Falling into Fall

Happy first day of fall everyone! This is my favorite season, it's when leaves start changing colors, and the hotness from summer finally fades away. To celebrate, I decided to fall into fall the right way, by baking!

I found this yummy recipe [here], 

Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies

Ingredients:
2 cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 cups old-fashioned oats
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1 cup (2 sticks) butter; softened
1 cup packed light brown sugar
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup pure pumpkin puree
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup white chocolate chips
1 cup dried cherries; roughly chopped

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line your baking sheet with a silicone mat or parchment paper.

2. Combine flour, oats, baking soda, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice and salt in medium bowl. Beat butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar in large mixer bowl until light and fluffy.

3. Add pumpkin, egg and vanilla extract; mix well. Add flour mixture; combine until all ingredients are incorporated. Fold in white chocolate chips and dried cherries.

4. Drop by rounded tablespoons onto prepared baking sheets.

5. Bake for 12-14 minutes or until cookies are lightly browned. Cool on baking sheets for 2 minutes.

[I added more pumpkin pie spice to my cookies to bring out the pumpkin flavor. I also didn't add chocolate chips, I just added craisins.]

[And silly me, I didn't read the directions correctly and instead of adding 1 cup of pumpkin puree...I added one whole can. That's why they look a little orange. But they still taste yummy!]

Hope y'all are having a wonderful first day of fall! :)

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A glimpse at my week..

Romans 8:8.

Getting into the Fall spirit with a yummy Pumpkin Spice Lattee.

Studying away 

Had a nice bike ride with my awesome dad!

More into the fall spirit with these beautiful fall color flowers from my sweet dad! 

And last but not least this awesome purchase I made at Target. Got these cute napkins for only $3each!  [8 napkins total for $6!]

Hope y'all had an awesome week! Can't wait to share with y'all the dessert I'm making tomorrow to kick off fall! :)

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Sunday Funday

As majority of y'all already know, tomorrow is a holiday, which means no school or work which means mini vay-cay. So this morning my dad, cousin and I decided to go out and try to catch some fishys! It was quite fun but I'm sad to say no fishys wanted to be caught. [Some seaweed loved the bait though!]

[Picture taken at the crack of dawn, 6:30AM]

[My view for 7 hours.]

[Me fishing! Yes I know, I tried to make it as girly as possible. Pink shirt, pink nails & cute sunglasses]

[The lovely boat! I got to drive it and I must say, it was super scary at first but after a little while it wasn't too bad! 30mph in a car is definitely different from 30mph on a boat.]

[Some of the brands of what my outfit consisted of. My shorts were Nike and my shoes were Asics.]

"Then He said to them, 'Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.' They immediately left their nets and followed Him." Matthew 4:19-20

Hope y'all have a fun and safe three day weekend! :)

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