Fall Fun and a Yummy Recipe

As many of you know I'm not a huge fan of fall. I mean it's pretty and all with the colorful leaves, and I know it's the time of year where we all get to pull back out our comfy sweat pants and sweat shirts, which I have to admit does feel nice to put back on. But for me fall just leads to winter which I just about 100% can not stand. With my lack of "liking" the season I really have never done much to celebrate it. I've never made "fall" foods, and I've never really decorated my house for fall. I may have slapped a wreath of colorful leaves on the door, but that was about it. Did you notice I said, "was" Yes, past tense. Oh yeah I decorated the house and the front porch for fall. I also made home made caramel corn and boy was it yummy.

The weather was perfect this weekend for decorating. It was bright and sunny all weekend, and while it was not the 85 degrees I love and prefer it was still in the middle 60's, so I guess I can not complain about it! Since it was so nice out Ry's little girl and I decided to hit the local garden store and do some fall shopping. Now, I know this may not look like much to all of you, and I know it's not really all that big of a deal, but I'm not the most crafty person ever. I always get the most grand ideas in my head, but then can never seen to pull them off. As a matter of fact trying to be "crafty" sometimes stresses me out because the end result never seems to match the vision. Anyways, at the store we brought one little boy scarecrow, and one little girl scarecrow. They were a still at $3.99 a piece. We got three little gourds, a half bale of straw or maybe hay, (not really sure) and three Mums all for just under $10.00 bucks!

So I took a "before" picture, but it didn't turn out and it had the address, and while I know you are all the sweetest people I didn't really think it was the smartest thing to have my address on the internet. Anyways, here is the front porch that Ry's little girl and I did. She wants me to tell you all that she "designed" the flower layout on the hay bale.

Here is a picture of her sitting on her hay bale.

Like I said, I know it's not much or all that extravagant compared to lots of people's front porches, but for me being not crafty, I'm kind of proud of it.

After we got the front porch done the two of us went on inside and made some caramel corn. Although it's not really as much caramel corn as it is caramel puffs. Either way it's totally yummy and melts in your mouth. Better than that it's super quick and easy to make.

Here is the recipe:

1 bag of corn pops
1 cup real butter
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup kayro syrup
1 tsp baking soda

On a greased cookie sheet spread out corn puffs. (If you want to make more than one batch it is easiest to make two different mixtures)

Bring the butter, brown sugar and kayro syrup to a boil. Stirring every few minutes. Cook for 2 minutes after it begins to boil. Remove from heat and stir in the baking soda. Next, pour the mixture over the puffs.

Bake in oven on 250 for about 30 minutes, stirring puffs around every ten minutes.

Spread out onto waxed paper, let cool (or not) and enjoy!!

Here are the corn puffs

Soaking up the yummy caramel goodness on cookie sheets.


Baking in the oven. Can you smell it? It smells wonderful and oh so yummy!!


And then cooling on the waxed paper.

Now go make some of this and enjoy. By the way these taste even better with a glass of apple cider.

Holy cow!! Guess what?? As I was writing this post. A lady called from the one childcare center I interviewed at and I finally was offered a job as a Lead Infant Teacher!!! So excited!!! And for Early Childcare the money is pretty good too!!! More to come in another post about this!!

Happy Fall!!