Some Yummies

I have been cooking some good things lately, if I do say so myself.  Some recipes I copied from Pinterest and some I just made up by myself.  Here is what we have been eating recently!

Pumpkin Muffins(from Pinterest)
1 box cake mix(I used butter yellow from Betty)
1 15oz can pumpkin

Mix with mixer and put into greased muffin tins and bake at 375 for 20 minutes.  Top with powdered sugar or brown sugar or cinnamon sugar or chocolate sauce while warm.  These are so very good and not too pumpkiny!

Beef pot pie
Boil beef roast or beef stew meat in water, salt and pepper until tender.
Remove meat and thicken with flour roux.  Add meat back to pot and add whatever veggies you would like.  I added potatoes, carrots, celery, and onion cut up.  Cook in pot until veggies are almost done.  Pour mixture into 2 deep pie crusts and then top with regular pie crusts and seal with fork.  Brush with egg wash and bake at 375 for 30 minutes or until crust is flaky and brown.

I hope you enjoy these as much as we did!  Both are new recipes for my house but are going to become staples this winter.  They are so good!

Fall in My Neck of the Woods

What does fall look like where I live?  Well, I am blessed to live in a beautiful part of the country and we get lots of fall colors and leaves.  What the kids and I look forward to every year is picking out pumpkins and decorating them.  I buy small pumpkins and paint them instead of carving them cause let's face it, who likes the mess.  Above are some examples of pumpkins past.

We, also, go apple picking and make applesauce.  If you have never had home made applesauce, then you are missing out!  It is literally so yummy that you can sit and eat the whole thing.  But, I freeze it and we have it for the whole year.  Delish!

Thanks for stopping by if you are from SITS and well, even if you aren't!

Happy Halloween

I dislike Halloween!  Yes, I have admitted this before at least 2x but I said it again!  However, that doesn't mean that I deprive my kids the fun of dressing up and getting candy(of which I take a cut).  

Here are my monsters posing for granddaddy

My boy!

The crew

Getting some Vitamin D

Multiple piercings

I let them use button, straight pins, paper clips, and yarn to decorate.

Daddy says that they can only have 1 piercing until they are 18 but that is only for the humans.

My youngest picked out the craziest shaped pumpkin!