The Noehren's

I didn't get many pics of this year's trunk or treat - but here are a few.  There were so many fun and creative costumes!  We did, however, manage to win cutest trunk.  Woot woot!  Thank you pinterest!  

RIP pumpkin bushes and old tree stump!     

Yesterday I made some yummy chili and our favorite corn bread recipe.  Mmm.  I was excited for dinner and feeling quite proud of myself for making a nice dinner until I stole a bite of the cornbread.  Something was off.  It was waaaay salty.  I tried to sneak it by Haley, but she returned it saying it didn't taste good.  Rats.  I of coarse blamed the kids for distracting me and assumed I added too much salt.  After trashing batch one I started on batch 2.  Same recipe, same bad results.  What?   I had made this a zillion times.  Does cornmeal sour?  By now, Brian was home and I was trying to convince him that it didn't taste that bad.  After one sniff he declined and being the true cornbread master that he is, he decifered correctly that I put in baking soda instead of baking powder.  Oopsie.  Silly me.  I guess that does matter.  I am still baffled that I made the same mistake twi...

For Fall Break, Brian took Monday off and we headed over to Red River Gorge for some exploring.  It was so beautiful!  My boys!  Beautiful Haley    There we so many cool arches and little holes to hide in.     How did they get so big? The world's largest leaf. It was a great way to spend the day!

We had such a fun fall weekend.  We took the 'cool bus' to Evans Orchard to buy 2 bushels of their cider apples (the cheap and ugly, but yummy apples) for our yearly applesauce craziness.  The kids love the play area and Brian and I decided that when we buy "land" someday (whatever that means) we will build one of these rat race tracks.  At the rate we're going this won't probably happen until we have grandkids!  Applesauce makin' time!  Most years we have inherited something new and exciting from my mom - more mason jars, her water bath tub, and then her coveted jar steamer.  Last year she handed over the Victorio Strainer 200.  For real, that's it's name.  It brought back tons of memories as a kid making applesauce and grape juice and it was just as cool to me as I remember.  You cut and boil your apples (core, peal, and all) and dump it in the bin and it oozes out the good stuff one way and dumps out the bad stuf...