Reduce, Reuse ,Recycle

On Sunday we decided to celebrate fall by making a new pumpkin muffin recipe that I found. Jaycee was so excited that I let her pretty much take over. On one of my trips through the kitchen, I see that she's just taking her last batch of muffins out of the oven. I notice that the pile of cooling muffins no longer have their paper liners on them. I said, "Jaycee, you don't need to unwrap the muffins, they'll stay fresher longer if they are in the paper liner ."
"Yes, but I don't want to have to wash the muffin tin when I get done and we didn't have very many paper liners left so I reused the few we had."
Okay, then that explains why the last batch aren't as round and fluffy! Britnee and I couldn't help it, we teased Jaycee for the rest of the day.
What an environmentally conscious girl we're raising. I think I'll hit the baking aisle on my next trip to the grocery store.

 

9/10/11 "12"

 Saturday was a big day at our house~ our Britnee Boo turned 12. I asked her what she wanted to do for her birthday and she said she wanted to go swimming. Luckily, it was a beautiful day. We spent most of the afternoon playing at the pool.

 That night we had gotten tickets to go see the last performance of the year at the Pickleville Playhouse. Matt ended up having to work so grandpa and grandma came with us.

We went early so we could enjoy one of our summer family traditions~ snow cones from Pickle Pete's.The cool thing about these is that they have a scoop of ice cream in the bottom. And, Brit brought a can of sweetened condensed milk to pour over the top. You'd think that would be a lot of sugar~ and you're right, but they were yummy!

Brit's birthday was a great day~ A perfect end to a wonderful summer.