Red Mittens

Where Women Create magazine came out this week and Megan is featured in it. She’s on the cover!
We just love Jo Packham, the editor, and had a great time meeting her when she came to photograph Megan in her studio.
Paula Jansen, the photographer, was so interesting to meet!
Teresa McFayden and Cari Kraft were also featured [...]

 
From Silicon Prairie News

The Navy ROTC  was featured on the local ABC News Station Sunday night.
The cutest Midshipman of all, Matt, was in it!
Navy ROTC Husker Stadium Cleanup
They did the clean up after a Husker Game. I’ve watched them work. It is hard, cold, wet, crappy, yucky work.
They all have great attitudes and they get better every time!
Go [...]

You shoulda come to OUR house for Halloween Treats!

Instead of chocolate candy bars…we had CHIPS!
And that’s how all the kids said it.
“CHIPS”!

Every night should be this MAGICAL!

I need to start another blog and talk about airline travel.
Because it is BAD and nobody talks about it.
Navy Ball.

SEAL-to-be invited friends from this summer.
See TWO friends here? No. Only ONE.
The OTHER friend is still on an airplane.
From Minneapolis to Omaha. A One Hour flight. Took her EIGHT hours.
And she missed the Navy Ball.
SO.
FRUSTRATING.

Tell you [...]

The meal between breakfast and lunch is brunch.
What is the meal between lunch and dinner?
Lunner? Dunch? Linner?
German Oven Pancake (recipe from Steamy Kitchen)

Plus….Iowa Honeycrisp Apples sauteed with Simply Apple Juice,  handful of brown sugar, and butter

Equals…YUMMERS!

Matt just did a flag ceremony…..

AT THE HUSKER GAME!!!

Those boys are dang cute. Did a great job, too.
Elsewhere at the game….

Ran into a few of my cute cousins. ALL my cousins are beautiful. And most of my cousins are girls.
The two on the ends…Kari and Sally, own Johnny’s Cafe and The 1020 Restaurant in Omaha.
Jacqui, [...]

I made bread tonight in an old Pyrex Bread Tube

It is called a Bake-A-Round and I found one of Ebay. My grandmother had one in the 70’s….as did almost everyone back then…..and she used frozen bread dough in it.
I used my bread machine to make regular dough, greased the tube with Crisco, and put the [...]

The Lasertron’s bought a house!
And we know what THAT means……

I bought a pillow from one of my online “friends” a few months ago. I’m at the lakehouse now, wasting time going through pictures on this computer, instead of cleaning the house for the winter.
Because I’m in DENIAL that it is the end of the season. The Summer Season. The Lake Season. The Okoboji Season.
And [...]