Pumpkin Cookies

This weekend was very fun and very busy. Dave was off on Friday. So, the four of us kept very busy going to the church in the morning for the baby worship cd, going grocery shopping, and running errands. Friday evening, the girls and I made snacks for our young married's Sunday school class. I knew Saturday was going to be crazy, so, the girls and I cooked, and tasted pumpkin cookies, and then put the goodies in the fridge to wait for Sunday to arrive. Saturday we got to visit with our friends, the Igoe's, in the afternoon, and then go to a dinner group established by our Sunday School class at the Pearce's. The Igoe's brought delicious enchiladas to our house for us to share, and we brought drinks to the dinner group where we got to eat grilled burgers with all the fixin's. Yummy! We also got some great deals at a community garage sale on Saturday. Yeah!

The cookies seemed very well accepted at church this morning, so I thought I'd share the recipe with all of you. They're a perfect fall treat! By the way, this recipe comes from a very sweet lady, Kay Little. Her son used to be one of Dave's best friends.

Pumpkin Cookies

4 cups flour (I used 2 cups all-purpose white flour and 2 cups whole wheat.)
2 cups oats, uncooked
2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups butter, melted
2 cups brown sugar
1 cup granulated sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 can (16 oz.) pumpkin
1 cup chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350. Combine flour, oats, soda, cinnamon, and salt in a large bowl; set aside. Cream butter in mixer, gradually add sugars, beating until light and fluffy. Add egg and vanilla: mix well. Alternate additions of dry ingredients and pumpkin, mxing well after each addition. Stir in morsels. For each cookie, drop 1/4 cut dough onto lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake for about 20 minutes at 350 degrees, until firm and lightly browned. Remove from cookie sheet; cool on racks.
Note: Dough may be frozen in air-tight container. Thaw in frig; then bake as directed. Makes about 32 large cookies.

The following picture is what my kitchen sink looked like after making dinner and baking cookies on Friday. It looks slightly better now.

 Saturday night, I decided to make some cute little flower clips for the girls to wear to church Sunday. These are what I came up with:

 I think they turned out pretty cute, but we already lost one at church. Maybe it'll show up soon. If not, I will just have to get my glue gun back out and craft another.

This morning was great. Pastor Gregg delivered a wonderful and convicting message. Then we went to Sunday School followed by a Leadership meeting at church that fed us all lunch. We rushed home afterwards and got the girls down for nap an hour and a half late. But, it was a great morning. Daniel (Dave's brother) and Dave are working on Daniel's Math homework at the moment, and Xiaolan (Danie's wife) was taking a little nap, but Julia and Lydia didn't let her sleep very long.

Well, that's about it for these Good Stewart's for this weekend. We are enjoying this fall season, and we can't wait to continue with all the festivities! Love to all of you who read my blog! -Amber