Our apple trees are bulging with apples - the best apples I've ever tasted. I hate to see them going to waste. Apple pie, applesauce, apple pancakes - anything to take advantage of this harvest. But my favorite is caramel apples!

Check out these fun ideas from B&G. They are fun to make and taste so good. A tip that I learned is the caramel sticks to the skin, but not to the insides. So if you make caramel apple slices, keep that in mind. Please let me know if you have a creative idea for apples.

We grabbed a bunch of gords and squashes when we went to the pumpkin patch yesterday. I love using them as fall decorations that can double as a sidedish between Halloween and Thanksgiving. These cute butternut squashes looked like a little family of ghosts, so I gave them fun google eyes with a black sharpie pen.

I've actually become quite attached to the little guys as they look down on us from the fireplace mantle. I just don't know that I'll be able to throw them in the oven.

This is one of my mom's recipes, and something I look forward to every fall.