Caramel Popcorn

So I have a clever friend who has put together a recipe group. ( I am not clever enough to think of a better name!) There is a theme for each month and she puts them all on a cute little blog. So I thought I would share what I contributed this month and add a link for ya!

Knead A Recipe Blog

Go check it out... Last month the theme was soup....who can't use more great soup recipes? I can honestly say the the Chicken Tortilla Soup is the best tortilla soup I have ever made! Use the Chipotle Chili powder!

4-6 quarts of popped popcorn (sorted to remove kernels) I pop mine in a sauce pan on my stove top. Air poppers work or you can even use a few bags of microwave popcorn!

2 2/3 Cup Pecans

1 1/3 Cup Almonds

2 Cups butter

1 Cup dark Karo syrup

2 2/3 Cup sugar

Melt together in a large sauce pan. Bring to a rolling boil. Time from that point 3 minutes. Remove from heat and add 2 tsp Vanilla. Pour over the top of the popcorn and nuts. You can mix this in a bowl or spray your counter down with Pam and mix and spread out to ensure a even topping.

Feelin' Spooky

While my family laid low...and tried our best to not infect everyone...this is what I worked on. Well in between caring for sick kids and taking a ridiculous amount of hot showers to drain my head! It's funny how I always want to work on stitching but never seem to have the time. I am glad I took of advantage of this house bound week to make a cute Halloween decoration!

Family Time

What a fun time it was! We loved the day! Charlie's mom went all out. The egg hunt was a hoot. The older boys told her there was just no way she could stump them. Well she took the bait and made it a huge challenge! There was a golden egg to be won!! Oh my these boys take it seriously. There was a ladder out and the boys figured there must be a reason for that. So Chad climbs up and looks finds 1 egg and climbs down. His cousin Trey, being younger and wiser climbed up to check again, finding 2 more eggs. So then Chad thought there may be more, well the ladder was being used so Charlie lifted him up, all 116 pounds of him! Yikes! Morgan loved that she found eggs where other people had passed by. She scored about 6 in the leaves. Then we ate way too much great food! Next we played kick ball to work off some of the food. We finished it all off with a birthday celebration. It was such a pretty day all around!

4th of July

This is actually what it looks like. YEP, a snowman!! On the 4th of July.
I was driving down the street on a quick errand and saw this great big guy, I quick ran home grabbed the kids and a camera. Morgan was thrilled with the whole thing, Chad said "cool, lets go home". He thought taking a picture was silly. He would not smile. I was able to get him to smile with a promise of an apple pie. Oh boy, he is an almost 11 year old boy for sure!