Fall Leaves!

This seems to be my childrens favorite time of year, again we have some pretty funny photos. Skylar wasn't so happy about raking and having kids jump into or run through the leaves, he even had 3 of his friends helping. He gave up after a while, deciding to try another day when the two youngest siblings are in the house.





Alas, we have a couple of inches of snow covering the ground and the leaves. Skylar didn't get the chance to finish them.

Yummy Pumpkin Butter Recipe!

Okay so I've neglected posting a few posts. Actually I forgot to finish them and just realized they were there. This was in October.

Friday while helping Dalton's teacher at school I had the pleasure of tasting Pumpkin Butter on bread. I had never tasted Pumpkin Butter until that day, talk about delicious. It's so good you could eat it by the spoonful. I decided to post the recipe, it's very festive.

At first Dalton protested that he didn't like butter, but his teacher has a one taste no thank you bite. They have to at least try one bite. He bit into it and ate the whole slice of bread with pumpkin butter. Only one child out of twenty-three didn't finish their slice. Pretty amazing odds if you ask me.

Pumpkin Spiced Cream Cheese Spread

4 oz. cream cheese spread (softened)
3 tablespoons brown sugar
2 tablespoons pure maple syrup
1/4 cup canned pumpkin
1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice or if you don't have pumpkin pie spice add 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg and 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

1. In a small bowl, beat softened cream cheese, sugar, and syrup till creamy.
2. Add pumpkin, spices and vanilla and beat till smooth.
3. Refrigerate at least one hour and enjoy!

Last week was Dalton's birthday we celebrated by going to McDonald's with three of his friends, then having cake and ice cream at the house besides opening presents and playing with them of course. It was a lot of fun minus the fact that his cake didn't turn out as well as I would have liked but I tried something different.


My husband doesn't like rolled fondont so I tried it with butter cream frosting and melted chocolate. It turned out rather weird I'm still learning what works and what doesn't. This has definately proven the fact that I would enjoy taking classes and learning some more.