Grey Lady!

 Today was Banner's Halloween Recital.  She decided she wanted to be the "Grey Lady".  She found this idea on the Martha Stewart website.

 We purchased all the gray and white tulle that they had at the Price Wal-Mart for the dress.

I then dyed the white tulle and some cream colored curtains for her head covering.

 Whitney spray painted the flowers gray and we tied black ribbons around the flowers and her waist.

 I used a paper doile and white face paint to do her face.  She looked very grey and gloomy.

She played Tcherepnin's Bagatelle in E flat for her piece and did a wonderful job.

Tennyson made these lovely carmel, chocolate, almond apples for us last weekend.  We've got so many apples we don't know what to do with them all.

Christmas 2011

Liz and Dennis...........................................Morgan and Andrew

Anne Adele and Maurie.......................................Josh and Stacy

Shelley and Alan.................................................Liz and Dennis

Jennifer and Jim..............................................John and Rebecca

John and Rebecca..............................................Noah and Becky

Sara..................................................................Shelley and Alan

Josh and Stacy.....................................................................Sara

Morgan and Andrew............................Anne Adele and Maurie

Noah and Becky...............................................Jennifer and Jim

Whitney...................................................................Seth

Miranda............................................................Madison

Leslie....................................................................Kelsie

Madison..............................................................Hannah

Zack.......................................................................Esme

Rachel.............................................................Tennyson

Tennyson..............................................................Maren

Kelsie....................................................................Arden

Arden......................................................................Zack

Seth...........................................................................Lily

Banner.....................................................................Leah

Hannah..............................................................Miranda

Jonas....................................................................Rachel

Gabriel...............................................................Whitney

Maren....................................................................Leslie

Leah....................................................................Gabriel

Esme....................................................................Banner

Lily.........................................................................Jonas

I hope we all have a Merry Christmas!

Answers

Whitney was right on all the answers. Who would've thunk it! Now for a little explanation.

1. Miranda said this to Les(I think to scare her). Les didn't want to sleep over at our house ever again.

2. Tennyson said this and my astonishment wasn't that the bird was singing "Rock of Ages" but that my 4 year old knew "Rock of Ages".

3. This was said by a very annoyed 6 or 7 year old Whitney to her father. I could only laugh at his face, he was shocked that she wasn't interested in his advice.

4. Banner asked this question after overhearing a biblical discussion at Lizzy's house.

Who Said What!

To misquote Mr. Bennett, "here sit four of the silliest girls in Utah".

I've written a funny thing that each of the girls said, see if you can match the quote with the girl.

1. "The mice at our house have the Hanta Virus."

2."Why is that bird singing "Rock of Ages"? "

3.  NOT another lecture!

4.  So,(pause) if you want to talk to the devil you just dial 666?



Tennis Anyone?

 Emery High had it's first tennis meet of the season yesterday.  Banner plays on the JV girls team.  We drove all of the way to Ogden for the girls to play St. Joseph's Catholic High School.  Jim needed to pick up 2 tons of bird feed at Cargill so we made a business/supportive parent trip.  We stopped in S.L. and picked up Whitney to come with us.  After lunch at "Big Jim's Burgers"  we finally made it to the tennis courts(wrong schools, wrong address, pure luck we drove past a park and saw girls in tennis outfits,  all along pulling a large flat bed full of feed for the chukars).

I think she is showing her "eye of the tiger"  look here.

 Move over Venus and Serena, here she comes.

 Banner had never played with her doubles partner before but they did fairly well together.

 It was extremely hot and there was no seating but we enjoyed watching her play.

What a shot!

Peach Cobbler Anyone?

 It's that time of year for fresh peaches so here is a recipe for one of my favorite peach desserts.

This is a recipe from my old Betty Crocker cookbook.

1/2 cup sugar

1 tablespoon cornstarch

1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon

4 cups sliced peaches(about 6 medium)

1 teaspoon lemon juice

3 tablespoons shortening

1 cup all purpose flour

1 tablespoon sugar

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup milk

Heat oven to 400 degrees.  Mix 1/2 cup sugar, cornstarch and cinnamon in a 2-quart saucepan.  Stir in peaches and lemon juice.  Cook, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens and boils.  Boil and stir 1 minute.  Pour into ungreased 2-quart casserole;  keep peach mixture hot in the oven.

Cut shortening into flour, 1 tablespoon sugar, the baking powder and salt until mixture resembles fine crumbs.  Stir in milk.  Drop dough by 6 spoonfuls onto the hot peach mixture.

Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until topping is golden brown.  Serve warm and, if desired, with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.

 Jim brought these beautiful flowers home from Salt Lake the other day.  I think the colors are absolutely gorgeous.

This is my favorite flower.

New Roommates!

Miranda is sooo happy that Tennyson has moved in.  Good luck girls!