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To all of you who are so lovely and visit my site, I would like to say THANK YOU.
Also, I finally got a Facebook page!!!
I guess this makes me officially cool!? I dunno... ;p
You can like it.
If you want.
I'd feel very special....
and liked.
So here:
Click this and like it! And make a girl feel special ;)

And I can't have a post without a picture.
From my trip to the fair:

<3 Bronwyn Elizabeth

A Taste of Fall

Lately, the weather here has been so nice! It finally feels like fall.
To celebrate this change in season -before it changes again- I had to bake something special!
Nothing tastes more like fall than pumpkin.
Pumpkin pie, bread, scones, pumpkin spice latte, and (what I made today) pumpkin cookies!
I just had to share this recipe with y'all.
It'd be very ugly to keep all this delicious fall flavor to myself =)
I found this recipe on Pinterest (feel free to follow me;})  from Sweet Pea's Kitchen.
But I changed the recipe up just a bit.
Here it is, edible autumn...
Pumpkin Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting:

Ingredients:

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg 

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup Land O'Lakes Cinnamon Sugar Butter

1 cup white sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar

1 1/4 cup canned pumpkin puree

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions: 

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper. In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt; set aside.

In a separate bowl, with a hand mixer, cream together the butter and sugars. Add pumpkin, egg, and vanilla to butter mixture, and beat until creamy.

Stir in the dry ingredients into the pumpkin mixture by hand until just combined.

 Drop on prepared baking sheets by heaping tablespoonfuls; Butter the bottom of a drinking glass and then dip the bottom of the glass in a bowl of sugar.

 Flatten the dough balls with the bottom of the glass until they are about ¾ inch thick, dipping the glass in sugar as necessary to prevent sticking.

Bake in preheated oven for 13 to 15 minutes. Cool cookies on wire rack.

Frosting:
4 oz. cream cheese

3/4 cup powdered sugar

1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice

Directions:

While the cookies are cooling make frosting: In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine cream cheese, confectioners’ sugar and pumpkin pie spice and beat until smooth and creamy.

Once cookies have cooled completely, frost or drizzle with cream cheese frosting.

Tada! Easy as pie. I hope you enjoy this fall treat.

My Brothers: The Rednecks

Where are the boys??
I leave them for one minute and they're gone!
After looking ALL around the house for them, I went outside, and sure enough there they were.
Barefoot, shirtless, and shooting their BB guns...
They were supposed to be doing school, but I guess the cool, fall weather was calling them outside (I can't blame them. It was a gorgeous day!!).
But for those of you who were wondering, this is how rednecks are made:

                     I love my little rednecks.

P.S. Notice the great bokeh I got!! Excitinnnggg stuff for this Pretender ;)