This house we are renting has a nice, big rocking-chair front porch. My last house only had a front door stoop that was too small for even a large pumpkin without the front door banging into it. So it’s been fun decorating the exterior of this house. Nothing fancy but the kids love all the pumpkins! We painted some of them black and…
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Pumpkin Puree
Don’t throw out your sugar pumpkins (the smaller-sized pumpkins) now that Halloween and Thanksgiving are over. What I like to do is make pumpkin pie puree and freeze it to be used for future pumpkin pie recipes. All you do is cut open and seed the pumpkin. Cut in quarters and place in a large…
Wigs and Photobooth
This past weekend I helped plan my girlfriend’s 30th surprise birthday party. One of the fun things we did was gather wigs so party guests could wear them and add to the surprise when the birthday girl walked in. Since Halloween was the previous week, it was not hard to find wigs and many stores had wigs discounted half off. …
My little Witch
This Halloween was kind of a washout for us. I didn’t get ANY good pictures because I took them on Halloween night. I was out of town for most of my children’s Halloween festivities during the week and missed out on all the fun. Their costumes were kind of thrown together, and I wasn’t able to…
Bread & Butter
The last few days I’ve been in Las Vegas, sans children, and had the opportunity to try out the new cafe Bread & Butter with my girl Ashley. The former head pastry chef of Bouchon just recently opened up the gourmet restaurant. Seriously, the food is divine and serves some of the best homemade food. We…
