It's Raining Leaves!

It's raining leaves, as my three year old daughter calls it! As October fades away the leaves are now falling off the trees. As I have become an adult, enjoying the color of  leaves changing doesn't seem to last long! Before I know it, it's raining leaves and the trees are becoming bare. As a parent, I feel I can get caught in our hectic schedule's easily. Therefore this year I made sure we were more involved as a family and enjoyed the fall season. Of course, trying to make it last as long as possible.

Our lovely backyard. Well part!

Thursday we hit in the high 70 degree temperatures. We took advantage and enjoyed a nice walk. That's not normal for Michigan. We were then quickly reminded that it's the end of October with high of 49 degrees the next day, eek! Although, us Michiganders are not surprised. We joke that our weather can change in a snap of a finger. 

With our sudden change in temperature, we started off our chilly Saturday making pumpkin shaped rice krispie treats. As I mentioned in previous posts, we love baking in the kitchen. 

Picture does not do justice. 

Rice Krispie Treats

Ingredients

6 cups of rice krispie cereal

1 10 0z. bag of the big marshmallows. You may use 4 cups of small marshmallows too!

3 Tablespoons of butter.

A pumpkin cookie cutter.

Directions

1. Melt the butter in a pan, add marshmallows and slowly melt.

2. In a separate bowl ad the rice krispies and the marshmallow mix together and stir. 

3.Put into any size pan you choose, I usually use a 13x9

4. I use wax paper to evenly flatten out the treats, then start cutting them out with the pumpkin cookie cutter!

Have a blessed weekend!!

Fall is here!

It's that time of year again here in Michigan! I probably say every season is my favorite once is approaches, but I sincerely feel fall is my all time favorite. A few of our favorite fall activities include; family car rides through the country and gaze at all the colorful trees. We go for walks and pick up as many colorful leaves possible. It's that time of year when apple cider is famous in the grocery stores. We visit the local pumpkin patches, and the list goes on!

Sofar this month I was honored to chaperon Evalyn's field trip to alocal pumpkin patch. I love being able to be apart of her schoolactivities. It's a joy watching all the kindergartner interact witheach other. I won't lie, it's also a little over whelming too! I giveteachers a lot of credit!

Thisweek we went into our backyard to find colorful leaves for ourproject, which is surrounded by woods. We are blessed to live in thecity but yet feel like were in the county! We decided to pressleaves. I'm sure you all remember doing this at one time or another.We liked making a little science out of it and talk about how eachleaf is different, why they change colors and what kind of trees makewhat leafs. My girls love this kind of stuff.

Pressingleaves

1. All you need is dry leaves, wax paper, an iron and a iron board
2. Tear 2 sheets of wax paper; sandwich the leaves between the wax sheets.
3. Press the iron on the wax paper where the leaves are, simple!!
4. Your have pressed leaves!! Now you may use them for decorations on your table or wherever you desire!