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Thankful Friday

I won 4th place in the Thanksgiving Luncheon Pie Contest on Monday afternoon with this recipe.  I also made this one and this one, both of which were popular but not winners. Half of the pies entered The other half of the pies.  The Black Bottomed Peanut Butter Mousse Pie has to be one of… Continue reading Thankful Friday

Food · Holidays · Moron de la Frontera · Spain

Pie Contest

This past Monday was the base-wide Thanksgiving Luncheon and the 2nd Annual Pie Contest.  Stiff Competition I submitted 3 pies and placed fourth with the Candy Apple Pie.  Joe and his buddies decided to enter the contest this year with a bit of a joke – a Totino’s Pizza Roll Pie.  Aptly named, “Lord of… Continue reading Pie Contest

Paper Crafts · Stamping

Holiday shopping in your slippers…

These deals are too good to pass up.  If you have a crafter or scrapbooker on your Christmas list head on over to my website and take advantage of these amazing deals.  You will not find better deals on quality stamping supplies this season. The Scrapbooker’s Dream Bundle would start anyone off making a scrapbook… Continue reading Holiday shopping in your slippers…

Tripp

38 Week Appt.

Tuesday was our 38 week doctor appointment and we were able to get some more info on Tripp’s status.  I had a membrane sweep, a pretty painful, but short test to see where Tripp was at and to start the early stages of labor.  The Dr. said Tripp has dropped substantially and his head is… Continue reading 38 Week Appt.

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Thankful Thursday

And finally – drumroll please!  The best pizza dough recipe I have found so far.  I’m not too sure about the proper tossing method, I had some trouble with that so I ended up just rolling these out.  The recipe says it makes six 6-oz. crusts but I divided mine into 4 8/9-oz. crusts.  I… Continue reading Thankful Thursday

Moron de la Frontera · Spain · Tripp

38 Week Pregnancy Photo Shoot

This past weekend Joe and I took some pregnancy photos in the backyard.  There is a photography shop on the Naval Base in Rota but the quality of the photos leave much to be desired and the Spanish photographers are ridiculously expensive so we decided to take them ourselves.  Joe took most of the shots… Continue reading 38 Week Pregnancy Photo Shoot

Food · Recipes · Thankful Thursdays

Thankful Thursday

This website – Top Secret Recipes.  You have to buy some recipes but they are quite cheap but there are plenty of FREE recipes on this site as well!  My lovely and generous friends here in Spain who threw me a baby shower last Saturday.  They went to a lot of trouble to plan a… Continue reading Thankful Thursday

Moron de la Frontera · Spain · Tripp

Spain Baby Shower

This past Saturday my friends here in Spain threw me a baby shower.  They were so generous and organized and planned a lovely luncheon at the Club on base.  Brianna made the invitations, Rena made this adorable cake and everyone else brought tons of yummy food. Celina planned and executed all the fun games.  We… Continue reading Spain Baby Shower