Spiderweb Cookies

I found this really cute recipe for Spiderweb cookies and I thought I'd give it a try!  I used my regular sugar cookie recipe, iced the cookies with royal icing, then dyed some icing brown (the store was out of black).  After icing the cookies, I made a spiral with the brown icing.  I used a ziploc baggie with a TINY part of the tip cut off because I couldn't find my decorator's tip.  It works just fine.  After making the spiral, use a toothpick or skewer to make lines coming from the center all the way to the edge, like this...

 Then voila!  Spiderweb cookies!

 Royal icing hardens as it dries and has a really nice, smooth finish.

On another note....

A few weeks ago, when Nancy was visiting I decided to rearrange the living room.  Grady's toys were overtaking the living room so we decided to make the front area a toy area for him, and have a "normal" living room.  Now he has his own play area and I think the living room looks MUCH larger! 



Sweet Seasons

Today, we went to Sweet Seasons Farm to go through their 5 acre corn maze!  It was so much fun.  Each year, they change the design of the maze to spell something or display a picture.  Here is an aerial view that's on their website. How cool is this?

While we were there, we also shot a corn cannon, went on a hayride, and Grady went on a pony ride.  The weather was beautiful...

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Parties, Pumpkin Patches, and Peanuts!

We had a jam packed weekend this weekend and I am exhausted!  But we had loads of fun together.  Saturday morning, we went to breakfast and then headed to Niceville to Jason and Roxanne's house.  It was sweet Adelyn's 1st birthday party.  She is just as cute as can be.  Poor baby had shots the day prior (or maybe 2 days?) and was not feeling up to partying, but she looked precious in her birthday outfit and was a good sport with all those people in her house!  Here is her cake that Roxanne's sister, Misty, made...

And some pics with her mommy and daddy, opening presents, and eating cake...

Adelyn did not enjoy her smash cake too much, but Roxy sure did! (She's my kind of woman!)

We got home around 2 and took a quick nap. Then I met up with my Pea Ridge friends for a wedding. Vicki's daughter- I work with Vicki- got married Saturday night and she looked beautiful! I had fun spending time with my fellow teachers outside of work. We all get along so well!

The bride, Alli

Vicki and her son, Cody

Yvette, Tina, Michelle M., Me, and Michelle B.

While I was at the wedding, Mikey and Grady went downtown for the Greek festival and loaded up on Greek pastries. Yum!

Then on Sunday, we went to Holland Farms which is a peanut farm (among other things) in Jay. They also have a REAL pumpkin patch where we all picked out a pumpkin. We ate boiled peanuts on their big front porch and took a hay ride around the farm. The only thing that could have made the day better is cooler weather!

 Waving to the people on the hayide...

 Eating some boiled peanuts along the way...

 Owner of the farm explaining how peanut grow...