November

Last years pies brought back out again. <3
Pink Lemonade Pie



Ingredients 
1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
1 (6 ounce) can frozen pink lemonade concentrate, thawed
1 (8 ounce) container of whipped topping
2 (8 inch) prepared Graham cracker crusts

Directions 
In a large bowl , mix together sweetened condensed mil and lemonade concentrate. Fold in whipped topping. Pour into pie crusts. Refrigerate until completely chilled.



Mint Chocolate chip Ice-cream Pie! 



2 pints mint chocolate chip ice cream, slightly softened
1 package (6 ounces) ready-to-use chocolate-flavored pie crust
1 1/4 cups crushed chocolate- covered mint cookies
1 cup chocolate fudge topping



Spread 1 pint of the ice cream in pie crust. Sprinkle 1 cup of the crushed over ice cream. Cover and freeze 1 hour Spread remaining pint of ice cream over cookies. cover and freeze for about 3 hours til firm.
Top with Fudge and sprinkle with cookies. 

And now for this years pies!! 


I get to make this one gluten free this year.

Pumpkin Cheesecake

Ingredients:

Crust:

1 cup graham cracker crumbs
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
4 Tablespoons melted butter
1 Tablespoon firmly packed brown sugar

Filling:

2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese
2/3 cup brown sugar
1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
3/4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
2 eggs
1/4 teaspoon salt 

Pumpkin Cheesecake Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Combine graham cracker crumbs, cinnamon, butter and brown sugar and press onto the bottom and halfway up the sides of an 8" springform pan. Bake for 5 minutes.

2. Beat cream cheese in a large mixing bowl until fluffy. Gradually add brown sugar, the pumpkin, the vanilla, and the spices.

3. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after adding each one.

4. Add the salt, beating until creamy, then pour the mixture evenly into the prepared crust.

5. Bake for 50-60 minutes, until top is browned but cheesecake is still slightly jiggly.

6. Transfer cheesecake to a wire rack and cool 10 minutes. Run a sharp knife around the edges of the pan sides to loosen cheesecake.

7. Cool completely, cover and refrigerate overnight. 

Halloween With Matt

 ~Halloween 2012~

Matt's Siblings at the soup/chili cookoff! found a really good recipe there I will have to share it!

We are so cute together!! 

Matt and me at the pumpkin walk with his ever so sweet sisters 

I made lots of ghosties for my co-workers back at TTC and then some for Matt's Co-workers and then some more for My kids I teach now.

My Hero 

Our Halloween dinner! Pumpkin brains and Eyeballs. 

Pumpkin curry soup from the cookoff! YUM!!
4T. Butter 2 cloves pressed garlic
4 c. Chicken broth 1 bay leaf
Pinch nutmeg 1/2 t. Salt
2-3 c. Cooked rice 1/2 c. Chopped onion
2 c. Cooked pumpkin 1/2 t. Curry
1/2 t. Pepper 2 c. Half and half
3 cooked seasoned chicken breasts, cubed

Melt butter in pot, saute onion and garlic. Add everything but half and half and rice. Reduce heat and simmer 30 min. Add last 2 ingred. And cook 5 min. Serve

I love him more

When I am with you I feel that I am Made for you. I look at you and want to spend forever with. I know you are scared, confused and searching for some peace of mind I am doing the same thing. I am scared I have to hold my self together all the time because really I just want to run away.I am the best at running away and yet for once in my life I know that if I run I would not be able to heal the broken heart it would leave me with. I gave up all others to be with you. Many guys still notice me on the trax and buses but I happily tell them I am taken and that I plan on staying in love with the one I am with from now til the end of time. I Miss you. I am scared. I love you. All my feelings sprawled out here in my blog just like before. I know that I have my many flaws and you are going to have to take some time to get used to them. I am going to have to get used to staying some place. 

To stay is the scariest thing for me. I am used to running and as of lately having some ones arms to run to I don't want any ones arms other than his.Why would I settle for earth when I can have heaven?

I love him More. 

If you’re not the one then why does my soul feel glad today?
If you’re not the one then why does my hand fit yours this way?
If you are not mine then why does your heart return my call
If you are not mine would I have the strength to stand at all

I'll never know whatthe future brings 
But I know you're here with me now
We’ll make it through 
And I hope you are the one I share my life with

I don’t want to run away but I can’t take it, I don’t understand
If I’m not made for you then why does my heart tell me that I am?
Is there any way that I can stay in your arms?

