Four Seasons

We have four seasons we recognize around our house...winter, spring, summer, and football.  We are definitely in football season now.  Our LSU flag is flying and our new LSU wreath (from my sweet friend, Adrianne) is on the door.  Jon is constantly "researching" so that he can make the right decisions and play the right players each week in his fantasy football teams. (Yes, I said teams...he has three!)  I am a fan of college football over NFL, but I sit and watch most all of the games with him.   I think one of my favorite things of football season is the get togethers.  You all know I love to entertain and have people over.  I also enjoy getting together with our friends at their houses too!  We've been hanging out with some friends on Sundays for Saints games (although Jon is a Cowboys fan).   We went to our friends, Billy & Jennifer's, this past weekend to watch the LSU vs Idaho game.  I was in the mood to bake and decided to make something to bring over to their house.  After browsing Pinterest, I came up with a tiger striped cake!  The picture was super cute and the instructions seemed easy enough, plus I had all the ingredients on hand.  I made the cake mix, halved it, and dyed each half.

Then I alternated each color cake mix in the pan.

I baked the cakes according to the directions.  I iced the cakes with a chocolate marshmallow icing.

Then I decorated the top for the tigers.  I definitely need to take a cake decorating class, or at least, start practicing a lot more.  I have a ways to go on the look of the cake.  I also learned a valuable lesson.  I iced the cake on the cake carrier since I knew we were taking it somewhere.  Well, it didn't like the ride very much, because by the time we were at their house the top layer had slid halfway off the bottom layer.  From now on I will be putting toothpicks in to hold the two layers together.  Needless to say, cutting the cake was a disaster, but it still tasted delicious!!

GEAUX TIGERS!

Pumpkin Shine on Line

Halloween is always a fun time of year.  You go to haunted houses, get dressed up and trick or treat (well, not so much me anymore), carve pumpkins...you get my point.  Every year one of the local private schools, Southfield, puts on the Pumpkin Shine on Line.  It is a contest in which other area schools enter pumpkins and they line the walk way at one of the parks in town and everyone can go check them out.  All of the proceeds from entering the contest go to improvements in the park.  Jon and I have been going for as long as we have been together.  We always love seeing all the creative things people think of to do with pumpkins.  Here are a few of the pictures from this years Pumpkin Shine on Line.

-me and the hubby-

-Nightmare before Christmas-

-Geaux LSU!!-

-we love Despicable Me!!-

-pretty fish-

-Spongebob's pineapple under the sea-

-traditional jack o lanterns-

-rapping snowman?-

-Cinderella's carriage-

-creepy kitty-

-beehive and bees-

-Papa Smurf!-

-lion fish-
One of my favorites!

-lion-

-scarecrow-

-angry pumpkins-

This year was the 20th year of the Pumpkin Shine on Line.  It is a fun and free thing to do, and I hope they continue to have it for many more years!

September is here...where is fall?

I can't believe September is already upon us.  I wish it would have brought 70 degree weather with it! I must say that it has not been over 100 the past couple of days and that's a wonderful thing.  I am so looking forward to fall...the cool crisp weather, decorating my house, and most of all football season!  LSU opens up the season on Saturday at the Cowboys Stadium against Oregon.  I will be working, but you better believe I'll be sporting my new LSU jersey and the game will be on in one of the rooms at work!  I hope everyone has a great Labor Day weekend!  Enjoy your time off (if you are a fortunate one that actually gets Labor Day as a holiday) and be safe!

GEAUX TIGERS!