Pumpkin Cupcakes

I made these on Wednesday for our high school kids, along with my peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. If you make these yourself, DO NOT put the candy corn on until just before serving. I put them on around noon. By 3:00, the color was running all over the frosting. (Wish they mentioned that in the recipe!!)

You need:

1 yellow cake mix (plus ingredients on package directions)

1/2 tsp. pumpkin pie spice

1 15-oz. can pumpkin puree

2 8-oz. bars softened cream cheese

2 cups powdered sugar

24 pieces candy corn

Directions:

Heat oven to 350. Line 24 muffin tins with paper liners. Prepare cake mix as directed BUT with the following changes: Substitute canned pumpkin for the water and add the pumpkin pie spice.

Divide batter into muffin tins. Bake 18-22 minutes. Let cool.

Frosting: Beat cream cheese and powdered sugar until creamy. (I only used about half of the frosting so you may want to half the recipe) Spread on cupcakes and top with candy corn.

Busy Me!

Where have I been? I've been subbing EVERYDAY this week! PTL for all the work! And praise Him that today is Friday!!

Off I go! ...... but I do have pictures to post as soon as I get a chance.

Have a great weekend!

Just Another Thursday Night at Home

Braden has recently begun working on his core.... {laughs} I guess they learned to do this in P.E. once and he really enjoys it. He even challenged Dad to a contest the other day. Braden won! So Dad challenged him to a cartwheel contest. Daddy won! (They were pretty funny to watch!)

Here are some pictures from last Thursday. He worked on this forever!

First successful attempt that Mom got a picture of.


You can see how unimpressed Dallas is!


Not sure if this was an attempted extension or Braden falling.

This would definitely be a fall!

Taking a break.

Guess who was sitting next to me?

Back up! And topless this time!

Balancing-ish.

I dyed my hair "dark chocolate brown" on Thursday morning. Hard to tell with the flash, but you get the idea.

Focus....

Yawn....

Focused again....

Almost ready....

Almost ready....

And he's up!

I Need You Jesus (Rescue)

Check it out. We sang this in worship today. I LOVE it!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rTlhRO0E8k&feature=related

Big Red

On Friday, we colored Braden's hair for the homecoming game. I colored it real quick before he left for school in the morning. Jon gave him a touch up before he left for the game that night.

And oh the panic when it didn't all wash out the first time! Too funny!

Homecoming Week

It's homecoming week at VW! Each day this week, students were encouraged to dress to fit a theme.
Monday: Nerdy.... Tuesday: Favorite Jersey.... Wednesday: Wrapped in Spirit (togas for h.s., scarves for younger).... Thursday: Crazy.... Friday: Cougar Spirit

Braden was super excited about this and has taken time picking out his outfits each day. I wanted to take a picture each morning but didn't think he'd let me. Maybe I was wrong! Today he requested that I take his picture and post it online!!! He also said that best dressed this week, while not a real prize, was between him and one other boy, in his opinion. He was confident that this outfit would put him over the top! {too funny}

Starting at the top: a too big hat, aviators, 3 different Underarmor shirts, Jon's old Nolan Catholic summer league jersey, 2 sweatbands, 1 football play wrist sleeve-thing, batting glove, green shorts, mismatched socks and shoes.

New Trick

Dallas has recently figured out how to pull the blanket off the back of the chair and cover herself up. Awww!