Pumpkin Seeds

Several of you asked about how I make the pumpkin seeds, so I wanted to do a quick post for you.  This will not take much time at all!

Mix together:

1 cup Worcestershire Sauce
1 cup Water
1 tbsp. Garlic Powder
1 tbsp. Onion Powder
1 tsp. Dill Weed
*If you want a little spice add 1/2 to 1 tsp.{depending on how hot you like it!} cayenne pepper*

-In a small bowl, pour mixture over the seeds, cover and put in the frig. for a few hours.
-Drain off all liquid.
-Spread the seeds out on a cookie sheet with an edge, or a 13x9 baking pan.
-Sprinkle Lawry's Season Salt over the top of the seeds.
-Put a dallop{hopefully you know what this means!} of butter on the seeds in several places.
-Bake in oven on 350 till they are nice and lightly golden brown!
****While they are baking, use a spatula and mix them around a few times to get the buter spread throughout and to keep them from sticking to the pan!****

And for those of you who want to know what to do with the rest of the "guts" from your pumpkins, you can puree them to make pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, or pumpkin muffins!

The Big Move

This is gonna be a crazy post for many of you I'm sure, but just bear with me!  We have been trying to convince Caroline's dad, Steven, to move down here close to us for a year now.  I know, I know....why would I ever want my ex to be closer?  Well, there are lots of pluses, and some negatives to this, but overall, it will be bett for Caroline.  So after months of looking for jobs, house hunting,etc....he is finally here.

He move down here Saturday night afte the TX/OU game of course.  We had cooked up this great plan to keep boog from knowing he was here and to suprise her that night.  You should have seen her little face!

Death of the Pumpkin

Caroline loves to carve pumpkins {more like watch us do the carving}, and we put it off as long as we could!  She wants to start as soon as she sees pumpkins hit the stores, and she just doesn't understand that in the Texas weather, once you carve them, they don't last long!  So last night after dinner we got all the stuff out, covered the table with newspaper and got to work!  I usually don't carve one, I paint mine....and I'm in charge of digging through the pumpkin goo to fish out the seeds.  Tradition has me soaking, seasoning and baking pumpkin seeds, something my mother did every year...I can't ever remember her not doing this, and it was always one of my favorite treats!  Apparently, I passed the love for the pumpkin seeds onto Caroline who is almost as excited about them as she is about carving the pumpkins!  While Tab & Caroline carved away, I set out to make the seeds.  They're still soaking, I'll let you know how they turned out!

When Did I Get So Busy?

Apparently my nights seems to have gotten shorter!  I used to take the time after all was said and done to blog at night, but over the past several weeks, I just haven't had the time!  This is going to be a day of catch up I hope!  I have plans to go to the dentist, and depending on what they do, I may be knocked out the rest of the day!

Hang in there though sweet friends!  I plan on doing several posts to catch up on all the things I haven't gotten the chance to blog about!  Stay tuned........

Fair Day

Tab's dad & step-mom got to take Boog to the local fair yesterday! It's no where near as great as the State Fair of Texas, but it'll do so I don't have to drive up there! She had such a good time! She got home and had to run in and tell me that she rode all the BIG rides by herself!


She wanted to bring this guy home!

Caroline & Grandpa Frank

Sassy Pants!



She cracks me up!

While they were there, she won a stuffed turtle, and a goldfish{real}, and then she told me all about the apple she ate, and how it made her tooth really loose. She is very excited to lose her top front tooth! Maybe I'll have some snaggle tooth pictures for you soon!

In Pictures

Enjoying parades.....


painting for the season......


practicing our "pretty" smile for school pictures....


having fun with friends.....


painting gifts.....

This is what has been going on with us.....

Bad....

Yep, that's me. Bad. I can't believe it's been a week since I've posted! I promise to post some good stuff this week, I have lots to say, just haven't blogged it yet! Besides, I'm too tired and my tooth hurts too bad to post anything worth reading tonite!

Quick updates:

The school called me and said Caroline had some petechiea on her back...after she got hit in the back...nope, no petechiea she's fine!

I have a tooth that has been bugging me for a while now, but I just couldn't be bothered with going to the dentist...I'm paying for it now, serious pain tonight, and really red swollen gums. Pretty sure I have an abcess....why me? God did not bless me with good teeth! Here we go again...

Hubby has an interview on Thursday! I so hope he gets to move to this department, his boss now is such a jerk, and he's been there way too long to leave {15 years!}, so prayer for a good interview!

Okay, I'm off to bed...it's way past my 10pm bedtime! Good nite!