HAPPY MONDAY TO YOU!!

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Happy Monday to You!!!

Was your weekend a delight??

Full of work that you had to do??

or a lil bit of both??

I hope it was good whatever you

had to do!!

Our's was very good!!

 we played cards Friday night just the 2 of us, 

and ate Pumpkin pie and drank coffee,

 then Sat. Scott and Megan spent part of the day

 and evening with us.

I made a nice dinner with a cilantro/lime

pork roast we found at Sam's,  and roasted

carrots and a salad, with a new salad dressing

I just happened to find on the Good Season's

Packet - It was Cilantro/Lime,  so I made it

and everyone loved it!!  Will share it with

yall sometime this week. Very easy to make.

We had a very lovely and sweet time

with Scott and Megan,  they both seem so

much happier and we had such a good visit.

Oh yea, wanted to tell those of you who

made the pumpkin butter that we tried

it last night on plain cheesecake,  and

it was delectable to say the least.

I just spread the pumpkin butter on the top, 

 then drizzled some smuckers caramel fat free

 sundae syrup on it,  added some walnuts and a

 tad of fat free whip cream.

Felt like we were eating at the cheesecake factory!!

Actually, the plain cheesecake was made by cheesecake

 factory,  we bought it in the frozen food section at sam's.  

We keep it on hand so if we want to have someone over

 for dessert,  we always have something on hand. 

 I have made it into Chocolate/turtle cheesecake, 

 strawberry cheesecake,  and now we have

 pumpkin butter/caramel cheesecake.

They are all delightful, I must say!!

We rarely eat it unless we have company, 

 but we did need to try it out with the pumpkin

 butter, so I could report back to you!!  lol

Here's a closer look,  hungry now.........

running out the door to sam's by any chance. lol

 I believe Cracker Barrel sells pumpkin butter, 

but have never tried it,  but I am sure it is  good,

since anything else they have is!!

Am I a wicked wicked woman,  tempting yall

like that!!  Sorry,  I just couldn't help myself,

don't know what came over me!!  lol

I know..... it was the cheesecake and pumpkin

butter's fault!!  lol

I promise I will be good now!!

Have decided if I can't find anymore canned

pumpkin I might try Sweet potatoes, cause

sweet potato pie is awesome, in fact,  I like

it better than pumpkin, and I love pumpkin!!

Made Scott and Megan some before they

left,  and Scott happily took it home!! lol

He loves it too!!

Okay, enough about the pumpkin butter!!  lol

I have pretty much finished my Fall decorating,

and it has been such fun,  and we are enjoying

the change of colors so much.  Will show you

some pics soon. 

Mr Cozy Place (thought I would try it out, since I

 have seen other ladies use that for their hubbies)

  really likes it when I decorate for fall,  think cause it

 looks a bit more rustic and the colors are darker and

a bit more manly is probably the reason.

So glad he is enjoying it,  and nice that he is saying

how much he is enjoying it way more than usual.

AHHH............probably because he has been here

24/7 like me,  and really likes and needs the change!!  lol

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Yesterday, we had a great day,  our Pastor delivered

a dyn o mite message,  we just wanted to stand up

and cheer him on!!  It was the about the story of

David and Bathsheba and the results and 

consequences of Adultery, and how he felt David

got to that place,  and how we need to be on our

guard against compromise and that we need to

be living a Holy life.  He is always great but He

was over the top great yesterday!!

Then we went and got our fave smoothie,

and came home and had lunch and read the

 paper a lil and took a longgggggggg nap!!

Then later that night watched some great 

Pastor's on TV.  Have you ever seen Ed Young

Senior??  He really tells it like it is,  and is just

so good,  he also has a son, Ed Young Jr.,  that

is really great too,  really appeals to the younger

crowd but we really like him too!  We haven't

seen him on TV lately tho,  but we are so

enjoying his daddy,  no wonder he is so good,

he comes from great stock!!  lol

Well, we started our Monday off right,

by getting a lil gardening exercise early,

We worked out in the front flower bed 

this morning early and trimmed some bushes

 and pulled gobs of weeds,  where do they

 all come from,  ugh!!  They really like us

I guess!!  lol

Oh, and if you are participating in the 

140 days of prayer for our nation this is 

week #12 and our scripture reading is

from Matthew 5:10-12 and we are to

pray about the War against Jesus.

Well, Sweet Friends,

Yall have a Sunny Smiley Monday!!

Remember that is Smiley not Smelly!!  lol

Hugs and Blessings Galore,

Nellie