BEST PUMPKIN COOKIES OF YOUR LIFE

Sunday was a beautiful fall day and since the weather actually changed to being for autumn like, I have recently been loving putting pumpkin into ALL OF THE THINGS because what else is the reason for fall?

We had a long indian summer here in Idaho. I mean, it was 80 degrees still in the beginning of October which is basically unheard of. At that point, even though I love summer and I never want it to end, I felt like mother nature was just toying with my emotions. Like a malicious owner dangling a treat in front of a dog's nose. I knew the bad weather was coming, I just didn't know when. And trying to enjoy 80 degree October days was just like...come on and be cold already. I need to wear some sweaters.

And now that it's cold and it gets dark around six and I have been wearing the sweaters and the boots and drinking the pumpkin flavored things, I'm totally ready for my trip in December to the warm Caribbean. Can it just hurry up already?

But yes, back to the pumpkin flavored things. Right. I am working in a juice bar, in addition to the restaurant hostessing life I am leading and we have a pumpkin flavored smoothie right now that blows my mind. And it has also been making me crave some pumpkin chocolate chip flavored cookies.

My sister makes these pumpkin cookies that are delicious and amazing and I almost texted her to send me the recipe that she has at the house but then I remembered Miss Hey Natalie Jean's pumpkin cookie recipe and how she went on and on about just how amazing those ones were and well, shoot. I just had to try them.

And then I bought all the things I needed for these cookies that I didn't already have and here we are! My house smells amazing, and those cookies! Those cookies are just the absolute best pumpkin cookies I've ever eaten in my life, is what I keep saying.

I guess maybe fall isn't so bad after all.

What Natalie's Been Doing Instead Of Blogging

I was 'Natbat' for Halloween. I had mixed reviews on thoughts about my costume, but in the end, I liked it. And that's all that matters! 

I worked Halloween night, so there was no party wild nights for me. There was a family that came into the shop dressed as the Incredibles and one of my coworkers was a lovely Carmen San Diego. She had a brown wig, red trench coat and everything. It was awesome. 

Prince Charming came in to visit me wearing his creepy wooden mask he bought at a street fair this summer. It was shocking to see him walk through the door with long black hair and tusks sticking out of his hooded Twinlow sweatshirt. 

Prince Charming and I have been hanging out a lot with one of his friends from VTD and his girlfriend. We do a lot of "double dating" aka hanging out at their apartment playing video games, eating dinner, and going on WinCo runs. 

The other night I was craving lasagna, so I commandeered the kitchen at Prince's friends house (who really needs a good blog name, but I can't think of one at the moment) and I cooked us dinner. I didn't have all of the usual ingredients, but it turned out delicious and there were no leftovers.

And in my world, no leftovers = huge success.

Then I went to Zelda's on Wednesday for our annual Criminal Minds hang out night, where we baked these delicious goodies:

And then we decorated them for Halloween even though Halloween is over. We just weren't ready to decorate for Thanksgiving quite yet. We also watched episodes of Castle before the new Criminal Minds was on.

Aren't they cute? Those are the ones I did. I don't have a good picture of the ones that Zelda decorated, but hers were probably more awesome than mine, haha. I was too wrapped up in the show to really get into the decorating. 

Also, I've found some interesting stuff this week around town. I had to go to Moscow Building supply for some plexiglass for my printmaking class and while we were there we found these bad boys, but we didn't purchase them, so I can't tell you if they taste good or not. 

I didn't want it to magically turn me into a commie, so I just took their picture. 

 In my building this sign is posted on the doorway. I'm pretty sure it belongs on Fail Blog and not on the main entrance to my place of residence.

I just have to ask though, what does Chilly taste like?