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!!

Big News and Eugster's!

Big Big News!!!! This Morning I won a trip to the 2009 CMA awards in Nashville!!!!!!

David called me at 7:30 this morning and asked me to help him figure out a mysterious actor's voice on the radio. No one was getting it right so I listened and I figured it out! It was Adam Sandler's voice!! So.. I called David and the next chance to win was at 9:10 this morning so we were both calling in trying to be caller #25! Well...I was caller #25 and I guessed right and won!!! David and I will be going to Nashville on November 10th-12th! The CMA awards are on the 11th! I am still freaking out! I never win ANYTHING! Okay....on with the post I had planned for today!!!

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This past weekend while David and his dad were roofing;Mom VV, Gavin and I went to Eugsters Farm Market and Petting Farm! It was a lot of fun, we were there for the first day of their Fall Festival which included; Petting Farm, Haunted House, Puppet Shows, Wagon Rides to pumpkin patch, Pedal Tricycle Area, Huge Sandbox area and sooo much more! Gavin had a great time and so did I! Thanks Mom VV!

Here are pictures of the day;

Mini Fall Cookies!

I have not updated in awhile! It has been pretty hectic around here this weekend. David has been working on his sister's roof and re-shingling it this whole weekend. We have been out and about trying to stay busy! I have been on the hunt for a Halloween Costume for Gavin for about two weeks now! I can't seem to find one. He has been telling us that he wants to be a bat. But...every time he sees a bat he says they are scary, which they are! and creepy! Plus, he isn't even 3 yrs old yet and he is still at the age where he can pull off a cute Halloween costume, right?! Hopefully I will find the right one soon!

Last Thursday Gavin and I made mini Fall cookie cut outs! We had a ton of fun doing it together! Not all of us are big fans on sugar cookie, so instead we made cream cheese cookie cut outs!!!! They taste exactly like an animal cracker!! We haven't decorated them yet, not sure if we will either, but I have a really good recipe for cream cheese frosting for cut out cookies! Sounds so good!Later Thursday evening we went out to dinner with Mom and Dad VV to Red Lobster! Yum. I will update tomorrow on the rest of our weekend! Right now I am pooped and waiting for my husband to get home! He worked very very hard this weekend!