TELL: Apple Tart (super DUPER easy apple tart)

After we went apple picking there was that one question...now what to do with all these apples?  I wasn't sure I wanted to commit to a whole pie so I decided to tart it up.

This recipe is SO easy and SO yummy 

Recipe:

(makes about 4 tarts)

Ingredients:

Puff pastry

2-3 Apples

1 cup brown sugar

1 lemon

powdered sugar

cream cheese

Cut one sheet of puff pasty into 4 equal square pieces 

(dont let them get too warm or they start to get soggy, you can place back in freezer for a min if needed)

Cup apples into very thin slices

 Put apples in bowl

Squeeze half of lemon over apples

Then pour 1 cup of brown sugar into bowl, and mix it up until the juices start flowing.  Let sit for a few min.

Spread cream cheese in the middle of each piece of puff pasty

Place apples over cream cheese 

Pop in the oven at 415 degrees for about 18-20 min 

(just keep an eye on them and make sure they dont burn)

Take out.

Pour some of the sugar apple juice (what ever is left in the bowl) over each tart

Dust with powdered sugar

AND EAT!

Adapted from: The pioneer woman

TELL: Getting a little wild...

 This year I made the decision (while I still have a say) that our little Rowe would be Max and we would be the wild things for Halloween.  

I started 2 weeks before Halloween, for me that is CRAZY planning ahead.  

So...I sewed and I sewed and I sewed and I couldn't wait for us to wear our costumes together.  Then I started the trick or treat training ha ha! I taught our little man to say "Trick or Treat" and hold up his plastic pumpkin. Then, when he said those magic words a little piece of candy would be dropped in.
I couldn't believe it WORKED!  

I was READY!  I was EXCITED!

then...

Life happened.  

Our poor little Rowe got croup the DAY before Halloween.  Soooo there was no trick or treating on Halloween night BUT I had to take some pictures of us in our Costumes... ha ha... I couldn't let all that hard work go to waist.  Or to deprive the world of the cutest little Max I ever did see :)

So once the tylenol kicked in and he was feeling better we went to take a couple pictures so I could at least remember this day.  

I Sure do love this wild little family of mine!

TELL: A picking we go

 When you live in California and its 90 degrees in October you have a hard time feeling "fallish".  SO...Oak Glen kicks off the fall season for me!  With the apple picking, friends, big pumpkin patches, fresh pressed apple cider and warm apple donuts I come home feeling like I want to break out the sweaters, build a fire and bake and bake and bake.  OR, it makes me want to leave the beach and live on an apple farm and raise chickens (because that truly is a dream of mine).  But besides getting my fall fix the best part was watching my little apple picker and his best bud explore and love every second.

You aren't supposed to climb and there are no ladders...how else are we supposed to get to the good apples?

My born apple bobber...he would have dunked his face in if we had let him

ha these boys... I dont know what they saw but it was super interesting.  But what ISN'T interesting to a 20 month old?

HUGS

these two were EXHAUSTED ha ha. 

TELL: Cory Coming home

A few weeks ago we met up with family to welcome home Austin's younger bother from his Mission in Mexico.  It was so exciting!  Rowen had never met Cory before so we were excited for him to see his cool and fun uncle :) 

- get ready for an overload of pictures involving very cute cousins -

That Friday we all  headed down to the beach in San Diego.

 it was fun watching all the cousins play around in the sand

Auntie Brittany with Rowen (and his weird crab claw hand)

Seaweed + Austin =crazy fun

ha ha the monster from the sea...Rowen was helping add to his Dad's outfit

And then there was the scaring of the clueless and innocent...it was pretty funny.  Austin would lay still  and look like a seaweed blob then pop up and scare anyone walking by.  Oh how the simple things can be so entertaining.  When is watching people get scared NOT funny??  

next day was cool off in the pool day :)  So we gathered every possible floaty we could find and all jumped in...Which is always nice, especially when its over 90 degrees outside

the only picture of me all weekend.  I am always behind the camera, but here is me with my squirming crazy Rowe.  At least you know I was there

ha this is my favorite picture

a little more happy :)  LOVE all these little cousin buddies

and that is the the whole weekend in a nutshell.  Besides Airports, beaches and pools we did one thing that I love most...relaxed.