when in doubt, bake something

After powering through a bunch of boxes this morning,

I was ready for a break.

My sister told me about a recipe for some really yummy cookies

that she made and I wanted to give them a try.

I couldn't find the exact ingredients,

so I varied it a little and here's what I came up with .

Mix a box of cake mix,

a can of pumpkin,

and half a bag of white chocolate chips together.

Bake for 13 minutes at 350

and voila!

Super duper yuminess!!!

They're really little, so they end up being the perfect size

to just pop one (or maybe 5)

in your mouth.

The original recipe calls for

a box of yellow cake mix

a can of pumpkin

and a bag of cinnamon chips.

I still want to try those,

but I haven't been able to find any cinnamon chips yets.

Oh, and I almost forgot,

I added some chopped pecans to mine too.

And I've got this in the crockpot for dinner.

Here's to new recipes

to get me out of my cooking rut!

views

We went from a view of this...

to a view of this.

And a view of this...

to a view of this.

We're still buried under boxes,

but it feels so good to be

home.

busy, busy, busy

We have had back

to back

to back

houseguests

the last five weeks.

It's been super fun, but now it's back to reality.

Which for us right now involves finishing up packing the house

because we are moving one week from tomorrow.

I took a bunch of pictures of the chaos

we are living in these days,

and some pretty pictures of the leaves changing colors,

but then we packed the thingy I need to get the pictures from my camera

on to the computer and over here to this neglected little blog.

Since I don't like posting without a picture,

I thought I'd share an old picture of the monkey.

Enjoy.