Our Entry in the Church Pumpkin Dessert Contest

Today I decided to make an entry in the Pumpkin Dessert Contest at our church. I called up Patti to see if she would want to help make her famous Pumpkin Roll (aka Libby's). Whenever we make these rolls, we make a lot at once because they take a lot of time and make a mess in the kitchen. (for us they do) So instead of going into town to get our supplies, we called on the local neighbors to gather our missing ingredients. I had some, Patti had some, the Koontz's had some and the Outpost had the last of what we needed. It was 4:00 and we were finally ready to get started. Now, for those of you who know us, we do have troubles in the kitchen sometimes. But whatever we make turns out to taste really good. (most of the time) We are no Betty Crockers but we try. I had to post a picture of our "neatly" organized counter as we were baking.

Even Felicity had to do some taste-testing.
When the rolls were done, we had to take a picture of the finished product. We decided the coffee table was the best spot, but we needed more lighting. I grabbed this lamp from behind a chair and if you look closely you can see that I am not one who checks for spider webs too often. OOPS.

Here is our finished product. Looks pretty darn good. For rookies.

oooooohhhhhhhh, it's so good.

But, then, someone had to go and finish off the whole plate. She'll be sorry later.

UUUUUGGGGGHHHHH!!!

26 Years.........and counting

For our 25th Anniversary last year we wanted to get our picture taken. Well, that didn't happen. So we decided that since we had a photographer at our house to take Felicity's pictures that we would do it this year. We got a couple good shots.

Not such a good idea to have him pick me up and still pose for a picture.

I think that is for those little brides.

On these pictures our photographer wanted us to "be serious" and look at each other.

I had a hard time doing that as you can tell in this series of pictures.

Finally, we gave up and decided to just pose and smile. That works.

Three Generations

Four Generations

Five Generations

We finally got the five generation picture taken. It was tricky to get Brian's mom and Grandma out to the house at the same time, and of course when Brian wasn't working too. I am sure we will have many more of these taken in the years to come.

Felicity's First Photo Shoot

Felicity's First Photo Shoot

I have a friend, Marie, who is starting her own photography business. She has actually done 8 weddings this summer. She came over one Sunday early in September and took pictures for us. She took about 800 pictures and spent about 6 hours at our house. It took a while between naps and feedings to get all those pictures, but we sure got some great pictures.


We had to take a break because she was getting crabby with all the pictures. Grandpa of course was there to "rescue" her from the mean picuture lady.