Does it look like the picture?

I tried this yesterday and it turned out well.  I don't usually have such success on the first try so I wanted to show it.  This cake has 1 pound of butter in the cake plus filling!  Anything with that much butter has to be good right?

Personal History

 

My sister Sandy and I are working with my Dad to get his personal history done.  It has been a wonderful experience getting to know more about my amazing Dad.  We have laughed and cried as he has told us stories from his youth.  We are through his junior year of high school.  He was in "Our Town", played in the band and orchestra and was in student government-can you say "highly motivated"?!  During the session as he was talking about his high school years, my sister asked, "Dad, who was your first girlfriend?"  He said, "Do you want to see her?"  Heck yea!  So-the greatest thing-he pulled out his yearbooks from high school, yep-1940 and 1941, and we saw her and got a flavor of his high school years-priceless!

Applesauce!

Our red delicious produced SO MANY apples this year that we couldn't just eat them all so-too many apples to eat = applesauce

 

It's for sure not my favorite thing to do but in the end-6 hours later-all the work pays off when you see this:

Winter has come:(

I don't know if we are quite ready for this-but here it is.  We had about 1-2 inches of snow that fell yesterday and last night.  Today there is just FREEZING arctic air blowing with no sun in sight!  Where did fall go or for that matter summer.  Good weather gone too soon!

TEXAS!!

 

 

At the park:)

We fed turtles popcorn!

Want some?!

 

Texas A&M

Jeff's office

We were so excited to be able to spend time with our Texans.  There is a feeling of peace that comes when you can see where your family lives and be familiar with it.  Beautiful home, awesome campus, great weather now as opposed to 100 degrees with 100% humidity in days past.  Thanks Jeff and Lib for a wonderful time together-we love you!

Fall in Provo Canyon

On Saturday afternoon, we went up Provo Canyon on the Squaw Peak Road and enjoyed the sights of fall.  The colors were a little faded but still magnificent!  I love the change of seasons.  Each has it's own allure.  Fall brings college football, apples, soup, pumpkins, and a renewed love of baking. 

BEETS!

So who knew that once again Jeff and I would survive canning together-and beets no less!  We had never canned beets before but we learned a new skill together!  We grew the beets in our garden and now have 31 pints of beets stored!  Chalk another one up to growing to love to work together in the kitchen-miracle!