Matthew's recipe for Pumpkin Pie

Pumpkin Seeds
Pumpkin Soup
Pumpkin Meat

Mix together and add some more pumpkin seeds and then that is it!
Bake at 51 degrees for 40 minutes

Serves 5

Fall Break

I know this is really late since fall break was three weeks ago. Matthew gets two weeks off, so the first week we went to Gatlinburg for four days. Matthew wanted to go hiking so we did two, three mile hikes. It was awsome. We saw a momma bear and her two cubs on one of the hikes, Matthew thought that was so cool. We also saw a ton of deer out at Cades Cove. Matthew played in creeks and water falls, and just had a great time. We are going to start doing more hikes around here becuase Matthew loved it so much. Here are some pictures of the trip.

Laurel Falls



Climbing to Grotto Falls

Cholesterol Challenge

So, I found out last week that my cholesterol is way up from last year. Not good. My total cholesterol is 252 and my LDL's are higher than my HDL's. That is reversed from last year. So I have 6 months to lower my cholesterol to my goal number of 220. The doctor also told me I really need to concentrate on losing weight. So my goal for weight is 20 pounds. I am sure is six months I can make those changes. This is going to be difficult because as many of you know, I love food!!! Fattening food!!!!!!!!! Unfortunately with my family history that is not healthy at all.
So if anyone has good low fat, low cholesterol recipes please let me know. I am completely changing our life style. Pray for me as I embark on this life changing journey