Garbage Can!

Every wife has a 'Honey-to-do/make list' for their husbands at some point, right? Well my list just got shorter!!! David finished my Tilt Out Garbage last night! I saw a really neat tilt out garbage can a few months ago with my mom at Country Village Shoppe in Appleton and I fell in love with it! The only problem was that it was $250!! So I came home and googled tilt out garbage cans and showed David so he could make me one! I love it so much! It goes really nice in our kitchen too! It is massive though, he added a drawer at the top for garbage bags so it is pretty big, but fits perfect! I love that my husband is so talented and can do anything and everything, but stinks for him because my honey-to-'make' list keeps getting bigger every time I see something I want! I always ask myself before I buy something "Can he just make that" He always can! Which means me not having to spend money, which means happy husband, and happy wife! Here it is;

The Weekend!

This weekend we traveled to Neenah! We had an Anniversary party for some friends on Saturday. So we decided to go a day early and reunite with some High School friends on Friday! Most of which I have not seen since our Wedding! It was so so good to see them and catch up. We went out to a local restaurant/bar. I have not 'been out' like that in so long! Let just say I had a little too much fun. At one point David told the bartender, who I went to high school with, to cut me off, haha. It was only after two drinks too! My goodness, I am a lightweight! I was hurting on Saturday morning, but I'm allowed to do have a good time every once in awhile, right? Saturday afternoon we had a Surprise Anniversary party for some family friends. I love surprises! It was nice to see old family friends that I have not seen in a very long time! What a great weekend for reunions!Today we have been getting things done around the house. I did my weekly 'major' cleaning this morning, while Dave and Gavin did stuff outside! They got the lawn mowed, they raked leaves, then of course played in them, and raked again! We pulled all of the plants out of the garden today too! Now all we have to do is plant seed there because we did not have luck with it in the spot it was this year!All in all this weekend was wonderful! I am looking forward to putting my 'comfy' clothes on and watching Sunday Night Shows!

Caramel Puff Popcorn

It has been freezing here the last couple of weeks! I shouldn't say freezing because it's no where near as cold as it's going to get this winter! We turned our heat on for the first time two days ago. It was making a funny smell too, so I turned it off and opened the windows. The smell was making me sick to my stomache! My husband explained to me that it was normal for it to make a smell the first time. I guess I forgot it was brand new. I sure am missing having my windows open though, and now I don't even want to turn the heat on to smell that aweful smell again! I wish it was Fall and we had 60 degree weather instead of 40 degree weather! There is still stuff on our list that we wanted to do this fall and I doubt we will get it done because it has been chilly!

I made one of our (Mine and Gavin's) favorite fall snacks last week! Caramel Puff Popcorn!I got this recipe a few years ago from a dear friend and this year I can't seem to keep Gavin's fingers out of it! I made two big batched of it and this is all that is left :( It is not the greateset snack for you either, oh well :) David is not a big fan of it because it gets stuck in your teeth!!

Caramel Puff Popcorn

1 -8oz bag of Puff Popcorn

1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup light corn syrup

1 cup brown sugar

1 tsp. backing soda

Place popcorn in a large roasting pan and set aside (I like to use the foil roasting pans you can buy at the store and throw it away after).Melt butter, brown sugar, and corn syrup in 2qt. pan until it is bubbly around the edges. Remove from the heat and add baking soda (this causes the foamig and will allow for proper coating) Pour caramel coating over the popcorn and stir together until everything is covered and coated. Place in 250 degree oven for 45 minutes, stiring the popcorn every 10 minutes. Remove from oven and pour on waxed paper. Break the popcorn apart before it cools. Enjoy!

Cran Fest

The girls weekend was alot of fun! Cranberry Fest is a pretty big event up there, and venders come from all over the U.S. to show their stuff! It's pretty neat. I got some really cute things; a few Halloween decorations, a few Christmas decoration and then a few bathroom decorations! We also went to a local winery up there; Three Lakes Winery - they specialize in cranberry wine! I have never been to a winery before...I loved it! So fun and interesting! So I also got a few bottles of wine!!
Here are a few of the Halloween decoration I got;

Off to the Winery!

Some Cranberries just starting to ferment; Jaime and Holly with all of our wine!

Feeling Guilty!

This weekend I will be leaving to go on a girls weekend up to Eagle River to go to Cranberry Fest! I have never been to Cranberry Fest, but I have heard only great things about it! I am really excited to go, but at the same time I feel really guilty for going!? I really have no idea why I feel guilty either. I think since Gavin has been born I have gone on one other girls weekend, it's not like I do it all the time! I am never away from my boys! Maybe that is why I feel guilty for leaving? Maybe because David never does 'guys' weekend and he deserves a 'guys' weekend more then me? He works so hard all day long and never gets a break! Maybe it's the Money, I'm sure we could find 100 better things to spend money on then a girls weekend, like the new blinds we have been saving up for, wait... new blinds? I mean BLINDS in general!! We don't even have blinds yet!! Oh well... nothing I can do about it now! I plan to have a good time with my sister and friends at Cranberry Fest and try not to feel guilty the whole weekend!

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Last week we were having 'breakfast' for dinner. Something we do quite often! Anyways, David and I had omelettes and Gavin wanted cereal! Well...Gavin spilt a little bit of his milk from his cereal bowl and says, "LOOK!!! It's a duck". Sure enough the milk that he had spilt looked exactly like a duck!!