Thanksgiving and Family Time

We had the BEST Thanksgiving.  I loved having everyone at my house and cooking a ton of food.  And I don't just mean on Thanksgiving day.  I cooked Wed, Thursday, Friday and Saturday for everyone!  We also did a lot of Black Friday shopping and we spend time at Red Brick Brewery.  My loverly parents are still here and will be with us for almost another week which is great.  On Monday we went to the World of Coke and had a lot of fun.  

This bottle is made completely out of baseball equipment

The Pioneer Woman

Yeah, Logan and I met Ree Drummond - The Pioneer Woman.  She is awesome!

From Scratch

I roasted 2 small pie pumpkins and made my own pumpkin puree.  I used most of it for pumpkin pies but I have a little bit left that could go into bread or muffins.  I need to make more puree this weekend so I am fully stocked for Thanksgiving!

Guest Bathroom Work

I am overdo on some posts but there will be 3-4 this week for all the stuff I have missed.  

Several weeks ago we got to work on our upstairs bathroom.  There was a leak from the toilet that had to be fixed and the bathtub faucet dripped.  We ended up having to take part of the shower wall off in order to stop the drip so it was much more involved than we thought it would be but it all got done in the end.  We want to do more in that bathroom eventually so we ended up  just getting a new toilet.  But we only got new (kinda ugly) handles for the bathtub because to get something nice looking we will have to redo the pipes and we just weren't ready for that.  

I helped, There was one point when Barrett couldn't get a bolt off and I did :) 

Old cream colored toilet gone, now there is a nice new white one but I didn't get an after picture

Dora the Educator

Today Dora (and I) went to the Library to teach pre-schoolers about dog safety.

Weekend in the World (Disney World)

Disney World is the best.  I went down for a 3 day weekend to see my mom and Pat while they were there.  It was great and I also got to see Andrew and Lorri!  Take a look to follow out adventures.  Saturday we went to Epcot for the Food and Wine Festival and Sunday we went to a special brunch and then went to the Magic Kingdom for "Mickey's no-so-scary Halloween Party"

Epcot's Food and Wine Festival 

Yum - At "Greece" I got Grilled Greek cheese with honey and pistachios

Cranberry Bog 

Decorations for the Halloween Party 

I dressed up! 

 So Did most of the characters 

Trips with Mommy are so fun

Best Friends Visit

Oh my goodness, I almost forgot to blog this week.  Really I just hardly had time to look at my computer.  Work has been so busy with the craziest people.  But I digress - This past weekend was full of fun when Kathy and Walker AND Natalie and Brian came to visit.  I was bad and didn't really take pictures but I'll give you the run down of our festivities and mostly of all the delicious meals I cooked.

Friday Kathy and Walker arrived!
Dinner:  Creamy tomato and crab pasta
Dessert: Nutella stuffed, brown butter chocolate chip cookies with sea salt

Saturday we went apple picking.  We loaded up on Cameo, Golden Delicious, Braeburn, and Jona Prince apples.  We also got apple butter, cinnamon pear preserves and blackberry preserves, apple dumplings, apple fritters, fried apple pies, and a cup of apple cider.

Breakfast: Banana bread pancakes
Lunch: Apples
Dinner: Lemon Chicken Gyros and Italian potatoes

Sunday we went to church and after this is when we met up with Natalie and Brian

Breakfast: Bisquits and sausage gravy
Lunch:  Fat Matt's BBQ
Dinner: ?  I don't remember

Monday I went shopping and hung out with Natalie before they had to go home

Breakfast:  Pumpkin Muffins
Dinner:  Tomato Basil Parmesan Soup

My Cookies from Friday night