So excited! You'll see why.

So now that the cold weather has come I'm stuck at home. We only have one car and a motorcycle, Jacob is a sweet heart and will sometimes ride his bike still even though its not the ideal weather for it. Needless to say I've been trying to fill my days with playing with the girls, getting chores done, and of course doing craft projects. Today I hit the jack-pot with new craft project ideas thanks to my friend Stephanie. She posted this link, which will now give me quite a few project ideas to get me ready for Christmas decorating at my house. If you don't know I love to decorate my house so holiday's are perfect for me because I get to change things up a bit. Anyway I hope you enjoy looking at all the fun ideas like I did.

Thank You Grandma Jefferies

Why does she get a thank you? Well because of her we got three super yummy treats and we all know how much I love treats! I only have a picture of two of these treats but trust me they are all fantastic. First we got lots of apples from her apple trees so what did we do with them you ask? Well I made home-made apple sauce! This was a first and was lots easier then I thought it would be, plus it tastes so freaking good! I'm without a picture of this one but trust me it looks great and tastes even better! What else did I make with all the apples we inherited? Well two yummy apple pies!
The scary part is that when I looked at the pie today half of it was already gone and yesterday Jacob told me he still hadn't eaten any. I think I need to have a bit more self control. So now you know two of our treats but what's the third you might be thinking...well I'll tell you! Home made doughnuts! We went over to the in laws on Monday night for FHE to have some fantastic soup in pumpkin (recipes will be shared once I've obtained them) and to die for home made doughnuts! Since so many were made each family got to take some home with them, I was quite thankful although I've been realizing that I've been eating way to many treats lately and I should probably be scaling back a bit.
As an off topic side note, totally look forward to my next post. It'll have two super cute projects that I'm making with two of my sister-in-laws tomorrow I can't wait to show you all!

Pancakes!

Savannah is such a riot! She is always making me laugh with the different things she does. She's like her Grandpa Jefferies where she becomes obsessed with something for a few weeks and then become obsessed with something else and so forth. What is she obsessed with now? PANCAKES! I mean she asks for pancakes all the time. I finally made a huge batch for her because she kept asking me for them and I got tired of making them. Now I have them on hand so I can just grab one out of the fridge and heat it up for her. I also don't feel bad giving them to her because I make them from scratch and they're actually pretty healthy.

Halloween

To start the fun Halloween festivities I decided to make these fantastic caramel apples. I mean they really are aMAZING! I attempted to share one with Jacob and was not super successful. Thank you again Stephanie for sharing this wonderful treat. Next on the agenda was a fun filled weekend of trick-or-treating which started on Friday. We had our ward trunk-or-treat so we got the girls ready and had to make some modifications. So our original plan was to have Olivia be an award winning pumpkin, Savannah a baby chick, and Jacob and I were going to be farmers. Well we got Olivia dressed no problem I mean how big of a fight can a 3 month old give you honestly. Savannah was a different story. I'm thankful we didn't buy the costume we wanted to put her in because she pitched a fit when we put her in it. It was kinda comical how much she hated this costume. In the end we let her choose between the chick costume and her fairy wings. She chose the fairy wings so in 5 minutes I threw together clothes from her closet with these wings and put some make-up on her. The make-up was her favorite part up until she started getting candy. Overall it was a very sucessful evening and Savannah had a blast, Olivia ended up

falling asleep on me while I was handing out candy. Also something funny was when the kids were going around to all the cars there was a boy in a Spider Man costume behind Savannah and Jacob. Needless to say Savannah wasn't a fan and kept trying to run away from him because she was scared. It looks like she might be a wuss like her mom, I really am trying not to make her a scardy cat like me. On Saturday night we went trick-or-treating again with all Savannah's cousins. My sister-in-law invited us to a fair at the elementary school near her house, they had all kinds of games and another trunk-or-treat. We arrived a bit late for the trunk-or-treat but Savannah got to play all the games and they gave you candy for playing so she was happy. After that the kids all went trick-or-treating around the neighborhood. I didn't go out with all the kids I stayed at my sister-in-laws to hand out candy and stay home with Olivia but apparently Savannah was quite the candy horder. She'd go up to the doors and take a handful of candy from the bowl. Then when they'd tell her to just take one she wouldn't listen (big shocker there), its a good thing she's still little and so dang cute. The more I think about it its kinda these people's falut that she took more then one. I mean who lets little kids take candy right from the bowl, of course they're going to take more then one. If you want them to have one piece give them one yourself. Anyway when it was time to go home she was so hyper she kept running around the car and then the whole way home she carried on a conversation with her stuffed dog, it was pretty funny.
On Halloween I decided I'd be a little festive so I made ghost pancakes for breakfast and made a special Halloween dinner. Savannah thought it was awesome and kept saying "Look it! Look it!" like I didn't know what I had made or something. I got the recipe for dinner from this site. I wouldn't say its fantastic by any means but Jacob and Savannah both liked it and it was a fun way to celebrate Halloween. Also yes Savannah is in her pj's while eating dinner, she's obsessed lately with wearing her pajamas, its a rare thing these days to see her in real clothes.

Just for fun I thought I'd throw in a picture of Olivia. I've started putting her in the high chair when were in the kitchen. She loves being with us and its perfect for when I'm making dinner because she loves being higher up and being able to see what I'm doing. She's such a sweet heart and I love that she's smiling more now its the best.

Sharing

So I decided that I need to share all these yummy treats I'm making because I'm eating way to many of them. These are the pumpkin cream-cheese muffins I made yesterday, there were 24 of them and I alone have eaten way to many so Jacob's parent's and grandparent's will be the recipients of some of these fantastic muffins. Plus I wanted an excuse to use these cute tags I found at this site. What's my next goodies giveaway you might be thinking...well you can see it here thanks to Stephanie for sharing. Needless to say I'm in a creative mood and others are benefiting from it, sorry if you don't live near me you'll just have to drool over the pictures.

Fall Goodness

I really do like the start of fall, pulling out the sweaters and hoodies, drinking hot chocolate, and seeing the leaves change. I decided to make these amazing pumpkin cream cheese muffins thanks to my dear friend Mary who introduced them to me. I messed up on the topping, I got a bit distracted because Olivia woke up right while I was making it and forgot to add the butter. Never-the-less they turned out great and I think I've already had like 4 today and of course I paired it with a nice cup of hot chocolate. Yeah for fall!

Take Two

So we decided to try out another pumpkin patch this past week since Jacob could actually move around. We went to Woodland Farms and the best part about this place is its free except for your pumpkin. Savannah had so much fun in the bouncy house and on the hay ride. She kept following Jacob around saying all the pumpkins were so cute, we finally had to pick one out for her because she couldn't make up her mind. She's so silly and we had lots of fun.