Weekend Recap

This little girl got to experience life as an only child on Saturday night! Brody spent the night with my parents and Jillian got to have a little extra attention from Josh and me.

The three of us had fun night together! We laughed thinking about how easy it seemed to only have one child! It’s so funny how your perspective changes with each child. :)

We went to eat and made a stop by Carter’s, the mall, Target, and Chick-fil-a for dessert.

Brody had such a fun time with my parents while we were having a fun night with Jillian! I don’t think he has spent the night with them since the week Jillian was born, so he was very excited to get to stay at their house!

Sunday evening, our small group had a bonfire, hayride and cookout. It was a perfect fall evening with our friends!

Brody and Hannah! These two get along so well and are such good friends.

Kinsler and Brody “driving” the tractor!

I love this picture of Brody. He was making tractor noises while he pretended to drive! The boy was obsessed with this thing!

Jillian and her friend, Rahley! I didn’t want Jillian’s little pea coat to smell like smoke from the fire, so she wore one of Brody’s coats that washes well! :)

The guys!

After we roasted hot dogs, we went on a fun hayride!

Brody sat in my lap the entire ride and we snuggled under a blanket!

After the hayride, we made s’mores and then headed home! Brody was so tired from his fun weekend that he fell asleep on our way home at 8:00!!

I hope y’all had a great weekend!

Missy Prissy Razorback Hair Bow Giveaway

Even though the Razorback Game was pretty ugly yesterday, we still won!! To celebrate, I am hosting a giveaway for this adorable Missy Prissy Bow Boutique Razorback hair bow!

To enter this giveaway, go ‘like’ Missy Prissy Bow Boutique Facebook Page, then come back and leave me a comment!

Just a reminder…Abbie at MPBB will custom make bows to match any outfit. This would be a great idea for Thanksgiving and Christmas outfits. She has always done a fantastic job making custom bows to match outfits for Jillian! Email her at missyprissybowboutique(at)yahoo(dot)com for custom holiday bow orders.

Giveaway will end October 31st and the winner will be announced November 1st.

Good Luck!

Blogger Lunch

Yesterday, the kids and I met several blogger/twitter friends for lunch!

Laurie, Leah, Niki, Lauren, Whitney, Hillary, Amanda, Me and Kelly

Lauren was visiting  from Florida, so it was fun to get to see her again! We met in Atlanta last April.

Yesterday was the first time for me to met Leah and Niki, although I felt like I knew them from their blogs and Twitter! Whitney and I met about a year ago. She doesn’t live too far from here, so she is able to come up for things regularly!

I’m usually the only one looking at the camera these days! :)

Brody and Jillian did pretty well at lunch, although I was a nervous wreck because there was a sign on the door of the restaurant that said something like “well-behaved children welcomed.” Super! Ha!

We had such a fun time yesterday getting to meet new friends and visit with some of our favorite friends! I love the great friendships I have made from blogging!

Hope you all are having a good weekend!

Two-Ingredient Pumpkin Muffins

We actually turned these two-ingredient muffins into three-ingredient muffins. I had these earlier this week at church and the person who made them added chocolate chips into the muffins. It made them extra good!

The original recipe calls for one box of spice cake mix and one 15 ounce can of pumpkin puree.  (I had to use half of a 29 ounce can of pumpkin because that’s all I had on hand.)

We waited to bake these after Jillian went to bed so that Brody could get a little extra time with mommy! He was so excited to get to help me! 

You need to use a mixer to mix them, but I let Brody stir them for a little while before we got out the mixer. :)

Brody wanted me to throw some chocolate chips in his mouth before we mixed them into the batter. 

Yummy!!

Fill the muffin cups about 3/4 full and bake at 350 for about 20-25 minutes.

They are super easy and delicious!

Trip to the Pumpkin Patch

We went to a local pumpkin patch/corn maze with our MOPS group yesterday morning! It was a fun morning full of farm animals,train rides and pumpkin picking!

Sweet Jillian! I love this cute headband and flower that a blog friend sent us last year!

They had a little fenced in area with some goats that Brody got to pet!

This picture cracked me up! He just kept his hand on the goat while the goat ate like it was no big deal!

