Pumpkin Time

I love autumn because that means I can go overboard with pumpkins! I love making pumpkin cookies, cakes, bread, cheesecake, pudding, you name it I've probably made it. Benjamin gets pretty excited about all the pumpkin goodies I make. Last year was the first year that I can remember carving pumpkins and I can't wait to do it again this year. Maybe it won't take 2 hours to do! To my delight, I found these lovely bars in the commissary! Thank you Kashi! 

 

I am going to be on the search for some more recipes this year.  Autumn just feels different in England. It actually feels like it is supposed to, not horribly hot like in Texas or North Carolina. It actually feels like a season change oh and by the way, it is starting to get darker over here a lot earlier than we were used to. I got to take down the sheet we had hanging up over the window. We had a sheet up, so the sun wouldn't be so bright in the mornings when the sun would come up at 4 in the morning. I've heard pretty soon that it will be completely dark by 4:00 pm!! I just can't imagine that!!

In other news, we bought Beatles Rockband a few days ago. It's really awesome! I'm learning a lot of songs, that I didn't even know they sang. It has several clips of audio before and after you play a song. Sometimes they talk about cheese and marmite sandwiches, which we all know is a Ploughmans or maybe just Benjamin and I know that, other times it's more serious commentary about the song. It's pretty epic playing the game and knowing that we live in England. I really want to go to Liverpool at some point and I'm sure we will. I want a picture on Abbey Road, even if Benjamin thinks I can't!

We also got our Scotland book from Amazon.co.uk today! We are getting ready for our New Years trip and fell in love with the dk travel books. Thanks mom for getting us hooked, the London book is wonderful and we've used it every time we go.