Yummy for your tummy!

I was surfing blogs the other week and came across a recipe for homemade Snicker bars. Oh boy.....it looked so good! I copied down the recipe, bought all the ingredients and waited for the cooking mood to strike. Last night hubby decided he had waited long enough and just made them himself. Dang I love it when procrastinating pays off. Hee, hee.

I'm not sure exactly where this recipe originates. Some blogs were saying its a Taste of Home adapted recipe....most didn't say. All I know is you have to make some. The recipe makes a 13x9 pans worth.....perfect for sharing.

Yum, yum!

A New Passion

~ Passion requires focused direction, and that direction must come from three other areas: your purpose, your talents, and your needs. ~

Our son has a new passion.....it's Mixed martial arts fighting. Ya know, that fighting where pretty much everything goes? The fighting that makes a Moms heart skip a beat! He loves to tell us all about his training.....how he passed out cuz he didn't tap out in time.....oy vey! I do have to say that while it's a bit hard to hear stories and see bruises, I do *love* seeing him excited!

He hasn't had a fight yet but he did have a submission wrestling match. I couldn't bring myself to go watch (not ready yet....but some day) so I grabbed some photo's from the match he won to show ya.

That's what I get for putting him in Tae Kwondo! LOL! You go, Dan! I love ya.

Bloggers Fall Quilt Festival

Amy at Park City Girl is hosting another online Quilt Festival. I always seem to stumble upon these things after the fact but this time I am in time to participate! Barely....today is the deadline. :)

We are suppose to blog about a quilt we've made. I decided to show a quilt from this year but they are all still just tops. Oh well....tops are all I've got.

This is the "Cowboy" quilt I made for Liam, our oldest grandson. We gave him all cowboy themed gifts last Christmas and I wanted to follow up with a cowboy quilt for his birthday.

This pattern is called Fresh Linens and is from the book, "Let the Good Times Roll". Fast and easy.

This is a close-up of the block:

I even found some dancing fabric!

There are over 600 entries in this online quilt festival. Lots of beautiful quilts to see and fun stories to read about. Go read a few.

My First Hat

I knitted my first hat! It's a child's hat that I made for my grandson. I figured I'd start small, in case it was too hard for me. :) The beginning part was easy peasy.....just knitting in the round.....no pattern, no thinking. But then it was decreasing and double pointed needles and things got smaller and smaller. I felt like my fingers were sausages! I used a chenille yarn so its super soft. Cute, huh?

The only "model" I could find around here with a small head. LOL!

Apple Fun

We have 6 apple trees and this year the apples are abundant. I don't make jelly or sauce or bake pies so there are lots of apples for giving away....no way eating an apple or two a day would ever come close to using them all up! :)
The grand kids were over last weekend and they love going out to pick apples. I think they'd eat them all day long if we let them.

Here they are enjoying the treat of fresh picked apples:

Happy Birthday, Jennifer!

"A daughter is a little girl who grows up to be a friend." ~Author Unknown

Today is our daughters birthday. Our first born. The one who as she ages makes me feel old!

As I searched for photos to use in this blog I discovered that I rarely, if ever, took a picture of her alone on her birthday. I got shots of the cake and shots of presents and shots of friends but rarely just her. Oh well. Here's a small trip down birthday memory lane.

This was the day she turned one. The dress she is wearing was crocheted by my Grandma Dickerson. But the best part of this photo to me is how young my hubby looks. Good golly he looks like a child....no wonder the "older" folk thought we were too young! LOL!

I love you sweety.

Random 365

271 days ago I started a project that I can't believe I'm still doing! Taking a photo a day for a whole year. One a day. Every day. Pretty hard for this gal. I thought I'd share some of the photo's I took recently.....just for fun.....and since I couldn't think of anything else to blog about! LOL!

This is Lars. He was a "customer" at the quilt shop this week when I was working. It has become a challenge for me taking pictures at work. I'm not too good at being creative so I end up taking pics of quilts or fabric. But once Lars rambled in and I saw those green eyes, I knew he'd be my pic of the day. Mr. Cutie-Pie.

At a tea shop buying tea for my daughters birthday party. She's gonna be 28 this year. Can hardly believe it. I'll be giving her a shout out later when it's her real birthday day.

Hubby and I went to see Wicked in Seattle. Couldn't get a pic of the marquee cuz it was raining so I had to take it of the program. It was our first trip to the Paramount Theatre. Such a beautiful place. I tried taking pics of the theatre but nothing I took did the place justice.




And finally a picture of the season. These are "liberty" apples from our tree. The tree is loaded this year. Not sure if I can even give away this many. :)

That's it for now. Only 94 days to go! :)