Cornbelly's at Thanksgiving Point

My friend Traci and I took the kids to the Cornbelly's Corn maze at Thanksgiving Point last night. There was a lot to do with the kids, such as tons of slides, corn boxes, wooden trains, story telling stations, cow train, pig races, pumpkin patch, haunted monster (which looked really cool, but the kids were scared to death), mining, giant jumping pillow, etc. Michael and Emmy loved it! In fact, they loved it so much they decided to turn their ears off, so they were incapable of hearing us at all! Stinkers!! Oh ya, and they also lost control of what their legs did, which explained why they would run away... Anyway, we had a great time. We didn't stay for the corn maze because #1 we didn't want to get lost, it was getting cold and dark, and my foot was killing me, which meant my leg was also hurting like no other and I couldn't stand it anymore! I will give more detail in another blog after I have my Dr's appointment tomorrow afternoon. I have never been so excited to see the DR!!! Cornbelly's was a great activity to take the kids to, so if you have a chance, go and have fun!
Michael thought this Chicken show was great. It was funny at first, but then got really annoying after a few minutes. Michael kept getting up to push the button so the chickens would say another joke...
Here's Michael finding Corn husks in the corn. He thought it was so much fun!
This is Traci, Emmie (who we couldn't get so smile at all!!) and Alli playing in the corn
Michael riding on the cow train pulled by a tractor. He loved it!!
Michael...
Emmie...
and Alli racing to the finish line!
Here is the cool Monster Haunted house. If the kids weren't so terrified, it would have been really cool and fun!

Boo at the Zoo

On Saturday, we went to the Zoo for Trick-or-Treating with my Brother and his family. It was crazy busy and extremely crowded, but a lot of fun. The line just to get into the Zoo was down to the end of the parking lot and wrapping around...
Once you got into the Zoo, there were three new cars with candy in their open trunks, in front of the Train. Here is Michael climbing into one of the trunks to get candy. He didn't want my help, but being a Monkey, that is understandable...
Then all through the Zoo, there were tables set up with vendors giving away candy and some even passes for free kids meals. We couldn't get Michael to stop eating the candy, so we ended up taking it away.
They even had animals out to pet.

Little Gym Halloween Party

Michael's Little Gym Halloween Party was last Saturday and he had a blast!

This is Michael with Miss Sarah, one of his Terrific Tot's teachers
This is Michael with Miss Erin, the other Terrific Tot's teacher
This is Miss Lila. She was his instructor before he got into Terrific Tots. He loves her!
Here is Michael bowling.And going down the slide.

Parent's Pantry

Thanks to Traci, I decided to start a new blog :) It's a food blog of recipes that I use. I will update it as I go. I will be fun to share my recipes with everyone. I am always looking for new recipes, so if any of you want to share, please do so!

Check out the Parent's Pantry!!

My Halloween Treats

These are some of the Halloween Treats that I am making. Yummy.....


I found the idea for the spider cupcakes on the Family Fun website.

Ingredients:

	Chocolate cupcake (body)
	Canned chocolate icing
	Chocolate sprinkles (hair)
	2 pieces of eye-type candy (I used spice drops & chocolate chips- Family Fun used Bassett's Liquorice Allsorts)
	Clean scissors
	Ruler
	1 package of black string lace licorice for the legs (I used black pipe cleaners because I couldn't find the right licorice)

1. Frost the cupcake with chocolate icing and cover with sprinkles. 2. Press the eyes into place. 3. Use scissors to cut eight 4-inch pieces of licorice for the legs. Holding all of the legs together in a bunch, bend them in half and crease. Push the end of each leg into the cupcake as shown.

Yummy Mummy Cookies














Ingredients:

• 2/3 cup butter or margarine, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 eggs
• 2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup HERSHEY'S Cocoa
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup HERSHEY'S Mini Chips Semi-Sweet Chocolate
• 1 to 2 packages (12 oz. each) HERSHEY'S Premium White Chips
• 1 to 2 tablespoons shortening(do not use butter, margarine, spread or oil)
• Additional HERSHEY'S Mini Chips Semi-Sweet Chocolate

Directions:
1. Beat butter, sugar and vanilla in large bowl until creamy. Add eggs; beat well. Combine flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; gradually add to butter mixture, beating well. Stir in 1 cup small chocolate chips. Refrigerate dough 20 minutes or until firm enough to handle.

2. Heat oven to 350 F. For mummy body, roll 1 tablespoon dough into 3-1/2 inch long carrot shape; place on ungreased cookie sheet. For head, roll 1 teaspoon dough, roll into ball the size of a grape; press onto wide end of body. Repeat procedure with remaining dough.

3. Bake 8 to 9 minutes or until set. Cool slightly; remove from cookie sheet to wire rack. Cool completely.

4. Microwave 2 cups (12-oz. pkg.) white chips and 1 tablespoon shortening in microwave-safe pie plate or shallow bowl at MEDIUM (50%) 1 minute; stir. If necessary, microwave at MEDIUM an additional 15 seconds at a time, stirring after each heating, until chips are melted.

5. Place 1 cookie at a time on table knife or narrow metal spatula. Spoon white chip mixture over just the top of cookie to coat; place on wax paper. (If mixture begins to thicken, return to microwave for a few seconds.) Melt additional chips with shortening, if needed for additional coating. As coating begins to set on cookies, use toothpick to score lines in body and on face to resemble mummy . Place two small chocolate chips on each for eyes. Store, covered, in cool dry place. About 30 cookies.

Spaghetti Monster

Michael and I had left over spaghetti for lunch. He almost all of it before he got into the 'Cookie Monster' mode and completely finished his plate, which most of it did end up on the floor for the dog to eat. It was so funny! Then, he felt the need to squish his corn then eat it. Funny boy.