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They're growing up so fast!! They did a good job on the tree, too!!View attachment 28569
Ty and Ali after decorating our tree last night.Evan was at work but had helped decorate all the little trees there the day before, so was not interested in helping to do ours.
Tery, your sci-fi tree is completely bad ass ma'am.
Tery, your sci-fi tree is completely bad ass ma'am.
I collected Hallmark Star Trek ornaments for years, all the different ships from Star Trek. My ex-wife never wanted them on the tree, said it made it look tacky. We were married for 21 years and almost every year I bought whichever new ships they put out. Had just about every version of the enterprise, Borg Cube, The Defiant, DS9. So, couple of years ago my son and I weren't feeling real Christmas-y from everything that had happened. I was going thru the decorations, tons of them, and found my large box where I stored all my Star Trek ornaments. I had bought a 3 foot tree for us to put up just to have something to put up, but we started getting all those ships out and had a really good time hanging them up. The tree was completely covered in lights and Star Trek ornaments and really looked cool, it was a true "sci-fi" tree....then like two guys we didn't take any pictures of it, just admired it and put presents underneath...lol but it definitely made Christmas a little better that year. Now I'm comfortably back to actively complaining that the tree we have is too large and a pain in the arse to assemble, etc, etc. But the cool thing is Tamara has dedicated a section of the tree to my Star Trek ornaments
At Thanksgiving dinner my oldest daughter approached my wife and asked her for the recipe for thumbprint cookies she made last Christmas. She said she’s been trying different recipes for years and wasn’t happy with any of them, but the ones the wife made were fantastic.
Back up one year… The wife asked me if there were any type of Christmas cookies I wanted. I told her thumbprint cookies. So she went online and found a picture of ones she liked and tried the recipe. But she didn’t keep it and wouldn’t know the same one if she came across it. She didn’t want to disappoint my daughter and didn’t know what to do.
I told her to find some old paper, then find any old recipe on the internet, and hand write it on the old paper… making it look like it was 20 years old. Then take a picture on the phone and send it to her. If she says they didn’t come out like the ones the wife baked, tell here she must have done something wrong, as nobody ever makes another’s recipe the exact same way.
Easy peasy lemon squeezy!
Right. Oregano, salt, and what would the third ingredient be? Just kidding, I know it's basil.......I got this...Let's get you started with the three ingredient peanut butter cookies first
........maybe you should just let Tamara handle the baking
thanks for sharing. Great looking kids.View attachment 28569
Ty and Ali after decorating our tree last night.
Probably best for the family and the neighbors. The raccoons miss my cooking.....
Over the weekend, the wife actually found the recipe printout of the thumbprint cookies from last year tucked away in a cooking book. So we didn't have to pull a fast one on my daughter. I did tell her what I was planning on doing, though. Didn't surprise her in the least.
Care to share the recipe with us?Over the weekend, the wife actually found the recipe printout of the thumbprint cookies from last year tucked away in a cooking book. So we didn't have to pull a fast one on my daughter. I did tell her what I was planning on doing, though. Didn't surprise her in the least.
Over the weekend, the wife actually found the recipe printout of the thumbprint cookies from last year tucked away in a cooking book. So we didn't have to pull a fast one on my daughter. I did tell her what I was planning on doing, though. Didn't surprise her in the least.
That would be interesting - I wonder how similar it is to the one I posted.
....and mine is where???......hmmm????.....So, this year I decided to bake my Grandma's Pecan Cake recipe. It's a type of fruitcake, but only has candied cherries, candied pineapple, and a pound of chopped pecans. Grandma's Pecan Cake was the only fruitcake I have ever liked. This is the result of my first attempt. Gotta admit, I'm kinda proud of how it turned out.
......and just ignore that missing slice in the back. I had to sample a sliver.......you know, to make sure it was done
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....great shot Tina!......
.....dammit....Channeling OoO.......
I ated it.
Tell ya what......you and Tracy come over, and I'll make one just for y'all. I'll even serve it up on my Disney themed dessert plates!.....dammit....
