October is coming up. October is breast cancer awareness month. For the past three years I have saved the pink lids from Yoplait yougurts. I have forgotten to send them in though. Uh-oh! This year I am going to send them in no matter what. 

I haven’t done a Hoo Are You in awhile. So here is this week’s questions.

1. What are your favorite 3 things about fall?

Halloween is coming up quick!  I am busy making the treat boxes for our trick or treaters.  I found a bigger template for the french fry boxes.  I cut them out last night.  I need to find my halloween embellishments so I can decorate them.  I love making the little people smile!  I will post pictures of them when I finish them.

My cousin Tara (who I call Tara Butt) turns seven today.  I think she was two in this picture. It was taken at my parents house at Christmas.   She fell asleep on N with her baby brother Trent’s Christmas present from my parents. 

This is the same flag that was patched with other flags.  I think this is beautiful.  This picture is from the memorial service of the little girl killed in the Arizona shooting.  She was born on 9/11/ 01

Do you remember where you were?  What you were doing? 

I had just woken up to get ready for a doctor’s appointment..  I had the TV on and saw the pentagon.  I thought oh the pentagon is on fire.  Then I closed my eyes again for a minute and the news changed back to NY.  Then the first tower fell.  I ran into my parents room and woke up my mom to tell her something bad is happening.  We watched until I had to leave.  I had a class that afternoon and instead of actually doing anything in class we just talked about what had happened. The school had TV’s everywhere.  In all the common areas.  Everyone was just watching them. No one was talking. 

10 years later we have found and tried Saddam Hussein.  He is now dead.    We have FINALLY found Bin Laden.  He is now dead.  

Thank you so much to my friends that have served my country.

Seth Clark
Nathan Moore
Greg Williams
Olin Sparks
Kerri Blum
David Kasky
Zack Beckette
Jeff Rose (husband of a friend)
Ryan Norman
Randy Frank

And the one friend that made an ultimate sacrifice for his country;
Benjamin K. Smith

Be prepeared for an emotianl post on Sunday.  With the 10 year anniversary of 9/11 I wanted to do something to remember those lost and those who went through this.  I also wanted to honor my friends that have served our country after it happened. 

 Craig Kimbrel is a closing pitcher for the Braves.  He is awesome.  He is a rookie.  This is his before pitch stance.  I love it.

I didn’t even realize it was Tuesday until now.  For some reason I thought it was Monday.  Anyways,  Here is the Hoo Are You for this week:

1. What are some of your pet peeves?
I have a few.  One is when N’s mom crushes an empty water bottle.  I HATE the sound.  It gives me chills down my back.  Another one is kind of hard to explain.  I hate when someone’s shirt sleeve or bottom is turned up to where you can see the stitching on the inside.

2. Do you have a favorite or lucky number?
22.  I have been number 22 evey year I played softball except for one.

3. What is one of your family traditions?
When I still lived at home we would NEVER put Christmas presents under the tree until Christmas Eve day. After Christmas Eve service at church we would go to my grandma’s house and sing very loud and obnoxiously Rudoplh the Red Nosed Reindeer complete with chorus line.   We also opened our stockings first thing Christmas morning. I am going to do the stockings again this year since my mom made us some last year. N’s family watches Christmas story continusly on Christmas Eve/Christmas Day. 

4. Is there anything you are OC about?
Holiday decorating.  I love it to where it has to be perfect.

5. What is your favorite kind of food?
I love mexican food.

I hope you enjoyed my answers. 

I will be resuming Crafty Tuesday and Wednesday dinner after Labor day.  Tomorrow N and I are going to a baseball game.  I can’t wait.  We haven’t been since May.

Are you ready for Halloween?  I love Halloween!  I love dressing up and passing out our candy.  This year I know we will have a lot of Trick or Treaters.  This year I am dressing up as:

This was last year’s treat bag.

2009’s treat.  This is not a good picture of it.

2008’s treat box.

The back of 2008’s box. The erasers kept falling off so I ended up putting them in the boxes.

I made these cute little ghosts for last year’s treat bags.  The are tootsie pops with tissues tied around them and a little ghostie face drawn on with a sharpie.

Starting in September I will start making dinner on Wednesday again.  I have several recipes that I want to try.  Especially this one:

Duggar’s Taco Soup

3 lbs ground turkey

1 med. onion, chopped

3 (4oz.) cans green chilies, chopped

3 tsp. salt

1 1/2 tsp. pepper

3 pkg. taco seasoning

3 pkg. ranch or 1 c. liquid ranch dressing

3 cans hominy, undrained

9 (14 1/2 oz.) cans diced tomatoes, undrained

3 (15oz.) cans kidney beans, undrained

6 (15oz.) cans pinto beans, undrained

5 c. water

Brown ground turkey w/ onion. stir in remaining ingr. Bring to boil. Simmer 30 min. Serve w/ Tortilla chips, grated ched. cheese & sour cream.
 
 
*This recipe is Duggar sized. If you don’t need to feed an army then adjust the recipe to the size you need.  I will probably make the whole recipe because we have eight people in our house. 
 
 
I can’t wait to start making dinner again.  I will definilty share the finished meal with you and take pictures this time around of all the meals before serving.  I forgot to do that last time.
 
Another Duggar recipe that I want to try is for St. John’s Banana Bread.  I love baking and I have always wanted to make banana bread, but never got around to it.  Here is the Duggar’s recipe:
 
 
St. John’s Banana Bread

1/2 c. butter

1 c. sugar

2 eggs

2 c. sifted flour

1 t. salt

1 t. baking soda

3 large bananas

1 c. chopped nuts

1 t. melted butter

cinnamon-sugar mixture

Cream butter &sugar. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Mix in sifted dry ingredients. Beat in mashed bananas. Add nuts. Pour into a greased & floured 9”x5”x3”-pan. Bake at 350 for 50-60 min. While bread is still warm brush with melted butter & sprinkle with cinnamon-sugar. 

makes 1 Loaf
 
 
I love the Duggar family if you haven’t noticed.  I want to be the kind of mother that Mrs. Duggar is to her children.  She doesn’t talk down to them or yell at them when they don’t obey her or Mr. Duggar.  I am reading their book right now and I am almost done with it.  I have learned a lot about how she keeps her calm and doesn’t get frustrated with the children.  I would love to be able to meet them someday.  N’s mother, father, and brother met them in July and got their first book signed for me. 
 
I hope you are having a great weekend.
 
P.S. Crafty Tuesday will start in September as well; after Labor Day!