This sunset was so pretty. It looked like a tornado in the sky. There were so many colors. This picture doesn't do it justice! It was so cool!

To the bat cave!

I want to suck your blood!

Captain Jack Sparrow

Easton cleaning out the pumkin

Pumpkin cookie recipe

So I'm posting this recipe since I bragged about how good these are, told you to go make some, and then didn't give you the recipe! Props to Dawna, this is her recipe! So here ya go:

Mix wet:

1 15 oz. can of pumpkin
1 Cup sugar
3/4 C. oil
2 eggs
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla

Mix dry:

3 3/4 C. flour
2 1/4 tsp. baking powder
1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 1/4 tsp. salt
3 tsp. pumpkin pie spice

Mix wet & dry together, add 1 bag of choc. chips. The dough will be VERY sticky. Grease cookie sheet(or use parchment paper). Flatten each cookie with a fork just a bit(spray fork with non-stick cooking spray). Bake @ 350 for 15 minutes. Enjoy!

Pumpkin Cookies!

So since it's fall, I thought it was time to make some pumpkin chocolate cookies. I got this yummy recipe from my, practically professional cook, SIL Dawna. I called to tell her I was making them, and little did I know that she was doing the exact same thing! So even though we are hundreds of miles apart, we were making the same cookies simultaneously! After we were done making them, we sent pictures of our yummy cookies to eachother so we could see eachothers finished product! How funny is that? So I decided to post pics on my blog since I had never made them before and I was proud of how they turned out. Yay for COOKIES!!!!!! Now go make some yourself! :D

Just before popping them in the oven!

TADA! The finished product! So yummy!

Yummy alfredo sauce

K so I wanted a different recipe for alfredo sauce, so I googled quick and easy alfredo sauce and picked the first one that came up. Holy fetch! This alfredo sauce was so good, and it is so quick and easy. I couldn't stop spooning it in my mouth. So I thought I would post it since it was so good. I have to warn you, it is a little bit on he fattening side, but oh is it tasty! You gotta try it! so here it is!


1/2 Cup butter or margarine
1 8 oz. package cream cheese
2 tsp. garlic powder
2 Cup milk(I used 1%)
6 oz. grated parmesan
1/8 tsp. ground black pepper

Melt butter in med. non-stick pan over med. heat. Add cream cheese and garlic powder and a little milk to help melt the cream cheese. Stirring with a wire wisk, add milk alittle at a time to get lumps out. Stir in parmesan & pepper. Remove from heat when it reaches desired consistency. It will thicken, so just add milk if it's too thick for you! Bon apetit!(or however you spell that):)

Pumpkin Patch

Gwen grew pumpkins this year just for the heck of it, and we're glad she did! We went over to her house on Sunday and picked out a bunch of pumpkins for FREE! I bought a pumpkin carving kit, so we can make cool designs on the pumpkins! I got a few to put on my porch just for decoration!

It's official!

My dishwasher is now in working condition thanks to my hubby Tyrel. It only took him a couple hours to hook up the plumbing and electrical on Saturday. It was so nice not to do any dishes on Sunday after dinner with Tyrel's parents! We should've done this a long time ago. I won't take my dishwasher for granted anymore after washing dishes for a year and a half!

New Four-wheeler

So Tyrel thought it would be fun to get the boys a 4-wheeler to ride around. He's been itching to get one for a couple of years now. It's so fun to watch Logan & Easton ride it and give Luke rides. We thought it could be an early xmas present so they could ride it and enjoy it before the Idaho winter hits and there's too much snow to ride it around!

Itsy Bitsy Spider?!

I saw this spider yesterday while mowing the lawn. I thought it was going to jump off the cement on to my face and start eating me. Hello! This thing was huge! I ran and got the camera and had the boys come and look at it. I made sure they stayed well away from it. I don't know what kind it is, or if it's poisonous, but I wasn't about to try and find out. After we messed with it for a bit I smashed it with a big stick. When we did that I figured out that it must have been carrying a bunch of eggs in that huge bubble on its back. You could see the individual eggs in all the goo that came out. SO DISGUSTING! I was not about to let this thing live, crawling around my house or all those babies that it would have had. YUCK! I get the willies just looking at the pictures. I wonder how many more of these things are out there!

Dishwasher & more counter space!

So we finally got the new cabinet & counter top put in. We still need to hook up the water & electricity to the dishwasher, but it looks great and I have much more needed counter space. Hopefully I'll be able to use the dishwasher soon and not just look at it! Yay! My dishwashing days are almost over!:)