Pinterest Sunday: Pumpkin Pancakes

For a couple years now the Man and I have found recipes on Pinterest and have been trying them out. Some of them have become weekly/monthly staples in our home...others not so much! When we first started looking for new recipes is was a weekly at home date night for us to do together.  With the Man's 6 month deployment, our cross-country move & the birth of Jackson we really got out of doing this on a weekly basis.  We are hoping to get back into that since it is something that we both really enjoyed.

This fall I found a recipe for cinnamon pumpkin pancakes. I am more of a french toast kind of a girl, so I was looking for a way to switch it up. After just one bite the Man and I both knew we would be making this recipe many more times! We have actually not made regular pancakes since trying this recipe...its THAT good! Since I have just decided to start doing these posts I don't have any pictures from us making them so you will just have to check out the blog I got the recipe from here for pictures.

Cinnamon Pumpkin Pancakes

1 cup flour
1 1/2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup milk
1/2 cup pumpkin
1 egg
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 tablespoon vinegar


In a small bowl combine flour, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt. In a larger bowl, stir together milk, pumpkin, egg, vegetable oil, and vinegar. Gradually stir in the flour mixture until just moistened. Spray skillet with nonstick spray and cook pancakes over medium heat. Turn when bubbles JUST START to appear. (If you wait to see bubbles all over like regular pancakes, they will burn!) Serve plain or with syrup.

Date Night: Miranda Lambert/Dierks Bentley Concert

Last week the Man and I went on an awesome date night to the Miranda Lambert/Dierks Bentley Concert in Baltimore. Thomas Rhett opened for them and he was pretty awesome as well.  The Man surprised me with tickets to the concert for Christmas. He even went as far as to book a babysitter for us too...I was even more shocked that he planned that far ahead if any of you know Josiah you know he is not a planner. My original plan was to go into a lot more detail as to our evening but the Man already blogged about it here and I think he did a great job.  So head over to his blog, follow it, love it and hear about even more about our lives you know you want to :)

Here are some photos from the night!

Miranda, Dierks & Thomas Rhett singing the last encore of the night in Raven's jerseys 

Miranda Lambert 

Miranda had a pink guitar reflected onto the stage, it matched the one she actually played 

Dierks singing one of my favorite songs "Home" 

This was one of maybe a handful of times that Jackson was left with a babysitter, so I was glad to be able to peek in on him in between performers 

This was hanging on the back of the stall door at the arena and nothing more needs to be said about this!

Family Yearbook

Every year that the Man and I have been together has been full of adventures and has been extremely fast paced. 2012 proved to follow suit with the previous ones. With all the technology happening and the digital world we find ourselves taking a million pictures but never printing them off or putting them in a photo album. Shutterfly came out with a photo book deal and I had an aah-ha moment, we should make a family yearbook! So we did...a 43 page 8 x 8 hardcover photo book. I am hoping to make this a yearly tradition.

I can't show you the entire book on here but it is pretty amazing at least I think so! But here is what the cover & spine of 2012's yearbook.

I am extremely excited for our book to arrive, hopefully next week :)

Etsy Love

Here are a few things that have been on my favorites for a while and maybe someday will be in my house!

Hippo Children's Step Stool $28.99

I would love to have this for Jackson's hippo bathroom, not that he can use it at the moment so maybe we will wait till his first birthday

Postcard Wood 6 Elephant Cards €23.50 EUR

I would love to get these and send them to some pretty awesome people in WI

Grey Marble Knit Headband with A Felt Heart $22.00

No special reason for this, just love it!!

Star Wars Mini Figures $13.50

The Man loves Star Wars and really hopes that Jackson has that same love for Star Wars...I have actually only ever seen 1 of the movies and that was earlier this year. Don't worry it is on my  goals for the year to watch the rest of the movies :)

Crochet Slippers $18.50

How cute are these!!

Personalized Wedding/Anniversary/Valentines Day Gift $25.00

If I had somewhere for this to go it would be in our house already!

Pinterest Friday

I absolutely love pinterest!! I can almost say that it has been a life changing site. I have been meaning to do weekly/monthly oh heck who am I trying to kid, every now and then pinterest recipe/idea posts. And by that I mean crap I got off of pinterest for myself to use, not stuff that people would actually want to pin & repin because I am a creative genius and can explain 100 different ways to use the cardboard from a toilet paper roll. In all reality I have very few uses for the cardboard from a toilet paper roll and am in no way a creative genius!

Anywho back to the point....tonight I was scrolling around on pinterest and came across this pin which then led me to this website which in turn took me to Amazon to buy this cookbook!

I am always looking for ways to prepare different foods for Jackson that are healthy and incorporate fruit and veggies that I wouldn't normally ever buy except for the fact that I am doing almost everything in my power to make sure my son is not a super picky eater like me. I am hoping this cookbook doesn't let me down.  It had great reviews and the recipes that I saw on the website seemed pretty easy which is fantastic since I am not an expert chef...just in case I had some of you fooled :)

Just Add Geek

As I have mentioned here the Man is good at writing.  He has again not stuck with his genius blogging idea.  So after a few chats about it he has decided to go back to his old blog.  This way he can write about more than just why he is living with an alien apparently that is a pretty narrow subject to write about!  I think he thinks that I am the only one that reads or will read his blog and since we talk every day he finds it a little pointless which I hope isn't the case since he has a completely different take on the world than I do, it's pretty clear in his writing style!

Check it out and maybe hopefully he will stick with it this time.

Just Add Geek

Changing it up

If you didn't notice already I am going to change up the look of the blog a little bit.  Right now I am just trying it out and will make some changes until I figure out a slightly new look that I like.

Point: bare with me and the different fonts/colors/looks the blog might experience in the next couple of days & weeks. Feel free to share your opinion on it if you want :)