October half term saw the Davies Tribe doing lots of exciting things! It was a jam packed week with the boys all going to a holiday Bible club at a local church every morning & the afternoons filled with games, making things & watching films. We made pumpkin muffins again this year after their success last year. I improved the recipe & they taste even better! Annie-Joy discovered that she LOVES scrapping out pumpkin seeds & string! This is one she did so that we could roast it in the oven ready to go in the muffins.
The boys took it in turns to measure out ingredients for the muffins. Luke enjoyed spooning the pumpkin puree into the cup to measure it out.
Timmy weighed out the flour, looking carefully at the numbers on the dial till they reached the correct weight. Everyone broke one egg into the mixture & had a good stir of it before spooning it into muffin cases.
I couldn't resist putting a swirl of butter icing with a sprinkle of cinnamon on the top of the cooled muffins & then making some little pumpkins out of orange icing. Everyone agreed they were VERY cute! :o)
By Friday we had run out of umph & Timmy had come down with a fever & really wasn't up to much so all plans for making lots of pumpkin lanterns went out the window. Timmy was really keen to make his but sadly wasn't strong enough to do any more than cut the top off his pumpkin & peer inside it! Poor darling! By Saturday Luke was coming down with it too & didn't even get to cut his pumpkin!
Jordan & Annie-Joy managed to scoop all the insides out of their pumpkins & with a team effort we made two lanterns! Jordan drew a wonky face on his...
...and I made AJ's into a teddy face which she loved (as you can see above!). She loved drawing over her face design all over the pumpkin too!
They looked pretty good lit up! We put them both on our porch above our front door. AJ waved bye bye to teddy sitting up there every time she saw it.
On Saturday evening we went to a family disco at our church. Timmy was fully well again & he & AJ thoroughly enjoyed the party but Jordan & Luke were under the weather coming down with the fever. It did mean Luke & I had lots of lovely cuddles though. The girl next door had a very loud & late Halloween party so none of us had a good night's sleep that night sadly (she did warn us before hand & apologise afterwards & cleaned up our garden the next day too). Anyway, it was a good fun half term week despite illness & lack of sleep! I have a few more piccies to post later of our trip to Blackpool to see the lights so do come back soon! :o)
October half term saw the Davies Tribe doing lots of exciting things! It was a jam packed week with the boys all going to a holiday Bible club at a local church every morning & the afternoons filled with games, making things & watching films. We made pumpkin muffins again this year after their success last year. I improved the recipe & they taste even better! Annie-Joy discovered that she LOVES scrapping out pumpkin seeds & string! This is one she did so that we could roast it in the oven ready to go in the muffins.
The boys took it in turns to measure out ingredients for the muffins. Luke enjoyed spooning the pumpkin puree into the cup to measure it out.
Timmy weighed out the flour, looking carefully at the numbers on the dial till they reached the correct weight. Everyone broke one egg into the mixture & had a good stir of it before spooning it into muffin cases.
I couldn't resist putting a swirl of butter icing with a sprinkle of cinnamon on the top of the cooled muffins & then making some little pumpkins out of orange icing. Everyone agreed they were VERY cute! :o)
By Friday we had run out of umph & Timmy had come down with a fever & really wasn't up to much so all plans for making lots of pumpkin lanterns went out the window. Timmy was really keen to make his but sadly wasn't strong enough to do any more than cut the top off his pumpkin & peer inside it! Poor darling! By Saturday Luke was coming down with it too & didn't even get to cut his pumpkin!
Jordan & Annie-Joy managed to scoop all the insides out of their pumpkins & with a team effort we made two lanterns! Jordan drew a wonky face on his...
...and I made AJ's into a teddy face which she loved (as you can see above!). She loved drawing over her face design all over the pumpkin too! 
They looked pretty good lit up! We put them both on our porch above our front door. AJ waved bye bye to teddy sitting up there every time she saw it.
On Saturday evening we went to a family disco at our church. Timmy was fully well again & he & AJ thoroughly enjoyed the party but Jordan & Luke were under the weather coming down with the fever. It did mean Luke & I had lots of lovely cuddles though. The girl next door had a very loud & late Halloween party so none of us had a good night's sleep that night sadly (she did warn us before hand & apologise afterwards & cleaned up our garden the next day too). Anyway, it was a good fun half term week despite illness & lack of sleep! I have a few more piccies to post later of our trip to Blackpool to see the lights so do come back soon! :o)
4 comments:
What a marvellous family time! I've never seen a Halloween lantern I've liked before (they're too scary for me!) but the Daviestribe teddy is terrific!
It's lovely to see the children enjoying working so hard at making goodies. What fun you all have! And how tired mummy Daviestribe must be when they've all gone to bed.
God bless you all with good health as well as happiness!
DaddyO
xxxxxx
Love the little pumpkins on the cakes. An extension of your Fimo and ceramics skills LOL!!!! Hope you all recover very soon as we would really love you to visit next weekend. Hope the School fair goes well too.
Love Mum xxx
Busy busy as ever!!
Love your funny faced lanterns,our pumpkin isn't ready yet lol!(very nearly thou)would love the recipe for your wonderful wee cakes?? :) x x
I love the pumpkin muffins~especially with the little pumpkins on the top! Bet they were delicious! And I agree~the teddy face on Annie's pumpkin is lovely! xxx
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