HAPPY BIRTHDAY........

We would like to wish a Happy Birthday to My Mother-in-law, Henry's MOM and My Kids Grandma, Gayle. We all hope you have a GREAT birthday.

Love: Henry, Jana, Ashley and Charlie

This Kid is Dangerous!

Well, he's done it again. This child has more injuries than my last child.

His poor head and face. Well, Sunday he was riding his little school bus ride on toy having a fun time. Then, BOOM we heard it. He was definitely hurt not mad. Went to pick him up and yep, blood this time. He fell off and hit his eye on his metal Tonka truck he got for Christmas last year. (Yes I know accidents happen Darenda you know we don't blame you!!) :) :) But his cry was short lived and he'll recover nicely! Here is the shinner and his big sis. She really loves this little guy.

What's for Dinner Tonight?

Well I thought I would post what's for dinner tonight and my recipe for Tuesday early. Tuesday's have become a little busy for me. I've been working and Ashley has started volleyball again, and I've been trying to go to the pottery painting place to work on teacher's gifts for Christmas. Yes I said Christmas, it will be her really soon for those of you who haven't been preparing! So here is our dinner tonight!

Meat loaf- I use 1 lb of ground beef or ground turkey, 1 small can of tomato sauce, 1 egg and Italian bread crumbs. salt and pepper. I bake this at 350 for an hour ( or til Henry comes home)

Mashed Potatoes

Hoppin John ( I think is what is is called?) It is a can of black eyed peas drained and rinsed and a can of rotel. I love this so much. It is a new twist on black eyed peas.

French bread

For desert I made a cream cheese pound cake. I'll post that recipe next week or later on in the week.

The Amazingly fun Farm

Make a Smilebox slideshow

This was a lot of fun. The corn maze was awesome. It took us about an hour to get through. We did it while the sun was still up. I think it would be really fun to do at dark with flashlights. (maybe next year without children!) I recommend renting a campfire spot and taking hot dogs etc. We only took smores and sandwiches, but were hungry when we left. People were playing guitar and singing, and there looked like a family reunion of some sort there too. It was fun. We also took a hayride to the pumpkin patch and picked our own pumpkins from a field. (in the dark with flashlights) That was so much fun. Some of the girls picked the white pumpkins which were so pretty. I would, however, say if you do this it might be better to pick pumpkins while it is still a little light outside. This makes it a little less hazardous. (falling etc.) Hope you like the pics.

Halloween Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies

I love making these sugar cookies. These are really easy and really good. They taste like you spent a lot of time making them though. I whipped up a batch for our fall fun night.

Ingredients

1 package 18 ounce of refrigerated sugar cookie dough (room temp)

3 ounces cream cheese (softened)

3/4 cup flour

1 teaspoon vanilla

Cut softened cookie dough into about 8 pieces

in electric mixer: combine dough, cream cheese, vanilla, and flour.

Chill dough in frige for at least an hour

Roll dough on floured surface about 1/4 inch thick and use cookie cutters of your choice.

Bake at 350 for aprox 7 to 8 min for soft cookies longer if you like a crunch to your cookie.

cool and decorated as desired.

These are really Yummy!