Five Friday Favorites – Pumpkin Edition
It’s time once again for Five Friday Favorites!
Autumn is in glorious full-color swing and to celebrate, this week I am listing my five favorite “pumpkin-y” things.
1. Dunkin Donuts’ pumpkin spice coffee. If you’ve had it, you know. If not, you must try it. This is my number one favorite sign that fall has arrived. I drink this stuff from the minute it shows up on their menu until the last day they sell it. Delicious.
2. The bottle of pumpkin spice coffee syrup that my Fab Hub bought for me. Why? Because he knows how much I love the DD pumpkin spice coffee and a super-size pumpkin coffee every day gets just a little pricey. Plus, Fab Hub makes the absolute best coffee in the world…yes, even better than DD.
Notice that the bottle is already about half-empty. And yes, I do have it lovingly dispIayed like a bouquet of flowers on my dining room table. Some girls get flowers; I get pumpkin spice coffee in a to-go mug every morning, made by the Fab Hub. It tastes a lot better and doesn’t die in a week. (OK, truth is that I didn’t want a photo of the bottle in my hand with Frankenfinger sneaking into the shot. Yuck.)
3. Our spoils from last weekend’s trip to the pumpkin patch.
The only mild disappointment here is that we could not bring home a “green goose-neck pumpkin,” as Zilla calls them. Last year we got one from the pumpkin patch and Fab Hub painted a little goose face on it for her. She loved it. Well, we couldn’t find any at the farm this year so my Big Girl asked one of the ladies at the farm store where to find them. (She asked all by herself…so articulate!) The Farm Store Lady told us that the seeds for the goose-necks did not germinate this year. Zilla was disappointed, but we found some goose-neck looking decorative gourds instead. We ended up with a family of four and Fab Hub worked his artistic magic on their little faces for Zilla. As a bonus, my four year-old now knows how to use the word germinate in a sentence.
Don’t miss the black eye on the little white one who is cradled lovingly in his Mamma’s embrace. Very clever use of the gourd’s natural markings by Fab Hub.
4. Pumpkin gummy candy.
They do not taste like pumpkin. They taste like orange. And that would be orange the color, not orange the flavor. It’s like how grape cough syrup tastes like purple, not grape. (I can almost guarantee Super Sister will weigh in on this one.) Anyway, these little babies are awesome and are a fun treat from the candy kiosk in our local farmers’ market.
5. Cinderella’s pumpkin coach. (The BFF will at this point laugh out loud because she knows I hate all things Princess.) However. How can you not love a formal coach to take you to the royal ball – complete with sparkles – made from a plain old garden variety pumpkin? Simply magical.
I do think, however, that if I had a Fairy Godmother in the backyard turning vegetables into transportation options, I’d ask her to shoot for something a little sportier with five on the floor and a sunroof.
This week’s honorable mention goes to the Fab Hub for wearing his pumpkin-colored t-shirt to the pumpkin patch. On purpose. If you look at the photo of the pumpkin patch loot above, you can find just a little part of him hiding stealthily in the background.
Way to blend, Hon.
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1. Now I must drink coffee. You said coffee. Now I crave it. Thanks. 😛
2. You said coffee again. I do make superior coffee. Now I must have said superior coffee. Hope the grinder doesn’t wake KidZilla. She may breathe fire. Or eat Tokyo.
2a. Thanks for the props, btw!
3. And the (as it appears) 2 siblings wondering just how the shiner germinated…
4. Next thing you know, Kool-Aid will invent a new flavor and call it “red”
5. One word: Corvettestingray. One more word related to my cautionary remark about your link to the Cinderella clip…: pugsingingbatmantheme (PLEASE post that!!!!!)
HM: Thanks for the props on my blending skills.
Forgot one thing (serious this time!)–
The gummy pumpkins are good… but the gummy candy corn are better.
True. They are indeed.
You want me to post the Batman-singing pug video? Seriously? I think you need to lay off the caffeine.
Laughing was the second reaction to Cinderella’s pumpkin coach. The first was excitement. You know I love Cinderella! And now I need some pumpkin coffee 🙂
I do indeed. As I recall, you gasped out loud when you walked into the Magic Kingdom.
Yah-uhm. Pumpkin spice coffee syrup? That sounds amazing. And I drink black coffee. Must try it.
And pumpkin gummies – I have never seen nor heard of them, yet I like orange so that will also be put upon the ol’ shopping list.
What kind of fool place do I live in that all this pumpkin magic has passed me by?
The pumpkin syrup is from Target. Do you have a Target near you? Pumpkin gummies…hmm…try any store that sells bulk candy? Best guess.
Why does fall ever have to end?????
Seriously. If it could be fall all year I would be so happy.
They do, in fact, taste like orange. I ate many of them during my Kidzilla-sitting night…among other various gummie things in the jar. NyQuil also tastes like a color – green. Green most assuredly has a taste and it is NyQuil.
She didn’t just gasp when she entered the Magic Kingdom, she had mild anaphylactic shock.
NyQuil makes me shudder.
Nope just gasping and perhaps some arm fluttering and jumping up and down.
I’m a flavored coffee creamer girl. Not so much a flavored coffee girl, but I would be willing to try your syrup. I’m game like that.
As far as DD goes. YUCK. Sorry.
Pumpkin gummies could work. Candy corn gummies could rule the world.
The candy corn gummies taste like awesome, according to the Fab Hub.
I found them! They DO take like awesome (and marshmallow with just a touch of banana pudding). Thanks to your Fab Hub!!
*taste like*
Woo-hoo! Aren’t they amazing?
Maybe you should send a finder’s fee? 🙂
Wow! That is quite the pumpkin post! Love the bits about your 4 yo asking about the goose neck pumpkins! Too cute! Stopping by from the link up! Great blog!
Hi, Simone, and thanks for coming by. Yes, she is too cute sometimes!