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Monday, October 5, 2015

Friends, Food & Fall

I am blessed with a plethora of fabulous people in my life.  Surrounded in fact but women who are fiercely seeking out the life the Lord has for them and it is so encouraging.  However, over the past year I have slowly come to realize that while I “know” a lot of people, my circle of close friends is…limited.  These past few months I have been intentional about building, investing and cultivating relationships with women who are quickly becoming my tribe. 

Two of these fabulous women are co-workers of mine!  Tamara teaches first grade next door & Sarah is our phenomenal art teacher. {She is amazing.  One of my littles actually used the words, “organic shape” to me last week.  I am a certified professional and could not tell you what that means if my life depended on it}  Sarah is also the owner of Paint the Town Waco and the last two months Tamara & I have become pretty obsessed with her classes!  This past weekend Sarah hosted a “Pumpkin Painting Party” to bring in the pumpkin season.  There were so many women in attendance and we had the best time laughing, painting, eating and fellowshipping.  In the spirit of fall and pumpkins I have a couple of themed snacks to share with you!



The first is the pumpkin oranges.  I {obviously} stole this idea off of Pintrest and I am contemplating handing them out along with candy to trick or treaters!  Coach and I love fruit so we might give it a try.

Pumpkin Oranges

·       Clementines/Tangerines
·       Celery

--Peel your citrus fruit
--Slice celery into small pieces
--Place celery in the top, middle section of the citrus & serve








Confession.  I hate the taste of pumpkin.  It’s totally not my thing, so when I stumbled across this recipe for Pumpkin dip in an old cookbook I thought I would bring it for those who do enjoy pumpkin things.  After trying it though, I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it!

Pumpkin Dip

·       1 can pumpkin
·       Cinnamon (to taste)
·       Ginger (to taste)
·       Cloves (to taste)
·       1 package vanilla pudding mix
·       1 8 oz. tub Cool Whip (thawed)

--Mix pumpkin, spices & vanilla pudding mix together in medium sized bowl
--Fold cool whip into pumpkin mixture until mixed through
--Refrigerate until ready and serve with Nilla Wafers or graham crackers  






Obviously you could not have a painting party with no chocolate!  The acorn cookies were a tad bit more labor intensive but the taste at the end was scrumptious!


 Acorn Cookies

·       Nutter Butter Bites
·       Milk chocolate chips
·       Hershey’s Kisses


--Melt ¼ bag of chocolate chips
--Smear melted chocolate on the bottom of an un-wrapped Hershey’s kiss
--Attach Nutter Butter Bite to Hershey’s Kiss
--Chill in refrigerator





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