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Fall Food Friday - Pumpkin Roll - Fall Decorating Inspiration

9/12/2021

Welcome to little house in Southwoods. I'm so glad you're here! Blessings to you and your family!

Today's blog includes:

Fall Food Friday - Pumpkin Roll Recipe
Fall Decorating Inspiration

This Friday Clint baked an incredibly delicious and festive pumpkin roll. This decadent dessert was screaming fall, y'all!

I was in love after the first bite!

"Thanks fall! My muffin top is now a pumpkin roll!" :o)

Click the link below for the recipe.
Pumpkin Roll Recipe

It's time to cozy up that home for fall! We started bringing in those colors and warmth of the upcoming fall season into our home this weekend. The decorating has begun! Happy early fall y'all!

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Weekly Highlights: Applebee's Lunch - Candytopia - Big Pie in the Sky - Halloween Hand Soaps - Pumpkin Pie - Labor Day

9/6/2021

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Welcome to little house in Southwoods. I'm so glad you're here! Blessings to you and your family!

Today's blog includes:

Applebee's Lunch Out
Candytopia
Big Pie in the Sky
Halloween Hand Soaps
Fall Food Friday
Labor Day

So long summer, hello fall... with the month of September upon us and classes in full swing, our “summer” fun has come to a close. Our weekly outings, movie days and relaxed schedule has been moved to weekends as our days become full of studies, school projects, work schedules, and chores.

End of summer celebration - a lunch out at Applebee's... brought to us by Aaron… and ‘the Rock’.

A trip to Candytopia brought to us by Linn, Eric and Alex. Candytopia is a whimsical, fun, interactive exhibit. All the sculptures and artwork are made out of candy pieces. It was fun going from room to room seeing the different creative candy sculptures and collecting all the free candy. The candy aquarium, confetti room, marshmallow pit and candy art gallery were some of our favorites.

Linn and Eric treated us to a 30" New York Style pizza from Big Pie in the Sky Pizzeria. It was the biggest pizza I have ever seen!

While I was out grocery shopping at Walmart, I found some festive Softsoap Halloween hand soap in eight different designs... only $0.98 each. Fun and festive for the fall season.

Pumpkin Patch
To the Moon
So Scary
Woodsy Wonder
Pumpkin Fever
Phantom Cat!
Cozy Autumn
Falling Leaves

Even though it isn't "officially" the fall season yet, Friday marked our first "fall food Friday!" Clint baked the first pumpkin pie of the season! I quickly regretted asking for just a tiny sliver after eating the first bite. It was delicious!

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Weekly Highlights: Projector Screen, Swirl World, Back to School Brownies, 50th Birthday Memorable Milestone

8/29/2021

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Welcome to little house in Southwoods. I'm so glad you're here! Blessings to you and your family!

Today's blog includes:

DIY Projector Screen Progress
An afternoon pick-me-up at Swirl World
Back to school brownies
50th birthday celebration - a memorable milestone

It has been a busy two weeks around here with school back in session. Besides the weekly meal planning, grocery shopping, the house cleaning, car washing, and all of the things we women do every week, I thought I'd share some of the highlights of the last two weeks.

Clint's DIY portable projector screen is finished. Everyone will be able to watch a special animation that Aaron created for Clint's band reunion gig in November. Linn was kind enough to let me borrow her new sewing machine to sew pockets into the fabric for a PVC frame. The screen works great and it is HUGE!

The perfect afternoon pick-me-up! Linn treated us to an all you can swirl ice cream at RaceTrac.
Swirl that ice cream up high and top it off with your favorite candy toppings. We scored a deal! Buy one for $2.49 and get the second one for $1.00. What a sweet deal and treat!

Of course I was more concerned about having enough room in the tub for the peanut butter cups and toppings. My dad would've swirled that ice cream MUCH higher. I know he would've had his tub filled to maximum capacity. :o) Linn was sitting there eating some type of "healthy" bar. Sure, she doesn't mind fattening me up! Thanks Linn! ;o)

We started back to school on August 17th so I baked our traditional back-to-school brownies to celebrate the occasion. I just used a basic brownie mix and I added some peanut butter icing to top it off.

We celebrated my 50th birthday last week. Praise be to God who has been so very good to me! He has given me an amazing family, and I am so grateful for each one of them. I would not have made it this far in life without their love, care, support and prayers. Moving away from a tight-knit family, and the familiarity and comforts of home in a small town, was one of the hardest things I've ever done. It was so wonderful to see all of them on a happy birthday video that my daughter Linn and son Aaron put together for me. It meant so very much to me.

I am so grateful for all of the wonderful gifts my family sent me. My brother Mike, his wife Angela, and their kids Ashlyn and Noah... and my sister-in-law Cheryl, her husband Joe, and their kids Jordan and Jaylyn blessed my socks off with their special gifts. My parents Dave and Tina sent me beautiful flower arrangements and gifts. I can't thank them enough. They blessed my heart beyond belief.

Clint, Aaron and Sydney, Linn, Eric and Alex, showered me with gifts, and a special dinner at Cracker Barrel... followed by a pecan pie dessert at home, and a friendly Bible trivia game. I thank all of them for making my 50th birthday milestone a memorable one.

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