Thanksgiving Yum! Yum!

Wow what a yummy day. I spent all day cooking, cleaning, watching movies, and eating. Can I say what a perfect day. We had so much fun hanging out as a family and cooking. We BBQed our turkey, dutch ovened our stuffing, and put our green beans in little pies like chicken pot pies. We in addition to our pumpkin and berry pies made a banna cream pie which was a huge hit. Sorry if I made you all hungry, but it was sooooo good.

My Fun Sunday Baking Afternoon. YUM!!!!

Yesterday I baked. I have not baked for at least 6 months. I made chocolate marshmallow with fudge frosting cookies, then sticky buns, and last of all pumpkin muffins. Oh my, have I gained 5 pounds in the matter of 24 hrs. Bob asked what was my deal, was the you know what coming or what???? I said that it is finally cold enough to turn on my oven without having to turn on the air conditioning, which will not happen until next summer. In our less than rich status we have done away with any kind of luxury items. I also needed to prove to myself that I can still bake really good. Like I said before I made pumpkin muffins, I got a recipe off the Internet. It was very yummy, but I am going to improve it. It called for a yellow cake mix, so now I am going to make the cake from scratch. I also have a pumpkin outside that is starting to get ripe, I am going to learn how to make it into pumpkin filling. I explained this to Bob and got an amazing response, blank stare and he shook his head in disbelief. I think I can really make pumpkin muffins from scratch. Once my pumpkin is ready I will let ya all know how it all came out of if I am truly crazy.

My Cowgirls

The girls had a chance to ride a mechanical bull at our local fair. It was amusing to watch the operator of the machine start it out very slow, and then he could tell it was going to take a whole lot more power to get these girls off. We asked them what they thought about it, and they both said they would rather ride there horse somewhere any day of the week. There new thing is ridding bareback to do any kind of chore or task. Sonoma gets the mail by just hopping on cowboy and ridding down to the mailbox. They go to friends houses to via there horse, they want to go to the gas station and get a treat. It's nice to know that they still love there horses and I hope it will replace the boy craze that most girls go thru. Wishful thinking.

Our Office Move Agian :(

Well we have moved our office again. I hate moving, I really hate moving. Especially moving an office. I think I'm close to an expert at this. We have moved our office 6 times in the last 11 years. It doesn't matter if your going from a small office to big or from big to small. You still have to delete furniture or add furniture. The thing I hate the most is that you can never get phone, fax, and DSL lines started, hooked up, arranged when the phone company says it will. It is either turned off earlier or started later than expected. This is very frustrating. I must say that with this last move we were very blessed to have the technicians from AT&T that we had. When they realized that it wasn't going as smoothly as it should have, they brought in help and only charged me a quarter of what it would have been. So a big thanks to AT & T for helping me not have a total mental breakdown. Also a big thinks to my Blackberry, I was able to get very important e-mails so that we could get some cash flow. I guess I can't forget the 2 main people that helped move me physically. Dennis and Mike a big thank you for putting up with my OCD of where furniture goes or doesn't go. You saved my b-hind.

Halloween Night

We went to Lea and Casey's for Halloween. We had a spooky potluck dinner, we brought chili with bread stick spiders. After dinner the Sonoma and Kate went off with Jessica and Natalie to trick or treat by themselves. Kate was an Elf, and Sonoma was still celebrating Homecoming with her black and gold. She complained that she didn't get candy from a couple of houses because they didn't think she was dressed up. They had a lot of fun with out parents overseeing them. Olivia and I went with the younger kids around the neighborhood, we were surprised at how many houses didn't have anyone home or didn't want kids. We did get to go thru a haunted house which was kid of scary. They did a great job and it was very fun. Bob on the other hand walked over to his brother Jim's house and drooled over his new hot rod. We all had a great time.

Kates Pumpkin Cupcakes

Katelyn got a new cupcake cookbook a couple months ago and has really been working hard at creating cupcakes. She did a great job on these pumpkin cupcakes, her frosting was fantastic. I can't wait till she has a new creation, we will all weigh 300 pounds by the time she is a cupcake master.