Early Snow!

We were suppose to get about half an inch! Now they are saying it was closer to six. The kids were beside themselves this morning. I guess missing a winter will do that to you! As I was getting Samuel ready, he said, "This is the first time I will be outside when I am five!" I knew what he meant!

Throwing snowballs, eating the snow.

I had to dig for winter coats and boots. We were not prepared at all!

Caleb had to "secure the perimeter"!

Even Shadow was having fun!

Oh, I almost forgot - the mini pumpkins were good but a little too "cinnamony". We will have to alter the recipe and try again! Only 3 dozen more to use up. :)

Harvest Time!

We are predicted to have a big freeze here tonight and possibly snow flurries in the morning. I am so not ready for winter!

We have had to get everything that we could out of the garden. One thing that I didn't mean to plant was mini pumpkins. We had purchased some pumpkin vines that were supposed to be pie pumpkins. We did have one or two vines of those but we mostly had mini pumpkins. They are so cute but it would take quite a few to make a pie!

I found a recipe online for a quick pumpkin treat. We decided that we would turn on the oven and try it out. The kids picked out 6 of the pumpkins and I cut the tops off for lids. Then they had to clean out all of the seeds etc. with spoons.

Bethany did one for me and her. Caleb did an extra for his dad.

Hannah and Samuel worked hard too.

Then we added some butter, brown sugar and cinnamon. Notice Samuel's heaping spoonful of brown sugar - maybe not the best idea to let him do his own!

Six cute little pumpkins ready for the oven. They smelled really yummy while they were baking. We will have them later with our supper (made mostly from garden produce as well!).

We have been doing other things besides harvesting the garden - Last weekend, Bethany had her first horseshow. She had so much fun - she wants to be a cowgirl!

Thanks for reading - we'll let you know how the pumpkins turned out!