Portable Coffee

Shopping in Staples last night I stumbled across these wonderful little candies: Bali's Best Coffee Candy. It's like a little teeny cuppa coffee you can carry in your purse!! It was very tasty and all Joes over the age of 10 loved them.

Our Carly

Photo by Leslie

Dry Gulch

Cassi and Salani (either in the middle of a blink or she has had too much egg nog!) at Dry Gulch waiting to ride the Christmas Train. Thanks for Uncle Tom and Aunt Therese for taking them......

Team Jacob

We loves us some wolves around here.....

Time Flies

My girls are growing up so fast.

Carly turned 15 on November 16th and Cassidy turns 10 today.

Happy Birthday Bubble Girls!!

Twilight is Everywhere!

Mattel is in on the Twilight madness. Here is an Edward Cullen "doll" we found at KMart this weekend. He even sparkles......

CassiJo Golightly

CassiJo wants to be Holly Golightly for Halloween....it's a work in progress. How do you think we are doing? Final product. Cutie patootie!!

Ginormous Guys

They aren't giants.....the house we are visiting just has low ceilings in the kitchen.

The Wheels on the Bus

Kai is all boy. Give him a few cars or a big bus and plenty of passengers and he is happy!

Maya Gets a Guitar Lesson

Uncle Joe playing with an electronic guitar with Baby Maya.

The Original Spiderman Kiss

I love old romantic photos. :o)

Bat Bug

I want to buy one of these for Uncle Joe.

16 Years of......

Today is our 16th anniversary. Can you believe Uncle Joe has been able to put up with me and my silliness for that long?? :o)

Dear Joe,

Thanks for being my BFF, my love, my husband, and the father of our girls. You are awesome and I am glad to share my life with you.

Love,

AJ

Summer Fun

Cassidy gives a thumbs up to a go-cart race with Mom on our Branson trip last weekend.

Pie So Good You Might Drive to Oklahoma and Hug Me

Peach Pie

3/4 c. white sugar
1/4 c. light brown sugar
1/4 c. all purpose flour
4 ripe peaches peeled and sliced
(about 5 cups)
1T lemon juice
1/4 t. ground cinnamon
1/4 ground nutmeg

Bake at 425 for 10 min then reduce to 350 for approx 40 minutes
in the following pie crust::::>

NEVER FAIL PIE CRUST

3 c. all purpose
1 t salt
1 1/4 c. shortening BUTTER FLAVOR CRISCO
5 1/2 T water
1 egg
1 t. vinegar

sift flour and salt together. Cut in shortening. Mix water, slightly beaten egg and vinegar together and add to flour mixture.

Roll our on lightly floured board (add more flour if too moist)

Makes (2) 9'' pie crusts

My Kid is Funny!

Recently, Cassidy and I were driving (well I was driving) and listening to Black Water on the radio.......

I said, "Cassidy did you know we got to see these guys sing this song for real the other day?"

She replied, "Mom, who was it? The DOOZIES?"

I Cracker Heart You

UJ doesn't whisper sweet-nothings in my ear. He spells them out in crackers.

Past and Future

Do you spot anyone that looks AJ-ish?
(Back row third from right.)

This is the year that we nicknamed Angela, Peanut. Can you see why?? She is on the bottom row second from the left. Tiny little thing isn't she?

Good times......

This is the camp that Carly is attending.....I had so much fun when I went waaaay back when. See me? Third row from bottom, second from the right. My BFF, Mindi is right in front of me in the sunglasses.

Sweltering hot, but good times.........

Cassidy and her new cousin :o) I think they loves each other!

Cassidy test her chop-stick skills in OKC

Here is my brother and his new bride.

Our summer is going well. We bought a pool at the end of the season last year and got it up and have been enjoying it a lot. Moonlight floats are wonderfully relaxing.

Cassidy

Cassidy July 4th, 2009

Hey!

My BF, Carol and I had a GNO last night.

She had her maiden voyage at Sam & Ella's and we tried the Dominiquer pizza. (ranch dressing for sauce, chicken, bacon, mushrooms, black olives and onions) It was tasty and different but nothing compares to Rock Island Red. :o)

We went to see My Sister's Keeper, a movie based on the book by Jodi Picoult. It was pretty accurate til the end of the movie. I was SO disappointed! It did not end like the book did. I wanted to stand up and say, "HEY!!!!"

I hate it when the movie isn't as good as the book. Don't you??

We had to go get a frozen yogurt/ sherbet from Braum's after the movie to cool down. Mmmmmmmm

We had a much needed respite from being "Mom" and just got to be our silly selves.