Eighteen cups

Sunday we made a houseful of doughnuts. Spudnuts to be exact. Here in Idaho we make them with potatoes. I need to pay attention when Todd asks me if we should double the batch, or when he starts to get overzealous with the potato peeling at lunchtime. By doubling this recipe we used 18 cups of flour. 18 cups. Say it with me... E.I.G.H.T.E.E.N. very good. Now can you say.. What the heck do we do with all these doughnuts? We need more friends. Instead we just passed them out to everyone we know and have ever met or have at least seen or at least heard of and I think we left some on a porch or two hoping someone actually lived there... *SIGH* We did have a lot of fun. Too much fun. Next time we'll keep it under 10 cups...

After a night of eating, singing and enjoying cub scout stuff at the Blue and Gold banquet, the best way to show appreciation is to throw up all over in the church hallway. Josh really, really appreciated the chili. This morning I found this drawing on the back of one of his tablets. I thought it fitting for the evening....

"Don't say a (injected then scribbled out) word..."

"sorry"

Sugar Cookie Girl

At the bakery this Christmas I was known as "The Sugar Cookie Girl". I've been called worse. With Valentines day approaching the bakery was looking for a new way to display items and entice customers into buying sweets for the sweet. Sugar Cookie Girl to the rescue. I've been making these cookie bouquets for teachers and friends for years. They're Cute, Cheap and Easy. Sounds like a few people I know. I bet you couldn't sell them at the bakery.

Bre Bre and the princess cake

Our cutest little neighbor turned 3 yesterday. Her name is Brelynn, is about the size of a Chihuahua and has a smile that doesn't quit. She has been potty trained for a full year and is already sending her mom into fits for the teenage years. She spends a lot of time with Meg swapping tights and watching barbie princess movies. I thought it only fitting to make her a cake that fit her princess ways but with a little spunk. Here it is in all its glory.. Todd said it looked like the 4th of July threw up in Barbieland... AAHHH perfect.

Feel the love

After graduating from hell..er, I mean High School, I spent my days gallivanting and enjoying time just hangin wit ma peeps. Before Scrapbooking and Photoshop took over the world, this is how I showed my love for those with whom I hung. Can you feel the love?

Chinchilla

Oh chinchilla I morn thee.
(even if you are Santas little helper)

Pie

The two days before Thanksgiving I worked at the bakery. I made 52 pies, 5 pans of lemon bars, 6 pans of brownies and too many dozens of sugar cookies to count. After working 20 hours in a 30 hour period I was sick of baking, sick of being awake and sick of pies. I didn't eat a single piece of pie on Thanksgiving. Today, a man came into the bakery and said, "I've never been in this place but I decided I just had to come check it out. The lady at work just keeps talking about how good everything is here. She said that the pecan pie she got from here this year is the best pie she has ever eaten. " Really? Aahhh Shucks. Well, maybe I'm not completely sick of pies after all.