Thanksgiving

Olivia's first Thanksgiving was spent at Grandpa and Grandma Hurst's house in Juniper. It was gloriously filled with lots of food and laziness...no complaints here. Olivia spent Thanksgiving dinner asleep (also no complaints) which gave me ample freedom to stuff my pie hole with well, pie.

Here we have Olivia sucking it up while we get a picture of her and Grandpa

Thank you Uncle Brad for teaching this tongue "trick" to my daughter

Olivia also played the piano during our visit...she didn't know quite what to think of it.

She did however end up playing some pretty awesome horror flick music thanks in large part to Auntie Jerica

pumpkin snowmen

I saw a segment on the Today Show where they made pumpkins into penguins and I thought why not make the little pumpkins into little snowmen...so here they are, white spray paint and pins

I'm not sure what I'm going to do about the hats and arms...any ideas?

Deener Time

While watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (or more accurately the hosts babbling) I saw a commercial for Pillsbury crescent spirals...so I decided to try them.

I kinda twisted the recipe to suit my own liking...(but I did also try pepperoni and cheese and they were delicious dipped in pizza sauce). I used canned chicken and mixed it with Franks Red Hot sauce and pepper jack cheese. Serve them with a side salad and a bit of ranch for dipping and voila! Deener is served.

Find the full recipe on www.pillsbury.com

P.S. Fred Meyer sells the crescent seamless sheets that are tons easier to handle than the crescent rolls.

mmmmm...Apple Crisp

APPLE CRISP

yum yum

 12 medium sized granny smith apples, thinly sliced

juice of 2 lemons

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar, packed

1/2 cup melted butter

6 tablespoons flour

4 teaspoons ground cinnamon

1/8 teaspoon nutmeg

TOPPING:

1 cup all purpose flour

1 cup sugar

12 tablespoons butter,

cut into small pieces

1/2 cup rolled oats

1/2 cup chopped walnuts

1. Toss sliced apples with lemon juice to coat well. Add 1 cup sugar and the brown sugar, 1/2 cup melted butter, flour and spices, stir until mixture is well blended.

2. In a food processor, combine topping ingredients; pulse until mixture is crumbly. You can also use a pastry blender or fork to cut this mixture together.

3. Pour apple mixture into a lightly greased 13x9 baking dish. Sprinkle topping mix evenly over top of apples.

4. Place in preheated 375F oven. Bake for about 45 to 60 minutes, until apples are tender and topping is browned.

*temp-tations by Tara

P.S. Liv loves apples

Photo Wall

While at Suzi's I admired her Photo Wall...

I MUST have one!

I chose the wall that I wanted to make over but didn't want to make swiss cheese out of said wall

what to do, what to do...

Command velcro strips were the answer

(thanks mom)

 Wall before...

 

Wall after

I may still add to it a bit

but for now I'm happy...now if I only had pictures for all the frames