Orange you glad...

...it's pumpkin season?

I am loving the chevron trend!

Here in the Morgan household we have been adding pumpkin into many things in an effort to up the nutrient density of the meal and also, enjoy more PUMPKIN!

I added pumpkin into a cornbread recipe and served it with some turkey chili that was enhanced with pumpkin. Turkey cooked with lots of garlic, garbanzo beans, roasted tomatoes and pumpkin and cinnamon...Yum!

This cornbread was definitely not dried out...

And it was perfect on top of the turkey pumpkin chili!

And this last dish was full of squash too. Sometimes my family forgets pumpkin is a squash but it counts. I added a can of pumpkin into the Italian sausage and tomato sauce and it was served over roasted spaghetti squash mixed with cottage cheese and nutritional yeast. I added some mozzarella to the top and let it get gooey under the broiler..

It was divine and comforting...

Feeling Campy / Cabin Fever / Breaking Fall (Reader's Choice)

This year we opted not to go to Winfield in favor of a more family-oriented and timelier camp trip. We really missed the bluegrass festival, but we didn't have to take 3 kidlets out of school to go on this camp trip and we also got to stay in a cabin instead of a tent.

That seems to make life so much nicer in the woods, ya know?

We stayed a stone's throw from the river and pond and if we were any good at fishing (or knew what we were doing), we'd have caught that huge trout that seemed to be mocking us (Scott).

"Low Tide"

"Low Tide"

The inlet to the pond from the Illinois River

Can you see him? (He was HUGE)

Birthday Boy

David had his first friend birthday party yesterday and it was a total blast. It was gorgeous out and the boys had a great time.

Falling into Color (and Feeling Crafty)

Corking it Up

Collector Corks

Leftover Acrylics - Yellow Paint Is Better Than None, Right?

Added a Lovely Spot of Color to the Unlovely Porch

Weekending

Oh what a lovely weekend it was!

Friday couldn't get here quick enough and we decided to use David's Papa Murphy coupon for some free cookie dough and we also took away some pizza too...

Cowboy Pizza....yum!

After dinner we got busy working on David's birthday party pinata. It's a little amorphous right now but it will shape up soon enough (we hope).