Grateful Praise

Tomorrow is November 1st and Thanksgiving is just a few short weeks away. This time we try to slow down as the holidays make everything speed up and soon we find ourselves caught in the hustle and bustle and as we leave a shopping mall, arms full of shopping bags and a gaping hole in our already meager bank account, sometimes we need a reminder as to what is really important.

A sweet campaign has started a few years ago, where you challenge yourself to read psalm 100 and HUNDRED times before Thanksgiving. It's a wonderful way to memorize a memory verse with your family and give you a reminder of what is really important.

We are chosen people, loved people, and we should be thankful for all of our blessings and make a joyful noise because we know it!

Here is a free pdf of the picture below for you to download so you can have a visible print out to hang up in your home.

Pumpkin Patch

In case you havn't made it to the Pumpkin Patch yet this Autumn. Enjoy a look at my favorite locally grown and family run stand.

I love visiting this place during the year, especially in Autumn when there is such a wonderful vatiety of colors, sizes, shapes and textures to see.

The wonderful works of God.

Psalm 65:11

You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance.

Candy Turkeys

How was everyone's Thanksgiving? Mine was great!

I convinced my mother to use my china with dinner and let me set the tables. I never get the opportunity to host a holiday to I am slowly trying to take domination over what I can. I also made all the desserts: Pumpkin pie, apple pie, and my candy turkeys.

I learned how to make these every year since I was 11 years old, and I have made them every year since. They are easy to make and are a great activity for kids.

You can't go wrong with the classic combination of peanut butter and chocolate...

Candy Turkeys

You will need:
Reeses Peanut Butter Cups (one for each turkey)
Nutter Butter Cookies (same)
M&M Mini's (one tube per 5 turkeys)
One tube of Icing
Candy/Indian corn
Platter/Plate

1. Take a Nutter Butter cookie and swirl some frosting on the bottom half of the cookie. Unwrap a Reese's and place the bottom part on the frosting.

2. Make a rainbow arch of frosting on the top of the Reese's cup.

 

 

 3.Take five Candy Corn and set in the frosting. Flip the turkey over!

4. Squiggle a crooked "T" with a tail shape on the upper half of the cookie, and pipe on a small straight line on the bottom.

 5. Apply green/blue/ or brown M&M's for eyes, orange/yellow for beak and feet, and one red M&M for the waddle, slightly to the side.

 And there you have it! Adorable and delicious turkeys to be sent home as a goody (in case you want all that leftover pie to yourself).

I like the geometrical pattern on the plate

 'Gobble, Gobble' them up as they tend to go fast!

Deuteronomy 8:10 – "When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the Lord your God for the good land he has given you."