My house smells like a french fry...

Today was a pretty quiet day for day care because some of my kiddos were gone, so Sawyer and I decided to make Chocolate Caramel Crumb Cupcakes (try saying that ten times fast). Baking is one of Sawyer's favorite things to do because most of the time he gets to be pretty hands on and licking the spoon at the end makes it even better!

It still amazes mt how you can take all these ingredients, some of which taste horrible on their own and when you put them together......AMAZINGNESS!!!

(You can find the recipe on the "Recipes from Posts" page
in the right hand column.)

These cupcakes are to die for....they like a fudge brownie with a dollop of caramel cream cheese in the middle and then topped with a chocolate pecan crumble!

So this Thursday Night get-together was at our house! We wanted to do something a little different this time, so we decided to make dinner a little game. We had each person meet promptly at our house at 6:15 p.m. and everyone picked a name of a fast food place out of a hat. You had twenty minutes to go to that place and order a meal with a $7.00 minimum in place. Once everyone got back, I placed all the different meals into these numbered bags and had everyone draw a number. You ended up with the meal in the corresponding bag!

It was SO fun!!! There was a little bit of trading that went on for those that didn't eat onion or mushrooms or didn't like mayo. But in the end, everyone ended up with something they liked!

Among the the choices were: KFC, Burger King, Apple Bees, Pepper Jacks,
Chinese, Popeyes, McDonalds and Taco Bell.

I went to take the trash out and when I came back in the house...oh my word! It smelled like a grease pit! With all the different kinds of food smells combined, it really made for a good wiff! Thankfully by this morning it all aired out just fine! We were joking that they'll probably be doing some study on American obesity by going through people's trash in our neighborhood this week and when they hit our house, they'll think they've hit the mother lode! :)