Family Fun is my Hero!

Anyone out there get the October edition of Family Fun magazine? Every time that magazine gets here in the mail, I devour it in about an hour. It's how I stay creative and sane. It is always full of activities and ideas for me to do with my children. I love it! October's edition is fabulous! I can't wait to do it all.

One of the ideas was these little nature pals. First, you go on a "fall" walk with your children and gather pine cones and acorns and other items that could be used to make a nature creature. Afterwards, you get creative and glue everything together to make your guys. My kids had fun putting them together, but I think they enjoyed the walk more. It's always more fun when you're looking for the signs of fall! I totally loved that part, too!

Oops, it broke!

Go make some nature creatures!

Yummy Goodies...

I've been doing a little baking lately and thought I'd share a couple of the recipes that I love!First of all, are these sugar cookies. I love the big chewy sugar cookies and this recipe is so good! For Young Women's we went to the high school Homecoming game and I made some of these cookies with the school colors. They were so good! I made 30 cookies for about 10 people and they were gone by the end of the night. Click HERE for the cookies and HERE for the frosting.

I saw this recipe on my favorite recipe website "PICKY PALATE". They are so rich and yummy! They didn't last long. Click HERE for that recipe. In the recipe it calls for baking the cookies in a small cupcake pan or cheesecake pan. I didn't have either, so I used mini baking cups instead. I'm sure you could make larger cookies and put them in a regular cupcake pan, but I wanted them almost bite size. Mmmm... I'll need to make these again!