Such fun camping

We embarked on our first camping adventure with the little ones.
They had such a good time. Smores always help to make the experience more fun for all of course.



Daddy and daughter making a fire.



John found a spot for rock climbing and sliding




On a nature walk in the morning.




Try to wash the dishes and this is what happens!!




An art show in the woods...play doh, sticks and rocks, perfecto

Pumpkin Muffins

We found these at Family Fun.
They are scrumdidillumtious!
Little miss and I made/ate some today.

Pumkin Muffins:
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp baking pwdr
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp ginger
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup veg oil
1 1/4 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup canned pumpkin

Frosting:
1 1/2 cups confectioner sugar
4 oz cream cheese
2 tbsp butter
1/2 tsp lemon juice
(orange food coloring if desired)

Oven 350 F . 12 cup muffin pan.
In mixing bowl stir together flour, baking pwdr,
cinnamoin, nutmeg,ginger, salt. In another bowl stir
together oil and sugar, then whisk in eggs and vanilla.
Pour wet ingredients over dry ones and stir until combined.
Now time to put in you cup of pumkin. Stir and then put in
your muffin pan and bake for about 20 minutes.
Meanwhile, mix together your frosting ingredients for the
yummy topping. Enjoy...

I know this is sort of off the wall, but in case you are looking for a sippy that is not plastic there are now kleancanteens that you can buy. They are a bit out of our price range, but definitely thinking GREEN. We all rely so heavily on plastics and all the talk of BPA (whatever that is) ... is something to think about atleast. And of course, I cannot get my links to work but the website is www.kleankanteen.com.

The little ones really enjoy playing with rocks. Here's how we stayed entertained at my dad's for the week that my car was being worked on after catapulting a deer up 20 feet in the air. We also played a lot of play doh and made many cups of tea.



Here they are painting rocks they collected from my dad's house



My husband was gracious enough to put me up a clothesline~I did actually ask for it. He even attatched an American flag I had found and a pully system so little miss can raise it a lower it.



My latest craft joy...hand embroidery. It is portable and very gratifying!



Winter is on its way and so I am making our little man some appliques of things he loves. The next one has to be a train because he is obssessed with them at the moment. "choo choo"



My blue eyed girl~ oh how looking a pictures like this make me smile!

Happy big pancakes

Okay, since the computer died and has now been brought back to life, I haven't put my photo program back in yet...So no pics til then, but going without the computer has been a really good lesson on how dependent I have been the last few years on the internet. I use it for a phone book, cookbook, craft tutorial book,etc... hmmm --I guess I use it like a book. It was strange to go out to the workshop to hunt down a real phone book, they are so bulky and smell like newspaper which makes me sneeze from delivering way to many in my youth.

Alright almost done rambling. So, other than losing all the programs on the computer we also lost my favorites , which is where I would store anything I didn't have time to write down and wanted to refer back to later and in it was a recipe for something I wanted to try. After finally remembering the name of them (Dutch Babies) I did a new google search and made them tonight. The recipes made one happy big pancake that little miss and I coated in sifted powdered sugar--yum. I used the allrecipies recipe with a combo of the readers suggestions. So, go use your computer to get the recipe and make some they're good!!!!

Best Friend

Well, today is my best friend in the whole world's birthday and I wanted to write a little ode to her. Since 6th grade we have been connected and it has been an adventure. She is delicate and special--the most special. God has kept our planets aligned, so we have been within close proximity of one another for a long time now and although that may all change as husband finishes school next year, I feel we will always be close. If we move far away we will have to pick a star to communicate on---or just email I guess!
She is beautiful, thoughtful, and she understands me.
Happy Birthday my friend!