Cooking

Here is a list of things I have been really wanting to make lately:

homemade donuts
chocolate chip zucchini muffins
apple kuchen (pie)
caramel apples
samoas cookies
snickers salad
pumpkin cheesecake

I'm trying to figure out which one would make the best lunch...

Motorcycle

Calvin tells me several times a day that when he gets bigger he is going to drive a motorcycle. In the meantime, he uses combs as motorcycles. He has no preference which one and I have no idea how it started, but it sure is a convenient toy that entertains him for long periods of time.

The best thing to do with an apple:

Apple crisp is good, so is apple pie. Caramel apples are amazing, but when it's apple season you can't leave out Snickers Salad. You can make it as semi-healthy or unhealthy as you like. Chop up a pile of apples, add some spoonfuls of cool whip, and mix in a few chopped up snickers bars. Your welcome.
....Or I guess I should say thank you to Heather for bringing this recipe home from work. love it.

Closet

One day I told Calvin we should hide in the closet and surprise Brandon when I saw him pull into the driveway. Ever since then it's his favorite thing to do. At first it was for when he knew someone was coming over, like one of my siblings. I guess those events didn't happen often enough because he started to hide in the closet to surprise me. Only, I don't leave for very long so he would hide in the closet when I went outside to get the mail and another time when I just went upstairs for a minute.

Halloween prep

I was going to try and make Calvin a simplified Super Why costume (his favorite show), but this was so much easier and still really cheap. At first he didn't want to put on the jacket, just the hat. I told him we need to try it on to see if it was too big or too small (although, it was obviously too big) and as I put it on him he happily exclaimed, "it fits!" They only had size 5-7, which is great because now we don't have to figure out another Halloween costume until 2015.

Amazing treats by us

We had some friends over to make caramel apples with us the other day. We tried to recreate Rocky Mountain Caramel apples as much as possible, and I think we did a pretty good job. (although, we didn't get pictures of our prettiest apples - sorry) They tasted AMAZING. This site was helpful. We coated the apples in caramel, then drizzled with milk & white chocolate and rolled them in either: snickers, cookie crumbs, m&m's, or graham crackers.

And since we had lots of leftover chocolate, and some strawberries laying around.... and marshmallows, we ended up with a few more creations later as well:

tribal burn

The other day I was pulling an eggo out of our toaster oven and accidentally touched my finger on the top burner. It's kind of a funny burn because it has such a clear pattern. It's like a gang burn or something a tribe would give you. I haven't decided what gang/tribe I should pretend like I joined. One that likes circles I guess.