BOO-Tiful Treats

I have made a few Halloween treats this week!  I made the first two treats to send to work with Cas today!

Did you guess they are ghosts??  I have mad these before and I think they are so cute and they are sooo simple!  All they are is Nutter Butters dipped in white chocolate and then you use candies for the eyes.

1 pack of Nutter Butters

1 whole tray of white bark

Candies for the eyes, I used Hershey's Triple Chocolate Dessert Toppings found with Ice Cream Stuff

Tip: Instead of melting your chocolate in the microwave, because it usually burns that way, use a large pot on the stove and fill it with water. Find a glass bowl that sits down in the top without falling in.  Put your chocolate in the bowl and turn the water on to heat.  The chocolate will melt this way and not burn!

Oreo Balls

Cas's Aunt makes these and we got the recipe from her.  Super Simple!

1 pack of Oreos

1 8oz box of Cream Cheese, leave out until soft

1 package of Chocolate Bark

Any toppings of your choice or you can leave them plain (I have done them in white chocolate as well for Valentines and drizzled with pink chocolate)

Put 1 package of Oreo's in your food procceser and one box of cream cheese in with them and mix until everything is crushed and mixed together.  Roll into small balls and dip them in the chocolate and then garnish them with any seasonal topping of your choice!

I also made this cake this week to take to Jason and Renea's for dinner. Renea bought me the pumkin shaped cake an last year so I made this cute cake.  Excuse his crooked smile :/

Momma Needs a New Pair of Shoes

*UPDATE* IT IS 50% OFF OF YOUR TOTAL PURCHASE!

Blue Suede ones?  Mmmm
maybe not but I do need some casual black ones.  Preferably some that will not eat the skin off of my feet like almost ALL shoes do!  Anyways I was online this morning and I read about Oprah having Christian Siriano from Project Runway on her show today.  He is now a big designer and has a line of shoes coming out at Payless so they are offering this coupon for 50% of anything in the store!!  They already have budget friendly shoes at Payless so just think of what you can get!  This coupon is only good until tomorrow the 30th so hurry!  If you have two Payless stores near you could get two pairs!  You could even make the hubs stand in line behind you with a 2nd pair paying seperately off course!  Laugh.........Cas and I have done that before when I needed a set of lamps at Hob Lob and I checked out with one lamp and a 40% of coupon and he checked out with a lamp and a 40% of coupon.  Normally I would have just gone back the next day but I didn't want to risk my lamp being bought!

While you are out shopping you can use this coupon for 15% off at Old Navy! ON will have childrens costumes on sale for $2 on the 30 & 31st.  There is also a coupon for a free travel hand sanitizer at Bath & Body Works!  They have anti0bacterial hand soaps on sale for $3 right now!

Stocking Stuffers

I know it isn't Halloween yet but if you are like me you like to get things ahead of time and especially when they are much cheaper! So here is one for you for the kids!

Hungry Hippos Travel Game $4.99
(found in the luggage section)
Use the $4 coupon from here or here: IE or Firefox
Final cost $0.99!

I picked one up yesterday for our nephews.  You can't beat 99 cents!

Also if you have anyone to buy a book for Christmas then use this coupon!  Cas has asked for a book for Christmas so I could use this!  It is only good until November 2nd!  You could use it for anyone and add a book in their stocking. 

Busy Times

Good Morning everyone!  We have been so busy around here lately that I haven't had much time to get ALL of my blogging done!  That doesn't meant that I haven't still been reading all my other 100+ blogs I read!  So much to read so little time!  I was up forever late last night editing pictures!  It is not that it takes so long for a few pictures but I have a LOT.  Do ya'll realize we went on a cruise in August and May and I have not posted the pictures because there are so many back off people! I am going to get them edited and posted soon, I have been working on it.  With Fall here we have been busy with the usual fall activities of pumpkin patches and festivals, when you live in the South they have a festival around everything.  A few weekends ago it was the Hummingbird Festival, this past weekend it was the Syrup Sopping Festival!  That's right I said "syrup"!  It is a major condiment in the South! Ha!  In South Alabama this week they are "festive"aling about the peanuts this week at the Peanut Festival!  The leaves are starting to change so we will probably do our usual drive through the mountains to ooh and ahh about the colors and take pictures!  Also, I have some fall baking I want to do.  I found a recipe for some pumpkin chocolate chip cookies and I have never had any so I am going to try to make those hopefully today.  I have to do something with all those cans of pumpkin I bought when the t.v. was broadcasting about "the great pumpkin shortage" this year!  The panic set in, LOL!  It was almost as scary as when we were running out of gas here a few summers ago!  I said almost!  My email is filled daily with fall recipes using pumpkin or apples and there are so many I want to make but gosh we need to be on a diet around here!  What is a girl to do?????  Oh and we are going to try to squeeze in carving our pumpkin tonight too!  Happy Wednesday! 

Buy the Breast Products!

 

Hi friends and fellow bloggers this is Maggie the resident fur baby of the blog!  I wanted to remind all of you that October is Breast Cancer Awareness month.  They always put out lots of cute stuff to support this cause and lots of it especially this month!  Mom says most of it is pink too!  Who doesn't need pink stuff that supports a cause???  Tell me who?  So rush out there and pick some stuff up I know ya'll need some things.  Mom says they even have pink swiffer dusters and cute little dish washing detergent tabs that are pink!  I know all of you need to dust and wash dishes!  Well I am just sayin.....  The Breast Cancer Site has some super cute things too!  Mom has lots of things from coffee cups to ornaments and even has a Breast Cancer Barbie!  This disease has affected my Mom as her Mom had this disease.  Thank of you all shopping for the cure!

