Tuesday, October 12, 2010

An afternoon filled with.....


Carving pumpkins and sipping hot cocoa on our front porch!!! So much fun!! As you all may know, I love the Southern Living magazine! The October issue has a great cover so I decided to be ambitious and attempt to copy what they did. I am actually very pleased with how it turned out! Thanks to the little pumpkin carving kit we bought I was able to scrape just the peel and make it look like the way the pros did it at Southern Living! I can not wait to make our first pumpkin pie of the year! We salvaged the pumpkins seeds and baked then in the oven....yummmy!!

*Grandmother, thank you for emailing me the pie recipe....I can not wait to make it!!! I love you. Come visit us soon!!! You're the best :)

Monday, October 4, 2010



I can not tell you how excited I am about this cold weather!! Not only because it gives me an excuse to make apple cider and hot cocoa but because we can make blazing fires on our front porch. Last night we had a lovely evening with our guests!! We enjoyed a nice cheese plate and a bottle of wine while sitting on our front porch swings!! It was soo much fun and relaxing..I am looking very forward to many more nights like this in the near future!!!!