Fall Bucket List/Trick or Treating

We had a few different halloween activities this year. I didn't have a halloween party to the disappointment of quite a few people who called me asking when it was. I just wasn't up to it this year! We did go to the trunk or treat that Wendy helped to put together. (Great job Gramzee), and we had an event here Monday at the good ole AmFam office. It was a blast and Heather's idea of the spin wheel was a HIT with all the kids (You mean we get candy AND we get to spin the wheel for a treat!?) After we went home had some pizza then went out in our 'hood for a bit (up around to the hook then down the 2 blocks closest to us.). After we went to my friend Alysha's mom's casa for a little get together. The kids had alot of fun over there. Lil miss Khari thought she was a big girl and tried to jump off the back porch with the older kids. Not such a good idea there missy. She fell of course right as I was walking back out the door to check on here. sigh. No bumps or bruises though and considering she was balancing on the arm/back of the couch last night I don't think it knocked any fear into her! Anywho Halloween was a blast! I'm sad that Khari will probably want to pick her own costume next year so I won't get to plan that out for a year haha. This year we were supposed to be a circus family, but I spent all my free time on the kids costumes so I never got around to making my own. TK was an elephant (had to borrow a head as some of my fabric peices came up missing at the last moment!), Khari was a clown and Dev was the STRONG MAN. I was going to be the ringmaster... I made a promise to myself that next year I will be dressing up. I'm thinking a peacock, but we'll see..



OMG the HORROR of this wig..





Fall Bucket List; Make Caramel Apples

We checked one more thing off of our Fall Bucket List!!!
Mine and Dev's friends Alysha (My GNO PIC) and Allan came over with their kids last night to make caramel apples. I've never made them before so I was way excited. I googled a caramel sauce recipe and got to work! But with all the distractions of keeping the kids out of the kitchen and trying to take pictures of the process and botched it and put in the cream before the butter. :-( This caused the sugar to like bunch up and clot together. BUT it still tasted great so I figured I'd just try again. Luckily I had JUST enough cream left to give it another go! Got it all nice and started dipping apples, then I got a little on my finger and tasted it. YUCK! It was sooo bitter! ULTIMATE FAIL(I went back to where I found the recipe and others said the same thing. Something about the heat changing the molecules and yadda yadda.) So Dev and Alysha went to the store and bought some caramel lol. The kids were happy because the got to decorate apples TWICE! I tasted the caramel AFTER they were already done so I just rinsed them off and we waited for them to come back with some GOOD caramel lol. In the end it was all good, Alysha said next time we can meet up at her house then Me and Allan get to go to the store to fix whatever she screws up haha.


Ingredients ready to go. (the first time)Sugar!
Ruined Caramel :-(
Dipping...
Waiting (the first time)
Decorating...
Paul, Alysha and Dev. (With store bought caramel haha)
Khari grubbing on her apple.
I have no clue WHAT Devan was doing!


Taiden's appleElla's Apple

Paul's Apple
Don't they look uhm.. (gross?) I mean YUMMY. (gak)

My table afterward...

Fall Bucket List; Make Fall Cookies!!!

Okay now we are caught up on pictures! I decided to do a 'bucket list for Fall'. To help my blog more I will attempt to blog about everything on my list! Here it is.


We checked make fall cookies off our list last week! Although I'm sure we'll make some more in fall shapes! We made Pumpkin Spice Cookies. They were YUMMY.

Decorating the screen door.

I attempted to make orange frosting with pink and green food coloring lol. I couldn't find my other pack!

Spooky cookies!!!We uhm had a little incident... all of those sprinkles were on that one little cookie!
She only wanted to eat the frosting..

The table needed a little sprucing up..


Next up.. We'll be making Caramel Apples this Saturday! And hopefully going to Wheeler Farm on Sunday if the weather man is right! That might cross off one of our nature walks and a hayride if they have Hayrides there..