Today is the first day of Fall! Yeah! My favorite time of year. There are so many delicious foods for Fall:
1. CANDY CORN
This year Brach's has candy corn with chocolate covered peanuts; sweet and salty - always a great
combination!
2. Taffy Apples! Need I say more?
3. Halloween Oreos.
4. CANDY CORN Oreos (which I haven't found yet!)
5. CANDY CORN (I know I already listed this)
6. Pumpkin Spice Latte's from Starbucks!
7. Pumpkin Smear from Einstein's Bagels
8. Halloween Peeps!
It's a culinary delight! (Also bad for a diabetic!!!)
Anyway, we had a wonderful weekend last week with my dear friends Mandy and Thomas. What great time! It was so wonderful to finally see them both! We went to Milwaukee and had a great meal at Mader's Restaurant. It's a very famous German restaurant that's been there since the early 1900's. I had wiener schnitzel (sp?) with noodles and the best sauerkraut I've ever tasted...sorry Mom...it was fabulous. That could be my new favorite restaurant. Then we walked around the River Walk and looked at the area. It was such a great weekend weather wise too! We stopped at Gregory's apartment and sat for a while chatting. Then Mandy and I realized our dream of sitting at Starbuck's with our Pumpkin Spice Latte's! What a great, great time! I was very sad to seem them go but know they will be back and maybe I can go to Germany some day! Mandy gave me a beautiful charm holder necklace with a very pretty shamrock charm, a collectors set of new Euros made in her town and some delicious candy! (Of course my eyes are closed in the picture below!)
As you may know, we bought a new car on Labor Day. (Doing our part to keep the economy going!)
We took the new car for it's first ride to Milwaukee with Mandy and Thomas and it performed very well. This was the first time Gregory saw the car and he really liked it. We told him he can't drive it....: ) I'm still nervous about driving it. We took it to get Ziebarted so good-bye new car smell. : (
When my sister Kathy came for her visit she brought me an adorable candy corn gift. I fell in love with it immediately. As everyone knows, I LOVE candy corn stuff and can't wait until I get my candy corn Oreos!!!!! I'm going to try to get some today as a trip to Target is in order! Here is the candy corn gift Kathy gave me as well as the one my dear niece Debbie gave me last year. I love both!
This is the decoration Debbie gave me last year.
This is what Kathy gave me this year.
I also have some other Halloween decorations that I've started to put out. This is the wreath I have on the front door now. I think I may have gotten down on the farm one year but I can't remember. It's cute no matter where I got it. I didn't put much decorations out last year as I really wasn't in the mood but this year life is good and a Halloween celebration is in order.I may even put my candy corn table together this year! If I do, I'll post a picture. You will not believe this table!
I don't know how I became so enamored with candy corn but I just can't get enough!
I also have some candy corn in individual bags I'm taking to work for a candy corn basket I'll keep on my desk.
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| Not sure why it's this orientation but you can tell what it is. Each bag has about 10 pieces of candy corn and they are sealed. I can't stand people touching the candy so I buy it like this! |
I'm excited for tomorrow because I got two movies from the library that I plan to watch; The Green Mile and Something Borrowed. The boys will be at the Bears game and, if I can figure out how to get the DVD in the DVD player, I'll have a great time! I've been reading up a storm lately. I have so much time on the train back and for to work as well as during lunch. My library is so wonderful and they have every book I could want including new ones. I just put my name on the waiting list and get the book or movie when it becomes available. I can even get books for Kindle at the library. Think of all the money I'm saving - I can save enough to go to Germany!
Well, it's lunch and then off to Target to see if I can get the Candy Corn Oreos. Enjoy the weekend and stay tuned to my website to see if I got the Oreos!! Keep you fingers crossed!
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