The Pioneer Woman Cooks!
I just wanted to share a really neat internet site I found. It is called The Pioneer Woman Cooks. Just click on the title link in blue above. Great recipes and awesome step by step photos showing how to prepare the recipe. She has a great sense of humor too. Warning... most of the recipes are not "lite recipes", however they do look incredibly tasty.
Right now she is going over Thanksgiving recipes so the pictures of the gizzards are a bit gruesome. You have to check out the yummy recipes on the side bars too. Enjoy!
Friday, November 02, 2007
Halloween Trick or Treat
Boy has it been pretty crazy around here. I meant to do a quick update last week but now it is this week and there is even more to update but I have just a few minutes so I will hit the most current event.. Halloween.
I sure got away easy this Halloween. Last year, I made costumes the morning of and it took me most of the day (they were pretty cute though). This year for some reason after ruling out that I didn't have it in me right now to make a full blown Civil War Period costume, the kids costumes were really easy. K found a darling Ladybug accessory kit for a costume (at 50% off even). She wore all black and added the accessories.. done! C found a "bandit" accessory kit and added his jeans, picked out a green shirt, wore a vest that Grammy made awhile back...done! , J just wanted me to cut his costume from last year into wide strips in the front, wore some black pants and a black shirt. We found a very inexpensive but cool ninja sword and he called himself a Spartan...done! This season it truly was about the accessories.
I wish I took more pictures but I did get a group one of the neighbors that we have gone with for the last couple of years. Notice how K is bending down a little bit in the background. She has grown another inch in the past few months and I think she is at least 5'6". J has grown alot too and comes to my chin now. Crazy growing kids!
We had the neighbors over for dinner and we had a make your own "ghost" pizza party. I found these really cute whole wheat mini-wraps shaped like ghosts. I had all sorts of toppings so they could make their own pizzas. We also had creamy tomato soup and salad. Pretty yummy and I tried to stay healthy knowing how much candy was yet to be consumed! It is always hard after the kids come home with so much candy. It seems that the candy is constantly on their minds. This year we did something different (an idea that our neighbor uses) the kids sold their bags of candy to P to take to work. The price was very minimal (small star wars guy, extra time to stay up on the weekends, I can't remember who chose what). Now it is gone and I don't have to be tempted by it and the kids don't think about it. Yahoo!
I sure got away easy this Halloween. Last year, I made costumes the morning of and it took me most of the day (they were pretty cute though). This year for some reason after ruling out that I didn't have it in me right now to make a full blown Civil War Period costume, the kids costumes were really easy. K found a darling Ladybug accessory kit for a costume (at 50% off even). She wore all black and added the accessories.. done! C found a "bandit" accessory kit and added his jeans, picked out a green shirt, wore a vest that Grammy made awhile back...done! , J just wanted me to cut his costume from last year into wide strips in the front, wore some black pants and a black shirt. We found a very inexpensive but cool ninja sword and he called himself a Spartan...done! This season it truly was about the accessories.
I wish I took more pictures but I did get a group one of the neighbors that we have gone with for the last couple of years. Notice how K is bending down a little bit in the background. She has grown another inch in the past few months and I think she is at least 5'6". J has grown alot too and comes to my chin now. Crazy growing kids!
We had the neighbors over for dinner and we had a make your own "ghost" pizza party. I found these really cute whole wheat mini-wraps shaped like ghosts. I had all sorts of toppings so they could make their own pizzas. We also had creamy tomato soup and salad. Pretty yummy and I tried to stay healthy knowing how much candy was yet to be consumed! It is always hard after the kids come home with so much candy. It seems that the candy is constantly on their minds. This year we did something different (an idea that our neighbor uses) the kids sold their bags of candy to P to take to work. The price was very minimal (small star wars guy, extra time to stay up on the weekends, I can't remember who chose what). Now it is gone and I don't have to be tempted by it and the kids don't think about it. Yahoo!
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