Poochie-Hauntus

Here is Maggie and all her Indian Princess glory!  This was for Howl-O-Ween 2009!  She was sooo cute but maybe I am a little biased!

When I took these I didn't realize that I put her headpiece on backwards

 

While I was in a store Cas and Maggie ran into a little boy indian.  She was way cuter! :)

She gave him a look as if to say.....your Momma didn't add beads and feathers to your costume! Woof!

  Momma's Pride

 

The fam

The Schoonhovens with Tag

Two of the cutest things we saw!

 

Can't wait til next year!

Howl-O-Ween (2008)

No I didn't spell it wrong......it is Trick-or-Treating for puppies, pooches, doggles, our 4 legged child!  Every year Downtown Opelika has this event and everyone brings their dogs dressed up, some in full costumes some in just a t-shirt or bandana.  They have food and doggie snacks and the money you spend goes to help out an animal rescue program.  We took Maggie last year and she was soooo cute!  Everyone wanted to stop and look at her.  Since it was right before the elections I ordered a Uncle Sam costume and glitzed it up.  I mean really ya'll thought I was going to leave something plain?  Uh no I painstakingly hot glued sequined stars on top of all the stars that were on her cape and she even had a special piece added to her hat that lit up and blinked!  She was blinging!  Moi, her Mom also made her a sign that said "McCanine for President"!  LOL  If I only had a second dog we would have had "Sara Pawlin" as well!  Ahh I kill me!  Yes I amuse myself, I guess that is all that matters!  We did see another dog in her costume last year but it was "as is" from the package.......I did see Maggie shoot them a look as if to say "Eww Boring" but I raised her to be a lady!  I had been looking for something this year and found a bunch of cute things.  I found mostly animal costumes, a pig, skunk, ladybug, etc.  They were all really cute but most of the dogs dress as animals so I had to find something differant.  I found something that I didn't see last year and believe me I saw every gosh darn costume there was to see online last year!  I am not going to share with ya'll what it is yet.  You will all have to wait until Monday to see! (I did tell one person what it is and she better not leave a comment :P Ha) We waited kind of late to get it so I have to work on it this weekend.  Yes Dog Mom of the year toted Maggie's costume to Hobby Lobby today to match up some colors so I could add some accents to it! I will tell you it does have a headpiece to it that she wasn't digging the other night as she modeled for her Dad!  So while some of you are searching for just the right costume for your children this is what I have to consume my time!  Can you imagine what my real babies will be put through? Ha

Howl-O-Ween 2008

The Fam!  I don't know why Cas looks so disgruntled he isn't the one wearing a top hat and sequins!

 

Getting ready to make her debut!

 

How Presh is she?

 

Her extra bling I found at Wal-Mart during the Halloween season! Who knew? It lit up and blinked so everyone was sure to see her!

 

Yep the cape was all white stars......boring, so I hot glued all those stars on a few hours before we went (I glued her fingers a couple of times too!)

 

The side view

 

The back view

 

I tried to get her to sit in front of my fall display but she wasn't having it.  She was soo over the hat and wanted it off!

She is ready to go this year!  It really is cute because they have the stores downtown open and they give the dogs treats and usually throw in a coupon for the adults!  She hopes you all have a great weekend.  She is going to be working on her blog and will be updating more often.....she is a few months behind!  Happy Tails to you all!

-Mom and Mags

Trouble?

Has anyone else had trouble with Blogger this week? I have tried to get some things done on here and write too and it hasn't let me :( 

Soup Saturdays and Sundays

I decided with Fall here and Winter coming that I would plan to make soups on Saturdays and or Sundays.  Some weekends we are gone one of the days or we are in and out.  If we are here then usually Cas is watching football and I am either on watching another t.v. or working on a project only 500 more to go!  The crock pot and I are total BFF's!  I throw food in her and she cooks for me!  She doesn't talk back or want anything except a bath in return!  So far I have made our favorite Taco Soup a couple of times, Potatoe Soup, Chicken Tortilla Soup, Chilli, and this past weekend I made Renea's vegetable stew!

Homemade Chilli with Cornbread

 

Potatoe Soup garnished with cheese and bacon bits! Delish!

I will post the recipe for Taco Soup soon! The Beef Stew I made was Renea's recipe, Cas was really wanting me to make a beef stew.  The Potatoe Soup and the Chicken Tortilla Soup come from a company online www.soupsanddips.com.  I add potatoes to the potatoe soup and add chicken to the Chicken Tortilla and add tortillla chips.  It is one of my faves as well!  I bought these at a show but you can just as easy go online and get them!  They are cheap and easy and great on a cold day!  What soup shall I cook next?

Fall Blooms

I just wanted to share some pictures of our pretty Iris's with everyone.  We bought this Iris at Easter time.  My Mom loved Iris's and we saw this at Home Depot during Easter so Cas bought me this pretty one.  The name of it has something to do with "memories", I can't remember the name of it exactly but it was perfect!  We thought since it had bloomed in the Spring that it would not bloom again until next Spring so we were excited when  Fall started and our pretty Iris started blooming.  Cas's Mom bought this bird bath for him last Christmas and Cas bought me the little statue sitting in the middle of it.  We were at a nursery in Birmingham and he found it, it is an angel holding a rabbit!  My Mom collected rabbits so this was perfect!  We started on this project this Spring and moved the bird bath in the middle of the yard and and started planting Iris's and purple(one of her fave colors) flowers around it.  We just have to find a bench to put out there.  So Summer is nice because we always have a bunch of pretty flowers blooming but it was just as nice to have these fall blooms!