Growing Baby

The past 3 1/2 months have been full of many new experiences:  lots of food aversions (especially sausage....Ryan had to cook a lot/most of things outside for a while), a few food cravings (such as pickles wrapped in cream cheese and ham...then sliced :), barely making it out of hobby lobby to lose breakfast on the sidewalk, hearing the heartbeat, aaand feeling like an 80 year old after walking up a simple flight of stairs.  Ooops.

All in all, it has been great...I guess there is little room to complain when carrying a miracle :]  Can't wait to meet this little peanut!

Holiday Happenings

Wreath making ...

 Lots of baking...

Three generations of women who love to bake!   

Homemade Runzas!  I think we made a little over a hundred of these this year. 

Brown paper packages =)

I hope you all have a restful Christmas!

Snow Day

Made some yarn balls

Watched the snow fall and finished my book

Made the 'perfect chocolate chip cookie' via Pinterest =)  Find the recipe here.

Fall Happenings...

Burlap cards

Chocolate Chip Bread Pudding

Fun Fall wedding...

Crock Pot Apple Butter

 

 This past weekend we took our yearly fall trip to the Nebraska City Apple Orchards.  It is the best.  You can buy bags, boxes, or bushels and pick whatever apples you want in the orchards. A Kocarnik Family favorite :]

Here is an easy apple butter recipe for all of those apples!

- Crock Pot Apple Butter -

4 lbs (12 cups) apples cored/peeled/sliced
1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup water
2 Tbl apple cider vinegar
2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp cloves
1/8 tsp allspice
1/8 tsp nutmeg (really good if you have a whole nutmeg you can ground)

Put all of the ingredients in the crock pot on High for 5-6 hours (I only do mine for 5 hours because I like my apple butter more chunky).  Stir every hour or every other hour.  When done, just cover and let it chill over night.  Can in the morning.  Enjoy :]

Current Project

It has been a while since I have picked up the knitting needles...but it was time.  I found some sweet burnt orange/gold yarn on clearance today and this sweet neck warmer on Pinterest.  We'll see how it turns out!   Love the cream cross stitches.

Random Things...

Baby shoes...so fun to make for all the little ones arriving.

Leftover lemons...first attempt at a lemon meringue pie...with a graham cracker cinnamon crust.

Jewelry box from a shadow box.

Yum yums from our CSA box.