Look out Cupcake Wars...

Most of the time I just whip up cupcakes from a box, they're easy and delicious but over the weekend I made these champagne cupcakes from scratch. My other favorite from the summer were zucchini cupcakes with caramel frosting, so good! And you felt like you could eat those anytime of the day.

Tomatoes

These lovely guys... the last out of the garden this year=sauce for dinner!

Kiddos

Miss Lucy

Little man Colby

Fashionista Norah

Sweet Betsy

Hiking

In Italy we walked A LOT and did a ton of stairs, I figured I needed to keep it going when I got back. I haven't hit the gym yet but been doing my own thing at home. Between the hill behind our house and jumping rope, my new fav is the Nike Training Club Ap. Its free and has great workouts if you want to do it at home or at the park...that is what we did when we were in CO last weekend. We also did a great hike in Boulder while there, made it almost to the top until we kept seeing signs that said there were recent bear sightings on this particular trail, we thought we'd turn around when the boulders were so big we couldn't see what just might be behind them! And yesterday I did the Climb To Conquer Cancer, which was up to the top of the Manashtash Ridge right outside Ellensburg, definitely a leg burner but fun time!

Downtown Denver, CO


A Win for the Cougs in CO!!

Sniff, Swirl, Sip!

Walla Walla wine tasting! You definitely won't run out of wineries to visit when you head toward Walla Walla, they have 30 tasting rooms in just their downtown area! We stayed at Walla Faces Inns at the Vineyard and it was wonderful, a little bit off the beaten path but beautiful if you want some R&R time and you pretty much have a pool to yourself! There were a handful of wineries that were added into our Brown Heiny wine stash and more we wished we could have visited, we'll be back!

Corn

Fall is in the air and its been A LONG time since I blogged! Our internet at home has been hardly to not working all summer, a bit of an inconvenience. We had cable internet installed and soon should have a strong connection with no hiccups. Then I can do a better job of keeping everyone up to speed on whats been going on including our most recent adventure to Italy!

Yesterday we found a local U-PiCK corn field and picked about 25 ears, cooked it all up, peeled it off with my handy dandy corn peeler and froze it for the winter! Looking forward to fresh sweet corn when the snow is falling.

A shout out to Ziplock...their vacuum bag refills are awesome for freezing things!

M-I-C-K-E-Y ~ M-O-U-S-E!