Betty Home Maker Strikes Again!

I've been on a cooking/baking spree for nearly a week now, and it all started because of Leslie. Dear Leslie, she brought me a zucchini from her boyfriends dad's garden. But not just any zucchini. A HUGE zucchini. Seriously. 12 loaves of zucchini bread later, I decided to toss the rest of the zucchini out. All 6.5 inches worth. Probably enough for another 2 loaves. But I was done with the shredding of zucchini. For a long long time.

But really, was that enough baking for me? Heck no! Let's make some cookies too! Worlds easiest recipe:
1 small can 100% pumpkin, 1 box spice cake mix. Mix it up good, add a bag of chocolate or butterscotch chips, and bake small scoops at 375 for about 10 minutes. Delish!

Then I thought, hey, this would be good with chocolate, too! So I made some with a chocolate cake mix and they were so, so good! Then I thought, these would be excellent muffins... so I made them into muffins too, half chocolate, half spice. YUM!

Today, I had a hankering for some good, warm chili. So I went to the store and got all my ingredients, plus what I needed to make the Chili's Salsa recipe that I love.

Dinner: Lots of chips and salsa, 1 bowl chili with cheese and sour cream on top. Mmmmmmmm..... Desert: Chocolate pumpkin cookies.

I love fall.

Expo-sure

Had a booth with (the fabulous) Cassie last weekend at the S.O. Scrapbook Expo. Not as lucrative as we had hoped for, but we got some great exposure. The make-n-take was a hit and quite a few brand-new crafters got their feet wet using our super supplies.

Here's hoping we get lots of new business from this adventure!

What a busy week! Olivia had cheer camp this week at GPHS. She's such a cute little cheerleader! The theme this year was Grants Pass High School Musical, and they did their dance to one of the songs from the movie.

They cheered at the GP vs. S. Eugene game on Friday night. It was sooooooo cold!

Saturday morning we went to Tristan's soccer game. I think this was his best game yet- he got really aggressive and played hard! It's so great to see him improve and get excited about his performance.

Then we had Tristan's birthday party at 4. It was at the bowling alley, and was a crazy 2-hour madhouse with an AWESOME game of bowling, then pizza and ice cream cake. I can't believe he's 9 years old. Seems like just yesterday he'd only eat mac and cheese and wanted to watch Toy Story, all the time.

Happy Birthday, Tristan!

Are you crafty? Oh, heck, even if your not, this video is pretty darn funny!

http://www.livevideo.com/video/537FF9DA20B44560845DEE157D1F9DD6/man-made-card.aspx

Men and their power tools...