- Lalu Bean

my weekend was the epitome of a fall weekend.

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watching the office premiere with the gang thursday night. staying up late watching jersey shore & sipping on some tea. sharing an amazing friday with stacey involving pumpkin spice lattes, trips to the library, favorite lunches, & a little shopping. out for drinks & fun friday night with friends & family. sleeping in on saturday. a day filled with cooking & baking with stacey. & a night full of eating it all. followed by a Rock Band party. and a real band party... I was the singer since I play no real instruments (the Rock Band guitar however, I own). sleeping in on Sunday. waking up for football & several meals out of crockpots. happy joes pizza & hanging out with friends. family walks around the block taking in all of the pretty trees. visiting with family. and then milk & cookies & sweatpants & more football on sunday night.

it doesn't get any better than that. & it was the perfect weekend for us to enjoy at home... especially since I haven't had a weekend at home in over 3 weeks! and because the temperatures in the 60s suit my mood so perfectly.

part 1 of our baking extravaganza: sweet potato gnocchi with citrus cream & wilted spinach-

(yes... while the boys were golfing, stacey & I made sweet potato gnocchi from scratch. with sauce from scratch.) but we didn't stop there....

part 2: we created our own savory apple, caramelized onion & gorgonzola bread course-

it was ah-mazing & stacey gets all the credit for that one as she literally made it up out of nothing. I do have directions though if you're interested. I call it fall in my mouth.

did you think we were done....

part 3: carrot cake cupcakes with maple/kahlua/cream cheese frosting: (we added the kahlua on our own merit)

after we re cooperated from licking the frosting bowl & spatula (the. best. frosting. ever.) we decorated the cupcakes with cinnamon & shaved carrots.

can you even handle it??

not only did we have a blast messing up the kitchen & loading the dishwasher several times.... my house smelled divine, G got several frosting licks that we dropped, we jammed out to the avett brothers, & we ate the best meal ever.

and the boys sure worked up a cupcake appetite while golfing... they wouldn't stop eating them!

as if the inside of the house wasn't fall enough for you.... the outside was there to mimic us perfectly.