Saturday morning FUN

Tomorrow afternoon is my "soon to-be sister" Ali's shower. She and Tyler are going to get married on December 27th (our same anniversary) so the wedding is right around the corner!

The theme of the shower is a vintage tea. My sister assigned myself to make the scones...hmmm...wonder why. Who really LOVES scones? Not me. But anyways, this morning I made two kinds of scones

1. Butterscotch-pecan scones

2. Orange-cranberry scones

They tasted pretty yummy out of the oven, so hopefully with a little cream tomorrow, they will taste ok. This was a picture of my kitchen. What a disaster!

A glimpse of the finished product!

And since Jimmy is golfing on this GORGEOUS Saturday, I'm left with the pup! I think he is annoyed that I'm home because he is used to quiet days....that or he wants a scone. :-)

And lastly, this is what is parked outside of our house. Since Jimmy started working for Herr's, he brings it home each night and leaves SUPER early in the mornings from our house. Ha ha. It's HUGE. Sometimes we have competitions (of course we do) inside. Jimmy will tell me the number of a kind of chip (each type of chip, flavor and bag size has a number) and he will time me on how long it takes for me to find it. I know...we're kind of lame. But I love to win.....and hate to lose.

Have a happy weekend!!! SO SO SO close to MN time! I am SUPER excited!

Love you!

Omaha Steaks!

My parents sent Brad and me the best package! Omaha Steaks... (thanks Sean Hannity- he does commercials for them all the time). steaks, pork chops, chicken breasts, gourmet hot dogs, twice baked potatoes, stuffed sole with scallops and crabmeat, hamburgers... sheesh! Our freezer is stocked. I wish some of you lived close so I could have you over for dinner. I was going to go to the grocery tonight, but yay! I don't have to.

Strawberry Pillow

I had to work this past weekend so I got to take today off and I get tomorrow as well!

Well... I have decided that I am going to try and make enough cutie pie baby goodies so that I can sell them on Etsy (a fun website of handmade things - if you have never been on it you should right now!) I am knitting more and more and today I worked on two strawberry pillows for a little girl's room. I probably won't start selling stuff for awhile. But once I have enough products and practice I am going to share them with all.

This is one strawberry pillow I made (I got the instructions from www.purlbee.com. It is an awesome website for knitting and sewing) I made a pink one too but I have to put some finishing touches on it tomorrow.

I am also in the process of knitting all the little ones in our circles a little surprise. I am hoping Darla got her's last week for Clara. And I will give the rest out at the reunion.



Anyway I had a fun day off.

Ooops!

Sorry about that! My student by accident posted on OUR BLOG!!!!! SORRY!!!


CONGRATS Darla and Brian!!!!

Cant wait to see more pics of precious Clara and hold her in 4 weeks!!

Love you!

Justin's Post!

Mrs.Herr was very, very, very nice on Wednesday.She let us write what ever we wanted in our chit chat jounal. I wrote about the future. The Phillies won the World Series!

-justin

Art Show

Brad had an art show tonight with the printmaking MFA majors. He had 4 pieces in the show tonight. It was called "Suite...(and something else I can't remember) but they decided to do a play on words and have a sweets buffet for visitors. I volunteered to bake, because I am enjoying it so much lately. I was able to take a day off of work which I needed and baked baked baked. I made mini pumpkin cheesecakes with homemade whipped cream, fig and ginger dark chocolate truffles, pecan chocolate chip mini pies, fried nutella ravioli, and red velvet whoopie pies with homemade cream cheese filling. I started last night and worked all day today and enjoyed myself. Here are some pictures of the goodies.






These are pictures of the gallery and some of Brad's work. I am proud of him for following his dream. He has a lot of opportunities coming up to showcase his stuff.






P.S. Atlanta has 4 out of the 25 most dangerous neighborhoods in America. Really nice, ya'll want to come down here for the reunion next year... hahahaha not!!!

Shameless Plug

Hey Girls, I've entered Elijah in the Gap Casting Call contest for a chance to win a lot of really cool stuff. I'm obsessed with BabyGap clothes and I would much rather win the clothes than buy them! Plus, Elijah would be a perfect BabyGap model in my humble, unbiased opinion. So anyway, vote for E if you have a minute :).

http://www.gapcastingcall.com/GapCastingCall/EntryDetail.html?id=169725

ps. if this seems like I am heavily favoring Elijah to Leah, I'm not. Babies have to be six months old to be entered :). She is just as cute!