The temperatures are not quite as cold as the week that we spent at Family Camp, but fall is definitely here!
Do you love when the seasons change too?
Fall is a beautiful season of the year!
There are perks to having a daughter work at a bulk food store that also has green houses.
Every year she decorates our porch for summer and then again for fall!
I love the grasses she added this year.
Isn’t it inviting and so pretty?
Fall means a change in the menu plan here at Twin Oaks.
Soup season is upon us!
I am one of those strange ones who actually craves soup!
I have been enjoying cooking and baking again since we have been home from Family Camp.
Did those photos make you hungry like they did me?
I made some spice donuts one afternoon.
Or not.
Sometimes I think I should leave all the baking up to Addie Mae!
The kiddos ate those donuts anyway, but this cute one said, “Not the best thing you have made in your century, Mom.”
Noted!
I am feeling my century, just in case you are wondering!!
Addie Mae’s baking looks like this –
Vast contrast, I am aware!
That pie was SO yummy!
You can find the recipe on Addie’s blog right HERE.
Addie also brought home some spaghetti squash.
YUM!
They are so easy to cook in the insta pot!
We are still keeping our salad box full for fall and winter.
Salad is a staple here!
Veggies do your body good.
I have a pile of green peppers in our freezer from our garden and from a neighbor who blessed us with more.
They are SO easy to use!
I just ran them under warm water for a minute and they were thawed and ready to chop just like they were fresh.
Of course cooking and baking mean grocery shopping.
It is dark now when I leave on my grocery run!
Every week is a one cart puzzle – but especially so after you missed a week due to vacation!
I was looking for gluten-free and dairy-free tortellini to make tortellini soup at the store last Friday.
I could not find any, but I found these!
They get a THUMBS UP.
We went back to Family Camp Thursday night to visit some friends who were attending week 2!
It was FANTASTIC! Even though Blake and I only got three hours of sleep that night!
I got a new cutting board while we were there too, from a young budding entrepenuer.
Isn’t it beautiful? (It’s the larger one!)
We also attended a concert Saturday night about one hour from home that our dear friends were doing.
My face hurt the next morning from smiling so much!!
This is the only photo I have from there, thanks to Addie.
Thank you Addie!
Yesterday afternoon Grant put some ribs in his smoker.
I am glad no one was here to watch us gobble those ribs up!
He made mine separate so they were safe for me and they were SO GOOD!
Our dogs are actually very obedient, for everyone but one person.
Any guesses who spoils them?
Last night we took a long walk.
It has been a very long time since we have done that, all eight of us.
I hope we will purpose it more often this fall, but everyone is still working long hours.
In case you still can’t see how much we loved Family Camp, an updated jar showed up in the school room the day we got home!
Family Camp kicks off fall for us each year!
The temperatures this week are LOVELY!!
We are enjoying school, new menus, cooler temperatures, and fall very much!!
Hope you all are too!!
