Pumpkin Coffee Cake!

I love this recipe that I copied from Lauren Dyer.

Ingredients2 1/2 c cake flour + 2 T
2 t baking powder
1/2 t baking soda
1/2 t salt
1 t cinnamon
1 t ground ginger
1 t nutmeg
pinch of ground cloves
1 1/2 c sugar
1 1/2 sticks butter
1 1/2 c pumpkin puree
3 extra large eggs
1 1/2 t vanilla
For the crumble:
3 T butter
1/4 cup packed light brown sugar
1/2 cup flour
1/1/2 t cinnamon
1/4 t salt
Method Cream the butter and sugar together in a mixer using the paddle attachment. Then add the eggs one by one, then the vanilla, then the pumpkin. Sift together the flour baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and cloves. Set the mixer to low, and add in the dry ingredients until just combined. Turn the mixer off and finish folding the batter together with a spatula. Pour the batter into a greased 8 inch spring form pan. (You can also use a tube pan, or a square baking dish. Smooth out the batter and top with the crumble. Bake at 350 for 50-60 minutes.
*If you do use a tube pan, invert the pan to turn out the cake, and serve crumble size up.
For the crumble:Place all the ingredients in a bowl, and pinch together with your fingers until you have small pea sized pieces

Crayon Rolls!

I was excited to find this really cool stocking stuffer. It is the Crayon Rolls. The cute rolls to carry the crayons in.

http://www.skiptomylou.org/2007/04/25/on-a-roll/
Here is the web site that will show you how to make them.

There lived a princess....

Once upon a time in a far away land, there lived a princess. Not just any princess, but a beautiful princess...well what is a story without a beautiful princess, ugly princess would not work, so back the story. This princess didn't know how to climb out of bed, so she slipped and fell and hit her beautiful face on her bed rail and had to get a stitch to close up the hole that her beautiful teeth made in her beautiful lip. Now our princess has a big fat purple lip with a black stitch that is holding it shut. She is such a brave princess because she only cried when they gave her the shot to numb her lip, and then she shut her eyes so tight she didn't have to watch the Dr stitch up her beautiful lip. Now that she is sleeping soundly with the help from prince Motrin. Lets hope that she will not have any peas that will keep her up all night. The very tired Queen will be so happy to start a new day tomorrow. Everything can get to normal. Lets hope.....

Trick-or-Treating

Tricks or Treats

Isaac is a vampire who killed Christian Brown the missionary and stole his name tag, Aaron was Frankenstein, and Nicole was a Princess.
The kids are so excited for the trunk-n-treat.

The boys really loved there candy, they counted every piece and Aaron put them in piles.

Nicole decided that Oakley needed to be part of the fun.

Something really great came out of this Halloween. Isaac and Aaron got suits that they promises me they would wear to church. Today was the first day and they did great.We went to a friends house for a party. The kids had so much fun. Nicole and her friend Noelle (who was a Turkey Princess, (Turkish princess) did a swap of candy. Well Noelle did the swap and Nicole profited from it.

All the kids went T-o-T and when we were done the hostest had all the kids go through there candy and pick out any thing they didn't like. Then the unwanted candy was put in the middle of the circle and all the kids picked out 2 candies at a time until all the unwanted candy was gone.

Yeah it is November!

That is what we heard on our way to church this morning. Aaron was in the back seat so excited. He is counting down the days until he is 7. Nicole will also be turning 4 this month. She is so excited. We have had a full month and are so excited for the next month to come. I know I said that I would up date you on my food storage rack, I will as soon as Christian is done with base boards. That project has taken over the garage, but it will look so nice when they are done.

Isaac is so excited to be in cub scouts. He loves to wear his uniform, unlike his dad who wanted to run away from home when he was a cub scout.

These are my friends that do a fun trip to San Francisco each year. We decided that it was time to go so we went shopping, got pedicures, and then went out to dinner. It was so much fun.

Nicole is so cute. I took her to Disney on Ice. She loved all the princesses and could not stop watching. It was fun to see the show with her friends.

Nicole's Pre-School class went to the pumpkin patch. This pumpkin patch is great, it has a lot for the kids to do and the best part is that it is free during the week. The boys got to come because they are off track.

Gluten Free!

Anyone who is looking to go gluten free or is already gluten free, here is a blog that I stumbled upon. http://glutenfreemommy.com/

I hope this helps.

New Storage!

I am so excited that I am getting New Food Storage shelving. I was at the "Time Out for Women" and they had an incredible deal on the Shelf Reliance shelves. If you bought 2 you got an incredible deal and it was with free shipping. They also threw in the 4 side shelves and the top rack for free. I will post pics as I get done putting it together. Did I say I was so excited.