If I don’t need you then why am I crying on my bed?
If I don’t need you then why does your name resound in my head?
If you’re not for me then why does this distance maim my life?
If you’re not for me then why do I dream of you as my wife?

I don’t know why you’re so far away 
But I know that this much is true
We’ll make it through 
And I hope you are the one I share my life with
And I wish that you could be the one I die with
And I pray in you’re the one I build my home with
I hope I love you all my life

I don’t want to run away but I can’t take it, I don’t understand
If I’m not made for you then why does my heart tell me that I am
Is there any way that I can stay in your arms?

‘Cause I miss you, body and soul so strong that it takes my breath away
And I breathe you into my heart and pray for the strength to stand today
‘Cause I love you, whether it’s wrong or right
And though I can’t be with you tonight
You know my heart is by your side

I don’t want to run away but I can’t take it, I don’t understand
If I’m not made for you then why does my heart tell me that I am
Is there any way that I could stay in your arms

~Old Life~ And the Realization of my beautiful life now.

For some reason this reminds me of the life I was living for a while here in the Salt lake area. I am not in that life any more. Heavens above be thanked. I am living a daydream of love now.

Love found me. I was not looking for love infact if any thing I had given up love and thought about going back to a life style I had created for myself that was sucking light from me. I could feel the light leaving me. When He showed up and we first pledged to be "only friends" well God had a different Idea and now here We are 2 months later and I am madly in love with him and never want to leave his side.

It was only when I stopped looking that Love found me. 

For Grandma~

This is an Idea for grandma and all her jars haha what fun would it be for one of her grandkids to raid the jars and find this sitting among the jam and jelly.
Mummy Cups~

Boo!~


Tomato cage turned upside down + Christmas lights + sheet = BOO!!!

Well Hello Again

Lets see if I can do any better at blogging now. Hmmm.. Well Of course it is Halloween time so one it is time to change the background and music and start to blog some fun Halloween Ideas!

The wonders of falling in love.

I told my self I was done. After Shane I was ok with dating a few guys but to be full on honest all they wanted from me was that lil 3 letter word and when they did not get that they left. Sooo finally I was like "forget it" and started out into this world to make some friends boys girls any one. I went online even to see what I could find being that I am not really sure with this area, being new still and all.
I told myself that this time I would not fall for any one. That this was my time to be single.
Well every one used to tell me that love would find me when I was least expecting it. They were right....

So there I was agreeing to meet this handsome young man at a park to be "just friends". Now you all know me I am a stubborn turd just like my dad, so when I say that some one is going to be " just a friend" I mean it! Well this time I don't think any amount of stubbornness or even being a cynic could stop what happened that night. As I walked across the grass as saw him standing there waiting for me, After like an hour or even two. I knew. It hit me an odd feeling almost like the feeling as if I had just changed my life completely and I could not take back what i just did. I smiled and greeted him and I saw forever in his streetlight lit eyes. Love at fist sight? Well I think I might just believe in it now. That night I suddenly just wanted to be with him always.
Love had found me when I least expected it, when I had stopped looking it snuck up behind me and swept me off my feet. God must know what he is doing since I was ready to give up completely on the idea of love. I have always been a romantic at heart but I never thought any of that romance would ever happen to me. Well I was wrong. Now I know the wonders of falling in love.
1. Two hands can fit like puzzle pieces. And I swear its like they are drawn to each other. I never want to let go of his hand.
2. A kiss can really take your breath away. I have never had a kiss actually make my heart leap and my breath catch in my throat. Matt loves to take my breath away.
3. Love does make you do crazy things. Its only because you can only think of that person you are in love with so you don't pay quite as close attention to what is going on around you.
4. 5 days can seem like years, and weekends can go bye in a flash.
5. Soul mates... well Love can make even me believe in soul mates.
6. You know when you know. It does not matter if you date a year or even 3 weeks when you know you love some one and want to spend the rest of your life and eternity with that person, you know!
7. You want to smile all the time.
8. You can find home in the arms of another. :)

For years I have been living the life of a gypsy, moving from place to place looking for a place to really call home. I looked in houses and buildings, cities and towns but until I laid in Matt's arms I had never really felt that since of home. Home is with him. It is where I belong, I know now that he was what I was looking for as I searched for "home"