Half Baked

With fall comes cooler weather, thicker clothes, and a constant craving of warm, comforting foods. Apparently, we want those comfort foods for a reason.

Fortunately for O, this time of year brings out my inner baker. Since the love of his life (other than frogs), is anything sweet (thank goodness we kept him sugar free for his first year, huh?), he is really enjoying this.

Today we made pumpkin cookies.

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They are super simple,

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Next week we are going to make candy corn rice krispy treats and bread. My goal of this week is to make all of our bread from scratch. We will see if I can resist the temptation of the sliced loaf bread at the grocery store tomorrow...

Turning Leaves

As self employed people, we rarely follow the "rules" of holidays and vacations. When we travel, it normally isn't based on any specific dates, we just take off. Until now. O is in school so we have limits on our time, oh no!

This week was fall break and we took advantage of it by traveling to the mountains of North Georgia. We stayed in a wonderful cabin that came complete with it's own "playground", creek filled with fish, and a pasture full of cows with moos so deep they would cause me to jump out of my skin every single time I heard one. I was a bit jumpy in those woods.

Anyway, we had a great time on this trip. It's so nice to live so close to the mountains. We went to an apple festival, picked apples at an orchard, sifted for gold and gems, attended Oktoberfest, fished, made pumpkin crafts, and rested. A- getaway ( would have been an A=) if not for my skittishness in the woods.


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Greek Out

Yesterday we went to the Greek Festival.

I am so excited that fall is here! We are finally settling in to our new city and new routine and getting ready to enjoy all the fun that comes with the changing of the seasons. Lined up for this weekend, Greek Festival & Braves Game!

New Words!

E said mama yesterday! We were sitting at chik fila and he looked right at me and said mamammama!It only took him 9 months and a few days to work that one up! Of course i am following Dada and Yay... (O said mama first, followed by elmo and rob (the cat)). I am baffled as to how he is suddenly 9 months old. It is unbelivable that planning his first birthday party has already moved into my subconcious thinking...They sure do grow up fast.

Oh New Year

I don't usually make new year's resolutions. Not real ones anyway. This year is different...just in case that is the reason I never get anything done, I am making a few.
-One is to keep up with this blog. With Anna's assistance, I plan to keep this one!
-Another is to move to Atlanta.
-Getting O accepted into a part time preschool is a huge goal that looms before us. Open houses at these schools begin at the end of this month.
Those are my resolutions in a nutshell.
Now I must go to bed b/c it is very late and my little E wakes very early so he and I can watch the sun come up then he loves to go right back to bed when O wakes up.

more things to not forget

*O calls fuzz or anything he finds on the floor "bumbles." We have no idea where bumbles originated but we've picked it up as well. His brother, the little vaccuum cleaner, LOVES to find and eat bumbles.
*E is starting to babble a lot. He has been saying da da for quite some time but nothing else of substance but we think a language explosion is just around the corner. When we read to him, he talks up a storm! He's not walking yet but is starting to play around with his balance and stand alone for longer periods.