A Story in Pictures: The Life of a Pie

This is Violet eating some chocolate-peanut butter pie filling. Here is the illustrious recipe for Creme de la Cream Pie.
First: make a crust.
It’s real simple but you need to  obey the rules. (cold butter, don’t touch with hands, don’t add too much water.)

1 1/4 cups flour.
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup butter (not not not margarine or [...]

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Some things should be more important.

First, here are a few pictures from today of Violet being Violet (read adorable and persnickety).

We were at a store that rhymes with Foam Teapot. Actually, it rhymes with Comb Repo, but the thought of a collector trying to repo a comb is…ridiculous. Foam Teapot it is. Violet being Violet did not want to be [...]

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so.

Quote of the Day:
“If every time I fussed someone stuffed cheese in my mouth, I’d be cranky too!”
Violet loves cheese. she loves it so much that she’ll already be begging for more when she still has her mouth full.
I saw a picture of a rooster today. It reminded me of Dan Quail. Not Dan Quayle, [...]

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5 Things You May or May Not Know

mikes hard mango punch is worth every penny.
you can get sunburns on top of other sunburns.
murphy’s law is real. just ask AJ’s dad and his boat.
it is possible to go an entire day without realizing your underwear are on inside out.
i got a best of show ribbon at the local fair for this picture.

i don’t [...]

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Red sky at morning…

this is why today was destined to be hot. I took this picture of the sunrise at about 5:30/6 this morning.

this is the purse I bought for $1. That’s right. one whole dollar.

this picture is from a couple of days ago, but i had to post it because painted toenails on a baby is too [...]

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making up for pictureless posts

Here’s a picture of Violet’s birthday cupcake. I made 28 of these babies. yes, i know…it’s awesome.

Here’s the birthday girl eating a banana and standing like a pro.

The whole fam damily.

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Stanwood Car Show 2009

does posting a picture count for blogging today? The Stanwood car show is the social event of the year for this small town which I may or may not live near in case you are an internet creep. Suffice to say, long day.

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Cloud Day (it’s like “snow day”)

I wasn’t kidding when I said I was fascinated by clouds. The last couple of days have been amazing, so I got the camera out. Here’s a few pictures from today.

if only this last one could have a musical montage…

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Several things…

First off…today is the first day I had more than 50 visitors to my blog; 52 to be exact. Who are these people? creepy…
Secondly, because I’m so vain…look at this picture I took:

Thirdly, and most importantly: I need to know if I’m weird for not washing my feet. I mean, I wash them after a [...]

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tulips and two-lips

Today we went to the tulip fields. If you’re from around here, you know what I mean, and if you’re not…then you’re probably an internet stalker who has no business knowing in the first place. I’ve been a couple of times before and to a certain extent–if you’ve seen one tulip, you’ve seen ‘em all. [...]

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