After we got to see the goats, Brody rode the cow train. He was SO excited about it!

I think it’s such a cute little train!

They rode around the corn maze and back.

Jillian waved “bye bye” to Brody as the train pulled away!

After the train ride, we got on a big trailer and rode out to the mini pumpkin patch to pick pumpkins.

I let Brody pick two pumpkins…one for him and one for Jillian!

He was so amazed that these pumpkins were still on the vine!

We rode the trailer back and stopped to take a few pictures on the hay bales. They were staring intently at a scarecrow that was beside them! Ha!

She did not take her eyes off of the scarecrow the entire time!

My little pumpkins and me at the end of our fun morning together!

And just for fun….Here are the 3 of us this same week last fall when our MOPS group went to the pumpkin patch! Jillian was only 5 weeks old! :)

Hope y’all have a great evening!

Pumpkin Painting

We went to the pumpkin patch this morning! While we were there, Brody picked two mini pumpkins to bring home. One for him and one for Jillian. I’m still going through the pictures from the pumpkin patch, but I thought I would share pictures of Brody and Jillian painting their mini pumpkins after we got home from the pumpkin patch!

I let them take turns painting in the high chair. That seemed like the safest place for two little ones to use paint! I let Jillian paint with her hands. It was a little messy, but much easier than giving her a paint brush. I didn’t get many pictures of her painting her pumpkin because I had to help hold her hands so that she didn’t lick the paint! :)

She used pink and blue paint and was really amused by the way her hand looked once she was finished!

Brody painted with paint brushes. He used red and blue paint for his pumpkin.

He started out by using one brush for each color…

And painted with both hands!

He really enjoyed this little craft!

Saying “cheese” while posing with his pumpkin! Ha!

Showing the finished product!

Little pumpkins all finished and dried!

This was so much fun for all 3 of us, and now we get to use the pumpkins to decorate our kitchen for the next few days!

Our Weekend

We had a really uneventful weekend, which was wonderful! I feel like our fall has been packed full of fun, busy weekends, but a weekend with no big plans is always nice!

Saturday, we went to watch the Razorback game  at The Green’s house. It was a lot of fun! Jillian and Brody always love spending time with Payne!

We had some great food for lunch…grilled duck, grilled pork tenderloin, salad, green bean bundles and fried potatoes. We had cookies for dessert along with this banana pudding I made. I should have taken a picture before I took it over, but this is proof it was pretty good! :)

Here is the recipe I used. It’s Paula Deen’s banana pudding and I sort of fell in love with it when we visited her restaurant last summer. I was pregnant and I ate quite a bit of dessert while we were there, including this pudding! Jill even made this recipe for my baby shower since I loved it so much. I made it in a 9x13, but my sister makes it in a huge bowl and it seems to work better that way!

Ingredients

1   12-ounce container frozen whipped topping thawed, or equal amount sweetened whip
1   14-ounce can sweetened condensed milk
1   8-ounce package cream cheese, softened
2 cup milk
1   5-ounce box instant French vanilla pudding
6-8   bananas, sliced
2   bags Pepperidge Farm Chessmen cookies (I used Vanilla Wafers instead)

Directions

Line the bottom of a 13x9x2-inch dish with 1 bag of cookies and layer bananas on top.

In a bowl, combine the milk and pudding mix and blend well using a handheld electric mixer.  Using another bowl, combine the cream cheese and condensed milk together and mix until smooth.  Fold the whipped topping into the cream cheese mixture.  Add the cream cheese mixture to the pudding mixture and stir until well blended.  Pour the mixture over the cookies and bananas and cover with the remaining cookies.  Refrigerate until ready to serve.

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One other thing I did this weekend was I cleaned out our bottle cabinet! I have no idea why I have waited so long to do this. I don’t think Jillian has used a bottle since she was about 10 months old. She has either nursed or used a sippy cup. I realized with all the additional sippy cups in our house, we needed our cabinet space back so we could store all of Brody and Jillian’s cups. It was a little bittersweet when I packed them away, but I am happy to have the additional cabinet space now!

And this is just a sweet picture from this weekend…I went to check on Jillian on Saturday night and I found her holding hands with her little baby doll! Precious girl! I just love her so much!

Hope y’all are having a great week!