My Contribution to Thanksgiving Dinner

We are not hosting Thanksgiving this year (yay!) so I don't have to do the full meal. I did make a dessert to take with us, that is always my favorite anyway. This year I made something new Spiced Pumpkin Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting from Annie's Eats, Yum!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Holiday Prep Work

Christmas shopping is 90% complete and the rest of the stuff we already know what we are buying, we just have to pick it up. The baking is nearly done as well and thank the lord for that! I have been baking all weekend. Fudge, Spritz cookies, peanut blossoms, candy cane cookies, buttery mint slices, molasses spice rounds and a few more that aren't finished yet. After all of that I don't even have the energy to take pictures of them. I know this is boring, my weekend was BORING!!

Scones

Something upsetting happened to my riding instructor on Thursday (I still don't know what) and my lesson had to be cancelled. Of course I was sad about missing it, I had to miss it the week before because of Michael's surgery but the thing that upset me the most was hearing Dagi sounding so upset on the phone. I am still worried about her. Hopefully this Thursday I will get to take pictures of her new puppy and of my friend J from work trying to ride a horse.

When I am sad about things I tend to bake so that is what I did this weekend. I chose to focus on scones. Yummy! Pumpkin Scones (Starbucks knock-off), Chocolate Chip Scones, Raspberry White Chocolate Chip Scones. Everyone at work should be pretty happy with me tomorrow. Well if they like scones they will be.

S'mores

MMM! S'mores are yummy! We had a good time last night. Though Mike once again proved he has no patience and I had to toast his marshmallows for him! Silly boy, it takes TIME to cook them properly!

As I have been trying to focus a little more on being healthy the past few weeks I have been checking out some things that I used to love last time I went through a phase like this. One of which was the software I use on my Palm (which is really OLD) to keep track of what I eat and how much I exercise. I love that program, and I have put a lot of time into adding foods to the database in it that I like to eat but weren't in there. Well it turns out that the company who made that program is gone, dissolved. I was really hoping there was a newer version that I would be able to use when I finally get around to buying myself a smartphone! BOO!! Now I am going to have to find something else and add all those foods to it AGAIN or just keep using my sad old palm for the rest of my life!