Pies & Pinterst

I just had to post some pictures of the Homemade pies I made for todays Thanksgiving feast. Don't they look delicious?! (cross fingers they taste as good as they look.) I found all the recipes on pinterst. Go here to see my board.

The first one is a Pumpkin Chiffon gingersnap and the second is a Banana Cream.

You can find the recipe here.

You can find the recipe here.

Last of all we made some semi-homemade pumpkin pancakes for breakfast and they were wonderful. Instead of making the batter from scratch, I took the flour measurement and used the just add water pancake mix and added the pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger and enough water to make a nice consistency. They were fluffy, light and amazing!
For the recipe go here.

I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Little Boy Ben

I know many of you thought that this day would never come.... Ben finally has a "typical" little boy haircut. No it is not a mistake, I actually cut it myself and even used some clippers for part of it. I can hear your gasps of shock! His Dad loves it, but I think Im still partial to it being a little longer. This will be a Thanksgiving present to Grandma & Grandpa.

Trick or Treat

A Princess and a Pirate?! What happened to THING1 & THING2?

Since the 1st week in October the kids and I had been talking about what they wanted to be for Halloween. Recently they had been watching alot of the Cat in the Hat on PBS, so we were all in agreement that it would be fun to be THING1 & 2 this year. I went to walmart & bought some red outfits and then found some great iron on decals on Etsy. Hurray, I thought, Im done. Sunday afternoon I ironed on the transfers and then monday morning everything changed. Hannah had decided she wanted to be a princess and Ben of course told everyone at school he was going to be a pirate. ?! what! I didnt have a pirate costume!! While the kids were in school I did a frantic 2 hour search for last minute costumes. 2 walmarts, sears, and even salvation army proved fruitless. I had one more option... After I picked up the kids we went to saver's and found these 2 beauties. The kids were happy, Mommy was happy and we even pulled out Daddy's old pirate costume to match!

Ben had a blast at the Trunk or Treat at the church and wandered around saying "Arghh Matey" to everyone.

Guess they will have to wear their THING1 & 2 tshirts around the house.