lilly in action.

Bill

Lilly's Birthday Blizzard

This is a video that I created from a film that Hannah took of Lilly's actual birthday (her party was a few days earlier).  To celebrate her birthday she got a birthday blizzard with candles and all!!!

Enjoy.

Bill

99...100

Well, this may not be that exciting for any of you, but Hannah just counted to 100 today for the first time.  We were driving to our firends house just a few blocks away and I had said, dont' worry we will get there before you can count to 100.  And the whole way she was trying to count that hight and Cara and I were laughing because she doesn't know the numbers that high.

So at home I asked her again later, "Can you count to 100?"

She got up to 49 and then got stuck. So I reminder her of 50 and then she got all the way to 89 with prompts only for the ten's.  Well she made it all the way to 100.  Then she went back through and  counted to 100 - counting by 10's this time.

It was pretty cool to see her make that jump.

Anyway.  Now maybe the parable of the lost sheep will mean more to her :)

hurley burley

We made our first Craig's List purchase a few months ago and it went really well. To be honest I had never purchased anything online from an auction or even anything less than a major ecommerce clearinghouse. We ended up driving about 30 min to save perhaps $200. I don't remember the exact amount, but it was well worth it.

The only problem is that we purchased this Burley near the end of winter.

So we didn't get to drive it around for about two months it seemed. Finally it got warm enough and we took the girls for a spin. I was so fun. It was easy to steer with them back there. I could hardly notice them unless I was on a major incline, and then it was not that bad.

Well worth it, and ton's of fun.